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On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:34:28 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
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On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:07:08 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
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How is that going. The time last I looked BOTH wars are still going on
and Osama is no closer to being captured than he was on Sept 12 2001.

Yeah, thanks GWB for not capturing him when he had the chance. I guess
in
some people's mind 8 years = 16 months.

... or Clinton not taking him when Sudan offered him up to us.
(already suspected in the FIRST WTC bombing in 93)

Umm... that's rewriting history just a bit...

The government of Sudan, employing a back channel direct from its
president
to the CIA, offered in early spring 1996 to arrest Osama bin Laden and
place
him in Saudi custody, according to officials and former officials in all
three countries.

The Clinton administration struggled to find a way to accept the offer in
secret contacts that stretched from a meeting at an Arlington, Va., hotel
on
March 3, 1996, to a fax that closed the door on the effort 10 weeks later.
Unable to persuade the Saudis to accept Mr. bin Laden and lacking a case
to
indict him in U.S. courts at the time, the Clinton administration finally
gave up on the capture.

Clinton was actually trying to follow US law.


If they used the same level of proof they used on David Koresh they
could have just ambushed him and killed him for resisting arrest.
What you are really saying was the DoJ and CIA was so much asleep at
the switch that they couldn't build a case.

... or was it that they did not want to offend the Saudis?


Koresh was a maniac. He didn't deserve to die, but don't put him out to be
some kind of American hero standing up to Big Gov't.

I'm not saying anything. The fact is that no case could be made. Clinton
regretted, publically, his failure to do so.

Saudis? I believe bin laden was no longer a citizen at that point.