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A note I received today from a friend:
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Anyone remember this? 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.

He was being questioned 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
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Also: Terrorist pilot Mohammad Atta blew up a bus in Israel 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, Bill Clinton, and the Secretary of
State, Warren Christopher, "insisted" that all prisoners be released. Thus
Mohammad Atta was freed and eventually flew 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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