Bill Clinton stopped the CIA from killing Osama bin Laden before 9/11

[Kailash Kumar]

Bill Clinton stopped CIA from killing bin Laden before 9/11: Documentary

Zachary Halaschak

April 21, 2020

Former President Bill Clinton signed an order preventing the CIA from organizing a kill operation against al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, according to a new documentary.

The revelation is discussed by former CIA station chief Bob Grenier in the new Showtime documentary The Longest War, which was released Tuesday. Grenier, who was based in Islamabad, Pakistan, explained that the agency was permitted to engage in “lethal activity” against the terrorist leader but could not perform a strike with the explicit purpose of killing him.

“We were being asked to remove this threat to the United States essentially with one hand tied behind our backs,” Grenier said. He also explained a specific opportunity that the CIA had to eliminate bin Laden using intelligence sourced from tribal networks in Afghanistan.

“Our tribal contacts came to us, and they said, ‘Look, he’s in this location now. When he leaves, he’s going to have to go through this particular crossroads.’ And so what they proposed was to bury a huge cache of explosives underneath those crossroads so that when his convoy came through, they could simply blow it up,” Grenier recounted. “And we said, 'Absolutely not.' We were risking jail if we didn’t tell them that.”

Clinton has previously acknowledged another instance in which he was in a position to kill bin Laden but claimed that doing so would have resulted in the deaths of hundreds of people in the Afghan city of Kandahar.

Marty Martin, a former CIA counterterrorism officer, highlighted the consequential decision against killing bin Laden and tied it to events happened more than two decades later.

“The threat was real,” Martin said. “And if President Clinton had taken action and killed Osama bin Laden, there wouldn’t have been a 9/11, and if there wouldn’t have been a 9/11, there wouldn’t have been an Afghanistan, and if there wouldn’t have been an Afghanistan, there probably wouldn’t have been an Iraq. What would the world be like?”

Bin Laden was eventually killed during a U.S. operation in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in 2011. By that point, he had become a sort of symbolic figurehead for al Qaeda, which has been in steady decline.

Bin Laden’s No. 2, Ayman al Zawahiri, is still presumed to be alive and leading the terrorist group. The U.S. killed a top al Qaeda leader, Qassim al Rimi, earlier this year in another decisive blow to the waning organization. Bin Laden’s son and presumptive heir, Hamza bin Laden, was also killed in a U.S. counterterrorism operation.

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[Yankee-stani]

Of course they did OBL was one of "their" dudes

 

[babrum]

ACTUALLY THE BRITISH SBS SNIPER HAD A CHANCE TO SHOOT DOWN BIN LADEN IN OP TORA BORA BUT AMERICANS WANTED TO BE THE ONE TO GET HIM SO THEY LET HIM GET AWY

 

[khansaheeb]

With OBL dead there would be no mission, he was the bogeyman they needed to further their designs. But even if they killed OBL at that the ti\me the outcome still would have been the same in Afghanistan.

 

[TexasJohn]

Of course they did OBL was one of "their" dudes

By then he had quit being one of our "ba$tards"

 

[Azadkashmir]

tim osman eaten by big shark in the sea. by the way were is his dialysis machine.

 

[Yankee-stani]

By then he had quit being one of our "ba$tards"

Americans do like to clean their bloody hands as usual deny

 

[zectech]

Bill Clinton: "We did not know Al Qaeda existed back then" (in the 90s).

Al Qaeda was the name the CIA/DoD used to define the organization that committed terrorist actions for the US gov't. It means the Database of the Mujahedin.

Their CIA ops in Bosnia:

They were used later, to be blamed for 9/11 so Bush could have the Afghan War, the Afghan War plans were ready BEFORE 9/11.

If it were not for Bin Laden being alive and falsely blamed, the Palestinians would have been blamed for 9/11.

The zionist jews wanted the false flag 9/11 attacks blamed on Palestinians, the Bushes want Bin Laden and Al Qaeda to be blamed.

 

[Yankee-stani]

Bill Clinton: "We did not know Al Qaeda existed back then" (in the 90s).

Al Qaeda was the name the CIA/DoD used to as the organization that committed terrorist actions for the US gov't. It means the Database of the Mujahedin.

Their CIA ops in Bosnia:

They were used later to be blamed for 9/11 so Bush could have the Afghan War, the Afghan War plans were ready BEFORE 9/11.

If it were not for Bin Laden being alive and falsely blamed, the Palestinians would have been blamed for 9/11.

The zionist jews wanted the false flag 9/11 attacks blamed on Palestinians, the Bushes want Bin Laden and Al Qaeda to be blamed.

Yeah Americans will then tie it to something else and wash their hands as usual