"Few days ago the news agencies had reported that the Defence Secretary of the Crusading Americans had said that "the explosion at Riyadh and Al-Khobar had taught him one lesson: that is not to withdraw when attacked by coward terrorists".
"We say to the Defence Secretary that his talk can induce a grieving mother to laughter! and shows the fears that had enshrined you all. Where was this false courage of yours when the explosion in Beirut took place on 1983 AD (1403 A.H). You were turned into scattered pits and pieces at that time; 241 mainly marines solders were killed. And where was this courage of yours when two explosions made you to leave Aden in lees than twenty four hours! "
"But your most disgraceful case was in Somalia; where- after vigorous propaganda about the power of the USA and its post cold war leadership of the new world order- you moved tens of thousands of international force, including twenty eight thousands American solders into Somalia. However, when tens of your solders were killed in minor battles and one American Pilot was dragged in the streets of Mogadishu you left the area carrying disappointment, humiliation, defeat and your dead with you. Clinton appeared in front of the whole world threatening and promising revenge , but these threats were merely a preparation for withdrawal. You have been disgraced by Allah and you withdrew; the extent of your impotence and weaknesses became very clear. It was a pleasure for the "heart" of every Muslim and a remedy to the "chests" of believing nations to see you defeated in the three Islamic cities of Beirut , Aden and Mogadishu."
Clinton knew that AQ and Somalia were related. He is the one who changed the mission. He is the one who fled fueling bin Laden's assertion that the US was a paper tiger. And we were through Khobar Towers, the bombing of our Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, and the USS Cole.
Gee, I wonder why the Chinese quit this practice after Clinton left office:
ON THE BRINK
Clinton kept lid
on PLA jet threats
Buzzing of U.S. forces started year ago, but White House failed to tell Congress
Posted: April 4, 2001
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Paul Sperry
© 2001 WorldNetDaily.com
WASHINGTON -- The Navy and Air Force told the Clinton administration in December that Chinese fighter jets had begun a systematic campaign of "buzzing" dangerously close to U.S. planes and ships in waters near China as early as a year ago, but the administration failed to brief Congress, WorldNetDaily has learned.
The provocations started in April 2000 and got closer and closer, congressional sources say, but the Pentagon didn't formally complain to the White House until December -- out of respect for its ongoing "strategic partnership" with China.
"The Clinton administration wanted to keep all this quiet, which they did," a senior Senate aide told WorldNetDaily on the condition of anonymity. "They never told the Congress."
Calls to the Pentagon were not returned by deadline.
China is holding the crew of a U.S. surveillance plane after it made an emergency landing Sunday at a Chinese military base after colliding with one of two Chinese fighter jets that were reportedly shadowing it in menacing fashion.
Congress expects China will release the 24-member crew by the end of the week, Hill sources say.
"They'll be out by Friday at the latest for the simple reason that the congressional delegations leave for China on Saturday morning," a Senate aide said, "so they (Beijing's communist leaders) are not going to risk that."
One source said Rep. Chris Shays, R-Conn., one of the members of the House delegation, is "nervous" about meeting with officials in China this weekend given the potential hostage crisis. The trip was planned long before the incident. Shays is interested in human-rights issues there.
But hopes of recovering intact the EP-3E spy plane, which contains hi-tech surveillance equipment, are dim.
"I don't think we're going to get the plane back for a long time," he said. "And when we do, they'll give it back in bits."
China's People's Liberation Army likely will try to reverse-engineer the electronics system to gain insights into the U.S. military's top-secret signals-gathering technology.
In such emergencies, the EP-3E crew is trained to destroy secret documents and manuals and disable hardware on board, so they won't fall into potential enemy hands.
But even if crew members managed to carry out such security procedures, it won't stop the communists, skilled at reverse-engineering, from taking the equipment apart and trying to replicate it.
The U.S. crew, described as very young, was flying a mission in the South China Sea to track weapons systems the PLA recently bought from Russia, which forged military ties with China during the Clinton administration.
"They were following the Sovremenny destroyer," the senior Senate aide said.
China's 7,300-ton Sovremenny destroyer, armed with eight nuclear-tipped SS-N-22 Sunburn anti-ship missiles, is of particular concern to the U.S. Pacific fleet because it is chiefly designed to kill American aircraft carriers -- which stand as a major deterrent to the mainland Chinese communists taking U.S. ally Taiwan by force.
Despite Beijing's claims, Hill sources say flight-path coordinates show the EP-3E plane was flying outside the internationally recognized 12-mile limit on territorial waters, and did not intrude into China's airspace.