[ April 24, 2024 ]
“After praising the ‘beautiful religious tradition’ of Islam, which the USS Cole terrorists had ‘twisted’, President Clinton had promised that, ‘America will not stop standing guard.’ But under him, it never even started standing guard.” And now under Obama, it is aiding and abetting the enemy.
“Obama Frees USS Cole Bombing Terrorist,” by Daniel Greenfield, FrontPage, May 2, 2016 (thanks to Rob):
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On Thursday morning, sailors on board the USS Cole were lining up for an early lunch. Seventeen of them died as an Al Qaeda bomb on board a fishing boat tore through the hull outside the galley. The dead included 15 men and 2 women, one of whom had a young child. For three weeks the crew of the USS Cole struggled to keep their ship from sinking while working waist deep in water with bucket brigades, sleeping on the deck and living surrounded by the terrible aftermath of the terrorist attack.
The survivors, wounded and whole, received the words “Glory is the Reward of Valor” written on the bent steel removed from the site of the explosion that tore through their ship and their lives.
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The President of the United States promised that justice would be done. “To those who attacked them we say: You will not find a safe harbor. We will find you and justice will prevail.”
Despite Clinton’s words, justice did not prevail.
The father of Home Maintenance Technician Third Class Kenneth Eugene Clodfelter believed that there would be justice, but he was to be disappointed. “I just felt, for sure, you know, they’re not going to go ahead and just kiss off the lives of 17 U.S. sailors,” he said. “In fact, they didn’t do anything.”
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Walid bin Attash, a planner of the USS Cole bombing and who also played a role in the 9/11 attack, is still at Gitmo. His trial continues to drag on while he and his lawyers play games. Rahim Hussein al-Nashiri, another of the planners, is still awaiting trial. But Mashur Abdallah Ahmed al Sabri, one of the members of the USS Cole cell, has already been released by Barack Obama from Guantanamo Bay.
Sabri was rated as a high risk terrorist who is ”is likely to pose a threat to the US, its interests, and allies”, but that was no obstacle for Obama who had already fired one Secretary of Defense for being slow to free dangerous Al Qaeda terrorists and was browbeating his latest appointee over the same issue.
The very paperwork that was used as the basis for the decision to free Sabri describes him as “a member of a Yemeni al-Qaida cell directly involved with the USS Cole attack”. This cell “conducted surveillance” on the targeted vessel and “prepared explosives for the bombing”. Sabri had been arrested in Yemen for his involvement in the attack before he managed to make his way to Afghanistan.
Now he is a free man and has been sent back to the homeland of terrorism, Saudi Arabia.
After praising the “beautiful religious tradition” of Islam, which the USS Cole terrorists had “twisted”, President Clinton had promised that, “America will not stop standing guard”.
But under him, it never even started standing guard.
While Osama bin Laden prepared for US retaliation, evacuating Kandahar and escaping into the desert, President Clinton rejected military action against the terrorists claiming that the evidence against Bin Laden was not strong enough. The State Department warned that attacking Bin Laden would “inflame the Islamic world”.
Very little has changed since then. Muslim terrorists strike and we are told to close our eyes and appease harder or we risk inflaming the tender sensitivities of the Muslim world
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67 Comments
7 years ago
And the next president Clinton will guarantee that he gets away with this, and everything else he’s done.
7 years ago
Reply to
john ruscoe
And that’s even After her First installment of the $6billion that she ‘Lost’!
7 years ago
Reply to
Brian Lesko
I wish I wasn’t, but Trump’s nomination makes it all but inevitable.
7 years ago
Reply to
CWS
Nope — Trump will BEAT this witch (for lack of a better word) come November!
7 years ago
UNREAL
ONLY TRUMP 2016
7 years ago
Reply to
joe1429
Or the US will be going thru a mini-dark age, due to perversion from the top elite (east coast to the left coast), down to the gang-bangers & unwed mothers. The porn fathers & the non-mothers. As lawlessness rules the land.
