Predator Drones Sighted Osama Before 9/11

AP Yahoo ^ | 2 hours 47 minutes ago 6/24/03 | By TED BRIDIS and JOHN SOLOMON

[MediaMole]

Killing Osama before 9/11 would have justified his attack in the eyes of much of the world.

"Just look what those awful Americans forced the peace loving members of Al Qaeda to do." < /eurotrash >

[Jeff Chandler]

It's Reagan's fault.

Nixon's the one.

[Republican Wildcat]

This appears to have occurred in late 2000, and this article is trying to blame it on Bush. The media will go to any length possible to distort the news.

[Republican Wildcat]

I think that was Omar.

[mikegi]

Let's rewrite this in proper form:

WASHINGTON - In late 2000, the Clinton administration was told that Predator drones had recently spotted Osama bin Laden as many as three times and officials were urged to arm the unmanned planes with missiles to kill the al-Qaida leader. But the Clinton administration failed to get drones back into the Afghan skies. Clinton, instead, focussed on pardons for friends and supporters.

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Are there no lengths to which the Democratic press will not sink in attacking Bush??? There are so many deceptive things in this DNC press release:

1) It was during Clinton's administration that the Predators supposedly spotted UBL.

2) It was during Clinton's administration that the plot for 9/11 was hatched and organized.

3) It was during Clinton's administration that the perps for 9/11 came into this country.

4) The Clinton administration failed to detect this plot and stop it.

[kylaka]

Trump Card.... Clintoon was distracted primarily by Ken Starr.
If not for Starr, he would have been focused on the blow job at hand, and of course national security.

[nyconse]

Lets see, President Bush was sworn in on January 20th 2001. The Democrats had obstructed so long that the bare bones of the cabinet were barely in place. He wasn't in office during the fall of 2000. The point of this article is what?

Clinton on the other hand was offered Bin Laden on a silver plate: no bombs no mess. I think we should continue to blame Clinton for 9-11.

[nyconse]

Bush won a contested election. People did not have enough faith in him to trust him on something like that. Besides people were still lost in the fog of the Clinton years. No one expected terrorism to hit us on our own soil.

[Lady In Blue]

I can't believe you're trying to blame President Bush for this?! Clinton was in office. bin Laden was offered to Clinton on a silver platter - 3 TIMES! You should have posted this on DU's site. I'm sure they would have appreciated it!

[HardStarboard]

I just couldn't stand it - so I plagerized your post and sent it to Yahoo - hopefully they;ll send it to the AP. Thanks for letting me hitchike on your thoughts!

Gentlemen&Ladies: I have read the slanted and distorted article "US Slow on Bin Laden Drones.
The article, written by Ted Burdis and John Solomon is typical of AP hack jobs with an anti-administration slant. If the NYT was worried about its image, the AP has a distortion/slant problem that is over the top in spades!

The article makes it sound like Bush is culpable for letting Bin Laden off the hook because he didn't target him with drone. Little mention of the the fact that the drones were unarmed in the Clinton administration and didn't get armed until Bush did it - just prior to 9/11.

Certainly an armed drone wasn't the only option Clinton had - he could have sent; 1)Spec Ops troops; 2)F-16's, 3)CIA assassination teams....! He was not without options. It is well documented by reputable observers that Clinton was adverse to anti-terrorism actions and turned down several chances to "get" Bin Laden when offered him in captivity by the Sudanese.

This we know: 1) It was during Clinton's administration that the Predators supposedly spotted UBL.

2) It was during Clinton's administration that the plot for 9/11 was hatched and organized.

3) It was during Clinton's administration that the perps for 9/11 came into this country.

4) The Clinton administration failed to detect this plot and stop it.

I hold you responsible to portray a more balanced presentation of critical national events than the mere printing of scurleous articles like the one referenced above. You don'twant to become the NYT of the Net!

Sincerely:
Name and Address
PS: Please find a way to forward my comments to the authors and the AP.

[Steel and Fire and Stone]

From the AP? No news here...

The Dems and their party news Bureau(s) will keep on re-writing history until they get it right...or um, "left" (as in "left-wing"). They'll never stop. You can't argue facts to people who reject the very notion of objective truth and morality. They'll keep on manufacturing news from where no news exists. That is the nature of these amoral people.

