9/11 Plot Reportedly Hatched in 1996

AP ^ | 6-18-04 | CONNIE CASS

[Mo1]

What do you expect, from a man whose only major achievement, as President, was maintaining an erection, in the Oval Office, for more that five minutes?

According to Clinton .. that's only cause he could do it

[Mo1]

Life is so complex, and the actions of the rats are, if not treasonous, borders on sedation. It's a shame they have no morals, they are not the great party they once were.

The Dem Party we once knew has been gone for many many years

[Indy Pendance]

when do you think they died? I think it started during Nixon. That's when they became the impeach/scandal party. But, it's also the time when they tasted a loss of power. I don't know, just guessing here.

[gathersnomoss]

Clinton was weak as was proven by his actions. Thanks BJ and everyone who voted and supported/supports him.

[MJY1288]

It goes to show how little Clinton knew about Military operations.

"Black Ninjas" repelling from helicopters in the middle of a heavily armed terrorist training camp would be a suicide mission on a colossal scale.

Two or three 15,000 LB MOAB's and a team of forensic specialist for the clean up, would be my plan :-)

[M. Peach]

I believe that had there been more attempts - they would already have been in progress. Listening to Khalid Sheik MOhammed - he said that their original plan of 10 planes was down to 5. But what about the other one?

[lavrenti]

Considering the only military "triumph" of the Clinton era was ineffective bombing from high altitudes, ending by paying off the Russians to intimidate the Serbs via threatening to cut off supplies.

I remember Kosovo. The Serbs lost exactly four tanks and were sitting there in the hills waiting to do NATO what their grandparents did to the SS.

[lavrenti]

The fifth plane was likely grounded before it was able to take off.

There's a number of rumors swirling about the Sears Tower.

[thoughtomator]

This ain't breaking news. This was publicly acknowledged in 2002.

[Indy Pendance]

It's breaking news in the sense that the liberal media refuses to report these issues. Any exposure is good. Contact the moderators if you want it move from breaking news.

[IAMNO1]

"Between May 1996, when bin Laden moved to Afghanistan from Sudan, and the Sept. 11 attacks, more than 20,000 men trained at his terror camps. They learned to be soldiers and, the Sept. 11 commission said, "to think creatively about ways to commit mass murder."

They floated ideas: take over a Russian launch site and fire a nuclear missile at the United States, pump poison gas into a building's air conditioning, hijack a plane to attack a city."

And in the end, they went with the lowest of low-tech alternatives (box-cutters and aiming aircraft in mid-flight), and even that proved beyond our ability to comprehend or intercept. God help us if we encounter smarter ones. I tell you, we got to exterminate these people before they exterminate us.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Years from now, if an attack like 9-11 were to occur after Bush is out of the White House, and it is is found to have been plotted during Bush's tenure, he will be blamed.

But Clinton won't take responsibility on this one at all.

[thoughtomator]

Fair 'nuff. Mod, move this to "Front Page News". That 9/11 originated in 1996 is years-old news and not "breaking".

[Admin Moderator]

I decline. It's fine where it is.

[Mo1]

when do you think they died? I think it started during Nixon. That's when they became the impeach/scandal party.

It started long before Nixon .. it just escalated when he took office because he drove them nuts

[cynwoody]

Tom Clancy's Debt of Honor Published in 1994, but Khalid Shaikh Mohammed probably had to wait for the paperback edition to come up with the idea

Or Khalid could have read Clancy's follow-on book Executive Orders, at the beginning of which Captain Sato lands on Congress, catapulting Jack Ryan into the White House, ready to cope with a bio attack, among other things.

Or Khalid might simply have read the news.  On 7 April 1994, a very nonfictional and profoundly disgruntled Auburn Calloway, just fired from Federal Express, came damn close to doing a 9/11 on his former employer's Memphis hub.

[thoughtomator]

I have no idea. Did the agency you tipped give any reason for disregarding your information?