7 years ago
Reply to
harbidoll
Dont forget about the 20tril in debt. Most economists predict bankruptcy at 25tril, which killary will easily get to, with all the freebies
7 years ago
Reply to
joe1429
right U are! which is 1 reason Trump will win.He gives us hope, even tho we know it will be painful! (no more free stuff)
7 years ago
Reply to
edbo
I agree. It will be nice to have a tiger in the white house instead of a pussy. At least Trump won’t go around the world making a mockery of our country like Barry has done. Trump in the white house; Barry in the outhouse; or bathhouse.
7 years ago
Me (going back in time with my tablet, showing the founding fathers this article): OK, Ben! What about it Thomas?! & Sam…& John & George ? What’s WORSE than Treason?! Hunh?!! Well?…’Cause we’re gonna need it defined 240 years down the road, boys!!!!!
7 years ago
Pathetic piece of crap!
7 years ago
Treason. Vote Trump and see that all traitors and their seditious muslim pets are tried, convicted, and hanged by the neck until dead.
7 years ago
Reply to
wilypagan
Like Trump hasnt “cut a deal” with the Gulf State petro dollars long ago!
7 years ago
VOTE FOR TRUMP!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxaKUo5naoY
7 years ago
VOTE FOR TRUMP!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_1H0q7a0h8
7 years ago
needs his soldiers back on the battlefield!
7 years ago
I am so sick and tired of the political game! Stop releasing terrorists, get rid of Obama, and close our borders!!
And as for this site, it’s disgusting! I am to the point of not reading these posts for all the trash that it has supporting this!!
7 years ago
Reply to
Robbin Lee Hampton
It is a free country, if you don’t like the comments, don’t read them. On your way out, don’t let the door hit you, where evolution split you.
7 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Apparently you can’t read. I didn’t say the comments were bad. I said the ads supporting the website are disgusting. Please learn to read and comprehend before going berserk!
7 years ago
Reply to
Robbin Lee Hampton
O come on, that takes all the fun out of having a “democrat” moment.
7 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
And WHAT KIND of foreign name is Mahou Shoujo? It’s your kind that has depleted patriotism in this country.
7 years ago
Reply to
Miss Mellie
What is a “Miss Mellie”? Since when does patriotism have an ethnic sounding name?
7 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Melanie Hamilton Wilkes of 12 Oakes. Patriotism has had a European-sounding ethnic sounding name since the Jeffersons, the Adams, the Hamiltons and the Lee’s wrote the Declaration and the Constitution. i find no abaka gouble gooks among them.
7 years ago
Reply to
Miss Mellie
That was then, this is now. Like it or not, times, they are a changing. The trick is to get them to change for the better.
7 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
We are becoming balkanized by the likes of your kind; let’s see how much liberty is around in 25 years.
7 years ago
Reply to
Miss Mellie
Would you be happier if I changed my avatar to Dr. Roberta Lapen? If you and your ilk, ‘balkanize” that easily, you don’t have a spine, guts or a brain cell.
7 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Actually, I prefer Mary Smith or Sue Jones. Ask France how easy it is to resist balkanization when you’re overrun with swarthy foreigners.
7 years ago
Reply to
Miss Mellie
Harrumph, I resemble that remark why don’t you like us coloured folk?
7 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
I like you fine in your own countries. Seems y’all create 3rd-world nations; leave them for America and then whine about being “offended.”
7 years ago
Reply to
Miss Mellie
Canada is very close to America. If you build a wall between Canada, Mexico and the U.S, none of the muslims will be able to get out. From your statements, you are north American indian, what tribe?
7 years ago
Reply to
Miss Mellie
Miss Mellie or is it miss smelly, are you dumb or just plain simple. What has a name to do with patriotism? Mahou is obviously not a Western name but who cares. I rather have her at my back then you miss smelly.
7 years ago
For what is the Congress waiting to impeache hybrid Obama???.
7 years ago
if you vote democrat, then you support the murder of americans by muslims
7 years ago
Reply to
Rocinante44
this post is 7+ years ago if you are wondering.
maobama is on the way out and back to his madrassa and bacha bazi days
7 years ago
When Trump becomes President, he should have our national security people ASSASSINATE this bastard!
7 years ago
Reply to
Agent153Orange
No , I prefer a piano wire,video taped hanging, with a sign hung, as he is hung saying “I am a Treasonous Seditious Bastard from Kenya.”.
