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ROTF! youre so illinformed Sonny ya don't have one dew ya?
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Date Posted: 13:38:28 06/30/02 Sun
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Ken/Dave Marchetti/Jack etc, etc, etc...lol
's message, "Sudan, Somalia, Phillipines. Slick had all kinds of info. He was too busy." on 12:59:40 06/30/02 Sun
LOL
>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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