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To: LindyBill who wrote (9981)	11/12/2001 7:46:24 AM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

usatoday.com Why Clinton failed to stop bin Laden By Susan Page, USA TODAY AFP In 1998, then-President Clinton ordered strikes against terrorist bases linked to the bombings on U.S. embassies in Africa. The attacks were tied to Osama bin Laden. Osama bin Laden was emerging as a terrorist as Bill Clinton was inaugurated as president. The Saudi exile would be implicated in the first World Trade Center bombing, which occurred a month after Clinton took office. Bin Laden would contribute to the Somali debacle that scarred the president's first use of military force abroad. His al-Qa'eda network would kill more Americans in two bombings in Saudi Arabia and at two U.S. embassies in East Africa, and nearly sink a Navy warship in the final months of Clinton's term. But nothing the Clinton administration did over 8 years — FBI investigations, a cruise missile strike against Afghanistan and Sudan, the training of Pakistani commandos for a covert operation that never took place — thwarted bin Laden's network and its terrorist ambitions.