I consider the "World Trade Center" to have been a financial target, and for the administration to take al Qaeda's pre-9/11 recon and come out and say "We've got specific info that financial center's are being targeted," I think it's absurd. The age of that info, then, does have relevance.
Yeah, it's possible that this is a big effort for them. But I prefer to lend at least some credibility to the article at the head of this thread and come to the conclusion that hand picked dates that have political advantage might not be picked for strategic reasons (except in the case of Art's notion that a single Com-in-Chief throughout 8 years is strategic, which is true).
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