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Title: Losing Bin Laden: How Bill Clinton's Failures Unleashed Global Terror by Richard Miniter ISBN: 0-89526-074-3 Publisher: Regnery Publishing Pub. Date: September, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.34 (132 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Read Clarke and learn the truth
Comment: Verbatim from "Against All Enemies" by Richard Clarke, starting at page 140. Any typos are probably mine.
THROUGHOUT BIN LADEN'S YEARS in Sudan, that country served as a base for arms and fighters going not just to Bosnia but also to terrorists in Egypt, Ethiopia, Uganda, and even Qadhafi's Libya. Sudan's intelligence service and military supported the terrorists. Then in June 1995, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak flew to Ethiopia for a meeting in Addis Ababa of the Organization of African Unity. Aware that Sudanese-based Egyptian terrorists were plotting to kill Mubarak as they had assassinated his predecessor, Anwar Sadat, Mubarak's intelligence advisor insisted on an armored limousine and rooftop snipers along the routes from the airport. Without them, Mubarak would have been dead. Islamic Jihad terrorists attempted to block the road, fire on the limousine, and bomb the motorcade. They narrowly failed. Evidence tied the attack to terrorists in Sudan, and all of that evidence indicated support from the Sudanese government.
Following that event, Egypt and we (joined by other countries in the region) sought and obtained the United Nations Security Council's sanction on Sudan. Only Libya had previously been subject to sanctions because of terrorist sponsorship. In the Counterterrorism Security Group we considered the sanctions a rare diplomatic success. The CSG also considered direct action, examining options for attacks on Bin Laden's and/or Turabi's facilities in and around Khartoum. The White House requested the Pentagon to develop plans for a U.S. Special Forces operation against al Qaeda-related facilities in Sudan. Weeks later a Pentagon team briefed National Security Advisor Tony Lake and other Principals in Lake's West Wing office. There were options to raid a terrorist facility that the Pentagon briefing labeled "Veteran's Housing for Afghan War Fighters," a plan to blow up a bank in downtown Khartoum that was thought to house bin Laden's money, and a few other options. While the Joint Staff dutifully briefed on the plan, they recommended strongly against it. "I can see why," Lake replied after seeing the details. "This isn't stealth. There is nothing quiet or covert about this. It's going to war with Sudan."
The military briefer nodded: "That's what we do, sir. If you want covert, there's the CIA." The CIA, however, had no capability to stage significant operations against al Qaeda in Sudan, covert or otherwise.
The Saudis, or perhaps the Egyptians may have been thinking along similar lines about the need for some covert operation against bin Laden in Sudan. Reports reached us from Sudan of two incidents in which someone attempted to kill bin Laden in Khartoum. We also knew that Mubarak wa sending word to Khartoum to rein in the terrorists or else. Egypt had moved troops and aircraft to the Sudan border once before and had even used its air force to bomb an anti-Egyptian radio station in Khartoum in the early 1980s. Now, Mubarak was threatening another military buildup. The weak Sudanese military could beat up Christian tribes in the south, but it was no match for the Egyptian military. It was getting a little too hot there for the al Qaeda leader.
Afghanistan was looking better to bin Laden in 1996. The puppet government the Soviets left behind in Kabul had fallen, and after ten years of factional infighting, Pakistan had intervened to stabilize the situation. Hoping to see the return of millions of Afghan refugees in Pakistan, the Pakistan military intelligence service (ISID) had armed and trained the Taliban religious movement to gain control of much of Afghanistan. The leader of the Taliban was much like Sudan's Turabi, a religious zealot seeking to create theocracy at the point of a gun. Like Turabi, Mullah Omar was known to bin Laden and was eager to have his men and money back.
Turabi and bin Laden departed as friends, and pledged to continue the struggle and to use Khartoum as a safe haven.
In recent years, the Sudanese intelligence officials and Americans friendly to the Sudan regime have invented a fable about bin Laden's final days in Khartoum. In the fable the Sudanese government offers to arrest bin Laden and hand him in chains to FBI agents, but Washington rejects the offer because the Clinton administration does not see bin Laden as important or does and cannot find anywhere to put him on trial.
The only slivers of truth in this fable are that a) the Sudanese government was denying its support to terrorism in the wake of the U.N. sanctions and b) the CSG had initiated informal inquiries with several nations about incarcerating bin Laden, or putting him on trial. There were no takers. Nonetheless, had we been able to put our hands on him then we would have gladly done so. U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White in Manhattan could, as the saying goes "indict a ham sandwich." She certainly could have obtained an indictment for bin Laden in 1996 had we needed it. In the spring of 1998 she did so. The facts about the supposed Sudanese offer to give us bin Laden are that Turabi was not about to turn over his partner in terror to us and no real attempt to do so ever occurred.
Rating: 1
Summary: Objective Writing
Comment: It is interesting how the author conveniently claims with no proof (interesting pattern on his part) how negative reviewers are critical of this book without having read it. But if you refer to the only two reviews to appear in the objective press, the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, you will find they are at least as critical as anything that appears here. You don't need to trust me on this point. Go see for yourself at their sites.
Regarding Clarke, the issue boils down to this. Do you believe the direct testimony, both written and oral in both the present and the soon-to-be-released past, of the man himself with a distinguished career spanning 4 Presidents? Or do you believe what the man said as interpreted by a biased, unknown author with a history of drifting from one right-wing think tank and publication to the next and hoping to raise his profile?
Rating: 1
Summary: Could this be a paid political ad in disguise of a book?
Comment: Obviously written by a biased, untrained researcher with a blatant disregard for integrity in journalism. Blames everything under the sun on Clinton, while ignoring Bush, Sr.'s prior adminstration's failings and tie-ins, and conveniently fails to mention, four years and hundreds of billions of dollars later, the utter failure of the current Bush administration to bring Bin Laden to justice even now! It was a waste of my time! BTW, the unabridged MP3 CD version is narrated as if the fellow wants a shot at Rush Limbaugh's job... skip it and keep looking for a real history tome on the subject!
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Title: Dereliction of Duty: The Eyewitness Account of How Bill Clinton Endangered America's Long-Term National Security by Robert Patterson ISBN: 0895261405 Publisher: Regnery Publishing Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Legacy: Paying the Price for the Clinton Years by Rich Lowry ISBN: 0895261294 Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Inc. Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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