Parties trading blame on bin Laden (Clinton's 10 Chances) (1 Viewer)

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Parties trading blame on bin Laden

Debate rages over why terror chief wasn't stopped

By Bryan Bender, Globe Staff | September 26, 2006

WASHINGTON -- President Bill Clinton's angry defense of his administration's efforts to eliminate Osama bin Laden has set off a new round of charges about whether Democrats or Republicans are to blame for allowing the Al Qaeda leader to remain a national security threat for more than a decade.

``The Bush administration was absolutely negligent for not paying attention in their first eight months in office," said Michael Scheuer, who headed the CIA's bin Laden task force from 1995 to 1999 and retired from the agency as a senior Al Qaeda specialist in 2004. ``But fair is fair. Clinton had 10 chances and Bush had none."

In an interview with ``Fox News Sunday" reporter Chris Wallace, Clinton grew visibly irate when asked whether he'd done enough to stop bin Laden. Clinton leaned forward in his chair, jabbed his finger at Wallace, and said he'd done all he could to eliminate the Al Qaeda leader.

``I worked hard to try and kill him," Clinton told Wallace. The former president then demanded to know why the Bush administration hasn't faced such criticism for letting bin Laden get away, declaring, ``I got closer to killing him than anybody has gotten since."

Indeed, the only time US forces apparently knew bin Laden's location while Bush has held office was in December 2001, during a pitched battle in the Tora Bora mountains of Afghanistan. Experts and analysts thought the military had bin Laden cornered, but he escaped.

Scheuer recalled numerous occasions in the late 1990s when the United States knew bin Laden's whereabouts and travel routine; the terrorist leader had a higher profile before going underground after the 2001 attacks. However, Scheuer said, Clinton and his top aides -- such as national security adviser Samuel Berger and counterterrorism adviser Richard Clarke -- didn't act.

``In May of 1998 and 1999, we had two opportunities to capture him and eight different opportunities to kill him," Scheuer told the Globe yesterday. ``On every one of those occasions, the president or Berger and Clarke turned down the opportunity" to strike.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/09/26/parties_trading_blame_on_bin_laden/

There you have it folks Michael Scheuer former head of the CIA's bin-Laden unit has just made the statement that we all already knew Clinton had bin-Laden not once, not twice, but 10 times, and he did nothing.

 

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Originally posted by TOT;
There you have it folks Michael Scheuer former head of the CIA's bin-Laden unit has just made the statement that we all already knew Clinton had bin-Laden not once, not twice, but 10 times, and he did nothing.

Same thing Bush did. Your not criticizing him.

I did like the way Hillary kicked Condi's a.s.s!

 

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Same thing Bush did. Your not criticizing him.

I did like the way Hillary kicked Condi's a.s.s!

No actually Shuemer clearly stated that Clinton had 10 chances to capture or kill bin-Laden and Bush had none as for Hillary:

"I'm certain that if my husband and his national security team had been shown a classified report entitled 'Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States,' he would have taken it more seriously than history suggests it was taken by our current president and his national security team." -- Hillary Clinton

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=2493200&page=1

He did you dumb bitch:

National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States: The following is the text of an item from the Presidential Daily Brief received by President William J. Clinton on December 4, 1998. Redacted material is indicated in brackets.

SUBJECT: Bin Ladin Preparing to Hijack US Aircraft and Other Attacks

1. Reporting [-] suggests Bin Ladin and his allies are preparing for attacks in the US, including an aircraft hijacking to obtain the release of Shaykh 'Umar 'Abd al-Rahman, Ramzi Yousef, and Muhammad Sadiq 'Awda. One source quoted a senior member of the Gama'at al-Islamiyya (IG) saying that, as of late October, the IG had completed planning for an operation in the US on behalf of Bin Ladin, but that the operation was on hold.A senior Bin Ladin operative from Saudi Arabia was to visit IG counterparts in the US soon thereafter to discuss options-perhaps including an aircraft hijacking.

IG leader Islambuli in late September was planning to hijack a US airliner during the "next couple of weeks" to free 'Abd al-Rahman and the other prisoners, according to what may be a different source.
The same source late last month said that Bin Ladin might implement plans to hijack US aircraft before the beginning of Ramadan on 20 December and that two members of the operational team had evaded security checks during a recent trial run at an unidentified New York airport. [-]
2. Some members of the Bin Ladin network have received hijack training, according to various sources, but no group directly tied to Bin Ladin's al-Qa'ida organization has ever carried out an aircraft hijacking.Bin Ladin could be weighing other types of operations against US aircraft.Accord-ing to [-] the IG in October obtained SA-7 missiles and intended to move them from Yemen into Saudi Arabia to shoot down an Egyptian plane or, if unsuccessful, a US military or civilian aircraft.

A [-] in October told us that unspecified "extremist elements" in Yemen had acquired SA-7s. [-]
3. [-] indicate the Bin Ladin organization or its allies are moving closer to implementing anti-US attacks at unspecified locations, but we do not know whether they are related to attacks on aircraft. A Bin Ladin associate in Sudan late last month told a colleague in Kandahar that he had shipped a group of containers to Afghanistan. Bin Ladin associates also talked about the movement of containers to Afghanistan before the East Africa bombings.

In other [-] Bin Ladin associates last month discussed picking up a package in Malaysia. One told his colleague in Malaysia that "they" were in the "ninth month [of pregnancy]."
An alleged Bin Ladin supporter in Yemen late last month remarked to his mother that he planned to work in "commerce" from abroad and said his impending "marriage," which would take place soon, would be a "surprise.""Commerce" and "marriage" often are codewords for terrorist attacks. [-]

Now what were you saying about the ice princess kicking Condi's ***?