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![]() Democrats wrote: WHILE WE RULING Republicans, Not five months before 9/11 the Bush administration had tis to say about Bill Clinton: | A senior State Department official told CNN that the U.S. | government made a mistake last year by focusing too tightly | on bin Laden and "personalizing terrorism ... describing parts | of the elephant and not the whole beast." | http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/04/30/terrorism.state.dept/ |
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Democrats wrote: WHILE WE RULING Republicans, Not five months before 9/11 the Bush administration had tis to say about Bill Clinton: | A senior State Department official told CNN that the U.S. | government made a mistake last year by focusing too tightly | on bin Laden and "personalizing terrorism ... describing parts | of the elephant and not the whole beast." | http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/04/30/terrorism.state.dept/ Yes and? We need to focus on the whole beast, not just the running hiding coward Bin Laden. -- Up with liberty! Down with liberalism, socialism and communism! IF YOU'RE NOT VOTING FOR LIBERTARIANS, YOU'RE ONLY VOTING FOR YOUR RULERS! |
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![]() I Ms Individual Rights wrote: "JTEM" wrote : Democrats wrote: WHILE WE RULING Republicans, Not five months before 9/11 the Bush administration had tis to say about Bill Clinton: | A senior State Department official told CNN that the U.S. | government made a mistake last year by focusing too tightly | on bin Laden and "personalizing terrorism ... describing parts | of the elephant and not the whole beast." | http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/04/30/terrorism.state.dept/ Yes and? I speak for all Americans when I say that I wish Bush had been focused on Bin Laden BEFORE 9/11, that I wish Bush didn't think it was a "Mistake" to be focused on Bin Laden before 9/11. We need to focus on the whole beast, not just the running hiding coward Bin Laden. Bush needed to stop 9/11 from happening, and if he didn't take the focus OFF Bin Laden -- not five months before 9/11 -- thousands of victims of terrorism would be alive today. |
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I Ms Individual Rights wrote: "JTEM" wrote : Democrats wrote: WHILE WE RULING Republicans, Not five months before 9/11 the Bush administration had tis to say about Bill Clinton: | A senior State Department official told CNN that the U.S. | government made a mistake last year by focusing too tightly | on bin Laden and "personalizing terrorism ... describing parts | of the elephant and not the whole beast." | http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/04/30/terrorism.state.dept/ Yes and? I speak for all Americans when I say that I wish Bush had been focused on Bin Laden BEFORE 9/11, that I wish Bush didn't think it was a "Mistake" to be focused on Bin Laden before 9/11. Ditto for slick willie and everyone before him. So quit blaming Bush for everything. The latest liberal conspiracy theory: Pearl Harbor was actually staged by GW on a movie stage, to get the U.S. into WWII. We need to focus on the whole beast, not just the running hiding coward Bin Laden. Bush needed to stop 9/11 from happening, and if he didn't take the focus OFF Bin Laden -- not five months before 9/11 -- thousands of victims of terrorism would be alive today. Clinton could have killed Osama 5 times before that! He failed! -- Up with liberty! Down with liberalism, socialism and communism! IF YOU'RE NOT VOTING FOR LIBERTARIANS, YOU'RE ONLY VOTING FOR YOUR RULERS! |
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Bush needed to stop 9/11 from happening, http://www.infowars.com/saved%20page..._bin_laden.htm President Clinton and his national security team ignored several opportunities to capture Osama bin Laden and his terrorist associates, including one as late as last year. I know because I negotiated more than one of the opportunities. From 1996 to 1998, I opened unofficial channels between Sudan and the Clinton administration. I met with officials in both countries, including Clinton, U.S. National Security Advisor Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger and Sudan's president and intelligence chief. President Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir, who wanted terrorism sanctions against Sudan lifted, offered the arrest and extradition of Bin Laden and detailed intelligence data about the global networks constructed by Egypt's Islamic Jihad, Iran's Hezbollah and the Palestinian Hamas. Among those in the networks were the two hijackers who piloted commercial airliners into the World Trade Center. The silence of the Clinton administration in responding to these offers was deafening. As an American Muslim and a political supporter of Clinton, I feel now, as I argued with Clinton and Berger then, that their counter-terrorism policies fueled the rise of Bin Laden from an ordinary man to a Hydra-like monster. Realizing the growing problem with Bin Laden, Bashir sent key intelligence officials to the U.S. in February 1996. The Sudanese offered to arrest Bin Laden and extradite him to Saudi Arabia or, barring that, to "baby-sit" him--monitoring all his activities and associates. But Saudi officials didn't want their home-grown terrorist back where he might plot to overthrow them. In May 1996, the Sudanese capitulated to U.S. pressure and asked Bin Laden to leave, despite their feeling that he could be monitored better in Sudan than elsewhere. Bin Laden left for Afghanistan, taking with him Ayman Zawahiri, considered by the U.S. to be the chief planner of the Sept. 11 attacks; Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, who traveled frequently to Germany to obtain electronic equipment for Al Qaeda; Wadih El-Hage, Bin Laden's personal secretary and roving emissary, now serving a life sentence in the U.S. for his role in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya; and Fazul