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Former President Bill Clinton, mere hours before the 9/11 terror attack, openly acknowledged that he turned down a chance to kill Usama bin Laden, according to a newly released recording.
The former president can be heard admitting this in a speech to Australian business leaders on Sept. 10, 2001.
Until now, Clinton's eerie words had not been made public. But a businessman who had access to the nearly 13-year-old recording handed it over to Sky News Australia, which broadcast it in a report Monday.
"I'm just saying, you know, if I were Usama bin Laden -- he's a very smart guy, I've spent a lot of time thinking about him -- and I nearly got him once," Clinton said on the recording.
"I nearly got him. And I could have killed him, but I would have to destroy a little town called Kandahar in Afghanistan and kill 300 innocent women and children, and then I would have been no better than him."
"And so I didn't do it," he added.
Clinton had recently left office at the time of the speech.
This is not the first time that the notion was raised that the Clinton administration had the opportunity to detain or even kill bin Laden, but chose not to. Leading up to the final report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, otherwise known as the 9/11 Report, there were conflicting testimonies and information about whether the administration had taken Al Qaeda threats seriously and had turned down a chance to have bin Laden extradited to the U.S. on terrorism charges.
In the end, the 9/11 panel found that there were several missed opportunities to go after bin Laden and Al Qaeda, including a point in which the Central Intelligence Agency had tracked bin Laden to a hunting camp in Afghanistan in 1999. The Clinton administration declined to launch an attack for fear of hitting officials from the United Arab Emirates, who were at the camp on a hunting trip.
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Thats actually really interesting, Good find.
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Interesting... especially how he says he would have to destroy a town to do it... surely a well placed sniper bullet would have done the job without killing 300 innocent civilians.
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Nice find Doc, Could be true, i dislike the clitons
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Good on him, his choice saved 300 innocent
Peoples lives, but it's a pity, what happened to the twin tower's and the people inside of it.
Peoples lives, but it's a pity, what happened to the twin tower's and the people inside of it.
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Crazy_Horse_RDR wrote Good on him, his choice saved 300 innocent
Peoples lives, but it's a pity, what happened to the twin tower's and the people inside of it.
Yeah but his decision to save 300 cost us over 3,000+ lives.
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I refuse to believe him simply because he did kill innocent people before with drone strikes.
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I can't really blame him for not "pushing the button" on this. No one really knew what Al Qaeda was going to do within the next few days, and the fact that the chance of Civilians were going to be caught in the crossfire more or likely.
As for the "Why not just send a sniper to do the job", I don't really have a yes/no answer, but my guess is that seeing as his compound he was finally captured in was only a mile from a Military Academy, AND in the middle of a city, Bin Laden would have been very well hidden and hard to catch from a mile out with a bullet.
Also you have to remember that we (The US) originally helped fund Bin Laden's fight against the Soviets, and while still on our hit list, he was not seen as the person he was in 2011, so a possible 300 dead civilians was not worth it at the time.
As for the "Why not just send a sniper to do the job", I don't really have a yes/no answer, but my guess is that seeing as his compound he was finally captured in was only a mile from a Military Academy, AND in the middle of a city, Bin Laden would have been very well hidden and hard to catch from a mile out with a bullet.
Also you have to remember that we (The US) originally helped fund Bin Laden's fight against the Soviets, and while still on our hit list, he was not seen as the person he was in 2011, so a possible 300 dead civilians was not worth it at the time.
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Scizor wrote so a possible 300 dead civilians was not worth it at the time.
300 Civilians would NEVER be worth at any time, sure 9/11 was a horrible incident and many lives were lost but even then 300 INNOCENT civilians would never be worth anything, they are innocent and deserve to live.
I am sure many disagree but I am glad clinton had some honor/respect.
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Hmmm He could have killed him but then it would have made him just like bin laden...
Interesting.
Interesting.
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