Posted on 03/16/2008 4:10:12 AM PDT by drzz
HOMELAND SECURITY ACT OF 2002 (extrait)
Mr. HOLLINGS.
Here is a news story from July 21, 2001, before 9/11 of last year, in the Iraqi news. The name of that particular newspaper is Al-Nasiriya. Quoting from it: Bin Ladin has become a puzzle and a proof also, of the inability of the American federalism and the CIA to uncover the man and uncover his nest. The most advanced organizations of the world cannot find the man and continues to go in cycles in illusion and presuppositions. It refers to an exercise called ``How Do You Bomb the White House.’’ They were planning it.
Let me read this to all the colleagues here:
“The phenomenon of Bin Ladin is a healthy phenomenon in the Arab spirit. It is a decision and a determination that the stolen Arab self has come to realize after it got bored with promises of its rulers; After it disgusted itself from their abomination and their corruption, the man had to carry the book of God . . . and write on some white paper ``If you are unable to drive off the Marines from the Kaaba, I will do so.’’ It seems that they will be going away because the revolutionary Bin Ladin is insisting very convincingly that he will strike America on the arm that is already hurting.
In other words, the World Trade Towers. Here, over a year ahead of time in the open press in Iraq, they are writing that this man is planning not only to bomb the White House, but where they are already hurting, the World Trade Towers. I ask unanimous consent to print this article in the Record.
(Source : WAIS Document Retrieval [Congressional Record: September 12, 2002 (Senate)] - [Page S8521-S8535]
From the Congressional Record Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] - [DOCID:cr12se02-123]) http://www.uscg.mil/Legal/Homeland_legislation/Text/091202%20Homeland%20Security.txt
Mr Hollings was a Democrat from South Carolina.
and ...?
Great post. Thanks. BTTT!
There were no specific threats. Everyone knew he was determined to attack.
Interesting that it is from an Iraqi sourced newspaper...
Other than that, when combined with all of the other threats made it would be hard to have this threat language mean something specific enough and sourced well eenough to take specific action based upon it to prevent the attacks.
Easier to find this article after the fact than before, IMHO.
“to hit America on the arm that is already hurting”
WTC 1993.
“will curse Sintra’s songs” = New York, New York
Well if don’t see that the man who wrote this was aware that Bin Laden would strike, please feel free to get your medication.
And just who was in the Whitehouse for the previous 8 yrs?
And just what party decimated our intelligence community funding?
And just who ran the Hear no Terrorsim, See no Terrorism & Speak no Terrorism Administration even in the face of numerous attacks on their watch?
[From Al-Nasiriya, July 21, 2001]
America, an Obsession Called Osama Bin Ladin
(By Naeem Abd Muhalhal)
Osama Bin Ladin says that he took from the desert its
silence and its anger at the same time.
He has learned how to harm America and has been able to do
it, for he gave a bad reputation to the Pentagon as being
weakened in more than one spot in the world. In order to
follow one step taken by Bin Ladin America has put to work
all its apparatus, its computers and its satellites just as
the governor cowboy of Texas has done. Bin Ladin’s name has
been posted on all the internet sites and an amount of $5
million dollars has been awarded to anyone who could give any
information that would lead to the arrest of this lanky,
lightly bearded man. In this man’s heart you’ll find an
insistence, a strange determination that he will reach one
day the tunnels of the White House and will bomb it with
everything that is in it.
We all know that every age has its revolutionary
phenomenon. In Mexico there was Zapata. In Bolivia there was
Che Guevara, during the seventies came out Marcos and the Red
Brigades in Italy, the Baader Meinhof Gang in Germany and
there was Leila Khaled the Palestinian woman and others. They
all appeared in violence and disappeared quietly. During the
nineties Bin Ladin came out in the open having been
completely overtaken in his mind by the robbery happening to
his country and its treasurers. For him it was the beginning
of the revolution. For this endeavor he mobilized everything
that he had of money, of investments and Sudan was his first
stop. Bin Ladin ended up in Afghanistan where his
revolutionary drive pushed this stubborn revolutionary to
plan very carefully, and in a very detailed manner, his stand
to push back the boastful American onslaught and to change
the American legend into a bubble of soap.
