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'Bush knew about Al Qaeda plan'

April 10, 2004 18:59 IST

US President George W Bush was told more than a month before the September 11, 2001 terrorist strikes that supporters of Osama bin Laden planned an attack within the US with explosives and wanted to hijack airplanes,
according to a media report.

The warning came in a secret briefing that Bush received at his ranch in Crawford, Texas on August 6, 2001, an unnamed government official was quoted as saying by The New York Times on Friday.

U.S. news reports say a memo given to President Bush a month before the September 11 attacks warned that al-Qaida was planning an attack on U.S. soil.
The reports cite people familiar with an intelligence memo delivered to Mr. Bush on August 6, 2001.

Bush's 'al-Qaeda memo' released

Commission's key question: Could 9/11 have been stopped?
The White House has made public an intelligence briefing warning of a threat from al-Qaeda, written a month before the 11 September terror attacks.
The commission investigating the 9/11 attacks had pressed for the Bush administration to make the memo public.

"Bin Laden since 1997 has wanted to conduct terrorist attacks in the US," said the memo, written in August 2001.

The White House had said that the memo contained historical material about al-Qaeda and was not an imminent warning.

The good news Howlin, is that FOX's lead over the other networks on the weekends is even larger than during the week. CNN and MSNBC collectively have less than 150 thousand people watching right now, while FOX has closer to 250K.

The first two are examples of media cannibalism. They're reporting on what someone else is reporting.