TRUE STORY
Subject: A Useful historical lesson:
A terrorist pilot, named
Atta blew up a bus in Israel in 1986. The
Israelis soon captured, tried and
imprisoned him. As part of the Oslo
agreement Israel had to agree to release
so called "political
prisoners". However, the Israelis would not release any
prisoners
with "blood on their hands". So a well meaning American President
and
his Secretary of State insisted that they all be released.
Thus Mr.
Atta was freed and eventually thanked us-the USA-by flying
an AMERICAN
airplane into tower one of the world trade center.
This was
reported by many of the networks at the time the terrorists
were first
identified, but it was missing (deleted) from later reports.
This "kindly"
president was Ronald Reagan and George Schultz was the
Secretary of
State.
Partisan poltics aside, the importance of this lesson,
differentiating
between "political prisoners,"--activists for another
cause,
and "terrorist"--those with the blood of the innocents on their
hands,
SHOULD NOT BE FORGOTTEN. We have paid dearly in learning this
lesson
and hopefully we will not repeat the mistake.
Dr.
Sheldon Hanft, History Dept., Appalachian State University,
Boone,NC
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