Losing bin
Laden: How Bill Clinton’s Failures Unleashed Global Terror
by
Richard Miniter
Regnery Publishing, Inc.;
ISBN: 0895260743
Hardcover - 256 pages (September 2003)
Years
before the public knew about bin Laden, Bill Clinton
did. Bin Laden first attacked Americans during
Clinton’s presidential transition in December
1992. He struck again at the World Trade Center
in February 1993. Over the next eight years the
archterrorist’s attacks would escalate killing
hundreds and wounding thousands—while Clinton
did his best to stymie the FBI and CIA and refused
to wage a real war on terror.
Why?
The answer is here in investigative reporter Richard
Miniter’s stunning exposé that includes
exclusive interviews with both of Clinton’s
National Security Advisors, Clinton’s counter-terrorism
czar, his first CIA director, his Secretary of
State, his Secretary of Defense, top CIA and FBI
agents, lawmakers from both parties and foreign
intelligence officials from France, Sudan, Egypt,
and the United Arab Emirates, as well as on the-scene
coverage from Sudan, Egypt, and elsewhere.
In Losing bin Laden you’ll learn:
- The
new evidence that Clinton knew about Sudan’s
offers to arrest bin Laden—and why he ignored
them
- The
never before told story of the Saudi government
attempt to assassinate bin Laden
- Why
Bill Clinton refused to meet with his first
director of Central Intelligence
- Drawn
from secret Sudanese intelligence files, the
never-before-told story of Bin Laden’s
role in shooting down America’s Black Hawk
helicopters in Mogadishu, Somalia—and how
Clinton manipulated the news media to keep the
worst off America’s TV screens
- How
Clinton ignored intelligence and offers of cooperation
against bin Laden from Afghanistan’s Northern
Alliance
- How
Bill Clinton scuttled a secret offer from the
United Arab Emirates to arrest bin Laden
- The
1993 World Trade Center attack—why Clinton
refused to believe it had been bombed; why the
CIA was kept out of the investigation; and how
one of the FBI’s most trusted informants
was actually a double agent working for bin
Laden
- Why
the CIA never funded bin Laden—despite
the liberal myths
- How
Clinton ignored Yemen’s pleas for help
in arresting bin Laden—in 1993
- The
untold story of a respected Congressman who
repeatedly warned Clinton officials about bin
Laden in 1993—and why he was ignored
- Revealed
for the first time: how Clinton and a Democratic
Senator stopped the CIA from hiring Arabic translators—while
phone intercepts from bin Laden remained untranslated
- How
the Predator spy plane—which spotted bin
Laden three times—was grounded by bureaucratic
infighting.
- Plus
much more, including, appendices of secret documents
and photos, as well as the established links
between bin Laden and Saddam Hussein’s
Iraq.
Losing
bin Laden is a dramatic, page-turning read,
a riveting account of a terror war that bin Laden
openly declared, but that Clinton left largely
unfought. With a pounding narrative, up-close
characters and detailed scenes, it takes you inside
the Oval Office, the White House Situation Room
and within some of the deadliest terrorist cells
that America has ever faced. If Clinton had fought
back, the attacks on September 11, 2001 might
never have happened.
Losing bin Laden is a story—and one
hell of a lesson—that the reader will never
forget.