Do you have a link for this? Ohio mark wrote: > 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! > (Thank you Al, you are such an embarrassment to Tennessee!!) > > Terrorist > pilot Mohammad Atta blew up a bus in > 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. > It > was censored in the US from all later > reports. > > > >
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