We were yelling about this State/FBI battle here on FR back in 1999.
Posted on 08/17/2005 10:23:56 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
WASHINGTON, July 29 — The United States passed up an opportunity to apprehend two of the men thought to be directly involved in the bombings of its embassy in Kenya last year because of a dispute between the FBI and the State Department, senior law enforcement officials and diplomatic sources said Thursday. The twin bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, killed over 250 people, including 12 Americans
THE DAY after the Aug. 7, 1998, attacks, two of the suspected bombers were arrested in Sudan, which then offered to turn them over to the FBI, according to accounts from two senior U.S. law enforcement officials and diplomatic sources. Those accounts were also confirmed by documents obtained by MSNBC.
The law enforcement officials said that evidence suggested that the men held in Sudan were directly linked to the Nairobi bombing and that they had intimate knowledge of the operations of the alleged guerrilla chief Osama bin Laden. Nonetheless, these officials said, the State Department refused to allow an FBI team to travel to the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, to discuss apprehending the suspects.
One senior law enforcement official said the State Department, in blocking the FBI from pursuing the lead, noted that Sudan has been listed for over a decade as a state sponsor of terrorism. Yet Sudan, the official said, had asked only for a “dialogue” with the United States toward restoring a more normal diplomatic relationship.
“The rational was weak and it was, in my view, unconscionable,” the senior law enforcement official said. “State simply would not let us even discuss the issue with the Sudanese.”
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Ahhhhhhhh, but that's exactly how the Clinton administration ( damn them all to HELL and the sooner the better!) responded to ALL things not having to do with illicit money from the ChiComs and sex.
Colin did nothing about this swamp,Bolton is villified for trying,and now Condi is faced with cleaning out the Clinton moles and Bush haters.
What a monumental task she is taking on.God help her.
Yes! In fact, I tried to "regroup" this very night.....but gave up. I need a much better system.
This summer has been so bad, I just noticed that in the folder I labeled "July to File" (meaning I didn't have time to sort them out) there were 272 links! 272! It's all that Joe Wilson stuff. I went to the "Month to file" system after my Favorites unfolded into the next room.........LOL.
I have SO much Clinton stuff it's not funny........but you just never know, right? Who ever thought they'd get interested in THIS story again.....and, of course, we are ALL experts on ALL these Clinton stories, so we're like "Tell us something we DON'T know, pal."
Does anybody know the DATE of that tape that Hannity has played a hundred times of Clinton saying that the Sudanese offered up bin Laden but that he, Clinton, didn't want him? I'm thinking it had to be around the same time as this story from MSNBC.
it is purposeful incompetence
We have two computers networked. One is the master and the other the slave. That means two separate areas for storing files. Whenever I need to find a book marked article, the darn thing is always on the other computer. Rather than transferring a page every time I need one, I just say forgetaboutit unless it's REALLY important!
Belmont Club: Dollars and Cents ~ War on Terror will have little effect on Budget
I wish I could find a good bookmark organizing program. Being here 7 years, I have QUITE a few (and they're ALL very important, ya know?)
The thing that really makes me mad is now if you go back, the articles are all excerpted!
We were yelling about this State/FBI battle here on FR back in 1999.
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I know what you mean. I try to create files based on subject, but sometimes the subjects overlap. I just recently wiped out some really old ones, and now I'll probably be bouncing back and forth between computers trying to find the darn things that aren't there any more!
Another lyric from the tune "Gorelicks wall"
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Seems the unseen hand just moved the story a tad further..
more coffee.
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