Actually, YEAH! Read the piece. It even quotes US Nat Sec people (CLINTON'S PEOPLE) as saying, we hit his capital, now he'll hit ours. There's other 1998 pieces specifically saying NYC and DC were the next likely targets.
OR
You could believe the ABC News report at the time the 911 plot was set in motion-which claims Saddam and UBL were teaming up.
http://www.mediaresearch.org/rm/cyber/2004/binladen061704/segment1.ram
But, they either forget about it or claimed they were lied to.