Scott Horton
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What's amazing?
That came from Yitzhak Shamir, who had who had sent his man, Martin Indyk, to work for Bill Clinton and push the dual containment policy is where that comes from.
The first place, the main reason al-Qaeda turned against the United States and the Khobar Towers attack was bin Laden.
And he bragged about it himself to Abdel Bari Atwan, the reporter from Al-Quds Al-Arabi in London, and spent days with him and bragged all about it and blessed the martyrs and the rest of that.
And is widely discredited the claim that it was Iranian-backed Shiite Hezbollah that did the Khobar Towers attack.
That was what the Saudi government told the U.S.
In fact, there's a great documentary about John O'Neill, who was the head of FBI counterterrorism, who told Louis Freeh.
boss, the Saudis are blowing smoke up your ass about this Hezbollah thing.
It was Al-Qaeda that did it.
And then Louis Freeh got all upset because he used the A word.
He's a very conservative Catholic guy, Louis Freeh, and then refused to listen to another word from John O'Neill about it.
I cited Michael Schor, the chief of the CIA's bin Laden unit.
So make it clear here.
The Iranian is trusting Hezbollah.
Did you get that?
How come you're not saying him?
Isn't that weird that you just said he trusts Hezbollah, even though he didn't say anything about trusting Hezbollah?
Yeah.
Okay.
So a few things there.