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

    Written by Richard Miniter

    Narrated by Alan Sklar

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    "If Clinton had fought back, the attacks on September 11, 2001, might never have happened."Years before the public knew about bin Laden, Bill Clinton did. Bin Laden first attacked Americans during Clinton's presidential transition in December 1992. He struck again at the World Trade Center in February 1993. Over the next eight years the arch-terrorist's attacks would escalate, killing hundreds and wounding thousands - while Clinton did his best to stymie the FBI and CIA, and refused to wage a real war on terror. Why?

    The answer is here in investigative reporter Richard Miniter's stunning expose that includes exclusive interviews with both of Clinton's National Security Advisors, Clinton's counter-terrorism czar, his first Director of Central Intelligence, his Secretary of State, top CIA and FBI agents, lawmakers from both parties and foreign intelligence officials from France, the Middle East and Egypt, as well as on-the-scene coverage.

    Losing bin Laden takes you inside the Oval Office, the White House Situation Room and some of the deadliest terrorist cells that America has ever faced. It is a riveting account of a terror war that bin Laden openly declared, but that Clinton left largely unfought.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateApr 1, 2004
    ISBN9781400171071
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    Richard Miniter

    Richard Miniter is the author of three top-ten New York Times bestsellers, Losing Bin Laden and Shadow War, as well as Mastermind, the first biography of 9/11 planner Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. He writes a column for Forbes.com. A former editorial writer for The Wall Street Journal in Brussels, member of the investigative team at The Sunday Times in London, and editorial-page editor of the Washington Times, Miniter has also written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, as well as The Atlantic, Reader’s Digest, Newsweek, The New Republic, and National Review. He has appeared on CNN, C-SPAN, Fox News Channel, and MSNBC. He has won awards from the National Press Club and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (shared). He lives in Arlington, Virginia.

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    • 5/5
      Read from the perspective of 10 years after the US invaded Afghanistan and "lost" Bin Laden, possibly for good, this makes especially good reading. Clearly the author is no fan of Clinton but this seems to be a fair evaluation of what happened. What it does show is how events of an office that turns over often every 4 years are filled with small details of getting starting so important things fall by the way. The lesson is pay more about foreign affairs during and immediately the tranistion.

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    • 5/5
      Same players in 1993 WTC attack, Somalia, Two embassies, Khobar towers, USS Cole, and this man was so scared of what happened in Mogadishu he wouldn’t put boots on the ground! Bush got all the criticisms of Clinton Administration failures including a recession.
      Two embassies is an act of war and not a manhunt!