I fear many more will die because of his treachery.
Please look at this link. It goes to cargolaw.com and other photos and chronicles. I am not a detonation expert, but does something look wrong about these photos? or please explain to me how so much damage occurred going upwards from below the water line?
Somewhere in FR's archives are threads on the Cole that cite their port of call immediately before the port call in Yemen which was never proven necessary, but the archives are still down.
It seems to me it was Bulgaria or somewhere like that where we had never been before and it was purely a diplomatic call for show. I found it searching Marc Rich.
The reason it comes to mind is the Bin Laden link now to the Balkans we didn't have before as a stated fact, yet the rhetoric now from EVERYWHERE is exactly the same as it was then. Tom Franks is in charge of THIS operation after clearing everyone of malfeasance involving the USS Cole and I get a very painful jabbing in my gut every time I see him. He has already jeopardized this mission once by disallowing our forces to shoot a target that would have ended this three days after it started and we wouldn't be hearing interviews with the likes of Albright, Richardson, and Rom Emanuel, (Mr. Amanpour,) EVEN on Fox as if they were true statesmen with their historical revisionist script planted firmly in their frontal lobes and not merely useless props on the Clinton stage.
When Donald Rumsfeld is trying to do a press conference, you can see the frustration on his face with each passing day. He is like Superman without his powers and there have been far too many blunders. It looks as if Bush has been set up. Big time.
I wrote this last night, Oct. 30, 2001, but couldn't access the archives or find anything about the USS Cole before the bombing on any search, so I waited, hoping the archives would be up today. No such luck.
Now I hear that Slick has an executive order in place no one really knew about that even limits law enforcement capabilities here on terrorists. The FBI is having fits. It was on O'Reilly, and I'm waiting for the rerun at 11:00 PM, EST.