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Clinton Let Bin Laden Slip Away and Metastasize
LA Times ^ | 12/05/01 | MANSOOR IJAZ

Posted on 12/05/2001 4:17:34 AM PST by kattracks

Edited on 09/03/2002 4:49:36 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

President Clinton and his national security team ignored several opportunities to capture Osama bin Laden and his terrorist associates, including one as late as last year.

I know because I negotiated more than one of the opportunities.

From 1996 to 1998, I opened unofficial channels between Sudan and the Clinton administration. I met with officials in both countries, including Clinton, U.S. National Security Advisor Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger and Sudan's president and intelligence chief. President Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir, who wanted terrorism sanctions against Sudan lifted, offered the arrest and extradition of Bin Laden and detailed intelligence data about the global networks constructed by Egypt's Islamic Jihad, Iran's Hezbollah and the Palestinian Hamas.


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1 posted on 12/05/2001 4:17:34 AM PST by kattracks
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To: jackbill
This needed a post of it's own. Thanks.
2 posted on 12/05/2001 4:18:27 AM PST by kattracks
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To: kattracks
A bump, jumbo size.
3 posted on 12/05/2001 4:21:37 AM PST by jwalsh07
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To: kattracks
From the L.S.Clymes, no less. The pressholes must have some feelings of guilt for propping up the Grifters' administration. I am sure it too will pass....
4 posted on 12/05/2001 4:22:13 AM PST by eureka!
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To: kattracks
In fact, it needs to be posted on every lampost and telephone in the USA!

All Freepers must refresh their memories here. Remember it is a fact that Clinton did not meet with his National Security Advisors or other people charge with our national safety on a regular basis.

In fact, there was a recent report that the head of the CIA only saw Clinton once - that was during his interview process!

This traitorous bastard's complicity must be shown to the American people.

That is our job, my fellow Freepers. We must and should do so at every opportunity.

Email this page to everyone you know!

5 posted on 12/05/2001 4:27:12 AM PST by Seeking the truth
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To: kattracks
Wow, it only took the LA Times 9 1/2 years to figure out Clinton is a worthless POS who is only interested in his own political and financial success.

I am, however, very glad this article was in the LAT and not the WSJ or National Review. That gives it a .00001% instead of a 0% chance that the mainstream media will pick up the story.

6 posted on 12/05/2001 4:30:50 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: kattracks
Very interesting article. By an ex-member of the Clinton administration no less. Thanks for the post.
7 posted on 12/05/2001 4:32:04 AM PST by cascademountaineer
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To: kattracks
The last paragraph of the article:

"Clinton's failure to grasp the opportunity to unravel increasingly organized extremists, coupled with Berger's assessments of their potential to directly threaten the U.S., represents one of the most serious foreign policy failures in American history."

8 posted on 12/05/2001 4:32:38 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: kattracks
Council on Foreign Relations

Break out your tin-foil...

9 posted on 12/05/2001 4:34:50 AM PST by jude24
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To: kattracks
The Sudanese offered to arrest Bin Laden and extradite him to Saudi Arabia or, barring that, to "baby-sit" him--monitoring all his activities and associates.

But Saudi officials didn't want their home-grown terrorist back where he might plot to overthrow them.

In May 1996, the Sudanese capitulated to U.S. pressure and asked Bin Laden to leave, despite their feeling that he could be monitored better in Sudan than elsewhere.

This should be put up on billboards all along the interstates. Clinton blew it BIGTIME.

10 posted on 12/05/2001 4:35:12 AM PST by snorkeler
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To: jude24
I saw this guy on Fox he is very impressive
11 posted on 12/05/2001 4:37:35 AM PST by scooby321
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To: kattracks
I've seen Mansoor Ijaz interviewed on television. He's very well-spoken and very credible.
12 posted on 12/05/2001 4:37:55 AM PST by gumbo
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To: scooby321
Ha, another case of GMTA (great minds think alike).
13 posted on 12/05/2001 4:38:50 AM PST by gumbo
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Clinton's failure

. . . just about sums it up.

14 posted on 12/05/2001 4:47:08 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion
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To: kattracks
btt
15 posted on 12/05/2001 4:48:41 AM PST by Hagrid
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To: kattracks
Last night Colmes asked Lanny Davis about this specifically. Davis didn't answer the question, but changed the subject. . .I thought that was very telling! Of course Colmes just let his unanswered question slide.
16 posted on 12/05/2001 4:49:04 AM PST by Alissa
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"Clinton's failure to grasp the opportunity to unravel increasingly organized extremists, coupled with Berger's assessments of their potential to directly threaten the U.S., represents one of the most serious foreign policy failures in American history."

Let's not forget how much the Dems moaned and complained about Bush's lack of foreign policy experience and whether he was up for the job, while their HERO commits "one of the most serious foreign policy failures in American history."

17 posted on 12/05/2001 4:54:04 AM PST by Alissa
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To: kattracks
This isn't an actual reported news story. It's a Commentary which means Big Media will never pick up on it.
18 posted on 12/05/2001 5:14:11 AM PST by Queen of Excelsior
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To: kattracks
BOUNCE!
19 posted on 12/05/2001 5:19:12 AM PST by Stallone
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To: kattracks
Thanks for finding and posting. I have emailed the link to several of my friends and our local newspaper.
20 posted on 12/05/2001 5:24:07 AM PST by PLK
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