This is false.  Go to this website for more info:

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blnorth.htm

Here's Ollie's response to this e-mail that's going
around:

"As you will note, the originator attributes to me
certain statements regarding Usama bin Laden and other
matters that are simply inaccurate. Though I would
like to claim the gift of prophesy, I don't have it."



--- Marc Stewart <Stewart@Mallia.com> wrote:
>
> > WAIT TILL YOU READ THIS ONE!! ANYONE REMEMBER
> THIS??  --  IT WAS 1987!
> >
> > At a UNC lecture the other day they played an old
> video of Lt.
> > Col.Oliver North testifying at the Iran-Contra
> hearings during the
> > Reagan Administration.  There was Ollie in front
> of God and country
> > getting the third degree. But what he said was
> stunning!!
> >
> > He was being drilled by some senator; "Did you not
> recently spend
> > close to $60,000 for a home security system?"
> > Ollie replied, "Yes I did sir."
> >
> > The senator continued, trying to get a laugh out
> of the audience,
> > "Isn't this just a little excessive?"
> > "No sir," continued Ollie.
> >
> > "No? And why not?" the senator asked.
> > "Because the lives of my family and I were
> threatened sir."
> >
> > 'Threatened? By whom?" the senator questioned.
> > "By a terrorist, sir." Ollie answered.
> >
> > "Terrorist? What terrorist could possibly scare
> you that much?"
> > "His name is Osama bin Laden sir." Ollie replied.
> >
> > At this point the senator tried to repeat the
> name, but couldn't
> > pronounce it, which most people back then probably
> couldn't. A couple
> > of people laughed at the attempt. Then the senator
> continued.
> >
> > "Why are you so afraid of this man?" the senator
> asked.
> > "Because sir, he is the most evil person alive
> that I know of," Ollie
> > answered.
> >
> > "And what do you recommend we do about him?" asked
> the senator.
> > "Well sir, if it were up to me, I would recommend
> that an assassin
> > team be formed to eliminate him and his men from
> the face of the
> > earth."
> >
> > The senator disagreed with this approach and that
> was all that was
> > shown of the clip.
> >
> > By the way......
> > The Senator that was questioning Ollie was named
> Al Gore!
> >


=====
Andrea Walters
awalters96@yahoo.com

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