SuperScout
04-27-2004, 07:37 AM
The message from the 9/11 hearings is that we're a bit slow in connecting the dots --- about 25 years too slow. It was Feb. 1, 1979, when the dark side of Islam stepped off a plane from Paris in Iran. After 14 years in exile, Muslim cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini had come triumphantly home to establish his revolutionary 'reign of virtue,' an Islamic theocracy designed to cleanse a nation of what Khomeini called 'Westoxification,' the poisonous influences of Western culture. With no delay, Khomeini urged a jihad against 'the Great Satan' and supported the storming of the American embassy in Tehran by student militants. ... Others followed in Khomeini's footsteps, getting 'new meaning' in their lives, getting 'perfect,' by killing Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1981; killing Lebanese Prime Minister Bashir Gemayel in 1982; bombing the U.S. Embassy and Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983; assassinating a U.S Navy officer in Greece in 1983; murdering a U.S. Embassy official in Beirut in 1984; killing American servicemen in 1984 in Torrejon, Spain; hijacking the Achille Lauro in 1985; killing American servicemen in the bombing of a Berlin nightclub in 1986; blowing up the Pan Am flight over Scotland in 1988; bombing the Israeli Embassy in Argentina in 1992; bombing the World Trade Center in February 1993; attempting to assassinate President George Bush in April 1993 in Kuwait; murdering American diplomats in Pakistan in 1995; bombing the Riyadh military compound in Saudi Arabia in 1995; bombing the Khobar Towers in Dhahran in 1996; blowing up American facilities in 1998 in Tanzania and Kenya; and bombing the USS Cole in 2000. Sept. 11, 2001, was simply more of the same, only larger."