22 August,2012 10:07 AM IST | | Agencies
The damning allegations are mentioned in a new book: Leading from Behind: The Reluctant President and the Advisors Who Decide for Him, written by journalist Rich Miniter. u00a0Miniter has cited an unnamed source within the Joint Special Operations Command who revealed that three âkill' missions were cancelled by Obama in January, February and March 2011.
In his book, Miniter has portrayed Clinton as the main force behind killing bin Laden.u00a0Miniter said that Clinton's alliances with Leon Panetta, then CIA director and now Pentagon chief, and David Petraeus, then head of the US and NATO forces in Afghanistan and now at the helm at the CIA, played critical roles in bringing bin Laden to justice.
He added that Obama was âstudiously undecided' about whether to kill the mastermind of 9/11. "He refused to weigh in or commit himself on even small matters related to a possible strike on bin Laden," the book said.
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