Thank you for your post!
So, we are now supposed to believe that Clinton knew who the leader of Al-Qaeda was and actively sought him?
He certainly knew about Osama bin Laden, but I don't believe he was "seeking" him. The Clinton approach was to treat bin Laden as a target in a criminal investigation.
Somewhere around the middle of his administration, Sudan offered bin Laden up. But their "case" wasn't ready.
In the end, despite the embassy and USS Cole bombings, the extent of the Clinton administration response was to indict bin Laden (including for Somalia) and lob a few missiles into his training camps.
>>>>So, we are now supposed to believe that Clinton knew who the leader of Al-Qaeda was and actively sought him?
He certainly knew about Osama bin Laden, but I don't believe he was "seeking" him. The Clinton approach was to treat bin Laden as a target in a criminal investigation.
Somewhere around the middle of his administration, Sudan offered bin Laden up. But their "case" wasn't ready.
He had more opportunities than the Sudan offer.
See this section of the article I posted.
"...the Clinton administration turned down three separate offers to extradite Osama bin Laden to the U.S. during the late 1990s."
"...Ijaz also charged that Clinton officials deliberately went out of their way to stifle FBI anti-terrorism probes.
"The FBI, in 1996 and 1997, had their efforts to look at terrorism data and deal with the bin Laden issue overruled every single time by the State Department, by Susan Rice and her cronies, who were hell-bent on destroying the Sudan..."