Clinton Let Bin Laden Slip Away and Metastasize - By Mansoor Ijaz

L.A. Times ^ | December 2001 | Mansoor Ijaz

[The Finman]

Clinton Let Bin Laden Slip Away and Metastasize

Sudan offered up the terrorist and data on his network. The then-president and his advisors didn't respond.

By MANSOOR IJAZ

President Clinton and his national security team ignored several opportunities to capture Osama bin Laden and his terrorist associates, including one as late as last year.

I know because I negotiated more than one of the opportunities.

From 1996 to 1998, I opened unofficial channels between Sudan and the Clinton administration. I met with officials in both countries, including Clinton, U.S. National Security Advisor Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger and Sudan's president and intelligence chief. President Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir, who wanted terrorism sanctions against Sudan lifted, offered the arrest and extradition of Bin Laden and detailed intelligence data about the global networks constructed by Egypt's Islamic Jihad, Iran's Hezbollah and the Palestinian Hamas.

Among those in the networks were the two hijackers who piloted commercial airliners into the World Trade Center.

The silence of the Clinton administration in responding to these offers was deafening.

As an American Muslim and a political supporter of Clinton, I feel now, as I argued with Clinton and Berger then, that their counter-terrorism policies fueled the rise of Bin Laden from an ordinary man to a Hydra-like monster.

Realizing the growing problem with Bin Laden, Bashir sent key intelligence officials to the U.S. in February 1996.

The Sudanese offered to arrest Bin Laden and extradite him to Saudi Arabia or, barring that, to "baby-sit" him--monitoring all his activities and associates.

But Saudi officials didn't want their home-grown terrorist back where he might plot to overthrow them.

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[james500]

Take him with a little grain of salt. He was on Fox News frequently with "inside information" that we were about to arrest Zarqawi that never panned out and missed when Zarqawi was actually capped.

He seems to be fairly levelheaded and correct about facts he has personal knowledge of but his grapevine stinks.

[Domestic Church]

Ping to the past...

[NewLand]

He is very articulate. No doubt.

At first, I was a big fan of his and always looked forward to seeing him on FNC. Then, I started to notice that he made a lot of predictions, supposedly based on inside info. They were almost always wrong.

I began to think 'this guy is the perfect mole'. So, in summary, I like him from the perspective of his intelligence and being so well spoken, but there is something there I don't trust.

Can't quite put my finger on it.

[A CA Guy]

But there is something there I don't trust. Can't quite put my finger on it.

I kind of feel the same way.

[AlphaOneAlpha]

"There are so many reasons to detest Bill Clinton."

Bubba' is a more intelligent version of today's lefties. But, he certainly is beginning to show signs of campaigning to replace Jimmy, the jackass Carter, as a sour former Democrat President who is trying to change the reality of his term in office to fit his delusion of what it was.

[southland]

ping

[Sacajaweau]

btt

[orlop9]

Bump

[donnalee]

I can't find where Mansoor Ijaz was a Kerry supporter?

Bin Laden’s Bluster

This was written By Mansoor Ijaz in National Review right before the election when the Bin Laden tape came out campaigning for Kerry.

[JerseyDvl]

Save for later

[papasmurf]

A sKerry supporter...NOT!...

http://www.nationalreview.com/ijaz/ijaz200411011247.asp


...We are locked in a confrontation of good vs. evil that is at the very heart of mankind's concept of justice and morality
George Bush understands this simple equation, and its impact on America's future. Most of all, he understands that if we don't get the jihadists now, we may never be able to. The choice is clear.


THIS part is just beautiful truth...
"We are locked in a confrontation of good vs. evil that is at the very heart of mankind's concept of justice and morality"

So what if he was a Klintoonista supporter. Many good people make bad decisions.

:O)

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[GOPJ]

bump

[papasmurf]

Thanks for the link. Good find.


:O)

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[Salvation]

Bump for lalter.

[GOPJ]

Great stuff. Thanks, Fin.

[bray]

Gee who to believe, BJ the purjeror or Mansoor Ijaz? He was so afraid of the Arab Street he would never want to hurt any terrorists. He freed more than he caught, now if BL was a 10 yr old orphan...

Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters

[Saint Louis]

How in the world did this article get into the LA Times, the Al Jazeerah of Southern Mexifornia...

[frannie]

Thank you. I was sure that I had heard Mansoor support Bush. Isn't it a shame all over this thread are statements that Mansoor supported Kerry. The writers really didn't know what they were talking about. This is how untruths [lies] get started.

After reading the article he had written it is plain that Mansoor not only supported Bush but he tells you why. Also he states why Kerry was not his choice.

I knew, he had said from the first time I heard him speak that he had not only voted for Clinton but had worked for him..

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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NEVER FORGET


The day right after 9/11,

MONSOOR IJAZ appeared on the FoX News Channel to tell the American People that the previous day's terrorist airstrikes on American Soil could have been avoided if only the...

...CLINTON White House hadn't refused the 3 Offers he had personally brokered with the Sudan during the 1990's to hand over OSAMA bin LADEN to us on a silver platter before he could hit us real hard inside the United States.


Bringing about in the end:

9/11 Lifesaver RICK RESCORLA, ..R.I.P.

http://www.ArmchairGeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?=24361



Signed:

-A Witness
-Fellow Veteran of RICK RESCORLA's heroic Battle of IA DRANG-1965

http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set1.htm
(1st Picture-Where RICK RESCORLA walked in Vietnam, exactly, 40 years ago)


http://www.RickRescorla.com/The%20Statue.htm
(RICK RESCORLA 'Follw Me' Statue unveiling Pictures)



NEVER FORGET

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[WhiteGuy]

okay, explain this statement to me. how has Bush looked the other way and when has he blamed the previous admin? inquiring minds want to know.


It's a question, not a statement.


Looking the other way suggests that binladen, although repeatedly credited as being the #1 man leading al quida worldwide, has been largely ignored in favor of activities in iraq and afganastan.

As far as blaming the previous administration.....is this not the popular wisdom of the day?