The Taliban did not take Hamdan bin Zayid's threats seriously, and because Hamdan bin Zayid valued its relations with the Taliban because the Afghan radicals offered a counterbalance to "Iranian dangers" in the region
The Taliban did not take him seriously
UAE
April 1999
UAE valued its relations with the Taliban because the Afghan radicals offered a counterbalance to "Iranian dangers" in the region
There were no sanctions against the Taliban to enforce his threat
Because they had no reasons to break the relationship
Bin Laden
July 1999
Why did Hamdan bin Zayid's threat to break relations with the Taliban achieve little results before 9/11?
In July 1999
March 7, 1999
Hamdan bin Zayid threatened to break relations with the Taliban in July 1999 after the United States and the President Clinton pressured him to break off its ties and enforce sanctions, because the UAE was one of the Taliban's only travel and financial outlets to the outside world, especially those relating to flights to and from Afghanistan
July 1999 because of pressure from  USA
In 1989 because UAE political situation was changing
June 2016
Obama
When and why did the UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hamdan bin Zayid threaten to break relations with the Taliban over  Bin Laden?
All diplomatic relationships were broken
It got better
President Clinton personally, pressed the UAE one of the Taliban's only travel and financial outlets to the outside world, to break off its ties and enforce sanctions, especially those relating to flights to and from Afghanistan. These efforts achieved little before 9/11
The UAE provided them with all the travel information for the Taliban
How did the United States' relationship with UAE change after 9/11?
It hindered them by being one of the Taliban's only travel and financial outlets to the outside world, it helped them by UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hamdan bin Zayid threatened to break relations with the Taliban over  Bin Laden
UAE valued its relations with the Taliban because the Afghan radicals offered a counterbalance
But they were afraid of the Taliban and what they might do in Iran
The UAE liked the benefits that came with providing the US with information about the Taliban
By not getting involved
How did the UAE both help and hinder anti-terrorism efforts?
Following a call by Clarke to UAE officials  expressing  his concerns about associations between Bin Laden and Emerati officials, a camp CIA officials were sure  Bin Laden might return to was dismantled
Because the camp was hurriedly dismantled
Bin Laden's former camp was hurriedly dismantled, and the site was deserted, dismantling of the camp erased a possible site for targeting  Bin Laden
Pavitt and the CIA was upset because the UAE would not break ties and enforce sanctions against the Taliban
Because Bin Laden escaped
The camp was hurriedly dismantled, and the site was deserted
A phone call
Why were CIA officers, including Deputy Director for Operations Pavitt angry?
Even after  Bin Laden's departure from the area, CIA officers hoped he might return, seeing the camp as a magnet that could draw him for as long as it was still set up. The military maintained readiness for another strike opportunity. On March 7, 1999, Clarke called a UAE official to express his concerns about possible associations between Emirati officials and  Bin Laden. Clarke later wrote in a memorandum of this conversation that the call had been approved at an interagency meeting and cleared with the CIA. When the former  Bin Laden unit chief found out about Clarke's call, he questioned CIA officials, who denied having given such a clearance. Imagery confirmed that less than a week after Clarke's phone call the camp was hurriedly dismantled, and the site was deserted. CIA officers, including Deputy Director for Operations Pavitt, were irate." Mike" thought the dismantling of the camp erased a possible site for targeting  Bin Laden. The United Arab Emirates was becoming both a valued counterterrorism ally of the United States and a persistent counterterrorism problem. From 1999 through early 2001, the United States, and President Clinton personally, pressed the UAE, one of the Taliban's only travel and financial outlets to the outside world, to break off its ties and enforce sanctions, especially those relating to flights to and from Afghanistan. These efforts achieved little before 9/11. In July 1999, UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hamdan bin Zayid threatened to break relations with the Taliban over  Bin Laden. The Taliban did not take him seriously, however. Bin Zayid later told an American diplomat that the UAE valued its relations with the Taliban because the Afghan radicals offered a counterbalance to "Iranian dangers" in the region, but he also noted that the UAE did not want to upset the United States. 