Anyone remember this?? It was 1987! At 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!
Some senator was drilling him -- "Did you not recently spend close to
$60,000 for a home 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 terrorist 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
pronounce 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 is 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

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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, Israel 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. If you agree that the American public must be
made aware of this fact, pass this on.

UPDATE: Fiction, and fiction. Thanks to the many who mailed.