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Losing Bin Laden (Hardcover)

by Richard Miniter (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 317 pages
  • Publisher: Regnery Publishing Inc; 2003. Corr. 4th edition (14 Aug 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0895260743
  • ISBN-13: 978-0895260741
  • Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15 x 3.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,167,219 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Argues that if Bill Clinton had fought back and not ignored the actions of Osama bin Laden the September 11 terrorist attacks never would have happened.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A fascinating resource on pre-911 Osama bin Laden, 17 Feb 2004
By Kurt A. Johnson (Marseilles, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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In this book, investigative journalist Richard Miniter looks at the activities of terrorist Osama bin Laden during the tenure of the Clinton administration, and looks at the administration's responses. Every terrorist attack, from the 1992 bombing at the Aden Hotel in Yemen, to the attack on the USS Cole in 2000, is covered in fascinating detail. Along the way, the reader is treated to a great deal of information about the roots of the present "War on Terror."

This book is somewhat hard to review. Starting with the introduction, the author seems to make it clear that he had intended this book to be a resounding indictment of President Clinton, and balance was not what he was aiming for. However, that said, I did find this book to be a fascinating resource on the pre-911 activities of Osama bin Laden. I did not realize how much there was to know about what Bin Laden had been up to, and am quite glad that I read this book.

Yes, supporters of the Clinton administration will find this book too unbalanced to enjoy, whereas opponents of the previous president will relish it. But, for anyone who is simply interested in the pre-911 activities of Osama bin Laden, I would recommend this as a fascinating resource.

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars One of the best accounts of pre 9/11 Osama Bin Laden, 8 Feb 2009
By Ross "fountain.blogspot.com" (Northampton, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Losing Bin Laden: How Bill Clinton's Failures Unleashed Global Terror (Paperback)
For a history of what Bin Laden was up to in the 1990s this is hard to beat. It begins with a brief outline of Bin Laden's background and his role in the Afghan resistance to the USSR (Contary to popular myth he was not funded by the CIA who primarily funded Afghans not Arabs), where he used his family wealth to become a kind of quartermaster for the jihadis heading to Afghanistan. There is little evidence that he actually did any fighting himself but the role gave him a vast array of contacts that enabled him to become the head of a global Islamist movement.

In the 1990s he launched an ever larger series of attacks against the USA, Miniter's case is that the inadequacy of President Clinton's response enabled Bin Laden's murderous campaign to continue unabated until the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. He makes with a strong command of the facts and an impressive array of interviews with key players.

As Clinton's record on terrorism was so abysmal any fair minded appraisal of his record will be beset by accusations of partisanship by Clinton supporters, but can anyone really defend his response to the first World Trade Center bombing, treating it purely as a criminal matter so that counter intelligence agencies couldn't share information? Or his refusal to even meet James Woolsey, directer of the CIA more than twice in his two year term? Clinton treated terrorism and foreign affairs as an afterthought at best a distraction at worst.

Miniter actually specifically defends Clinton against partisan accusations without basis- like the claim he did nothing, or that he only bombed Sudan and Afghanistan because of the impeachment hearings. He is also highly sympathetic to Richard Clarke, the Clinton era counter terrorism 'Czar' whose hostility to the Bush administration is well publicised.

Even so it is hard to arge that the response of his administration to the attacks that ran from late 1992 onwards was anything short of negligent.

The book is well written and each part of the story is told in an engaging manner and could probably stand alone as particularly good magazine articles.

The one criticism I would make is that Miniter should really have continued the story up to 9/11 rather than the end of Clinton's term, as that is a somewhat articial stopping point.
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