We Already Know Why al Qaeda Succeeded--Clinton treated bin Laden's attacks like simple crimes.

Wall St Journal ^ | 4-13-04 | GEORGE MELLOAN

[SJackson]

When the USS Cole was attacked in the Yemeni port of Aden on Oct. 12, 2000, President Bill Clinton responded by launching an FBI criminal investigation. One might have thought that the near-sinking of a billion-dollar American warship was an act of war. But the Clintonites treated it like, say, a 7-Eleven stickup in Little Rock.

[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on or off this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

[OESY]

President Bush's creation of the Homeland Security Department and the passage of the Patriot Act by Congress have removed some of the underbrush that caused the 9/11 failure. The CIA and FBI can now legally exchange evidence and information, for one thing. A new center to receive and assess threat information has been set up. The FBI has been directed to focus on terrorism along with its regular law enforcement activities.

But of course, there are still vocal claims that the somewhat expanded powers of federal anti-terrorist agencies are a threat to civil rights. There are still congressmen who want to micromanage national security policy. U.S. voters will themselves have to decide whom they fear most, Osama bin Laden or their own government.

A key recommendation of the 9/11 Panel should be the renewal of the Patriot Act, but that presupposes the Panel would reverse course in order to fulfill their public mandate responsibly, that their goal really was to improve national security against terrorists enemies, domestic and foreign.

[kitkat]

BUMP

[NYC GOP Chick]

Mr. Clinton, never a great fan of either the military or the CIA, was psychologically ill-equipped to admit that the U.S. was under attack. He preferred to think that he was dealing merely with an outbreak of criminality.

Not only that, but he dealt with terrorist attacks as isolated incidents, committed by isolated groups that had no ties to any nation and might have some "legitimate grievances" against us.

[Brian_Baldwin]

Thank you Mr. GEORGE MELLOAN - perfecto!

[Nix 2]

The reason Al Qaeda succeeded was because Clinton wanted to keep and hold the drug routes open all over the world. That is why he changed the Mission in Somalia. That is why we helped the pr*cks in Kososvo, and it was drug money that financed the bombings in Spain and nearly all previous exploits except what they lied to receive in *charitable* donations, conveniently left alone by the IRS under Clinton, and the mad House of Saud who loves their blondes, drugs, and booze...in that order. Clinton paid the USS Cole to Mubarak to soothe his ruffled feathers after Egyptair to elicit his help in securing a Nobel Peace Prize and the complete destruction of Israel.

DRUG money. Drug routes. Psychopathic, sociopathic, greedy meglomaniac, CLINTON! All his best friends are criminals and/or terrorists. That's why they never hit our mainland until he was out of office.

[Capt. Tom]

That's why they never hit our mainland until he was out of office.

Did you forget this?

On 26th February 1993, at approximately 12.18 p.m., an explosion occurred under the World Trade Center complex in New York City. Early media reports and some telephone com-munications from law enforcement personnel in New York suggested that a generator had exploded.

Bomb technician Special Agents from the New York FBI had responded as a first analysis team and their conclusion was that an improvised explosive device had exploded.

Subsequent requests to the FBI Laboratory for field support were met with two Special Agent Examiners from the FBI Laboratory Explosives Unit who arrived in New York on 27th February. Initial analyses of the crime scene confirmed that the damage had been caused by an improvised explosive device.

Within one week following the explosion, more than 300 law enforcement officers from around the country had sifted through more than 2,500 cubic yards of debris weighing in excess of 6,800 tons, and had pieced together evidence in the most significant international terrorist act ever committed on U.S. soil.

The resulting explosion killed six people and injured more than a thousand. More than 50,000 people were evacuated from the Trade Center complex during the hours immediately following the blast.

[Nix 2]

No. I didn't forget this, but the Clinton admin did. He never even went to NYC during that entire time, nor did he interfere with Bin Laden...ever.