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Spying success? |
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QUOTE Bush highlights foiled 2002 terror plot Al-Qaida sought to use Asian hijackers to fly jet into L.A. tower, he says President Bush said Thursday that the U.S.-led global war on terror has "weakened and fractured" al-Qaida and allied groups, outlining as proof new details about the multinational cooperation that foiled purported terrorist plans to fly a commercial airplane into the tallest skyscraper on the West Coast. [...] Bush has referred to the 2002 plot before. In an address last October, he 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. The president filled in details on Thursday. He said that Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks who was captured in 2003, had already begun planning the West Coast operation in October, just after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. One of Mohammed’s key planners was Hambali, the alleged operations chief of the al-Qaida related terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah. Instead of recruiting Arab hijackers, Hambali found Southeast Asian men who would be less likely to arouse suspicion and who were sent to meet with Osama bin Laden, Bush said. Under the plot, the hijackers were to use shoe bombs to blow open the cockpit door of a commercial jetliner, take control of the plane and crash it into the Library Tower in Los Angeles, since renamed the US Bank Tower, Bush said. The president said the plot was derailed when a Southeast Asian nation arrested a key al-Qaida operative. Bush did not name the country or the operative. Bush has been on a campaign to defend his controversial domestic monitoring program. But the White House would not say whether the 2002 plot was thwarted as a result of the National Security Agency program to eavesdrop on the international emails and phone calls of people inside the United States with suspected ties to terrorists. More... My question: Is this story true, or is it more made-up government propaganda disseminated in order to increase declining support for the war on terror and Bush's domestic spying program? |
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![]() I love Havasupai ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Member Posts: 1,040 Joined: Jul 2005 Member No: 163,878 ![]() |
Hopefully the congressional investigations/inquiries will be thorough enough to discern the truth.
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I live in LA, scary. I dont want to died.
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