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ABC/Disney intends to mark the occasion of 9/11 with a "docudrama" miniseries titled 'The Path to 9/11.' According to ABC/Disney's announced synopsis, the writer/producer of the miniseries, conservative Cyrus Nowrasteh, has crafted a television fiction intended to blame the entire event on President Clinton and praise President Bush for his concerned over terrorist threats ignored by Clinton's Administration:------------------------------------------
Synopsis
NIGHT ONE:
September 11, 2001. Teams of terrorist hijackers board four American airliners and take control of the cockpits. Passengers and flight controllers quickly learn something is terribly wrong... Then the movie flashes back to February 1993. On a similarly ordinary day, New York is stunned by a deadly bombing at the World Trade Center. The discovery of a traceable van part at the site leads to the arrest of one of the conspirators, and he is linked to a mosque led by the Blind Sheikh, a radical cleric. A valuable FBI informant helps bring down the cleric and his cell. A manhunt for elusive WTC bomber Ramzi Yousef ensues, and he narrowly escapes capture in Pakistan, where he is linked to the attempted assassination of Benazir Bhutto. Yousef travels to the Philippines, where he tests an innovative small bomb that kills a flight passenger and comes close to bringing down the plane as well. He's almost captured again when a fire at his bomb-making lab exposes to Manila police his plot involving the simultaneous bombings of a dozen airliners.
Yousef is finally brought down when an informant in Pakistan tips off a team of agents working in coordination with FBI counterterrorism expert John O'Neill. Yousef's trail leads them to a rebel named Usama bin Laden.
In 1998 journalist John Miller's interview with bin Laden is broadcast, and O'Neill and others in Washington are alarmed by the al Qaeda leader's fatwa against the U.S. CIA field agent "Kirk" contacts bin Laden's primary opposition, General Massoud of Afghanistan's Northern Alliance, and they concoct a plan to capture bin Laden and bring him to the U.S. to face justice. The plan is never approved for action, but the simultaneous bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa push the Administration to respond with an ineffective missile strike that some think merely elevates bin Laden's stature in the Muslim world. Arrests of al Qaeda operatives at the Canadian-U.S. border and in New York on the eve of the millennium provide further evidence that Muslim extremists are bringing their holy war to America.
NIGHT TWO:
The October 2000 bombing of the USS Cole sends O'Neill and his team to Yemen, where he runs afoul of the U.S. Ambassador, who tries to have O'Neill recalled to the States. The investigation in Yemen stalls, but the White House, confident bin Laden is behind the attack, continues to debate how to stop him.
In 2001 counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke's warnings about bin Laden are downplayed, as is an FBI agent's warning to his superiors that some suspicious individuals are learning to fly jet aircraft. O'Neill butts heads with the CIA over their lack of shared information, and while (Clinton legacy) intelligence agencies squabble, al Qaeda terrorists, under the radar, continue with their hijacking plot.
O'Neill, his career stalled by an incident wherein he lost his laptop, and tired of the bureaucracy, retires from the FBI in August and takes over security at the WTC. Shortly thereafter, the Northern Alliance's Massoud, who had pressed the U.S. for assistance against the Taliban and warned that bin Laden might strike, is assassinated by al Qaeda agents. Two days later comes September 11, and O'Neill dies bravely, along with thousands of others, in an attack by the enemy he had devoted his career to thwarting.
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The movie claims the Clinton administration repeatedly bungled the capture of Osama Bin Laden and blames 9/11 on the Clinton Administration's lack of response to Al Qaeda. The movie fails to honestly and fairly depict the Bush Administration's indifferent posture toward security adviser Richard Clarke's warnings that Osama bin Laden posed a formidable danger to the U.S. as well as the August 6, 2001 PDB (Presidential Daily Briefing) stating that "Bin Laden determined to attack within the US."
Maybe September 11 could have been been stopped if the GOP controlled Congress had given President Clinton the tools he requested to fight terror. President Clinton practically begged the Republican Congress to give him the tools he needed to stop Osama and the terrorists. Trent Lott said no. Orrin Hatch said no.
Back in the 1990s Republicans were fighting Clinton at every step when he tried to get legislation passed. This docudrama ignors the Republicans fighting Clinton and ignors the Republicans ignoring Osama in the 1990s! It ignores that Reagan played a major role in abetting the rise of Osama Bin Laden by feeding billions of dollars in arms to Afghanistan's Islamic resistance against the Russians in the 1980s.
This miniseries has a right wing, Republican bias, and I encourage you to participate in a boycott of all advertisers of "The Path to 9/11" forever, boycott ABC/Disney, boycott ESPN/Disney, boycott Disney products, and boycott Disney backed movies. Flood the ABC sponsors before the movie is aired. Aggenda driven pieces have been pulled before if there is a large enough outcry.
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President Clinton Wants Senate To Hurry With New Anti-Terrorism Laws
http://www.cnn.com/us/9607/30/clinton.terrorism/
July 30, 1996
WASHINGTON (CNN) - President Clinton urged Congress Tuesday to act swiftly in developing anti-terrorism legislation before its August recess. (1.6 MB AIFF or WAV sound)
"We need to keep this country together right now. We need to focus on this terrorism issue," Clinton said during a White House news conference.
But while the president pushed for quick legislation, Republican lawmakers hardened their stance against some of the proposed anti-terrorism measures.
Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Mississippi, doubted that the Senate would rush to action before they recess this weekend. The Senate needs to study all the options, he said, and trying to get it done in the next three days would be tough.
One key GOP senator was more critical, calling a proposed study of chemical markers in explosives "a phony issue."
Taggants value disputed Clinton said he knew there was Republican opposition to his proposal on explosive taggants, but it should not be allowed to block the provisions on which both parties agree.
"What I urge them to do is to be explicit about their disagreement, but don't let it overcome the areas of agreement," he said.
The president emphasized coming to terms on specific areas of disagreement would help move the legislation along. The president stressed it's important to get the legislation out before the weekend's recess, especially following the bombing of Centennial Olympic Park and the crash of TWA Flight 800.
"The most important thing right now is that they get the best, strongest bill they can out - that they give us as much help as they can," he said.
Hatch blasts 'phony' issues Republican leaders earlier met with White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta for about an hour in response to the president's call for "the very best ideas" for fighting terrorism.
Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, emerged from the meeting and said, "These are very controversial provisions that the White House wants. Some they're not going to get."
Hatch called Clinton's proposed study of taggants chemical markers in explosives that could help track terrorists - "a phony issue."
"If they want to, they can study the thing" already, Hatch asserted. He also said he had some problems with the president's proposals to expand wiretapping.
Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, D-South Dakota, said it is a mistake if Congress leaves town without addressing anti-terrorism legislation. Daschle is expected to hold a special meeting on the matter Wednesday with Congressional leaders.
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