FReegards, SFS

[Steel and Fire and Stone]

Bumping my previous post #31 .. you don't understand, the facts do not matter.

SFS

[ALOHA RONNIE]

...Isn't it interesting how all this comes out within a few days of the CLINTONS' own White House Political Advisor DICK MORRIS' confirming on The Judicial Watch Report Talk Rado Show...

...that the CLINTONS refused 2 Offers from the President of Sudan to extradite OSAMA bin LADEN to a U.S. Trial in 1996 that would have prevented the Attacks on US on September 11, 2001..?

[Joy Angela]

The Democrats are still debating the use of force against Saddam Hussein, so how the heck could President Bush have taken action against Bin Ladin BEFORE Sept. 11th???

Oh yeah, the media and madame Jr. Senator Hillary "Let's have a debate" Clinton would have been on their soap-boxes for sure!!

The Conspiring Clintons
have purposely put our President
in a no-win (they think) position.

I vote for an investigation
of Treason against Bill and Hillary.

[Sabertooth]

When President Bush took office in January 2001, the White House was told that Predator drones had recently spotted Osama bin Laden as many as three times and officials were urged to arm the unmanned planes with missiles to kill the al-Qaida leader.

Mia, do you remember the thread and post on this, from about a year ago?

[Grampa Dave]

So who did you vote for in 2000?

Obviously GW is not enough of a conservative for you.

Let me guess your candidate's first name was Pat?

[Fighting Irish]

.....now what did I do with that pesky little time machine?

[Ann Archy]

At a White House meeting of Bush's national security principals on Sept. 4, 2001, senior officials discussed several ideas, including use of the drones, as they finalized a plan to accelerate efforts to go after al-Qaida amid signs of a growing threat of a domestic attack. Among those present were Rice, CIA Director George Tenet, soon-to-be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Richard Myers, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and Clarke, then Bush's anti-terrorism chief inside the White House. Though CIA had operated the unmanned Predators in Afghanistan in 2000, Tenet expressed strong reservation about his agency running the armed drones for an attack mission, suggesting it was the purview of the military, according to officials who witnessed or were briefed about the meeting. "Generally it was understood (inside CIA) that aircraft firing weapons is the province of the military. This was a discussion about what the appropriate agency was to carry out the mission, but it was not a matter of the technology," said one official familiar with Tenet's comments at the meeting. Defense officials suggested they be given an objective — killAt a White House meeting of Bush's national security principals on Sept. 4, 2001, senior officials discussed several ideas, including use of the drones, as they finalized a plan to accelerate efforts to go after al-Qaida amid signs of a growing threat of a domestic attack. Among those present were Rice, CIA Director George Tenet, soon-to-be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Richard Myers, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and Clarke, then Bush's anti-terrorism chief inside the White House. Though CIA had operated the unmanned Predators in Afghanistan in 2000, Tenet expressed strong reservation about his agency running the armed drones for an attack mission, suggesting it was the purview of the military, according to officials who witnessed or were briefed about the meeting. "Generally it was understood (inside CIA) that aircraft firing weapons is the province of the military. This was a discussion about what the appropriate agency was to carry out the mission, but it was not a matter of the technology," said one official familiar with Tenet's comments at the meeting.

George Tenet was and still is the WEAKEST LINK!! He's a Clinton Buddy.....he gave Bush bad info for the first night when he told Bush that Saddam and sons were all in one place.....bad info or MIS-INFO????

[Z-28]

This is a bit off-topic but,

I heard tonight on San Diego radio that Condolezza Rice is being suggested as a candidate for the governor of California; after we dump the Marxist Gray Davis in a recall election in September 2003.

Davis is bleeding California of $1,000,000,000.00 ($1 billion) a month for a total deficit so far of $38,000,000,000.00 ($38 billion)!

But we have free education for illegal aliens, and lower-priced instate tuition when they go to college in California.

However, all our approximately 100,000 military personal in San Diego county must pay much higher out-of-state education tuition for their children enrolled in San Diego schools.

Wifey and I have sent in our recall Gray Davis petitions. We think Condolezza Rice would make a great California governor.

[chichipow]

VVVVVRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMM!

The sound of the jet flying over your head.

"I" didn't blame Bush for it. Did you read any of my responses?