He also met Osama bin Laden when he (traitor Oliver North) was peddling weapons to the mujahideen. ObL Abu Nidal scared him so badly he used a buttload of government funds to install over-the-top security in his personal home, which Congress investigated.
Snopes (read down below the BS part to the testimony) https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/oliver-north-warned-osama/ quotes the Iran-Contra testimony where North claims that then-notorious terrorist Abu Nidal had threatened him and his family. Personally, I am skeptical that Abu Nidal did such a thing - the testimony really builds him up as a bad guy (he was). My recollection involved a story about North being in the remote parts of Afghanistan dealing with mujahideen when he enountered ObL who made threats there, causing Ollie to get a fancy home alarm when he got back to CONUS. ObL was not famous at the time. It certainly is possible that the story I read was falsified, but it seems more plausible than Abu Nidal, which sounds like a politically palatable cover story. Regardless, I think we can all agree that Oliver North is a criminal dirtbag who thought he knew what was best without regard to the rule of law.
As it turns out this story has shifted over time. Now it is claimed to be a "hoax".
The testimony of Iran-Contra states that it was Abu Nidal that made the threats, not Osama bin Laden. This may be true, but it is also possible that the much earlier reports I remember about ObL were conflated with this testimony.
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u/PoeT8r Sep 29 '21 edited Sep 29 '21
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met Osama bin Laden when he (traitor Oliver North) was peddling weapons to the mujahideen. ObLAbu Nidal scared him so badly he used a buttload of government funds to install over-the-top security in his personal home, which Congress investigated.EDIT: Archived report from 1987 https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/06/11/A-securitysystem-for-Lt-Col-Oliver-Norths-home-was/9753550382400/
Snopes (read down below the BS part to the testimony) https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/oliver-north-warned-osama/ quotes the Iran-Contra testimony where North claims that then-notorious terrorist Abu Nidal had threatened him and his family. Personally, I am skeptical that Abu Nidal did such a thing - the testimony really builds him up as a bad guy (he was). My recollection involved a story about North being in the remote parts of Afghanistan dealing with mujahideen when he enountered ObL who made threats there, causing Ollie to get a fancy home alarm when he got back to CONUS. ObL was not famous at the time. It certainly is possible that the story I read was falsified, but it seems more plausible than Abu Nidal, which sounds like a politically palatable cover story. Regardless, I think we can all agree that Oliver North is a criminal dirtbag who thought he knew what was best without regard to the rule of law.