Posted on 02/07/2003 3:22:03 PM PST by demlosers
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:02:03 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Former President Bill Clinton said he hopes President Bush gets the support of the United Nations before undertaking any military action against Iraq, but he said international law doesn't require that he do so. In an exclusive interview Thursday on CNN's "Larry King Live," the former president said he sees a good possibility that the international community will unite to force Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to disarm.
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Alas,
Billdo Dilldo, Shrillary Hillary & Saddddaaammmmnnn all have NO senses to come to!
That's funny, a couple of weeks ago it was only 50 at the Mayflower Hotel.
He just can't help himself, can he?
Please check out the 30 April 2001 Patterns of Global Terrorism.
QUESTION: You talk about -- in the Afghanistan portion you talk about groups that they are allowing to operate out of their territory. Can you elaborate on that and whether you have seen an up-tick in that activity last year or from, say, the year before?
MR. HULL: There are a number of groups -- al-Qa'ida is perhaps the most familiar to Americans. But you have the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, you have the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, you have of course Kashmiri groups, you have (inaudible), you have Chechens. So it is, in many ways, terrorist central for the international community.
In terms of an uptick, I would say we see continued very high levels of activity and very large numbers of people being trained, so that you have tens of thousands of people who have now gone through these camps and are part of the Arab Afghan alumni network. So it is a very troubling phenomenon and continues to be that.
QUESTION: Can I just follow up? What did we -- is this a classic case of blowback, since all of these groups were originally trained by us in the '80s?
MR. HULL: I think the continuation of the training capability is quite -- has led it to a different level and has really expanded the problem where it has international scope now, well beyond anything that was happening in the '80s. If you talk to Europeans, if you talk to people in the Middle East -- I was recently in Central Asia -- a phenomenon that used to be kind of a local phenomenon now has spread so that quite a remarkable number of countries in the international community find themselves with this problem. I think it is the internationalization of the phenomenon, which is causing so much attention and generating such a strong position on the part of the international community.
QUESTION: Why do you think that is happening? What, is this just another part of globalization? Why is this possible, or is it another result of what is happening --
MR. HULL: We have often seen terrorists take advantage of countries where they can do their training, do their planning, do their equipping in safety. Now, a lot of those swamps, as we call them, have been drained over time. If you'd look at Libya, for example, there is a lot less terrorist training going on there. The Sudanese also have by and large shut down the training camps.
So as these groups are squeezed out of other areas and look for safe places to conduct this activity, I think more and more of them have gravitated toward Afghanistan and that is why the problem is so acute there.
I'd say he covered these conditions in both arenas of his so called life.
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