That would break my wrist!
Oh , wait - you mean this one:
Much better................FRegards
Posted on 10/19/2004 10:55:16 AM PDT by Coffee_drinker
The very same day that the Clintons go to Long Island to meet with the TWA Flight 800 families, security guard Richard Jewell is patrolling the grounds of Centennial Park in Atlanta. He's a little Barney Fife-ish, but a good guy and very observant.
Right around midnight, Jewell spots a large, olive-green, military-style backpack, known as an Alice pack, under a bench. He immediately shares this information with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. When the GBI cannot find the pack's owner, the GBI officer and Jewell begin to clear an area around the pack. Soon afterward, the pack explodes. Two people die and more than a hundred are injured. If this sophisticated 40-pound bomb had not been jostled, and had Jewell not seen it, the bomb might have killed hundreds.
Richard Clarke and the Clinton administration were understandably worried about terrorism. At one high-level planning meeting before the Olympics, Clarke has even theorized that terrorists might hijack a 747 and crash it into Olympic stadium. Remember the Bojinka-related "planes as bombs" plot. But in the "feel good" Olympic games of 1996, in the lead up to the Clinton re-nomination, when "everything is wonderful," no official even speculates as to whether Islamic terrorists might be behind the Olympic bombing.
Nor do contemporary media reports address the fact that the Centennial Park bomb was one out of many. A highly reliable Atlanta-area police officer who was working the Olympics has shared some new information with me. As he relates, the night after the Centennial Park blast, a bomb is found in the trunk of a car parked on the road between Olympic City and Centennial Park. The bomb squad defuses it with a 12-gauge slug from a distance after two hours of trying. Over the course of the next week or two, he and his fellow officers will get reports that different devices have also been found, including one on a MARTA train.
"The information wasn't really rumor," writes the officer, "because we were listening to it real-time on the radios – I wanted to make that clear."
Rather than alarm the Olympic-goers and the nation with the possibility of a widespread terror plot, the Clinton Justice Department suppresses information about the subsequent bombs and blames the one lethal blast on the transparently innocent Jewell. Its agents then hound Jewell all the way through the end of October.
Whose idea this was is not clear. Clarke blames Louis Freeh and the FBI. But the Clintons and their operatives were always quick to blame the FBI, and the media were equally quick to pile on. The media shed no light. The reporting on this incident is insufficient and inept. The best account, an 18,000-word piece in Vanity Fair, does not even mention the words Islam or Islamic even to dismiss them. Only Dick Morris has gone on record to call this a terrorist "attack."
Six months after the Centennial Park attack, a bomb goes off outside an Atlanta abortion clinic, and a month after that one explodes at the Otherside lounge, an Atlanta "gay" bar. This, of course, leads Clinton's Department Of Justice to pin it all, including the Olympics – a rather novel target for anti-abortion activists – on the mystical right-winger, Eric Rudolph.
But there is something to consider here. The first killing in the American jihad took place in November 1990 when an Eyptian by the name of El-Sayyid Nosair shot Jewish activist Meir Kahane at a New York Hotel. The first terrorist act in the American jihad had taken place in April of that year when the same Mr. Nosair blew up a "gay" bar in Greenwich Village.
And that brings us to great irony of the jihad. The America that the terrorists hate is progressive America: homosexual rights, abortion, radical feminism, pornography, MTV ... you name it. And yet, our progressive friends are almost pathetically eager to embrace radical Islam. Why? There's one thing they have in common: their shared distaste for America.
One final irony. Toward the end of the 1996 campaign, the media start challenging Clinton about the illegal Asian money he has been using to fund his campaign. To suggest his own innocence, and the media's recklessness in accusing him, Clinton compares himself to, yes, Richard Jewell.
And he gets away with it.
ping.
Bingo.
There is so much we don't know, and I am just not willing to Trust the Democrats with the security of our Nation. They have been compromised.
.."It is reported the caller's voice had the characteristics of a white American male."
link here --> BBC 1996 Olympic Bombing article
Diogenesis
Thank you for all the links.
Honesty is the best policy, Americans can handle the truth, but liberals think they know best and want to think for us and tell us what to do.
I agree that Iran should be the next focus of our attention, to open a can of whoop ass on.
Like that Fox special on the oil for food, It appears to me that we got into Iraq and got rid of Saddam just in time. Since he was gathering his strength again.
Iran with their nuclear ambitions is definitely a worry.
Can anyone believe that they want or need nuclear engergy when they are sitting on one of the largest oil fields in the world. And as a co-worker pointed out to me the other day they also have like the 3rd largest Gas reserves to boot. So really they don't need any more energy do they?
another reason to elect W!!!!
You make a good point. Islamic terrorists hate the (now nominally)Christian West - so as you pointed out, anything is fair game.
However, the purpose of terror is - as the name indicates - terror in and of itself. The bombings of a gay bar, abortion clinic, etc. are not (by my definition) acts of terror per se. Rather they are acts of radical political protest, against extreme liberal agendas in this country - probably by US citizens. These things serve to side track from the main issue at stake. You are not going to cripple a nation by bombing a gay bar - or even 100 of them!
The targets are going to be most likely be things which are used by the average person: transportation infrastructure, technology, public areaas/buildings. Even churches.
Terror must be paid for; people do not do it for free. They need to be trained, fed, clothed and armed. There must be careful planning - with or without inside help. It also should be stated with fair certainty that so called "backpack" or "suitcase" bombs were not only available, but had been imported to (or assembled within) this country by 1996.
The official allowing of massive illegal immigration goes far beyond issues of phemoninal social change in many parts of the country - or even the effect upon the economy.
It was and is an issue of national security - and I do not speak here merely of terrorism itself, but of crime in the localised sense, and of wholesale invasion, on the national level.
How do you know WHO has been coming in through Mexico? Let me enlighten: every variety of Central and South American, Carribean, Russian, Oriental,Arab, and Klingon has been coming into the US via that route......and through Canada. It was going on - on a wide scale - for the better part of 20 years, as our Immigration authorities were essentially forced to stand down and allow it to happen. This is no joke; this is real!
At the same time all of this is happening, our military - instead of guarding our borders (HINT: that is the primary function of any army, since the dawn of time!!!), has been off in just about every other part of the world either chasing shadows, or fighting ceaseless and senseless conflicts, which are truly none of our business.
Due to all of this nonesense, my old neighborhood in Brooklyn went from a predominantly Catholic one, to one with five Mosques in less then 10 years. We were invaded!
I like that! I used to use: 'veni - vedi - velcro'. "I came - I saw - I stuck around".
7.62X51mm is serious-shit! I'm on yer side when the shit-hits-the-fan, pal............FRegards
Boy that "feel good" think with Clinton's presidency was really something. It is really stark to compare the last 4 years of media whining to the Clinton years.
You ought to see my new Barrett M82A1 .50cal BMG!
But don't dare question their patriotism.
That would break my wrist!
Oh , wait - you mean this one:
Much better................FRegards
That abbreviated *pistol* would be way too much for my wrists and forearms.
The M82A1 is nothing more than a 12ga recoil, IMO. So sweet and easy to "reach out and touch" anyone, anywhere, anytime.
I remember reading about a Canuck who borrowed an M82A1 from a US Spec-Ops soldier in Afghanistan, and capped an Islamaniac on a motorbike at 2500 meters. 2500 METERS!!
My best shot was 1550 meters, and I thought I was hot-shit. Well, they trained us right............FRegards
I'm regularly out at 2,000m on Sundays, when I don't have to work, and doing 3" groups, all day, g. This weekend, I move to 2,200m.
It's sweet as sin. Dwarfs, by factors, what we used in Nam.
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