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DECEMBER 29, 2003 –
Remember that horrible day in the late 1990's when the power plant
in the Pacific Northwest was blown up by terrorists?
How about that other attack just across
the border in Canada?
"There were a number of terrorists
incidents," our source told us. "There were a lot of things
going on, so much that when Sonny Bono was killed, the first thing
that was suspected was terrorism."
Sonny Bono - at the time of his death
Congressman Sonny Bono (R-CA) - had been serving on the House
Intelligence Committee which had been dealing with the terrorist
incidents occuring - but not being reported - at the time. And
one of the issues Bono had taken up shortly before his death,
according to this source, was that the occurrence of terrorist
attacks should be made public.
"When he first died, everyone's first
thought was that it was related to the terrorist attacks in some
way."
This source, a high-level insider, said
the reason we never heard about the successful acts of terrorism
being carried out on our homeland was a willing complicity on the
part of the media.
"They were told it was best for national
security to not report the incidents as attacks but simply as
accidents." The source said they were told it would encourage
the terrorists and even inspire copy cats. And so the entire
American media went along with the knowing silence.
The Pacific Northwest, the main hotbed
of this activity, is also the area where Moktar Haouari tried to
enter the US with a car full of explosives on his way to blow up Los
Angeles International Airport at the turn of the millennium.
How a terrorist suddenly appeared up near Seattle caught most
of the nation completely off guard. It was only a fortunately
observant border guard who noticed Haouari's nervous manner, which
led her to demand the search of the car which turned up the 10
110-pound bags of bomb-making urea hidden in his tire wells.
Though the Haouari story had a happy
ending, had America been told about the terrorist attacks that were
occurring on our soil, would we have been more vigilant prior to
9/11? The guard who caught Haouari was just fortunate he acted
so anxiously and angrily. She said that was the only reason
she chose to search his car. Had the recent terrorist attacks
in her region been more publicly announced, perhaps LAX's fate
wouldn't have had to depend so heavily on this man losing his cool
at the border.
Bono's death, in the end, according to
our source, turned out truly to just be an accident. And since
the press has actually reported a terrorist incident as a terrorist
incident - I guess passing 9/11 off as a window cleaner who had a
problem with his cigarette lighter wouldn't have worked very well.
But don't count on them reporting every terrorist attack that occurs
as what it is.
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