gees.....how scary is that? mml
Scott MacLean wrote:
>
> 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 some 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.
>
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>
> 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 the 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.
>
> It was censored in the US from all later reports.
