Need helping finding infor on Clinton & Osama

[Neserk]

I know people have referred to the debunking the myth that Clinton was offered Osama head. But does anyone have a link? It would be greatly appreciated.

[Neserk]

anyone?

[blackfox]

I looked around a bit, but couldn't find any links/sources that weren't either NewsMax, Drudge etc...perhaps they might have links to the original source(s)... (haha)

Anyway...search for Sudan, Clinton and Bin Laden...it is a start. Sorry I can't be more helpful...

[Thomas Veil]

This (http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/ladnsudx.htm) is the only thing I was able to find.

Doesn't really "debunk" the story, but explains it.

[Sayhey]

Here are a couple of links that might help.

Clinton: To the best of my knowledge it is not true that we were ever offered him by the Sudanese even though they later claimed it. I think it's total bull. Mr. Absurabi, the head of the Sudanese government was a buddy of bin Laden's. They were business partners together. There was no way in the wide world this guy who was in business with bin Laden in Sudan was going to give him up to us.

CBS News (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/06/21/eveningnews/main625205.shtml)

The government of Sudan, using a back channel direct from its president to the Central Intelligence Agency in the United States, offered in the early spring of 1996 to arrest Osama bin Laden and place him in custody in Saudi Arabia, according to officials and former officials in all three countries.

The Clinton administration struggled to find a way to accept the offer in secret contacts that stretched from a meeting at hotel in Arlington, Virginia, on March 3, 1996, to a fax that closed the door on the effort 10 weeks later.

Unable to persuade the Saudis to accept Mr. bin Laden, and lacking a case to indict him in U.S. courts, the Clinton administration finally gave up on the capture. ...

from The Expat (http://xpat.org/archives/000157.html)

In other words, the Sudanese offered to give Osama up to the Saudis, but never to the US. The Saudis, ever our loyal ally (heavy sarcasm intended,) refused to take him even after weeks of pressure from the Clinton administration. This is all well before we had proof of his involvement in the first WTC bombing and two years before the Africa Embassy bombings. If anything it proves the Clinton administration was very serious about chasing terrorists well before it was on anyone else's radar.

[Neserk]

Thanks :)