Soft On Terrorism
Who's soft on terrorism?
Bush:
2000 USS Cole - Within a 1.5 months of the USS Cole bombing, Yemen had suspects charged (see
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1054582.stm ) Oddly, the day after Baghdad fell to US troops, those suspects "escaped" from Yemeni prison (see http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2940251.stm )
PERPS STILL AT LARGE
2001 September 11 - Investigation not finished, Bush stonewalling investigators. 800 prisioners in Guantamo Bay but OBL is not in jail
PERPS STILL AT LARGE
2001 Anthrax letters - Investigation stalled
PERPS STILL AT LARGE
2002 Pakistan, Jordan - 3 attacks claiming at least 10 american lives
PERPS STILL AT LARGE
2003 Riyadh bombings - 2 separate incidents. Investigation in progress. No arrests
PERPS STILL AT LARGE
2003 Turkey bombings - Investigators found link to Al Qaeda, Osama
PERPS STILL AT LARGE
2003, 2004 Ricin mailings - Investigation pending
Clinton years
1993 WTC 1 attack - Four followers of the Egyptian cleric Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman were captured, convicted of the World Trade Center bombing in March 1994, and sentenced to 240 years in prison each. The purported mastermind of the plot, Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, was captured in 1995, convicted of the bombing in November 1997, and also sentenced to 240 years in prison. One additional suspect fled the U.S. and is believed to be living in Baghdad.
DONE
1995 Riyadh bombing - Saudi Arabian authorities arrested four Saudi nationals whom they claim confessed to the bombings, but U.S. officials were denied permission to see or question the suspects before they were convicted and beheaded in May 1996.
DONE
1995 Okhlahoma city - Investigated. Perps arrested. 1 death penalty already executed
DONE
1996 Khobar Towers, Dhahran - A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicted thirteen Saudis and an unidentified Lebanese chemist for the Khobar Towers bombing. The suspects remain in Saudi custody, beyond the reach of the American justice system. (Saudi Arabia has no extradition treaty with the U.S.)
DONE
1998 African Embassy bombings - Four participants with ties to Osama bin Laden were captured, convicted in U.S. federal court, and sentenced to life in prison without parole in October 2001.
DONE
2000 USS Cole bombing - The USS Cole bombing occurred one month before the 2000 presidential election, so even under the best of circumstances it was unlikely that the investigation could have been completed before the end of President Clinton's term of office three months later.
http://www.snopes.com/rumors/clinton.htm
http://www.angelfire.com/hi5/pearly/htmls/bill-terrorism.html
Clinton's covert hunt for bin Laden
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A62725-2001Dec18
Bush:
2000 USS Cole - Within a 1.5 months of the USS Cole bombing, Yemen had suspects charged (see
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1054582.stm ) Oddly, the day after Baghdad fell to US troops, those suspects "escaped" from Yemeni prison (see http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2940251.stm )
PERPS STILL AT LARGE
2001 September 11 - Investigation not finished, Bush stonewalling investigators. 800 prisioners in Guantamo Bay but OBL is not in jail
PERPS STILL AT LARGE
2001 Anthrax letters - Investigation stalled
PERPS STILL AT LARGE
2002 Pakistan, Jordan - 3 attacks claiming at least 10 american lives
PERPS STILL AT LARGE
2003 Riyadh bombings - 2 separate incidents. Investigation in progress. No arrests
PERPS STILL AT LARGE
2003 Turkey bombings - Investigators found link to Al Qaeda, Osama
PERPS STILL AT LARGE
2003, 2004 Ricin mailings - Investigation pending
Clinton years
1993 WTC 1 attack - Four followers of the Egyptian cleric Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman were captured, convicted of the World Trade Center bombing in March 1994, and sentenced to 240 years in prison each. The purported mastermind of the plot, Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, was captured in 1995, convicted of the bombing in November 1997, and also sentenced to 240 years in prison. One additional suspect fled the U.S. and is believed to be living in Baghdad.
DONE
1995 Riyadh bombing - Saudi Arabian authorities arrested four Saudi nationals whom they claim confessed to the bombings, but U.S. officials were denied permission to see or question the suspects before they were convicted and beheaded in May 1996.
DONE
1995 Okhlahoma city - Investigated. Perps arrested. 1 death penalty already executed
DONE
1996 Khobar Towers, Dhahran - A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicted thirteen Saudis and an unidentified Lebanese chemist for the Khobar Towers bombing. The suspects remain in Saudi custody, beyond the reach of the American justice system. (Saudi Arabia has no extradition treaty with the U.S.)
DONE
1998 African Embassy bombings - Four participants with ties to Osama bin Laden were captured, convicted in U.S. federal court, and sentenced to life in prison without parole in October 2001.
DONE
2000 USS Cole bombing - The USS Cole bombing occurred one month before the 2000 presidential election, so even under the best of circumstances it was unlikely that the investigation could have been completed before the end of President Clinton's term of office three months later.
http://www.snopes.com/rumors/clinton.htm
http://www.angelfire.com/hi5/pearly/htmls/bill-terrorism.html
Clinton's covert hunt for bin Laden
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A62725-2001Dec18
posted by Gary at 7:12 AM
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