In the aftermath of the attack on the USS Cole, the CBS program 60 Minutes [october 2000] aired an interview with Clinton's "terrorism czar" Richard Clarke, who was responsible for counter-terrorism at the National Security Council. He said the U.S. was trying to determine who staged that attack, and he suggested it may have been committed by Osama bin Laden. He also warned that terrorists have infiltrated the U.S. and that it was just a matter of time before American territory was the site of a nuclear, biological or chemical attack. He took correspondent Lesley Stahl on a visit to one of eight secret pharmaceutical stockpiles the U.S. maintains in case of a terrorist attack.
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Journalist Kenneth R. Timmerman not only noted evidence of an Iranian link to the Khobar Towers bombing but suggested an Iranian link to the destruction of TWA Flight 800. He reported, "On three separate occasions before TWA flight 800 went down off the Long Island coast in July 1996, the FBI and the Federal Aviation Administration received explicit warnings that Iran was planning an attack against a U.S. airliner 'originating in Athens, Greece.' TWA 800 arrived in New York from Athens, before being refueled for its fight to Paris on July 17. Timmerman went on to note that U.S. Navy Commander William Donaldson had issued a report on the TWA crash pointing to a foreign terrorist attack. Donaldson spoke at our 1999 conference on this matter.
Instead, of course, the so-called "independent" or renegade terrorist, Osama bin Laden, was blamed by the Clinton Administration for the attacks. This was convenient for an administration that tried to avoid confronting state sponsors of terrorism, including Iran, Iraq and Libya.
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