Posted on 05/17/2002 11:53:22 AM PDT by d14truth
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:00:33 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- American cruise missiles pounded sites in Afghanistan and Sudan Thursday in retaliation for the deadly bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania on August 7.
"Let our actions today send this message loud and clear -- there are no expendable American targets," U.S. President Clinton said in a televised address to the American people Thursday evening. "There will be no sanctuary for terrorists. We will defend our people, our interests and our values."
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The question is not what someone knows and when they know it; it's what someone DOES with what they know.
Some people do the 'right' thing.(They are leaders!) Some people do the politically expedient thing.(They are traitors!)
Cowards allow people on the 'Ten Most Wanted Lists' pardons and safe harbor.
X-42: Don't bother me now, I've got that grand jury thing to take care of. The newspapers will cover the 'tents and aspirin factory' diversion, and keep me looking presidential.
"When I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt."
George W. Bush
Let's see it, SANDY!
Usama bin Laden-Suspected Terrorist Mastermind
“Osama bin Laden may be the most dangerous non-state terrorist in the world.”
--Sandy Berger, national security adviser, August 1998
"Tribe and Brogan came to know Idris during litigation that followed the 1991 collapse of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International. Saudi Sheik Khalid bin Mahfouz, then Idris' boss, was implicated in the BCCI money-laundering scandal and eventually paid more than $200 million to escape possible U.S. charges stemming from the bank's implosion."
After 9/11 this prevaricator actually said on PBS that the planning took about 2-3 months.
Just to layoff the blame from him and Clinton. I don't believe a thing Berger says.
SOME OF THE MUKHABARAT’S FILES IDENTIFY INDIVIDUALS who played central roles in the bombings of the U.S. Embassies in Tanzania and Kenya in August 1998; others chart the backgrounds and movements of al-Qaeda operatives who are said to be linked directly to the atrocities of September 11. Among those profiled:
Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, another of those named on the F.B.I.’s most-wanted list, who set the plot for the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings rolling during two trips he made to Nairobi in the spring of 1998 from Khartoum, where he was apparently working for al-Qaeda. Rose writes that had the F.B.I. accepted al-Mahdi’s February offer, it might have foiled Mohammed’s plans by stepping in when he rented a villa in Kenya, gathered the bombers at the Hilltop Hotel in Nairobi, or helped stuff a pickup truck with TNT.
Two men carrying Pakistani passports and using the names Sayyid Iskandar Suliman and Sayyid Nazir Abbass, who arrived in Khartoum from Kenya a few days after the 1998 embassy bombings and rented an apartment overlooking the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum. They appeared to be reconnoitering for a possible future attack and are believed to be members of al-Qaeda. They also stayed at the Hilltop Hotel in Nairobi—the base used by other members of the embassy-bombing conspiracy. Sudan arrested the two men and offered to extradite them for trial, but the U.S. did not respond, instead opting to bomb the al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum, which was found to have no connection to bin Laden but made vaccines and medicine and had contracts with the U.N.
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