Fore knowledge = Conspiracy
Posted by: tmwright on Jul 12, 2006 5:55 AM [Report
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You do not need evidence of controlled demolitions to advance a 9-11
conspiracy theory. Bush's pronouncement that no one could have imagined
that terrorists would use planes as guided missles flies in the face of
substantial evidence to the contrary. One need only review pre 9-11
media reports:
1999 –EXPLICIT WARNING THAT AL QAEDA HAD PLANS TO FLY AIRPLANES INTO
BUILDINGS: A 1999 report prepared by the Library of Congress for the
National Intelligence Council "warned that Osama bin Laden's terrorists
could hijack an airliner and fly it into government buildings like the
Pentagon." The report specifically said, "Suicide bomber(s) belonging
to al-Qaida's Martyrdom Battalion could crash-land an aircraft packed
with high explosives…into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the CIA, or
the White House." In response to the ominous warnings, the New York
Times reports “under Janet Reno, the Justice Department’s
counterterrorism budget increased 13.6% in the fiscal year 1999, 7.1%
in 2000 and 22.7% in 2001." [Source: CBS, 5/17/02; NY Times, 2/28/02]
JULY 2001 –ANOTHER WARNING THAT AL QAEDA PLANNED TO USE PLANES AS
MISSILES: The LA Times reported that U.S. and Italian officials were
warned in July 2001 that "Islamic terrorists might attempt to kill
President Bush and other leaders by crashing an airliner into the Genoa
summit of industrialized nations." [Source: LA Times, 9/27/01]
JULY 2001 – ASHCROFT STOPS FLYING COMMERCIAL BECAUSE OF “THREAT
ASSESSMENT”: Attorney General John Ashcroft stopped flying commercial
airlines and instead began "traveling exclusively by leased jet
aircraft instead of commercial airlines" because of "what the Justice
Department called a 'threat assessment.'" That "threat assessment" has
never been made public. [Source: CBS, 7/26/01]
AUGUST 2001 - PRESIDENT PERSONALLY WARNED OF AL QAEDA AIRPLANE PLOT:
ABC News reported, Bush Administration "officials acknowledged that
U.S. intelligence officials informed President Bush weeks before the
Sept. 11 attacks that bin Laden's terrorist network might try to hijack
American planes." Dateline NBC reported that on August 6, 2001, the
President personally “received a one-and-a-half page briefing advising
him that Osama bin Laden was capable of a major strike against the US,
and that the plot could include the hijacking of an American airplane."
[Source: ABC News, 5/16/02; NBC, 9/10/02]
SEPTEMBER 2001 - PENTAGON OFFICIALS CHANGE FLIGHTS ON 9/11 BECAUSE OF
SECURITY: Newsweek reported that on 9/10/01 "a group of top Pentagon
officials suddenly canceled travel plans for the next morning,
apparently because of security concerns." Newsweek also reported "that
as many as 10 to 12 warnings" were issued before 9/11, and "more than
two of the warnings specifically mentioned the possibility of
hijackings." [Source: Newsweek, 9/24/01]
What is more, one would have to believe that no intelligence service
anywhere in the world got wind of this massive operation that involved
operatives in many countries. Read the Op Ed piece in The Guardian
written by former British Interior Minister and MP Michael Meacher.
Meacher claims that the German intellignce service provided wiretap
evidence to the CIA in August indicating that Al Qaeda was in the final
stages of a plan to hijack commercial jets and crash them into targets
within the US -- remember the trip to Texas in August that the CIA
Director conveniently forgot about.
There are just too many holes in the official version to write this off
as plain incompentence or selective inattention.
fellow wingnut