Clinton was of course president during the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and the attack on the USS Cole. Both these attacks were at the hand of one Osama Bin Ladin. A Clinton aide interviewed in December of 2001, after the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks, pushed blame to Bill Clinton for failing to take Bin Laden seriously.
Bill Clinton ignored repeated opportunities to capture Osama bin Laden and his terrorist allies and is responsible for the spread of terrorism, one of the ex-president’s own top aides charges.
Mansoor Ijaz, who negotiated with Sudan on behalf of Clinton from 1996 to 1998, paints a portrait of a White House plagued by incompetence, focused on appearances rather than action, and heedless of profound threats to national security.
Ijaz also claims Clinton passed on an opportunity to have Osama bin Laden arrested.
Sudanese President Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir, hoping to have terrorism sanctions lifted, offered the arrest and extradition of bin Laden and "detailed intelligence data about the global networks constructed by Egypt's Islamic Jihad, Iran's Hezbollah and the Palestinian Hamas,” Ijaz writes in today’s edition of the liberal Los Angeles Times.
These networks included the two hijackers who piloted jetliners into the World Trade Center.
But Clinton and National Security Adviser Samuel "Sandy” Berger failed to act.
”I know because I negotiated more than one of the opportunities,” Ijaz writes.
”The silence of the Clinton administration in responding to these offers was deafening."
In an interview with Fox News, a perturbed Bill Clinton rattled off to Chris Wallace about his efforts to capture or kill Bin Ladin.
"And you've got that little smirk on your face and you think you're so clever. But I had responsibility for trying to protect this country. I tried and I failed to get bin Laden. I regret it," Clinton said.
So why is George W. Bush the only one the mainstream media wants to blame as a failure for capturing when the United States government had been on this mission since at least 1993, and their favorite poster boy Bill Clinton admitted to the failure.
