'Skyscraper' Suicide-Hijack Warnings Came During Clinton Era

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'Skyscraper' Suicide-Hijack Warnings Came During Clinton Era

"Well before the Sept. 11 attacks, U.S. intelligence officials warned that terrorists linked to Osama bin Laden planned a 'spectacular attack' that involved kamikaze pilots crashing U.S. airliners into targets that included the Pentagon, the Capitol building and significant U.S. 'skyscrapers.'"

That could be the lead sentence from one of today's news reports touting the CIA's August 6, 2001 Presidential Daily Briefing as a warning President Bush should have heeded to prevent the Sept. 11 attacks.

But in fact, those warnings, which are actually far more specific than anything contained in the Bush PDB, were delivered during the Clinton administration - via intelligence that was so well known it was covered newspaper reports at the time."

Gee, will Mr. Rather report this too???? LOL

[areafiftyone]

Newsmax is a great source but the newsmedia never picks up on them. Last week I sent around an article from Newsmax to the media and not even Drudge picked it up. Pathetic!

[not-alone]

we will know shortly. The memo breing released 5:45 est. Maybe they just wanted thr title out.

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[Jim Robinson]

'Skyscraper' Suicide-Hijack Warnings Came During Clinton Era

"Well before the Sept. 11 attacks, U.S. intelligence officials warned that terrorists linked to Osama bin Laden planned a 'spectacular attack' that involved kamikaze pilots crashing U.S. airliners into targets that included the Pentagon, the Capitol building and significant U.S. 'skyscrapers.'"

That could be the lead sentence from one of today's news reports touting the CIA's August 6, 2001 Presidential Daily Briefing as a warning President Bush should have heeded to prevent the Sept. 11 attacks.

But in fact, those warnings, which are actually far more specific than anything contained in the Bush PDB, were delivered during the Clinton administration - via intelligence that was so well known it was covered newspaper reports at the time.

In a June 1997 report in the Dayton Daily News, for instance, CIA Director George Tenet warned that Islamic terrorists had already succeeded in "expanding their networks, improving their skills and sophistication, and [were] working to stage more spectacular attacks."

One-time FBI counterrorism chief John O'Neill, who was killed in the World Trade Center attacks, was quoted in the same pre-9/11 report as saying that terrorists already in our midst "have the capability and the support infrastructure in the United States to attack us here if they choose to."

What's more, by the time of the Sept. 11 attacks, U.S. intelligence had known for years that al Qaeda wanted to train kamikaze pilots to carry out 9/11-style attacks against buildings like the World Trade Center.

Reports published just two months after 9/11 explained that the blueprint for 9/11 attacks was uncovered during 1995 interrogations of Abdul Hakim Murad, partner of convicted 1993 World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef.

According to the Washington Post, Yousef's plot to plant bombs on 12 commercial U.S. airliners and blow them up over the Pacific "called for a second, perhaps even more ambitious phase, as interrogators discovered when they pressed Murad about his pilot's license.

"All those years in flight school, he confessed, had been in preparation for a suicide mission. He was to buy, rent, or steal -- that part of the plan had not yet been worked out -- a small plane, preferably a Cessna, fill it with explosives and crash it into CIA headquarters."

The Post continued:

"There were secondary targets the terrorist cell wanted hit: Congress, the White House, the Pentagon and possibly some skyscrapers. The only problem, Murad complained, was that they needed more trained pilots to carry out the plot."

What's clear is that under Osama bin Laden's direction, the two plots were merged, and Murad's Cessna suicide mission evolved into the hijacking of four commercial U.S. airliners. In fact, the 1997 Daily News report says that while Murad attended U.S. flight schools, he "studied 747s."

The above information is far more specific than anything reportedly revealed in the Aug. 6, 2001 briefing given to President Bush - and was available to President Clinton via published reports [if not through the intelligence briefings he routinely avoided] for most of his second term in office.

As the media point fingers at Bush, however, no one seems particularly interested in asking Mr. Clinton why he ignored for years relatively clear warnings that 9/11 was coming.



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[areafiftyone]

Would you believe I even sent the article to the NY Post and the NY Daily news. Not a bite!

[E=MC²]

I have a sneaking feeling that if every warning in every memo in every office were acted upon, nothing else would be accomplished and nothing good would come of it in spite of the trial lawyers' (and by extension, the demonrats') eternal love affair with memos.

[BluH2o]

Don't recall the title, or author, but there was a paper back book out about 10 years ago, the theme of the book a Japanese airliner (as I recall) was commandeered and flown kamikaze style into Washington's Capitol building. This concept of attacking the U.S. has been around for awhile, anyone who has read this book and has better recollection skills than "moi" please jump in with the details.

[aynrandfreak]

If true, this does make Condi look bad for saying that she couldn't imagine anyone flying planes into buildings before 9/11.

[jonathanmo]

That was "Debt Of Honor" by Tom Clancy....

[Ingtar]

The book was one of Tom Clancey's. The Islamofascists get a lot of ideas from him. That is why I am worried they are working hard to find a viable bioweapon.

[texastoo]

Since you mentioned the "Clinton Scandals", can you imagine how the press would have attacked Bush at this time? Had Bush gone after Clinton, Monica, lying, perjury, ect. the press would have had a field day blaming Bush for 9/11. Much more so than now. I know alot of freepers were angry that Bush didn't go after Clinton however, the press, and all of us would have been obsessed with it.

Things have a way of working out and this blame game will work itself out also.

[rodguy911]

David Gregory, monkey man, standing with the president's ranch in the background, just to rub it in a little more, just did his best to lay all the blame on the president. How pathetic. They are desperate to nail GW any which way they can. Their claim is since the memo metnioned possible hijackings that we should have been ready. yeah right!

[lilylangtree]

Fascinating. I forwarded to all in my email book.

[shamusotoole]

Do not forget, in the first Trade Center bombing, Cyanide gas was part of the package. It luckily was incinerated by the heat of the explosion.

[NotchJohnson]

But Bill did rush back to the uS only to get camera attention on the street holding photocopies of people who were killed given to him by the families of the murdered. At least Bill got them some air time. He should have been hiding.

[NotchJohnson]

Yes it does. We learned that it was Bush's fault for the USS Cole and that he didn't do anything about it folllowing the bombing! Of course it is their fault, as well as the 1993 attack.

[dalebert]

I think someone needs to investigate Al Gores report on airling security. He was in charge. He is the one who ommitted information concerning lousy security.