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... 11, here and elsewhere, against Bill Clinton. Yet recently, opportunistic critics have mounted a false indictment of Clinton, attempted to erase his administrations extensive record of action against terrorism and smeared him by suggesting he should have prevented the tragedy of Sept. ... For them, indicting Clinton, or any Democrat, remains the most compelling obsession of all. ... But, I would like to let you know that not all Democrats are tree-hugging hippies. ... But even the most conservative of Democrats are getting sick and tired of your half-truths and blurred facts about former president Clinton and his actions against Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda. Most of your resent rhetoric on the failure of the Clinton administration lies in the comments of Mansoor Ijaz, the former mediator between the United States & Sudan and member of the prestigious Council on Foreign Relations. ... In order to relax the economic sanctions weighting on Sudan, President Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir offered to extradite Osama bin Laden to Saudi Arabia or seize his economic network in Sudan. In the face of American refusal, Sudan settled for demanding the departure of bin Laden to Afghanistan in May of the same year. ... (Mansoor Ijaz, “Clinton let Bin Laden slip away and metastasize”, Los Angles Times, December 5, 2001) In all of your reports you state the Sudan offered to arrest and turnover Bin Laden to the U. ... Sudan never offered to “arrest” Bin Laden, only to extradite him to Saudi Arabia or (“or” being the key work here) seize his asset in Sudanese banks. Since Bin Ladens anti-government activities prompted the Saudi government to expel him in 1991, extradition was never seen as a realistic option. In fact, there are questions about the offer itself. It is true that the Clinton Administration brought pressure to bear on the Khartoum authorities to expel him from the Sudan. ... , News Article by Associated Press on 24 August 1998 at 08:26:28) As for seizing his assets… The CIA admits that Osama bin Laden was an "intelligence asset" during the Cold War, the relationship is said to "go way back". ... Without this money Bin Laden would have just been another rebel without a country or an army. |
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