My mistake.. Sen Hollings complete speech :
“Here is a news story from July 21, 2001, before 9/11 of last year, in the Iraqi news. The name of that particular newspaper is Al-Nasiriya. It refers to an exercise called ``How Do You Bomb the White House.’’ They were planning it.”
“THEY WERE PLANNING IT” !
“[the author of the Iraqi article writes that] -the revolutionary Bin Ladin is insisting very convincingly that he will strike America on the arm that is already hurting-.
In other words, the World Trade Towers. Here, over a year ahead of time in the open press in Iraq, they are writing that this man is planning not only to bomb the White House, but where they are already hurting, the World Trade Towers.”
HOMELAND SECURITY ACT, US CONGRESS, 2002 http://www.uscg.mil/Legal/Homeland_legislation/Text/091202%20Homeland%20Security.txt
Right, so it was only a few months prior to the actual attack that Al-Nasiriya ran the story. Just a matter of language nuances, Drzz, and great post by the way and thanks for doing the research and digging this up. There is a lot of very good and interesting info on this thread, it needs a BUMP.