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To: LindyBill who wrote (6718)	9/4/2003 5:41:43 AM
From: unclewest	Respond to of 793646

Albright urged continued diplomatic efforts to persuade the Taliban to turn over bin Laden. Those efforts had been going on for more than two years and had gone nowhere. It was unlikely that the Taliban would ever voluntarily turn over its strongest internal ally. . . . That is a lie. Gutbi had shown me some of Sudan's data during a three-hour meeting in Khartoum in October 1996. When I returned to Washington, I told Berger and his specialist for East Africa, Susan Rice, about the data available. They said they'd get back to me. They never did. Neither did they respond when Bashir made the offer directly. I believe they never had any intention to engage Muslim countries--ally or not. Radical Islam, for the administration, was a convenient national security threat. And that was not the end of it. In July 2000--three months before the deadly attack on the destroyer Cole in Yemen--I brought the White House another plausible offer to deal with Bin Laden, by then known to be involved in the embassy bombings. A senior counter-terrorism official from one of the United States' closest Arab allies--an ally whose name I am not free to divulge--approached me with the proposal after telling me he was fed up with the antics and arrogance of U.S. counter-terrorism officials. The offer, which would have brought Bin Laden to the Arab country as the first step of an extradition process that would eventually deliver him to the U.S., required only that Clinton make a state visit there to personally request Bin Laden's extradition. But senior Clinton officials sabotaged the offer, letting it get caught up in internal politics within the ruling family--Clintonian diplomacy at its best. Clinton's failure to grasp the opportunity to unravel increasingly organized extremists, coupled with Berger's assessments of their potential to directly threaten the U.S., represents one of the most serious foreign policy failures in American history. infowars.com

To: LindyBill who wrote (6718)	9/4/2003 11:22:54 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793646

Who knows just how accurate this reporting is since we don't yet know Miniter's track record on that score and can be suspicious of the publishing house and, most important, it's clear the author has a huge axe to grind. But, put this all back in its context, if the reporting is accurate, you can see that Tenet was accurate. Need to know who did it. And, before 9-11 all this fit within a different diplomatic context.

To: LindyBill who wrote (6718)	9/5/2003 2:32:12 AM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793646

John wanted to know Minitner's background...One of CNN web search 6330+ mentions of Richard Miniter World Journalism Institute Richard Miniter formerly Wall Street Journal worldji.com Miniter has been published in virtually every major U.S. newspaper including: The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The Christian Science Monitor, as well as leading magazines including: The Atlantic Monthly and the Reader’s Digest. Miniter has also been widely published in policy and political magazines including: The American Enterprise magazine, National Review, Reason, and Policy Review, among others. In addition, his articles have appeared in newspapers in Europe, Asia, and Australia. Random House’s Crown Business books will publish Miniter’s first book, The Myth of Market Share, in the Spring of 2002. Miniter has been cited in a number of books, including The Imperial Congress, Gordon Jones' 1988 book, which cited Miniter’s first-of-its kind list of the laws Congress had exempted itself from. Miniter’s list later became part of Newt Gingrich’s Contract with America. His work was also cited in the best-selling The Death of Common Sense by Philip Howard. Rich has won several awards, including the highly competitive Felix S. Morely Prize (first place) and two awards (honorable mention) from the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Miniter graduated from Vassar College with a degree in philosophy in 1990.