Well if there were no Osama Bin Laden do you think 9/11 would have occurred?
If so, why did Clinton let him go when he had him?
" in Wright and the 9/11 Commission do agree that the Clinton administration encouraged Sudan to deport bin Laden back to Saudi Arabia and spent 10 weeks trying to convince the Saudi government to accept him. One Clinton security official told The Washington Post that they had "a fantasy" that the Saudi government would quietly execute bin Laden. When the Saudis refused bin Laden’s return, Clinton officials convinced the Sudanese simply to expel him, hoping that the move would at least disrupt bin Laden’s activities.
Much of the controversy stems from claims that President Clinton made in a February 2002 speech and then retracted in his 2004 testimony to the 9/11 Commission. In the 2002 speech Clinton seems to admit that the Sudanese government offered to turn over bin Laden:
Clinton: So we tried to be quite aggressive with them [al Qaeda]. We got – well, Mr. bin Laden used to live in Sudan. He was expelled from Saudi Arabia in 1991, then he went to Sudan. And we’d been hearing that the Sudanese wanted America to start dealing with them again. They released him. At the time, 1996, he had committed no crime against America, so I did not bring him here because we had no basis on which to hold him, though we knew he wanted to commit crimes against America. So I pleaded with the Saudis to take him, ’cause they could have. But they thought it was a hot potato and they didn’t and that’s how he wound up in Afghanistan.
FactCheck.org : Clinton Passed on Killing bin Laden?
Clinton passed on killing Bin Laden when they could not guarantee him that it was actually Bin Laden that they had in their sights.
Twice in 2000, including one time after the USS Cole bombing, Clinton had bin Laden in his sights and failed to pull the trigger, according to a senior
Pentagon official familiar with covert counterterrorism operations in Afghanistan at the time.
He said the CIA had equipped pro-U.S. factions on the ground in Afghanistan with high-tech surveillance gear from the Defense Department to track bin Laden.
They were armed with sniper rifles and shoulder-fired rocket launchers, the official explained, and had the OK to assassinate bin Laden on orders from U.S. intelligence back in Washington.
“There were surveillance systems brought in-country, and they were doing observations and watching some of the likely places bin Laden frequented, such as Tora Bora, and guest-houses in the area,” said the official, who requested anonymity. “And we were viewing” the satellite images relayed from Afghanistan.
“Some of it was collaborative – some DOD, some CIA – but we were looking,” he said. “And Clinton had opportunities to take him out and didn’t take them.”
“There was actionable intelligence provided by that gear, by the optics,” he said. “But once it went up the chain of command, it got into stuff like, ‘How sure are you guys about that 6-5 guy in the middle of that group? It kind of looks like him, but how sure are you?’” “Clinton didn’t want to have an accidental shot kill innocent civilians,” he added. “But everyone was pretty certain it was Osama bin Laden. We had images of his face.”
Clinton certainly deserves his share of blame for failing to take out bin Laden when he had the chance.
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