Abdullah Mohammed and Saif Adel, also accused of carrying out the embassy attacks. Some of these men are now among the FBI's 22 most-wanted terrorists. The two men who allegedly piloted the planes into the twin towers, Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi, prayed in the same Hamburg mosque as did Salim and Mamoun Darkazanli, a Syrian trader who managed Salim's bank accounts and whose assets are frozen. Important data on each had been compiled by the Sudanese. But U.S. authorities repeatedly turned the data away, first in February 1996; then again that August, when at my suggestion Sudan's religious ideologue, Hassan Turabi, wrote directly to Clinton; then again in April 1997, when I persuaded Bashir to invite the FBI to come to Sudan and view the data; and finally in February 1998, when Sudan's intelligence chief, Gutbi al-Mahdi, wrote directly to the FBI. Gutbi had shown me some of Sudan's data during a three-hour meeting in Khartoum in October 1996. When I returned to Washington, I told Berger and his specialist for East Africa, Susan Rice, about the data available. They said they'd get back to me. They never did. Neither did they respond when Bashir made the offer directly. I believe they never had any intention to engage Muslim countries--ally or not. Radical Islam, for the administration, was a convenient national security threat. And that was not the end of it. In July 2000--three months before the deadly attack on the destroyer Cole in Yemen--I brought the White House another plausible offer to deal with Bin Laden, by then known to be involved in the embassy bombings. A senior counter-terrorism official from one of the United States' closest Arab allies--an ally whose name I am not free to divulge--approached me with the proposal after telling me he was fed up with the antics and arrogance of U.S. counter-terrorism officials. The offer, which would have brought Bin Laden to the Arab country as the first step of an extradition process that would eventually deliver him to the U.S., required only that Clinton make a state visit there to personally request Bin Laden's extradition. But senior Clinton officials sabotaged the offer, letting it get caught up in internal politics within the ruling family--Clintonian diplomacy at its best. Clinton's failure to grasp the opportunity to unravel increasingly organized extremists, coupled with Berger's assessments of their potential to directly threaten the U.S., represents one of the most serious foreign policy failures in American history. |
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Democrats wrote: WHILE WE RULING Republicans, Not five months before 9/11 the Bush administration had tis to say about Bill Clinton: http://www.infowars.com/saved%20page..._bin_laden.htm President Clinton and his national security team ignored several opportunities to capture Osama bin Laden and his terrorist associates, including one as late as last year. I know because I negotiated more than one of the opportunities. From 1996 to 1998, I opened unofficial channels between Sudan and the Clinton administration. I met with officials in both countries, including Clinton, U.S. National Security Advisor Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger and Sudan's president and intelligence chief. President Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir, who wanted terrorism sanctions against Sudan lifted, offered the arrest and extradition of Bin Laden and detailed intelligence data about the global networks constructed by Egypt's Islamic Jihad, Iran's Hezbollah and the Palestinian Hamas. Among those in the networks were the two hijackers who piloted commercial airliners into the World Trade Center. The silence of the Clinton administration in responding to these offers was deafening. As an American Muslim and a political supporter of Clinton, I feel now, as I argued with Clinton and Berger then, that their counter-terrorism policies fueled the rise of Bin Laden from an ordinary man to a Hydra-like monster. Realizing the growing problem with Bin Laden, Bashir sent key intelligence officials to the U.S. in February 1996. The Sudanese offered to arrest Bin Laden and extradite him to Saudi Arabia or, barring that, to "baby-sit" him--monitoring all his activities and associates. But Saudi officials didn't want their home-grown terrorist back where he might plot to overthrow them. In May 1996, the Sudanese capitulated to U.S. pressure and asked Bin Laden to leave, despite their feeling that he could be monitored better in Sudan than elsewhere. Bin Laden left for Afghanistan, taking with him Ayman Zawahiri, considered by the U.S. to be the chief planner of the Sept. 11 attacks; Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, who traveled frequently to Germany to obtain electronic equipment for Al Qaeda; Wadih El-Hage, Bin Laden's personal secretary and roving emissary, now serving a life sentence in the U.S. for his role in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya; and Fazul Abdullah Mohammed and Saif Adel, also accused of carrying out the embassy attacks. Some of these men are now among the FBI's 22 most-wanted terrorists. The two men who allegedly piloted the planes into the twin towers, Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi, prayed in the same Hamburg mosque as did Salim and Mamoun Darkazanli, a Syrian trader who managed Salim's bank accounts and whose assets are frozen. Important data on each had been compiled by the Sudanese. But U.S. authorities repeatedly turned the data away, first in February 1996; then again that August, when at my suggestion Sudan's religious ideologue, Hassan Turabi, wrote directly to Clinton; then again in April 1997, when I persuaded Bashir to invite the FBI to come to Sudan and view the data; and finally in February 1998, when Sudan's intelligence chief, Gutbi al-Mahdi, wrote directly to the FBI. Gutbi had shown me some of Sudan's data during a three-hour meeting in Khartoum in October 1996. When I returned to Washington, I told Berger and his specialist for