[1john2 3and4]

Sandy Burgler...please pick up the white courtesy phone....Sandy Burgler???

[VeniVidiVici]

Seems to me I've heard this before.

Though, perhaps I'm thinking of one of the other times Clinton was offered Bin Laden.

[LauraleeBraswell]

hmmmm, and who was President in 1998?

[RazorGhost]

During secret meetings with U.S. officials in 1998,

AH HA!! I knew it! ITs Bushes fault!!!1111!!!

[coconutt2000]

I thought this was common knowledge.

[endthematrix]

Another hit piece attempting to link the US is complicit in Taliban atrocity. The fact is the "moderate" wing knew AQ would bring down the regime. And it did! So in order to preserve it's integrity and look to the future of being recognized internationally (they did control 90 percent of the country) they attempted to bargain. The Taliban "hardliners" had control, and to bargain the US knew they would have to deal, and even gave aid to the Taliban. This should not be shocking...well except that the "moderate" Taliban (did warn us of attacks to the Homeland pre-9/11. They also asked of cleaning up AQ and wanted us have a "Mountain Storm" like desert storm to clear out OBL. Well, we had our "Operation Mountain Storm."

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0907-08.htm

[TomGuy]

...assassinating or expelling Osama bin Laden in response to al Qaeda's deadly bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa, according to State Department documents

So, there was a connection between OBL and the embassy bombings.

So, there were legal reasons OBL could have been 'arrested', detained, captured or killed.

State Department documents? Who was the Secretary of State? Oh, yah, Maddie 'the maid' Albright.

So Clinton knew. Or should have. Yet his defense against not actively pursuing OBL was 'they didn't have enough to connect him to the crimes.'

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Almost as bad as the Clinton legacy is the Bush 2 do nothing attitude about giving the Clinton people a pass on their corruption and negligence.

[PilloryHillary]

[sydbas]

"It is unbelievable that this small man did this to you," Ahmed said during their meeting on December 19, 1998, according to the documents.

It's unbelievable Clinton let this small man go so he could continue his murdering spree.

[Tacis]

Do the documents show how much the Saudis paid Willie to ensure that no harm came to OBL? They routed some cash to Willie via Iraqi oil voucher money paid to Marc Rich. Vince Foster regularly went to Switzerland to mange these accounts and died when the criminality of these efforts became too great, even for him.

These documents should also lead to CIA raw notes of the meetings in Europe between Willie's reps, usually Vince, and Saudi, Iraqi, al-Qaida or OBL hitters through most of the 90s. The constant dem mendacity about "no connection" and Berger's thefts are proof that Willie was on the take.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Historical facts destroy any assertion that the Taliban were seriously considering moving against OBL.

This is a no brainer, we knocked the Taliban out of power in Afghanistan because they would not turn over OBL so any talk that they ever seriously considered to do is is bogus and lame brained.

[federal]

This is the 2nd or 3rd report by the MSMedia I have seen on these particular documents.

I find it very interesting that not a single alphabet network has found it newsworthy to mention that the taliban blamed the African bombings on Saddam Hussein.

I'n sure it was just a coincidence that all the MSM people missed that part of these documents............

[Just mythoughts]

Something IS missing. Now we saw at WACO that Clintons had it in them to dispose of "trouble" makers, so somebody somewhere was paying off protection for OBL.