Posted on 11/26/2001 7:01:24 PM PST by Angelwood
Over the recent Thanksgiving Holidays as I was doing some cleaning and reorganizing Free Republic materials and souvenirs, I came across a copy of the Washington Times which published Free Republic's "We Dare Call It Treason" ad. It still makes a very powerful visual statement seeing it 2-1/2 years later.
For background, members of Free Republic raised funds, designed the background and argued over the text of this ad and placed it in the Washington Times on the day that we joined other groups in a rally and dinner to honor the 13 House Managers who went to the Senate to try "Impeached" President Clinton.
Impressive and striking as our ad was and still is, I was struck by the relevancy of the front page headlines to recent people and events in the news. I have copied portions of the articles below:
KLA rebels train in terrorist camps; Bin Laden offers financing, too.
"Some members of the Kosovo Liberation Army, which has financed its war effort through the sale of heroin, were trained in terrorist camps run by international fugitive Osama bin Laden -- who is wanted in the 1998 bombing of two U.S. embassies in Africa that killed 224 persons, including 12 Americans.
"The KLA members, embraced by the Clinton administration in NATO's 41-day bombing campaign to bring Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to the bargaining table, were trained in secret camps in Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina and elsewhere, according to newly obtained intelligence reports.
"The reports also show that the KLA has enlisted Islamic terrorists -- members of the Mujahideen -- as soldiers in its ongoing conflict against Serbia, and that many already have been smuggled into Kosovo to join the fight....
"The intelligence reports document what is described as a 'link' between bin Laden, the fugitive Saudi millionaire, and the KLA -- including a common staging area in Tropoje, Albania, a center for Islamic terrorists. The reports said bin Laden's organization, known as al-Qaeda, has both trained and financially supported the KLA...."
Clinton willing to negotiate for less than a "total victory"
"President Clinton yesterday softened his demands for a Kosovo agreement, saying the composition of a peacekeeping force is 'subject to negotiation' and emphasizing he is not seeking 'total victory' in the conflict.
"Mr. Clinton also invited the United Nations to give its imprimature to a peacekeeping force that the White House once insisted be led by NATO or at least have NATO at its core. Yesterday, the president allowed for a 'security force in which NATO plays a role.'
"The new flexibility by Mr. Clinton, who has generally taken a much harder line on Kosovo, came as the White House intensified efforts to find a diplomatic solution that would allow Yugoslav President Slovodan Milosevic a face-saving out."
Other headlines were about NATO mistakenly hitting a civilian bus and killing 17 people (collateral damage in the Kosovo war); protesters at Camden Yards when the Cuban national team played the Orioles; mourners and survivors of the Columbine high-school massacre; and an article entitled, "Toy guns are no longer something to play with" involving a man arguing with a co-worker and returning shortly with a gun -- a toy gun -- he was charged as if it were a real gun.
Since we don't have the Klintoon's to kick around any more, perhaps we should now put an ad in the Times saying how much we appreciate the way Pres. Bush is conducting the war.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/bomb162.htm
"Report: Bin Laden linked to Albania
LONDON - The man accused of orchestrating the U.S. Embassy bombings in Africa operates a terrorist network out of Albania that has infiltrated other parts of Europe, The Sunday Times reported.
The newspaper quoted Fatos Klosi, the head of the Albanian intelligence service, as saying a network run by Saudi exile Osama Bin Laden sent units to fight in the Serbian province of Kosovo.
Bin Laden is believed to have established an Albanian operation in 1994 after telling the government he headed a wealthy Saudi humanitarian agency wanting to help Albania, the newspaper reported.
Klosi said he believed terrorists had already infiltrated other parts of Europe from bases in Albania. Interpol believes more than 100,000 blank Albanian passports were stolen in riots last year, providing ample opportunity for terrorists to acquire false papers, the newspaper said.
Apparent confirmation of Bin Laden's activities came earlier this month during the murder trial of Claude Kader, 27, a French national who said he was a member of Bin Laden's Albanian network, the newspaper said.
Kader claimed during the trial he had visited Albania to recruit and arm fighters for Kosovo.
U.S. authorities believe bin Laden, a Saudi exile and militant Muslim, masterminded the bombings of U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in August that killed 224 people, including 12 Americans.
Three alleged co-conspirators are already jailed in New York.
By The Associated Press"
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