Saudis Funded Clinton After Nixing OBL Offer

[DrMaddVibe]

Ex-president Clinton's decision to ask Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah for a high-dollar donation to his presidential library came just months after Saudi leaders rebuffed his request to take custody of Osama bin Laden - when officials in Sudan, where the al Qaeda chief was then living, offered him to the U.S.

Former FBI director Louis Freeh revealed on Thursday that Clinton personally put the touch on Abdullah after failing to get the Saudi leader's cooperation in the probe into the June 1996 Khobar Towers bombing, which - according to the 9/11 Commission - was a joint al Qaida-Hezbollah operation.

The 9/11 Commission Report also notes that Sudanese officials testified they tried to offer bin Laden to the U.S. just three months earlier, in March 1996.

In a 2002 speech to a New York business group, Clinton confirmed the Sudanese offer, and said he tried to press the Saudis to take bin Laden:

"At the time, 1996, he had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here because we had no basis on which to hold him. So I pleaded with the Saudis to take him, 'cause they could have. But they thought it was a hot potato and they didn't and that's how he wound up in Afghanistan."

Citing "Saudi sources," columnist Robert Novak reported in January 2002 that the royal family came through with a donation to the Clinton library of up to $20 million.

Questions raised by Mr. Freeh's claim include whether the Saudis felt beholden to Clinton for not pressing them harder on the Khobar probe.

But another concern is whether the Saudis saw their donation as a reward to Clinton for not insisting that Riyadh take bin Laden into custody when the Sudanese offered him up.

Listen to NewsMax.com's exclusive recording of ex-President Clinton explaining how he tried to get the Saudis to accept extradition of Osama bin Laden.

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[Nickdfresh]

Gee, is CLINTON still the PRESIDENT?
http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/L/c/bush_abdullah_chaching.jpg

[Warham]

We all know Clinton's dirty. That's old news. ;)

[DrMaddVibe]

The story broke last week after Louis Freeh's book exposed it...thought it was...revealing...from the inner circle view.

[Nickdfresh]

Originally posted by Warham
We all know Clinton's dirty. That's old news. ;)

So is MONICA's dress, it's all ancient news.

It took the genius journalists at NEWSHAX six-months to figure this out?

Maybe they could be more topical, like report how dirty the BUSH Administration is with big oil...

[DrMaddVibe]

Bill Clinton Caught Again

Either Bill Clinton is not telling the truth now about the terrorist threat posed by Iraq during his administration - or he fibbed to the American people while he was in the White House.

Clinton recently told his former staffer-turned TV commentator George Stephanopoulos that the U.S. government had "no evidence that there were any weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq.

But a recent report in the The Weekly Standard headlined "Clinton Revisionism" unmasks Clinton's flip-flops over the Iraq weapons of mass destruction issue.

For example, during an appearance on "Larry King Live" back in July 2003, the former president said:

"When I left office, there was a substantial amount of biological and chemical material unaccounted for."

In October of that year, six months after the war ended, Clinton discussed Iraq with Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Manuel Durao Barroso.

Barroso said: "When Clinton was here recently he told me he was absolutely convinced, given his years in the White House and the access to privileged information which he had, that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction until the end of the Saddam regime."

Last month Clinton discussed the Iraq war with Wolf Blitzer and told him: "I never thought it had much to do with the war on terror."

But in a February 1998 speech warning of an "unholy axis" of terrorists and rogue states, Clinton stated: "There is no more clear example of this threat than Saddam Hussein's Iraq."

That summer six senior Clinton officials accused Iraq of providing chemical weapons expertise to al-Qaida in Sudan.

The Clinton administration cited this link to justify the destruction of a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan supposedly involved in the production of chemical weapons.

The Standard concludes: "Clinton's revisionism is hardly surprising. He has his wife's future in an increasingly anti-war Democratic Party to worry about."

[ODShowtime]

this is good stuff! Maybe we can impeach Clinton!

[DrMaddVibe]

Originally posted by ODShowtime
this is good stuff! Maybe we can impeach Clinton!

If the bitch gets in...sure!:D

[ODShowtime]

Originally posted by DrMaddVibe
If the bitch gets in...sure!:D

most likely I'll be on board for that too

one's enough.