(IBD) U.N. Ambassador Susan (Lying Talking Points) Rice Helped Thwart Bin Laden Capture

[Daniel John Sobieski]

Terrorism: Our U.N. ambassador, champion of the altered Benghazi  talking points, helped block attempts by Sudan to turn over the world's most  wanted terrorist outright or share intelligence leading to his capture.

Our U.N. ambassador, champion of the altered Benghazi talking points, played  a key role in blocking attempts by Sudan to turn over the world's most wanted  terrorist outright or share intelligence leading to his capture.

It does not surprise us that U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice either willfully or  blindly parroted altered Benghazi talking points, going on five Sunday news  shows on Sept. 16 to push the false narrative that the attack on our consulate  in Benghazi was not a terrorist attack but a flash mob inflamed by a months-old  Internet trailer insulting to Islam. This isn't the first time she has been  clueless about and blind to the reality of terror.

As we mentioned in an earlier editorial about her possible appointment as  secretary of state, "In 1996, while serving as assistant secretary of state for  African affairs under former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Rice helped  persuade President Clinton to rebuff Sudan's offer to turn Osama bin Laden, who  was then living there, over to U.S. authorities."

Richard Miniter, author of the book "Losing bin Laden," told World Magazine  in 2003 that Rice played a primary role in scuttling the deal in which Sudan  could have turned over bin Laden to the U.S.

As a member of Clinton's National Security Council, he wrote, she doubted  Sudan's credibility.

"The FBI, in 1996 and 1997, had their efforts to look at terrorism data and  deal with the bin Laden issue overruled every single time by the State  Department, by Susan Rice and her cronies, who were hell-bent on destroying the  Sudan," Miniter said.

Miniter noted that "Rice (cited) the suffering of Christians (in Sudan) as  one reason that she doubted the integrity of the Sudanese offers. But her  analysis largely overlooked the view of U.S. Ambassador to Sudan Tim Carney, who  argued for calling Khartoum's bluff."

Rice wanted to punish Sudan rather than cooperate with it and accept its  offer.

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