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<p>Conspiracy theories continued to sprout among Democrats yesterday in the wake of the capture of Saddam Hussein. Some Democrats expressed alarm that the party was drifting out of the "mainstream."</p> <p>Madeleine Albright, the secretary of state in the Clinton administration, in a conversation with Morton Kondracke, executive editor of Roll Call and a Fox News Channel political analyst, suggested that Osama bin Laden has been captured by U.S. forces and will soon be produced to the public.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON — Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright (search) insisted Wednesday that she was just kidding when she wondered aloud whether the Bush administration is holding Usama bin Laden (search) captive, waiting to break him out at the best political moment.</p> <p>It was a "tongue-in-cheek comment and was not intended in any other way," Albright told Fox News.</p>

With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff For the story behind the story... Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2003 1:22 a.m. EST Madeleine Albright: Bush Planning Bin Laden October Surprise It was bad enough on Monday when Washington state Congressman "Baghdad" Jim McDermott suggested that President Bush could have captured Saddam Hussein long ago, but moved only when the news would have had maximum political effect. But now, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is telling reporters that the Bush administration may already have captured Osama bin Laden and will release the news just before next year's presidential election. On Fox News Channel's...

<p>For three decades, Don Novello (aka Father Guido Sarducci) writing letters as a "concerned citizen" under the fictional name Lazlo Toth has fooled everybody from President Richard M. Nixon to Spanish Gen. Francisco Franco, both of whom wrote back and ended up in the 1977 bestseller "The Lazlo Letters."</p>

Madeleine Albright, Mortara Distinguished Professor of Diplomacy for the School of Foreign Service and former Secretary of State, delivered a speech on terrorism, disease and U.S. foreign policy yesterday to more than 700 Georgetown students and faculty in Gaston Hall. The doors to Gaston were closed until 15 minutes before the speech began, leaving a line of students that stretched from Healy to Lauinger Library. Albright opened her discussion with references to her years at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, describing how the bipolar Cold War era marked a shocking contrast in comparison to today’s complex international system. Back then, it...

Clinton 'missed chance to get rid of bin Laden' By David Rennie in Washington (Filed: 02/09/2003) Bill Clinton refused to order a strike on Osama bin Laden after the bombing of the American destroyer Cole even though the al-Qa'eda leader's whereabouts were known, according to a book to be published this week. Bill Clinton: shied away from an attack for reasons of diplomacy In early leaks from Losing bin Laden, Richard Miniter, an investigative journalist, claims that Mr Clinton allowed the September 11 attacks to happen by squandering more than a dozen opportunities to capture or kill bin Laden. In...

So long, Jack Charles L. "Jack" Pritchard dropped one on the Bush administration this week by quitting his job as special envoy on North Korea to join the liberal Brookings Institution, days before the next round of talks on the North Korean nuclear dispute. The implicit message in the abrupt departure was that Mr. Pritchard disagreed with the current policy. The special envoy was viewed within the administration as a "Clintonista" who favored the former president's appeasement approach to North Korea. He even went on the now-infamous October 2000 visit to North Korea by Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright,...

Remember the cover story "Madeleine's War" from a May 1999 TIME magazine edition? As you may recall, a popular opinion at the time was Madeleine Albright was the person the most responsible for the bombing of Serbia four years ago. Well, think again. Without trying to exonerate or excuse Clinton's war-mongering secretary of state whose Serbo-phobia has been well documented and demonstrated, we want you to know that there may have been another woman who deserves at least part of the credit - Hillary Clinton. The avalanche of publicity brought on by Hillary Clinton's new book, released this week, also...

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has that smug look of vindication on her face. Though her hands-on style of diplomacy was criticized by the 2000 Bush campaign, Albright now sees President Bush trading in his big stick for a Clinton-style diplomat's pinstripes as he manages the Middle East crisis, U.S.-Europe relations, and events in postwar Iraq. "The process of being president teaches you a lot," says the Georgetown University professor. "It's very easy to talk about these jobs, and then when you actually have to do it, and you see what works and what doesn't work, there is much...

WASHINGTON - Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright urged President Bush on Monday to wait longer before attacking Iraq, saying current pressure was forcing Baghdad to disarm. Albright, who addressed a conference on increasing the number of women in politics, said the buildup of military force in the Middle East has led to new inspections and Iraq's decision to dismantle its outlawed Al Samoud 2 missiles. "We are actually accomplishing something," said Albright, secretary of state under President Clinton. "The president should take credit for the fact they are disarming." As an alternative to war, she suggested more intrusive inspections...

Now that the Clinton administration's disastrous dealings with communist North Korea have surfaced, check out this press release issued by Clinton Secretary of State Madeleine Albright after meeting North Korean Foreign Minister Paek on July 28, 2000: SECRETARY ALBRIGHT: Good afternoon. As you know I have just met with Foreign Minister Paek of the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea. This was the first bilateral meeting at the ministerial level ever held between our two countries. Its purpose was to enable the Foreign Minister and I to get acquainted, to reaffirm our interest in more normal ties, and to touch...

The Clinton administration has repeatedly intervened since last fall to delay or prevent intrusive weapons inspections in Iraq by United Nations teams, according to knowledgeable American and diplomatic accounts. The interventions included at least six occasions, beginning in November 1997, in which Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright or other top administration officials sought - with success in each case but one - to persuade chief U.N. inspector Richard butler to rescind orders for surprise searches for weapons of mass destruction or to remove a controversial inspector from Iraq.

Albright accused President Bush's foreign policy team of suffering from "untreated bipolar disorder," saying the Bush administration is projecting contradictory messages on a broad range of global conflicts, including the Middle East and Afghanistan.AP PhotoBARF ALERT! In response to scathing criticism by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, the Bush administration said Monday it speaks clearly on U.S. foreign policy — and otherwise declined to take Albright on. "I don't think I am going to get into a back-and-forth," said State Department spokesman Richard Boucher. On Sunday, in a commencement speech at Tufts University, Albright criticized President Bush and his...