-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! FREEDOM NOW NETWORK - October 14. 2000 EXPLOSION QUESTION: HOW COULD A RUBBER RAFT BLOW UP A DESTROYER? by Dot Bibee, Freedom Now Network <A HREF="mailto:Tndothb">Tndothb</A> This posting is being sent out to you to see if there is anyone else THINKING about this situation. Among my friends and household, this is a question and none are accepting President Clinton's declaration that this was an act of terrorism nor that it was caused by a rubber raft carrying TONS of explosives. This was the SAME question asked by many in the Oklahoma City bombing since a Ryder truck parked on the curb could not have carried enough explosives necessary to blow up the OKC building. IF it is found that the raft did not put that hole in the SHIP, will the U.S. media, President Clinton, and others still state that the USS Cole was blown up by the rubber raft? For a graphics illustration from the U.S. Navy of what "supposedly" happened go to http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1801-2000Oct13.html The news is beginning to show that there is DOUBT that the explosion did not happen the way that it is being reported. Could there have been an aircraft (not visible at the port) that could have put the hole with a smart bomb? Has this been looked into? I will give you only EXCERPTS from the news reports, but I hope you will get the message that someone had better start asking QUESTIONS instead of accepting the report that is just now being investigated. 1) Yemen Says No Terrorism Behind US Destroyer Explosion <A HREF="http://www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID=127743">Click here: UPI News Article: Yemen Says No Terrorism Behind US Destroyer Explosion</A> http://www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID=127743 Saturday, 14 October 2000 10:09 (ET) SANAA, Yemen, Oct. 14 (UPI) -- A senior Yemeni official on Saturday rejected United States statements that the explosion on a U.S. Navy destroyer which killed 17 servicemen was an apparent act of terrorism. The commander of the Yemeni naval base of Aden, Gen. Mohammad Ali Ibrahim, said that initial investigations into Thursday's explosion that ripped through the side of the USS Cole off the coast of Aden showed it was not caused "intentionally by external forces." He said the explosion "was most likely caused by a technical malfunction in the U.S. destroyer itself...the large hole the explosion left in the vessel shows it is far-fetched that it was caused by explosive devices, no matter how big." 2) Besides a gaping hole, attack on USS Cole left many questions <A HREF="http://www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID=127684">Click here: UPI News Article: Besides a gaping hole, attack on USS Cole left many questions </A> http://www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID=127684 Friday, 13 October 2000 22:06 (ET) WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- The explosion that tore open part of the Navy destroyer USS Cole in Yemen on Thursday has left many questions. More than 100 FBI investigators headed to the port city of Aden, 50 Marines are standing guard at the blast site and a 50-man emergency response team is in place to begin piecing together evidence. But there remains, officially, only a single witness to the explosion that blew a 40-foot hole in the USS Cole's port side, killing as many as 17 crew members. An Army major associated with the U.S. Embassy in Yemen reported seeing two men help the Cole attach one mooring line to a buoy. The small boat, presumably a harbor tender, then pulled along side the destroyer. Two men on board reportedly stood at attention and detonated the bomb, blasting the Cole sideways, tearing open its half-inch-thick steel hull, and destroying four rooms on the ship. Little is known about the attackers, their boat or the explosives they used, whether there were just two men involved, and whether they worked for the company contracted by the State Department to refuel the billion-dollar Arleigh Burke-class destroyer. Also unknown is whether the embassy investigated the company and if that review reached down to the individuals handling the Cole's lines as it pulled up to a floating dock. So far, not even the refueling company's name has been made public. 3) For U.S., warning signs emerged in days before Yemen refueling stop <A HREF="http://www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID=127669">Click here: UPI News Article: For U.S., warning signs emerged in days before Yemen refueling st op</A> http://www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID=127669 Friday, 13 October 2000 20:39 (ET) WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- The day before a rubber raft carrying explosives sank the USS Cole in the Yemeni port of Aden, and two days before a bomb exploded at the British Embassy in Yemen's capital, Sanaa, a leading newspaper in Jordan printed a statement from an unknown terrorist organization threatening to target U.S., British and Israeli ships and planes . The group, known as Al Nitha al-Wahdawi, or New Unified Fighters Group, handed a typed statement to the editor of Al-Bilad on Wednesday giving the United States one month to meet eight demands, including the withdrawal of U.S. military ships brought to the area during and after the Persian Gulf War of 1991. Independent terrorism expert Steve Emerson, who noticed the newspaper item, said it was particularly significant because U.S. ships were mentioned. "There have been threats like this in the past, but never this specific," he said. "Here they were specific about ships in the Persian Gulf." But State Department spokesman Richard Boucher, however, said too much should not be read into the newspaper item. "I'm sure anybody that looked at any moment in the Middle East could find half a dozen statements like that," he said. "We're obviously aware that there are many people out there planning to try to get us, or claiming that they are going to try to get us. In this region there's always threats in the air."] The Clinton administration's spokesman for national security, P.J. Crowley, said he could not comment on specific intelligence matters but said, "We will investigate threats that were known at the time of the accident." As the death toll from the USS Cole rises, more facts have emerged that suggest there were signs that Aden was unsafe for the Navy destroyer. Not only have two terrorist organizations already claimed credit for the attack, but more than two weeks of deadly clashes in Israel have soured public opinion in the region toward the United States. The U.S. Embassy in Israel closed for all but essential functions this weekend due to the ongoing clashes; U.S. embassies throughout the Middle East had been used as staging grounds for demonstrations against the perceived favoritism that the United States has shown towards Israel in the 15 day old conflict. Numerous heads of states condemned Israeli violence against Palestinians which has claimed at least 80 lives. One such head of state is Yemen's President Ali-Abdullah Saleh, who told the Qatar-based satellite network Al-Jazeera on Monday, "All Arabs are urged to support the Palestinian intifada (uprising) through various political and economic means and in the defense field." In speeches over the weekend, Saleh reportedly said he was opening his borders to mujahideen, or holy warriors. In its report "1999 Patterns of Global Terrorism," the State Department found that "lax and inefficient enforcement of security procedures and the government's inability to exercise authority over remote areas of the country continued to make the country a safe haven for terrorist groups." Hamas and Islamic Jihad even have official representatives in Yemen, while terrorist groups from Afghanistan to Algeria continue to operate out of the country. In an interview in March with the Christian Science Monitor, Ali Saleh Obad, the head of the opposition Yemen Socialist Party said: "This anti-terrorism is just propaganda -- it's just makeup on the system for the world to see." He told the paper that Saleh's government still provides passports for numerous agents of terrorist groups. NOTE: This is a HEADS UP for those of you who live near a MAJOR university. I do. I live in Knoxville where the University of Tennessee has MANY foreign students from every nation in the world. It has had these foreign students for many years. The parents and friends of these students are "frequent" visitors. Why am I telling you this? Simply because the U.S. is also a safe haven for terrorist groups. If you will look into Janet Reno's operations against terrorists groups, you will find that she is NOT concentrating on these groups but instead on the groups identified to her by the SPLC and Pitcavage. 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