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To: Alastair McIntosh who wrote (127609)	3/28/2004 5:02:27 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

According to the authors of The Age of Sacred Terror the military dragged its feet when Clinton requested options for a SF raid against al Qaeda. The authors are ex-Clinton administration anti-terrorism officials. Wouldn't surprise me a bit, assuming this represents more than standard blame-shifting. The military didn't trust his seriousness, and who can wonder? Clinton had by then a well-earned rep of leaving his allies to twist in the wind, and of being poll-driven. For all the claims now that Clinton had found religion on Al Qaeda back in 1998, I heard nothing then to persuade me that he had become a conviction politician on the issue, or was going to try to persuade the American people about importance of Al Qaeda. So if you had been a general, would you have believed that Clinton would back your efforts, esp. if everything didn't go perfectly? By the time the Cole was bombed, I remember Clinton had the air of someone who was weary of the issue, who issued threats about bringing the perpetrators to justice that sounded hollow the moment he made them.