Because Bin Ladin knows what causes pain to America, he
played America’s game, just as an oppressed man entertains
itself with the thing oppressing him. He countered with the
language of dynamite and explosives in the city of Khobar and
destroyed two US embassies in Nairobi and Dar al Salaam.
America says, admitting just like a bird in the midst of a
tornado, that Bin Ladin is behind the bombing of its
destroyer in Aden. The fearful series of events continues for
America and the terror within America gets to the point that
the Governor of Texas increases the amount of the award, just
as the stubbornness of the other man and his challenge
increases. This challenge makes it such that one of his
grandchildren comes from Jeddah traveling on the official
Saudi Arabia airlines and celebrates with him the marriage of
one of the daughters of his companions. Bin Ladin has become
a puzzle and a proof also, of the inability of the American
federalism and the C.I.A. to uncover the man and uncover his
nest. The most advanced organizations of the world cannot
find the man and continues to go in cycles in illusion and
presuppositions. They still hope that he could come out from
his nest one day, they hope that he would come out from his
hiding hole and one day they will point at him their missiles
and he will join Guevara, Hassan Abu Salama, Kamal Nasser,
Kanafani and others. The man responds with a thin smile and
replies to the correspondent from Al Jazeera that he will
continue to be the obsession and worry of America and the
Jews, and that even that night he will practice and work on
an exercise called ``How Do You Bomb the White House.’’ And
because they know that he can get there, they have started to
go through their nightmares on their beds and the leaders
have had to wear their bulletproof vests.
Meanwhile America has started to pressure the Taliban
movement so that it would hand them Bin Ladin, while he
continues to smile and still thinks seriously, with the
seriousness of the Bedouin of the desert about the way he
will try to bomb the Pentagon after he destroys the White
House . . .
The phenomenon of Bin Ladin is a healthy phenomenon in the
Arab spirit. It is a decision and a determination that the
stolen Arab self has come to realize after it got bored with
promises of its rulers: After it disgusted itself from their
abomination and their corruption, the man had to carry the
book of God and the Kalashnikov and write on some off white
paper ``If you are unable to drive off the Marines from the
Kaaba, I will do so.’’ It seems that they will be going away
because the revolutionary Bin Ladin is insisting very
convincingly that he will strike America on the arm that is
already hurting. That the man will not be swayed by the plant
leaves of Whitman nor by the ``Adventures of Indiana Jones’’
and will curse the
memory of Frank Sinatra every time he hears his songs. This
new awareness of the image that Bin Ladin has become gives
shape to the resting areas and stops for every Arab
revolutionary. It is the subject of our admiration here in
Iraq because it shares with us in a unified manner our
resisting stand, and just as he fixes his gaze on the Al Aqsa
we greet him. We hail his tears as they see the planes of the
Western world taking revenge against his heroic operations by
bombing the cities of Iraq . . .
To Bin Ladin I say that revolution, the wings of a dove and
the bullet are all but one and the same thing in the heart of
a believer.
Well, gee, I don't know. I guess we'll have to ask Bill Clinton.
Hind sight is 20/20. There were signs that people wanted to attack us but where and when were not clear. Decisive action by Clinton could have stopped it but we all know he failed.
Mass murder is the solution to the problems caused by their own rulers and lack of manhood. That's why all we needed to learn about Islam we learned on 9/11.
extrait means what?
But they knew HOW he was going to attack and they knew some of the culprits who were going to pilot the planes.
Somebody didn't care about the visible threat. After all the post-attack growth of government we may have identified their reason.
It appears the same administration, was more focused on domestic terrorism than the rising tide of Muslim terror operations. Ruby Ridge, WACO, Oklahoma City Federal Bldg bombing, Militias, and the dreaded vast Right Wing Conspiracy come to mind. CIA, FBI, and BATF, all agencies looking for the boogie man in all the wrong places.
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3574
Thanks for that link. I was aware of most of that information except for how hard the FBI worked to cover it up. Makes a great case for limiting the power of the federal govt.
You mean like the “Bill of Rights”? Those pesky little points conveniently forgotten when the necessity of keeping citizens in their place is needed.
Wonder what was in those documents Sandy Berger pilfered
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