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Starting in the 1980's, Islamic terrorists connected to Al Qaeda began to emigrate to America. Some became citizens, some were illegal immigrants, and some were American citizens who were recruited into Al Qaeda by terrorist operatives.

Clement Rodney Hampton-El, a member of the NYC terrorist cell, was a U.S. citizen and Army veteran. An African-American, Hampton-El was connected to a black Muslim extremist group called Al Fuqra. Hampton-El had trained and fought in Afghanistan during the 1980's when the Russians invaded that country. He was trained at camps connected to Osama Bin Laden. Hampton-El was among the terrorists trained by Ali Mohammed in New Jersey.

In 1991, the Saudi government sponsored a program designed to convert American soldiers to Islam. The program targeted soldiers stationed in Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War. Timothy McVeigh was stationed in Saudi Arabia during this period. The Saudi government in charge of the program collected information from soldiers, then instructed affiliates to follow up with the soldiers in America. One of the affiliates who carried out the recruiting program was Hampton-El and he was instructed to recruit U.S. Army veterans as terrorist trainers and fighters. Hampton-El received instructions to recruit from a list of U.S. Army veterans during a meeting held at the Saudi Embassy in Washington D.C. in December 1992. He was given $150,000 for the project.

Shortly after the December 1992 meeting, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols moved to key locations where Al Qaeda ran recruiting operations. There is speculation that the names "Timothy McVeigh and "Terry Nichols were on Hampton-El's list of recruits. After the December 1992 meeting, McVeigh traveled to Florida where Al Qaeda operatives were recruiting American citizens to become terrorists. American citizens were considered valuable operatives because of their passports and appearance which allowed them to travel freely around the world. The Benevolence International Foundation located in Florida turned out to be a front for Al Qaeda's recruiting porgram and their office was located just 15 minutes away from the house where McVeigh was staying with his sister. Terry Nichols traveled to the Philippines and stayed on an island called Cebu where Al Qaeda was recruiting Americans as terrorist recruits.

Al Qaeda operatives, including Wadih El-Hage and Hampton-El were also traffickers in weapons. Hampton-El trafficked in weapons for a number of operatives in NYC and beyond. One deal funded by Hampton-El took place at a gun show in Virginia. Al Qaeda operatives also traded in manuals about military techniques, survivalism and bomb building. FBI searches revealed huge stockpiles of such literature including survivalist books and magazines and paramilitary manuals as well as official U.S. military training manuals stolen from Fort Bragg where Ali Mohammed had been stationed.

Terrorists connected to Hezbollah and the Irish Republican Army frequented gun shows in the same exact locations where McVeigh and Nichols sold weapons. While traveling the country, McVeigh and Nichols encountered members of survivalist groups with anti-government and white supremacist beliefs and the two frequented Elohim City, a white supremacist compound in Oklahoma. McVeigh and Nichols were known to receive paramilitary training at the compound.

Undetected, despite its connections to Al Qaeda, the Benevolence International Front had set up an office in Chicago. The president of that office was a man named Mohamemd Bayazid, a.k.a. Abu Rida Al-Suri. Bayazid was a naturalized American citizen who had been living in Kansas City.

In September 1994, McVeigh and Nichols met up with a group of Middle Easterners from Iraq who were former Republican Guard soldiers with ties to Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda. They began their plot to bomb the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Oklahoma City had a number of terrorist operatives living there.

Nichols continued to travel to the Philippines where he became an explosives expert under the training of Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Hampton-El also traveled to the Philippines and met with terrorists.

On April 19, 1995, a truck bomb destroyed the Murrah Building in Oklahoma, killing 168 Americans. Later that morning, Abdul Hakim Murad claimed responsibility for the attack in middle America, claiming he was one of the organizers of the bombing plot. But McVeigh and Nichols were arrested and the case seemed closed. But several witnesses claimed they saw Middle Eastern men with McVeigh at the Murrah building and even suggested the sketch of John Doe 2 was an agent of Iraqi intelligence. Two Saudi Arabian intelligence officials called former CIA officers on the day of the bombing and informed them that the attack was sponsored by Iraq and that an Iraqi death squad from the Iraqi government was determined to commit the heartland attack. It is a proven fact that the squad had the means, motive, and opportunity to interact with McVeigh and Nichols.

