1999 Report Warned of Suicide Hijack

AP/The Washington Post ^ | Friday, May 17, 2002 12:57PM | John Solomon

[philman_36]

I wonder what the earliest reference is to such a thing?
I don't know about earliest "references", but how about a failed attempt by some Algerian terrorists?
Just follow the links.

[TheDon]

[VOA]

Mark my words....the RATS will rue the day the took this ball outside to play.

I just hope that voters will remember which party reveled in "the blame game"...
and which one just went about it's business bringing America's enemies to justice
(or an ignominious resting place on the side of some non-descript mountain or plane in
Afghanistan or elsewhere).

[nathanbedford]

Bush's people (Rice, Rumsfeld) and Bush himself state that they had no reason to believe that terrorists would turn a hi-jacked jet into a guided missle. This report report plus the French report were in the public domain before 9/11. I assume that these three honorable individuals are telling the truth in this respect. That means that none of them was briefed about these reports. So the intelligence establishment whose job it was to brief the President and his top security people and the leadership of congress must not have briefed anyone about the airliner into cruise missle scenerio. This is probable because no one in congress has come forward and declared that he was advised in any briefing of this possibility. It is likely that the briefings would have had virtually identical contents.

Either the intelligence establishment considered and rejected out of hand this scenerio, or it never heard of it, or it simply faded from corporate memory between the Clinton and Bush administrations. In any case the whole of the intelligence establishment must be investigated to fix responsibility. I suspect Clinton's policy of malignent neglect will prove to be the effecient producing cause of multiple systemic failures.

In my judgment it is inevitable that the current investigation will quickly become quasi public with leaks and the Bush administration should welcome a complete and full inquiry which it should extend back into the Clinton yesrs.

[self_evident]

Mark my words....the RATS will rue the day the took this ball outside to play.

Hopefully, someone in the White House is dusting off the history books. This is EXACTLY the same as Pearl Harbor, where they recieved numerous warnings. Problem was, they recieved warning for virtually every US interest in the Pacific.

[Poohbah]

Yup, I noticed that point, too. hchutch, your ideas are interesting, but stealing a widebody is right out--first off, you need a runway to land it on, and that means that your list of possible hidey-holes is REAL short. It also telegraphs the punch--believe me, as expensive as a widebody is, a stolen one WILL be diligently searched for, and . As for the IL-76 option, when analysis of the remains came up (a la Oklahoma City and WTC I in 1993) with serial numbers, and Ilyushin traced them to an IL-76 owned by the Iranians or the Iraqis, the gloves would be OFF.

[jrlc]

Whoever leaked the intelligence report from Congress to CBS may well have committed a crime. Which DNC operative in the House of Reps. leaked the document -- out of which Rep.'s office? The RATS have a convenient memory lapse -- but they should remember that Bobby Kennedy had Jimmy Hoffa indicted after he caught Hoffa with McClellan Committee documents. What do the new anti-terrorism laws say about unauthorized release of intelligence reports. Did CBS commit a crime by accepting the reports and putting them on the air?

[DJ88]

I don't think I will let them forget, will you? ;-)

[DJ88]

Gee...since CYNTHIA MCKINNEY is such a "victim" in this whole thing, do you think it could have been HER? Or how about Queen Hillary? Hmmmmm.

[Dog]

Dem Senator Weyden(sp) just was on Fox asking for a ceasefire and an end to the inside the beltway stuff.......told you it just touched the Clintons and they send this guy out to raise the white flag!

Hahahahah!

[DJ88]

Hilarious, isn't it??? ARI HIT THEM RIGHT WHERE IT HURT!! KEEP ON PUNCHING EM, ARI! ;-)

[hchutch]

Hence, the 10,000 pounds of Semtex. Impact-fusing. Scatter the evidence at worst - blow it up in the best case.

[hchutch]

They also could report the plane stolen.

"Sorry, Mr. Rumsfeld, but the plane was STOLEN. We have theives, too, you know..."

[Poohbah]

They'd still find the pieces. 5Klbs of ANFO didn't stop Timmy McVeigh from getting caught--they found the rear axle, and the data was in their hands in hours.

[Poohbah]

And Rummy would simply say, "Don't p!ss on my leg and try to tell me it's raining."

[hchutch]

Semtex is more powerful than ANFO on a pound-for-pound basis. And we are talking TWICE the amount here.

[Betty Jo]

Yes Clinton was and is a @#$%^&*%$@# !

That does not detract from the fact that the National Security Adviser to the President failed to give the known facts to Bush!

All Condy and the rest of the incompetents had to do was go google "Project Bojinka" and "Ramzi Yousef"!

[Poohbah]

Given the old Demolition FM conversion tables...10K of Semtex equals 13K of ANFO.

Still wouldn't be enough to completely destroy things like turbine rotors, et cetera. Remember, those are further from the blast hypocenter than the Ryder truck's rear axle was, and are designed to take more stress.

[Attillathehon]

1999!

As a New Yorker, I demand to know what my Senator knew and when she knew it! Is that why she couldn't go to any of the funerals? Was she afraid to face the families?

[nutmeg]

ROTFLOL! Great cartoon... I'll pass it onto friends.