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Plot to Kill President Bush Thwarted
United Press International ^
| 12/24/2005
| unknown
Posted on 12/24/2005 4:42:42 AM PST by EBH
Before he was captured last spring, Osama bin Laden's top operational commander planned to assassinate U.S. President George Bush, it was reported Friday.
The New York Daily News said Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf also was a target in the plot.
The capture last May of al-Qaida's No. 3 leader, Abu Faraj Al-Libi,...
(Excerpt) Read more at wtam.com ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: abufarajallibi; allibi; assassinationplot; bush; foiled; musharraf; pakistan
A bit of new follow up information on an old news story.
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posted on
12/24/2005 4:42:43 AM PST
by
EBH
To: EBH
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posted on
12/24/2005 4:45:04 AM PST
by
Khashayar
(No Banana Allowed!)
To: EBH
Didn't some one in the news media say that Abu Faraj Al-Libi's capture was no big deal?
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posted on
12/24/2005 4:45:22 AM PST
by
Perdogg
("Facts are stupid things." - President Ronald Wilson Reagan)
To: Perdogg
All well and good, but did they get a warrant before surveilling him?
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posted on
12/24/2005 4:48:10 AM PST
by
Wristpin
("The Yankees have decided to buy every player in Baseball....")
To: EBH
And let's not forget Saddam's attempt to take out Bush the Elder in Kuwait. Of course that doesn't matter to the DUmmies and the MSM (overlap between the two).
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posted on
12/24/2005 4:49:56 AM PST
by
peyton randolph
(<a href="http://clinton.senate.gov/">shrew</a>)
To: EBH
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posted on
12/24/2005 4:50:52 AM PST
by
atomicpossum
(Replies should be as pedantic as possible. I love that so much.)
To: Perdogg
Didn't some one in the news media say that Abu Faraj Al-Libi's capture was no big deal?IMHO, the former uses words and the latter uses IED's but both have the same end result in mind!
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posted on
12/24/2005 4:50:59 AM PST
by
eeriegeno
To: peyton randolph
Of course that doesn't matter to the DUmmies and the MSM (overlap between the two).
It matters to them. They (DU at least) would have loved it. The MSM would have said the POTUS brought it on himself. I really believe that.
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posted on
12/24/2005 4:56:21 AM PST
by
luvbach1
(Near the belly of the beast in San Diego)
To: Khashayar; All
I guess the democrats got a piece of coal in their stocking.
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posted on
12/24/2005 4:56:35 AM PST
by
dinok
To: dinok
I guess the democrats got a piece of coal in their stocking. Actually, subsidized home heating oil from commie thug Hugo Chavez, at least in Taxachusetts.
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posted on
12/24/2005 5:08:23 AM PST
by
peyton randolph
(<a href="http://clinton.senate.gov/">shrew</a>)
To: EBH
Gee, I hope they didn't get this information by listening into his phone conversations. I'd hate to think of his civil rights being violated.
/sarcasm
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posted on
12/24/2005 5:12:13 AM PST
by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway~~John Wayne)
To: Khashayar
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posted on
12/24/2005 5:16:07 AM PST
by
luigi
To: EBH
Good news for America and President Bush. Another lump of coal for the DemocRats.
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posted on
12/24/2005 5:49:48 AM PST
by
manwiththehands
(BESURETODRINKYOUROVALTINE)
To: luigi
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posted on
12/24/2005 6:01:00 AM PST
by
Khashayar
(No Banana Allowed!)
To: EBH
You call this news?
Those clowns want to kill everybody...
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posted on
12/24/2005 6:24:12 AM PST
by
Publius6961
(The IQ of California voters is about 420........... .............cumulatively)
To: All
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posted on
12/24/2005 6:39:53 AM PST
by
Doofer
To: EBH
Tom Daschle is deeply saddened.
To: luigi; Khashayar
WoW! War on W?
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posted on
12/24/2005 10:28:03 AM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(I strongly condemn violence against adulterous gay cannibals.)
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