Chicago, L.A. towers were next targets

Washington Times ^ | 3/30/04 | Paul Martin

[jokar]

See my post 40 on this thread.

[pollywog]

I too have lived in Los Angeles for 62 years and NEVER have I heard of the " Library Towers" !!

[Yaelle]

Wow, that building! I didn't know it was called the Library Tower. Shows how often I even go downtown! I have seen it from the 110, though. My oh my.

[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

[PRND21]

I didn't realize it was an I.M. Pei, thanks for that info.

[Monty22]

"I got the impression KSM was suggesting the second wave would be coming days or weeks after 9/11, not later that afternoon."

Some cleric knee deep in this stuff said, at the time, that the 'storm of planes' would not stop. And he meant over a long while.

[Republicus2001]

read much?

[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)

[Eala]

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.

Shouldn't be too hard to make some guesses...
- The TransAmerica Pyramid in SF
- The Bank of America (formerly Columbia) Tower in Seattle

(I keep thinking of the Philip Burton Federal Building in SF which houses the FBI, the 9th Circus Court, and several other federal agencies... but I don't know...)

The Skyscraper Page might provide some ideas.

[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.)

[b4its2late]

Wonder if we should email that excerpt to Kerry and all the other democrats that think like he does when it comes to the war on terror....

[Yaelle]

read much?

Ah ha ha! Actually, you can order books from ANY branch, which we do. You wouldn't ask that if you had been in my house. We really need two houses, one for us and one for the books!

[StoneColdGOP]

First thing I did that terrible morning when I heard of the Towers getting hit, then the Pentagon getting hit, was run out to see if Library Tower was still there.

[ridesthemiles]

, ban all nondiplomatic Islamic humans from entering the United States.

Why are you willing to allow the "diplomatic" ones here. Ban them all.

[gitmo]

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.

Now is not the time to let them catch their breath. We're not even in the endgame of this war yet.

[Iberian]

Mecca is where they hang out. Any questins??

[doug from upland]

Library Tower in L.A. ---

[freedumb2003]

Nobody in LA ever goes downtown if we don't have to.

Also, the names of the buildings have changed so much we gave up. I used to know what they call the Library Tower as the 1st Interstate Building. After 1st Interstate was absorbed, I lost track of the name.

When someone says the LA Library, I think of the old Library Building.

And I was born and raised here 40+ years, so I know of what I speak.