Bill Clinton recently claimed that his 1998 attack on Osama bin Laden missed him by that much. Byron York discovers that it wasn't even close.
In an interview with National Review Online, retired general Anthony Zinni, commander of U.S. forces in the region at the time, described the 1998 cruise-missile raid as a "million-to-one-shot."
"There was a possibility [bin Laden] could have been there," Zinni recalls. "My intelligence people did not put a lot of faith in that....As I was given this mission to do, I did not see that anyone had any degree of assurance or reliability that that was going to happen."
The only dead-on target hit was the PR distraction from Clinton's troubles at home.
Posted by wasylik at September 24, 2001 12:59 PM