Comments: Well, if we're going to play the blame game, let's at least get the identity of the terrorist right. It was not Muhammad Atta — believed to be the mastermind behind the September attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon — who was convicted of the 1986 bombing and machine gun attack on a bus in Samaria, sentenced to life imprisonment and later released. It was Mahmoud Abed Atta, a Palestinian associated with the Abu Nidal terror organization. They are not the same person.
According to the Jerusalem Post, Mahmoud Abed Atta fled to Venezuela after the bus attack but was deported to the U.S. and eventually (in 1990) extradited to Israel, where he was tried and sentenced for his crime. His subsequent release from prison, confirmed by the Israeli Justice Ministry, had nothing to do with the Oslo Accord or intervention by either the Reagan or the Clinton administration. It was the result of a finding by the Supreme Court of Israel that Abed Atta's extradition process was flawed. The freed terrorist's whereabouts are now unknown, officials say.
Accounts differ on when WTC terrorist Muhammad Atta became a political activist, but in any case he was only 18 and living with his family in Cairo when the 1986 bus attack occurred. In 1992 he moved to Germany, where he met his future co-conspirators and ultimately began plotting the September 11 attacks.
The Jerusalem Post attributes confusion about the identities of the two terrorists to "rumors circulating on the Internet," but in fact those rumors had their origin in erroneous press reports during the first few days after September 11.
"... MUD, please don't pester MurryMom with manure spread by your buds in the RNC that is so easily debunked."
I don't know, MurryMom, I guess that all depends on what the definintion of "IS" is doesn't it???
Geesh, your knee pads are firmly strapped on, aren't they,
MurryMom???
Does Marc Rich give you a cut for being so loyal?
Don't worry Landru, I shall FLUSH, after this post, thanks for remindin' us about little toids like Murrymom... Most Sincere FRegards,
FBD
That's yer source, SugarLips?! My my, why don't you just use the Nastional Enquirer like you usually do?!!
SHEEEEESH, you sure are lucky I don't love ya fer yer brains...MUD
Truth is, and you know it, if it wasn't for Clinton's policy of appeasement and his friendly attitude towards terrorists...along with dismantling the CIA, and transferring all it's international counterintelligence to the FBI, changing the FBI from a national law enforcement agency...to a world justice dept...none of this crap would have happened..
OH BTW, we won't even mention all the terrorist exploits during 8 long years of Clinton, including the first bombing of the WTC....
Get a life MurryMom, and if you don't like what you're seeing on FR...go play on DU where you belong...Oh, I'm sure you are already reporting to all your small minded, nasty, meanspirited, condenscending and dimwitted lib friends....
IF YOU DON'T LIKE BEING CHALLENGED, GET OFF OUR THREADS!
YOU JUST ENJOY CAUSING TROUBLE HERE!
And leave our MUD alone!
Whatsamatter, MM? Change of Life got your tongue?
Guess Murrysville, PA must have finally broken down and purchased a dictionary. Along with a grammer book.
Even though your writing style is improved, drivel is drivel no matter how you dress it up...
Smoochies!