A friend of mine is moving and ran across some old issues of Newsweek

[ET Awful]

flipping through one (that carried the story of Clinton's acquittal, dated 2/22/99), I ran across the following short article (no link, I'm transcribing it myself):

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On the Run: Bin Laden

Where is Osama Bin Laden? Just days after U.S. officials delivered the "bluntest message yet" that Washington believed attacks by bin laden on U.S. citizens could be imminent and that the Clinton administration would hold Afghanistan "directly responsible" if they occurred, the Saudi terrorist apparently fled his sanctuary in the Taliban's spiritual capital, Kandahar. "Our guest has gone missing," said a Taliban spokesman. "We did not order him to leave; we do not know where he has gone." U.S. officials did not immediately confirm whether bin Laden had left the country, but said that at a Feb. 3 meeting, they received the most positive response so far to U.S. pressure. Washington has offered a $5 million reward for his capture for masterminding last August's bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. U.S. and Arab intelligencesources said a likely destination was Somalia, where bin Laden has connections to radical fundamentalists.

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Well, what do you know, Newsweek described bin Laden as "on the run" in 1999, and reported that Clinton was giveing extremely blunt messages to the Taliban and letting them know they would be held accountable for bin Laden's actions.

Geeeee, how about that?

[Richard Steele]

1. I bet OSAMA "ran" all the way to Crawford.

[Shoeempress]

2. But they were part of the "liberal Media".

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. "bin Laden on the Run"

Richard Shelby also stated those very words in the early summer of 2001. He had just come from a tour of the Middle East and that was his appraisal. I still wonder to this day how it is that he was right there all the time, and yet, didn't even hear a whisper. What the hell was he really doing?