Sudan’s minister of defense, Fatih Erwa, claimed Sudan offered to hand bin Laden over. The Commission wrote that it “found no credible evidence that this was so.” Ambassador Timothy Carney was told only to push Sudan to expel him, and had no legal basis to ask for more because no indictment was outstanding. [1]
What the Commission found
No credible evidence.
What we can’t tell you. The Commission relied on U.S. officials’ accounts and records.
The sources
- 9/11 Commission Report, chapter 4: Responses to al Qaeda’s Initial Assaults ↗
The 1998 embassy bombings, the cruise-missile strikes, the plans to capture bin Laden, and the Sudanese claim of an offer to hand him over, for which the Commission found “no credible evidence.”
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