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Kindgo
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Thanks Paula ![[Kiss]](graemlins/Kiss.gif)
An urban legend got me ah?
My nephew sent it to me it sure sounded good.
This is what urban legends say about it:
Synopsis Colonel Oliver North branded Osama bin Laden as a deadly terrorist during his testimony before the Senate Select Committee investigating the Iran-Contra affair.
Recent versions of the email name then Senator Al Gore as questioning Oliver North.
See the email here.
Is it true? No.
Why? Colonel Oliver cited assassination threats by Abu Nidal, leader of the terrorist organization Fatah Revolutionary Council, as the reason he accepted the home security system from Richard Secord in his testimony before the Senate Select Committee in 1987.
The home security system cost $16,000, not $60,000 as the email claims.
As for Osama bin Laden, in the early 1980's he was busy founding Maktab al-Khidamat (MAK) with Palestianian Brotherhood founder Abdallah Azzam.
MAK recruited Arab volunteers to fight in Afghanistan and channel private and government aid to some Afghan Mujahideen factions. Osama bin Laden formed al-Qaida in 1988 after splitting off from MAK. Most terrorism experts date Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida's first forays into terrorism to a bombing in Aden, Yemen in 1992.
As for Al Gore questioning Oliver North during his testimony before the Senate Select Committee, he was not a member of the committee and so did not have the opportunity to question Oliver North.
When? October 21, 2001
Comments Oliver North was convicted in 1989 of accepting an illegal gratuity for the $16,000 home security system given to him by Richard Secord. In his trial testimony, North admitted forging letters showing he paid for the security system.
North's conviction was overturned due to legal conflicts with with his testimony before the Iran-Contra Senate Select Committee.
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God bless,
Kindgo
Inside the will of God there is no failure. Outside the will of God there is no success.
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Paula
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Hi, Kindgo! Someone recently sent me the above tidbits in a chain e-mail. At first blush, the Al Gore/Ollie North connection appears to be legit, but I later found it to be an urban legend. From the looks of it, the second story about Clinton releasing Mohammad Atta from prison has proven to be nothing more than a case of mistaken identity with Mahmoud Atta.
For more info, see http://www.tafkac.org/ulz/atta.html
http://www.tafkac.org/ulz/ollie.html
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Kindgo
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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. There was Ollie in front of God and country getting the
third
degree, but what he said was stunning!! He was being drilled by a
senator; "Did
you not recently spend close to $60,000 for a hone 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 terroriest 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 pronouce
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 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.
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, Isreal had to agree to release so-called
"Political
prisoners". However, the Israelis would not release any with blood on
their
hands. The American President at the time, Bill Clinton, and his
Secretary of
State, Warren Christopher, "insisted" that all prisoners be released.
Thus Mohammad Atta was freed, and eventually thanked the US by flying 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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God bless,
Kindgo
Inside the will of God there is no failure. Outside the will of God there is no success.
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