Khobar Towers The Clinton administration left many stones unturnd.

OpinionJournal ^ | Sunday, June 25, 2006 | LOUIS J. FREEH

[DogByte6RER]

Khobar Towers The Clinton administration left many stones unturnd.

BY LOUIS J. FREEH Sunday, June 25, 2006 12:01 a.m.

Ten years ago today, acting under direct orders from senior Iranian government leaders, the Saudi Hezbollah detonated a 25,000-pound TNT bomb that killed 19 U.S. airmen in their dormitory at Khobar Towers in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. The blast wave destroyed Building 131 and grievously wounded hundreds of additional Air Force personnel. It also killed an unknown number of Saudi civilians in a nearby park.

The 19 Americans murdered were members of the 4,404th Wing, who were risking their lives to enforce the no-fly zone over southern Iraq. This was a U.N.-mandated mission after the 1991 Gulf War to stop Saddam Hussein from killing his Shiite people. The Khobar victims, along with the courageous families and friends who mourn them this weekend in Washington, deserve our respect and honor. More importantly, they must be remembered, because American justice has still been denied.

Although a federal grand jury handed up indictments in June 2001--days before I left as FBI director and a week before some of the charges against 14 of the terrorists would have lapsed because of the statute of limitations--two of the primary leaders of the attack, Ahmed Ibrahim al-Mughassil and Abdel Hussein Mohamed al-Nasser, are living comfortably in Iran with about as much to fear from America as Osama bin Laden had prior to Sept. 11 (to wit, U.S. marshals showing up to serve warrants for their arrests).

[OldFriend]

Freeh was part of the problem and then he wrote his book to whitewash his own complicity in the investigation.

Klinton chose well in keeping him as director.

[OldFriend]

You and others here on FR will make sure the truth is exposed. We can not survive another klinton regime in the White House.

[sgtbono2002]

Count yuorself as wise. At least you didnt buy the effing thing.

[OldFriend]

The only book I have actually purchased rather than borrowed from the library is Eric Shawn's book on the UN.

I do have Sammon's book on how the dems tried to steal the election in 2000.

For the most part I borrow from the library or rely on freepers to fill me in on the details.

[jpthomas]

I don't know where Louie Freeh got the designation "4404th" for the unit that lost airmen in the Khobar Towers bombing. I was stationed at Eglin AFB and attended the memorial service at King Hangar where Bill Clinton spoke for the lost airmen of the 33rd Fighter Wing, nicknamed "the Nomads". I recall Clinton talking big about bringing those responsible to justice, a promise easily made but, like so many uttered by his lips, left unfufilled by his administration.

The 33rd Fighter Wing has a memorial at Eglin to their airmen who died at Khobar Towers. Here is a picture of it:

Our local paper had a photo today on their front page of one of the widows placing a bouquet of flowers at her late husband's (Sgt. Millard "Soup" Campbell) spot on this memorial to mark the 10th anniversary of his loss. I would have posted this image, but the online version of the paper requires a paid subscription.

[ClaireSolt]

His book has more on Iranian warlike activity against the US. You know that the left will immediately start saying that Iran never did anything to us, even though they have been waging declared war against the US for 25 years.

[AmericanDave]

Freeh, though he could have done MORE, did try and DO a lot! He is trying to get the truth out about Clinton disinformation and IMHO should be Supported in his efforts....

He has Relentlessly pursued the Towers case towards getting justice done. Read his book.

[Loud Mime]

The attack on the Cole was an act of war too.....but somebody was busy washing a blue dress.....

[AmericanDave]

He did much more than nothing...

"Finally, frustrated in my attempts to execute Mr. Clinton's "leave no stone unturned" order, I called former president George H.W. Bush. I had learned that he was about to meet Crown Prince Abdullah on another matter. After fully briefing Mr. Bush on the impasse and faxing him the talking points that I had now been working on for over two years, he personally asked the crown prince to allow FBI agents to interview the detained bombers.

After his Saturday meeting with now-King Abdullah, Mr. Bush called me to say that he made the request, and that the Saudis would be calling me. A few hours later, Prince Bandar, then the Saudi ambassador to Washington, asked me to come out to McLean, Va., on Monday to see Crown Prince Abdullah. When I met him with Wyche Fowler, our Saudi ambassador, and FBI counterterrorism chief Dale Watson, the crown prince was holding my talking points. He told me Mr. Bush had made the request for the FBI, which he granted, and told Prince Bandar to instruct Nayef to arrange for FBI agents to interview the prisoners.

Several weeks later, agents interviewed the co-conspirators. For the first time since the 1996 attack, we obtained direct evidence of Iran's complicity. What Mr. Clinton failed to do for three years was accomplished in minutes by his predecessor. This was the breakthrough we had been waiting for, and the attorney general and I immediately went to Mr. Berger with news of the Saudi prison interviews."

He has doggedly pursued this case as a promise he made to the families.....

[BenLurkin]

bttt

[Walkingfeather]

I don't think you need me to lay out every controversy that the FBI was involved with under his tenure that he did nothing buy protect the administration. If you do not know about it, I am sure alamo girl or someone has the files on it. He has done nothing but toot his own horn since he left office.

[Stultis]

Excellent. Glad WSJ made this available w/o subscription! RELATED: Before Clinton and minions undermined the Khobar Towers investigation, so as not to upset the Iranians, they (specifically Clinton Defense Secretaries Perry and Cohen, and also RINO Senator Arlen Specter) railroaded the Commander, even though he'd been denied relevant intelligence, but had undertaken then extraordinary measures to protect his men nevertheless. See:

Khobar Towers Shame – Ten Years After---The roots of Iranian terror. ^

Posted by SJackson On News/Activism ^ 06/23/2006 7:35:38 AM CDT · 9 replies · 327+ views FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | June 23, 2006 | Kenneth R. Timmerman Brig. Gen. Terryl Schwalier was stunned when he read the account of the June 25, 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia that appeared in my recent book, Countdown to Crisis: the Coming Nuclear Showdown with Iran. I was writing many years after the fact, drawing on sources from inside Iranian intelligence but also on published U.S. government reports. It was those U.S. reports that prompted General Schwalier to contact me a few months ago. “You paint a picture of significant government awareness that “Iran was up to something” in the months prior to the Khobar Towers attack,” he wrote...

[xzins]

AG, this is perhaps an addition to your Clinton legacy file, if you haven't already seen it. In any case, regards to you, sister.

[Calpernia]

>>>This was a U.N.-mandated mission after the 1991 Gulf War to stop Saddam Hussein from killing his Shiite people.

And this one was a Congression Act! Did this money go to the Clinton Library too?

NIX TO BLIX: ...The second has been the failure to implement Congress's Iraq Liberation Act - which was supposed to fund the overthrow of the dictator by native opposition groups. President Bill Clinton signed the 1998 act which was supposed to invest $97 million in this project. Apparently only $20,000 has been disbursed to the opposition groups - enough to buy some basic office supplies. The London office of the Iraqi National Congress, the main democratic opposition group, shut down at the end of last year...

[Calpernia]

bump

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so much for heads up, my dear brother in Christ!

[piasa]

Sandy Berger / Clinton Foundation / Iran deal bump

[Jet Jaguar]

Active Duty/Vet/Retiree ping.

Thanks Piasa.

[Maris Crane]

Good for you. I remember waiting patiently for Freeh, who I thought was an honest man, to come forward. And, he
never did.
Sorry Louis, no praise for you!