FREEPERS JOINING CLINTON PROTEST AT UT-AUSTIN WED. [49,000 UT Students Do NOT Join Anti-war Protest

Heart of Texas Chapter of FreeRepublic.com | 02-08-03 | TXBubba

[TXBubba]

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[Gracey]

Freepers.... come FReep the Creep.

[serinde]

Hold a sign for me, too. Thanks!

[mountaineer]

Washington Post story:

WASHINGTON The government of Sudan, using a back channel direct from its president to the Central Intelligence Agency in the United States, offered in the early spring of 1996 to arrest Osama bin Laden and place him in custody in Saudi Arabia, according to officials and former officials in all three countries.
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The Clinton administration struggled to find a way to accept the offer in secret contacts that stretched from a meeting at hotel in Arlington, Virginia, on March 3, 1996, to a fax that closed the door on the effort 10 weeks later.
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Unable to persuade the Saudis to accept Mr. bin Laden, and lacking a case to indict him in U.S. courts, the Clinton administration finally gave up on the capture.
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Sudan expelled Mr. bin Laden on May 18, 1996, to Afghanistan. From there, he is thought to have planned and financed the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, the near-destruction of the American destroyer Cole in Yemen last year and the devastation in New York and Washington on Sept. 11.
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"Had we been able to roll up bin Laden then, it would have made a significant difference," said a U.S. government official with responsibilities, then and now, in counterterrorism.
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"We probably never would have seen a Sept. 11. We would still have had networks of Sunni Islamic extremists of the sort we're dealing with here, and there would still have been terrorist attacks fomented by those folks. But there would not have been as many resources devoted to their activities, and there would not have been a single voice that so effectively articulated grievances and won support for violence."
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Clinton administration officials maintain emphatically that they had no such option against Mr. bin Laden in 1996. In the legal, political and intelligence environment then, they said, there was no choice but to allow him to leave Sudan unmolested.
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"In the United States, we have this thing called the Constitution, so to bring him here is to bring him into the justice system," said Samuel Berger, who was deputy national security adviser then. "I don't think that was our first choice. Our first choice was to send him some place where justice is more" - he paused a moment, then continued - "streamlined."
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Three officials in the Clinton administration said they hoped - one described it as "a fantasy" - that the Saudi monarch, King Fahd, would order Mr. bin Laden's swift beheading, as he had done for four conspirators after a June 1995 bombing in Riyadh.
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But Mr. Berger and Steven Simon, then director for counterterrorism for the National Security Council, said the White House considered it valuable in itself to force Mr. bin Laden out of Sudan, thus tearing him away from his extensive network of businesses, investments and training camps.
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Conflicting policy agendas on several other fronts contributed to the missed opportunity to capture Mr. bin Laden, according to a dozen participants.
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The Clinton administration was riven by differences on whether to engage Sudan's government or isolate it, a situation that influenced judgments about the sincerity of the offer. In the Saudi-American relationship, policymakers diverged on how much priority to give to counterterrorism over other interests, such as support for the ailing Israeli-Palestinian talks and enforcement of the no-flight zone in Iraq.

Rest of story at:
http://propagandamatrix.com/sudan_offered_to_arrest_bin_laden.html

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[Angelwood]

HOT Chapter bump. Watch the back door - Clinton's favorite entrance and quick getaway! FReep On!

[mountaineer]

Here's what Sudan wanted in return:

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.

full story at L.A. Times

[Gracey]

Uncle Sam wants you FReepers to FReep the Creep...

[Gracey]

Will do Angelwood. Wish you could join us and show us how to Really freep.

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[Angelwood]

You all are wonderful freepers and don't need any help. Just yell at Clinton for me: CLINTON - THE BEST PRESIDENT CHINESE MONEY COULD BUY! And the recent Chinese MIRV missile test and plans for conquering outer space (this scares me) are examples of the truth of that statement.

FReep On, Gracey, FReep On! (Wish I could be there, too.)

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[RikaStrom]

Oh now that's the way to go! Wave a sign for me, I'm going to be stuck in Houston working... but it pays for milkbones for the fuzzyone.

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