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Driver told FBI agents U.S. could have killed bin Laden
McClatchy Newspapers ^
| July 25, 2008
| Carol Rosenberg
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.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 911; alqaeda; alqaida; billclinton; billyjeff; binladen; clintonlegacy; gitmo; hamdan; marines; militarycommissions; missedopportunity; monica; terrortrials; warcrimes; wot
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To: Former MSM Viewer
Lindsey Williams, excellent stuff on Gull island! Problem is I searched 70 google links one day and could not find any corroboration for his stuff, which I do believe is accurate.
Sure would like some corroboration that the four wells do exist and that the field is really 200 feet deep and 60 miles long.
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posted on
07/26/2008 1:02:35 PM PDT
by
rodguy911
(Support The New media, Ticket the Drive-bys, --America-The land of the Free because of the Brave-)
To: dragnet2
The difference is that it was far more feasible to nail the F-er in the ‘90s, which is just what his “driver” was saying to the FBI. After 9/11 Bin Laden was not exactly showing his ugly face all over the place the way he did in the Clintonista years......
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posted on
07/26/2008 8:39:08 PM PDT
by
Enchante
(Only an idiot like Obambi goes to GERMANY to apologize for unwarranted (sic) aggression!)
To: Former MSM Viewer; rodguy911
From what I’ve read about it I believe that Lindsey Williams is a nut - sure there are some major fields we should be developing in various places, from off our coasts in the lower 48 up to northern Alaska, but there is NO reason to believe there is some gigantic field under Gull Island.
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posted on
07/26/2008 8:42:12 PM PDT
by
Enchante
(Only an idiot like Obambi goes to GERMANY to apologize for unwarranted (sic) aggression!)
To: Enchante
The difference is that it was far more feasible to nail the F-er in the 90s I don't think anyone is disputing that. This is basically really old news.
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posted on
07/26/2008 8:51:34 PM PDT
by
dragnet2
To: Wolfstar; All
"But he just said no to the Sudanese"
And let us specify that it was SUSAN RICE, now the #1 national security advisor for Obambi, who was on point for the CLintonista regime in advising that the WH should let Bin Laden get away.
Susan Rice bears more responsibility than almost anyone except Bill Clinton himself for the Sudan debacle, and he was foolish enough to follow her advice (because she told him what was easier and more convenient for him personally, at the time). It is past time to expose Susan Rice and many of Obambi's key advisors, who are in line for plum positions in an Obambi administration -- there are so many dishonest and incompetent hacks among the Demagogue advisory corps -- they need to be exposed, disgraced, humiliated, and driven from public life, along with their worthless peacenik appeasement candidate the Obamessiah.
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posted on
07/26/2008 8:54:14 PM PDT
by
Enchante
(Only an idiot like Obambi goes to GERMANY to apologize for unwarranted (sic) aggression!)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I'm staying out of the fray. One can point fingers at each POTUS and State Department dating back to FDR on the rise of radical Islamic theologies sponsored by the Nazi then carefully crafted to a high degree by the Russians.
At least we see in GWB the courage to do many very unpopular things in addressing the problem. Let us hope whoever becomes the next POTUS has half the guts he has demonstrated to sure up our defenses and take the fight to this common enemy of the free world.
Actions speak louder then mere words.
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posted on
07/26/2008 9:27:43 PM PDT
by
Marine_Uncle
(Duncan Hunter was our best choice...Now we are left with a bunch of idiots.)
To: Grampa Dave; potlatch; devolve; MeekOneGOP; Ernest_at_the_Beach; gonzo; LucyT; Fred Nerks; FARS
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posted on
07/26/2008 9:48:55 PM PDT
by
PhilDragoo
(Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
To: PhilDragoo
to be a muslim, first you have to go to finger-pointing school...
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posted on
07/26/2008 10:02:04 PM PDT
by
Fred Nerks
(fair dinkum!)
To: Enchante; Former MSM Viewer; rodguy911
To: Enchante; Former MSM Viewer; rodguy911; thackney
To: Enchante
I now agree, I am always suspicious when a major league story as that should have been has only one source,Williams in this case.
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posted on
07/27/2008 10:10:10 AM PDT
by
rodguy911
(LAND OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Thanks for the link, much appreciated.
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07/27/2008 10:12:19 AM PDT
by
rodguy911
(LAND OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE)
To: Entrepreneur
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