US missed three chances to seize Bin Laden

The Sunday Times (U.K.) ^ | 01/06/2002

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[boltfromblue]

Clinton's core sustaining emotion is the desire to sabotage, betray, smear and downgrade this country and its people, likely because he is envious of people who were better than his fuoked family. In addition to affording him the opportunity to indulge his excesses and perversions at our expense. Lesson: Never elect a person of any party who did not come from a relatively loving, caring family, despite a shortcoming or two.

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President Clinton's Speech on Terrorist Attacks -- 08/20/1998

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From Text of President's Speech
20 August, 1998

President Clinton's Speech on Terrorist Attacks

Good afternoon.

Today I ordered our armed forces to strike at terrorist-related facilities in Afghanistan and Sudan because of the imminent threat they presented to our national security.

I want to speak with you about the objective of this action and why it was necessary.

Our target was terror. Our mission was clear -- to strike at the network of radical groups affiliated with and funded by Osama bin Laden, perhaps the preeminent organizer and financier of international terrorism in the world today.

The groups associated with him come from diverse places, but share a hatred for democracy, a fanatical glorification of violence, and a horrible distortion of their religion to justify the murder of innocents.

They have made the United States their adversary precisely because of what we stand for and what we stand against.

A few months ago, and again this week, bin Laden publicly vowed to wage a terrorist war against America, saying -- and I quote -- ``We do not differentiate between those dressed in military uniforms and civilians. They are all targets.''

Their mission is murder. And their history is bloody.

In recent years, they killed American, Belgian and Pakistani peacekeepers in Somalia. They plotted to assassinate the president of Egypt and the Pope. They planned to bomb six United States 747s over the Pacific.

They bombed the Egyptian embassy in Pakistan. They gunned down German tourists in Egypt. The most recent terrorist events are fresh in our memory. Two weeks ago, 12 Americans and nearly 300 Kenyans and Tanzanians lost their lives. And another 5,000 were wounded when our embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam were bombed.

There is convincing information from our intelligence community that the bin Laden terrorist network was responsible for these bombings. Based on this information, we have high confidence that these bombings were planned, financed and carried out by the organization bin Laden leads.

America has battled terrorism for many years. Where possible, we've used law enforcement and diplomatic tools to wage the fight. The long arm of American law has reached out around the world and brought to trial those guilty of attacks in New York, in Virginia and in the Pacific.
We have quietly disrupted terrorist groups and foiled their plots. We have isolated countries that practice terrorism. We've worked to build an international coalition against terror. But there have been and will be times when law enforcement and diplomatic tools are simply not enough.
When our very national security is challenged and when we must take extraordinary steps to protect the safety of our citizens. With compelling evidence that the bin Laden network of terrorist groups was planning to mount further attacks against Americans and other freedom-loving people, I decided America must act.

And so this morning, based on the unanimous recommendation of my national security team, I ordered our armed forces to take action to counter an immediate threat from the bin Laden network.

Earlier today, the United States carried out simultaneous strikes against terrorist facilities and infrastructure in Afghanistan. Our forces targeted one of the most active terrorist bases in the world. It contained key elements of the bin Laden network's infrastructure and has served as a training camp for literally thousands of terrorists from around the globe.
We have reason to believe that a gathering of key terrorist leaders was to take place there today, thus underscoring the urgency of our actions.

Our forces also attacked a factory in Sudan associated with the bin Laden network. The factory was involved in the production of materials for chemical weapons.

The United States does not take this action lightly. Afghanistan and Sudan have been warned for years to stop harboring and supporting these terrorist groups.

But countries that persistently host terrorists have no right to be safe havens. Let me express my gratitude to our intelligence and law enforcement agencies for their hard, good work. And let me express my pride in our armed forces, who carried out this mission while making every possible effort to minimize the loss of innocent lives.

I want you to understand, I want the world to understand that our actions today were not aimed against Islam, the faith of hundreds of millions of good, peace-loving people all around the world, including the United States. No religion condones the murder of innocent men, women and children. But our actions were aimed at fanatics and killers who wrap murder in the cloak of righteousness, and in so doing, profane the great religion in whose name they claim to act.

My fellow Americans, our battle against terrorism did not begin with the bombing of our embassies in Africa, nor will it end with today's strike.

It will require strength, courage and endurance. We will not yield to this threat. We will meet it no matter how long it may take. This will be a long, ongoing struggle between freedom and fanaticism, between the rule of law and terrorism.

We must be prepared to do all that we can for as long as we must. America is and will remain a target of terrorists precisely because we are leaders; because we act to advance peace, democracy and basic human values; because we're the most open society on earth; and because, as we have shown yet again, we take an uncompromising stand against terrorism.

But of this, I am also sure. The risks from inaction to America and the world would be far greater than action. For that would embolden our enemies, leaving their ability and their willingness to strike us intact.

In this case, we knew before our attack that these groups already had planned further actions against us and others.

