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"On the front lines in Pakistan and Central Asia, working-level CIA officers felt they had a rare, urgent sense of the menace bin Laden posed before Sept. 11. Yet a number of controversial proposals to attack bin Laden were turned down by superiors at Langley or the White House, who feared the plans were poorly developed, wouldn't work or would embroil the United States in Afghanistan's then-obscure civil war. At other times, plans to track or attack bin Laden were delayed or watered down after stalemated debates inside Clinton's national security cabinet."

5 posted on 02/21/2004 5:46:12 PM PST by FairOpinion (If you are not voting for Bush, you are voting for the terrorists.)

Jesus, this was in the Post?!!!

I'll be damned.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

6 posted on 02/21/2004 5:48:45 PM PST by section9 (Major Motoko Kusanagi says, "John Kerry: all John F., no Kennedy..." Click on my pic!)