[AndrewC]

We have not been able to corroborate some of the more sensational threat reporting, such as that from a [deleted text] service in 1998 saying that Bin Ladin wanted to hijack a US aircraft to gain the release of "Blind Shaykh" 'Umar' Abd aI-Rahman and other US-held extremists.

So let's get this straight. The intel guys are telling the president that one of the more sensational threats, i.e. a hijacking to gain the release of an individual, has not been corroborated for three years. Now in order to gain the release of someone using a hijacked airplane as a bargaining chip, one does not contemplate that crashing said possessed hijacked airplane into any object is a sane employment of that possession. So what crystal ball described in that briefing did the president fail to use in the divining of Sept 11?

[KQQL]

CNN BEFORE THEY CHANGED THE HEADLINE:

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Key document warned of possible al Qaeda scenarios

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CRAWFORD, Texas (CNN) -- -- The president's daily intelligence briefing delivered to President Bush a month before the September 11 attacks warns of various ...

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