Who Is Mansoor Ijaz?

Mansoor Ijaz, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, is chairman of a New York-based investment company. Also see here.

Then read his op ed in the LA Times circa 2001. h/t Mark Levin's radio program.

Clinton Let Bin Laden Slip Away and Metastasize

President Clinton and his national security team ignored several opportunities to capture Osama bin Laden and his terrorist associates, including one as late as last year.

I know because I negotiated more than one of the opportunities.

From 1996 to 1998, I opened unofficial channels between Sudan and the Clinton administration. I met with officials in both countries, including Clinton, U.S. National Security Advisor Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger and Sudan's president and intelligence chief. President Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir, who wanted terrorism sanctions against Sudan lifted, offered the arrest and extradition of Bin Laden and detailed intelligence data about the global networks constructed by Egypt's Islamic Jihad, Iran's Hezbollah and the Palestinian Hamas.

Among those in the networks were the two hijackers who piloted commercial airliners into the World Trade Center.

The silence of the Clinton administration in responding to these offers was deafening.

As an American Muslim and a political supporter of Clinton, I feel now, as I argued with Clinton and Berger then, that their counter-terrorism policies fueled the rise of Bin Laden from an ordinary man to a Hydra-like monster.

Comments

[Donald Allen]

I can't recall if the Clinton Gang ever refuted this Op ed piece by Ijaz? Any help out there?

[Phoenix]

I have always liked this man. He is too knowlegeable and facile with facts to be a phony. But it's really strange that you brought him up. He used to be a guest on FOX all the time, and now that I think about it, I haven't seen him in ages.