Posted on 07/07/2005 8:03:51 AM PDT by WmShirerAdmirer
Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - Israel's Finance Minister and former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was on his way to address British businessmen at a London hotel when the first bomb exploded in a nearby London Underground station Thursday morning.
Israel denies reports that Netanyahu had received advance information about the attacks and was warned to stay away before the blasts happened.
Israel's Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev dismissed those reports as "rubbish."
Regev said he wanted to make it unequivocally clear: "All our information was afterwards."
Netanyahu's advisor Amir Gilad explained what had happened in a radio interview.
"We were exactly on our way to the hotel [located over a subway station -- the first one to blow up-, Gilad said.
"We were asked by the British security sources not to arrive at the hotel. Still it was not clear what was happening. We stayed in the hotel where we were guests," Gilad said.
Netanyahu was due to open a large conference at the time of the explosion, Gilad added.
"Now we are receiving updates all morning from British security sources that are speaking about terror attacks in the underground train and also in buses throughout the city," he said.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had no immediate comment on the attack on London.
Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said that Israel was standing with the British at this time, and he said that Israel has long warned that terrorism is not only a problem for Israel but for the entire Western world.
"Terrorism can attack every country in the world that has the ideology of freedom, of democracy," Shalom said in a radio interview.
From Daily Times
"Top al Qaeda planners of the Sept. 11 hijackings might have canceled the attack had they known that Zacarias Moussaoui - chosen by Osama bin Laden as one of the pilots - had been arrested, the commission investigating the attacks said on Thursday.
The commission said news of Moussaoui’s Aug. 16, 2001, arrest did not reach bin Laden and top al Qaeda planners like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed before Sept. 11.
“According to (attack coordinator Ramzi bin al-Shaibah), had bin Laden and KSM learned prior to 9/11 that Moussaoui had been detained, they might have canceled the operation,” the report said, using KSM to refer to Mohammed."
The Commission report leaves a lot of questions unanswered. How did they know that OBL and KSM didn't know about Moussaoui's arrest? Do/did they really believe that OSM and KSM had a day to day control over the activities of Atta and his co-conspirators?
According to msnbc in a report titled "Islamic Extremist Learns to Fly," the FBI briefed CIA Director George Tenet on Moussaoui on Aug. 23, 2001, but no information about Moussaoui's arrest was circulated.
It is reasonable to assume that it would have taken some time for Atta to learn of Moussaui's arrest. And as you say that would certainly have forced them to act sooner rather than later - or cancel the operation.
Do you have any references to Beirut story?
Search, Beirut, 4000 jews, in google.
It's absurd to believe they didn't know something was not right with Moussaoui as he was out of contact with the cell.
I guess this is just one of the points where one finds that the 9/11 Commission was not very good - to say the least.
Muslim propaganda, designed to distract from their murderous cult of death!
So, Bill Clinton's boy dropped the ball!
President Bush should have cleaned house from day 1!
How many letters containing anthrax were sent out in the 2001 attacks?
We don’t know. Four letters were found. Contaminated letters to the York Post NBC’s Tom Brokaw had a September 18, 2001, postmark [emphasis added]. Letters to Senator Tom Daschle and Senator Patrick Leahy, postmarked October 9, carried a more potent form of anthrax. Confirmed anthrax cases at American Media, in Florida, and at the New York offices of CBS and ABC suggest that letters were also sent to these offices.
Pure coincidence or what?
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