Fox and Reuters: White House set to release the PDB from Aug '01 anytime now..

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[Dog]

Breaking now.....it will be released in a pdf file.

[JustPiper]

The important thing to know is Bush is the one that requested this memo!

[max_rpf]

Raw Data: Text of Released PDB


Saturday, April 10, 2004




The following is a redacted text of the presidential daily briefing from August 6, 2001:


Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.


Clandestine, foreign government, and media reports indicate Bin Ladensince 1997 has wanted to conduct terrorist attacks in the U.S. Bin Laden implied in U.S. television interviews in 1997 and 1998 that his followers would follow the example of World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef and "bringthe fighting to America."


After U.S. missile strikes on his base in Afghanistan in 1998, Bin Ladentold followers he wanted to retaliate in Washington, according to a [deleted text] service.


An Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ) operative told [deleted text] serviceat the same time that Bin Laden was planning to exploit the operative'saccess to the U.S. to mount a terrorist strike.


The millennium plotting in Canada in 1999 may have been part of Bin Laden's first serious attempt to implement a terrorist strike in the U.S. Convicted plotter Ahmed Ressam has told the FBI that he conceived the idea to attack Los Angeles International Airport himself, but that BinLaden lieutenant Abu Zubaydah encouraged him and helped facilitate theoperation. Ressam also said that in 1998 Abu Zubaydah was planning hisown U.S. attack.


Ressam says Bin Laden was aware of the Los Angeles operation.


Although Bin Laden has not succeeded, his attacks against the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 demonstrate that he preparesoperations years in advance and is not deterred by setbacks. Bin Laden associates surveilled our Embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam as early as 1993, and some members of the Nairobi cell planning the bombings were arrested and deported in 1997.


AI Qaeda members — including same who are U.S. citizens — have resided in and traveled to the U.S. for years, and the group apparently maintains asupport structure that could aid attacks.


Two Al Qaeda members found guiltyin the conspiracy to bomb our embassies in East Africa were U.S. citizens, and a senior EIJ member lived in California in the mid-1990s.


A clandestine sourcesaid in 1998 that a Bin Laden cell in New Yorkwas recruiting Muslim-American youth for attacks.


We havenot been able to corroborate some of the more sensational threat reporting, such as that from a [deleted text] service in 1998 saying that Bin Laden wanted to hijack a U.S. aircraft to gain the release of "Blind Shaykh" 'Umar' Abd aI-Rahman and other U.S.-held extremists.


Nevertheless, FBI information since that time indicates patterns ofsuspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations forhijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance offederal buildings in New York.


The FBI is conducting approximately 70 investigations throughout the U.S. that it considers Bin Laden-related. CIA and the FBI are investigating a call to our embassy in the UAE in May sayingthat a group or Bin Laden supporters was in the U.S. planning attacks with explosives.

[LisaFab]

"Did those geniuses forget that their gal Jamie Gorelick has seen the thing?"

They were counting on their media pimps to "distill and explain" it to the sheeple--attempts at which are taking place right now on CNN and MSNBC.

[Howlin]

I know.

And since that's all you do, give me your take on this memo?

Will they be able to spin it?

[JustPiper]

Freeh has some 'esplain' to do next week

[jackbill]

Gorelick should be one of those being put in the hot seat, quite frankly, as she was there during the 'feckless' Clinton administration.

Will Gore-lick recuse herself next week when the commission questions Janet Reno? Gore-lick was #2 under Reno at the DOJ.

#2 under Reno? Sorry, especially if you haven't had dinner yet.

[TomGuy]

LINK TO 8/6/01 PDB: ""Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S."

[Sacajaweau]

Condi said..."You're not going to make a liar out of me pal"...and went on to reaveal the TRUTH of the memo. Good for her.

Hillary (oh recently quiet one), pay attention. It's not working. She MAY be your opposition (even though I don't think you will really get the nomination).Frankly Hillary, she'll clobber you!!

[Saints fan]

Im going to put the PDQ PDB PDF on my PDA.

Too damn many PD something or others.I'm confused!

[freedom4me]

Someone on FOX said that the hijackers themselves didn't know the ultimate end of their mission. How could we have known?

[Right_in_Virginia]

1. We knew there were AQ cells in country.

How are they going to spin the other fact in this memo...that the AQ cells were known to have arrived back in 1997?

[Howlin]

These reporters are acting like they had NO idea there were sleeper cells of AQ in this country?

This is a big deal?

Are they that dumb?

[Glenn]

Nevertheless, FBI information since that time indicates patterns ofsuspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations forhijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance offederal buildings in New York.

Ouch.

[My2Cents]

And on a weekend, where the news is slow.

[Monty22]

The only answer is to ban planes. I've always thought that way. Just drive.

Even today we are still facing pilots in collusion.

[cyncooper]

I didn't take notes but the anchorette sounded like "but..." and didn't sound like she agreed with him-----yet.

[freedom4me]

To me the operative words are "since that time" there have been suspicious patterns. Since that time means since 1998!

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Oh my gosh....that was embarassing for Rita, wasn't it? She didn't KNOW that AQ is here?

Sorry I missed this exchange. Rita seems to me to be an "establishment" journalist. Rivera has always been an ambulance chaser.

[Right_in_Virginia]

The important thing to know is Bush is the one that requested this memo!

Good point...worth repeating, often!

I guess Billy-boy left out the information on AQ cells in the US from his national security summary to the Bush administration.

[Howlin]

Nevertheless, FBI information since that time indicates patterns ofsuspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations forhijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance offederal buildings in New York.

Wouldn't that prove that as of August 6, 2001, Bush AND his government were doing their jobs?