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In reply to the discussion: On today 9/11 please remember that both w bush & Cheney were warned about the attack on 8/6/2001 [View all]Kid Berwyn
(14,808 posts)33. Why would Osama bin Laden want to kill, Dubya, his former business partner?
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, 2001There 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 targethis 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?
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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.
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On today 9/11 please remember that both w bush & Cheney were warned about the attack on 8/6/2001 [View all]
Botany
Sep 2019
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Cheney had the pentagon conducting war games on 9/11/01 and those games simulated ...
Botany
Sep 2019
#3
And that in the late spring/early summer of 2001 Condi Rice told her friend Willie Brown not ...
Botany
Sep 2019
#15
Thanks for the reminder. She said they heard about hijacking but thought it was
Laura PourMeADrink
Sep 2019
#12