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How Clinton Shielded Afghanistan
John L. Perry, NewsMax.com
Sept. 18, 2001
Why wasn't Afghanistan on the list of terrorist-sponsoring "rogue states"?
The answer in three words: William Jefferson Clinton.
During his presidency, Clinton consistently kept Taliban-controlled Afghanistan off
his State Department's annually updated list of regimes that harbor and abet terrorist
organizations, such as that run by Osama bin Laden, the world's most-wanted terrorist
whose safe haven has for years been the badlands of Afghanistan.
The No. 1 suspect behind the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center twin towers
and the Pentagon was long known to be hiding out in Afghanistan with relative freedom.
Indeed, during his tenure as president, Clinton had some of bin Laden’s training
camps bombed, but not very seriously.
What Does It Take?
Even that didn't qualify Afghanistan as the sanctuary of a major terrorist operation
in the eyes of the Clinton-Gore administration.
The most-recent annual State Department report, issued in the final year of the
Clinton-Gore administration, failed to list Afghanistan, despite the known coddling of
bin Laden by the Taliban militant Islamic movement, which is the actual ruling power
in the Afghan government.
According to Cable News Network last year, "In regards to Afghanistan, the State
Department says it is a threat because it continues to shelter [bin Laden]…"
Notwithstanding, Afghanistan wasn't put on the "rogue state" list, along with
communist Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, communist North Korea, Sudan or Syria.
'Not Sponsoring Terror'
The Clinton-Gore State Department "does not believe [either Afghanistan or neighboring
Pakistan] is actually sponsoring terrorist acts," CNN reported.
"In general, sources tell CNN, the State Department believes that state-sponsored
terrorism, as a whole, is less of a concern."
At that same time, ABC News said that the Clinton-Gore administration "does not
recognize Afghanistan's Taliban rulers as its legitimate government, and so cannot
formally sanction them."
The State Department list of state sponsors of terrorism has remained static for the
past three years with just the current seven countries identified.
Sounds About Right
The department defines terrorism as "pre-meditated, politically motivated violence
perpetrated against noncombatant targets by sub-national groups or clandestine agents,
usually intended to influence an audience."
The official State Department attitude has obviously changed under the Bush-Cheney
administration. After the Sept. 11 assaults, Secretary of State Colin Powell warned
the Afghan government that if the Taliban does not hand over bin Laden, dire
consequences will follow for Afghanistan.
Powell's attitude toward another world-renowned marionette of terrorists, Iraq
dictator Saddam Hussein, also is more severe than that of his predecessor, Madeleine
K. Albright.
'Not a Drop in His Veins'
At a news conference two days after the terrorist attacks, Powell was asked: "Of all
of the seven countries on the State Department's state sponsors list, only one of
them, I believe, has not condemned [the attacks], has not said anything. Does it raise
any red flags with you that Saddam Hussein and Iraq have been silent about this?"
To which Powell replied: "I am not surprised. He is one of the leading terrorists on
the face of the Earth, and I would not expect the slightest drop of the milk of human
kindness to be flowing in his veins."
The State Department might wish to consider tacking up a sign over its front door down
in Foggy Bottom: "Under New Management."
John L. Perry, a prize-winning newspaper editor and writer who served on White House
staffs of two presidents, is senior editor for NewsMax.com.
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