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The Ollie North comment quoted in a previous email to RTs is a fraud. The site
below ferrets out email hoaxes and it discussed the Ollie North hoax. You can
find the full story by searching for Ollie North at the site.
http://www.snopes2.com/
For those who choose not to search the 'snopes' site, here is a summary of
what they said about the Ollie North email hoax.
Although North had been granted limited immunity for his testimony, he was
later convicted of
criminal charges related to Iran-Contra activities (a conviction that was
eventually overturned
on the grounds that witnesses had been influenced by his immunized testimony).
One of the
charges against North was that he had received a $16,000 home security system
paid for out of
the proceeds of the Iran-Contra affair and had forged documents to cover his
receipt of an
illegal gratuity. North admitted that he knew the security system was a "gift"
but maintained he
never inquired about who had paid for it or how it was financed, and he was
insistent that he
needed the security system because the government had failed to provide
adequate protection
against international terrorists for him and his family.
The terrorist that Ollie North mentioned in his testimony was not Osama bin
Laden. To the
extent that bin Laden was known to the western world in 1987, it was not as a
"terrorist" but as
one of the U.S.-backed "freedom fighters" participating in the war against the
Soviet occupation
of Afghanistan. Osama bin Laden's hatred of the U.S. and conversion to
"terrorist" status is not
believed to have come about until the Gulf War of 1990-91, when he was
outspokenly critical
of Saudi Arabian dependence upon the U.S. military and denounced U.S. support
of a "corrupt,
materialist, and irreligious" Saudi monarchy. (The Saudi Arabian government
stripped bin
Laden of his citizenship in 1994 for his funding of militant fundamentalist
Islamic groups.)
No, Oliver North did not testify about or speak the name Osama bin Laden
during the
Iran-Contra hearings. He claimed that threats against his life had been made
by terrorist Abu
Nidal.
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Howard Hopkins wrote:
> I received this last friday. I emailed Ollie North's radio show to try to
> get a confirmation that this is true. I have heard nothing back.
>
> Anyone know how to access the transcript from the hearings?
>
> Howard
>
> >From: Ira Tunik <irat@xxxxxxxxx>
> >Reply-To: realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >To: realtraders <realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Subject: [RT] Off subject, but do you remember
> >Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 12:51:07 -0800
> >
> >ANYONE REMEMBER THIS??
> >
> >IT WAS 1987!
> >
> >At a lecture the other day they played an old video of Lt. Col. Oliver
> >North testifying at the Iran-Contra hearings during the Reagan
> >Administration. There was Ollie in front
> >of God and country getting the third degree. But what he said was
> >stunning!! He was being drilled by some senator; "Did you not recently
> >spend close to $60,000 for a
> >home security system?" Ollie replied, "Yes I did sir." The senator
> >continued, trying to get a laugh out of the audience, "Isn't this just a
> >little excessive?" 'No sir,'
> >continued Ollie. "No? And why not?" the senator asked. "Because the
> >lives of my family and I were threatened sir." 'Threatened? By whom?"
> >the senator questioned.
> >'By a terrorist, sir.' Ollie answered. 'Terrorist? What terrorist
> >could possibly scare you that much?" "His name is Osama bin Laden sir."
> >Ollie replied. At this point the
> >senator tried to repeat the name, but couldn't pronounce it, which most
> >people back then probably couldn't. A couple of people laughed at the
> >attempt. Then the senator
> >continued. "Why are you so afraid of this man?" the senator asked.
> >"Because sir, he is the most evil person alive that I know of," Ollie
> >answered. "And what do you
> >recommend we do about him?" asked the senator. "Well sir, if it were up
> >to me, I would recommend that an assassin team be formed to eliminate
> >him and his men from
> >the face of the earth." The senator disagreed with this approach and
> >that was all that was shown of the clip.
> >
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