Bill Clinton has protected Al'Qeada

In 1994, a Saudi diplomat defected to the United States with 14,000 pages of documents from the kingdom's sealed file cabinets. This mother lode of intelligence included evidence of plans for the assassination of Saudi opponents living in the West and, tantalizingly, details of the $7 billion the Saudis gave to Saddam Hussein for his nuclear program -- the first attempt to build an Islamic Bomb. The Saudi government, according to the defector, Mohammed Al Khilewi, slipped Saddam the nuclear loot during the Reagan and Bush Sr. years when our own government still thought Saddam too marvelous for words. The thought was that he would only use the bomb to vaporize Iranians.....


Clinton granted the Saudi defector asylum, but barred the FBI from looking at the documents. Al Khilewi's New York lawyer, Michael Wildes, told me he was stunned. Wildes handles some of America's most security-sensitive asylum cases. "We said , 'Here, take the documents! Go get some bad guys with them! We'll even pay for the photocopying!'" But the agents who came to his office had been ordered not to accept evidence of Saudi criminal activity, even on U.S. soil.

In 1997, the Canadians caught and extradited to America one of the Khobar Towers attackers. In 1999, Vernon Jordan's law firm stepped in and -- poof! -- the killer was shipped back to Saudi Arabia before he could reveal all he knew about Al Qaeda (valuable) and the Saudis (embarrassing). I reviewed, but was not permitted to take notes on, the alleged terrorist's debriefing by the FBI. To my admittedly inexpert eyes, there was enough on Al Qaeda to make him a source on terrorists worth holding on to. Not that he was set free -- he's in one of the kingdom's dungeons -- but his info is sealed up with him. The terrorist's extradition was "Clinton's." "Clinton's parting kiss to the Saudis," as one insider put it.
http://www.thinkingpeace.com/Lib/lib016.html

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please don't kill the messenger.

Like the Nation, Counterpunch they pushed a lot of unverified rumors and wild attacks.
Palast's credibility on the Clintons is extremely shaky. That he published old debunked attacks right before the November 2000 election proved to me that he had no less of an agenda that you guys.
Palast is been superb on stolen elections. Not so much on the Clintons.

Seems to me he was the last president who ever went after Al Qaeda.

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I mean, really. Bill Clinton, protector of terrorists? Seriously?

story is BS ?

and placed only the anti-Clinton parts here. You even cut out the first sentence of one paragraph you posted that said how much Clinton went after al-Qaeda after the Khobar bombing (while still being unfortunately obsequious to the Saudis). Why'd you do that exactly, huh? Didn't fit the "Clinton is a terrorist-lover" theme you were going for?

He warned Bush's babysitters to be on the look out for al-Qaeda attacks.

Suggesting that he helped them in anyway is just insane.

Is the story BS ?

he published many lies about them. Officially debunked by the Pillsburry commission.

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And it has been so for a very long time. The Taliban used to be our friends; Saddam Hussein used to be our friend... so what's the big deal?

The USA single handedly increased Al Qaeda's strength in the past seven years... they are bigger and better than ever! Yay team! :sarcasm:

who would take a stance for once ?

Take a position, call Palast a liar already.

Killing the messenger is so republican.

posts are amusing and it's up to you to find out about Palast. And casually filling these boards with Reich wing propaganda is so "freeperish" Like that?

jeeesh.

Get it ?

the story about the defector is false...and the story about the Khobar towers attack was false ?

Lets hear it guys ...is the story false ? ...was it made up ?

Lets be honest now...if I spun the story, then where is the spin ?


Your up ....hacks.

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that Clinton protected "Al Qeada."

How very telling of the Hillary supporters

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:hi:

The Bill Clinton bashing here lately is pretty unusual. Also somewhat indicative of the new posters here.

Apologies to JKeats.

By definition, that would have to have included Clinton. I don't care for his siding with Al Qaeda in the Balkans, however.

PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON developed the nation's first anti-terrorism policy, and appointed first national coordinator of anti-terrorist efforts.
# Bill Clinton stopped cold the Al Qaeda millennium hijacking and bombing plots.
# Bill Clinton stopped cold a planned attack to kill the Pope.
# Bill Clinton stopped cold a planned attack to blow up 12 U.S. jetliners simultaneously.
# Bill Clinton stopped cold a planned attack to blow up UN Headquarters.
# Bill Clinton stopped cold a planned attack to blow up FBI Headquarters.
# Bill Clinton stopped cold a planned attack to blow up the Israeli Embassy in Washington.
# Bill Clinton stopped cold a planned attack to blow up Boston airport.
# Bill Clinton stopped cold a planned attack to blow up Lincoln and Holland Tunnels in NY.
# Bill Clinton stopped cold a planned attack to blow up the George Washington Bridge.
# Bill Clinton stopped cold a planned attack to blow up the US Embassy in Albania.
# Bill Clinton tried to kill Osama bin Laden and disrupt Al Qaeda through preemptive strikes (efforts denounced by the G.O.P.).
# Bill Clinton brought perpetrators of first World Trade Center bombing and CIA killings to justice.
# Bill Clinton did not blame the Bush I administration for first World Trade Center bombing even though it occurred 38 days after Bush left office. Instead, worked hard, even obsessively -- and successfully -- to stop future terrorist attacks.
# Bill Clinton named the Hart-Rudman commission to report on nature of terrorist threats and major steps to be taken to combat terrorism.
# Bill Clinton sent legislation to Congress to tighten airport security. (Remember, this is before 911) The legislation was defeated by the Republicans because of opposition from the airlines.
# Bill Clinton sent legislation to Congress to allow for better tracking of terrorist funding. It was defeated by Republicans in the Senate because of opposition from banking interests.
# Bill Clinton sent legislation to Congress to add tagents to explosives, to allow for better tracking of explosives used by terrorists. It was defeated by the Republicans because of opposition from the NRA.
# Bill Clinton increased the military budget by an average of 14 per cent, reversing the trend under Bush I.
# Bill Clinton tripled the budget of the FBI for counterterrorism and doubled overall funding for counterterrorism.
# Bill Clinton detected and destroyed cells of Al Qaeda in over 20 countries.
# Bill Clinton created national stockpile of drugs and vaccines including 40 million doses of smallpox vaccine.
# Of Clinton's efforts says Robert Oakley, Reagan Ambassador for Counterterrorism: "Overall, I give them very high marks" and "The only major criticism I have is the obsession with Osama".
# Paul Bremer, current Civilian Administrator of Iraq disagrees slightly with Robert Oakley as he believed the Bill Clinton Administration had "correctly focused on bin Laden.
# Barton Gellman in the Washington Post put it best, "By any measure available, Bill Clinton left office having given greater priority to terrorism than any president before him" and was the "first administration to undertake a systematic anti-terrorist effort".
http://liberalslikechrist.org/about/clinton.html

can we put an end to this abomination of a thread, now?

as the article states?

Your header is full of shit. But, I suspect you don't really care.

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