[swarthyguy]

Madness, tinfoil...?

[swarthyguy]

Anything to this, you think?

[El Sordo]

The rabble at DU will declare that this is clear evidence of collusion between Bush and the hijackers.

[Ditter]

This gets weirder & weirder........... I, too, have been to Longboat Key! ..... (9]..... tinfoil hat firmly in place over eyes.

[mhking]

Oh, my God, Atta and Bush may have read the same newspaper articles five days before 9/11! [sarcasm off]

This author sounds like the 'Tin Foil Kid' - maybe we can get him a tryout for the Legion of Substitute Heroes...

[sinkspur]

Conspiracy nonsense.

[DoctorMichael]

Oh my God!!!!!!!! George Bush secretly met with terrorists to not only organize, sanction and possibly give the final go ahead for the largest terrorist act on US soil, the hideous murder of 3,000 Americans and others, and the destruction of a part of the financial infrastructure of the U.S.!

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Puhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh-leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeze.

[RJayneJ]

Essay Of The Week

Quote of the Day by by Libloather

[genefromjersey]

Mohammad Atta - a supposedly fanatic Muslim Fundamentalist - sat right there drinking rum and coke.

Wonder if he had some BBQ or pigs' knuckles to go with it ?

[TheEngineer]

I can't wait to hear the muslim apologists...

"Mohammad Atta was drinking a rum-and-coke... Therefore he is no true muslim."

[marron]

Hey, some of the networks pay good money for fake journalists.

[LouD]

This certainly could explain the Secret Service's precautions in keeping the President's location secret, and keeping him out of Washington, on the 11th.

[MinuteGal]

"Longboat Key itself is the home of such CURIOUS ATTRACTIONS as the Ringling CIRCUS and KATHERINE HARRIS, Florida's Secretary of State"

Sooner or later, the lefty journalists can't help but out themselves as they're writing their garbage. That's when I stopped reading.

Leni

[hellinahandcart]

Hopsicker's toned it down jest a tetch since his first draft...

[Fred Mertz]

Interesting story. Bush's activities on 9/11 became cannon fodder for the media and the Dims because he didn't rush straight back to DC. There had to be legitimate reasons for him not doing so, IMHO.

[Free the USA]

Typical conspiracy, take a couple of coincidences and build a theory unsupported by any facts.

[aristeides]

This must mean that when, three days later, a van filled with Middle Eastern men attempted to gain entry to Bush's hotel by posing as journalists, it has nothing at all to do with "terrorist ringleader" Mohamed Atta's recent presence on Longboat Key.

The two Arabs who killed Gen. Masoud in a suicide bombing on Sept. 9th were posing as journalists.

[aristeides]

I wonder if Hillary was so sour the evening Bush addressed Congress because she knew about this plot and was annoyed it had not succeeded. I still think it's curious she stayed away from the Capitol that morning.

[glorygirl]

Velly interesting ping....

[Twodees]

Madness, tinfoil...?

Maybe, maybe it's an indication that someone was feeding them some info that could have enabled them to make an attempt at assassinating the president. It would be pretty foolish to assume that there aren't traitors in the huge government we have.

It's entirely possible that Atta was there to set up an assassination attempt for the same day he intended to fly an airliner into a building and the cell he used screwed up or chickened out. If that was the case, he was being fed some info by somebody.

[Nita Nupress]

Predictably, the story went nowhere. So too did early wire reports stating that on the day of the attack Sarasota police said the Secret Service interrogated four Sudanese men after getting a tip that the men intended to harm President Bush during his visit to the city.

The incident was found to be "unrelated" to the attacks, the AP reported, and ended in the release of the men.

I don't know whether to give this article credence or not. Can't find one single "early wire report" or "AP report" to support this, except for the article that honway posted up above. Maybe I'm not holding my tongue right...