'Bush knew of al-Qaeda attacks' - India Times

[ConcernedCanuk]

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I posted this seperately just to let people know this is what the people are reading around the world


WASHINGTON: US President George W. Bush was told more than a month before the September 11 attacks that supporters of Osama bin Laden planned a strike within the United States with explosives and wanted to hijack airplanes, according to New York Times.

Citing an unnamed government official, the newspaper said the warning came in a secret briefing that Bush received at his ranch in Crawford, Texas on August 6, 2001.

A report by a joint Congressional committee last year alluded to a "closely held intelligence report" that month about the threat of an attack by al-Qaeda, New York Times reported.

The disclosure appears to contradict the White House's repeated assertions that the briefing the president received about the al-Qaeda threat was "historical" in nature and that the White House had little reason to suspect an al-Qaeda attack within the United States, the paper said.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/609475.cms

[skooooo]

1. Whoah! The memo's not even released.....

...The chimp is buried in his own caca.

[ConcernedCanuk]

2. And another story from Canada

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Bush warned of Al Qaeda plot in Aug/01

WASHINGTON (AP) — President George W. Bush's August 2001 briefing on terrorism threats, described largely as a historical document, included information from three months earlier that Al Qaeda was trying to send operatives into the United States from Canada for an attack, several people who have seen the memo said.

The so-called presidential daily briefing, or PDB, delivered to Bush on Aug. 6, 2001 — a month before the Sept. 11 attacks — said there were various reports accused terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden had wanted to strike inside the United States as early as 1997 and continuing into the spring of 2001, the sources said.

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The document also included FBI analytical judgments that some Al Qaeda activities were consistent with preparation for airline hijackings or other types of attacks, some members of the commission looking into the Sept. 11 attacks said earlier this week.

The second-to-last bullet told the president there were numerous — at least 70 — terror-related investigations under way by the FBI in 2001 involving matters or people on U.S. soil, the sources said.

And the final bullet told the president of a recent intelligence report indicating Al Qaeda operatives were trying to enter the United States to carry out an attack with explosives, the sources said. There was no specifics about the timing or target, the sources said.




There's a lot more information in that article I haven't seen anywhere else - a MUST read!

[eaprez]

3. Our President

....and how does our president react to the information in this PDB? He takes a 30 day vacation. I want to throw up each time I see the clip of Condi stating that the attacks couldn't have been prevented. That seems kind of an empty statement when one considers that they did NOTHING- absolutely NOTHING with the information they had.

[mopaul]

4. they could have at LEAST warned we, the people

and the fact that they didn't, proves to me that they orchestrated the whole thing...........sorry, i'm bonafide insane

[readmylips]

5. Yeah, he did something: Covered his ASS...

ran for cover in Crawford, TX. Who the hell is going to bomb a hell-whole like Crawford? Besides before 911, the criminal administration left the secret Cheney government in place (Armageddon). Sleeza said something BIG, BIG, BIG was going to happen. Sure, Cheney was hiding in his bunker hoping for the BIG, BIG, BIG to happen so that he could take over the world...that foking heartless Hitler.

[ConcernedCanuk]

6. Just curious, did ALL presidents take vacations while at war?

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Or is this just a GeeDubya thing ? . :shrug: .

[eaprez]

7. Yeah...

...George Sr was on vacation during the run up to the 91 war.

[ConcernedCanuk]

8. Never thought of that - OK, - I'll refine the question !

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Did any president OTHER than the Bushes go on vacation while at war .

Or Kings or Queens or Leaders of other countries while at war?.