EvilMadman wrote:So, there was absolutely no legal grounds to gain custody of Osama Bin Laden from the Sudanese government in 1996?
http://www.progressivenewsdaily.com/?p=10607"In 1996, bin Laden personally engineered a plot to assassinate Clinton while the president was in Manila for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation. However, intelligence agents intercepted a message just minutes before the motorcade was to leave, and alerted the United States Secret Service. Agents later discovered a bomb planted under a bridge."
en.wikipedia.org
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/17/inter ... osama.html"In 1996, al-Qaeda announced its jihad to expel foreign troops and interests from what they considered Islamic lands. Bin Laden issued a fatwa, which amounted to a public declaration of war against the United States of America and any of its allies, and began to refocus al-Qaeda's resources towards large-scale, propagandist strikes. Also occurring on June 25, 1996, was the bombing of the Khobar towers, located in Khobar, Saudi Arabia."
en.wikipedia.org
That's right, President Clinton couldn't get custody of Bin Laden because his inept Justice Department couldn't figure out how to read a known transnational terrorist his goddamn Miranda rights, which has never had any legal precedent to begin with!
"Freeze, you're under arrest Mr. Bin Laden!"?
What are you fucking kidding me?!
Dude, this time you didn't even look at your own links. Every single one of those events happened AFTER the Clinton administration had determined it didn't have a case to indict him.
Let's look at the timeline:
May 1996 - Clinton determines it doesn't have a case against Bin Laden
June 1996 - Bombing of the Khobar Towars in Saudi Arabia (Saudi Arabia isn't located in the United States, incidentally)
July 1996 - State Department warns Clinton about Bin Laden
August 1996 - Bin Laden issues fatwa against United States
November 1996 - Bin Laden allegedly attempts to assassinate Clinton at the APEC Summit in the Philippines
Do I have to do your research for you every time, or are you going to check your own links next time?