7 years ago
Reply to
farflung
I meant the raghead terrorist bastard, not Odumbo — but I agree, our Traitor-in-Chief should be tried by military tribunal and executed!
7 years ago
Reply to
Brian Lesko
Yes he does — Rassmussen has them completely even in the polls right now!
7 years ago
Reply to
Brian Lesko
It will be tough for her to conduct a campaign from behind bars. The FBI already has enough on her to throw her ass so far back in jail they would have to shoot beans to her with a shotgun.
7 years ago
Reply to
Drew the Infidel
Lynch will not further the investigation until after Hillary has served 8 years as president.
7 years ago
I don’t understand the laws of the USA. I am not an American and I do not live in the USA. How can Mr Obama ‘decide’ this, ‘approve’ that and ‘release’ guilty people?
7 years ago
Reply to
Lia
Because he is the first black mulatto president and fear of riots if they impeach him. His antics have ruined a Nation, he needs to live to an old age and suffer the ills he has created. May a curse be upon his family and for generations they suffer for the ills of this Treasonous Bastard.
7 years ago
Reply to
farflung
Dear farflung and Robert, I am an old woman (I am turning 74 this year), and presently I am aware of a huge pity that wells up in me when I think of the people of this world and of what various leaders (political, economic, religious) are doing to them (and this includes the muslim people, for the mass of them are as misled and brainwashed as the rest of us, to answer to the purposes of others).
7 years ago
Reply to
Lia
Well, I’m an American citizen and I’m confused and disappointed that none of the spineless Republicans in Congress have said a word about this.
This anti-American in the White House can’t leave soon enough.
D
7 years ago
The definition of insanity is doing the same ineffective thing over and over and expecting it to work. Obama and the Clintons have been appeasing Muslims for decades therefore they must be insane. With Hellary (sic) in the WH there will be more of the same. making nice with the poor oppressed Muslims
7 years ago
Congress wake up!!! Our treasonous pres is freeing american killers!!! Hellooooo?? Anyone in Congress alive???
7 years ago
I can hardly believe what I’m reading …whhaaaaaT ?
7 years ago
According to FBI agent Ali Souffan, author of “The Black Banners”, this was the second attempt on the Cole. In the previous one just days earlier, they had overloaded and sunk a lighter vessel and had to retrieve their explosives from underwater for the successful effort. He testified before the 9/11 Commission under the cryptonym “Agent S”.
7 years ago
and Hellary said her husband Billie is the best advisor she could have!
7 years ago
Clinton told FBI director Louie Freeh to go after and bring to justice the people responsible for the Kobar Heights bombing. When all the leads led to Iran Clinton refused to do anything about it. He even quit talking to Freeh. In Freeh’s book he said Clinton refused to even talk to him the last 2 years he was office. If you want more of this vote for Hillary.
7 years ago
Barack has a hard on for all those Muslim savages!
7 years ago
Just shoot the dregs, including all of the clinton team to present.
7 years ago
Snopes labeled this article as ‘mostly false’ for no reason:
http://www.snopes.com/obama-freed-uss-cole-terrorist/
Snopes downplayed Sabri’s importance in the USS Cole Terrorist attack cell but gave no real reason for the ‘mostly false’ rating. To me it doesn’t matter if he built the bomb or provided security for those who did. It doesn’t matter if he conducted the surveilance on the USS cole himself. He lived in the same house as the people who did, and failed to report on them. He is a terrorist. Too bad Snopes has been smoking the ‘religion of peace’ crack pipe too long to see than.
The stupid Snopes article list a bunch of sources that don’t mention Sabri, as if absence of evidence were evidence of absence.
Sad when an admitted highly biased writer like Geller is less biased than those who claim to be unbiased fact checkers. I rate Snopes ‘mostly false.’
Other Sources.
http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/detainees/324-mashur-abdallah-muqbil-ahmed-al-sabri
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3571939/Commander-Navy-ship-bombed-2000-killing-17-crew-angry-man-linked-attack-sent-Guantanamo-Saudi-Arabia-without-trial-free-soon.html
D
7 years ago
In Australia vote1ala.org
7 years ago
The only people capable of stopping these releases are the Joint Chiefs of Staff. But obviously our Generals don’t care about our men and woman in uniform.
