Posted on 09/09/2006 7:21:41 PM PDT by Mo1
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/july-dec98/clinton_12-16.html
Now over the past three weeks, the U.N. weapons inspectors have carried out their plan for testing Iraq's cooperation. The testing period ended this weekend, and last night, UNSCOM's chairman, Richard Butler, reported the results to U.N. Secretary-General Annan.
The conclusions are stark, sobering and profoundly disturbing. In four out of the five categories set forth, Iraq has failed to cooperate. Indeed, it actually has placed new restrictions on the inspectors. Here are some of the particulars.
Wow, thanks for that ping.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1104200/posts
(clinton's) LOST CHANCES TO KILL OSAMA
New York Post ^ | 3/24/04 | VINCENT MORRIS
Posted on 03/24/2004 3:34:35 AM EST by kattracks
March 24, 2004 -- WASHINGTON - President Clinton had at least three chances before 9/11 to try to kill Osama bin Laden - but never took his shot, a new congressional report revealed yesterday.
Clinton shied away from ordering missile strikes on America's No. 1 enemy out of fear of killing civilians and worries about weak intelligence, the report said.
check this out
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/3959/clinscam.htm
Dec 4, 1998 The European Union is quietly getting ready to approve legislation that will allow the police to eavesdrop both on Internet conversations and Iridium satellite telephone calls without obtaining court authorization. The legislation is part of a much wider memorandum of understanding between the EU, the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and Norway, a nonmember European nation. That agreement allows authorities to conduct telecom surveillance across international borders, according to a Europol document leaked to members of the European Parliament.
"Security measures are often necessary in the cases of terrorism or organized crime," said Glyn Ford, a member of the European Parliament for the British Labour Party and a director of the EU's Civil Liberties and Internal Affairs Committee. "But what we need is some sort of democratic control. It seems to me that many security services are a law unto themselves."
Wired
That is overwhelming.
Seriously.
A chronolgy like no other! I scanned it and saw many names from the past.
Clinton first linked al Qaeda to Saddam
The Washington Times ^ | June 25th | Rowan Scarborough
Posted on 06/25/2004 12:58:27 PM EDT by bstein80
The Clinton administration talked about firm evidence linking Saddam Hussein's regime to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network years before President Bush made the same statements.
The issue arose again this month after the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States reported there was no "collaborative relationship" between the old Iraqi regime and bin Laden.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1160169/posts
You are Super woman.
What a great post. Thank you, Mo1, for all the work you did in putting this together. How can these nimrods forget that all their words are written somewhere and they will be brought back to haunt them? I wish we could get this out to the MSM and they would actually print them, but I'm just dreaming here.
He's one man I can't bear. I turn him off everytime he shows his face on television. He's got such a muley, mean-spirited face and it reflects his heart and his character. Aarrgghhhh.
I'm still reading this link.
WOW!
I didn't realize the Jordan attacks were planned on the Millennium weekend
http://www.georgetown.edu/admin/publicaffairs/protocol_events/events/clinton_glf110701.htm
Attempts to blow up the Holland tunnel, the Los Angeles airport, to blow up planes flying to the Philippines, an attempt on the Pope's life, an attempt to blow up the biggest hotel in Jordan over the Millennium weekend, to destroy a Christian site in the Holy Land, to plant bombs in cities in the Northwest and the Northeast, and many others. They worked hard to strengthen the biological weapons convention and to pass the chemical weapons convention.
http://fpc.state.gov/fpc/69275.htm
The difference is the history of al-Qaida shows that they were on a steadily escalating scale of attack. So if you go back to the embassy bombings, it was two massive truck bombs striking two embassies simultaneously in August of 1997. Their next plot was the product of two years of planning was to be the millennium attacks which would be to have truck bombs strike the Radisson Hotel in Jordan, an assault on the Allen B. Bridge connecting Jordan to Israel and then some other assaults on religious sites that were going to have celebrations that had to do with the millennium. They would move on to having a boat bomb. In fact, the USS Sullivan's in the port of Aden, Yemen and use that kind of David and Goliath-like imagery of a small skiff sinking a billion dollar battleship and videotaping it. And then their third plot was to have a couple of hundred pounds of explosive hidden in suitcases to blow up on a New Year's Day of the millennium in the Tom Bradley terminal of Los Angeles International Airport. So they went from two targets in East Africa to three targets over the period of one week both in Yemen, Jordan and the United States with very clear messaging in each one: we'll attack your friends, we'll attack your military, oh, and we'll attack you at home. And all of that was a buildup to 9/11 which was certainly by measure the largest terrorist attack in history.
How Chinagate Led to 9/11
FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | 5/25/04 | Jean Pearce
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1141698/posts
IRAQ/WMD: What did Clinton & Senate Dems know & when(HYPOCRISY=DEMS; SEE FOR YOURSELF)
Library of Congress ^ | 7/19/03 | Various Senators
Posted on 07/19/2003 7:10:41 PM EDT by Wolfstar
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/949198/posts
http://themilitant.com/1996/6033/6033_2.html
(snip)
"It is against Iraqi tanks and troops directly threatening the Kurds that US air power should be deployed," stated a September 10 editorial in the London Financial Times. "Targets in the south were chosen because that involved little or no risk to US pilots," the British paper noted. The U.S. missile strikes "were a show of weakness."
The September 8 Washington Post article reported that by August 31, top Pentagon officials "quickly convinced themselves that attacking Saddam's troops in the north carried too many risks." For one thing, "The nearest possible staging area for a military operation was Turkey, whose new Islamic-led coalition government would not welcome a U.S. operation from its soil." And "the Kurdish political scene had become hopelessly muddled by the new alignments with Iraq and Iran."
Another limitation was that "Clinton found himself without allies, with the lone exception of Britain," Wall Street Journal columnist George Melloan remarked. "So much for that new world order."
"What did the missiles accomplish? Calamity for U.S. interests," wrote conservative columnist Robert Novak. "Desert Storm's Arab-European coalition is shattered. Saddam is reestablished in northern Iraq. The United States is exposed as a paper tiger for timidly undertaking an operation it should have avoided."
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