Washington was 'warned of hijack risk' [eight YEARS ago!]

Daily Telegraph (UK) ^ | 9/13/01 | unsigned

[mondonico]

THE American government was warned eight years ago that the Pentagon and White House were vulnerable to attack from hijacked jets.

Military adviser Dr Marvin Cetron says he prepared a 250-page report for the US intelligence agencies in 1993 which detailed his concerns - but it was ignored. "I said ... aircraft could hit the White House or the Pentagon - making a left turn at the Washington Monument and running into the White House, or a right turn and going into the Pentagon," Dr Cetron said.

He added: "They understood and they ignored it, they took it out of the final draft. I think the reason they didn't want that published is because they felt they couldn't do anything about it. It would scare people and the flying public, which it probably would have, and therefore why worry about it."

Republican Senator Wayne Allard, a member of the US administration's armed forces committee, said he was part of various hearings where the suggestion of possible attacks from hijacked jets were made. He said the warnings were similar to the terror attacks which saw four planes hijacked to deadly effect, but not exactly the same.

He added: "Obviously it's hard to evaluate the likelihood of something like ... I think it's a shock to all of us, even though we talked about various scenarios that terrorists may use to cripple the United States."

Asked how clear were the warnings he got while sitting on the intelligence committee he replied: "They weren't clear, they were just speculations. They were suggestions of what could happen. "Then you're faced with what is the likelihood - what's a reasonable approach to try and defend yourself."

[mondonico]

Sorry for the old post, but it seemed relevant.

[DrDavid]

Perhaps this is why Hillary left Bill alone in the White House so often!

Hoping...

[texasbluebell]

I hope there's an investigation into this, and I hope it goes all the way back into the mid-90s. Let's see the dims try to wriggle out of that one.

[Plumrodimus]

The Congressional Task Force on Terrorism was aware over ten years ago that Islamic terrorists were planning to crash airplanes into skyscrapers in the United States (Target America by Yossef Bodansky, 1993). Now it's the President's fault...

[colorado tanker]

Twenty-twenty hindsight memo to Tommy and the other Senate Dimocrats: Next time you see a box labeled "Pandora" don't open it.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

1993 ? Letsee, who was in the Oval Office then (besides Monica) ?

[colorado tanker]

Besides Monica? Now honestly, who could possibly remember all those names??

[Tacis]

Let us be compassionate on this issue and understand where the democraps are coming from. They know that FDR withheld information on the Jap attack at Pearl Harbor to further his own personal and poticial ends. FDR allowed almost 2000 US military to die when he could have done something to stop it and the dems know this as a fact.

Sleazy scum bags that they are, the democraps probably believe that if a fellow democrap is capable of such a terrible crime, a Republican must also be. We know they are wrong, but at least, should be able to understand where they are coming from.

Remember, the democraps still believe, since the days of FDR, that they have done well for Jews, blacks and union members in this country. Yes, a few (and ALL the media) actually still believe it. So, please, overlook their filthy attempts to compare Bush with commie FDR.