Terrifying Wake Up Calls
In the Shadow of Twin Towers
The terrorist attack against the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center that killed 3,000 people also destroyed the tiny St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, located about 500 feet from ground zero.
“As rescuers pick through the World Trade Center rubble, the Rev. John Romas prays for the victims and their families, for the rescue and recovery workers, and for the remains of three individuals long dead: Saints Nicholas, Katherine and Savvas. St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, a tiny church that for decades stood alone in the middle of a parking lot across the street from the World Trade Center, was swept away in the wave of destruction as the complex collapsed. “I was down there on Wednesday,” says Father Romas, known as Father John among his congregants. “My heart was broke in two. My church is gone -- and to have so many people in the World Trade Center that are dead”.”
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Deep Hidden Roots
[...] While the Clinton administration was supporting the Bosnian government of Alija Izetbegovic, the embassy in Vienna issued a passport to Osama bin Laden which enabled him to visit Bosnia and Kosovo on four different occasions. As a result many Kosovo Liberation Army fighters were trained in bin Laden's terrorist training camps in Afghanistan.
Former UNPROFOR Commander, Canadian Maj. Gen (Ret.) Lewis MacKenzie said it best: “The Kosovo-Albanians have played us like a Stradivarius. We have subsidized and indirectly supported their violent campaign for an ethnically pure and independent Kosovo. We have never blamed them for being the perpetrators of the violence in the early '90s and we continue to portray them as the designated victim today in spite of evidence to the contrary. When they achieve independence with the help of our tax dollars combined with those of bin Laden and al-Qaeda, just consider the message of encouragement this sends to other terrorist-supported independence movements around the world.”
After 9/11, President Bush said that we would do whatever it takes to defend our country, yet we denied the Serbs the right to defend themselves against the same enemy we are fighting today. One thing is evident. If Kosovo Albanians achieve independence, Serbian culture, language and religion will be eradicated. Furthermore the consequences of an independent Kosovo may well result in another mini-Afghanistan, which is certainly not in the best interest of the United States nor of Europe.
Entire article USA Roots of the Kosovo Crisis, by Stella Jatras, originally published in the Greek Magazine ODYSSEY.
Choosing Wisely
[...] The Democrats under Howard Dean would like for us to believe this is merely a passing POLITICAL problem that could be easily corrected by choosing Democrats to run Congress and to occupy the White House in 2008.
It should be obvious to just about every nation in the world by now that President Bush was right in identifying the problem as a war on terrorists who have to be eliminated – not appeased or bought off. Furthermore, the terrorists are seemingly 100% Islamic fascists who were appeased and given US Air Force and NATO protection as recently as 1999 when President Clinton, and most of Europe’s leaders attempted to placate the Iran financed and Osama bin Laden trained Kosovo Liberation Army by bombing our traditional Christian allies, the Serbs.
While this was not mentioned in the ABC film about 9-11 last night, in spite of the Democrats vigorous effort to block ABC’s freedom of speech, the film did, finally, tell the American people that the Clinton Administration never actually identified the problem and therefore was incapable of addressing the problem of worldwide terror during his administration.
George W. Bush DID address the problem. It will be up to the American voters in the November 2006 election, and in the 2008 election, to choose leaders who can at LEAST identify problems and try to solve them before they totally destroy our freedoms and our nation.
Excerpt from Mary Mostert's article 911 and Choosing Leaders Who Can Identify Problems