It
was 1987! At a lecture the other day they were
playing an old news video of
Lt.Col. Oliver North testifying at the Iran-Contra
hearings during the Reagan
Administration.
There was Ollie in front of God and country getting
the
third degree, but what he said was stunning!
He was being drilled by a
senator, ' Did you not recently spend close to
$60,000 for a home security
system? '
Ollie replied, ' Yes, I did, Sir. '
The senator
continued, trying to get a laugh out of the
audience, ' Isn ' t that just a little
excessive? '
' No, sir, ' continued Ollie.
' No? And why not? ' the
senator asked.
' Because the lives of my family and I were
threatened,
sir. '
' Threatened? By whom? ' the senator
questioned.
' By a
terrorist, sir ' Ollie answered.
' Terrorist? What terrorist could
possibly scare you that much? '
' His name is Osama bin Laden, sir ' Ollie
replied.
At this point the senator tried to repeat the name,
but
couldn't pronounce it, which most people back then
probably couldn't. A couple
of people laughed at the attempt. Then the senator
continued.. Why are you so
afraid of this man? ' the senator asked.
' Because, sir, he is the most
evil person alive that I know of ' , Ollie answered.
' And
what do you recommend we do about him? ' asked the
senator.
' Well, sir,
if it was up to me, I would recommend that an
assassin team be formed to
eliminate him and his men from the face of the
earth. '
The senator
disagreed with this approach, and that was all that
was shown of the clip.
By
the way, that senator was Al Gore
Also:
Terrorist
pilot Mohammad Atta blew up a bus in
Israel
in 1986. The Israelis captured, tried and
imprisoned him. As part of the
Oslo agreement with the Palestinians in 1993,
Israel had to agree to release
so-called ' political prisoners. '
However, the Israelis would not release
any with blood on their hands. The American
President at the time, Bill Clinton,
and his Secretary of State, Warren Christopher,
' insisted ' that all prisoners be
released.
Thus Mohammad Atta was freed and eventually thanked
us by
flying an airplane into Tower One of the World Trade
Center . This was reported
by many of the American TV networks at the time
that the terrorists were first
identified.
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