[sixmil]

Thank God they weren't able to pull it off. I remember thinking, after hearing the Pentagon got hit, the Sears Tower would be next. Finally we heard some fighters overhead and knew that it was over. Except we had no idea the towers would come down.

[CyberAnt]

"The second wave ... Those plans were aborted mainly because of the decisive U.S. response to the New York and Washington attacks"

We grounded all aircraft!

I'd be very curious what the 5 west coast targets were, or 4, because one of them was supposed to be the LA Library.

[Yaelle]

Wonder what the Library Tower is. I was born in L.A. and lived here almost all my life but I have never heard of a library tower.

Mohammed was the hairy guy in the size XXXXXL T-shirt, right?

I am proud of our country. Since we mobilized so fast, we prevented thousands of other deaths. And they obviously haven't been able to do anything else here since, either.

[BunnySlippers]

The Library Tower in LA? I love the library ... and the new library is great. But it's a three story tower. What am I missing? Downtown is filled with huge towers.

[ladyinred]

We certainly ought to be thankful that just happenstance caused the air traffic to be shut down during the attack or we might have seen more horror. I know it was just a lucky coincidence since Bush wasn't concerned about any of this, and handled the attacks so wrong according to that wonder boy Clarke.(sarcasm)

Seriously, we are so fortunate he was the CIC, as most American's including democrats said at the time, rather than Gore. Thank God!!

[EGPWS]

But the terrorists seem to have been surprised by the strength of the American reaction to the September 11 attacks. "Afterwards, we never got time to catch our breath, we were immediately on the run," Mohammed is quoted as saying.

What's the matter?

Eight years of Presidential complacency wind up surprising you when unabashed American resolve coupled with a business like leader took over?

[piasa]

fyi

[My Dog Likes Me]

What are these people still doing in our country?

As I've said before here, ban all nondiplomatic Islamic humans from entering the United States.

[leadpenny]

bump

[The Raven]

ping

[The Raven]

ping

[jeffo]

This is an incredible story that needs to get legs, somehow. Should have been in the "Breaking News". Implicit in this story are the following facts that the news media will not want to talk about:

• Bush's swift, decisive (and, at the time, controversial in some quarters) actions saved thousands more lives. I can hear in my mind the stern warning that President Gore would have given the terrorists ("... now if you EVER do that again...") as more buildings crashed to the ground.
• Ramzi Yousef has well established ties with Iraq. One of his aliases was "Yousef al Iraqi", and he had extensive dealings with the Iraqi embassy in Pakistan up until the time he was arrested. So those of us looking for that Iraqi link to 9/11 that "just has to be there somewhere" may have a big piece to the puzzle here.

[Dialup Llama]

Thank you John Ashcroft for knowing what you duty is and fulfilling it with great intensity. Looks like we really did need the Patriot Act.

Of course Kerry, still thinks the threat of terrorist is overblown.

[txhurl]

bump for America still being here

[steveegg]

Before anyone gets too carried away by Rush's discovery and FR's "rediscovery" of this article, note the following line:

The transcripts are prefaced with a warning that Mohammed, the most senior al Qaeda member yet to be caught, "has been known to withhold information or deliberately mislead."

That having been said, it is likely that he had those buildings in mind.

[TeleStraightShooter]

I've always suspected that the TranAmerica Pyramid in SF was a target also.

In September 2000 I noticed new signs appeared on light poles across the 3 streets from it.
They said something to the effect that the US was responsible for 100,000+ starving Iraqis.

Anyone else notice similar BS around the other targets?
My sources inform me that it was posted around the WTC.....

[Lunatic Fringe]

the decisive U.S. response to the New York and Washington attacks, which disrupted the terrorist organization's plans so thoroughly that it could not proceed

[RetiredArmy]

It didn't happen, thus it is not news. Move on. Democommies will say Bush had nothing to do with it, only quick thinking by Richard ClarkieBoy saved Amerika from this attack. (sarcasm off)

[kinsman redeemer]

...just imagine what would have evolved if Katherine Harris was not so decisive...

...just imagine what would have happened if we did not have a decisive leader in the White House...

...just imagine what could happen if JFKerry (isn't he a Viet Nam veteran?) gets elected!!

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Pray for our President every day!

[Fedora]

Some old threads:

Thwarted attack on Sears Tower (10/01/01)

F16 tailing commercial jet into O'Hare Airport (10/08/01)

COCKPIT RUSHED ON AMERICAN AIRLINES JET (10/08/01)

2 Middle Eastern men found with video of Sears Tower (10/17/01)

Flight ban over downtown Chicago (10/31/01)

In Overheard Calls, Terrorists Spoke of Major Attack, Officials Say (11/02/01) (While the intelligence that prompted Monday's warning was general, officials have scrambled to respond to potential vulnerabilities. Aviation authorities have barred flights over nuclear power plants and have created a no-fly zone in the vicinity of buildings thought to be potential targets, like the Sears Tower in Chicago.)

SPAIN ARRESTS AL-QUAIDA SUSPECTS WITH VIDEOS OF U.S. MONUMENTS INCLUDING THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE (07/16/02) ("The form and type of recording go beyond touristic curiosity as shown by two of the tapes, which are entirely of different angles from different distances of the Twin Towers in New York," the statement said. It added that there were similar recordings of New York's Statue of Liberty, the Brooklyn Bridge, San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, the Sears tower in Chicago, Disneyland and Universal studios in California.)