1993 WTC BOMBING +
MOGADISHU +
KHOBAR TOWERS +
USS COLE =
In Sudan, bin Laden appeared to concentrate on
switching gears. He reportedly built a road from Khartoum
to Port Sudan on the Red Sea, and apparently farmed.
Plenty of Afghans came to join him.
Bin Laden was certainly close to Egyptian radical
groups based in Khartoum — among them, Islamic Jihad.
Through an organization he funded in London, bin Laden
continued to call for radical change in Saudi Arabia. But
after years of continued criticism of the Saudi royal family,
his own family disowned him.
In 1992, bin Laden claimed responsibility for attempting
to bomb U.S. soldiers in Yemen, and again for attacks in
Somalia in 1993.
By 1994, the Saudis wanted bin Laden out of their back
yard. The Americans joined them in putting pressure on the
Sudanese to expel him.
He left Sudan for Afghanistan in the spring of 1996, by
which time he had been identified in a State Department
report as “a major financier of terrorism.”
If we truly knew that OBL was intending to commit crimes against the US, and since it is certain that any efforts to carry out such intended acts would have involved multiple individuals, a conspiracy rap would have been a slam dunk--so much for the story that we had nothing to hold him on. Moreover, if we had no grounds to detain him, how can Clinton justify signing an order to eliminate his network? Just more Clintonian BS.
Bump!
1993 WTC BOMBING +
MOGADISHU +
KHOBAR TOWERS +
USS COLE =
How appropriate.
"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.
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.