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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.
1 posted on 12/24/2005 4:42:43 AM PST by EBH
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To: EBH

WoW!


2 posted on 12/24/2005 4:45:04 AM PST by Khashayar (No Banana Allowed!)
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To: EBH

Didn't some one in the news media say that Abu Faraj Al-Libi's capture was no big deal?


3 posted on 12/24/2005 4:45:22 AM PST by Perdogg ("Facts are stupid things." - President Ronald Wilson Reagan)
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To: Perdogg
All well and good, but did they get a warrant before surveilling him?
4 posted on 12/24/2005 4:48:10 AM PST by Wristpin ("The Yankees have decided to buy every player in Baseball....")
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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).


5 posted on 12/24/2005 4:49:56 AM PST by peyton randolph (<a href="http://clinton.senate.gov/">shrew</a>)
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To: EBH

DU is deeply saddened.


6 posted on 12/24/2005 4:50:52 AM PST by atomicpossum (Replies should be as pedantic as possible. I love that so much.)
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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!

7 posted on 12/24/2005 4:50:59 AM PST by eeriegeno
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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.

8 posted on 12/24/2005 4:56:21 AM PST by luvbach1 (Near the belly of the beast in San Diego)
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To: Khashayar; All

I guess the democrats got a piece of coal in their stocking.


9 posted on 12/24/2005 4:56:35 AM PST by dinok
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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.

10 posted on 12/24/2005 5:08:23 AM PST by peyton randolph (<a href="http://clinton.senate.gov/">shrew</a>)
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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


11 posted on 12/24/2005 5:12:13 AM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway~~John Wayne)
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To: Khashayar
WoW!

War on W?

12 posted on 12/24/2005 5:16:07 AM PST by luigi
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To: EBH
Good news for America and President Bush. Another lump of coal for the DemocRats.
13 posted on 12/24/2005 5:49:48 AM PST by manwiththehands (BESURETODRINKYOUROVALTINE)
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To: luigi

lol!

there you have it!


14 posted on 12/24/2005 6:01:00 AM PST by Khashayar (No Banana Allowed!)
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To: EBH
You call this news?

Those clowns want to kill everybody...

15 posted on 12/24/2005 6:24:12 AM PST by Publius6961 (The IQ of California voters is about 420........... .............cumulatively)
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To: All

So what's new????????


16 posted on 12/24/2005 6:39:53 AM PST by Doofer
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To: EBH
Tom Daschle is deeply saddened.
17 posted on 12/24/2005 8:45:36 AM PST by Mike Darancette (Mesocons for Rice '08)
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To: luigi; Khashayar
WoW!

War on W?


18 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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