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alatide · Aug 15, 2009

Bro. Curtis said: ↑

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In what would prove a prescient warning, the State Department intelligence analysts said in a top-secret assessment on Mr. bin Laden that summer that "his prolonged stay in Afghanistan - where hundreds of 'Arab mujahedeen' receive terrorist training and key extremist leaders often congregate - could prove more dangerous to U.S. interests in the long run than his three-year liaison with Khartoum," in Sudan.
The declassified documents, obtained by the conservative legal advocacy group Judicial Watch as part of a Freedom of Information Act request and provided to The New York Times, shed light on a murky and controversial chapter in Mr. bin Laden's history: his relocation from Sudan to Afghanistan as the Clinton administration was striving to understand the threat he posed and explore ways of confronting him.
Before 1996, Mr. bin Laden was regarded more as a financier of terrorism than a mastermind. But the State Department assessment, which came a year before he publicly urged Muslims to attack the United States, indicated that officials suspected he was taking a more active role, including in the bombings in June 1996 that killed 19 members American soldiers at the Khobar Towers in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
Two years after the State Department's warning, with Mr. bin Laden firmly entrenched in Afghanistan and overseeing terrorist training and financing operations, Al Qaeda struck two American embassies in East Africa, leading to failed military attempts by the Clinton administration to capture or kill him in Afghanistan. Three years later, on Sept. 11, 2001, Al Qaeda struck the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in an operation overseen from the base in Afghanistan.
Critics of the Clinton administration have accused it of ignoring the threat posed by Mr. bin Laden in the mid-1990's while he was still in Sudan, and they point to claims by some Sudanese officials that they offered to turn him over to the Americans before ultimately expelling him in 1996 under international pressure. But Clinton administration diplomats have adamantly denied that they received such an offer, and the Sept. 11 commission concluded in one of its staff reports that it had "not found any reliable evidence to support the Sudanese claim."
The newly declassified documents do not directly address the question of whether Sudan ever offered to turn over Mr. bin Laden. But the documents go well beyond previous news and historical accounts in detailing the Clinton administration's active monitoring of Mr. bin Laden's movements and the realization that his move to Afghanistan could make him an even greater national security threat.
Several former senior officials in the Clinton administration did not return phone calls this week seeking comment on the newly declassified documents.;;;

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/17/international/asia/17osama.html
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Bin Laden received medical care in Dubai in an American hospital. I wonder how that could have happened.

OldRegular · Aug 16, 2009

alatide said: ↑

Bin Laden received medical care in Dubai in an American hospital. I wonder how that could have happened.
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With the Clintons all things are possible!

SeekingTruth · Aug 17, 2009

alatide said: ↑

I have no idea what you're talking about. What gift? Have you been drinking heavily again? You really ought to quit.
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First you accuse a member of drunkenness. Next you maintain

There's no Christian behavior on this board.
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Then you refuse to apologize for (a) your slander of a member, against the rus
les and (b) you slander the entire board, against the rules.

No wonder you were banned multiple times, or are you a believer in reincarnation and have just accelerated the process?:laugh:

LeBuick · Aug 17, 2009

Aaron said: ↑

When the military had Bin Laden in their sights, Clinton would not authorize taking him out, though it was known he was organizing the attacks that occurred on 9/11.
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Should we start killing all people we believe will do something wrong in the future? Isn't this how the WMD story took legs and walked? That fault free secret intelligence?

Revmitchell · Aug 17, 2009

SeekingTruth said: ↑

First you accuse a member of drunkenness. Next you maintain .
Then you refuse to apologize for (a) your slander of a member, against the rus
les and (b) you slander the entire board, against the rules.

No wonder you were banned multiple times, or are you a believer in reincarnation and have just accelerated the process?:laugh:
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You guys gotta quit feeding the troll

rdwhite · Aug 17, 2009

LeBuick said: ↑

Should we start killing all people we believe will do something wrong in the future? Isn't this how the WMD story took legs and walked? That fault free secret intelligence?
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The government is already arresting and detaining people indefinitely for crimes they may commit in the future. They refuse to release prisoners who have been acquitted, because they may commit a future crime. So it takes little imagination to envision our government falsely accusing political dissidents of future crimes and executing them for said crimes.

SeekingTruth · Aug 17, 2009

Revmitchell said: ↑

You guys gotta quit feeding the troll
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You are right. Never again. But it is fun.

alatide · Aug 17, 2009

OldRegular said: ↑

With the Clintons all things are possible!
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Look it up in the encyclopedia. Bush was president in the summer of 2001.

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