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Bush details al-Qaeda hijack plot

US President George Bush has revealed details of a foiled al-Qaeda plot to use a hijacked airliner to strike the west coast of the US.
Mr Bush said the plotters, thwarted in 2002, planned to use shoe bombs to storm the plane cockpit.

The attackers would have flown the plane into the tallest building in Los Angeles, California.

Mr Bush said al-Qaeda recruited the militant Islamic group Jemaah Islamiyah to carry out the attack.

The president said the mastermind of the September 11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, was behind the west coast plot.

Planning began in October 2001, but it was thwarted in early 2002 "when a South East Asian nation arrested a key al-Qaeda operative", Mr Bush said.

Mr Bush said the target was the Liberty Tower building.

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/americas/4697896.stm

Published: 2006/02/09 15:50:17 GMT

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How does this make sense? Shoe bombs to storm the cockpit? How does that work? If they detonate, no one gets to hit the Library Tower. If they use them as a ruse to GET into the cockpit, it would NEVER have worked in Oct '01. The Flight 93 heroes were BIG in everyone's mind, and no passengers would let that happen.

Or did they have some kind of controlled bomb that they knew would ruin the cockpit door but not touch the fuselage?