And stuff like this is too pat, too convienient for me to just accept because the media and government say so..
1997 : (REPORTS SURFACE THAT RUSSIA IS NEGOTIATION WITH IRAQ AGAIN OVER FERMENTATION EQUIPMENT & AIR PURIFYING MACHINERY) In 1997 Russia was reported to again be negotiating with Iraq for sale of fermentors and air purifying machinery similar to the abandoned deal of 1995.
1997 : (RUSSIA, ANTHRAX) Ex-Soviet scientists publish details of genetically altered anthrax in Vaccine.
SEPTEMBER 8, 1997 : (CLINTON ADMINISTRATION SUBMITS DNC FUNDRAISER EDWARD M. GABRIEL'S NAME TO THE SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE AS THEY WANT HIM TO BECOME THE US AMBASSADOR TO MOROCCO) Gabriel's name was formally submitted to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on September 8, before the FBI had completed its background investigation into Gabriel's finances, business connections, or personal life... -- by Kenneth R. Timmerman, American Spectator 11/97(via AlamoGirl's web)
SEPTEMBER 18, 1997 : (CLINTON WHITE HOUSE IS FORCED TO TURN OVER DNC FUNDRAISER EDWARD M. GABRIEL'S FILE TO THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT BECAUSE OF ALLEGATIONS HE WAS INVOLVED WITH QUESTIONABLE ARAB CAMPAIGN DONATIONS TO THE DNC & THE CLINTON/GORE CAMPAIGN) ...as we reported on The American Spectator's web site on September 18, the White House was forced to turn over Gabriel's file to the Justice Department for further investigation of allegations tying him to murky Arab campaign donations to the DNC and the Clinton-Gore re-election campaign. …….-- by Kenneth R. Timmerman, American Spectator 11/97 (via AlamoGirl's web)
NOVEMBER 1997 : (AMERICAN SPECTATOR REPORT ON DNC FUNDRAISER EDWARD M GABRIEL COMES OUT) "……. The story of a suspended ambassadorial nomination. ......Clinton-Gore hubris knows no bounds. In the thick of the campaign finance hearings on Capitol Hill, the White House has nominated a controversial DNC fundraiser, Edward M. Gabriel, to become United States Ambassador to Morocco, a key country to the Middle East peace process. …… Gabriel's name was formally submitted to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on September 8, before the FBI had completed its background investigation into Gabriel's finances, business connections, or personal life. …... A scant ten days later, as we reported on The American Spectator's web site on September 18, the White House was forced to turn over Gabriel's file to the Justice Department for further investigation of allegations tying him to murky Arab campaign donations to the DNC and the Clinton-Gore re-election campaign. …….-- by Kenneth R. Timmerman, American Spectator 11/97(via AlamoGirl's web)
NOVEMBER 1997 : (AMERICAN SPECTATOR REPORT : ARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE, DNC FUNDRAISER GABRIEL, AND ROGER TAMRAZ) "……. A few hours before Lebanese financier Roger Tamraz was to testify before the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, committee staffers received a mysterious call from someone claiming to be Tamraz who alleged that Tamraz had been solicited by Gabriel to donate $50,000 to the DNC through the Arab American Institute, a Washington-based non-profit group. ……… Two things are certain about this curious case: Ed Gabriel has powerful enemies, and he made them by hitching his wagon to two highly controversial Arab-American lobbyists in Washington: James Zogby and Abdulrahman Alamoudi. In the "bad old days" when the State Department and Congress still considered the PLO a terrorist organization, both men were staunch backers of Yasir Arafat. More recently, Zogby has called on Arab states to reinvigorate the secondary boycott against Israel, which aims to deter U.S. companies by threatening to ban them from contracts in the Arab world if they do business with Israel. ….."-- by Kenneth R. Timmerman, American Spectator 11/97(via AlamoGirl's web)
NOVEMBER 1997 : (AMERICAN SPECTATOR REPORT ) "…….Meanwhile, Alamoudi, who heads the American Muslim Council that was invited to the White House by Hillary Rodham Clinton during the Muslim Eid holidays, has been raising funds for "charitable" organizations whose branches in Gaza and the West Bank were closed down in late September by none other than Arafat. The PLO chairman accused them of supporting the military wing of Hamas, the radical Islamic group that has claimed responsibility for recent suicide bombings in Israel. Zogby, Gabriel, and Alamoudi sat together on the steering committee of Arab Americans for Clinton/Gore '96 and frequently appear at functions organized by Zogby's Arab American Institute. ……….-- by Kenneth R. Timmerman, American Spectator 11/97
NOVEMBER 1997 : (FBI DIRECTOR FREEH URGES ATTORNEY GENERAL RENO TO INVESTIGATE ILLICIT FUNDRAISING IN 1996 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN; RENO CHOOSES NOT TO DO SO; DAN BURTON THREATENS TO HLD HER IN CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS FOR WITHHOLDING MEMO) Freeh writes a memo urging Attorney General Janet Reno to appoint an independent counsel to investigate allegations of illicit fund raising during the 1996 presidential campaign. Reno chooses not to appoint an independent counsel and the memo becomes the center of a tug-of-war between Reno and Rep. Dan Burton who threatens to hold her in contempt of Congress for not turning the memo over to the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee.