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...Behbahani certainly used the attention from "60 Minutes" to throw in a few teasers about being able to prove Iranian involvement in everything from the Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American troops to a 1994 attack on a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires. While they're unlikely to affect the trial, Behbahani's allegations, if substantiated, may have some impact on moves to break the diplomatic ice between Washington and Tehran. "The U.S. will certainly want to pursue these leads," says Dowell. "But even if they prove true, they're unlikely to alter the fact...
...Americans - and they're sending him home?! Unless a federal court blocks his deportation, accused Saudi terrorist Hani al-Sayegh will be sent back to Riyadh Wednesday. The move comes after Sayegh, a Saudi dissident trained in Iran, stopped cooperating with an FBI probe into the 1996 attack on Khobar Towers in Dahran, Saudi Arabia, in which 19 U.S. military personnel were killed. Of course, going home could be more dangerous than staying in Washington. But the Justice Department says that the U.S. lacks sufficient evidence to charge Sayegh in an American court and that the Saudis plan to charge...
Brave words, and familiar. Clinton, the day after the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing that killed 19 American airmen in Saudi Arabia: "We will not rest in our efforts to find who is responsible for this outrage, to pursue them and to punish them...
...rest. The investigation of the Khobar Towers bombing has completely collapsed. We suspect there was Iranian involvement. But the Saudis are not cooperating with our investigation. And Clinton is not prepared to risk either offending an ally (Saudi Arabia) or confronting an enemy (Iran). Jenny Haun, the widow of an Air Force navigator killed in the Khobar bombing, summarized thus the Administration's handling of the case: "They're weak...
...millionaire Osama bin Laden. Over the past year or so, he has issued a number of decrees, calling on all Muslim groups to attack U.S. facilities. Bin Laden is thought to be a major financier of terror groups and is the prime suspect in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers military barracks in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 U.S. servicemen. While his declared goal is the overthrow of the Saudi monarchy, bin Laden's bitterness toward the U.S. is just as strong. "All Muslims," he said last May, "must declare jihad against them." Such general threats do not help...