On Tue 09 Sep 2003 12:26:06a, "Mike Fairleigh"
wrote in
:

Let's not forget who was
offered Bin Laden on a silver platter and turned him down.

Oh, yeah. That story of Hannity's where he says the Sudanese offered Bin
Laden to Clinton and he turned them down. That claim was made by one man:
Mansoon Ijaz, a Pakistani/American investment banker with a big stake in
Sudanese oil, who at the time was trying to get the Americans to lift
sanctions against Sudan which were put in place because of slavery and
genocide. When the US asked the Sudanese government about it, and checked
out every lead, it turned out there was no such offer and never had been.
Ijaz is now a foreign affairs analyst for Fox.
Sources: Sandy Berger, former National Security Advisor, and Daniel
Benjamin, former counterterrorism director on the National Security
Council, now senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International
Studies (according to GroupWatch, "a right-wing, neoconservative think
tank"). Bergman's feelings about Ijaz? "Either he allowed himself to be
manipulated or he's in bed with a bunch of genocidal terrrorists".

Dan