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Steve

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The intelligence and military communities were not so quick on placing blame for the Cole incident. It was not long before Clinton left office that they gave the official word. Not wanting to tie the hands of the next president, he passed all that information on to the next administration to do what they felt best. What has Bush done about it? The last thing I heard about the mastermind of the attack against the Cole, he was under house arrest in Yemen.

under the Clinton administration the Military couldn't even shoot if they thought they were under attack:
The destroyer's rules of engagement, as approved by the Pentagon, kept its guards from firing upon the small boat loaded with explosives as it neared them without first obtaining permission.,...

Petty Officer John Washak said that right after the blast, a senior chief petty officer ordered him to turn an M-60 machine gun on the Cole's fantail away from a second small boat approaching. "With blood still on my face," he said, he was told: "That's the rules of engagement: no shooting unless we're shot at." He added, "In the military, it's like we're trained to hesitate now. If somebody had seen something wrong and shot, he probably would have been court-martialed." Petty Officer Jennifer Kudrick said that if the sentries had fired on the suicide craft "we would have gotten in more trouble for shooting two foreigners than losing seventeen American sailors."

as for the terrorists...
The USS Cole bombing was a suicide bombing attack against the U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer USS Cole (DDG 67) on October 12, 2000

unfortunately, GOD will have to deal with them...



On November 3, 2002, the CIA fired a AGM-114 Hellfire missile from a Predator UAV at a vehicle carrying Abu Ali al-Harithi, a suspected planner of the bombing plot. Also in the vehicle was Ahmed Hijazi, a U.S. citizen. Both were killed. This operation was carried out on Yemeni soil.

those we helped to Judgment...


as for the Mastermind....

Al-Nashiri, believed to be the operation's mastermind, is currently being held by the U.S. at Guantanamo Bay detention camp.

Al-Bedawi, who helped in the bombing along with many others are still alive and free...he is under house arrest

I say we give him a house warming present... :twisted:
 

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