Reno nixed plan to nab bin Laden

The FBI had a clandestine plan to capture terror mastermind Osama bin Laden in 1998 � and even practiced the daring operation in the Texas desert � but former Attorney General Janet Reno scrubbed it, calling it "too dangerous," reports ABC News.

Jack Cloonan, a former FBI agent who is now an ABC NEWS consultant, revealed the details of a secret team of federal investigators he was a part of whose sole purpose was to apprehend bin Laden.

In 1996, the group set up shop in an unmarked office off the Beltway in Alexandria, Va., which was dubbed Alex Station.

Cloonan said the agents discovered a great deal about bin Laden's al-Qaida network which was operating out of a compound in the Taliban's stronghold of Kandahar, Afghanistan at the time.

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FBI Could Have Captured Bin-Laden Five Years Ago
22-May-2003



In ABC News exclusive, Brian Ross writes that the FBI made secret plans to capture Osama bin Laden five years ago. Jack Cloonan, a former FBI agent who is now an ABCNEWS consultant, says they had a plan to fly a plane in and attack a compound in Kandahar, Afghanistan, where he was living in 1998 � three years before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, but the plan was killed by then-Attorney General Janet Reno.
"They came to the decision that this plan was probably too dangerous, that the loss of life on the ground would have been significant," Cloonan says. "There was concern that people around the bin-Laden compound would be killed."

In 1996, a team of FBI and CIA agents was secretly sent to an unmarked office in Alexandria, Va. Code-named Alex Station, it was the center of the operation to capture bin- Laden. Cloonan was one of 13 FBI agents from New York who took part. By early 1998, they had enough information to get a formal criminal indictment against bin Laden, which could still be used if he were captured today.

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There's little one wouldn't believe about La Reno (one recalls pretty convincing evidence of skulduggery over Waco, for example); but this one doesn't ring true.

Well, reguardless if its true or not, we can't live in the past only learn from it. She's gone now ( and so is Elian) and we should look toward the future and take her mistake as an example. It wasn't the first a leader has made and won't be the last. During her reign, her job was to disarm America not fight terror. I think that being her main goal, she made a hell of a dent. Bin Laden wasn't a concern to many people but gun owners were.

Didn't she refer to the tank smashing through the Davidian compound as a "really good rent-a-car?"

We're not allowed to capture him, we need a bogey man to keep the public in fear.

1984 Anyone?

Reno was worried about the loss of life around the bin laden compound but, she didn't care about loss of life around the Waco compound?

This was news to me. I wonder why they wanted to send FBI agents in, as opposed to military. What is also interesting: Albright and Clinton were to have said the US didn't have a 'legal case' against UBL; Clinton therefore didn't take Sudan up on their offer (Sudan wanted the US to take ubl). So, does this article prove there WAS a legal case against bin laden and the Clintonites were covering their behinds when they gave a reason for not taking Sudan up on their offer? Maybe someone can clear this up for me.



[Edited on 23-5-2003 by Bob88]

Despite the legal BS that Jimmy Carter emplaced on the US military (making it illegal to assassinate individuals that pose a clear and present danger to the US) the US military never slowed down on the "wet work".

It is a known fact that numerous South American drug lords, who were reported to have been killed by rivals in cartel shootouts, were actually assassinated by US Marine snipers (the movie Clear and Present Danger, is based very much in fact).

The fact is very clear: Whether through intent or sheer negligence is immaterial: Janet Reno and William Jefferson Klinton are at least indirectly responsible for UBL, and by extension, Sept. 11.

As far as Reno the Butcher of Waco goes, she is very deffinitely guilty of mass murder of over a hundred innocents. She should stand trial and be administered the death penalty.