From: Terry Lane (tlane@mobynet.com)
Date: Sat Sep 07 2002 - 18:26:43 PDT
> Subject: Ollie was right
> Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 19:41:36 -0700
> From: "Cull Log" <mldg14@hotmail.com>
>
> Anyone remember this??
> 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 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
> 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 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.
>
> If you agree that the American public must be made aware of this fact,
> pass this on.
>
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