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Losing Bin Laden: How Bill Clinton's Failures Unleashed Terror

By Richard Miniter

WASHINGTON, D.C.Osama bin Laden's rise to power and the Sept. 11 attacks were due to the inactions and failures of former President Bill Clinton and key members of his administration, reports former Wall Street Journal editorial writer Richard Miniter. Bill Clinton had the opportunity to stop, catch or kill bin Laden more than 12 times during his presidency, but was too distracted by his daily popularity polls and sexual scandals to take action.

In his new book, "Losing Bin Laden: How Bill Clinton's Failures Unleashed Global Terror," Miniter documents each opportunity Clinton had to strike against bin Laden and how each failure to retaliate made bin Laden look invincible in the Arab world, allowing him to attract new recruits and money.

For more than two years Miniter interviewed soldiers, diplomats and intelligence operatives in Middle East, Africa and Europe, but found his best sources were, to his surprise, top-level Clinton administration officials, including former National Security Adviser Tony Lake, former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Clinton's counterterrorism coordinator Richard Clarke and former Director of Central Intelligence James Woolsey.

Miniter reveals never before told stories including:

A first-hand account inside the Clinton Cabinet meeting following the USS Cole bombing and the story behind the 7 to 1 vote not to retaliate against bin Laden.
The full story of bin Laden's role in shooting down America's Black Hawk helicopters in Mogadishu, Somalia, uncovered from secret Sudanese intelligence files.
Never-seen-before evidence that President Clinton ignored Sudan's repeated offers to capture bin Laden in order to focus on the 1996 presidential election.
How President Clinton and a Democratic senator stopped the CIA from hiring Arabic translators while bin Laden and Arabic-speaking terrorists killed Americans.
Miniter exposes Bill Clinton's empty gestures and pattern of dithering and delay that allowed bin Laden to slip through time and time again, costing the lives of U.S. soldiers around the world and the tragedy of Sept. 11.



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