Although there is a popular portrayal of McVeigh and Nichols as racists and white supremacists, the theory of them collaborating with non-whites in order to accomplish their goal has not been dismissed by investigators.

There have been several documented contacts between leaders of the white power and black power movements. Neo-Nazis, the KKK and the Aryan Nations have had documented contacts with Islamic extremists including Al Qaeda. McVeigh was once a member of the KKK and attended Aryan Nations conferences. One group, Aryan Action, praised the 9/11 attacks on its Web site and declared; "Either you're fighting with the Jews against Al Qaeda, or you support Al Qaeda in fighting against the Jews." A meeting in 2001, after 9/11, in Beirut, Lebanon, was attended by Neo-Nazis and Islamic fundamentalists and both expressed their hatred of Jews, hatred of the U.S. government for supporting Israel, and support for the Palestinians in their fight against the Israelis. When the 2003 Iraq war started, the KKK held rallies for Saddam Hussein and carried pictures of him and Osama Bin Laden. Dennis Mahon, a militant KKK leader in Oklahoma, first came into contact with Saddam in 1991 and remained in contact with him until the 2003 war. Mahon was also a close friend of McVeigh.

Today, as I said in my previous messages, Al Qaeda terrorists are actively recruiting American citizens. After reading this story, you can believe that some of these recruits are militant, anti-government American extremists with white supremacist beliefs like McVeigh and Nichols, as well as black militants who share a common hatred of Jews and the U.S. government's support for Israel and a liking to Middle Eastern terrorism.

For many years, Islamic terrorists have been recruiting non-Arabs in order to disguise atatcks and avoid detection from law enforcement.

On May 30, 1972, three Japanese gunmen opened fire on an Israeli crowd at the Lod airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, killing 26 people. The gunmen were members of the Japanese Red Army, a marxist terrorist organization in Japan. They had formed an alliance with the PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine) and were recruited by the Palestinians to carry out the attack.

In the 1970's and 1980's, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, better known as Carlos the Jackal, a marxist terrorist from Venezuela, was recruited by Islamic terrorists such as the PFLP and Saddam Hussein's government to carry out terrorist attacks.

In 1987, Jeffrey Fort, leader of the El Rukns, a Chicago street gang, was arrested along with other gang members for conspiring to commit terrorist attacks inside America. The Libyan government had recruited African-American and Hispanic gang members to carry out attacks in America.

On July 18, 1994, a truck bomb was driven and crashed into the AMIA (Asociacion Mutual Israelita Argentina) or Argentine Israelite Mutual Association building, a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, killing 85 people. Hezbollah terrorists masterminded the attack and they had recruited a white Argentinian to become the suicide bomber.

Before, during, and after the Gulf War, Islamic terrorists recruited American soldiers to fight alongside the Iraqis. One such soldier was Timothy McVeigh. McVeigh along with his army buddy Terry Nichols became recruits for the terrorists in the plot to bomb the Oklahoma City federal building. The bombing shows the domestic-international alliance between anti-government militia extremists and Middle Eastern terrorists. McVeigh associated himself with the KKK, Aryan Nations and other neo-nazi militia groups. White supremacists hate Jews and hate the U.S. government for supporting Israel just like the Islamists. McVeigh would work with Iraqi soldiers from the Gulf War and Nichols would work with Al Qaeda and other Islamic terrorists in the Philippines to strike America's heartland.

On August 7, 1998, the U.S. embassies were bombed in Kenya and Tamzania. Al Qaeda terrorists masterminded the attacks and they had recruited native Africans to carry out the attacks.

John Walker Lindh, a white American and Muslim convert, traveled to Afghanistan to join forces with the Taliban once he learned that American soldiers were going to invade Afghanistan to overthrow the Taliban government for their involvement in the 9/11 attacks. Lindh was recruited to fight alongside the Taliban and Al Qaeda forces but he was captured by American soldiers. Lindh became known as the "American Taliban." Lindh confessed that he was being trained in Osama Bin laden's training camp.

In 2001, shortly after 9/11, Richard Reid, a white Englishman, was recruited by Al Qaeda to bomb an airplane from London to Miami by planting a bomb inside his shoe but was stopped by the passengers. He became known as the "shoe bomber."

