The Clinton Legacy

Waco, The 2002 World Trade Center Attack, Oklahoma City Bombing, The Khobar Towers Bombing, Embassy Bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, Al Queda Attack on USS Cole.

Louis Freeh never forgot about the Khobar Towers bombing and the more than 400 casualities among United States airmen. He wrote about it in the Wall Street Journal:

On June 25, 1996, Iran again attacked America at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, exploding a huge truck bomb that devastated Khobar Towers and murdered 19 U.S. airmen as they rested in their dormitory. These young heroes spent every day risking their lives enforcing the no-fly zone over southern Iraq; that is, protecting Iraqi Shiites from their own murderous tyrant. When I visited this horrific scene soon after the attack, I watched dozens of dedicated FBI agents combing through the wreckage in 120-degree heat, reverently handling the human remains of our brave young men. More than 400 of our Air Force men and women were wounded in this well-planned attack,

Mr. Freeh has written a book revealing that the American president at the time of the bombings, Bill Clinton, gave the Saudis a pass in exchange for a donation to his Presidential Library. One can only wonder what other favors Clinton was able to extract from our enemies for his forebearance towards them. Time will tell all and that will be Clinton’s legacy.

On June 25, 1996, Iran again attacked America at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, exploding a huge truck bomb that devastated Khobar Towers and murdered 19 U.S. airmen as they rested in their dormitory. These young heroes spent every day risking their lives enforcing the no-fly zone over southern Iraq; that is, protecting Iraqi Shiites from their own murderous tyrant. When I visited this horrific scene soon after the attack, I watched dozens of dedicated FBI agents combing through the wreckage in 120-degree heat, reverently handling the human remains of our brave young men. More than 400 of our Air Force men and women were wounded in this well-planned attack,

Freeh says the former president let down the American people and the families of victims of the Khobar Towers terror attack in Saudi Arabia. After promising to bring to justice those responsible for the bombing that killed 19 and injured hundreds, Freeh says Clinton refused to personally ask Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah to allow the FBI to question bombing suspects the kingdom had in custody – the only way the bureau could secure the interviews, according to Freeh. Freeh writes in the book, “Bill Clinton raised the subject only to tell the crown prince that he understood the Saudis’ reluctance to cooperate and then he hit Abdullah up for a contribution to the Clinton Presidential Library.” Says Freeh, “That’s a fact that I am reporting.” (The Drudge Report)

The Clinton Legacy:

• February 26th 1993 - Terrorism first came to America with the first bombing of the World Trade Center. Clinton treated it as a “criminal act” instead of an act of war.
• 17 April 1995 - The Oklahoma City bombing which seems to have had a middle-eastern terrorist connection, which the government did not pursure, but prosecuted and put to death Timothy McVeigh.
• The next year saw the Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia where 19 American’s were killed.
• In 1998, U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by terrorists.
• In October 2000, Al Qaeda struck again, attacking an American warship, the USS Cole, while docked in Yemen. Fifteen American sailors were killed in a Yemen port and the ship seriously damaged. The Clinton government did not consider it an act of war and did nothing in response. Two months later, in December of 2000, the Central Intelligence Agency was within 24 hours of apprehending Bin Laden. Clinton pulled them off the trail when the American Ambassador to Yemen complained that the investigation was causing trouble for US/Yemen relations. The CIA was pulled out of Yemen, and Osama Bin Laden got away.

This post was originally published by Kerfuffles Blog on December 21, 2005.