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Date Posted: 13:29:16 06/29/02 Sat
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Typical libs.
's message, "Both offered. Slick too busy. CIA crippled, thanks to Bob Torricelli." on 13:00:13 06/29/02 Sat
well?
>Ignorant libs have never heard of the "Torricelli
>Principle."
>
>Dumbass libs. No wonder they couldn't vote.
>
>
>
>>(I know, all those funny S countries tend to run
>>together...)
>>
>>OK Kenny. These are the actual FACTS about that
>>episode.
>>
>>Cheers!
>>
>>Diplomacy and Politics
>>A Growing Effort Against bin Laden
>>
>>
>>As Mr. Clinton prepared his re-election bid in 1996,
>>the administration made several crucial decisions.
>>Recognizing the growing significance of Mr. bin Laden,
>>the C.I.A. created a virtual station, code-named Alex,
>>to track his activities around the world.
>>
>>In the Middle East, American diplomats pressed the
>>hard-line Islamic regime of Sudan to expel Mr. bin
>>Laden, even if that pushed him back into Afghanistan.
>>
>>To build support for this effort among Middle Eastern
>>governments, the State Department circulated a dossier
>>that accused Mr. bin Laden of financing radical
>>Islamic causes around the world.
>>
>>The document implicated him in several attacks on
>>Americans, including the 1992 bombing of a hotel in
>>Aden, Yemen, where American troops had stayed on their
>>way to Somalia. It also said Mr. bin Laden's
>>associates had trained the Somalis who killed 18
>>American servicemen in Mogadishu in 1993.
>>
>>Sudanese officials met with their C.I.A. and State
>>Department counterparts and signaled that they might
>>turn Mr. bin Laden over to another country. Saudi
>>Arabia and Egypt were possibilities.
>>
>>State Department and C.I.A. officials urged both Egypt
>>and Saudi Arabia to accept him, according to former
>>Clinton officials. ''But both were afraid of the
>>domestic reaction and refused,'' one recalled.
>>
>>Critics of the administration's effort said this was
>>an early missed opportunity to destroy Al Qaeda. Mr.
>>Clinton himself would have had to lean hard on the
>>Saudi and Egyptian governments. The White House
>>believed no amount of pressure would change the
>>outcome, and Mr. Clinton risked spending valuable
>>capital on a losing cause. ''We were not about to have
>>the president make a call and be told no,'' one
>>official explained.
>>
>>Sudan obliquely hinted that it might turn Mr. bin
>>Laden over to the United States, a former official
>>said. But the Justice Department reviewed the case and
>>concluded in the spring of 1996 that it did not have
>>enough evidence to charge him with the attacks on
>>American troops in Yemen and Somalia.
>>
>>In May 1996, Sudan expelled Mr. bin Laden,
>>confiscating some of his substantial fortune. He moved
>>his organization to Afghanistan, just as an obscure
>>group known as the Taliban was taking control of the
>>country.
>>
>>Clinton administration officials counted it as a
>>positive step. Mr. bin Laden was on the run, deprived
>>of the tacit state sponsorship he had enjoyed in
>>Sudan.
>>
>>''He lost his base and momentum,'' said Samuel R.
>>Berger, Mr. Clinton's national security adviser in his
>>second term.
>>
>>In July 1996, shortly after Mr. bin Laden left Sudan,
>>Mr. Clinton met at the White House with Dick Morris,
>>his political adviser, to hone themes for his
>>re-election campaign.
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