Posted on 02/09/2006 7:22:28 AM PST by RWR8189
US President George W. Bush was to say in a speech that international cooperation helped thwart a terrorist attack on the US west coast, according to White House spokesman Scott McClellan.
McClellan did not provide any details about the plot, or the way it was prevented, but told reporters the purpose of Bush's remarks was to "show the kind of international cooperation that is required" to defeat terrorism.
He also said the goal was not to justify Bush's controversial order, after the September 11, 2001 attacks, to allow spying on Americans without getting a warrant, in a break with past practice.
Looks like you were right... No Peterparsley to be found...
Good timing for Bush...this will help them with their wiretapping case.
I can imagine what climbing the stacks for the Dewey Decimal 900 books would have been like.
Bush should have said this in his State of the Union 3 years ago. Now it will look like he is making stuff up. Democrats NEVER pass up an opportunity to claim credit for anything good happening under their watch.
Washington Post
Friday, October 7, 2005
The United States and its allies have thwarted at least 10 serious al Qaeda terrorist plots since Sept. 11, 2001, including never-before-disclosed plans to use hijacked commercial airliners to attack the East and West coasts in 2002 and 2003, President Bush and his aides said yesterday. The reported plots aimed to strike a wide variety of targets, including the Library Tower in Los Angeles, ships in international waters and a tourist site overseas, the White House said last night. Three of the 10 were directed at U.S. soil, officials said. The government, they added, also stopped five al Qaeda efforts to case possible targets or infiltrate operatives into the country.
Two sources familiar with intelligence information said the West Coast plot targeted the tallest building in Los Angeles, since renamed the US Bank Tower, and involved Malaysian militants and Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, who was captured in 2003. Previous reports on Mohammed's interrogations in custody said that before Sept. 11 he mapped out an attack on the tower that was later aborted.
The article is a little biased. Anyway it is a good thing that Bush is discussing this again, just to remind us.
Good luck to you.
Bush, protecting libs 2001-2006 whether they want it or not!
We're supposed to move to the 50th floor; I was up there last week for a meeting, and it's just wide open, totally exposed, to the south, towards Sea-Tac Airport.
I can hear Matthews now: "Isn't this all a big attempt to defend domestic spying?"
Cripes... he misspeaks on "library" tower and calls it "liberty" tower, and that's probably all we'll hear about, instead of the meat of the story.
I hear you. The room I was in had windows from ceiling to floor. Your scenario sounds positively frightening.
Matthews and the rest of the ragtag talking heads.
Isn't Kiefer Sutherland's dad the transplanted Canadian-Leftist-actor Donald Sutherland?
What no ping?
Someone got the name wrong. It used to be "Library" Tower (not Liberty). Most people still call it Library Tower even though a corporate name is on it. It is located across the street from the main LA Public Library...was built as part of the renovation of the LAPL following the fire there in the late 1980's.
Just saw it.
KSM must have sung like a songbird.
BBC ...
Bush details al-Qaeda hijack plot
US President George Bush has revealed details of a foiled al-Qaeda plot to use a hijacked airliner to strike the west coast of the US.
Mr Bush said the plotters, thwarted in 2002, planned to use shoe bombs to storm the plane cockpit.
The attackers would have flown the plane into the tallest building in Los Angeles, California.
Mr Bush said al-Qaeda recruited the militant Islamic group Jemaah Islamiyah to carry out the attack.
The president said the mastermind of the September 11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, was behind the west coast plot.
Planning began in October 2001, but it was thwarted in early 2002 "when a South East Asian nation arrested a key al-Qaeda operative", Mr Bush said.
Mr Bush said the target was the Liberty Tower building.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/americas/4697896.stm
Published: 2006/02/09 15:50:17 GMT
© BBC MMVI
He is named after Warren Kiefer, who directed the Donald Sutherland in the movie Castle Of The Living Dead.
Lighten up.
That's the guy..
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