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The Hijackers We Let Escape (CIA tracked two 9/11 terrorists in January 2000)
Newsweek ^ | 6/2/02 | By Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman

Posted on 06/02/2002 3:26:51 AM PDT by Brian Mosely

Edited on 09/03/2002 4:50:35 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

June 10

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bumbling; espionagelist; fools; terrorwar
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Looks like the FBI isn't going down alone...
1 posted on 06/02/2002 3:26:52 AM PDT by Brian Mosely
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To: Brian Mosely
“They were like Dumb and Dumber.”

The CIA & the FIB, that is.

2 posted on 06/02/2002 3:39:47 AM PDT by csvset
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To: Brian Mosely;Fred Mertz;Okc Submariner;Joe Montana;rdavis84
BUMP!!!!!
3 posted on 06/02/2002 3:46:21 AM PDT by Donald Stone
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To: Donald Stone
It's all a part of this problem...Clinton holdovers who have infected every part of our intellgence community. They either must be fired or reassigned where they can't do any more damage.
4 posted on 06/02/2002 4:19:10 AM PDT by Brian Mosely
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To: Brian Mosely
Notice the dates: December 1999, January 2000, September 2000, October 2000. As we all know, this did not start on September 11, 2001.

They were aware of all this suspicious activity. What did they think would be the result - just a few years of social visiting in the US then return home?

5 posted on 06/02/2002 4:28:41 AM PDT by Unknown Freeper
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To: Brian Mosely

6 posted on 06/02/2002 4:34:07 AM PDT by The Raven
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To: Brian Mosely, rintense, Miss Marple, MJY1288
Last night on our local news a story ran in which Bill Clinton AND Louis Freeh were portrayed as wanting more money and more focus on anti-terrorism for both the FBI and the CIA during those eight years from hell.

The story said that these funds and focus were prevented from being delivered to the FBI / CIA BY CONGRESS - which, of course, was controlled by Republicans since 1994.

THIS IS THE SPIN NOW.

The same story showed John Ashcroft and claimed that when he took office (finally - what month was that?) - he decided to shift the focus of the FBI away from anti-terrorism and to anti-crime efforts.

Then it showed a clip of him on LKL this week saying that he had now changed his mind (guffaw) and that the agency must focus on fighting terrorism as a top priority - by changing the way it operates (meaning the new rules that were implemented and the reorganization).

JUst passing on the latest spin.

Of course nothing was said about the fact that the Clinton "focus" on anti-terrorism had nothing to do with stopping terrorist attacks on America and everything to do with controlling the activities of people it wanted to control...especially political "enemies."

7 posted on 06/02/2002 4:37:58 AM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt
Ashcroft is the current target. They figure if they can tar him, someof it will damage President Bush.

The news media are actively helping the enemies of this nation.

8 posted on 06/02/2002 4:59:27 AM PDT by Miss Marple
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To: Miss Marple
Yes re: Ashcroft and Yes re: the news media working with America's enemies. It is sickening.
9 posted on 06/02/2002 5:08:41 AM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt
Of course nothing was said about the fact that the Clinton "focus" on anti-terrorism had nothing to do with stopping terrorist attacks on America and everything to do with controlling the activities of people it wanted to control...especially political "enemies."

Clinton's idea of terrorist were right-wing groups. The sole focus of domestic terrrorism was militia groups, tax protestors, and religous organizations.

10 posted on 06/02/2002 5:09:12 AM PDT by Always Right
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To: Brian Mosely
Clinton holdovers who have infected every part of our intellgence community

Worse than even that, maybe. Notice what flight these critters were on? It was the flight that was supposed to kill the President. The CIA's passivity looks very odd in that light.

11 posted on 06/02/2002 5:10:38 AM PDT by Cachelot
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To: Miss Marple
The news media are actively helping the enemies of this nation.
The enemies of this nation are doing fine without the news media. If anything they are being aided by the media because the media won't cover issues which are common record freely available to the public. Since the public won't look at it the media should, yet they don't, or as in this case they look at it too damned late!
If someone wants to ask "Who knew what and when?" they should ask the media too.

Have you even read the links I've posted over the last two days Marple?
They show that as far back as the early 80s that the CIA and FBI were given plenty of authority and finances to conduct any manner of investigations and they've failed at even the most simple tasks.
You need to wake up! Your "party cheerleading" is just as damaging to this nation as you claim the media is!

12 posted on 06/02/2002 5:13:33 AM PDT by philman_36
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To: Always Right
"Clinton's idea of terrorist were right-wing groups. The sole focus of domestic terrrorism was militia groups, tax protestors, and religous organizations."

Correct!

He USED terrorists to accomplish his goals....which was an excuse to go after the groups you mention!

13 posted on 06/02/2002 5:14:25 AM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt
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To: Cachelot
"Worse than even that, maybe. Notice what flight these critters were on? It was the flight that was supposed to kill the President. The CIA's passivity looks very odd in that light."

!!!! Very observant!!!