I want to reiterate the United States wants peace, not conflict. We want to lift lives around the world, not take them. We have worked for peace in Bosnia, in Northern Ireland, in Haiti, in the Middle East and elsewhere.

But in this day, no campaign for peace can succeed without a determination to fight terrorism. Let our actions today send this message loud and clear: There are no expendable American targets.

There will be no sanctuary for terrorists. We will defend our people, our interests and our values. We will help people of all faiths, in all parts of the world, who want to live free of fear and violence.

We will persist and we will prevail.

Thank you, God bless you and may God bless our country.

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[boltfromblue]

Marxist or whatever your name is, the bullshit and spin that emanated from the clinton Administration's perpetual spin machine does not cover up the FACTS of the matter, that clinton refused to have bin Laden handed over to us 3 times, from Scott Ritter, to former CIA head James Woolsey, to another I know majorly connected to the plans for the attack, non-existent until the day before. (NO WONDER they hit a pharmaceutical factory!) and just how much damage did they do lobbing two missiles into a 3 square mile terrorist training camp with no one in it? PULLEASE! OF COURSE, the speech spin took great care to cover what they knew they HAD HAD justification to do for years BUT NEVER DID, in order selfservingly to point out that it was not a diversionary tactic to avoid Monica-gate, WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT IT WAS. READ "The Missiles of August" a contemporaneous investigative piece of journalism in the Atlantic Monthly ,that came out at the time of the speech, and you will LEARN that even BC's (appropriate initials for 'that man' )own appointment to head the Joint Chief's, 2nd to him in command, Shelton, advised against it. And you take the word of the liar-in-chief? HA-HA-HA-! Apropos of THE GREAT PROMISES he/speechmakers made in the speech for him, WHAT DID HE ACTUALLY DO, to follow up? Did not pursue the money, Did not assist in capture attempt of an ALREADY INDICTED BIN LADIN, N-A-D-A.. And you listen to his spin and ignore the words of Woolsey, DOD, and others actually involved in this scenario of a man who probably couldn't get his own up, after a day of grand jury modified questioning and access, BTW, so sent a few missiles up to vent.

[marsis]

Have you heard about the French book that just made the news,(you won't find much here about it)? Supposedly, Bush stopped investigations into al Qeada, the Saudis, and terrorism as early as last February so they could deal with the Taliban over the now famous pipeline across Afghanistan. Add to that the interesting story of one of our CIA operatives actually meeting with Bin Laden in an American hospital in Dubai, in July (right before the WTC). You want to demonize something, demonize the political system that brought us this garbage. Reagan, Clinton, Bush SR. and Bush Jr. are up to their eyeballs in this mess. But you choose to misdirect, shine the light on Clinton as the only one who failed. I make no apologies for Clinton, but he is only one player of the four mentioned above. Then look at Congress, these people do not have our best interests at heart, none of them. The monies floating through the political system is killing us. Just like the Enron scandal, place blame only on Clinton, close your eyes to the realities of politic process in the USA.

And nice try on the marxist thing, I guess "boltfromblue" must have something to do with running from the good old red white and blue. Traitor...hey, isn't this name calling thing fun.

[RipeforTruth]

In the summer of 1987, when Col. Ollie North sat before the committee investigating Iran-Contra, he was questioned as to why he spent 60 grand putting in a security system at his house.I am told that he replied that it was to protect him from terrorists. Furthermore, he specifically named Osama Bin Laden.

I have heard that the questioner was Al Gore.Anybody know if this is true?

[RipeforTruth]

While thousands lost their lives and others their jobs, Clinton still gets a nice pay check from us taxpayers, even though he neglected to round up Bin Laden.

Why do we pay for so much incompetence at all levels of government?

[RipeforTruth]

I agree. A good indicator of what a person is like is sometimes found in the individual's background.

When Clinton came on the scene, I immediately deduced he was evil and a loser.

The majority of voters did not share my opinion back then, but they do now.

[boltfromblue]

I like your imaginative response, to our names, but I saw not only deception about BC, with no comment about his self-serving speech, but in effect his own apologia in the text. Think lightning bolt, BTW. Your going after oil theory is tiresome from Vietnam onwards. I suggest Communism, as we did before in Afghanistan w/o oil as payment if you recall. I do remember when a CIA operative met with bin Ladin, but exactly what can you deduct from this other than gathering information, as many are doing now. You do remember that the offers to get him were ignored in the BC Administration, if not repulsed, so this may have been a half-way step to get more from him.

[boltfromblue]

Thanks for the reply. Not so coincidentally, perhaps, I had the same feeling as you back then, despite fact I was concentrating on recovering from major injuries. I felt alarm and knew that we had major concerns to look out for protect our nation should BC ever get elected. I think it is a universal consciousness that the Source of this universe has endowed us with, if we give ourselves the time and clear minds to allow such thoughts to enter. Not to mention the schizzy ignoring of his sexual promiscuity, as if such weakness would not interfere with doing a fine job!

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