The tragic loss of 19 American lives and injuries to 500 or so people in addition, are what we suffered in 1996 at the hands of Hezbollah and Iran. According to the 9/11 Panel, Al Qaeda and Bin Laden worked in cooperation with Hezbollah to do this despicable act of terror against our guys who were in their dorm at the time.

What I find interesting in looking back at this incident; is how Hezbollah and its Iranian sponsors were directly linked to Bin Laden in this horrific event.

The reason that it’s interesting is because historically, the Sunnis and Shiites have been at odds. We are being told today and some of us have observed a civil war in Iraq between the Sunnis and Shiites, yet, Al Qaeda appears to have worked a successful operational alliance between Sunni and Shiite Muslim groups in the past. But in the case of the Khobar bombing, they put their differences aside in 1996 in order to bomb the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia.

When there are clear examples of the Sunnis and Shiites working together to destroy American interests and kill the infidel, it certainly becomes less of a stretch to consider Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein buddying up to achieve similar goals.

The crazy Ahmadinijad, with his promise of nuclear destruction, and the fact that Iran had supported Hezbollah in the Khobar bombings-should serve as a reminder as to what we’re facing outside of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflict, and should bring the war on terror into much clearer focus for every one of us.

This is not going to go away no matter how many peace songs and peace rallies the leftist nuts conduct. The war on terror is going to be a LONG and BLOODY campaign; the only choice we have is to fight….or acquiesce, appease and surrender.

Fourteen guys were indicted in 2001 for this bombing. None have been charged or tried. Justice for those who died 10 years ago today has never been served.

Louis Freeh, looked back at the Khobar bombing in a piece at WSJ a few days ago, chronicling his involvement in trying to go after the people involved in the bombing and recalling, among other things, Clinton’s obstructionist tactics with the FBI. This is no surprise; that ‘wall’ between agencies is now something that Clinton administration is famous for; and it rendered our intelligence agencies less effective and less able to secure our safety; which is the entire reason for their existence to begin with. I see so many examples of how the Clinton administration destroyed our intelligence efforts as direct precursors to what happened only 6 months into Bush’s new administration on 9/11/2001.

And where are the human rights organizations on this? Predictably, on the side of the perpetrators, of course, complaining about torture, being held without being charged, you know the drill. An eerily familiar Guantanomo Bay terrorist ‘human rights violation’ complaint redux.