Patrice Lumumba Ford and Jeffrey Battle, two African-American Muslim converts from Portland, Oregon, also pledged allegiance to the Taliban. They were also going to fight alongside the Taliban but were denied entry and arrested. Both men confessed to wanting to wage jihad against America.

James Thompson, another native of Portland and African-American Muslim convert, pleaded guilty to conspiring to provide cash, computers and fighters to the Taliban. Thompson revealed that Abu Hamza Al-Masri, a radical Egyptian cleric in London, recruited him to establish a terrorist training camp in Bly, Oregon and to recruit American Arabs and non-Arabs to fight for the Taliban.

In June 2002, Jose Padilla, a Puerto Rican member of the El Rukns gang in Chicago and Muslim convert, was arrested for a plot to detonate a dirty bomb in Washington D.C. Padilla was connected to Al Qaeda and he personally traveled to the Middle East where he was recruited by Osama Bin Laden. He became known as the "dirty bomber."

In June 2006, 7 men were arrested in Miami for a plot to bomb the FBI office building in Miami and the Sears Tower in Chicago. 5 of the men were African-Americans and 2 were from Haiti. They were in contact with Al Qaeda and wanted to receive training in order to carry out the operations.

Saddam Hussein's government was a state sponsor of terrorism. Saddam supported terrorist organizations such as Al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the Abu Nidal Organization. Saddam worked with Osama Bin Laden and the only time they met in person was in December 1998 in Baghdad where they discussed jihad against the west. In the 1980's, Saddam housed many terrorists such as Carlos the Jackal, a Venezuelan terrorist connected to Islamic terrorists who was responsible for many attacks mostly against French targets. Another terrorist was Abu Nidal, a Palestinian terrorist mercenary and leader of the Abu Nidal Organization who was responsible for hundreds of terrorist attacks against Israel and one anti-American attack which was the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. Nidal was another terrorist who hated America for supporting Israel. Mohammed Abu Abbas, leader of the PLF (Palestinian Liberation Front) and mastermind of the Achille Lauro hijacking, was housed by Saddam. Saddam was behind hundreds if not thousands of attacks against Israelis by Palestinian suicide bombers.

1990 was the year Saddam became interested in terrorist groups and he allowed various Palestinian organizations to move to Iraq and train with the Republican Guard and set up terrorist training camps with the assisstance of Yasser Arafat, the former Palestinian president and leader of the PLO.

The Gulf War saw Iraq's first try at terrorist attacks but they completely failed. Among the attacks, was a bomb attack against the Thomas Jefferson Library in Manila, Philippines by two Iraqi intelligence operatives. Attacks on Western interests by the Iraqis were foiled in the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Australia. After the war, Saddam sent several terrorists from Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Abu Nidal members and his Republican Guard soldiers to bring jihad to the United States. The terrorist operatives created cells in Oklahoma City, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City, St. Louis, Philadelphia, New York, Washington D.C., Cleveland San Francisco, Los Angeles, Louisville, Kentucky, and Raleigh, North Carolina where they blended in with the Muslim communities and the local mosques.

On February 26, 1993, the parking garage of the World Trade Center was bombed. Laurie Mylroie, a former advisor to former President Clinton on Iraq and author of the book The War Against America: Saddam Hussein and the World Trade Center Attacks, gives evidence that Iraq got involved in radical Islamic terrorist plots in New York after the Iraqi government learned that a terrorist named Khalid Sheik Mohammed they housed was the uncle of Ramzi Yousef.

Ramzi Yousef, the ringleader of the World Trade Center bombers, arrived in America on an Iraqi passport. The moment Yousef arrived, he directed the local terrorists to target the Trade Center and how to do it. After the bombing, Abdul Yasin, an Iraqi and second ringleader, fled to Iraq and was protected by Saddam's government. ABC News spotted him in Baghdad in 1994 and learned he was being paid by the government.

Omar Abdel Rahman, the Egyptian cleric known as the "Blind Sheik" was the radical preacher at a local mosque in New York, inspired the terrorists to commit the attack. The conspirators were members of his mosque. Another conspirator, Mohammed Salameh, worked with Iraqi intelligence. Salameh made 50 calls to Iraq from June 25, 1992 and the day of the bombing. His uncle, Kadri Abu Bakr, is known to have worked in Baghdad since 1986 for a Palestinian terrorist organization.

