Political Quotes

“On May 13, 2001, Fox News and the Associated Press reported that 25 Islamic extremists, hidden on commercial freighters as stowaways, illegally entered the United States. These individuals reportedly entered the United States through four seaports in Miami; Port Everglades, Fort Lauderdale; Savannah; and Long Beach. Where have these men gone and, more importantly, what are their intentions? The Washington Times, in a January 22, 2002, article entitled ``Seaports Seen as Terrorist Target,'' reported al-Qaida ``shipped arms and bomb-making materials via Osama bin Laden's covertly owned freighters.'' These explosives were later used to blow up the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. What if these ships were making port calls at a port in the United States of America? Further, in a front page article dated February 26, 2002, USA Today reported that in October of 2001, a month after 9/11, port authorities in Italy opened a suspicious container and found an Egyptian-born Canadian person, equipped with a satellite phone, laptop, false credit cards, and security passes for airports in Egypt, Thailand, and Canada. What if this container and person made a successful, undetected entry into the United States? On June 16, 2002, the Washington Post reported that three men captured by CIA and Morrocan authorities told interrogators they escaped Afghanistan and came to Morocco on a mission to use bomb-laden speedboats for suicide attacks on U.S.…”