Posted on 08/15/2003 9:53:48 PM PDT by Mia T
The Man Who Warned America
Yet, as MURRAY WEISS reports in "The Man Who Warned America," to be published Thursday, he was frustrated again and again in his efforts to fight the terrorist organization around the world. Here is John O'Neill's story.
JOHN O'Neill, the new FBI section chief for counter-terrorism, spent the night of March 8, 1995, studying a rambling communiqué from a little-known Saudi expatriate named Osama bin Laden.
At the time, U.S. terrorism experts believed the biggest threats were Hezbollah and Hamas, not something called al Qaeda.
A few days after he read bin Laden's angry denunciation of the Saudi royal family for allowing U.S. military bases in their country, O'Neill arrived at a meeting with FBI Deputy Director Robert "Bear" Bryant armed with a developing belief that bin Laden was in fact the world's most pressing threat.
Bryant was impressed.
"The first time I ever heard of bin Laden was from John O'Neill," he recalled. ONeill also began discussing bin Laden with Richard Clarke, the national coordinator for counter-terrorism.
O'Neill compared bin Laden to a young Adolf Hitler, making ominous threats that no one took seriously.
"It's like 'Mein Kampf,' he said. "Men you read what this guy says he's going to do, he's serious."
In the next three years, O'Neill investigated al Qaeda's bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia, was named special agent in charge of the national security division of the FBI's New York office and delivered a speech warning that terrorists could strike on U.S. soil at any time.
He was awake at 4 a.m. on Aug. 7, 1998, when the encrypted telephone rang at his Peter Cooper Village home. Two U.S. embassies, in Kenya and Tanzania, had been bombed.
He was the first to call the FBI office at 26 Federal Plaza, recalled Detective Pat Pogan.
"We have to get moving on this," O'Neill said. "I know who did this. It's bin Laden."
O'Neill wanted to fly to Africa to lead the investigation. The bombings had killed 247 people. His New York office had the expertise about bin Laden and he was upset when he was told to wait. But he was outraged later that month when President Clinton, three days after his televised admission about Monica Lewinsky, went on TV again to announce, "Today we have struck back."
U.S. Tomahawk missiles were fired at a bin Laden camp in Afghanistan and a pharmaceutical plant in the Sudan that intelligence sources identified as a chemical weapons facility.
O'Neill immediately believed that Clinton launched the attack to deflect attention from the Lewinsky scandal and his impending impeachment.
He and a few people side a tight circle of national. security officials also knew that Clinton was using old intelligence in selecting the targets.
In fact, it was as much as a year out of date, not nearly fresh enough to justify the launch of a surgically precise air assault.
O'Neill wasn't the only major FBI figure who was upset. Amazingly, the White House had failed to notify FBI Director Louis Freeh -- who had just arrived in Kenya. Freeh and Clinton already had a frosty relationship. Hundreds of Freeh's agents were investigate the bombings in two heavily Muslim countries that were loaded with bin Laden sympathizers.
"Freeh was pissed" said Lewis Schiliro, then head of the New York FBI office, who was with Freeh.
"We had agents on the streets, exposed and wearing FBI jackets, and the White House was firing in missiles. What better targets for reprisals than the FBI?'
The missile strikes had no appreciable military impact. But the bombing probe that followed defined the structure of al Qaeda and identified its leaders and key soldiers. Mary Jo White, former U.S. attorney, credits O'Neill.
"I cannot overstate it," she said. "John O'Neill in the investigation of the African embassy bombings created a template for all international terrorism investigations."
0'NEILL and Freeh had great respect for each other, but in some ways they could not have been more different...
(Why a Rapist is Not a Fit President)A dapper dresser, an Elaine's regular, a lover of women, John O'Neill was one of the few people who could have understood exactly what was happening to him when he died in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. O'Neill, an ex-FBI counter-terrorism agent, had made a career out of making a case against Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda.
I well remember a speech our ex-rapist in chief delievered to Georgetown University students soon after the horrific 9/11 attack.
