NEW EVIDENCE DOCUMENTS HOW FAILURES LED TO BIN LADEN'S RISE TO POWER
Sun Aug 31 2003 17:46:00 ET
**Exclusive**
President Bill Clinton had the opportunity to stop, catch, or kill bin Laden more than twelve times during his presidency, a new book set for release this week claims!
And on at least two occasions through Drones and Global Positioning Systems the Clinton Administration knew exactly where bin Laden was -- and refused to take him out well after knowing he was as a national security threat.
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Former WALL STREET JOURNAL editorial writer Richard Miniter and REGNERY Publishing are set for lift-off on LOSING BIN LADEN [ranked #52,682 on Amazon's hit parade Sunday evening].
A Novak column on the book is set for Monday, and the WASHINGTON TIMES will serialize later in the week, according to sources, but only the DRUDGE REPORT can present an exclusive first look:
LOSING alleges and details:
* Osama bin Laden’s rise to power and the September 11 attacks were due to the inactions and failures of former President Bill Clinton and key members of his administration who followed a law enforcement approach to fighting global terrorism as opposed to engaging a war on terrorism on national security grounds.
* How each failure by Clinton to retaliate made bin Laden look invincible in the Arab world, allowing bin Laden to attract new recruits and money.
* The 1993 World Trade Center attack --- documents how Clinton refused to believe it was a terrorist attack and viewed the bombing as an FBI investigation therefore blocking the CIA from entering the investigation on matters of national security.
* Drawn from secret Sudanese intelligence files, the full story of bin Laden's role in shooting down America's Black Hawk helicopters in Mogadishu, Somalia. This is the story that "Black Hawk Down" missed.
* President Clinton and a Democratic Senator Dennis DeConcini prevented the CIA from hiring Arabic translators-while bin Laden and Arabic-speaking terrorists killed Americans across the Near East.
* The story of Saudi Arabia's attempt to assassinate bin Laden in 1994.
* One of the FBI's most-trusted informants, Ali Mohammed, an Egyptian soldier, was given a military security clearance but was actually a double agent working for bin Laden.
* How the Administration engaged a policy to get Bin Laden removed from the Sudan back to Pakistan and Afghanistan only to get him closer to training camps and his recruits making him even more dangerous and embolden future terrorist acts.
* How Assistant Secretary of State for East Africa Affairs Susan Rice blocked opportunities to work with the Sudanese government looking to turn over bin Laden to the United States.
* Documents numerous Sudanese attempts to work with the United States to capture bin Laden only to be rejected by the US State Department.
* How the Monica Lewinsky and fundraising scandals, as well as a consuming desire to be re-elected, prevented Clinton from waging a war on terror and bin Laden and prevent 9/11.
* For more than two years Miniter interviewed soldiers, diplomats and intelligence operatives in Middle East, Africa, and Europe but found his best sources were, to his surprise, top level Clinton administration officials including former National Security Advisor Tony Lake, former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Clinton’s counterterrorism coordinator Richard Clarke, and former Director of Central Intelligence James Woolsey.
Developing...
"Be kind. Remember everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." - Harry Thompson
"I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom I provide and then questions the manner in which I provide it." - A Few Good Men
posted on September 1, 2003 06:16:52 AM new
Another blame Clinton effort...good grief!
What a ludicrous and desperate attempt to blame Clinton for not ridding the world of Bin Laden, when after a WAR with Afghanistan and a WAR with Iraq, the Bush administration still does not know if Osama bin Laden is alive or dead. Clinton has admitted his failed attempt to assassinate Bin Laden.
Is Bush even LOOKING for him now???? It seems to me that the entire US military complex has been focused on the wrong guy.
posted on September 1, 2003 10:39:51 AM new
Ahhh yes....
The daily BLAME CLINTON FOR MY BUSH'S FAILURE THREAD!!!
It gets stupider and stupider as the days go by.....
Drudge....proven wrong more times than Carters got little liver pills. It almost like him and Limbaugh are in a contest to see who can be wrong more often.
posted on September 1, 2003 02:12:27 PM new
Yes it's pretty simple and stupid but no more so than the morons that want to blame Bush for everything. Some should look in a mirror before they piss and moan about any kind of blam game. Just get off you ars and do something about it ! looking around for other peoples words to solve you problems sure as hell aint going to do it.
posted on September 1, 2003 05:30:58 PM new
Thank you, tom. I posted this topic not because I necessarily agree with the article, but because I get sooooo tired of other posters (doubt I need to identify them) constantly copy and pasting bash Bush articles from the leftist rags they read.
lech makes it clear that the shoe isn't very comfortable on the other foot
helen's response was expected - but note, she can disagree eloquently, without being antagonistic
GoldMagnet - I see you have made a whopping 6 posts here, including the one above to be rude and obnoxious...hopefully we can see something insightful from you in the future
"Be kind. Remember everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." - Harry Thompson
"I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom I provide and then questions the manner in which I provide it." - A Few Good Men
posted on September 1, 2003 05:53:03 PM new
(wgm) Sorry if I offended you. But I 'm getting sick and tired of people trying to blame someone else for the Bush Family Screw Ups. If
Daddy Bush had done his job we wouldn't have to be in Iraq now.
- Harry Thompson
