To: the navigator who wrote (16381 ) 12/14/2003 4:34:37 PM From: paret Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 48461 Still standing, I am sure you can learn to find things on your own. I suggest you learn how to use www.google.com You should really learn to do your own work, but here is starter for you.Losing Bin Laden: How Bill Clinton's Failures Unleashed Global Terror By Horace Cooper Excerpts from reviews: "Losing Bin Laden" details the visit in 1996 of Sudan's Minister of State for Defense - then Elfatih Erwa - who offered to arrest and turn over bin Laden. Sudan had turned over international terrorist Carlos the Jackal to the French government in 1994 and offered to do the same for the U.S. in hopes of bettering relations with the U.S. The official response of the CIA official was "we have nothing we can hold him on." Tragically, "over the next few months and years, Sudan would repeatedly try to provide its voluminous intelligence files on bin Laden to the CIA, the FBI, and senior Clinton Administration officials - and would be repeatedly rebuffed." snip As Janet McElligott (who has represented the government of Sudan in Washington) explains, even though the "Saudis wanted bin Laden 'neutralized,' they didn't want the responsibility of doing it themselves." The Clinton Administration however insisted on getting Saudi Arabia to take bin Laden in to custody and at the same time refused the Saudi royal family's request for intelligence in "permanently removing" bin Laden from the Sudan. __________________________________________________________ Years before the public knew about bin Laden, Bill Clinton did. Bin Laden first attacked Americans during Clinton’s presidential transition in December 1992. He struck again at the World Trade Center in February 1993. Over the next eight years the archterrorist’s attacks would escalate killing hundreds and wounding thousands—while Clinton did his best to stymie the FBI and CIA and refused to wage a real war on terror. Why? The answer is here in investigative reporter Richard Miniter’s stunning exposé that includes exclusive interviews with both of Clinton’s National Security Advisors, Clinton’s counter-terrorism czar, his first CIA director, his Secretary of State, his Secretary of Defense, top CIA and FBI agents, lawmakers from both parties and foreign intelligence officials from France, Sudan, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates, as well as on the-scene coverage from Sudan, Egypt, and elsewhere. In Losing bin Laden you’ll learn: The new evidence that Clinton knew about Sudan’s offers to arrest bin Laden—and why he ignored them How Clinton ignored intelligence and offers of cooperation against bin Laden from Afghanistan’s Northern Alliance How Bill Clinton scuttled a secret offer from the United Arab Emirates to arrest bin Laden How Clinton ignored Yemen’s pleas for help in arresting bin Laden—in 1993 How Clinton and a Democratic Senator stopped the CIA from hiring Arabic translators—while phone intercepts from bin Laden remained untranslated How the Predator spy plane—which spotted bin Laden three times—was grounded by bureaucratic infighting. Drawn from secret Sudanese intelligence files, the never-before-told story of Bin Laden’s role in shooting down America’s Black Hawk helicopters in Mogadishu, Somalia—and how Clinton manipulated the news media to keep the worst off America’s TV screens