In that speech-the scumbag actually blamed the US, in essence for the attack. I was stunned beyond belief and saw his sorry ass whining as a means of PROTECTING his own hide and that of his scumbag wife in the case further attacks might happen. He delievered a like minded speech in Canada-just to make SURE Osama bin pigpen and his murdering thugs got the message loud and clear that clinton did not hold that terrorist tribe responsible. Perhaps this is going to far...and clinton's only attempt was to somehow get the blame of the attack upon our President, but ya know, the clintons are so prone to providing for their own narcissistic needs-I don't really think it is a stretch to assume they wanted the terrorists to know that they were on their side.
Your post knocks me out; I shudder at the consequences of the clinton reign of terror, what this sad duo was willing and is willing to do for personal gain is beyond belief. Your thinking is so dead on, makes so much sense and chills me, completely.
Mia-I will run the video today and let you know.
Thank you so much for your incredible posts. I always pick up something new, and my disgust with anything clintonian seems to know no bounds. Amazing.
- INT. AUDIO VISUAL LUDOVICO CENTRE -- DAY
- Auditorium setting. Alex is bound in a examination chair in front of a large video screen. A white-coated Technician is strapping Alex's head to a medical device.
- He then carefully attaches the eyelid locking to Alex's eyes.
- ALEX (V.O.)
- And viddy films I would. Where I was taken to, brothers, was like no cine I'd been in before. I was bound up in a straight-jacket and my gulliver was strapped to a headrest with like wires running away from it. Then they clamped like lidlocks on my eyes so I could not shut them no matter how hard I tried. It seemed a bit crazy to me, but I let them get on with what they wanted to get on with. If I was to be a free young malchick in a fortnight's time, I would put up with much in the meantime, my brothers.
At the back of the auditorium are ten or fifteen solemn medical Professionals in white coats watching the proceedings and occasionally taking notes. A film begins showing on the screen.
The Technician drops eyedrops into Alex's eyes.
VIOLENCE FILM
Man being beaten by four toughs wearing white.
Punches, kicks, grunts, blood.
- ALEX (V.O.)
So far the first film was a very good professional piece of cine, looked like it was done in Hollywood.
Screams, moans, kicks, punches.
- ALEX (V.O.)
The sounds were real horroshow. You could slooshy the screams and moans very realistic and you could even get the heavy breathing and panting of the tolchocking malchicks at the same time. And then, what do you know, soon our dear old friend, the red, red vino on tap. The same in all places like it's put out by the same big firm, began to flow. It was beautiful. It's funny how the colours of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on a screen.
More kicks, punches, groans, thumps.
Girl being beaten, raped by six toughs.
Screams, music, laughing, grunts, heavy breathing.
- ALEX (V.O.)
Now all the time I was watching this, I was beginning to get very aware of like not feeling all that well, but I tried to forget this, concentrating on the next film, which jumped right away on a young devotchka, who was being given the old in-out, in-out, first by one malchick, then another, then another. This seemed real, very real, though if you thought about it properly you couldn't imagine lewdies actually agreeing to having all this done to them in a film, and if these films were made by the good, or the State, you couldn't imagine them being allowed to take these films, without like interfering with what was going on.
Girl being raped.
- ALEX (V.O.)
When it came to the sixth or seventh malchick, leering and smecking and then going into it, I began to feel really sick. But I could not shut my glazzies and even if I tried to move my glazballs about I still not get out of the line of fire of this picture.
Alex squirming and retching.
Dr. Brodsky clears his throat and quietly addresses his colleagues seated in the back of the room.
- DR. BRODSKY
Very soon now the drug will cause the subject to experience a death-like paralysis together with deep feelings of terror and helplessness. One of our earlier test subjects described it as being like death, a sense of stifling and drowning, and it is during this period we have found the subject will make his most rewarding associations between his catastrophic experience and environment and the violence he sees.
Alex retching violently and struggling against his strait jacket.
- ALEX
Let me be sick... I want to get up. Get me something to be sick in... Stop the film... Please stop it... I can't stand it any more. Stop it please... please.
May God see to it that we prefer our better natures/ consciousnesses.
Your point is well taken by drawing an extreme portrait of the results of the pursuits and degenerate use of Power. Please continue your use of humor as a second weapon.
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When Alex kills a woman during a rape, Alex is sent to prison. A risible and repulsive result; While Alex is conditioned in prison with aversion therapy, In the end, We will have set apart clinton as the hero Mia T, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE |
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