So who the hell blew up the USS Cole?

[11 Bravo]

First, it was Osama bin Laden. Then after Valerie Plame blew the administration out of the water with her testimony, we were given Khalid Sheikh Mohammed as the prime suspect - and as a way to change the subject. Today, with the Justice Department imploding under the weight of improprieties in the firing of US attorneys, we are told that Walid Muhammed bin Attash was the Cole mastermind. What next? When the shit finally hits the fan vis a vis Hookergate, who will be the next nefarious Al Qaeda operative to be fingered for the same fucking attack?

[NoPasaran]

1. The Clenis

In the final analysis, it's always about the Clenis.

[LSK]

2. remember how Bush responded to the Cole attack when he took office?

Neither do I.

[geardaddy]

6. That's right.

It happened under Clinton's watch.

:eyes:

[LSK]

10. barely

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cole_bombing

The USS Cole bombing was a suicide bombing attack against the U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer USS Cole (DDG 67) on October 12, 2000 while it was harbored in the Yemeni port of Aden. 17 sailors were killed.

[geardaddy]

17. I know.

That's why I had the :eyes:

[Warpy]

8. I do, he canceled it.

When Clinton left office, he did brief Stupid on what the investigation had begun to turn up, the participation of Al Qaeda in at least training the Yemeni terror cell that did the damage. The Hart Rudman report on how best to deal with Al Qaeda, including a plan to eradicate their training camps in Afghanistan, was simply put on a shelf and ignored until 9/12/01.

If it didn't involve Iraq, this gang of rabid ideologues didn't want anything to do with it.

[Rosemary2205]

12. Wish I could recommend just for your post :)

[zbdent]

9. snoooooooooooooze

and talk about the "threat" of Saddam Hussein ...

Oh, there was one military action ... a US submarine took out a Japanese fishing boat and several students ... off Hawaii ...

[blm]

3. Well, Halliburton-KBR was in charge of refueling the USS Cole. They let the bomber slip by

so it's a good guess that they purposely let the bomber get through in order to achieve their greater goal of perpetual war against a global terror network so they can justify their imperialistic aggression and fascist agenda.

Bush-Cheney would USE the bombing as a symbol of Clinton failing the military for their last push before election day, because none of the media UNDERSTOOD that Cheney PRIVATIZED logistics as Sec of Defense and his current company at the time of the bombing was in charge of the Cole's refueling.

[frylock]

18. and here i thought i was the only one to consider the uss cole as mihop..

I'm serious, too.

[progressoid]

4. Boris and Natasha?

[stellanoir]

5. the father of ANS's baby of course.

[dysfunctional press]

16. so...it WAS khalid sheikh mohammed-

didn't he also admit to piloting the plane that hit the pentagon on 9/11?

[Catherine Vincent]

7. I thought Clinton did it?

:sarcasm: for visitors reading this.

[TahitiNut]

11. Smokers ... from Waterworld, of course.

:smoke:


:eyes:

[Ian David]

13. USS Cole plotter escapes prison

USS Cole plotter escapes prison
Sunday, February 5, 2006; Posted: 5:17 p.m. EST (22:17 GMT)

(CNN) -- Interpol has issued "an urgent global security alert" after 23 "dangerous individuals" -- including a man identified as the mastermind of the attack on the USS Cole in 2000 -- escaped from a Yemeni prison.

The international crime-fighting organization said Sunday at least 13 of the 23 who escaped Friday were "convicted al Qaeda terrorists, some of whom were involved in attacks on U.S. and French ships in 2000 and 2002."

"Al Qaeda terrorists have been deemed a serious threat to the entire world community by the U.N. Security Council, by Interpol and by a wide range of countries," Interpol Secretary General Ronald K. Noble said in the statement.

They escaped via a 140-meter (150-yard) -long tunnel "dug by the prisoners and co-conspirators outside," Interpol said.

"Their escape cannot be considered an internal problem for Yemen alone."

Among the escapees was Jamal Ahmed Badawi, considered the mastermind behind the attack on the USS Cole on October 12, 2000.

Badawi was sentenced to death in September 2004 for plotting the attack. Two suicide bombers blew up an explosives-laden boat next to the destroyer while the destroyer was in the Aden, Yemen, harbor for a routine fuel stop.

More:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/02/05/cole.escape/index.html

[TX-RAT]

14. " Pissed off Muslim's Dude"

From a South Park episode.

[Cleita]

15. It was the Romulans. BushCo have been in cahoots with those

galactic masters as far back as Reagan because Babs and HW are in fact aliens altered to look like humans, but their actions prove that there isn't a drop of humanity in any of them or their spawn.

Now I must go back to my job selling freezers to Eskimos.

[Junkdrawer]

19. As I've been saying...The question is "Who directly or indirectly manages al Qaeda?"....

Because, when you look at all the queer events that have happened before, during and after 9/11, and you look at how al Qaeda is protected, and its financiers are protected, it looks like Saudi/Big Oil interests have far more say than most suspect.

[yardwork]

20. al Qaeda is Saudi

Osama bin Laden is the member of a high-ranking Saudi family. Members of OBL's family were quickly flown home right after 9/11, when every other plane in the nation was grounded.

The Bushes and the Saudi royal family have been doing business together for decades.

None of this is speculation. This is all fact.

[Junkdrawer]

21. The Safari Club....

http://www.spitfirelist.com/f522.html