After the bombing, Ramzi Yousef fled to Manila where he was housed by Mohammed Khalifa, the brother-in-law of Osama Bin Laden. Bin Laden paid Yousef to train members of Abu Sayyaf, a terrorist group and Al Qaeda spin off in the Philippines.

Also in 1993 was the attack on American soldiers in Somilia and the following retreat out of the country. This was the first time Bin Laden's forces worked with Iraqi intelligence which had been recruiting militants in Sudan and Somalia. Bin Laden's militants in Somalia fought alongside members of Iraq's special forces.

Again in 1993, there was an attempted assassination of former president Bush Sr. by Iraqi intelligence during his visit to Kuwait. Saddam Hussein hired his military assassins to assassinate Bush Sr. with a truck bomb but the plot was foiled by Kuwaiti authorities.

The 1995 Bojinka plot was foiled in the Philippines. The plot which was backed by Saddam, was to assassinate president Clinton, Pope John Paul II, and to hijack 12 airplanes from Hong Kong, Narita, Chiba Perfecture, Japan (near Tokyo), Pasay, Philippines (near Manila), Taoyuan, Taiwan, Singapore, Gimbo, South Korea (near Seoul), Bangkok, Thailand, Honolulu, San Francisco, Portland, Oregon, New York, and Los Angeles, and crash them into American buildings such as the White House, World Trade Center, the Bank Tower in Los Angeles, and the Sears Tower in Chicago. But the Philippine authorities foiled the plot and arrested Abdul Hakim Murad, a terrorist involved in the plot. Ramzi Yousef was arrested soon after the plot was foiled. The Bojinka plot later proved to be the origin of the 9/11 plot.

On April 19, 1995, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building was truck bombed. Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, anti-government, American terrorists, were identified as the killers. But according to Jayna Davis, McVeigh and Nichols worked with Islamic terrorists to bomb the Murrah building. Davis' research shows that a number of witnesses saw McVeigh and sometimes Nichols with Middle Easterners in the months, weeks, days, and hours before the bombing. Most of the Middle Easterners seen with McVeigh and Nichols were Iraqi soldiers from the Republican Guard who were hired by Saddam after the Gulf War and sent to America to specifically target a federal building. But the Iraqi mercenaries first settled in Chicago where they learned how to make truck bombs at a Hamas training camp.

Davis identified Hussain Al-Hussaini, one of the Iraqi soldiers, as the ringleader of the Iraqi terrorist group in Oklahoma City. After the bombing, Al-Hussaini went to work at the Boston airport where several 9/11 hijackers would meet to hijack airplanes. It was discovered that McVeigh had a large collection of phone numbers of Iraqis in his vehicle when he was arrested. The Pentagon released information that McVeigh himself was an Iraqi agent who worked for Saddam Hussein and the phone calls McVeigh, Nichols and the Iraqi soldiers made to Iraq and the Philippines.

Besides his meetings with the Iraqi soldiers in Oklahoma City, Terry Nichols was connected to Islamic terrorists, including Al Qaeda in the Philippines. Edwin Angeles, the Abu Sayyaf terrorist, confirmed the meetings Nichols had with Ramzi Yousef and they discussed bombing federal buildings in St. Louis, San Francisco, and Oklahoma City. While in his jailcell, Abdul Hakim Murad confirmed that he along with Yousef organized the Oklahoma bombing and he was going to participate in the Bojinka plot. Davis made it clear in an interview that the mastermind of the Oklahoma bombing was none other than Osama Bin Laden who was, as I said, backed by Saddam Hussein.

Also in 1995, the U.S. military complex in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia was bombed. The killers were members of Hezbollah, the group supported by Iran. Iran was behind this bombing, but so was Iraq. Saddam Hussein supported and financed Hezbollah and he allowed Hezbollah terrorists living in Iraq to train with the Iraqi military.

On June 25, 1996, the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia was bombed by a Hezbollah suicide bombers. Hezbollah terrorists were responsible which means Iran sponsored the attack. But again, Iraq sponsored the attack as well.

In July 1997, a terrorist attack inside America was foiled by the FBI. Members of Hamas attempted to become suicide bombers and destroy New York's subway station. The financier of this attempted attack was Saddam Hussein.

