Terror scare in Washington

I think in one of those photo's he's thinking 'Damnit, maybe we shouldn't have ignored those memo's from the NSA that were entitled 'Osama bin Laden to attack American landmark with jetliners''

 

Boy, you guys really don't have much to do, do you?

 

You make it sound like even with the memo stating such in his hand that this could have been prevented. Did that NSA memo spell out where the attacks were going to occur? How about when they were going to occur? How about the flight numbers of the planes involved? Because unless you have at least some of that info available beforehand, a memo stating that Osama is going to attack some landmark with a jetliner is about as useful as a memo stating that I'm going to eat lunch somewhere tomorrow.

Make fun of President Bush's malapropisms all you like...but I have a hard
time believing that you're going to be irrational enough to call the man stupid just because he's not clairvoyant.

 

You might should brush up on history before you begin distorting facts. . . Now, honestly, by August, you're correct, it's too late. But I guess we'll never know now huh?

The following is a transcript of the August 6, 2001, presidential daily briefing entitled Bin Laden determined to strike in US. Parts of the original document were not made public by the White House for security reasons.

Clandestine, foreign government, and media reports indicate bin Laden since 1997 has wanted to conduct terrorist attacks in the US. Bin Laden implied in U.S. television interviews in 1997 and 1998 that his followers would follow the example of World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef and "bring the fighting to America."

After U.S. missile strikes on his base in Afghanistan in 1998, bin Laden told followers he wanted to retaliate in Washington, according to a -- -- service.

An Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ) operative told - - service at the same time that bin Laden was planning to exploit the operative's access to the U.S. to mount a terrorist strike.

The millennium plotting in Canada in 1999 may have been part of bin Laden's first serious attempt to implement a terrorist strike in the U.S.

Convicted plotter Ahmed Ressam has told the FBI that he conceived the idea to attack Los Angeles International Airport himself, but that in ---, Laden lieutenant Abu Zubaydah encouraged him and helped facilitate the operation. Ressam also said that in 1998 Abu Zubaydah was planning his own U.S. attack.

Ressam says bin Laden was aware of the Los Angeles operation. Although Bin Laden has not succeeded, his attacks against the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 demonstrate that he prepares operations years in advance and is not deterred by setbacks. Bin Laden associates surveyed our embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam as early as 1993, and some members of the Nairobi cell planning the bombings were arrested and deported in 1997.

Al Qaeda members -- including some who are U.S. citizens -- have resided in or traveled to the U.S. for years, and the group apparently maintains a support structure that could aid attacks.

Two al-Qaeda members found guilty in the conspiracy to bomb our embassies in East Africa were U.S. citizens, and a senior EIJ member lived in California in the mid-1990s.

A clandestine source said in 1998 that a bin Laden cell in New York was recruiting Muslim-American youth for attacks.

We have not been able to corroborate some of the more sensational threat reporting, such as that from a ---- service in 1998 saying that Bin Laden wanted to hijack a U.S. aircraft to gain the release of "Blind Sheikh" Omar Abdel Rahman and other U.S.-held extremists.

Nevertheless, FBI information since that time indicates patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York.

The FBI is conducting approximately 70 full-field investigations throughout the U.S. that it considers bin Laden-related. CIA and the FBI are investigating a call to our embassy in the UAE in May saying that a group or bin Laden supporters was in the U.S. planning attacks with explosives.

 

Does anybody have a picture of Clinton's expression right after his aide whispered that the fat b!tch in the beret was going public?

 

No can do.

The closest I can find is Clinton obviously scoping out a golf honey (not shown).

 

Once again, I'll ask: Do any of these reports spell out the "whens" and "wheres" of the 9/11 attacks? Because without that info, no matter how much surveillance was going on, and no matter how much warning they had that "something" was going to go down, there was nothing that could have been done to stop it. Because without that info, you might as
well blame Bill Clinton for not stopping the 9/11 attacks...and while I'm certainly no fan of Mr. Clinton, and know that he had the same intel as the
Bush White House (Sandy Berger pleading guilty to stuffing those classified documents down his BVDs was proof enough of that), blaming him for this tragedy would be equally ridiculous.

This is why events like Dec. 7th, 1941, and 9/11 are called sneak attacks. Get the concept?

Why don't you just lay off the politically motivated finger pointing, and put the blame where it really belongs...on the 19 hijackers?

 

Yeah, I know things get slow in the dog days before opening kickoff...but hopefully, there's baseball to carry us until the end of June. Then it's going to get REALLY ugly for a few weeks. :shock: :hihi: :shock: :hihi: