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I have to research this
I seem to recall Clinton wanting to accept Sudan's offer, but the congress
at the time was busy voting against anything he wanted, while pursuing a
wotchhunt in order to have the republicans regain the white house
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> Aide: Clinton Unleashed bin Laden
> Chuck Noe, NewsMax.com
> Thursday, Dec. 6, 2001
> Bill Clinton ignored repeated opportunities to capture Osama bin Laden and
> his terrorist allies and is responsible for the spread of terrorism, one of
> the ex-president�s own top aides charges.
> Mansoor Ijaz, who negotiated with Sudan on behalf of Clinton from 1996 to
> 1998, paints a portrait of a White House plagued by incompetence, focused on
> appearances rather than action, and heedless of profound threats to national
> security.
>
> Ijaz also claims Clinton passed on an opportunity to have Osama bin Laden
> arrested.
>
> Sudanese President Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir, hoping to have terrorism
> sanctions 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,� Ijaz writes in
> today�s edition of the liberal Los Angeles Times.
>
> These networks included the two hijackers who piloted jetliners into the
> World Trade Center.
>
> But Clinton and National Security Adviser Samuel "Sandy� Berger failed to
> act.
>
> �I know because I negotiated more than one of the opportunities,� Ijaz
> writes.
>
> �The silence of the Clinton administration in responding to these offers was
> deafening."
>
> Thank Clinton for 'Hydra-like Monster'
>
> �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,�
> says Ijaz, chairman of a New York investment company and a member of the
> Council on Foreign Relations.
>
> Ijaz�s revelations are but the latest to implicate the Clinton administration
> in the spread of terrorism. Former CIA and State Department official Larry
> Johnson today also noted the failure of Clinton to do more than talk.
>
> Among the many others who have pointed out Clinton�s negligence: former
> Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, former Clinton adviser Dick Morris,
> the late author Barbara Olson, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Iraqi expert
> Laurie Mylroie, the CIA and some of the victims of Sept. 11.
>
> And the list grows: members of Congress, pundit Charles R. Smith, former
> Department of Energy official Notra Trulock, former House Speaker Newt
> Gingrich, government counterterrorism experts, the law firm Judicial Watch,
> New Jersey gubernatorial candidate Bret Schundler, the liberal Boston Globe �
> and even Clinton himself.
>
> The Buck Stops Nowhere
>
> Ijaz's account in the Times reads like a spy novel. Sudan�s Bashir, fearing
> the rise of bin Laden, sent intelligence officials to the U.S. in February
> 1996. They offered to arrest bin Laden and extradite him to Saudi Arabia or
> to keep close watch over him. The Saudis "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.�
>
> That�s when bin Laden went to Afghanistan, along with "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.�
>
> If these names sound familiar, just check the FBI's list of most-wanted
> terrorists.
>
> The Clinton administration repeatedly rejected crucial information that Sudan
> had gathered on these terrorists, Ijaz says.
>
> In July 2000, just three months before the deadly attack on the destroyer USS
> Cole in Yemen, Ijaz "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.�
>
> This offer would have brought bin Laden to that Arab country and eventually
> to the U.S. All the proposal required of Clinton was that he make a state
> visit to request 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.�
>
> 'Purposeful Obfuscation'
>
> Appearing on Fox News Channel�s "The O�Reilly Factor� on Wednesday night,
> Ijaz said, "Everything we needed to know about the terrorist networks� was in
> Sudan.
>
> Newsman Bill O�Reilly asked how Clinton and Berger reacted to the deals Ijaz
> brokered to bring bin Laden and company to justice. "Zero. They didn�t
> respond at all.�
>
> The Clintonoids won�t get away with denials, he said. "I�ve got the
> documentation,� including a memorandum to Berger.
>
> "This was purposeful obfuscation,� he asserted.
>
> O�Reilly wondered why the White House didn�t want information about the
> terrorists. Ijaz said that was for the American people to judge, but when
> pressed he suggested that Clinton might intentionally have allowed the
> apparently weak bin Laden to rise so he could later make a show of crushing
> him.
>
> Concludes Ijaz in the Times: "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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