"thunder" wrote in message
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On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 14:39:57 +0000, NOYB wrote:


Somalia had happened. The 1993 WTC attack had happened. Soon after the
proclamation of war, the Khobar towers attack occurred...followed shortly
by the USS Cole. After the Cole, Clinton didn't react even though all
indications were that it was directed by bin Laden.

The Cole was attacked Oct. 12, 2000. You say Clinton didn't react in the
three months left of his Presidency. Now, just what did Bush do about bin
Laden in the *8* months of his Presidency? You know, the 8 months he had
to track down bin Laden, before 9/11.

This occurred before Bush took office:

"The CIA's Afghan assets reported on about a half a dozen occasions before
9/11 that they had considered attacking bin Ladin, usually as he traveled in
his convoy along the rough Afghan roads. Each time the operation was
reportedly aborted. Several times the Afghans said that bin Ladin had taken
a different route than expected. On one occasion security was said to be too
tight to capture him. Another time they heard women and children's voices
from inside the convoy, and abandoned the assault for fear of killing
innocents"

http://www.9-11commission.gov/archiv...2004-03-24.htm

"Drones were flown successfully over Afghanistan 16 times in fall 2000. At
least twice the Predator saw a security detail around a tall man in a white
robe whom some analysts determined was probably bin Ladin. " (why didn't
Clinton have boots on the ground to get him?)

Here's the really damning evidence against Clinton:

" When the American destroyer, the U.S.S. Cole, was bombed in Yemen in
October 2000, al Qaeda was immediately suspected of having struck again. The
Counterterrorism Center developed an offensive initiative for Afghanistan,
regardless of policy or financial constraints. It was called the Blue Sky
Memo. In December 2000, the CIA sent this to the NSC staff. The memo
recommended increased support to anti-Taliban groups and to proxies who
might ambush bin Ladin. The Counterterrorism Center also proposed a major
effort to back Northern Alliance forces in order to stave off the Taliban
army and tie down al Qaeda fighters, thereby hindering terrorist activities
elsewhere.
No action was taken on these ideas in the few remaining weeks of the Clinton
administration. (No action was taken!)

The Blue Sky Memo itself was not apparently discussed with the incoming top
Bush administration officials during the transition."

(The Blue Sky Memo was not even discussed with the Bush administration!)

Here's what happened after Bush took office:

" President-elect Bush asked whether killing bin Ladin would end the
problem. Pavitt said he and the DCI answered that killing bin Ladin would
have an impact, but not stop the threat.

The CIA later provided more formal assessments to the White House,
reiterating that conclusion. It added that the only long-term way to deal
with the threat was to add al Qaeda's ability to use Afghanistan as a
sanctuary for its operations."

The new Administration's policy review apparently began in March, and
continued throughout the spring and summer of 2001. At the end of May,
National Security Adviser Rice met with DCI Tenet and their counterterrorism
experts. She asked about, quote, "taking the offensive," end of quote,
against al Qaeda, and asked Clarke and the Counterterrorism Center chief,
Cofer Black, to develop a full range of options. A plan for a larger covert
action effort was a major component of the new al Qaeda strategy codified in
a draft presidential directive that was first circulated in early June.


NSC principals apparently endorsed the new presidential directive on al
Qaeda at their meeting on September 4th. On September 10th, Deputy National
Security Adviser Hadley formally tasked DCI Tenet to draw up new draft
authorities for the broad covert action program envisioned in that
directive, including significant additional funding and involving Pashtun
elements as well as the Northern Alliance.


The CIA was given the green light and was in the process of implementing the
plan to oust the Taliban. Too bad the plan wasn't given a green light 3
months before Bush took office. :-(