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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DOUG H who wrote (257182)	5/21/2002 12:17:28 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Well here we go again, another RIGHT WING EXTREME-IST blaming the stupidest that ever was for the 911 attacks. Sen. Feinstein Blames Monica Missiles for 9-11 Attacks Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said Sunday she believes that Osama bin Laden decided to launch deadly terrorist strikes on U.S. territory in direct response to President Clinton's failed missile strikes on bin Laden's Afghanistan headquarters in 1998. "I think once we struck bin Laden in '98, the training camps, the open-source information, in other words, the people writing books, and one of them being Yosef Bodansky, points out in his book that that was a turning point for bin Laden," Sen. Feinstein told CNN's "Late Edition." "That's when he decided he was going to go after the United States. Now, I happen to believe that's correct," she contended. The Clinton administration's Aug. 20, 1998, missile strike against bin Laden's Khost, Afghanistan, training camp has been dubbed by critics the "Monica missile attack" because of widespread suspicions the ex-president used it to create a distraction from Monica Lewinsky's Sexgate grand jury testimony, scheduled for the day before. With her comments to CNN, Sen. Feinstein becomes the highest-ranking elected official to endorse the theory that the deadly 9-11 attacks were planned in direct response to the ill-fated 1998 strikes, which included an attack on a Sudanese pharmaceutical factory. Clinton has repeatedly tried to justitfy the 1998 missile strikes, sayings he had reliable intelligence that placed bin Laden in his Khost encampment up to a few hours before the attack was launched. But some now theorize that the failed attempt to kill bin Laden not only enraged the al Qaeda chief to the point that he decided to target the U.S. directly, but that Clinton's decision not to pursue subsequent plans to kill bin Laden left the terror mastermind in a position to carry out his 9-11 plan for revenge. newsmax.com tom watson tosiwmee