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To: Grampa Dave

It took Clinton 3 years to put Bin Laden on the list ??

A 98 WP article
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/eafricabombing/stories/binladen082898.htm

"If you go after his money, you'll hurt him," said Larry Johnson, a former CIA official and now a security consultant. "You need cash to make his system run."

The United States has never launched such a financial attack on terrorists. In 1995 Clinton banned U.S. financial institutions from dealing with several dozen suspected terrorist individuals and groups, and Americans from donating funds to them.

But until last week the U.S. Treasury, which continually updates this list of "sanctioned" terrorists, never placed bin Laden on the list, despite the fact that the U.S. government had identified him since 1995 as the world's leading terrorist paymaster. A senior administration official said the government's understanding of his role "was evolving."


76 posted on 06/18/2004 7:12:39 AM PDT by Mo1 (That's right Old Media .... WE LOVED PRESIDENT REAGAN)
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To: Mo1

Thanks more dynamite data against the Clintoons and the anti American Mediots who want to rewrite their sorry history and blame GW.


77 posted on 06/18/2004 7:18:22 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( J.F.K. STANDS FOR: (JIHAD FOR KERRY!))
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