Attorneygate and the World Trade Center Bombing

I am referring, of course, to the real Attorneygate scandal -- the one that occurred in 1993 -- and to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.

Many readers -- especially younger ones -- may be perplexed. Some may be unaware that the Attorneygate scandal and the World Trade Center bombing even had 1993 predecessors. But they did.

On February 26, 1993, Middle Eastern terrorists attacked the World Trade Center with a truck bomb. One month later, on March 24, 1993, Attorney General Janet Reno demanded the resignations of all 93 sitting U.S. Attorneys.

February 26, 1993: A team of Muslim jihadists detonates a truck bomb in an underground garage beneath the north tower of the World Trade Center. The bomb contains more than half a ton of urea nitrate plus a large quantity of deadly hydrogen cyanide. The terrorists plan to undermine the north tower, causing it to fall against the south tower, killing tens of thousands of people, and flooding the area with poisonous hydrogen cyanide gas. (1) Fortunately the plan goes awry. The bomb fails to knock over the north tower, and the poison gas vaporizes in the blast. All the same, thousands of people are injured and six killed.

February 26, 1993: New York Governor Mario Cuomo tells Larry King Live, "[N]ever in my lifetime . . . has this ever happened in the United States. No foreign people or force has ever done this to us. Until now, we were invulnerable." (2)

February 28, 1993: Incredibly, only two days after the World Trade Center attack, federal agents lay siege to the Mount Carmel Center -- a communal living compound of the Branch Davidian religious sect, located near Waco, Texas. On the pretext that sect leader David Koresh had violated weapons laws, federal agents besiege the compound for 51 days. The stand-off ends in slaughter when agents storm the compound. About 80 men, women and children die in the attack, many of them burned alive by a fire of uncertain origin.

March 1, 1993: As the Waco siege gets underway, President Bill Clinton repeatedly downplays the World Trade Center attack in public statements. He purposefully avoids visiting the bomb site. "I would discourage the American people from overreacting to this [the World Trade Center bombing]," he says on March 1. (3)

March 1, 1993: Three days after the World Trade Center bombing -- and one day after the Waco siege begins -- New York State Governor Mario Cuomo has an apparent change of heart. Where before he seemed emotionally overwhelmed by the attack, he now echoes Bill Clinton in downplaying the importance of the World Trade Center bombing. In a March 1 interview on NBC-TV, Cuomo enunciates what will soon become the official Democratic Party line on terrorism; that the real terror threat comes from violent Americans, not violent foreigners. Cuomo tells NBC that, "Americans killing one another with guns" is our nation's biggest security threat. "We're more threatened by ourselves than we are by foreign terrorists," he says. "... We're still the most violent place in the world, not because they do it to us, but because we do it to ourselves. Terrorism is hardly the problem that the instinct for violence and the refusal to acknowledge it ... is to us internally." (4)

March 13, 1993: Janet Reno is sworn in as Attorney General of the United States. In keeping with the new Clinton policy, Reno downplays the threat of foreign terror and states that her top priority will be the protection of abortion clinics from violence. (5)

March 31, 1993: Mary Jo White is nominated to replace Otto G. Obermaier as U.S. Attorney for New York's Southern District. Commenting upon her appointment, The New York Times notes, "The office's biggest pending case is the prosecution of the men who have been accused of bombing the World Trade Center last month." (7)

Unfortunately, Mary Jo White ended up shirking her obligation to the American people. Acting in concert with Janet Reno, she played a key role in obstructing the FBI's investigation of the World Trade Center bombing.

So says terror expert Laurie Mylroie, a former advisor to President Clinton. In her book The War Against America, Mylroie notes that New York FBI chief James Fox, who headed the investigation of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, strongly suspected Iraqi involvement in the plot, and said so publicly to reporters. Mylroie writes:

In the end, U.S. Attorney White convicted a handful of low-level terrorists and declared the case closed. The possibility that Iraq or any other foreign government might have taken part in the attack was never seriously considered or investigated. Nevertheless, to this day, many terror experts -- including former CIA director James Woolsey -- believe that James Fox was on the right track, and that the true puppetmasters behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing got off scot-free. (9)

NEVER FORGET

The Man who saved the lives of many at the Battle of IA DRANG-1965 =

The Man who saved the lives of many at the World Trade Center Bombing-1993, after predicting that bombing several years in advance =

The Man who saved the lives of many at the World Trade Center Airstrikes-2001, after predicting that air attack serveral years in advance =

9/11 Lifesaver RICK RESCORLA, ..R.I.P.

......Just for the LOVE of it..!!

