> Date: Friday, April 16, 2004 3:50 PM > > Is the Attack on Condi to Cover Up Clinton's Role in Arming Drug-Dealing > > Terrorists? > > By Mary Mostert, Analyst, Banner of Liberty (www.bannerofliberty.com) > April 12, 2004 > > The White House's release of the much discussed August 6, 2001 memo > conclusively proved that Dr. Condoleeza Rice's testimony, which > Commissioner Ben Veniste tried his best to block after asking her about > it, was totally correct. > Indeed it is, as Dr. Rice stated, a " historical document" that did not > warn of anything we didn't already know. Ben Veniste tried what came > across to me as a 1940's racial put-down of a > distinguished Stanford University scholar that would have never taken > place had she been a white male scholar from Harvard > instead of a black female scholar from California. > Only, Dr. Rice held her ground with grace and courage and didn't rise to > > Ben Veniste's bait. Her opening words, which have been almost totally > ignored > by the media, actually set forth the realities of the situation. She > said: > "The terrorist threat to our nation did not emerge on September 11, > 2001. > Long before that day, radical, freedom-hating terrorists declared war on > > America and on the civilized world. The attack on the Marine barracks in > Lebanon in 1983, the hijacking of the Achille Lauro > in 1985, the rise of Al Qaeda and the > bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, the attacks on American > installations in Saudi Arabia in 1995 and 1996, the East Africa bombings > of > 1998, the > attack on the USS Cole in 2000 -- these and other atrocities were part > of a > sustained, systematic campaign to spread devastation and chaos and to > murder innocent Americans. The terrorists were at war with us, but we > were not yet at war with them. > For more than 20 years, the terrorist threat gathered, and America's > response across several administrations of both parties was > insufficient. > Historically, democratic societies have been slow to react to gathering > threats, tending instead to wait to confront threats until > they are too dangerous to ignore or until it is too late." > > That was a very gracious way of saying that 9-11 resulted from the > Clinton > administration doing nothing. As it turns out, we have learned nothing > we > didn't already know by release of the much-discussed August 6, 2001 > memo. In fact, as early as 1996 I wrote 10 articles on > the issue of terrorism and its > connection to the world-wide illegal drug industry. One of those > articles, > which you can find on my Terrorism webpage, is entitled: Clinton OK'ed > Terrorist Financed Weapons to Bosnia Muslims Plus > Free Weapons and "Police Training" From US Taxpayers. > By May of 1999 I was writing about Osama bin Laden's connection with the > > Kosovo Liberation Army, the group that became Clinton's ally in the > bombing of Kosovo. I wrote: > The real battle that is going on has been between the KLA and the > police, > who finding themselves out-gunned by the well-armed drug dealers in the > KLA, called for the Yugoslavian army to help them fight the KLA > terrorist-drug-dealers. > Somehow, the U.S. Air Force, a scant two weeks after I wrote those > columns, found itself, at Bill Clinton's PERSONAL command, without > Congress or the United Nations, being used as the air > defense for the KLA. It now appears that Bill Clinton is determined that > the KLA forces, a group composed of terrorists > and drug-dealers, and associated with another terrorist we know, Osama > bin > Laden, credited with blowing up a couple of US Embassies, will be > allowed > to operate freely, just as they are in Northern Albania. > As recently as last month, March 17-18, 2004, the KLA operatives who > have > pretty much ethnically cleansed Kosovo under the watchful eye of NATO, > conducted a 2 day pogram of burning Serbian Orthodox Churches, many of > which were hundreds of years old. Over 100 > Christian Churches in Kosovo already had been > burned, which is not surprising since the United States, under Clinton, > armed, supported and put Kosovo under the near total control of the KLA > terrorist group. > Yet, there was almost no mention of it in the American media. Why? > Because > it would fly in the face of the pro-terrorist, pro-drug lord reports you > have > been getting out of the American media concerning Kosovo. > The information that I wrote about concerning terrorism and its > connection > with the worldwide drug trade, which, according to United Nations > documents is > one-seventh of all world trade, did not come to me from any contacts in > government. It came from hunting the answer to logical questions such > as, > â?oWhere is the money coming from, for the Albanians, who represent the > poorest group of people in all of Europe, to buy all > these expensive weapons? A little research > into the arrests by Interpol of KLA operatives transporting heroin, made > > from Afghanistan poppies, into Europe supplied the answer. It was very > easy to track - on the Internet! > Read Dr. Rice's opening statement. That is what the media and people > like > Ben Veniste are desperately trying to keep you from knowing. The > elimination of Al Qaeda, Dr. Rice said in her opening > statement, was the very first > major national security policy directive of the Bush administration -- > not > Russia, not missile defense, not Iraq, but the elimination of Al Qaeda. > I don't remember > seeing that reported in any news article. She also talked about > discussing > other issues with the outgoing Clinton Administration National Security > people. > That is quite a policy leap from Clinton allowing the Al Qaeda to ship > arms into Kosovo and Bosnia. > When Commissioner Kean asked about what she did with the "new > information" she had supposedly gotten from Richard Clarke, National > Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and > Counter-terrorism who was appointed by > Clinton in 1998, she replied: > "Well, in fact, Mr. Chairman, it was not new information. I think we all > > knew about the 1998 bombings. We knew that there was speculation that > the 2000 Cole attack was Al Qaeda. There had > been, I think, documentaries about > Usama bin Laden. > "I, myself, had written for an introduction to a volume on bioterrorism > done at Stanford that I thought that we wanted not to wake up one day > and find that Usama bin Laden had succeeded on our > soil. > â??It was on the radar screen of any person who studied or worked in the > > international security field. > In fact, even an inquisitive journalist, like me, could see what was > going > on. Why would Richard Clarke and Ben Veniste be so determined to > convince > the American people that Dr. Rice and President Bush are stupid and > incompetent? > Perhaps it is to make sure you never find out that it was Richard Clarke > > who was in charge of Counterterrorism when Clinton made the decision to > make the KLA, a well known drug-dealing terrorist > organization, its #1 ally in the Balkans? > > To comment: Mary@bannerofliberty.com > Mary Mostert