Clinton/Gore bypassed the requirement for background checks in 1996 in order to get 1,000,000,000 new immigrants into the country and register them as democrats before the election (there wasn't enough time or resources to go through the normal process of background checks AND WAITING PERIODS).
Head of family offers condolences, disowns Saudi dissident
09/16/2001
Associated Press
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – The family of Osama bin Laden denounced the notorious Saudi dissident Saturday and offered its condolences to victims of the terror attacks in the United States.
In a telephone interview from the Red Sea port city of Jiddah, the head of the wealthy bin Laden family, Sheik Abdullah Awad Aboud bin Laden, expressed deep sorrow about Tuesday's attacks.
"The family has previously announced its position [to distance itself] from Osama and condemned his acts. All the family members condemn all violent and terrorist acts, even if Osama is behind them," said the sheik, who is Mr. bin Laden's uncle.
Mr. bin Laden and his al-Qaeda organization have been named by the United States as key suspects in the coordinated airborne attack on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington.
U.S. authorities also suspect him of masterminding the August 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
He is thought to have played a role in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, the 1996 bombing of U.S. military housing in Saudi Arabia and last year's attack on the USS Cole in Yemen.
The bin Laden family issued a statement in 1994 expressing its "regret, denunciation and condemnation of all acts that Osama bin Laden may have committed, which we do not condone, and we reject."