Despite Clinton Pleas, Saudis Let Terrorist Go

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Source: ABCNews Blotter

Mugniyah Was Spotted On a Commercial Flight Bound for Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah refused a personal plea from President Bill Clinton to help capture Hezbollah terrorist Imad Mugniyah in 1996, according to former White House counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke, now an ABC News consultant.

Clarke says the CIA learned that Mugniyah, wanted for a string of terror attacks, had boarded a commercial flight in Khartoum that was scheduled to stop in Riyadh.

"We appealed to the Saudis to grab him when the plane landed, and they refused," Clarke said in an interview broadcast Wednesday on ABC "World News With Charles Gibson."

After the initial refusal, Clarke said, U.S. officials went to the then-crown prince, now king.

"We raised the level of appeals all the way through Bill Clinton who was on the phone at three in the morning appealing to the highest level in Saudi Arabia to grab him," Clarke said.

"Instead, the Saudis refused to let the plane land and it continued on to Damascus," Clarke said.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4286232&page=1

[DS1]

1. He tried

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2. only President that attempted to kill bin laden

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3. dupe

[MadMaddie]

4. In order to get the Saudi's to do something for ya..you gotta

kiss him and hold his hand. just sayin..

The truth is coming out.

[juajen]

5. I'm not sure why this is in LBN?

[aquart]

6. And you are trying to prove WHAT with this?

That the Saudis are NOT our allies? That they deliberately attempt to embarrass Democrats so that their Reagan/Bush/Republican buddies will look better by comparison?

Or that Obama, with his Muslim "sensitivities" will handle them ever so much better? Or is that implication never to be voiced?

[sabra]

7. huh? just new information that atleast I have never seen before...

that's about it.

[ConcernedCanuk]

8. Heck, aquart - the OP never even offered an opinion, which alot of us do

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Longevity on this board does not censorship privilege give

LBN is LBN

If he broke the rules

just alert on it

[ToughLuck]

9. So much for our "friends" the Saudi family..

Kudos to you Bill!

[ConcernedCanuk]

10. If the Saudis didn't have oil, would they still be the PNACers friends?

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something to ponder

for a nanosecond.