..I didn't have sex with bin ladenFRANCE'S Defence Ministry has said a secret service report saying al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has died cannot be confirmed, but it will launch an inquiry into the leak of secret documents.
The Defence Ministry issued the statement after a French regional newspaper, L'Est Republicain, published a report quoting a French secret service report as saying Saudi Arabia is convinced bin Laden died of typhoid in Pakistan last month.
"The information published this morning in the L'Est Republicain newspaper relating to the supposed death of Osama bin Laden cannot be confirmed," the Defence Ministry said.
"The Defence Minister (Michele Alliot-Marie) has asked that an inquiry be carried out to determine the origin of the leak that can be punished by criminal charges."
The newspaper printed what it said was a copy of the report dated September 21 and said it was shown to President Jacques Chirac, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin and France's interior and defence ministers on the same day.
"According to a usually reliable source, the Saudi services are now convinced that Osama bin Laden is dead," the document said.
"The information gathered by the Saudis indicates that the head of al Qaeda was a victim while he was in Pakistan on August 23, 2006, of a very serious case of typhoid which led to a partial paralysis of his internal organs."
The report, which was stamped with a "confidential defence" label and the initials of the French secret service, said Saudi Arabia first heard the information on September 4 and that it was waiting for more details before making an official announcement.
A senior official in Pakistan said no foreign government had shared information with Pakistan that would back up the report of bin Laden's death.
Saudi-born bin Laden was based in Afghanistan until the Taliban government there was overthrown by US-backed forces in 2001.
Since then, US and Pakistani officials have regularly said they believe he is hiding somewhere on the rugged border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The last videotaped message released by bin Laden was in late 2004, but there have been several low quality audio tapes released this year.
Oh, I read about that in a recent issue of "Fortune". This is the charity that has no money of it's own, but a whole lot of Clinton-BS behind it. But hey, at least he can jet-set around the globe & party on Bill & Melinda Gates' nickel. And who knows? Maybe one day all those idiots at the UN will decide that they want him as Sec-Gen?
Outside of that BJ, how is the Legacy coming??
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
Oh, I read about that in a recent issue of "Fortune". This is the charity that has no money of it's own, but a whole lot of Clinton-BS behind it. But hey, at least he can jet-set around the globe & party on Bill & Melinda Gates' nickel. And who knows? Maybe one day all those idiots at the UN will decide that they want him as Sec-Gen?
No, "he" did not have plans draw up to invade "we" had plans drawn up to invade, "he" said no.
Bill Clintoon lies like trailer trash.
"I had battle plans drawn to go into Afghanistan, overthrow the Taliban and launch a full-scale attack search for Bin Laden. But we needed basing rights in Uzbekistan..."
Wait a minute! For six years a debate has raged over what Billy did or did not do to combat terrorism and capture/kill Bin Laden. Everyone from Albright to retired generals to Morris to Queen Hillary herself have weighed in on it. Yet this is the first time we have heard about a full-scale invasion/attack/overthrow of an entire country??? And besides, the only thing that stopped it was "basing rights" in Uzbekistan? We couldn't overcome that obstacle? The whole story strains credulity. I think Billy was making it up as he went along - again!
All Billy Boy tried and succeded at was getting a "B.J." in the Oval Office.
Hey Bill - steers try to!
Bovine Scat. Making plans are not the same as trying you twit. If the plans you get from your subordinates, which I don't believe existed, at least as anything other than "contingency" plans, contain an un-doable step, you send them back and tell your subordinates to bring you a plan you can execute.
At least Jimmy Carter tried, his plan was badly flawed, but at least he executed it.
Only Chris Wallace would even bring this up to the bent one.
"Atleast I tried"
Depends on what the definition of "tried" is :)
..I didn't have sex with bin laden. So I tried and failed
I guess with this a-hole it depends on what "tried" means
he did get the meaning of failed correct
I wonder how long it will be before somebody comes forward to refute that little nugget; because, needless to say, it's an out and out lie.
"All of President Bush's neocons that said I was too obsessed with Bin Laden;
I'm still waiting for NAMES, Bill; who were there.
Or is it like technomage posted just a bit ago:
After watching the rant, oops, interview, Clinton slipped up. He showed his cards by uttering three little words: wag the dog. It was like a light bulb going off in my head. Now it made sense. Clinton is once again 'mixing' historical events to conform to what he wants the world to remember. Conservatives did use the wag the dog reference numerous times, not in reference to bin Laden, but in reference to Clinton's massive bombardment of Serbia, which had absolutely nothing to do with bin Laden.
Actually, it was Serbia AND Sudan that people were calling "Wag the Dog" because he ONLY used them when he was in political trouble."
they had no meetings on Bin Laden for nine months after I left office," Clinton said, that is, not until after 9/11.
Excerpts from the August 2002 press briefing by Richard A. Clarke:
RICHARD CLARKE: There was no plan on al Qaeda that was passed from the Clinton administration to the Bush administration ... In January 2001, the incoming Bush administration was briefed on the existing strategy. [They] decided to ... vigorously pursue the existing policy [and] ... initiate a process to look at those issues which had been on the table for a couple of years.
In their first meeting [the principles] changed the strategy by authorizing the increase in funding [for covert action against al Qaeda] five-fold, changing the policy on Pakistan, changing the policy on Uzbekistan, changing the policy on the Northern Alliance assistance. [They] then changed the strategy from one of rollback with al Qaeda ... to a new strategy that called for the rapid elimination of al Qaeda.
QUESTION: What is your response to the suggestion in the [Aug. 12, 2002] Time [magazine] article that the Bush administration was unwilling to take on board the suggestions made in the Clinton administration because of animus against ... the foreign policy?
CLARKE: I think if there was a general animus that clouded their vision, they might not have kept the same guy dealing with [the] terrorism issue ... There was never a plan [in the Clinton administration].
QUESTION: What was the problem? Why was it so difficult for the Clinton administration to make decisions on those issues?
CLARKE: Because they were tough issues. One of the big problems was that Pakistan at the time was aiding the other side, was aiding the Taliban. In the spring [of 2001], the Bush administration ... began to change Pakistani policy. We began to offer carrots, which made it possible for the Pakistanis ... [to] join us and to break away from the Taliban. So that's really how it started.
QUESTION: Had the Clinton administration ... prepared for a call for the use of ground forces, special operations forces in any way?
CLARKE: There was never a plan in the Clinton administration to use ground forces. The military was asked at a couple of points ... to think about it. And they always came back and said it was not a good idea. There was never a plan to do that.
QUESTION: You're saying ... there was no plan; two, there was no delay; and that actually the first changes since October of '98 were made in the spring months just after the administration came into office?
CLARKE: You got it ...The other thing to bear in mind is the shift from the rollback strategy to the elimination strategy. When President Bush told us in March to stop swatting at flies and just solve this problem, then that was the strategic direction that changed the [policy] from one of rollback to one of elimination.
