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'Sears Tower was next on Qaeda list'
The Times of India ^ | March 30 2004

Posted on 03/30/2004 12:00:35 PM PST by knighthawk

WASHINGTON: Chicago's Sears Tower and Los Angeles' Library Tower were to be the next targets after the terrorist attacks on World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, Al-Qaeda's puported operations chief Khalid Shiekh Mohammed now in detention, has told US interrogators, media reports said on Tuesday.

The plan for Chicago and Los Angeles were aborted because of the decisive US response to the New York and Washington attacks, Sheikh reportedly told the investigators, the Washington Times said quoting a British newspaper.

The US response disrupted the terrorist organisations' plans so thoroughly that it could not proceed, he said.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Illinois; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; alqaida; chicago; khalidmohammed; librarytower; losangeles; secondwave; westcoastplot

1 posted on 03/30/2004 12:00:39 PM PST by knighthawk
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To: MizSterious; rebdov; Nix 2; green lantern; BeOSUser; Brad's Gramma; dreadme; Turk2; keri; ...
Ping
2 posted on 03/30/2004 12:01:17 PM PST by knighthawk (Some people say that we'll get nowhere at all, let 'em tear down the world but we ain't gonna fall)
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To: knighthawk
The US response disrupted the terrorist organisations' plans so thoroughly that it could not proceed, he said.

A law enforcement matter, indeed.

3 posted on 03/30/2004 12:03:05 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: knighthawk
The US response disrupted the terrorist organizations' plans so thoroughly that it could not proceed, he said.

The GOP response to this news should be... BUSH SAVES SEARS TOWERS BY DECISIVE ACTION ON 9/11

4 posted on 03/30/2004 12:06:15 PM PST by doc11355
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To: knighthawk
The US response disrupted the terrorist organisations' plans so thoroughly that it could not proceed, he said.

How can this be? I keep hearing that Bush has done nothing about the WOT...

5 posted on 03/30/2004 12:06:29 PM PST by NCjim
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To: NCjim
Eat it Democrats: BUSH SAVES NATION!
6 posted on 03/30/2004 12:10:40 PM PST by Rodm (Seest thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings)
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To: knighthawk
waiting for the Chicago Tribune to pick this up...
7 posted on 03/30/2004 12:13:45 PM PST by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
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To: knighthawk
"Was" is not the correct word here. Sears tower will always be a target for them.
8 posted on 03/30/2004 12:19:25 PM PST by lowbridge
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To: knighthawk
I heard Rush mention this. He said it was in today's Washington Times. I haven't had a chance to look.

Thank goodness our actions averted this horrible plan.
9 posted on 03/30/2004 12:23:11 PM PST by cyncooper ("The 'War on Terror ' is not a figure of speech")
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To: Rodm
I think the spin would be:

Richard Clark's Expert Crisis Management Saved Chicago, LA.

10 posted on 03/30/2004 1:13:37 PM PST by LimitedPowers (Citizenship is not a Hate Crime!)
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To: knighthawk
Remember the story on the 11th or 12th, box cutters found on a downed plane? Probably part of this plot. I think the
plane was grounded in St. Louis, or KC.
11 posted on 03/30/2004 1:22:42 PM PST by cryptical
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To: Grampa Dave; BOBTHENAILER; Howlin; PhilDragoo; FairOpinion
"The US response disrupted the terrorist organisations' plans so thoroughly that it could not proceed, he said."

I would hope that in the course of this 9/11 "commission" that someone would read this statement--in a very loud voice. I would hope that President Bush includes it in some of his campaign ads. Anyone who thinks President Bush "did nothing" needs to know this.

12 posted on 03/30/2004 1:32:16 PM PST by MizSterious (First, the journalists, THEN the lawyers.)
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To: knighthawk
If Gore had succeeded in stealing the election, the Sears Tower and LA Library Tower would no longer exist.
13 posted on 03/30/2004 1:37:07 PM PST by GreenHornet
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To: GreenHornet
I was working that day, in a squad car, about one half mile north of the Sears Tower. I'm sure I would have been there. Watched the planes hit New York during eight o'clock roll call, then went out to patrol and watched all the people walking away from the Loop, all the buildings closed.
Fake anthrax time was annoying, glad thats pretty much past, lasted about two or three months after...
14 posted on 03/30/2004 4:53:30 PM PST by abovethefray
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To: knighthawk
The US response disrupted the terrorist organisations' plans so thoroughly that it could not proceed, he said.

THANK YOU, MR.PRESIDENT!!!!!!!
15 posted on 03/30/2004 5:43:31 PM PST by texasflower (in the event of the rapture.......the Bush White House will be unmanned)
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To: MizSterious; MeekOneGOP; Grampa Dave; BOBTHENAILER; FairOpinion; Howlin

The US response disrupted the terrorist
organisations' plans so thoroughly that
it could not proceed.


The threat of terrorism is greatly exaggerated.

16 posted on 03/30/2004 8:24:26 PM PST by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: knighthawk
AQ leadership may be inspired at times but isn't that bright. If they wanted to go after Sears Tower and a target in LA, the day to have done that was 9-11-01.

They can really only use that suicide plane trick once...
17 posted on 03/30/2004 8:27:55 PM PST by HitmanLV (I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.)
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To: PhilDragoo; MizSterious; knighthawk; devolve; yall


18 posted on 03/31/2004 2:41:45 AM PST by MeekOneGOP (The Democrats say they believe in CHOICE. I have chosen to vote STRAIGHT TICKET GOP for years !!)
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To: MizSterious
Anyone who thinks President Bush "did nothing" needs to know this.

Good point.

19 posted on 03/31/2004 5:16:18 AM PST by BOBTHENAILER (One by one, in small groups or in whole armies, we don't care how we do, but we're gonna getcha)
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