On August 7, 1998, the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by Al Qaeda terrorists masterminded by Osama Bin Laden. Iraq sponsored the attack.

In December 1999, as the millennium was approaching, Abu Jaffer Al-Jaziri was arrested for a plot to bomb the Los Angeles International Airport. Al-Jaziri was one of Bin Laden's long-time Iraqi representatives. He was killed in Afghanistan in January 2002.

In October 2000, the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen was bombed by two Al Qaeda suicide bombers connected to Osama Bin Laden. Iraq supplied the money and weapons used in the attack.

On September 11, 2001, 19 Al Qaeda terrorists hijacked four airplanes. Two of them crashed into the Twin Towers and one in the Pentagon. The last crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. Immediatley after the attacks, evidence came out that Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden organized the plot. The 9/11 hijackers were trained by Hezbollah terrorists in Iraq and Iran. Mohammed Atta, the ringleader of the 9/11 attacks, met with Saddam on two occasions. After the attacks, America went to war with the Taliban in Afghnistan for their role in the attacks and then Iraq where Saddam was finally captured.

For centuries, Arabs have hated Jews for many reasons. It wasn't until the early part of the 20th century when a massive influx of Jews settled in what was then the British territory of Palestine and they were able to buy land and farms and set up synagogues. This angered the Palestinians because they felt their land was being taken over by Jews. In 1929, a large number of Jews were attacked which caused some injuries but no deaths. In Hebron, Arab rioters killed 67 Jews. In 1936, the "Great Revolt" was a campaign of violent riots and attacks on Jews which led to hundreds of Jews being killed before British police intervened and arrested and hanged many rioters. The revolt was led by Haj Amin Al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti (Senior Islamic Leader) of Jerusalem. Al-Husseini worked with Adolf Hitler in their mission to exterminate Jews during the holocaust.

During World War II, Jews who were escaping Nazi persecution in Europe settled in Palestine and worked to create a Jewish state in Palestine. In 1948, the United Nations appointed a committee called UNSCOP (United Nations Special Committee on Palestine) to try and solve the conflict between the Jews and Arabs. UNSCOP recommended that Palestine be split into three parts, a Jewish state with a majority Jewish population, an Arab state with a majority Arab population, and an international zone comprising Jerusalem and the surrounding area where the Jewish and Arab populations would be roughly equal. Under the plan, the Jewish state would comprise most of the coastal plain, as well as the eastern part of Galilee and the Negev desert. The Jewish state would be roughly 5,500 square miles in size and would contain a sizable Arab minority population. The Arab state would comprise roughly 4,500 square miles in size and would contain a minority Jewish population. And last, the Jewish state would be called Israel. The majority of the Jewish population accepted the Jewish state but the Palestinians rejected it which is the reason for the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Palestinians wanted the land to be free of Jews. Since 1948, the Arabs began to hate America because America helped create the Jewish state.

Since the creation of the Jewish state known as Israel, Arabs in Palestine and throughout the Middle East have targeted Jews and the biggest of them all was the 1948 Arab-Israeli war in which 6,373 Israelis died and 15,000 Arabs were killed before the Arabs retreated back to their countries. When the Jewish state of Israel was created in 1948, the Arabs viewed America as the supporter of the Zionists and was against Islam. Relations between the Jews and Arabs remained tense when in 1967, the Six-Day war began. The war began when Egyptian president Gamal Nasser announced that he was going to destroy Israel. Egypt, along with Syria, drove tanks through the Sinai Peninsula in an attempt to invade Israel. But Israel surprised Egypt and Syria by launching a surprise attack. The war lasted six days and the Israelis overpowered the Egyptians and Syrians and forced them to retreat. This left the Arabs bitter as ever and this was when the modern day jihad began.

The Arabs hated any country that supported Israel, even if it was a Middle Eastern country. Jordan was a country that supported Israel. In September 1970, Palestinian terrorists invaded Jordan in an attempt to overthrow and take control of the Jordanian government. But the Jordanian forces were much stronger and they killed many Palestinians and forced them to retreta back into Palestine. To the Palestinians, the event became known as "Black September." They also formed a terrorist organization and the group was called Black September. They wanted to avenge the deaths of the Palestinians who died in Jordan. The group launched a series of attacks against Israelis and their tactics were mostly hijackings and bombings. But their bloodiest attack was in September 1972 in Munich, Germany when Black September terrorists kidnapped and killed 11 Israeli athletes during the Olympic Games. In the aftermath of the attack, Israeli soldiers launched a counter-attack against the terrorists and one by one, they hunted down and killed the terrorists responsible for the massacre and even killed Ali Salameh, the leader of Black September and mastermind of the Munich attack as well as other anti-Israeli attacks. The conflict between Jews and Arabs didn't end with the end of Black September. In fact, it was only the beginning.

