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Octafish

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20. Bush Is guilty of criminal negligence, at least. Treason, most likely.
Thu Sep 17, 2015, 07:59 PM
Sep 2015

James Hatfield wrote that Bush was afraid of bin Laden aerial attack at G-7 summit in Geneva in April 2001. Bush was too chicken to sleep in the anti-aircraft missile protected luxury hotel on land, so the little coward stayed offshore aboard a U.S. destroyer. Hatfield wrote all about it:



Why would Osama bin Laden want to kill Dubya, his former business partner?

By James Hatfield

Editor's note: In light of last week's horrific events and the Bush administration's reaction to them, we are reprising the following from the last column Jim Hatfield wrote for Online Journal prior to his tragic death on July 18:

July 3, 2001—There may be fireworks in Genoa, Italy, this month, too.

A plot by Saudi master terrorist, Osama bin Laden, to assassinate Dubya during the July 20 economic summit of world leaders, was uncovered after dozens of suspected Islamic militants linked to bin Laden's international terror network were arrested in Frankfurt, Germany, and Milan, Italy, in April.

German intelligence services have stated that bin Laden is covertly financing neo-Nazi skinhead groups throughout Europe to launch another terrorist attack at a high-profile American target—his first since the bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen last October.

According to counter-terrorism experts quoted in Germany's largest newspaper, the attack on Dubya might be a James Bond-like aerial strike in the form of remote-controlled airplanes packed with plastic explosives.

Why would Osama bi Laden want to kill, Dubya, his former business partner?

CONTINUED...

http://web.archive.org/web/20060906150015/http://www.onlinejournal.org/Special_Reports/Hatfield-R-091901/hatfield-r-091901.html



That was the last thing Hatfield, author of "Fortunate Son," wrote that got published in July, 2001, a few weeks before his suicide cough murder.

I'd download the copy off of the Wayback Machine. For some reason, I can no longer find it at Online Journal.

The amazing Amy Goodman still hosts an interview with the feller.

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Can you believe how often they keep saying that? Marie Marie Sep 2015 #1
And they never will call him out. Any re-thug that does is tar and feathered. SummerSnow Sep 2015 #2
9/11, the anthrax, Columbia shuttle, Iraq, the bank crash, everything happened on his watch. hobbit709 Sep 2015 #3
Katrina. kairos12 Sep 2015 #5
promised but didn't get bin Laden SDjack Sep 2015 #13
My blood pressure cuff would have exploded had I had it on. kairos12 Sep 2015 #4
Never forget, Jeb!!!!! PeaceNikki Sep 2015 #6
And Now Christie Just Piled On.... global1 Sep 2015 #7
And no one called them on the Bush agreement to withdrawal from Iraq. Signed, sealed, and kelliekat44 Sep 2015 #8
Of course not malaise Sep 2015 #10
Well, it's the job of HRC, O'Malley, Webb, Sanders to set these lies straight. kelliekat44 Sep 2015 #11
I know I was so frustrated about that when... wildbilln864 Sep 2015 #9
I exploded n/t Mira Sep 2015 #12
And they are repeating the clip this morning malaise Sep 2015 #14
Cuomo just asked Christie if he thought JebusEnoughBushes was wrong to malaise Sep 2015 #17
Makes sense. HughBeaumont Sep 2015 #15
Shame - they couldn't spell that word malaise Sep 2015 #16
yep ... napkinz Sep 2015 #18
remained on the ranch for another 30 days. Mr. Bush made the rare decision to interrupt his vacation zinnisking Sep 2015 #26
posted by n2doc napkinz Sep 2015 #19
Ha n/t malaise Sep 2015 #24
Bush Is guilty of criminal negligence, at least. Treason, most likely. Octafish Sep 2015 #20
and they even applauded. LiberalElite Sep 2015 #21
"yet again no one called him on his lies" ... the media and our candidates need to call him out napkinz Sep 2015 #22
Good grief -that's the perfect stupid look malaise Sep 2015 #23
we don't need another "smirker" in the White House napkinz Sep 2015 #25
Bill Maher, Matthews Tear Into Jeb: How Can He Get Away with Saying W Kept Us Safe?! napkinz Sep 2015 #27
By "us" Jeb means his oligarch pals. Dont call me Shirley Sep 2015 #28
Ha malaise Sep 2015 #29
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