Posted on 02/09/2006 8:22:32 AM PST by AirBorn
Bush Offers Detail of 2002 Attack Plot Feb 09 10:49 AM US/Eastern Email this story
WASHINGTON
President Bush said Thursday a 2002 al-Qaida plot against the tallest building on the West Coast was foiled by U.S. counter terrorism efforts.
Speaking at the National Guard Memorial Building in Washington, the president said plotters planned to use hijacked commercial airplanes to strike the Library Tower in Los Angeles, now known as the US Bank Tower.
Bush has referred to the plot before, but White House officials had said would provide more specifics in a speech Thursday.
In an address last October, Bush said the United States and its allies had foiled at least 10 serious plots by the al-Qaida terror network in the last four years, including plans for Sept. 11-like attacks on both U.S. coasts.
The White House initially would not give details of the plots but later released a fact sheet with a brief, and vague, description of each.
Three targets cited were in the United States, including plans to use hijacked airplanes to attack the West Coast in mid-2002 and the East Coast in mid-2003. The White House said at least one planner of the West Coast attack was a key figure behind the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.
The Washington Post has reported that the West Coast plot targeted the tallest building in Los Angeles, since renamed the US Bank Tower, and involved Malaysian militants and Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, who was captured in 2003.
The third was the case of Jose Padilla, a former Chicago gang member who converted to Islam and allegedly plotted with top al-Qaida commanders to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb" in a U.S. city.
Padilla, a U.S. citizen, was arrested May 8, 2002, at O'Hare International Airport on a material witness warrant and was designated an enemy combatant, held without criminal charge at a Navy brig in South Carolina.
Padilla was charged in November on terrorism charges and transfered to the federal court system before the Supreme Court had an opportunity to take up his case contesting his detention as an enemy combatant. He remains in federal custody in Miami awaiting trial.
You KNOW there willbe so much SPIN put on this!!
"GREAT NEWS " will turn into the CRYING GAME again!!
AlREADY they are complaining,"..well..! This was from 2002!!"
Well...so have been half of the " Brealing News " that THEY have published like it was jsut TODAY!!
Hypocrites all!!
Big problem with the plan though....no way are they going to be able to successfully hijack an airplane after 911.....the passengers would not stand for it.
This won't make a bit of difference to the die-hard Bush opponents. To them, Bush can do nothing right. They can turn on a dime from saying "he's not doing enough" to saying "he's hyping the terrorist threat."
And yes, Bush is not doing nearly enough on the border - we all agree on that . . .
That's funny too--
I did a SEARCH HERE--to see if anyone else had REPORTED this story.
NOT if "...story GOING to break..."
I will remember that NEXT time.
Maybe I should start NOW? Let's see.....
" WMD's About to be discovered in Syrai. Iraq, Suadi Arabia! "
" Will administration BACK McCain today ?"
" Will administration NOT back McCain today ?"
I just heard it live FROM drudge--and saw no-one else had posted this--so why not put it up?
Seems to me that right after 9/11 we also heard about a second wave that was to have flown a plane into Big Ben, but the airplanes were grounded so quickly they couldn't do it.
I believe that you are correct but, after having seen the gutless way America responded to terrorism during the 8 years of the Clinton administration, the terrorists have no concept of the resolve contained by the average American.
They might get away with it on a plane of folks heading to the latest Cindy Sheehan appearance, though.
HRC angrily said yesterday that Bush is trying to 'frighten' America about the WOT.
Dem Dan Riegle was just on FOX all he could talk about was Bush and Iraq this and Bush and Iraq that concerning this story.
They really dont get it. Which is great for us. But will be a serious problem for America if a Democrat ever gets elected to President.
'Osama has been in cahoots with Bush as he was captured shortly after 9/11 and he has him film messages when it is opportune and this announcement of his capture is just more BS as they have had him all along but needed him as the boogey man to justify their continuing fascist state!'
Bank on it!
I am certain as we speak that the DemoRATs are preparing their response, which will be that this is just another made up story to scare the public in G.W.'s quest to control the universe.
I agree..better die a hero..fool me twice shame on me..
BUMP
"They might get away with it on a plane of folks heading to the latest Cindy Sheehan appearance, though"
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Yikes, you are right....a plane full of lefties would gladly hand over the airplane to the terrorists and even help them kill the pilots.....
Let them try to convince the American people that this is just b.s. They don't have a chinaman's chance in hell.
The only things the libs will talk about is how Bush said "Liberty Tower" instead of "Library Tower"...
That's how petty they are.
The "plane of lefties" reminds me of Micheal Moore's rant after 9/11 that the terrorists killed people in a blue state who didn't vote for Bush and that they should have killed Americans in a Red state.
Man!!
The libbies are ALREADY out there!!
Harry Reid just left an " Important liberties Speech ' in Mid-Speech! after being interrupted by a staffer--and RAN from the floor!
Think there will be an EMERGENCY DNC " Response Team " type meeting??
Will they get SCHRILLARY to lead the charge!
DAB
p.s.--how many OTHER past " libbie stories " have come out that were MEANT to appear like they were JUST HAPPENING!!
There was the SADDAM WEAPONS " LOST " story--that they were missing from two years previous didn't matter!
And then just recently too!!
rats in a cage.
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