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Originally posted by Rich
Clinton ordered the CIA to kill Bin Laden 3 times after the USS Cole, 3 times they failed. This was all revealed in the 9/11 hearings, try to pay better attention.
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Actually, after the Cole was hit Clinton's counter-terrorism chief, Richard Clarke, urged an immediate strike on al-Qa'eda camps and Taliban buildings in Kabul and Kandahar.
Such a strike would destroy terrorist infrastructure and with luck might kill bin Laden, Mr Clarke told senior colleagues. But he was overruled - first by the CIA and FBI, which wanted more investigation of the attack, and then by the Clinton cabinet.