Joseph Farah

Why we were caught off-guard...

Thu Nov 1 02:00:44 2001


Why we were caught off-guard


© 2001 WorldNetDaily.com

Some people are still wondering why and how the
United States of America was caught off-guard by
the terrorist attack of Sept. 11.

Let me explain.

Back in 1999, well after the first attack on the
World Trade Center, after the Oklahoma City
bombing and after the downing of TWA Flight 800,
the Clinton administration's FBI put out a report on
terrorism.

It was called Project Megiddo.

And it explained, in no uncertain terms, that
right-wing Christian terrorists posed the gravest
danger to the republic and were most likely to
incite violence in the months and years ahead.

This was the mindset of the Clinton administration.
Right-wing Christians were the perceived threat.
They were the enemy. Islamicists got short shrift in
the FBI report. Osama bin Laden was probably bent
out of shape by the slight.

The Project Megiddo Report goes a long way
toward explaining why the FBI went to great
lengths to avoid seeing, hearing or touching any
evidence of a Middle East connection in the
Oklahoma City bombing. It explains why most
Americans are unaware of the fact that Islamicist
terrorist groups indeed claimed responsibility for
downing TWA Flight 800 over Long Island Sound.
It explains why the Clinton administration viewed
the World Trade Center bombing as some sort of
aberration that could be ignored, rather than allow
it to serve as a warning of bigger things to come.

It's also worth recalling that while relaxing with a
group of reporters after the 1996 elections, Bill
Clinton said he owed his political revival to the
Oklahoma City bombing. Think about that. Why
was that so?

In 1994, Clinton was on the ropes politically. No
one expected him to be re-elected. The Republicans
had swept into power in both houses of Congress
for the first time in a generation. But then that
bomb went off.

"It broke a spell in the country as people began
searching for common ground again," Clinton
explained.

What did Clinton do? He blamed talk radio for
broadcasting "a relentless clamor of hatred and
division." He planned with the FBI a new
anti-terrorist strategy with sweeping new powers.

Thus, the investigations of the Oklahoma City
bombing, the TWA Flight 800 downing and the
World Trade Center explosion all became
politicized. Only evidence that led in one direction
would be gathered and evaluated. Evidence that
pointed to a conspiracy that pointed anywhere but
to right-wing Christians would be ignored,
discarded and covered up.

It seems unbelievable, but it's true.

Clinton's own Justice Department inspector general
had to admit that the Oklahoma City bombing
investigation offered one of the worst examples of
de facto evidence tampering by the FBI crime labs.

The FBI had no scientific evidence for concluding
the OKC bombing was the result of an ammonium
nitrate fertilizer bomb. The Justice Department
found that the explosives unit simply guessed that
the bomb was made of 4,000 pounds of ammonium
nitrate after the FBI found a receipt suggesting
Terry Nichols had purchased that amount. No tests
were conducted. No detonator was recovered.

There was no explanation offered for reports
broadcast widely the day of the bombing that two
other larger bombs were found unexploded in the
Murrah Building. The FBI steadfastly refused – even
to this day – to accept or examine evidence
suggesting Nichols had contact with Islamic
terrorists and that some were on the scene the day
of the bombing.

Few paid any attention to the World Trade Center
bombing trial, which brought to light evidence of a
much broader Islamicist conspiracy.

Few media outlets bothered to tell the world of the
Islamicist groups that claimed to have brought
down TWA Flight 800.

Thus, the FBI put all of its terrorist eggs in one
suspect political basket – the right-wing Christian
basket. That's where the FBI focused its attention
officially beginning in 1996, the record shows.

Is it any wonder why they missed the real
terrorists? Is it any wonder why they looked in all
the wrong places for all the wrong reasons? Is it
any wonder that 5,000 to 6,000 Americans
unnecessarily lost their lives as a result?

Let me conclude by saying Clinton bears a
tremendous amount of responsibility for politicizing
the FBI. But let me add that unless the current
administration recognizes the deliberate frauds that
were perpetrated on the American people, holds
those responsible accountable and makes the
necessary changes in the agency, it will be equally
culpable.

And, more importantly, we will never solve the real
problems of terrorism that are plaguing this
country.



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Joseph Farah is editor and chief executive officer of
WorldNetDaily.com and writes a daily column.
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• ADL-Megiddo — Mark Lucas, Thu Nov 1 11:35
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