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U.S. Fumbles Chance to Nab Bombers - - State Department Stopped FBI From Pursuing Leads (REPOST)
MSNBC ^ | July 29, 1999 | Michael Moran

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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To: Lancey Howard

I can't believe after all that went down that Clinton is still teflon.


41 posted on 08/18/2005 4:04:45 AM PDT by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: Lancey Howard

Original article still available on MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.com/news/294848.asp


42 posted on 08/18/2005 4:16:40 AM PDT by Smartaleck
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To: zarf
The Slick Slacker, Do-Nothing Impeached president.

Between Slick's girls Janet & Jamie, they are responsible for more deaths(Waco&911) than the number of brave military men and women killed in Iraq.

43 posted on 08/18/2005 6:18:55 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Smartaleck

Bump for the morning crew.


44 posted on 08/18/2005 6:23:03 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: All

Bump for the morning crew.

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.


45 posted on 08/18/2005 6:26:15 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Lancey Howard; Dog

Thanks for the ping. There is one person I would like to hear from. One who was there during this time, one who had power, and one who could have any information about anything he chose: Louis Freeh. Has anyone heard from him since he left the FBI? Wasn't he on the outs with the clintons near the end of his directorship? Maybe, maybe not. I bet he has some stories he could tell..


46 posted on 08/18/2005 6:34:07 AM PDT by small voice in the wilderness (Behold the Riderless Pony. Bringing doom and destruction on a smaller scale.)
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To: Lancey Howard

Thanks for the ping, Lancey.

Are you talking about the speech that he later said he 'mispoke' in? I think that was more recent, after Bush became president. It was in Long Island.

I think NewsMax keeps offering it to investigative bodies, so that might be a place to start looking, if you're talking about the speech I'm thinking of.

Pinz


47 posted on 08/18/2005 6:56:21 AM PDT by pinz-n-needlez
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To: Lancey Howard; Dog

another release of information, and once again the timing to coincide with able danger et al. Hmm....


48 posted on 08/18/2005 9:13:29 AM PDT by oceanview
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To: small voice in the wilderness

without immunity, and some very good bodyguards, he won't be talking.


49 posted on 08/18/2005 9:14:15 AM PDT by oceanview
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To: oceanview
another release of information, and once again the timing to coincide with able danger et al. Hmm....

No. This is just my repost of a thread originally posted by Brian Mosely in 1999. That's the thing - - the information about Clinton's malfeasance has been there all along.

50 posted on 08/18/2005 12:22:58 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: small voice in the wilderness

Excellent point about Louis Freeh. I almost forgot about him. Another poster mentioned Eric Holder. Imagine some fresh hearings with those two, now that there is so much more information available.


51 posted on 08/18/2005 12:24:50 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Lancey Howard

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3340076/

workable link with complete article


52 posted on 08/18/2005 12:29:59 PM PDT by Republican Red (''Van der Sloot" is Dutch for ''Kennedy.")
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To: Republican Red

Thanks for that link!


53 posted on 08/18/2005 1:21:36 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Lancey Howard

Unbelievable, but it reminds me of the experiences of the great John O'Neill (one of the few FBI agents who really seems to have been focused on the Al Qaeda threat before 9/11) when he was in Yemen to investigate the bombing of the USS Cole. Apparently he had a pretty big roadblock in our own Ambassador, Barbara Bodine, who didn't exactly share his view of how to conduct a proper investigation, and she got him sent home.... No wonder we end up with a clown like Joe Wilson spewing his nonsense, the State Dept. is full of people who prefer to uphold the foreign policy of France....


54 posted on 08/18/2005 4:19:40 PM PDT by Enchante (Kerry's mere nuisances: Marine Barracks '83, WTC '93, Khobar Towers, Embassy Bombs '98, USS Cole!!!)
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