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4/11 Read the Presidential Daily Briefing for yourself:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4710772
\_ Yeah, but this was during Bush's vacation. I know I don't pay
attention to stuff on vacation.
\_ If any of you were President at the time what would you have done
differently that wasn't already being done and why would you have
done so without hindsight to guide you?
\_ I'd've solidified no-fly-zone policies nationwide, and I would
have made it clear that shooting down a passenger plane or three
is preferable to the use of planes as bombs. I would have
made it clear that any lack of communication between the FBI,
CIA, and NSA not having to do with Congressionally legislated
limitations would result in the immediate termination of the
various directors involved. These are old problems, and they
should have been dealt with.
\_ No fly zones? Wouldn't have helped. A national order on
shooting down planes? You wanted to be impeached? You wanted
the various 3 letter agencies to communicate with each other
in VIOLATION OF THE LAW and bring the privacy nuts down on
your head? Okey dokey! So you'd be about as effective as my
dog as President. Probably less so. My dog is very cute.
\_ How wouldn't no-fly zones have helped? How does having a
policy on when it's acceptable to shoot down a plane
become an impeachable offense? What part of "any lack
of communication between the FBI, CIA, and NSA not having
to do with Congressionally legislated limitations" is
in violation of the law? When will you stop fellating
your dog and post something intelligent?
\_ I'd have ignored it since they haven't killed enough people
to be significant. When they pass the magic total, I'll use
it as an excuse to create an American hegemony in the Middle
East. Perferably one with lots of oil.
\_ I'd also cut anti-terrorism funding because we all hate
swatting at flies.
\_ Magic total = 911 people?
\_ Contestant number 3, are you the son of a former
President? |
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| msnbc.msn.com/id/4710772 The millennium plotting in Canada in 1999 may have been part of Bin Ladins first serious attempt to implement a terrorist strike in the US. Convicted plotter Ahmed Ressam has told the FBI that he conceived the idea to attack Los Angeles International Airport himself, but that Bin Ladin lieutenant Abu Zubaydah encouraged him and helped facilitate the operation. Ressam also said that in 1998 Abu Zubaydah was planning his own US attack. Although Bin Ladin has not succeeded, his attacks against the US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 demonstrate that he prepares operations years in advance and is not deterred by setbacks. Bin Ladin associates surveilled our Embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam as early as 1993, and some members of the Nairobi cell planning the bombings were arrested and deported in 1997. Al-Qaida members - including some who are US citizens -have resided in or traveled to the US for years, and the group apparently maintains a support structure that could aid attacks. Two al-Qaida members found guilty in the conspiracy to bomb our Embassies in East Africa were US citizens, and a senior EIJ member lived in California in the mid-1990s. A clandestine source said in 1998 that a Bin Ladin cell in New York was recruiting Muslim-American youth for attacks. Nevertheless, FBI information since that time indicates patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York. The FBI is conducting approximately 70 full field investigations throughout the US that it considers Bin Ladin-related. CIA and the FBI are investigating a call to our Embassy in the UAE in May saying that a group of Bin Ladin supporters was in the US planning attacks with explosives. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. |