[eno_]

I don't think 9/11 could have been prevented, and NOBODY foresaw it.

A similar multiple hijack and bombing plot, called project Bojinka, was averted a few years before 9/11. How can you say it was unforeseen when it was almost implemented?

[sinkspur]

A similar multiple hijack and bombing plot, called project Bojinka, was averted a few years before 9/11. How can you say it was unforeseen when it was almost implemented?

And terrorists blew up the Cole, in 2000.

How were we to know that terrorists weren't focused on blowing up ships, instead of flying airplanes into buildings?

You're revising history.

Nobody knew, and there was no way for anybody TO know.

[MJY1288]

"A similar multiple hijack and bombing plot, called project Bojinka, was averted a few years before 9/11. How can you say it was unforeseen when it was almost implemented?"

It's called "Getting Lucky"

I'm confident that if there was actionable Intel of a specific attack planned for 9/11, action would have been taken to prevent it, We didn't even have enough Arabic Translators at the CIA to translate the intercepts we were getting. So even if conversations between Mohammed Atta and his fellow Jihadist were intercepted a week before 9/11, we wouldn't have translated them in time to prevent the attacks.

Fact is... We were caught of guard and we learned a very tough & costly lesson on 9/11

[jimbo123]

Clinton's people testified that they believed a Bjoinka couldn't happen in the U.S. because there weren't many radical islamists in the US and the ones that were here were under FBI survelliance.