During the Clinton administration's deliberations on whether or not to attack the hunting camp in Western Afghanistan where bin Laden was believed to be staying, Sandy Berger proposed a U-2 flight to recon the target. Richard Clarke, then the NSC's senior advisor for counterterrorism, opposed the plan. Clarke noted such a mission would require Pakistani approval, and “Pak’s intel is in bed with” bin Laden and would warn him that the United States was getting ready for a bombing attack. “Armed with that knowledge,” Clarke wrote, Osama “will likely boogie to Baghdad.”
Huh??? I thought it was only the crazy neocons of the Bush administration who suspected there might be some link between Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein!?! [Said facetiously, in case you could not tell . . . ]
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