DRJ4
September 20, 2006, 11:16pm
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TheDad,</p>
<p>I agree it is bad to endanger national security for political expediency. Therefore, I’m sure you will promptly vilify Bill Clinton who is, by your definition, on the road to Hell:</p>
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First lady and probable New York senatorial candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton is trying to deal with the political hot potato tossed her way when President Clinton put an offer of clemency on the table for 16 imprisoned members of a Puerto Rican terrorist group.</p>
<p>Although the issue could explode on the Senate campaign trail in New York, which has 1.3 million Puerto Ricans, neither the prisoners nor their cause are very well known across the country. The FALN conspiracy of terror targeted American interests with a series of bombings that rattled New York City and Chicago for nearly a decade beginning in 1974. “The potential was to cause great havoc and destruction and to instill terror into the public of the United States,” said former FBI official Oliver Revell.</p>
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<p>The FALN either claimed responsibility or were credited with 130 bombings, including one at Manhattan’s Fraunces Tavern and another on New Year’s Eve. By the time the bombings ended in 1983, six people were killed and dozens were seriously wounded.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.cnn.com/US/9909/06/puerto.rico.faln/index.html[/url] ”>http://www.cnn.com/US/9909/06/puerto.rico.faln/index.html</a> ;
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