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  • U.S. yanked bribe plan to capture Bin Laden (hillary!, Albright might object)

    07/23/2004 1:11:17 AM PDT · by kattracks · 184 replies · 6,121+ views
    New York Daily News ^ | 7/23/04 | James Gordon Meek
    WASHINGTON - U.S. officials scrapped a 1999 plan to offer the Taliban a $250 million bribe to turn over Osama Bin Laden, fearing then-First Lady Hillary Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright would object to paying off the infamous women's rights abusers. Clinton had long criticized the Islamic regime in Afghanistan for covering women with burkas and denying them educations and jobs. According to the final 9/11 commission report, Bill Clinton's administration had already made fruitless overtures to the Taliban, paying $10 million to $20 million annually in bribes. "Two senior State Department officials suggested asking the Saudis to...