Plan to Capture Bin Laden Before 9/11 Was Called Off

ABC News ^ | 5/21/03 | Brian Ross

[hobbes1]

Add this to Mansoor Ijaz's story, and you have the makings of one hell of a campaign stump speech, about why Democrats are unfit to govern.

[Thane_Banquo]

Hmm. Janet Reno killed it. Surprise, surprise.

[rockinonritalin]

I doubt she made any significant decisions without consulting Clinton first, at least one of them.

[hobbes1]

No decision that important is made OUTSIDE of the Oval Office.

[petuniasevan]

killed by then-Attorney General Janet Reno

Why couldn't the nasty old hag kill THIS one? But NOOOO...terrorists got a free ride while little kids died.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

By golly, it's a good thing there are a bunch of Clinton books coming out soon to spin the truth about his pathetic administration.

[DonQ]

Considering the Reno was continuously taking the blame for Waco, I am not surprised that she was gun shy about another projected surgical strike. It's also worth remembering how many other time US intelligence about the whereabouts of Bin Ladin, Ghaddafi, Saddam, etc., had been wrong.

[theDentist]

"...this plan was probably too dangerous, that the loss of life on the ground would have been significant."

In hindsight, leaving him there was too dangerous, and lead to a real significant loss of life.

[Interloper]

What was Mansoor's story? I think I missed his latest.

[yonif]

Clinton was probably waiting for another intern problem he could use military action for, so we would be distracted yet again.

[Lockbox]

It’s for the children.................oops sorry that was Waco!

[OldFriend]

Wonder if this is the story that slick willie was referring to when he said he didn't allow the attack because OBL was surrounded by 200 women and children.

If we have any luck at all, these stories will be the undoing of the grifter regime much as the NYT is melting down before our eyes.

[2timothy3.16]

"They came to the decision that this plan was probably too dangerous, that the loss of life on the ground would have been significant," Cloonan said. There was concern that people around the bin Laden compound would be killed."

No such concern for US Citizens, the real clinton/reno/ snowe legacy.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

"They came to the decision that this plan was probably too dangerous, that the loss of life on the ground would have been significant," Cloonan said. There was concern that people around the bin Laden compound would be killed."

In a Democrat administration, only Americans and Balkans at the discretion of Europe are allowed to die.

[hobbes1]

not the latest, just his particular story, 3 deals with the Sudan to extradite OBL....quashed by the administration.

[tbpiper]

Hmm. Janet Reno killed it. Surprise, surprise.

There weren't enough children in the compound to make it worth her while.

[OldFriend]

Reno had no problem authorizing men in black carrying rifles to enter the home of a little Cuban boy named Elian. The people sitting and praying outside the home were sprayed with tear gas and terrorized.

A little boy, so much more dangerous to our national security than Osama Ben Laden.

What say you, democrats who elected this scum, twice.

[Chairman_December_19th_Society]

Plan to Capture Bin Laden Before 9/11 Was Called Off

The leftstream media are at it again!

This headline makes it appear as if it was President Bush that called off an attempt to get OBL.

It is only when one reads the article you learn it was a plan FIVE YEARS AGO, when the Unmentionable One was President.

Dispicable media spin.

[Phsstpok]

Plan to Capture Bin Laden Before 9/11 Was Called Off

Typical twisted ABC headline. Makes it sound like this happened just before 9/11, implicating the current administration. It's not until far down in the article that it's clear that this was under Clinton's watch.

No, there's no bias in the "mainstream media"