Did Clinton miss shot at bin Laden?
By JEN McCAFFERY
THE ROANOKE TIMES
A 1979 Christiansburg High School graduate is at the center of a firestorm over whether the Clinton administration missed a chance to capture Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network.
Mansoor Ijaz, now a New York City-based investment banker who traveled to Sudan more than a half dozen times in the mid-1990s, says he repeatedly relayed offers from the Sudanese government to the Clinton White House to share intelligence on bin Laden. In one case, the president of Sudan offered to arrest and extradite bin Laden and turn over information about global terrorist networks, Ijaz says.
The Clinton administration declined to take him up on the offer, Ijaz has argued in a Los Angeles Times commentary, in the pages of the January issue of the magazine Vanity Fair, and on national television shows.
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