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| Osama bin Laden |
Former Secretary of State Madeleine
Albright told Fox News Channel analyst Morton Kondracke
today she suspects President Bush knows the whereabouts
of Osama bin Laden and is simply waiting for the most
politically expedient moment to announce his capture.
Kondracke made the announcement about
what Albright told him backstage before an appearance on
another Fox show on "Special Report With Brit Hume."
Kondracke was incredulous that a
former secretary of state could believe something like
that about a U.S. administration.
"She was not smiling when she said
this," offered Kondracke, who believes Albright is
serious about the conspiracy theory.
Albright is on a media tour to promote
her new book, "Madam Secretary, A Memoir."
She was mildly critical of Bush
administration policy in Iraq on camera in later
appearances on "The O'Reilly Factor" and on MSNBC's
"Hardball With Chris Matthews."
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Madeleine Albright |
"I'm one of these people that said I
understood the 'why' of the war, but I didn't understand
the 'why now' or the 'what next,'" she told O'Reilly. "I
still have a lot of questions. And I think that we don't
know, frankly, what the effect of Saddam's capture is on
the general situation in Iraq. President Bush and
Secretary Rumsfeld have, in fact, warned about violence
still going on, and the effect within the rest of the
Middle East of a prolonged trial or an execution or
generally how he is treated."
