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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: American Spirit who wrote (4482)3/3/2004 7:36:04 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) of 90947
 
I showed the Sudan offer is already in the encyclopedia. Here's a Washington Post article on it:

library.cornell.edu
The government of Sudan, employing a back channel direct from its president to the Central Intelligence Agency, offered in the early spring of 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 a Rosslyn 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 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.

Here's a LA Times article:
infowars.com

A news release on the subject by the European-Sudanese Public Affairs Council:
sudan.net
In December 2001, 'Vanity Fair' published a devastating expose of the
Clinton Administration's mishandling of repeated offers by the Sudanese
government, some dating back to 1996, to provide Washington intelligence
on terrorism - particularly with regard to the al-Qaeda terrorist
network.(1) Part of what was offered to the Clinton Administration were
several hundred Sudanese files on al-Qaeda and its members.(2) The
Administration also passed up the opportunity of interrogating two al-
Qaeda members who had clearly been involved in the 1998 bombings of the
U.S. embassies in east Africa. In keeping with its very questionable
Sudan policy (3), the Clinton Administration rejected all of Sudan's
repeated offers. The implications of this studied indifference are
clear. As 'Vanity Fair' stated: "September 11 might have been prevented
if the U.S. had accepted Sudan's offers to share its intelligence files
on Osama bin Laden and the growing al-Qaeda files." It had also earlier
been revealed that in addition to offering the Clinton Administration
intelligence on al-Qaeda, the Sudanese government had in 1996 also
offered to extradite Osama bin-Laden - just as Khartoum had extradited
the international terrorism known as "Carlos the Jackal" to France.(4)
This offer was also rejected by the Clinton Administration.
...

A Newsday article:
www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ ny-warsuda02.story?coll=ny-top%252

You don't like this becauze Kerry has said he'd go back to the law enforcement model (i.e. like the Clinton adm.) for dealing with terrorism.

If Kerry is elected, the terrorists and tyrants of the world will breathe a sigh of relief.
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