Posted on 07/26/2008 8:26:24 AM PDT by Entrepreneur
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba — In his seventh of month of U.S. captivity, Osama bin Laden's driver told a pair of FBI agents that it was America's fault that the al Qaida leader was alive.
The message was, ''You had these opportunities, America. You didn't do anything,'' FBI agent George Crouch Jr. testified Friday at Salim Hamdan's war crimes trial.
The United States could have killed bin Laden in Khartoum, Sudan, before he moved to Afghanistan in 1996, Hamdan told his interrogators. They could have killed him after al Qaida's 1998 twin bombings at the U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. Or after the October 2000 suicide bombing of the USS Cole, at the port of Aden in Yemen, which left 17 U.S. sailors dead.
Instead, ''Bin Laden was emboldened.'' So he struck with the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, leaving nearly 3,000 dead.
(Excerpt) Read more at mcclatchydc.com ...
1996, 1998 and October of 2000...
Bush’s Fault
Yes, I am sure this is an easy thing to do, just ask the Americans who have given their lives, and still are, in Afghanistan.
War is not a video game.
From what I understand, members of Hitler’s reign are still being discovered living among the population worldwide.
I would be happy to pay the expenses for any armchair general, be it Hillary Clinton, etc., to go over there and prove how easy it is it find Bin Laden.
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"But prosecutor Timothy Stone told the six-member jury of U.S. military officers who will decide Hamdan's guilt or innocence that Hamdan had inside knowledge of the 2001 attacks on the United States because he overheard a conversation between bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri.
"If they hadn't shot down the fourth plane it would've hit the dome," Stone, a Navy officer, said in his opening remarks.
The tribunal's chief prosecutor, Col. Lawrence Morris, later explained that Stone was quoting Hamdan in evidence that will be presented at trial. Morris declined to say if the "dome" was a reference to the U.S. Capitol.
"Virtually no one knew the intended target, but the accused knew," Stone said.
United Airlines Flight 93 crashed in a field in rural Pennsylvania. U.S. officials have never stated it was shot down although rumors saying that abound to this day."
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Reuters' outright lies: "shot down."
More proof that liberalism IS a deadly mental disease.
You're comparing Stalin's massive Soviet enpire and Hitler's Nazi Germany, both that were capable direct threats to the United States and the world to whom?
And as we now know, hiding behind barackobama’s well draped Burberry suits is the same crew that brought you all of the feckless behavior that brought us attack after attack. Why on earth would we go backt to THAT?
Empire....
“The United States could have killed bin Laden in Khartoum, Sudan, before he moved to Afghanistan in 1996, Hamdan told his interrogators. They could have killed him after al Qaida’s 1998 twin bombings at the U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. Or after the October 2000 suicide bombing of the USS Cole, at the port of Aden in Yemen, which left 17 U.S. sailors dead.”
Add to that the bombing in Oklahoma City, the Waco slaughter of innocents under the direction of Ramsey Clark, the first bombing of the world trade center and 9/11 for more of the Clintoon gift.
Yet, there are so called conservatives, who still brag about defeating the evil George Bush and Bob Dole which enabled the Clintoons to do the above to America. Most of these same psychos now want to see Obama as president to punish America and Republicans. They are very dangerous people and are not conservatives or decent human beings.
I am of course referring to Saddam Hussein.
I think he qualifies as ‘one of’ the most murderous men.
Dont ever forget his use of chemical weapons against his own people, as well as against Iran.
Dont forget the childrens prisons, the rape rooms...
Must I detail his atrocities?
Instead, ''Bin Laden was emboldened.'' So he struck with the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, leaving nearly 3,000 dead.
1996,1998, 2000 ..who was President then?
Oh yeah BILL CLINTOON WAS!
If Clinton were a Republican this news would be 24x7 on TV, and above the fold in every paper.
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In his seventh of month of U.S. captivity, Osama bin Laden’s driver told
a pair of FBI agents that it was America’s fault that the al Qaida
leader was alive.
“
In a way, he’s right.
Because our electorate returned Clinton to The White House for a
second term.
And the Republicans couldn’t come up with a better candidate than
Bob Dole in 1996 (no knock on Dole, but one on the Republican Party).
bin Laden’s drive would understand better if he read the account of
the Clinton’s staff to determine what to do in response to the Cole attack...
IIRC, it’s covered in the book (amazon link below); the consensus was
“leave it to the next Administration” and “it’s a legal/law-enforcement
problem”.
Only Richard Clark is mentioned as favoring an armed/punitive strike.
(I think none of the others at that meeting such as Janet Reno ever
denied the details as reported in the book).
That meeting was a great summation of the limp action by Clinton
and his “law-enforcement-only” approach to Islamic terrorism.
Losing Bin Laden: How Bill Clinton’s Failures Unleashed
Global Terror
by Rich Miniter
http://www.amazon.com/Losing-Bin-Laden-Clintons-Unleashed/dp/0895260484/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217088291&sr=1-10
“....1996, 1998 and October of 2000...
Bush’s Fault....”
Dont forget 1993 WTC
Dont forget 1993 Somalia
Dont forget 1993 Waco
Dont forget 2000 Elian Gonzales
Clinton legacy
The Clinton legacy BUMP!
“Yet, there are so called conservatives, who still brag about defeating the evil George Bush and Bob Dole which enabled the Clintoons to do the above to America. Most of these same psychos now want to see Obama as president to punish America and Republicans. They are very dangerous people and are not conservatives or decent human beings.”
EXACTLY!!
Could not have said it better myself.
Thanks for the ping!
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