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To: American Spirit who wrote (4578)	3/4/2004 11:06:10 AM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 90947

"The panel I heard discuss this came to the concusion that any such offer never made it out of the Horn Of Africa." Well then, you should quit holding discussions with your wall panels. :-o

To: American Spirit who wrote (4578)	3/4/2004 11:08:46 AM
From: JakeStraw	Respond to of 90947

>>The panel I heard discuss this... And what panel was that AS? Or was it those annoying voices in your head again? LOL!!

To: American Spirit who wrote (4578)	3/4/2004 11:44:21 AM
From: DavesM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

AS, You need to contact the Washington Post and the Pulitzer Committee, and get them to retract the story and the Pulitzer Prize (for the story). If there was no offer, then why does President Clinton remember the offer? If there was no offer, then why does Berger bother mentioning the difficulty of getting an American Indictment of bin Laden (and therefore not deciding not ask the Sudan to extradite him) in 1996, or mention how had they (including Berger) tried to lobby Saudi Arabia to ask the Sudan to extradite bin Laden in 1996? Berger parsed his words very carefully. It is clear that there was a Sudanese offer. The offer at least included the offer to extradite bin Laden to Saudi Arabia. And an offer to extradite him to the United States is at least inferred if not admitted to by members of Clinton Administration. Its clear, that the Sudanese asked the Clinton Administration, what did the U.S. wanted them (the Sudanese) to do with bin Laden (Offer), and the Clinton Administration said kick him out of the country - which is what the Sudan did (Deal).

To: American Spirit who wrote (4578)	3/4/2004 7:37:48 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

I gave you two quotes from Sandy Berger saying the US didn't want OBL in '96 because they were handling terrorism as a legal problem - just like Kerry wants to do. "The FBI did not believe we had enough evidence to indict bin Laden at that time, and therefore opposed bringing him to the United States," said Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger, who was deputy national security adviser then. That's Sandy Berger quoted in the Washington Post. Here's another Sandy Berger quote showing the Clinton administration didn't want to take custody of OBL: when challenged as to why the Clinton Administration passed up on the offer of bin Laden's extradition, Samuel Berger stated: "In the United States, we have this thing called the Constitution, so to bring him here is to bring him into the justice system. I don't think that was our first choice." (8) sudan.net Needless to say, he wouldn't even be talking about OBL being brought to the US if that wasn't a possibility at the time.