While the Dems continue to foam at the mouth over the ABC mini-series The Path to 9/11, Power Line has injected an indisputable dose of reality into the debate.
This stuff isn't fictionalized. There are no composite characters, no dialogue created. This isn't a docudrama script.
This is some of what happened on the terror front during the Clinton administration:
* January 25, 1993: Mir Aimal Kansi, a Pakistani, fired an AK-47 into cars waiting at a stoplight in front of the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Virginia, killing two CIA employees.
* February 26, 1993: Islamic terrorists try to bring down the World Trade Center with car bombs. They failed to destroy the buildings, but killed 6 and injured over 1000 people.
* March 12, 1993: Car bombings in Mumbai, India leave 257 dead and 1,400 others injured.
* July 18, 1994: Bombing of Jewish Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 86 and wounds 300. The bombing is generally attributed to Hezbollah acting on behalf of Iran.
* July 19, 1994: Alas Chiricanas Flight 00901 is bombed, killing 21. Generally attributed to Hezbollah.
* July 26, 1994: The Israeli Embassy is attacked in London, and a Jewish charity is also car-bombed, wounding 20. The attacks are attributed to Hezbollah.
* December 11, 1994: A bomb explodes on board Philippine Airlines Flight 434, killing a Japanese businessman. It develops that Ramzi Yousef planted the bomb to test it for the larger terrorist attack he is planning.
* December 24, 1994: In a preview of September 11, Air France Flight 8969 is hijacked by Islamic terrorists who planned to crash the plane in Paris.
* January 6, 1995: Operation Bojinka, an Islamist plot to bomb 11 U.S. airliners over the Pacific Ocean, is discovered on a laptop computer in a Manila, Philippines apartment by authorities after a fire occurred in the apartment. Noted terrorists including Ramzi Yousef and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed are involved in the plot.
* June 14—June 19, 1995: The Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis, in which 105 civilians and 25 Russian troops were killed following an attack by Chechan Islamists.
* July—October, 1995: Bombings in France by Islamic terrorists led by Khaled Kelkal kill eight and injure more than 100.
* November 13, 1995: Bombing of OPM-SANG building in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia kills 7
* November 19, 1995: Bombing of Egyptian Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan kills 19.
* January 1996: In Kizlyar, 350 Chechen Islamists took 3,000 hostages in a hospital. The attempt to free them killed 65 civilians and soldiers.
* February 25 - March 4, 1996: A series of four suicide bombings in Israel leave 60 dead and 284 wounded within 10 days.
* June 11, 1996: A bomb explodes on a train traveling on the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line of the Moscow Metro, killing four and unjuring at least 12.
* June 25, 1996: The Khobar Towers bombing, carried out by Hezbollah with Iranian support. Nineteen U.S. servicemen were killed and 372 wounded.
* February 24, 1997: An armed man opens fire on tourists at an observation deck atop the Empire State Building in New York City, United States, killing a Danish national and wounding visitors from several countries. A handwritten note carried by the gunman claims this was a punishment attack against the "enemies of Palestine".
* November 17, 1997: Massacre in Luxor, Egypt, in which Islamist gunmen attack tourists, killing 62 people.
* January 1998: Wandhama Massacre - 24 Kashmiri Pandits are massacred by Pakistan-backed Islamists in the city of Wandhama in Indian-controlled Kashmir.
* February 14, 1998: Bombings by Islamic Jihadi groups at an election rally in the Indian city of Coimbatore kill about 60 people.
* August 7, 1998: Al Qaeda bombs U.S. embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya, killing 225 people and injuring more than 4,000.
* August 31 – September 22, 1998: Russian apartment bombings kill about 300 people, leading Russia into Second Chechen War.
* December 1998: Jordanian authorities foil a plot to bomb American and Israeli tourists in Jordan, and arrest 28 suspects as part of the 2000 millennium attack plots.
* December 14, 1998: Ahmed Ressam is arrested on the United States–Canada border in Port Angeles, Washington; he confessed to planning to bomb the Los Angeles International Airport as part of the 2000 millennium attack plots.
