Posted on 02/09/2006 1:31:15 PM PST by Thanatos
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said Thursday he was blindsided by President Bush's announcement of new details on a purported 2002 hijacking plot aimed at a downtown skyscraper, and described communication with the White House as "nonexistent."
"I'm amazed that the president would make this (announcement) on national TV and not inform us of these details through the appropriate channels," the mayor told The Associated Press. "I don't expect a call from the president _ but somebody."
Bush has referred to the 2002 plot before but he publicly filled in the details Thursday.
Bush said Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks who was captured in 2003, had begun planning an attack to fly a commercial airplane into the tallest skyscraper on the West Coast, the Library Tower in Los Angeles, since renamed the US Bank Tower.
Instead of recruiting Arab hijackers, Southeast Asian men would be used, Bush said, because they were less likely to arouse suspicion. He said they would use shoe bombs to blow open the cockpit door.
The president said the plot was derailed when a Southeast Asian nation arrested a key al-Qaida operative. Bush did not name the country or the operative.
"I go to work every day knowing that we are a target," Villaraigosa said.
The mayor said homeland security needs better funding, including for the protection of high-risk targets in Los Angeles. He said some funding could be redirected from the war in Iraq, but he did not advocate an immediate withdrawal of troops.
That looks like a typical (if unusually non-obscene) leftist post from Yahoo.
Thanks! I might just do that.
So, you're sure he's a citizen and all?
I don't know, this Note to Villa may be WAY too deep. You may want to reword it.
..an absolute disgrace...
They should rename the city LOST Angeles.
It only takes MINUTES for whatever the newest MoveOn, CPUSA, Chomsky position is on the Yahoo Boards...
Lots of Delusional kids, and LOTS of Hate-filled non-USA posters on those boards.....
Ping 124.
bttt
Now if someone could photoshop Tony Villar riding a 757 into the top picture...
"The threat is 4 years old. It certainly takes you back," said Peggy Moretti, spokeswoman for Maguire Properties, the building's operator. "Beyond that, it's old news."
"Don't you want to know what ELSE I'm lying to you about?"
Aw, give 'em a chance. He's still wet behind the ears ;-)
It's irresponsible journalism to even consider this a worthy story.
Very much so. In fact, much of it SO over the top one is tempted to consider it mostly a put-on.
But then the insults are so vile, some of the images linked are so repellent, it is best taken in very small doses for my own part.
Still, it is a chance to speak directly to the other side, which sometimes gets affected by what I post.
You forgot to put (D) after his name - the sure sign of a LIAR!
"There really ought to be an AP idiocy ping."
Exactly...
Isn't that just like the liberal media? Take two separate facts, shake them together, pour them out for liberal readers who never question a thing.
Thank you for pointing out the truth!
stepping back in time...TIMES ONLINE.co.uk: "FOCUS: THE CONFESSIONS OF KHALID SHEIKH MOHAMMED" by Christina Lamb in Chicago (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Sears Tower in Chicago and Library Tower in Los Angeles -- which was 'blown up' in the film Independence Day -- were both potential targets, according to transcripts of interrogations of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the Al-Qaeda operations chief. "We were looking for symbols of economic might," he told his captors. He recounted sitting looking at the books with Ramzi Yusuf, his nephew by marriage, who was the man behind the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993. In that attack Yusuf succeeded only in ripping a crater into the foundations with a van bomb. We knew from that experience that explosives could be problematic, said Mohammed, so we started thinking about using planes.) (March 28, 2004)
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