MAYBE IT COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED?

WITH ALL THE CONSTERNATION ABOUT THE IRAQ WAR THROUGHOUT THIS GREAT COUNTRY. DAILY FUELED BY A HOSTILE PRESS. IT IS PROPER THAT WE GO BACK TO RECENT HISTORY TO LOOK AT WHAT BROUGHT US TO WAGE WAR AGAINST TERRORIST MUSLIM EXTREMISTS. BESIDES THE OBIOUS HEINOUS 9/11 ATTACK IN N.Y.C.
IN 1996 DURING BILL CLINTONS ADMINISTRATION THE OIL GIANT UNICAL WANTED TO BUILD A PIPELINE FROM THE OIL RICH COUNTRY NORTH OF AFGANISTAN TO TRANSPORT CRUDE OIL TO PORTS ON THE SEA. TO ACCOMODATE UNICAL THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION, AWARE OF THE TALIBAN BUILD UP IN AFGANISTAN, IGNORED THEIR GROWING STRENGTH AND THREAT. THUS, WHILE SUPPORTING THE BUILDING OF A PIPELINE ,IT WAS ALLOWING THE TALIBAN ,LEAD BY OSAMA BIN LADEN, TO BUILD THE TERRORIST NETWORK.
HOW DID WE KNOW ABOUT THE TERRORIST NETWORK YOU ASK? AT THE VERY TIME THE ADMINISTRATION WAS LOOKING THE OTHER WAY, A SMALL GROUP WITHIN THE CIA CALLED “THE MANSON FAMILY” HAD TAPPED INTO OBL PHONE LINES. THEY WERE AWARE OF HIS TERRORIST BUILD-UP AND HIS LOCATION!
IN 1988 THE “MANSON FAMILY” FORMULATED A PLAN TO CAPTURE OBL. THEIR LEADERS WENT TO THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION WITH THEIR INFORMATION AND ASKED FOR APPROVAL OF THE ATTEMPTED CAPTURE.
THE PLAN WAS DENIED AND THE IDEA OF CAPTURE OF OBL WAS SCRATCHED. THIS WAS NOT THE LAST TIME OBL WAS IN THE SIGHTS OF THE CIA. LATER THAT SAME YEAR AFGAN LEADER MOUSOUD NOTIFIED THE CIA THAT HE KNEW WHERE OBL WAS AND OFFERED TO KILL OR CAPTURE HIM. I AM NOT SURE OF THE FOLLOWING, BUT I SUSPECT IT WAS AN OFFER WITH A PRICE TAG ATTACHED. HOWEVER, ATTORNEYS FOR THE CIA STOPPED THIS PLAN BECAUSE THEY FELT IT MIGHT VIOLATE INTERNATIONAL LAW. ???
FOR HIS VAIN ATTEMPT TO HELP THE U.S. RID THE LEADER OF THE PLAN TO WAGE TERROR AGAINST AMERICA AND ITS’ ALLIES. THIS BRAVE MAN, MOUSOUD, WAS MURDERED BY THE TALIBAN LATER THAT YEAR.
NOW WE ARE WAGING WORLD WAR 3 AGAINST RADICAL MUSLIMS WHICH COULD HAVE BEEN “NIPPED IN THE BUD” IF THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION HAD DECIDED TO TAKE MORE ACTION THAN THE GRANDSTAND OPERATION OF A MISSLE ATTACK ON AN ASPIRIN FACTORY DURING THE MONICA LEWINSKY AFFAIR!
ONE FINAL NOTE. IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THERE HAVE TO BE “MOLES” OR AT LEAST SYMPATHIZERS IN BOTH THE CIA AND DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE. I BASE THIS HYPOTHESIS ON THE
FACT THAT OBL AND HIS “BAND OF TERRORISTS” SEEM TO HAVE ADVANCE KNOWLEDGE OF ALL ATTEMPTS MADE THUS FAR TO KILL OR CAPTURE HIM. WHY HASN'T SOME ONE IN CONGRESS PUT TOGETHER A COMMITTEE TO LOOK INTO THIS TREASONIST ACTION?