* December 24, 1998: Indian Airlines Flight 814 from Kathmandu, Nepal to Delhi, India is hijacked by Islamic terrorists. One passenger is killed and some hostages are released. After negotiations between the Taliban and the Indian government, the last of the remaining hostages on board Flight 814 are released in exchange for release of 4 terrorists.
* January 2000: The last of the 2000 millennium attack plots fails, as the boat meant to bomb USS The Sullivans sinks.
* August 8, 2000: A bomb exploded at an underpass in Pushkin Square in Moscow, killing 11 people and wounding more than 90.
* August 17, 2000: Two bombs exploded in a shopping center in Riga, Latvia, injuring 35 people.
* October 12, 2000: AL Qaeda bombs USS Cole with explosive-laden speedboat, killing 17 US sailors and wounding 40, off the port coast of Aden, Yemen.
I think that the Dems will regret going ballistic over The Path to 9/11.
They've turned the discomfort of a few embarrassing scenes in an ABC mini-series into a political disaster.
The Dems' crazed, disproportionate, heavy-handed reaction to the docudrama has invited the revisitation of the Clinton years. They've managed to dredge up the REALITY of their clear incompetence and shocking weakness.
The truth was the enemy of Bill Clinton and his supporters in the 90s. It still is.
6 comments:
ABC did cave.
Dick Morris: Clinton Attack
'Outrageous'
"The underlying theme of the ABC coverage, that he was distracted by impeachment, is of course true. But more so, he was gun-shy"
because he was afraid conservatives would say he had launched a failed attack
"in an effort to 'wag the dog' and distract people from the Monica Lewinsky
affair."
"His fear of such attacks on him inhibited him from acting."
I sent this to ABC:
Apparently, from what I've read on the Internet, You [ABC] revised (caved to Clinton) your controversial miniseries, "The Path to 9/11" — including altering a key scene about the effort to kill Osama bin Laden.
If this is true I will watch the show and note every sponsor and post their names on my blog along with their email addresses.
http://abc.go.com/site/contactus.html
Good for you, RJay. Money talks.
I think it's completely fair to express how you will react to the "Clinton cut" of the mini-series.
I had heard the thing was going to be shown without many (or any?) commercial breaks. That would mean there would be a slew of promotional spots before and after, making it very easy to note the sponsors.
I don't know if I'll be watching, but I'll post your list of sponsors here.
We're getting nearer to 24 hours from scheduled show time. I wonder if ABC will pull it.
The irony of the Dem response to this is that THEY are the ones trying to alter history and create a version that's to THEIR liking.
It's not the filmmakers' fictionalized portions that are at issue as much as the fact that Clinton and the Dems are trying to stage a cover-up.
They won't be successful. The controversy is actually drawing attention to what a disaster Clinton, Albright, Berger, etc. were in regard to addressing the terrorist threat.
The Dems would have been better off just letting it go and putting out some sort of statement afterward.
Mary,
I think you might like this.
Clintonistas in the crosshairs.
That sort of blows the notion that the Clintonistas are unfairly being portrayed as incompetents, doesn't it?
Well, I guess I can forget the sponsors, there weren't any.
Now the Dems want to know where ABC and the producers got the $40,000,000 to make the movie.
It appears ABC ignored the Clintonistas. The democrats must beside them selves.
Listening to Rush today he said, He confirmed there was one minute edited out.
Probably when Clinton was watching a golf game on TV and couldn't be bothered.
Or maybe he was engaged in one of his Oval Office shenanigans.
After watching The Path to 9/11 I can't imagine how any right thinking American could ever trust the security of this nation to a Democrat.
When they Bin-Laden trapped.
An Afghanistan northern front fighter asks, "Do you have men in Washington or are they all cowards?"
You know, RJay, I'm surprised there were no sponsors at all.
Usually when a program runs commercial-free, there are some lengthy segments by sponsors at the beginning and the end, just no commercial interruptions.
Really odd that there were no sponsors.
The movie certainly didn't let the Bush administration off the hook, but they didn't threaten ABC and start talking about lawsuits.
The Dems blew it. They didn't get bin Laden when they had opportunities. They have to live with that.
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