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.”
From the Clinton years. Un-friggin-believable.
Check this out.
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President Kick the Can Down Road while I get a blow job was a great leader.
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But...but....Clinton swore he'd catch the people who did it. He promised us! Why...he promised us he'd catch the guilty people over and over - every time they attacked us. He even killed American Christians at Waco just to prove how serious he was!
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I just can't believe what a crappy job our State Dept does
Great story. I just sent it on to Lt. Col. Cucullu and Jayna Davis.
Aren't FR bookmarks great? :-)
Check this out.
I have so many bookmarks I need to go through them and pare them down. Or figure out if there's a way to organize them somehow.
Did you ever say to yourself, "I just KNOW I have something about that topic bookmarked", and then spend a half hour just reading your bookmark TITLES to try to figure out which thread you're looking for?
And this isn't the familiar OBL one.
Here's the original article:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/294848.asp
And lots of those people are still there!
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