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

Hmm, not according to
http://propagandamatrix.com/sudan_offered_to_arrest_bin_laden.html in
which Berger is quoted as saying, "In the United States, we have this
thing called the Constitution, so to bring him here is to bring him into
the justice system," said Samuel Berger, who was deputy national
security adviser then. "I don't think that was our first choice. Our
first choice was to send him some place where justice is more" - he
paused a moment, then continued - "streamlined."

Note, there is no denial here that Bin Laden was not offered, just that
the Clinton administration could find no way to accept his extradition.

Not just Hannity has promoted this story, most recently Richard
Miniter has documented several instances where Bin Laden was offered up:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/Printable.asp?ID=9721

Failures go beyond missing opportunities to arrest Bin Laden and
include the gutting of the intelligence agencies during the previous
administration that limited the amount of data on Bin Laden that was
obtained during that period of time.
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michael/ledeen092302.asp

Sources: Sandy Berger, former National Security Advisor,
Under Clinton -- he would hardly be an unbiased source in regards to
this matter.

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").

A group that has as it's CEO Jon Hamre (a Clinton appointee to the
DoD) and Jon Alterman (a former legislative aide to Daniel P Moynahin)
can hardly be consiered "right wing" or "neoconservative" unless your
definition of right wing comes so far from the left you can't even see
into the beginning of the right wing.

Bergman's feelings about Ijaz? "Either he allowed himself to be
manipulated or he's in bed with a bunch of genocidal terrrorists".

Dan