I wonder just what dox Sandy stuffed down his pants?
Posted on 06/23/2006 5:43:30 PM PDT by nuconvert
Khobar Towers
June 23, 2006
The Wall Street Journal
Louis J. Freeh
Ten years ago this Sunday, acting under direct orders from senior Iranian government leaders, the Saudi Hezbollah detonated a 25,000-pound TNT bomb that killed 19 U.S. airmen in their dormitory at Khobar Towers in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. The blast wave destroyed Building 131 and grievously wounded hundreds of additional Air Force personnel. It also killed an unknown number of Saudi civilians in a nearby park.
The 19 Americans murdered were members of the 4404th Wing, who were risking their lives to enforce the no-fly zone over southern Iraq. This was a U.N.-mandated mission after the 1991 Gulf War to stop Saddam Hussein from killing his Shiite people. The Khobar victims, along with the courageous families and friends who will mourn them this weekend in Washington, deserve our respect and honor. More importantly, they must be remembered, because American justice has still been denied.
Although a federal grand jury handed down indictments in June 2001 -- days before I left as FBI director and a week before some of the charges against 14 of the terrorists would have lapsed because of the statute of limitations -- two of the primary leaders of the attack, Ahmed Ibrahim al-Mughassil and Abdel Hussein Mohamed al-Nasser, are living comfortably in Iran with about as much to fear from America as Osama bin Laden had prior to Sept. 11 (to wit, U.S. marshals showing up to serve warrants for their arrests).
Solemn and Personal
The aftermath of the Khobar bombing is just one example of how successive U.S. governments have mishandled Iran. On June 25, 1996, President Clinton declared that "no stone would be left unturned" to find the bombers and bring them to "justice." Within hours, teams of FBI agents, and forensic
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Old news.
Which is why the story starts like this...
Ten years ago this Sunday,...
It's from Freeh's book which has been out for months.
Upon being advised that our investigation now had proof that Iran blew up Khobar Towers, Mr. Berger's astounding response was: "Who knows about this?" His next, and wrong, comment was: "That's just hearsay." When I explained that under the Federal Rules of Evidence the detainees' comments were indeed more than "hearsay," for the first time ever he became interested - and alarmed - about the case. But this interest translated into nothing more than Washington "damage control" meetings held out of the fear that Congress, and ordinary Americans, would find out that Iran murdered our soldiers.
More pertinently, I think the remarks by Berger call into question the WSJ's previous position that Berger acted stupidly, but not with ill intent, when he heisted classified documents from the National Archives.
Book came out in October, 2005. Amazon's review is basically the same story.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312321899/qid=1151110464/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-9985987-1184119?s=books&v=glance&n=283155
Under a different administration, there might have been serious reprisals. Cool-Hand Clinton played politics.
I wonder just what dox Sandy stuffed down his pants?
I don't know whether he said this in his book or not....
"As for the 19 dead warriors and their families, their commander in chief had deserted them, leaving only the FBI to carry on the fight. "
I found it pretty stunning.
Sandy Berger should be hung as a traitor for multiple offenses.
What an outrage. Send a copy of this article to everyone you know.
It's obvious that Clinton never wanted to get involved in having to deal with something as serious as dealing with Iran, hence his and Berger's wanting to sweep the details under the rug.
Yet we're all supposed to believe that his adminstration was tough was terrorists.
His Carter-do-nothing attitude prompted 9/11, no doubt about it.
Quoting again, nuconvert. You're right. It is very stunning. Thank God we have W as our President.
The U.S. would be safer if we let all of the terrorists at Gitmo go, and replace each of them with one Dem "leader".
....along with some newspaper editors, heads of msm news divisions and some journalists.
bump....
Berger gets a walk for serious stuff, but Rove they want to lynch for outing the wife of a blowhard liar. Sounds like leftist justice to me...
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