I have been virtually alone in saying since Sept 11th that the Clinton crime family (which still infests the CIA and FBI and Interpol and which has major contacts with the world's terrorists) - Bill and HIllary Clinton specifically - KNEW about the Sept. 11th plans. I believe that attack was an attempted coup d'etat and THAT more than anything else (because it failed) explained Hillary Clinton's behavior during President Bush's speech to Congress. Further, I believe Barbara Olson's "misfortune" to be on one of the hijacked planes was NOT an accident.

(Has anybody ever investigated whose idea it was - who whispered the suggestion - to Bill Mahrer to invite her for that particular day? Also, even if it was not a suggestion by one of Hillary's friends for that invitation to go out asa it did - Barbara Olson's itinerary would have been easily known and tracked by Clintonistas inside the assorted gov't agencies).

What we are hearing now is that the CIA and FBI DID KNOW quite a lot pre-Sept 11th. During the Clinton years from hell - IT BECAME ROUTINE FOR INFORMATION LIKE THIS TO BE USED BY THE CLINTON CRIME FAMILY TO CONTROL EVENTS TO ADVANCE THEIR GOALS. I have no doubt that the information they had was digested and fed to the CCF, contacts were made, and cooperation was undertaken....by the lead American terrorist who sits in the US Senate!

Where was she on 9-11 by the way? She was NOT at the Capitol as she was supposed to be.

14 posted on 06/02/2002 5:27:02 AM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt
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To: Brian Mosely
While Clinton is certainly culpable, (Lord knows for this and other crimes), I think the US has been asleep at the switch for a long time in regards to the threat for Islamic, Middle Eastern threats.

Here's a listing of some pre Clinton-era attacks.

1970: Murder of American University of Beirut President, Malcolm Kerr, in Beirut, Lebanon.

September 1970: TWA #741 and Pan Am #93 hijacked by the PFLP and flown to Amman, Jordan.

March 1973: U.S. Ambassador Cleo Noel & DCM George Moore murdered in Khartoum, Sudan.

June 1976: U.S. Ambassador, Francis Meloy and two other Americans killed in Lebanon.

1979-1980: U.S. Embassy in Iran seized, embassy officials held hostage for 14 months.

April 1983: U.S. Embassy in Beirut attacked by Hezbollah suicide bomber; 49 killed, 120 wounded.

October 1983: Marine barracks in Beirut car­bombed; 241 U.S. Marines killed, hundreds injured.

June 1984: TWA #847 to Athens hijacked to Beirut; U.S. Navy diver, Robert Stethem murdered.

1980's: Several Americans in Beirut kidnaped and held hostage.

September 1984: William Buckley, CIA station chief in Beirut, kidnaped, tortured and murdered.

September 1984: U.S. embassy annex in East Beirut bombed; 2 Americans killed.

October 1985: Achille Lauro hijacked; Leon Klinghoffer murdered.

September 1986: Pan Am #73 hijacked to Karachi, Pakistan; 17 people killed, 150 wounded.

February 1988: William Higgins kidnaped in Lebanon and murdered.

December 1988: Pan Am #103 bombed over Lockerbie, Scotland; 270 people killed.

Face it, we have an "enemy for life" with these Islamic bastards. This isn't something that we have to look at after the latest attack, it's not something that cured by arresting the sob's and bring them to trial either. The terrorists have to be exterminated whenever and wherever they are found.

15 posted on 06/02/2002 5:30:36 AM PDT by csvset
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To: Brian Mosely
Clinton holdovers who have infected every part of our intellgence community. They either must be fired or reassigned where they can't do any more damage.

There were many here on FR who understood the importance of an immediate purge of all things Clintonian from all sensitive agencies.

The Mr. Nice Guy routine has only yeilded kicks in the butt for Ashcroft and Bush...wish I could say I was surprised.

And how `bout Louie Freeh's perfectly timed exit....ten days (count `em ten, nine, eight, seven...) days prior to the 9-11 attacks (attempted coup?).
16 posted on 06/02/2002 5:48:13 AM PDT by wheezer
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To: Brian Mosely
This article should have been entitled "The FBI Strikes Back". Up till now the CIA has been off the hook, while the FBI has been pummeled. Now the CIA is getting some too. This is just another case of the bureaucrats working for themselves and not for the American People.

One question: When is George W Bush going to clean out the Clintonistas in his government? There going to bring him down.

17 posted on 06/02/2002 5:49:21 AM PDT by Kermit
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt
I believe that attack was an attempted coup d'etat and THAT more than anything else (because it failed) explained Hillary Clinton's behavior during President Bush's speech to Congress. Further, I believe Barbara Olson's "misfortune" to be on one of the hijacked planes was NOT an accident.

I agree with you...except perhaps on Olson.
18 posted on 06/02/2002 5:52:25 AM PDT by wheezer
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To: Brian Mosely
The CIA and the FBI are worthless (when we need them the most). Part of the trouble is that the Bush administration hasn't gotten rid of the incompetent (or worse) holdovers from the previous one. The Bush adminitration is too busy solving other (easier) "problems" to face the big ones.
19 posted on 06/02/2002 6:03:37 AM PDT by SiliconValleyGuy
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To: Brian Mosely
Are we suffering collective amnesia? Didn't KLINTOON support the UBL faction of Islamic Muslims in the Bosnian War as well?
20 posted on 06/02/2002 8:00:08 AM PDT by jrlc
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