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...strange that American indignation at Israel’s defensive maneuver comes just as news emerges from the White House that President Clinton had ordered the CIA to take out Osama Bin Laden at the first opportunity. In addition, before the start of the current war in Iraq, President Bush launched a “decapitation strike” aimed at taking out Saddam Hussein. A missile was directed towards a house in Baghdad and the American population was generally disappointed when it was discovered that the attack was unsuccessful...
...wouldn't forget," he told TIME. When it came time to deliver them in a hearing room in the Hart Senate Office Building, he addressed not just his interrogators, the 10 members of the bipartisan commission charged with investigating the events of 9/11, but also the victims of Osama bin Laden. "Your government failed you. Those entrusted with protecting you failed you. And I failed you," he said, in language that struck some people as melodramatic. After he spoke, some of the victims' loved ones, seated behind him, put down pictures of their dead to applaud; some hugged him when...
Clinton tried to kill bin Laden. After the embassy attacks in Africa, the U.S. launched cruise missiles on a training camp in Afghanistan where bin Laden had been spotted, but in the time it took to decide to strike and during the flight time of the missiles, fired from ships in the Arabian Sea, bin Laden escaped. He was sighted several more times in Afghanistan, in December 1998 and February and May 1999. Each time Clinton officials ruled out strikes because there was no guarantee that bin Laden would be there when the missiles hit or because too many civilians...
Once Bush took office, some critics say, his Administration should have acted faster to deploy armed Predator spy drones to start hunting for bin Laden once the winter weather cleared in early 2001. The first successful test of an armed Predator was in February 2001. However, the lethal planes weren't used in Afghanistan until after 9/11. CIA officials were worried that bin Laden and his Taliban hosts might learn how to evade or shoot down the drones when there were few available, and the agency was also concerned that assassinating enemies with the Predator would provoke an international outcry...
...this is really their country." A few hundred meters away, Sayful Islam proves Rehman's point. A year ago he was a government revenue officer; now, sporting a windbreaker with a "worldwide jihad" logo, he organizes full-time for al-Muhajiroun, a group that endorses the goals of Osama bin Laden. Well-spoken, highly intelligent, he says he doesn't know the people arrested last week: "Maybe they have the same ideas as us, but every Muslim would." He says it is contrary to the Koran for British Muslims to bomb in Britain, but foreigners...