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To: RetiredNow who wrote (7142)	4/10/2009 8:29:35 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86356

Actually, the 1990's were a period of growth for anti-American terrorism. And aid to madrassahs continued throughout that decade. The 1990's saw the first attempt to bring down the WTC in 1993. BTW the mastermind of the 1993 attempt (Ramzi Yousef) was the nephew of the mastermind of the 2001 WTC attack (Khalid Sheikh Mohammed). Our Kenyan and Tanzanian embassies were destroyed during the 1990's. The decade also saw the bombing of the USS Cole, Khobar Towers, and a number of other actual and planned terror attacks on American targets. So the idea the 1990's were some ideal period is very wrong. In fact since 2001, we've actually seen an absence of terror attacks in the US and on US targets abroad .... the flypaper of Iraq and Afghanistan is possibly part of the reason. The terrorists who want to attack us are diverted to those places.