[adam_az]

"I don't think anybody could have predicted that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile," said national security adviser Condoleeza Rice on May 16, 2002.

Ramzi Yusuf was caught with plans to do just that. This was a very irresponsible thing for Condi to say. I suspect that it was a misstatement, not an intentional misdirection. Still, bad.

Of course, Ramzi Yusuf slippef through police hands 4x during the 90s, prior to his first bombing of the WTC. Also, hen the FBI arrested Yusuf, Khaled Sheik Muhammad was in the very next room - the FBI agents never checked.

[mewzilla]

I believe in 1996 some hijackers in France were stopped before they could hijack an Air France jet and send it into the Eifel Tower. And that was while Toon was in office.