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Did Clinton nod to Mubarak overthrow? Book suggests foreign policy goof led to Luxor terror massacre © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com A secret deal between the Clinton administration and terrorists linked with Osama bin Laden led directly to the senseless slaughter of some 70 West European tourists and the wounding of hundreds, according to a book written by a former congressional terrorism expert. According to Yossef Bodansky, author of "Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America," a Central Intelligence Agency operative dealing with Islamic terrorists on matters of security for the U.S. forces in Bosnia-Herzegovina led them to believe President Clinton ...

Few understand the mind of the terror leaders like Yossef Bodansky. Bodanksy was the first expert to significantly warn the West about bin Laden in his 1999 bestseller “Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America.” As director of Research of the International Strategic Studies Association and the director of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare of the U.S. House of Representatives, Bodasnky is one of the world’s most sought after terror experts. In an exclusive interview with NewsMax, Bodansky starkly concluded the U.S. is losing its war on terrorism. In fact, since Sept. 11, he...

What is the story on Bodansky? As the Director of the Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare of the U. S. Congress, it seems like he would have some credibility. He set forth some pretty articulate explanations of where Saddam's WMDs may be (Syria) and that al Quada did receive support and training from Iraq. Is he just pushing a book or does he know what he's talking about? And if any of what he is saying is true, why hasn't anyone else picked it up? I know that the "mainstream" media would totally ignore it, of course, but...

On August 31, 1998, before the crisis reached its peak, Hassan al-Turabi approached Iraqi vice president Taha Yassin Ramadan, then visiting Khartoum, and asked if bin Laden could move his headquarters to Iraq. Ramadan immediately responded with a resounding yes, and bin Laden was notified within a few hours. Bin Laden has had some relations with Iraqi intelligence since 1993, when he played a role in the preparation and running of the Islamist operations in Somalia in which Iraqi special forces and Arab “Afghans” retrained by Iraqi intelligence also took part. In June 1994 bin Laden met Faruq al-Hijazi, then...

<p>A congressional expert on terrorism said there are thousands of well-trained Mideastern terrorists in the United States who are capable of "spectacular" acts of violence.</p> <p>Two terrorism experts said they have never seen such estimates from an official government source; others declined to comment.</p>

It has taken a good deal of time for the Bush administration to draw the links between Saddam Hussein's Iraq and Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida – connections that go back at least a decade, according to intelligence experts. Was Iraq directly involved in planning and approving the attacks on the United States Sept. 11, 2001? It might be tough to prove in a court of law, but it's not difficult to make a case that Baghdad is technically, legally and morally responsible for the airline hijackings and the destruction America faced that day. In fact, I make that case, based...