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rulemylife -> RE: Regime to BP: Don't Plug the Hole (7/16/2010 2:28:31 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Moonhead
I don't know if they warned him specifically: they might have thought it'd be more productive to mention it to Cheney or Powell.
The CIA were hip that OBL was up to something big, but for some reason Bush's new cabinet wasn't very interested. The conspiracy nuts have made a biggish deal of that for some reason or other.
CNN.com - Transcript: Bin Laden determined to strike in US
Apr 10, 2004 ... The following is a transcript of the August 6, 2001, presidential daily briefing entitled Bin Laden determined to strike in US.
CNN.com - White House releases bin Laden memo - Apr 12, 2004
Highlights of the report include:
• An intelligence report received in May 2001 indicating that al Qaeda was trying to send operatives to the United States through Canada to carry out an attack using explosives. That information had been passed on to intelligence and law enforcement agencies.
• An allegation that al Qaeda had been considering ways to hijack American planes to win the release of operatives who had been arrested in 1998 and 1999.
• An allegation that bin Laden was set on striking the United States as early as 1997 and through early 2001.
• Intelligence suggesting that suspected al Qaeda operatives were traveling to and from the United States, were U.S. citizens, and may have had a support network in the country.
• A report that at least 70 FBI investigations were under way in 2001 regarding possible al Qaeda cells/terrorist-related operations in the United States.
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