By Bob Parks ——Bio and Archives--December 5, 2008
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Terrorism experts blame Rice for having played a key role in blocking efforts to neutralize Osama bin Laden in the 1990s. According to Mansoor Ijaz, a former trouble shooter for Clinton, the FBI had their efforts to capture bin Laden "overruled every single time by the State Department, by Susan Rice and her cronies, who were hell-bent on destroying the Sudan." In a Washington Post Op-Ed published in 2002, Mansoor Ijaz and Tim Carney, U.S. Ambassador to Sudan blamed Susan Rice for being a major obstacle to accepting offers of help from Sudan and to share their intelligence on bin Laden's terror network.Sound familiar? It makes one wonder why someone as supposedly intelligent as Barack Obama would select this woman for national security advise during a presidential campaign, let alone later in his administration?
Rice was also influential in the Clinton Administration's remaining uninvolved in the Rwandan genocide that took place in that nation in 1994. The Atlantic (September 2001) published an article by Samantha Power titled: "Bystanders to Genocide," and outlined Rice's role in the do-nothing policy of the Clinton Administration. At one point during debate on what the Administration should do, Rice said: "If we use the word 'genocide' and are seen as doing nothing, what will be the effect on the November [congressional] election?" Those present were stunned by her comment. Lt. Colonel Tony Marley remembers the statement: "We could believe that people would wonder that, but not that they would actually voice it." Rice claimed that if she did make this statement it was inappropriate.And this loose cannon is going to be our UN Ambassador…?
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Bob Parks is a is a member/writer of the National Advisory Council of Project 21. Bob’s websites are Black & Right and youtube.com/BlackAndRight