East Africa, Susan Rice, about the data available. They said they'd get back to me. They never did. Neither did they respond when Bashir made the offer directly. I believe they never had any intention to engage Muslim countries--ally or not. Radical Islam, for the administration, was a convenient national security threat. And that was not the end of it. In July 2000--three months before the deadly attack on the destroyer Cole in Yemen--I brought the White House another plausible offer to deal with Bin Laden, by then known to be involved in the embassy bombings. A senior counter-terrorism official from one of the United States' closest Arab allies--an ally whose name I am not free to divulge--approached me with the proposal after telling me he was fed up with the antics and arrogance of U.S. counter-terrorism officials. The offer, which would have brought Bin Laden to the Arab country as the first step of an extradition process that would eventually deliver him to the U.S., required only that Clinton make a state visit there to personally request Bin Laden's extradition. But senior Clinton officials sabotaged the offer, letting it get caught up in internal politics within the ruling family--Clintonian diplomacy at its best. Clinton's failure to grasp the opportunity to unravel increasingly organized extremists, coupled with Berger's assessments of their potential to directly threaten the U.S., represents one of the most serious foreign policy failures in American history. |
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![]() I Ms Individual Rights wrote: Not five months before 9/11 the Bush administration had tis to say about Bill Clinton: | A senior State Department official told CNN that the U.S. | government made a mistake last year by focusing too tightly | on bin Laden and "personalizing terrorism ... describing parts | of the elephant and not the whole beast." | http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/04/30/terrorism.state.dept/ Yes and? I speak for all Americans when I say that I wish Bush had been focused on Bin Laden BEFORE 9/11, that I wish Bush didn't think it was a "Mistake" to be focused on Bin Laden before 9/11. Ditto for slick willie and everyone before him. So quit blaming Bush for everything. I just showed you -- in no uncertain terms -- that far from what that Reich wing propaganda claims, "Slick Willie" was actually concerned about Bin Laden. The latest liberal conspiracy theory: This isn't a conspiracy theory. This is an actual quote from a high ranking official charged with carrying out U.S. policy as dictated by George W. Bush. It was reported less than five months before 9/11. Can't you grasp this? There's no speculation here, there's no "Smears" or theories, less than five months before 9/11 the Bush administration said that Clinton was "Focused" on Bin Laden, and it was a "Mistake" to be "Focused" on Bin Laden. |
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On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 20:33:00 -0500, I Ms Individual Rights wrote
(in article 42): "JTEM" wrote : I Ms Individual Rights wrote: "JTEM" wrote : Democrats wrote: WHILE WE RULING Republicans, Not five months before 9/11 the Bush administration had tis to say about Bill Clinton: A senior State Department official told CNN that the U.S. government made a mistake last year by focusing too tightly on bin Laden and "personalizing terrorism ... describing parts of the elephant and not the whole beast." http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/04/30/terrorism.state.dept/ Yes and? I speak for all Americans when I say that I wish Bush had been focused on Bin Laden BEFORE 9/11, that I wish Bush didn't think it was a "Mistake" to be focused on Bin Laden before 9/11. Ditto for slick willie and everyone before him. So quit blaming Bush for everything. The latest liberal conspiracy theory: Pearl Harbor was actually staged by GW on a movie stage, to get the U.S. into WWII. We need to focus on the whole beast, not just the running hiding coward Bin Laden. Bush needed to stop 9/11 from happening, and if he didn't take the focus OFF Bin Laden -- not five months before 9/11 -- thousands of victims of terrorism would be alive today. Clinton could have killed Osama 5 times before that! He failed! -- Up with liberty! Down with liberalism, socialism and communism! IF YOU'RE NOT VOTING FOR LIBERTARIANS, YOU'RE ONLY VOTING FOR YOUR RULERS! If you vote by party, you vote mindlessly. Gray Shockley |
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![]() transporter wrote: President Clinton and his national security team ignored several opportunities to capture Osama bin Laden and his terrorist associates, including one as late as last year. Less than five months before 9/11, and the Bush administration said that Clinton was "Focused" on Osama Bin Laden, and that it was a "Mistake" to be "Focused" on Bin Laden: | A senior State Department official told CNN that the U.S. | government made a mistake last year by focusing too tightly | on bin Laden and "personalizing terrorism ... describing parts | of the elephant and not the whole beast." | http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/04/30/terrorism.state.dept/ |
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![]() transporter wrote: President Clinton and his national security team ignored several opportunities to capture Osama bin Laden and his terrorist associates, including one as late as last year. Not according to the Bush administration. Less than five months before 9/11 the Bush administration said that Bill Clinton had been "Focused" on Bin Laden, and that it was a "Mistake" to be focused on Bin Laden: | A senior State Department official told CNN that the U.S. | government made a mistake last year by focusing too tightly | on bin Laden and "personalizing terrorism ... describing parts | of the elephant and not the whole beast." | http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/04/30/terrorism.state.dept/ |
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