Wars and terrorist attacks against Jews continued and in the 1980's, suicide bombing became a new weapon for the Palestinians and is still the weapon of choice today. Suicide bombings has and continues to take place mostly in malls, restaurants, and buses. Thousands of Israelis were killed in suicide attacks. Before completing the mission, the terrorists would videotape the soon-to-be-dead terrorist and the terrorist would explain what he was going to do and that was strap a bomb on his body, press the button, and explode himself and kill Jews at the same time. The terrorist would say that his God (Allah) will reward him in the afterlife. There are also females who have participated in suicide attacks. After the suicide mission was complete, Saddam Hussein would send $25,000 checks to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers.

Anti-Israeli terrorist attacks continued after the Munich attack, but the terrorists began to add America to their list of targets because they didn't forget that America helped create the Jewish state of Israel. In January 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the new leader of Iran,w as the first terrorist to call America the "Great Satan" and described America and Israel as the enemies of Islam. In November 1979, Iranian militants stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran and kidnapped over 60 American employees and held them hostage for 444 days until they were released on January 20, 1981, the same day Ronald Reagan was inaugurated as president. The Iran hostage crisis was America's first encounter with Islamic terrorists and the terrorists began to launch their jihad against Americans. Soon after the American hostages were released, the Iranian military formed a terrorist group called Hezbollah. The group was formed in Lebanon and at the time, Lebanon was fighting a bloody and violent civil war between Christians and Muslims. The war was so violent that American, Israeli, and French soldiers were sent to Lebanon to calm down the violence. The Iranians told Hezbollah that Israel was the Little Satan and America was the Great Satan for supporting Israel and were told to kill the Americans and Israelis and the French because the French were helping the Americans and Israelis. Hezbollah terrorists kidnapped and brutally killed American, Israeli, and French soldiers. They also bombed their embassies in Lebanon. The largest and most devastating attack happened on October 23, 1983 when a Hezbollah terrorist from Iran drove a truck bomb and crashed it into the U.S. Marine Barracks in Lebanon. The attack killed 241 American soldiers and after the attack, the American, Israeli, and French governments ordered their soldiers to leave Lebanon. When the soldiers left Lebanon, it was seen as a victory among Islamic terrorists and it gave them more confidence to keep on killing Americans. The attack on the U.S. Marine Barracks was one of the first suicide bombings and it inspired the Palestinians to become suicide bombers.

Throughout the 1980's, Americans experienced attacks by Islamic terrorists, all because of America's support for Israel. In October 1985, Palestinian terrorists hijacked the Achille Lauro cruise ship. The terrorists demanded Israel to release 50 Palestinian terrorists from their prisons. One of the passengers on board was a Jewish-American named Leon Klinghoffer who was in a wheelchair. One of the terrorists shot and killed Klinghoffer then threw his body overboard. Klinghoffer was killed because he was Jewish and an American and in a wheelchair. Another attack was the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 that had just left London and was on its way to New York. A bomb was planted on the plane and as the plane flew over Lockerbie, Scotland, the bomb went off and the plane exploded. All 259 passengers were killed including 11 bystanders who were on the ground. A total of 270 people lost their lives. 189 were Americans. The killers were terrorists from Libya who were paid by the Libyan government to bomb the plane.

