Posted on 09/13/2001 1:11:38 AM PDT by duck soup
Afghan pilot says he trained 14 militants to fly Reuters Dubai, September 13: A former pilot with Afghanistan's national carrier was on Thursday quoted as saying that he had helped train 14 Islamic militants, some holding European passports, to fly civilian aircraft. The London-based Asharq al-Awsat newspaper quoted the pilot as saying from an undisclosed location in Afghanistan that the trainees had left the war-torn country nearly one year ago to undisclosed locations after they completed their training. The newspaper did not say if the trainees were among the hijackers who slammed commercial aircraft into the Pentagon in Washington and the World Trade Center in New York on Tuesday.
In that case we must declare war on that state and bring about its complete destruction. Napalming every structure in the country (twice perhaps) and salting all their fields and pastureland ought to be sufficient.
This is the kind of information that I've been looking for.
What this says is that the attack was not against Bush. If it took the terrorists over a year to train and prepare for this, then they were motivated to do this because of things happening under the Clinton Administration.
-PJ
We have been betrayed at the highest level of our government. Osama bin Laden's people take the blame for launching this attack against us --- but they cannot be blamed for the complete FAILURE of our intelligence and national security. We have enemies, foreign and domestic. We must hunt them all down.
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