Three times it was offered and Osama's location was known. CIA asked permission each time to take him out. Each time it was denied. Pretty simple really. Would this have prevented future history? I cannot say obviously with 100% accuracy, but by chopping the snakes head off, it's hard to fathom that we would have been bitten later.
CIA field agent Gary Bernsten told ABC News that the CIA provided an American president, Bill Clinton, multiple opportunities to capture or kill bin Laden, Bernsten said. We provided those opportunities, tactical opportunities which were not taken. Bernsten said that CIA Director George Tenet gave the word to stop three opportunities to kill bin Laden. (ABC News The Blotter, September 10, 2006)
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According to former Democratic fund raiser Mansoor Ijaz:
From 1996 to 1998, I opened unofficial channels between Sudan and the Clinton administration. I met with officials in both countries, including Clinton, U.S. National Security Advisor Samuel R. Sandy Berger and Sudans president and intelligence chief. President Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir offered the arrest and extradition of Bin Laden and detailed intelligence data about the global networks constructed by Egypts Islamic Jihad, Irans Hezbollah and the Palestinian Hamas. Among those in the networks were the two hijackers who piloted commercial airliners into the World Trade Center. The silence of the Clinton administration in responding to these offers was deafening. As an American Muslim and a political supporter of Clinton, I feel now, as I argued with Clinton and Berger then, that their counter-terrorism policies fueled the rise of Bin Laden from an ordinary man to a Hydra-like monster. (LA Times December 5 2001)
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