Re: TAR: Is this true?

[Dan Robinson <drobinson@HWWILSON.COM>]

Neither item is true.... Check out Snopes for the details...

http://www.snopes.com/rumors/atta.htm
(two men with the same name)

http://www.snopes.com/rumors/north.htm
(the security system cost $16,000; the terrorist named was Abu Nidal;
and the person questioning him was the committee counsel, not a Senator.
In addition, at the time, Bin Laden was leading Afgan fighters against
the Soviets and was considered a friend, not a 'terrorist')

Dan Robinson
HW Wilson Company
Bronx, NY
drobinson@hwwilson.com



> -----Original Message-----
> From: KAREN TRUKOVICH [mailto:KTRUKOVICH@TWINSBURG.K12.OH.US]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 9:12 AM
> To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> Subject: TAR: Is this true?
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> It was 1987!  At a lecture the other day they were playing an
> old news =
> video
> of Lt.Col. Oliver North testifying at the Iran-Contra
> hearings during the
> Reagan Administration.=20
>
> Also:=20
>
> Terrorist pilot Mohammad Atta blew up a bus in Israel in 1986. The =
> Israelis
> captured, tried and imprisoned him. As part of the Oslo
> agreement with the
> Palestinians in 1993, Israel had to agree to release
> so-called "political
> prisoners."=20
>
>

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