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"It mentioned hijacking, but hijacking in the traditional sense, and in a sense, said that the most important and most likely thing was that they would take over an airliner, holding passengers and demand the release of one of their operatives." article, regarding the infamous PDB

I am relatively certain that the intelligence community knew al queda planned to use airliners as weapons, not just bargaining chips. CIA knew of a plan to crash airliners into CIA headquarters.

While Dr Rice, on balance, is good and truthful, the full truth would be that while perhaps not present in *this* pdb, the administration was aware of al queda's plans to use airliners as missiles on important US targets.

[cyncooper]

While Dr Rice, on balance, is good and truthful, the full truth would be that while perhaps not present in *this* pdb, the administration was aware of al queda's plans to use airliners as missiles on important US targets.

You are incorrect. So far credibility goes to Rice and she says she was not briefed on that and nobody has contradicted her. If she says she was not, then she wasn't. Who claimed to have briefed President Bush on that? Anybody? I don't think so. If it was not passed on, then it was not passed on.