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Date Posted: 12:59:40 06/30/02 Sun
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In reply to:
or not?
's message, "Ken do you have a SOURCE for this so called Somalia offer" on 09:53:04 06/30/02 Sun
slick had info on several places. He said, "no thanks too busy."
Sandy Berger wanted to go in there after Bin Laden. Slick said, "economy's good, don't care about Binnie."
Now 3000 dead. Economy phoney.
Way to go Slick!
>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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