| Subject: Ken do you have a SOURCE for this so called Somalia offer |
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Date Posted: 09:53:04 06/30/02 Sun
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??? The Veeckster
's message, "Source, Please?" on 13:29:16 06/29/02 Sat
If not be a man and admit you were wrong!!
>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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