Posted on 07/23/2004 1:11:17 AM PDT by kattracks
WASHINGTON - U.S. officials scrapped a 1999 plan to offer the Taliban a $250 million bribe to turn over Osama Bin Laden, fearing then-First Lady Hillary Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright would object to paying off the infamous women's rights abusers.Clinton had long criticized the Islamic regime in Afghanistan for covering women with burkas and denying them educations and jobs.
According to the final 9/11 commission report, Bill Clinton's administration had already made fruitless overtures to the Taliban, paying $10 million to $20 million annually in bribes.
"Two senior State Department officials suggested asking the Saudis to offer the Taliban $250 million for Bin Laden," the report said, citing a May 1999 memo. But White House terrorism czar Richard Clarke "opposed ... a 'huge grant to a regime as heinous as the Taliban' and suggested that the idea might not seem attractive to either Secretary Albright or First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton - both critics of the Taliban's record on women's rights."
"Sen. Clinton was a vocal critic of the heinous Taliban regime well before 9/11," said her spokesman, Philippe Reines.
James Gordon Meek
Originally published on July 23, 2004
bump !
"According to the final 9/11 commission report, Bill Clinton's administration had already made fruitless overtures to the Taliban, paying $10 million to $20 million annually in bribes."
"THERE'S THE STORY RIGHT THERE - Clinton helped fund Al Qaeda..."
posted by dandelion (Thanks for your post, dandelion)
Post #19. This may explain why Sen. mary landrieu, Sen. "Osama Mama" murray and 11 other Senators approached President Bush in the days shortly before 09/11/01 to give the Taliban $30,000,000 million Dollars.(This story Broke on News Max shortly before the 2002 House and Senate elections but were dissed by the media.) This explains what they were trying to do. They were trying to get President Bush to pay a bribe to the Taliban which President Bush DID NOT DO, God Bless him and Thank God he didn't!!!!
To dandelion:
Very Best FReegards, You helped U.S. connect the Dots!!!!
Defender2
Thank you so much for the insight! Hugs!
Please see post #102
SEE post #19 and #102!!!!
Hugs, Sweetie!!!!
Senator Landrieu(D-LA) refused to answer our questions to this shortly before her re-election in 2002!!!!
More hugs!
Yep, this explains why she(landrieu) refused to answer our qustions then.
Bump and HUGS!!!!
Ping to posts #19 and #102!!!!
So let me get this right. We run a republic. We vote for a President and VP. We vote for a congress and a senate. The president has veto powers over both houses. The Supreme court has veto powers over the president and both houses. We have a constitution that is over 200 years old. And we allow the wife of a president to run or ruin American foreign policy? For a brief moment in history, a balance hung on a toothpick. You could have halted the Afghanistan war episode, the Iraq war, taken Saddam, halted any 9-11 operation, and paid off a bunch of ragheads in the middle of nowhere with $250 million, which is what we pay per month to KBR for profit in Iraq over their various contracts. Is there something wrong with this picture? Its a sad history for America...we could have saved so many American lives...except the president's wife wouldn't have bought the idea. Says alot for Bill's legacy.
Good work, Dandelion !See post #102, folks.
Thank you ! :^)
Thanks, Sweetie, I'm digging for that News MAX Story NOW!!!!
I guess that I will have to buy a copy of this report to see if this data is hidden in the report"
"According to the final 9/11 commission report, Bill Clinton's administration had already made fruitless overtures to the Taliban, paying $10 million to $20 million annually in bribes."
If this is true, the mediots have done a great job of hiding it from America.
Absolutely incredible.
If we ever are able to track how Islamofascists have funded rat politicians for two decades, we will not have enough rope in America to handle them.
Here it is Folks, I found the News Max Story:
http://www.newsmax.com/cgi-bin/showinside.pl?a=2003/1/16/150104.txt
Can't be. According to Fahrenheit 9/11, Bush wanted the pipeline built.
Full text of that here, for easy reading:
NewsMax.com
Thursday, Jan. 16, 2003
The 'Taliban 13' U.S. Senators
We've reported how Sen. Patty "Osama Mama" Murray, D-Wash., wanted American taxpayers to dole out $30 million to the rabidly America-hating, woman-oppressing Taliban regime in Afghanistan. We promised to name the other 12 U.S. senators who agreed with her.
Not suprisingly, all 13 who urged Secretary of State Colin Powell to abet the regime are Democrats. Most are on the far-left fringe of the party.
In contrast with Murray's claims, "The United States is already the biggest aid donor to Afghanistan, despite its animosity toward the ruling Taliban Islamic militia, which it blames for backing terrorism, drug trafficking and gross human rights abuses," Agence France-Presse reported May 2, 2001, in revealing the senators' demands.
The Taliban Thirteen: Sens. Murray, Hillary Clinton of New York, Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer of California, Teddy Kennedy of Massachusetts, Patrick "Leaky" Leahy of Vermont, Barbara Mikulski of Maryland, Harry Reid of Nevada, Joseph Biden of Delaware, Russell Feingold of Wisconsin, Debbie Stabenow of Michigan, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, and the late Paul Wellstone of Minnesota.
Maybe Moore will have an addition to his bs posing as a movie to include this story?
"What did Bush know and when did he know it" really rings hollow now that numerous Senators seem to have been in on it. Not that the media will mention it.
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