Posted on 07/24/2004 7:14:52 PM PDT by True Capitalist
The following is the text of an item from the Presidential Daily Brief received by President William J. Clinton on December 4, 1998. Redacted material is indicated in brackets.
SUBJECT: Bin Ladin Preparing to Hijack US Aircraft and Other Attacks
1. Reporting [—] suggests Bin Ladin and his allies are preparing for attacks in the US, including an aircraft hijacking to obtain the release of Shaykh ‘Umar ‘Abd al-Rahman, Ramzi Yousef, and Muhammad Sadiq ‘Awda. One source quoted a senior member of the Gama’at al-Islamiyya (IG) saying that, as of late October, the IG had completed planning for an operation in the US on behalf of Bin Ladin, but that the operation was on hold.A senior Bin Ladin operative from Saudi Arabia was to visit IG counterparts in the US soon thereafter to discuss options—perhaps including an aircraft hijacking.
• IG leader Islambuli in late September was planning to hijack a US airliner during the “next couple of weeks” to free ‘Abd al- Rahman and the other prisoners, according to what may be a different source.
• The same source late last month said that Bin Ladin might implement plans to hijack US aircraft before the beginning of Ramadan on 20 December and that two members of the operational team had evaded security checks during a recent trial run at an unidentified New York airport. [—]
2. Some members of the Bin Ladin network have received hijack training, according to various sources,but no group directly tied to Bin Ladin’s al-Qa’ida organization has ever carried out an aircraft hijacking.Bin Ladin could be weighing other types of operations against US aircraft.According to [—] the IG in October obtained SA-7 missiles and intended to move them from Yemen into Saudi Arabia to shoot down an Egyptian plane or, if unsuccessful, a US military or civilian aircraft.
• A [—] in October told us that unspecified “extremist elements” in Yemen had acquired SA-7s. [—]
3. [—] indicate the Bin Ladin organization or its allies are moving closer to implementing anti-US attacks at unspecified locations, but we do not know whether they are related to attacks on aircraft. A Bin Ladin associate in Sudan late last month told a colleague in Kandahar that he had shipped a group of containers to Afghanistan. Bin Ladin associates also talked about the movement of containers to Afghanistan before the East Africa bombings.
• In other [—] Bin Ladin associates last month discussed picking up a package in Malaysia. One told his colleague in Malaysia that “they”were in the “ninth month [of pregnancy].” • An alleged Bin Ladin supporter in Yemen late last month remarked to his mother that he planned to work in “commerce” from abroad and said his impending “marriage,” which would take place soon,would be a “surprise.”“Commerce” and “marriage” often are codewords for terrorist attacks. [—]
I listened to the 911 Commission press conference.
My feeling is the FACTS (like this one) defuse and refute most of the infantile rants of the left. (I plan to read the full report.)
As such, the FACTS contained therein are more useful to Bush, than to Kerry.
What goes around comes around.
Bump
Don't forget the generous airline industry contributions to the DNC after the committee issued its findings.
This is long before the timely "documents" that old Sandy the Burglar purged.
Read this and you understand why a US President's hair goes white before departure of office. Bush reads (briefed) one of these daily. Imagine what is in those that would demand a heightened terror alert! We pray for Bush to have divine guidance in those important matters.
That's what HS is SUPPOSED to do.
Bump
It was sold out already in the three book stores I went to in NYC on the day it was released. Each store had new shipments arriving the next day and by noon one store had sold out of all their copies again. It took me five trips to secure a copy, but that may be a NYC thing.
According to the 9/11 Commission Report on page 83, The Gore Commission Report issued in 1997 regarding aviation safety and security "did not discuss the possibility of suicide hijackings."
Bump
Yes. The final 9/11 Commission Report is the first time the text of this PDB has been seen in public. Last weekend the Washington Post got a heads up on the content of the PDB:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58615-2004Jul17.html
Susan Schmidt of The Washington Post was read the text of the brief over the phone by an anonymous government official.A Bush White House official told the Post there is "no record or recollection of the new White House team having been briefed on that threat information."
If you want to see something really SCARY....turn to page 148..
You and I see a filthy animal who should be interrogated by any means necessary. The left on the other hand, see a man in need of a hot meal and good attorney.
Got it, Forwarded it, thanks.
Prairie
I don't suppose there is any indication of where the training was received. Solmon Pak airfield maybe?
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What was on page 148?
You'll have to go buy the book.
Please post and flag us when you find something really good in your reading that is like a poke in the eye with a sharp stick for the liberal mediots.
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