Posted on 08/11/2002 12:09:53 AM PDT by kattracks
In 1996, Sudan expelled bin Laden due to threats of U.N. sanctions for bin Laden's complicity in an attempt to assassinate Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
Seems Bin Laden tried to kill Mubarek.....new one to me...
"At the time, 1996, he had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here because we had no basis on which to hold him, though we knew he wanted to commit crimes against America.
In light of this from the linke you provided:
...... Spring 1996 - President Clinton signed a top secret order that authorized the CIA to use any and all means to destroy bin Laden's network.
Interesting job promotion Ms. Palmieri got, isn't it?
"At the time, 1996, he had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here because we had no basis on which to hold him, though we knew he wanted to commit crimes against America.
Ok, Sinkmaster, if we didn't have enough reason to indict the guy, why did you make like you wanted to get him when you lobbed a few cruise missiles his way?
What did he do that was worthy of those missiles but didn't reach the bar of our criminal courts?
Just the thought that this craphead would put an international terrorist mastermind on trial in our criminal courts just boggles the mind. Then again, after they did it with the 1993 WTC bombers, I shouldn't be so surprised.
Yes, he was -- as was Ramzi Yousef, who was extradited from the Philippines and convicted for the '93 bombing.
Nope. Yousef was a terrorist planner who worked for bin laden and Omar Abdel Rachman (who is the blind sheik).
Yousef was brought back here from the Philippines after the apartment that he was using as a hideout/terror HQ blew up in an "industrial accident" (i.e., some of the bomb-making chemicals he had exploded a bit prematurely).
Rachman was spewing his bile at a rundown mosque in Jersey, which was attended by some of the Einsteins from the '93 WTC bombing, including the genius (Mohammed Salameh) who tried to get back his $400 deposit on the truck used in the bombing.
I believe the true explanation is that Clinton had used OBL for his own purposes, e.g., at OKC, feared what he might reveal if crossed, and hoped to be able to use him again in the future. After all, Clinton didn't just prevent Sudan handing OBL over to the U.S. in '96, he also, by bombing the aspirin factory and the camps in '98, prevented the Taliban from extraditing OBL to Saudi Arabia and the Sudan from delivering bin Laden lieutenants involved in the embassy bombings over to the FBI for interrogation.
Exactly.
Just what in the heck was he doing during those long grueling years? What was his presidency all about? Was he just into fantastical preoccupation with his most spoiled self portrait hanging on the wall of his library? Surely, as presidents go, he perhaps had absolutely no idea what the heck his job duties and responsibilities were. Or, maybe he did in his convoluted manner of thinking and speaking. I remember his infamous GJ testimony, he couldn't even admit that he was the Chief Law Officer of the country.
The negligence, the lies, the economic lies, the bs, the scandals, the sickening stain in the oval office, the adulation, the media elites panting after him, the self-centered self-absorption, the selling of our national security, the lackadaisical attitude towards terrorism and national security, pardons for Puerto Rican terrorists, Marc Rich, and on and on, to today and his disreputably and vividly frantic and vocal constant forcing of himself upon the current political discussion in order to rewrite his personal history is truly a vision of someone gone terribly awry.
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But I do follow this news very closely, especially since my neighborhood has taken the rather brutal hit from islamofascist terrorists *twice* in less than a decade.
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