Bill Clinton
admitted in 2001 that he had passed up the chance to kill
Osama Bin
Laden because he was concerned about potential civilian casualties,
according to a newly-unearthed audio tape recorded just hours before the
SEPTEMBER 11 attacks on the US. In the recording, the former US president
addresses a group of business leaders at a paid engagement in Australia,
on September 10, 2001.
"Osama bin Laden (is) a very smart
guy," Clinton says. "I've spent a lot of time thinking about him, and I
nearly got him once ... I could have killed him, but I would have had to
destroy a little town called Kandahar in Afghanistan and kill 300
innocent women and children. And then I would have been no better than
him. And so I didn't do it."
The tape was released to Sky News
Australia this week by Michael Kroger, the former state president of the
Liberal Party in Victoria, who said he had not deliberately kept its
existence a secret, but had simply forgotten about it until now.
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