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Kid Berwyn

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33. Why would Osama bin Laden want to kill, Dubya, his former business partner?
Wed Sep 11, 2019, 01:20 PM
Sep 2019

Bush was warned OBL hijacked jet threat at Genoa G-8 summit in July 2001.

So Bush avoided the hotel and slept aboard a missile destroyer in the harbor.

Here's the story from July 2001:



Why would Osama bin Laden want to kill Dubya, his former business partner?

By James Hatfield

Editor's note: In light of last week's horrific events and the Bush administration's reaction to them, we are reprising the following from the last column Jim Hatfield wrote for Online Journal prior to his tragic death on July 18:

July 3, 2001—There may be fireworks in Genoa, Italy, this month, too.

A plot by Saudi master terrorist, Osama bin Laden, to assassinate Dubya during the July 20 economic summit of world leaders, was uncovered after dozens of suspected Islamic militants linked to bin Laden's international terror network were arrested in Frankfurt, Germany, and Milan, Italy, in April.

German intelligence services have stated that bin Laden is covertly financing neo-Nazi skinhead groups throughout Europe to launch another terrorist attack at a high-profile American target—his first since the bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen last October.

According to counter-terrorism experts quoted in Germany's largest newspaper, the attack on Dubya might be a James Bond-like aerial strike in the form of remote-controlled airplanes packed with plastic explosives.

Why would Osama bin Laden want to kill, Dubya, his former business partner?

CONTINUED...

http://web.archive.org/web/20060906150015/http://www.onlinejournal.org/Special_Reports/Hatfield-R-091901/hatfield-r-091901.html



FTR: Hatfield died a few days after this was published. A suicide. By hanging.
As horrible as the current Trump administration we are experiencing today. gordianot Sep 2019 #1
Today marke the day gibraltar72 Sep 2019 #2
Cheney had the pentagon conducting war games on 9/11/01 and those games simulated ... Botany Sep 2019 #3
Kick dalton99a Sep 2019 #4
Bush sat for 7 minutes and did nothing.. Permanut Sep 2019 #28
They knew even a month before that!!! Roland99 Sep 2019 #5
Gtma UpInArms Sep 2019 #8
+1 Roland99 Sep 2019 #9
And that in the late spring/early summer of 2001 Condi Rice told her friend Willie Brown not ... Botany Sep 2019 #15
Allowed? or facilitated! usaf-vet Sep 2019 #23
Well, it was either UpInArms Sep 2019 #34
Kinda Sleezy Rice and the Aug 6th, 2001 PDB deminks Sep 2019 #6
Thanks for the reminder. She said they heard about hijacking but thought it was Laura PourMeADrink Sep 2019 #12
"Traditional" was the word she used. ZZenith Sep 2019 #29
Ahh, Contradicta. How we miss you... NOT!!! calimary Sep 2019 #20
Yes, never EVER forget Rice's primary role in the 9/11 clusterfuck. (nt) Paladin Sep 2019 #21
They knew before that UpInArms Sep 2019 #7
Ashcroft busy persecuting Tommy Chong for selling glass rickyhall Sep 2019 #11
Follow the Money... dlk Sep 2019 #10
Time flies. Memory dies. Which is why the Truth matters. Kid Berwyn Sep 2019 #13
Birds of a Feather marieo1 Sep 2019 #14
Birds of an Abusive Feather 2golddogs Sep 2019 #19
He seems to be trying really hard to foment something. dhol82 Sep 2019 #22
I still believe the LIHOP (Letting It Happen On Purpose) theory. CaptainTruth Sep 2019 #16
Still lots we don't know, after an administration-led commission and TPTB not interested wiggs Sep 2019 #18
100% correct Captain Truth DENVERPOPS Sep 2019 #26
Thank you. nt wiggs Sep 2019 #17
Of course I have always Doreen Sep 2019 #24
It never ceases to amaze me Proud Liberal Dem Sep 2019 #25
I have not forgotten The Blue Flower Sep 2019 #27
K&R... spanone Sep 2019 #30
Just look at the little round hole in the Pentagon Iwasthere Sep 2019 #31
Not to forget Coleen Rowley. moondust Sep 2019 #32
Why would Osama bin Laden want to kill, Dubya, his former business partner? Kid Berwyn Sep 2019 #33
While Bush vacationed, 9/11 warnings went unheard. Kid Berwyn Sep 2019 #35
W., illegitimate, still the worst "President" I have experienced. suegeo Sep 2019 #36
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