[ad_1]
President Donald Trump has already said that he knew Osama bin Laden before September 11th. | Jim Lo Scalzo-Pool / Getty Images
President Donald Trump lingered Monday on his critics on the hunt for Osama bin Laden, saying he was right to say that the al-Qaeda leader should have been arrested well before 2011.
"Of course, we should have captured Osama bin Laden well before us, I stated in my book just BEFORE the attack on the World Trade Center, President Clinton missed his ball. Pakistan billions of dollars and they never told us he was living there .. Fools! .. "Trump wrote Monday in the first of a tweet tweet.
History continues below
He continued: "… we are no longer paying billions of dollars to Pakistan because they would take our money and do nothing for us, bin Laden being a good example, Afghanistan being another. that one of the many countries taking US without giving anything in return.This is END! "
During his interview with Chris Wallace, of Fox News, aired Sunday night, Trump mocked retired Admiral William H. McRaven for his "Hillary Clinton fan" and for not having captured bin Laden faster. McRaven oversaw the US military operation that allowed him to extract and kill bin Laden while uncovering a treasure trove of Al Qaeda documents.
The operation put an end to a manhunt for nearly a decade for the head of al-Qaeda, responsible for the commandments of the September 11 attacks, who hid in a complex in Pakistan and orchestrated Byzantine rules to conceal the location of his place. This raid was seen as a major triumph for former President Barack Obama.
McRaven was a virulent critic of Trump and defended the media against the president's anti-press rhetoric, but did not actively support a candidate in the 2016 election.
"Would not it have been nice if we had Osama Bin Laden much earlier than that, would not it be nice?" Trump said during his interview with Wallace. "But living in Pakistan right next to the military academy, everyone in Pakistan knew that he was there."
Peter Bergen, national security analyst at CNN, wrote that during his research and interviews with Pakistani officials, none of them knew that bin Laden was hiding in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where he had finally been found.
Trump has previously stated that he knew Osama Bin Laden before 9/11. At a 2015 rally, Trump asserted that he had warned bin Laden in his 2000 book "The America We Deserve," CBS News reported on Tuesday. time. But a check of the CBS indicates that Trump simply mentioned Bin Laden as an example of bad US foreign policy and did not warn or predict terrorist attacks.
Long before the attacks of September 11, US intelligence had learned of the existence of Bin Laden, who had been involved in the 1998 bombings against the US Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, after ordering the attack in retaliation against US troops in Saudi Arabia.
