The Forgotten Clinton-Era Muslim Terrorist Attack (Empire State Building, 1997)

CNN ^ | Feb. 24, 1997 | n/a

[Pyro7480]

Gunman shoots 7, kills self at Empire State Building
'A popping noise,' then bloodshed, bedlam

NEW YORK (CNN) -- A man opened fire Sunday on an observation deck of the Empire State Building, killing one person and wounding six before shooting himself in the head, authorities said.

The gunman, a 69-year-old Palestinian, was taken to a hospital where he died more than five hours later, according to New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's press office.

The man muttered something about Egypt seconds before he began shooting shortly after 5 p.m. Sunday on the 86th floor observation deck of one of the world's best-known tourist sites, witnesses said....

The other dead man was a 27-year-old Danish musician visiting the Empire State Building with an American friend from Connecticut, Matthew Gross, 27, who was also wounded, according to Giuliani.

The others wounded included a French couple from Verdun, whose 16-year-old daughter escaped injury; a 30-year-old Swiss man; an Argentinian man, 52; and a man from the Bronx. One of the wounded men was shot in the head, while others were less seriously hurt.

[Pyro7480]

I had forgotten about this myself until I started reading Murders on the Nile: The World Trade Center and Global Terror, by J. Bowyer Bell.

According to another CNN story, a letter written by the terrorist "expressed anger at France and England for using Israel as 'an instrument' against Palestine, and indicated that Abu Kamal planned to vent his anger at the Empire State Building."

[Pyro7480]

Ping!

[Beth528]

I'll bet there is a lot the Clinton's want people to forget..It boggles my mind to see what is going on now with all the Dems tying to find something that the Rebublicans did wrong and we have this and thousands other Clinton things that he should have been tried for.like the one........................................... Saudis Funded Clinton After Nixing OBL Offer Ex-president Clinton's decision to ask Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah for a high-dollar donation to his presidential library came just months after Saudi leaders rebuffed his request to take custody of Osama bin Laden - when officials in Sudan, where the al Qaeda chief was then living, offered him to the U.S. Former FBI director Louis Freeh revealed on Thursday that Clinton personally put the touch on Abdullah after failing to get the Saudi leader's cooperation in the probe into the June 1996 Khobar Towers bombing, which - according to the 9/11 Commission - was a joint al Qaida-Hezbollah operation. The 9/11 Commission Report also notes that Sudanese officials testified they tried to offer bin Laden to the U.S. just three months earlier, in March 1996. In a 2002 speech to a New York business group, Clinton confirmed the Sudanese offer, and said he tried to press the Saudis to take bin Laden: "At the time, 1996, he had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here because we had no basis on which to hold him. So I pleaded with the Saudis to take him, 'cause they could have. But they thought it was a hot potato and they didn't and that's how he wound up in Afghanistan." Citing "Saudi sources," columnist Robert Novak reported in January 2002 that the royal family came through with a donation to the Clinton library of up to $20 million. Questions raised by Mr. Freeh's claim include whether the Saudis felt beholden to Clinton for not pressing them harder on the Khobar probe. But another concern is whether the Saudis saw their donation as a reward to Clinton for not insisting that Riyadh take bin Laden into custody when the Sudanese offered him up. Listen to NewsMax.com's exclusive recording of ex-President Clinton explaining how he tried to get the Saudis to accept extradition of Osama bin Laden.

[theDentist]

Look, if you're going to take facts and intent and use them to smear the Religion of Peace, then I think you have other issues of bias to address. /sarc

[GianniV]

I never knew this happened and don't remember it ever being reported!

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***I never knew this happened and don't remember it ever being reported!***

I do!

Where were you living in a cave?
Remember the Muzlem who shot up the El Al airliner counter in LA?.
How about the muzlem co-pilot who crashed a plane load of tourists, on their way to Egypt, into the Atlantic.
You need to get on the internet and read the news more!

[Roccus]

Don't forget the mooselimb gypsy cab driver who popped off a few on the B'klyn Bridge at a school bus full of Hasidim, killing a young boy.

[fso301]

bump

[Coleus]

How about the muslim co-pilot who crashed a plane load of tourists, on their way to Egypt, into the Atlantic. >>

you mean it was terrorism? I thought the poor man was suffering from chronic depression and couldn't cope anymore.

[Yellow Rose of Texas]

Add the kid who flew a plane into a building in Florida.

[Roccus]

Isn't it odd how these "nuisances" kept piling up?

[Dajjal]

Religion of Peace bump

[george76]

Remember this ?

[Professional]

And now they are going to honor their religion, by lighting the building in green. N U T S

[george76]

It is like when the muslims build another mosque : marking their new expansion.

[Professional]

Europe hates muslims, more than they like socialism. That should tell us everything we need to know.

[george76]

Many Americans are still asleep on this threat. They think that this is just a small police problem.

[Professional]

Just wait, until the Dems let millions of people from Iraq and Afghanistan come into the US. Much like Vietnam war, we are going to take in many millions of them.

When we w/d from the area, you know this will happen, and we are all going to have a serious dose of this.

[Califreak]

[george76]

It is apparently already happening. I do not have the link, but I remember the report that we are raising our legal immigrant allotments to many middle east countries now.

Then there are the illegals.

If we run from Iraq, the terrorists will move to Afghanistan as millions ? of Iraqis will run here.

Then when we will leave A...