[Ragtime Cowgirl]

August 6, 1998: Lewinsky Testifies Before Starr Grand Jury

 

August 7, 1998: Terrorists Bomb U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania

August 17, 1998: Clinton makes televised admission concerning Lewinsky

August 20, 1998: Clinton orders bombing in Sudan and Afghanistan...
...Monica Lewinsky testified before the federal grand jury and described how
the president had encouraged her to continue denying the relationship and to
submit a false affidavit.

 

August 22, 1998: Taliban: Rise up, Muslims - By Amir Shah, AP 

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(A year later - July 1999) The Boston Globe, on the 25^th, said, “The 6-year-old boy watched intently as his father dusted off his favorite possession, a leather-bound scrapbook of Osama bin Laden, pausing at a photo of the Saudi dissident with a semiautomatic rifle tucked in the folds of his trademark white robe. ''Osama!'' his son squealed excitedly. ''That's me!'' The boy, whose name was changed to Osama last year, is one of hundreds of Pakistani children named for bin Laden since Aug. 20, 1998 - the day the United States launched missile strikes against alleged terrorist camps run by the Saudi millionaire in eastern Afghanistan. The attack sparked outrage throughout the Muslim world. But the response was particularly heated in Pakistan, which sends thousands of Islamic guerrillas to similar training camps in Afghanistan. ''I love his bravery and gallantry,'' the boy's father, Niaz Ali Salar, said of bin Laden. ''He boosted the morale of Muslims throughout the world.'' The local leader of the radical Barelvi sect of Muslims, Salar said he hoped his son would ''live up to his name'' and lead the war against ''the enemies of Islam.'' In Mardan, a crumbling tobacco center 75 miles east of the Afghan border, Islamic priests deliver diatribes against ''evil America'' during Friday afternoon prayers.

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In Pakistan, few buy Washington's vilification of bin Laden, whom it accuses of masterminding the Aug. 7, 1998, bombings of two US embassies in east Africa and several other terrorist attacks. ''He's a man on the run, whose only friends are the Taliban. How can he be a threat to the world's most powerful nation?'' said Sahib Zada Khalid Jan Binuri, head of Pakistan's most influential Islamic seminary. ''It's all spin control. If America tells me, `You are a terrorist,' what can I say?'' Link

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Character counts.

"We've said all we are going to say"

[Peach]

The administration will take care of it. All of it.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmn.

No word from the democrat Senators about impeaching Clinton for THIS bit of ACTUAL lies and "falsified intelligence."

By the way, there NEVER WAS any international approval to invade Kosovo - which was NOT a threat to the US ... but WAS NEEDED to promote Hillary's image as a "savior of the children" who "cares" prior to her NY Senate race - and immediately after Bill's impeachment. No UN ok either....

By the way - The carefully pruned administration stories of "tremedous bombing results" in Kosovo were also proved 92% false - the Serbs were able to "spoof" and decoy almost every bomb dropped. We ended up blowing up wood and rubber mockups of trucks, tanks and radars that cost less than the bombs we dropped.

[Robert A Cook PE]

"Sources say that at least two members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff office did not learn of the attacks until President Clinton announced them Thursday afternoon.

Another lie - sort of.

Clinton deliberately didn't tell ANYBODY responsible on the JCS prior to the launch of these cruise missiles.

No wonder the military was "secretive" aboutthe results then - H**L - they didn't know where they went, whant the actually hit - nor how effective the missiles were.

And we don't know how many civilians were killed either.

But the democrats don't care! (It was Clinton's duty to lie and conceal sources after all.)

[Born Conservative]

Slick Willy bump for later.

[FairOpinion]

Great find!

[Grampa Dave]

This is a great find.

Let me give you a little suggestion.

Find a server that you can store this data on. It will disappear if you don't.

[L.N. Smithee]

Thanks for some needed historical perspective. In the words of Montgomery Burns, "EX-cellent!"