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The Casualties

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  Hull Maintenance Technician 2nd Class Kenneth Eugene Clodfelter, 21, of Mechanicsville, Va.
  
  
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  Electronics Technician Chief Petty Officer Richard Costelow, 35, of Morrisville, Pa.
  
  
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  Mess Management Specialist Seaman Lakeina Monique Francis, 19, of Woodleaf, N.C.
  
  
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  Information Systems Technician Seaman Timothy Lee Gauna, 21, of Rice, Texas
  
  
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  Signalman Seaman Cherone Louis Gunn, 22, of Rex, Ga.
  
  
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  Seaman James Rodrick McDaniels, 19, of Norfolk, Va.
  
  
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  Engineman 2nd Class Marc Ian Nieto, 24, of Fond du Lac, Wis.
  
  
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  Electronics Warfare Technician 2nd Class Ronald Scott Owens, 24, of Vero Beach, Fla.
  
  
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  Seaman Lakiba Nicole Palmer, 22, of San Diego, Calif.
  
  
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  Engineman Fireman Joshua Langdon Parlett, 19, of Churchville, Md.
  
  
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  Fireman Patrick Howard Roy, 19, of Cornwall on Hudson, N.Y.
  
  
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  Electronics Warfare Technician 1st Class Kevin Shawn Rux, 30, of Portland, N.D.
  
  
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  Mess Management Specialist 3rd Class Ronchester Manangan Santiago, 22, Kingsville, Texas
  
  
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  Operations Specialist 2nd Class Timothy Lamont Saunders, 32, of Ringgold, Va.
  
  
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  Fireman Gary Graham Swenchonis Jr., 26, Rockport, Texas
  
  
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  Ensign Andrew Triplett, 31, of Macon, Miss.
  
  
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  Seaman Craig Bryan Wibberley, 19, of Williamsport, Md.

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Latest news on USS Cole

[PhilDragoo]

Richard Miniter, Losing bin Laden: How Bill Clinton's Failures Unleashed Global Terror, Regnery, 2003, pp. 219-222:

FBI counterterrorism chief John O'Neil went to Yemen with his team--and was promptly stonewalled, hamstrung and ultimately ousted by Clinton's US ambassador Barbara K. Bodine.

ibid, pp 225-6:

Madame Halfton Halfbright said, [paraphrasing 250 words of gaseous nebulosity] "bin Laden who? Cole? Huhwhuh? Only after the Bush Administration was in office was it established that Osama was responsible. I certainly do not recall that the Pentagon or CIA had any reliable information on the whereabouts of bin Laden."

Phil's note: Clinton had blown three offers of Osama from Sudan--though he denies it--years before the Cole bombing.

Per Miniter page 226, Cohen said the Cole bombing was "not sufficient provocation" for a retaliatory strike.

Besides, Clinton wasn't distracting from Monicagate as he was August 20, 1998.

Yemen was a hotbed of Islamist (marxist) activity--yet the Cole let a bomb be placed against its hull.

No bullets in the weapons, no challenge--"Gee, they were polite, they smiled, they saluted."

A Hellfire-armed Predator had clear video of Osama in Afghanistan on three of eleven flights September-October 2000 but Clinton, Albright, Berger, Freeh, Reno, Cohen demurred.

September 11 came and among its victims: John O'Neill, security head for the WTC--and Rick Rescorla--and Barbara Olson.

And Hitlary Rod 'Em bitched about the air quality.

Terrorism is such a nuisance to the Koppellian Demunists.

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Good post. I missed it - don't have enough time to read it all lately.