US yanked bribe plan to capture Bin Laden
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/story/214880p-185025c.html
WASHINGTON - U.S. officials scrapped a 1999 plan to offer the Taliban a
$250 million bribe to turn over Osama Bin Laden, fearing then-First
Lady Hillary Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright would
object to paying off the infamous women's rights abusers. Clinton had
long criticized the Islamic regime in Afghanistan for covering women
with burkas and denying them educations and jobs.
According to the final 9/11 commission report, Bill Clinton's
administration had already made fruitless overtures to the Taliban,
paying $10 million to $20 million annually in bribes.
"Two senior State Department officials suggested asking the Saudis to
offer the Taliban $250 million for Bin Laden," the report said, citing
a May 1999 memo. But White House terrorism czar Richard Clarke
"opposed ... a 'huge grant to a regime as heinous as the Taliban' and
suggested that the idea might not seem attractive to either Secretary
Albright or First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton - both critics of the
Taliban's record on women's rights."
"Sen. Clinton was a vocal critic of the heinous Taliban regime well
before 9/11," said her spokesman, Philippe Reines.
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