(The Websites)
http://www.lzxray.com
http://www.RickRescorla.com

(The Pictures)
http://www.RickRescorla.com/The%20Statue.htm

(The Rest of the Story)
http://www.ArmchairGeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24361

Signed:..”ALOHA RONNIE” Guyer
Veteran-Battle of IA DRANG-1965

(The Pictures)
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set1.htm
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set2.htm
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set3.htm
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_collection.htm

NEVER FORGET

1993 : (PENTAGON “TERROR 2000” REPORT PREDICTS AN ONSLAUGHT OF TERRORIST ATTACKS AGAINST THE US, BUT REPORT IS KEPT SECRET FOR FIVE YEARS) “Five years ago [1993] , the Pentagon commissioned a report that predicted an onslaught of terrorist attacks against the United States, but it kept the study secret. NBC News obtained a copy of the classified forecast, titled Terror 2000, and its predictions have come true. DRAFTED BY 41 terrorism experts, the report was considered so disturbing by Pentagon officials that they refused to release it to Congress or the public. “They said: This is outrageous, this is crazy,” said Marvin Cetron, an author of the report, explaining the feelings of fellow participants. “They felt it was too far out and it would scare the hell out of the general public.”.” - MSNBC Jim Miklaszewski 8/11/98 via - ALAMO-GIRL’S DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON ; SECTION: BREACH OF TRUST; SUBSECTION: TERROR; Revised 1/8/01

JANUARY 1993 : (IRAQ : BAGHDAD OBSERVER REPORTS THAT SADDAM HUSSEIN’S VICE CHAIRMAN IZZAT IBRAHIM AL-DURI HOSTS A CONVENTION WHERE HE URGED ATTENDEES TO ‘CONDUCT HOLY JIHAD AGAINST THE US AND ITS ALLIES’) “In January 1993, as the official Baghdad Observer newspaper reported, [Saddam’s Vice Chairman] Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri hosted a convention for ‘more than 1,000 religious, political and cultural dignitaries from 51 countries,’ urging them ‘to conduct holy jihad against the U.S. and its allies.’” -——Newsweek Magazine

JANUARY 1993 : (CIA SHOOTER KANSI BUYS A GUN) Mir Amal Kansi buys an AK-47 rifle from a gun shop in Chantilly, Va. - “Man Suspected of Killing 2 CIA Agents Is Apprehended, “ By TIM WEINER , NYT, June 18, 1997 via Afgha.com

JANUARY 1993 : (CIA SHOOTER, VIRGINIA, KANSI) Mir Amal Kansi, a Pakistani, murders two CIA employees in a ‘random’ shooting outside the Langley, VA headquarters and flees the country. He entered the US in 1990 on a visa issued in Karachi, Pakistan and in 1992, Kansi applied for political asylum in the US and was routinely released with a work permit. Records indicate that he had been involved in anti-US demonstrations in Pakistan. He had purchased an AK-47 assault rifle in Virginia.

JANUARY 1993 : (LANGLEY, VA : TWO CIA STAFFERS MURDERED JUST OUTSIDE AGENCY HEADQUARTERS) two CIA staff killed outside agency headquarters in Langley, Va. - Daniel Pipes

JANUARY 25, 1993 : (CIA SHOOTER KANSI SHOOTS FIVE PEOPLE, TWO, CIA PERSONNEL, ARE KILLED) Five commuters in a morning rush-hour jam outside the gates of the CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., were shot by a gunman, Mir Amal Kansi, firing an AK-47 automatic rifle. All but one worked for the CIA. Two CIA employees — Frank Darling, a communications engineer, and Lansing Bennett, a doctor — died. Kansi’s friends and relatives told U.S. officials that he had been mentally unstable since the death of his father, a wealthy tribal chief, in 1989. It is not known if the attack was politically motivated or if it was connected to the bombing of the World Trade Center, which came one month later. The alleged mastermind of that attack, Ramzi Yousef, followed a similar escape route. The feds interviewed his [Kansi’s] roommate, Zahed Ahmad Mir, who they said told them that Kansi wanted to use that rifle to attack a symbol of the United States. Kansi’s trail had went cold by the time the FBI and the CIA tracked his path from his nearby apartment in Reston, Va., to Dulles International Airport— the White House or the CIA. - “Man Suspected of Killing 2 CIA Agents Is Apprehended, “ By TIM WEINER , NYT, June 18, 1997 via Afgha.com

JANUARY 26, 1993 : (CIA SHOOTER, KANSI FLEES TO PAKISTAN) The day after the shootings, Mir Amal Kansi boards an international flight from New York to Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital, and a second flight to his family’s home in Quetta, a town on Pakistan’s western border with Afghanistan. . He was believed to have fled into the lawless border land of Afghanistan, where guerrilla bands and tribal codes rule. After Kansi fled, State Department officials started an effort to make hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis and Afghans living in and around Quetta aware of the case. Wanted posters, handbills and even matchbooks with Kansi’s image and the offer of the $2 million reward flooded the Pakistani province of Baluchistan. Government officials said U.S. investigators, working with Pakistani military and intelligence officials, later would launch at least one operation to lure Kansi across the mountain passes from Afghanistan into a trap. - “Man Suspected of Killing 2 CIA Agents Is Apprehended, “ By TIM WEINER , NYT, June 18, 1997 via Afgha.com

FEBRUARY 10, 1993 : (US SAYS IT MAY SEND US TROOPS TO YUGOSLAVIA) The Clinton administration said U.S. troops could be sent to enforce peace in former Yugoslavia provided warring factions there negotiated a settlement.

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