After the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, there was a brief period of peace until August 1990 when Iraq invaded Kuwait. Saddam Hussein's goal was to control all of the Middle East in the same way Adolf Hitler wanted to control all of Europe. The U.S. government decided to go to war and free Kuwait and America did go to war with Iraq in January 1991. The war lasted a month and Saddam's forced retreated back to Iraq. In America, the defeat of Iraqi soldiers was a victory. But in the Middle East, it was a defeat and Saddam as well as other terrorists including Osama Bin Laden decided to get revenge on America. Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden were terrorists who supported the Palestinians and hated Israel. They also hated America for supporting Israel. Since the Palestinians were already killing Israelis inside Israel, Saddam, Bin Laden and other terrorists felt it was time to kill Americans inside America. They would kill Americans to avenge the deaths of Iraqi Muslims. After the war, Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden dispatched their operatives to America. Ramzi Yousef was sent to New York to organize and mastermind the first World Trade Center bombing. Several Iraqi military soliders from Saddam's Republican Guard were also sent to America. Since they fought in the 1991 Gulf War, the soldiers were more than happy to commit terrorist attacks and they succeeded in bombing the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Their American conspirators, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, shared a common hatred of the U.S. government for supporting Israel and shared the same views as the Iraqi soldiers and Islamic terrorists which which is why the 1995 bombing had an American/Iraqi plot.

Ramzi Yousef once said this: "If you can't attack the enemy (Israel), then you attack the enemy's friend (America). nd that's exactly what the terrorists did. Because of America's support for Israel, as well as Saddam Hussen's desire to avenge the Gulf War, that's why the first World Trade Center bombing happened. That's why the Oklahoma bombing happened. And that's why 9/11 happened. The 9/11 terrorists were inspired by Palestinian suicide bombers. New York has the largest Jewish population in America and the reason why the terrorists wanted to destroy the World Trade Center was because, according to them, the Twin Towers were a symbol of "Jewish America." Even today, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wants to strike Israel. He wants to finish the job that Adolf Hitler started, and that job is exterminating Jews and wiping them off the face of the map. And again, because of America's support for Israel, he wants to strike America even deadlier than 9/11. Just remember, Ahmadinejad was involved in the kidnapping of the American hostages in Iran.

Here is the list of anti-American, Middle Eastern terrorist attacks from 1983-2001. This is all the evidence I would need to go to war and fight the war on Islamic terror.

April 18, 1983: Suicide truck bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon. 63 killed. 17 were Americans.

October 23, 1983: Suicide truck bombing of the U.S. Marine Barracks in Lebanon. 241 Americans killed.

December 2, 1983: Truck bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait. 5 killed. None were Americans.

September 20, 1984: Truck bombing of the U.S. Embassy in East Lebanon. 24 killed. 2 were Americans.

December 3, 1984: Hijacking of Kuwait Airways Flight 221. 2 Americans killed.

June 14, 1985: Hijacking of TWA Flight 847. 1 American killed.

October 7, 1985: Hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship. 1 American killed.

December 18, 1985: Bombings of the airports in Rome and Vienna. 20 killed. 5 were Americans.

April 2, 1986: Bombing of TWA Flight 840. 4 Americans killed.

April 4, 1986: Bombing of the LaBelle Discotheque in Berlin. 3 killed. 2 were Americans.

December 21, 1988: Bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. 270 killed. 189 were Americans.

February 26, 1993: Truck bombing of the World Trade Center in New York. 6 Americans killed.

April 19, 1995: Truck bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. 168 Americans killed.

November 13, 1995: Truck bombing of the U.S. military complex in Saudi Arabia. 7 killed. 5 were Americans.

June 25, 1996: Suicide truck bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia. 20 killed. 19 were Americans.

August 7, 1998: Truck bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. 235 killed. 12 were Americans.

October 12, 2000: Suicide boat bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen. 17 Americans killed.

September 11, 2001: Suicide airplane bombings of the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington D.C. 2,967 Americans killed.

Why did America go to war with Iraq? Because Iraq was behind the first World Trade Center bombing, the Oklahoma bombing, the bombing of the U.S. military complex, the bombing of the Khobar Towers, the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Africa, the U.S.S. Cole bombing, and the 9/11 attacks. Saddam Hussein was a terrorist and he wanted to avenge Iraq's defeat in the Gulf War so he sponsored every anti-American terrorist attack from 1993-2001. Also, Saddam Hussein housed many terrorists over the years. One of those terrorists was Mohammed Abu Abbas, mastermind of the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship in which an American named Leon Klinghoffer was brutally killed. Abbas fled to Iraq after the hijacking and remained in Iraq until April 2003 when American soldiers captured him in Baghdad. Abbas was about to be the last terrorist to be charged with the hijacking but in March 2004, he died of a heart attack while in custody.