VERY Interesting

> Anyone remember this?? It was 1987! At a lecture the other day they
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> Were playing an old news video of Lt. Col. Oliver North testifying
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> at
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> the Iran-Contra hearings during the Reagan Administration. There was
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> Ollie in front of God and country getting the third degree, but what he
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> said was stunning!
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> He was being drilled by a senator; "Did you not recently spend close
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> To $60,000 for a home security system?"
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> Ollie replied, "Yes, I did, Sir."
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> The senator continued, trying to get a laugh out of the audience,
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> "Isn't that just a little excessive?"
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> "No, sir," continued Ollie.
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> "No? And why not?" the senator asked.
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> "Because the lives of my family and I were threatened, sir."
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> "Threatened? By whom?" the senator questioned.
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> "By a terrorist, sir" Ollie answered.
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> "Terrorist? What terrorist could possibly scare you that much?"
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> "His name is Osama bin Laden, sir" Ollie replied.
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> At this point the senator tried to repeat the name, but couldn't
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> pronounce it, which most people back then probably couldn't. A
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> couple of people laughed at the attempt. Then the senator continued.
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> "Why are you so afraid of this man?" the senator asked.
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> "Because, sir, he is the most evil person alive that I know of"
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> Ollie answered.
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> "And what do you recommend we do about him?" asked the senator.
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> "Well, sir, if it was up to me, I would recommend that an assassin team
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> be formed to eliminate him and his men from the face of the earth."
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> The senator disagreed with this approach, and that was all that was
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> shown of the clip.
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> 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.
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> The Israelis captured, tried and imprisoned him. As part of the Oslo
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> agreement with the Palestinians in 1993, Israel had to agree to
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> release so-called "political prisoners". However, the Israelis would
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> not release any with blood on their hands.The American President at
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> the time, Bill Clinton, and his Secretary of State, Warren
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> Christopher, "insisted" that all prisoners be released. Thus
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> Mohammad Atta was freed and eventually thanked the US by flying an
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> airplane
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> into Tower One of the World Trade Center. This was reported by many of
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> the American TV networks at the time that the terrorists were first
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> identified. It was censored in the US from all later reports.
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Wow! That's scary. Food for thought...

Woa, that is positively chilling.

Since I was only 9 back in 1987, what was the whole Oliver North thing about?

Oliver North was a very high ranking Marine who was involved in Reagan's big scandal the Iran/Contra Affair. (Anyone, please correct me if I get any of this info wrong.) The Reagan Administration, or at least factions thereof, were selling weapons to the Contras in Columbia to help them overthrow their government, and also negotiating with the money from selling those weapons to free hostages being held in Iran. Both of those actions were/are contrary to policy.

I've seen this information before, with the clips from the interrogation of Ollie North. Of course, it doesn't really surprise me that Al Gore didn't have a clue. I wasn't real "up" on politics at the time since I was a teen, but I was definitely keeping up with the PMRC, Tipper's group to villify music. He was clueless about that, too. No offense to Democrats here, but I just still can't believe how much the Clinton administration messed up on the whole terrorist front. They had the chance to get rid of Osama Bin Laden but didn't think he was much of a threat to American security. Sad.

Oh, thanks Heidi, but what was North's role in the Iran Contra Affair?

(I guess I could just research it on the Internet )

OK, well doing a little research, I was wrong on a whole lot of points! It was Nicaragua, not Columbia, and they were planning on shipping arms to Iran. Oliver North was one of the central figures in arranging all of the transactions and was granted immunity while testifying before Congress on the matter.

Anyway, most of the background is at this site, which, unfortunately, shows that this story is not true at all. http://www.snopes2.com/rumors/north.htm

Sorry to tell you guys, but that whole clip of Ollie saying it was Osama Bin Laden is all a hoax.

He did say some of it, but the name wasn't Bin Ladens'. Soembody doctored up the facts to make it more dramatic.


Unfortunately, this is just another email internet hoax!!