QuicK! I need a link!!!

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

I need a link to a solid reference that puts the lie to that hoary old Newsmax tale that "Clinton turned down Sudan's offer of bin Laden three times".

Time to mete out some smackdown.

Multiple links would be better.

[shockingelk]

1. here you go: from the moonie times

First, Mr. Miniter recycles old, false Sudanese claims that the Clinton White House declined access to Sudan's intelligence files on al Qaeda and that an unnamed CIA official declined an offer from Sudan in 1996 to turn Osama bin Laden over to the United States.
    No one should believe these allegations by Mr. Miniter's source, Fateh Erwa — a Sudanese intelligence officer known for his penchant to deceive — that there was an offer to hand bin Laden over to the United States. Certainly, no offer was ever conveyed to any senior official in Washington. Had the Sudanese been serious about offering bin Laden to the United States, they could have communicated such an offer to any number of senior Clinton administration officials. It did not happen.

http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20030922-090026-8355r.htm

[Isome]

2. Try this:

http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/ladnsudx.htm

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

3. Thanks Peeps!!!

'preciate it.

[EV1Ltimm]

4. here's a partial article...

straight from the horse's mouth. the accompanying link is dead, however.

http://www.bushisamoron.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=69

[F.Gordon]

5. A good one

These contacts with Sudan, which went on for years, have become a source of offered to expel Bin Ladin to the United States. Clinton administration officials deny ever receiving such an offer. We have not found any reliable evidence to support the Sudanese claim.

Sudan did offer to expel Bin Ladin to Saudi Arabia and asked the Saudis to pardon him. U.S. officials became aware of these secret discussions, certainly by March 1996. The evidence suggests that the Saudi government wanted Bin Ladin expelled from Sudan, but would not agree to pardon him. The Saudis did not want Bin Ladin back in their country at all.

U.S. officials also wanted Bin Ladin expelled from Sudan. They knew the Sudanese were considering it. The U.S. government did not ask Sudan to render him into U.S. custody.

According to Samuel Berger, who was then the deputy national security adviser, the interagency Counterterrorism and Security Group (CSG) chaired by Richard Clarke had a hypothetical discussion about bringing Bin Ladin to the United States. In that discussion a Justice Department representative reportedly said there was no basis for bringing him to the United States since there was no way to hold him here, absent an indictment. Berger adds that in 1996 he was not aware of any intelligence that said Bin Ladin was responsible for any act against an American citizen. No rendition plan targeting Bin Ladin, who was still perceived as a terrorist financier, was requested by or presented to senior policymakers during 1996.

Yet both Berger and Clarke also said the lack of an indictment made no difference. Instead they said the idea was not worth pursuing because there was no chance that Sudan would ever turn Bin Ladin over to a hostile country. If Sudan had been serious, Clarke said, the United States would have worked something out.

http://www.9-11commission.gov/hearings/hearing8/staff_statement_5.pdf