Our Bush used a remarkably similar phrase to hide what he knew BEFORE 9/11, about the potential threat of terrorists hijacking airliners and crashing them into buildings, just five days after 9/11.....
<p>This is on the <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010916-2.html ">http://www.whitehouse.gov/...</a> website, but it is never quoted....only Condi's similar declaration....months later, gets repeated!</p><p>
Quote:
"For Immediate Release<br>
Office of the Press Secretary<br>
<b>September 16, 2001</p><p>
Remarks by the President</b> Upon Arrival<br>
The South Lawn </p><p>
<b>....No one could have conceivably imagined suicide bombers burrowing into our society and then emerging all in the same day to fly their aircraft - fly U.S. aircraft into buildings full of innocent people</b> - and show no remorse. This is a new kind of -- a new kind of evil........</p><p>
.......Q Mr. President, would you confirm what the Vice President said this morning, that at one point during this crisis you gave an order to shoot down any civilian airliner that approached the Capitol? Was that a difficult decision to make?</p><p>
THE PRESIDENT: I gave our military the orders necessary to protect Americans, do whatever it would take to protect Americans. And of course that's difficult. <b>Never did anybody's thought process about how to protect America did we ever think that the evil-doers would fly not one, but four commercial aircraft into precious U.S. targets - never.</b> And so, obviously, when I was told what was taking place, when I was informed that an unidentified aircraft was headed to the heart of the capital, I was concerned. I wasn't concerned about my decision; I was more concerned about the lives of innocent Americans. I had realized there on the ground in Florida we were under attack. But <b>never did I dream we would have been under attack this way."</b>
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Quote:
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A9449-2004Apr13&notFound=true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/...</a><br>
By Bradley Graham<br>
Washington Post Staff Writer<br>
Wednesday, April 14, 2004; Page A16</p><p>
While planning a high-level training exercise months before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, U.S. military officials considered a </p><p>
scenario in which a hijacked foreign commercial airliner flew into the Pentagon, defense officials said yesterday. <br>
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Quote:
<a href="http://www.mdw.army.mil/news/Contingency_Planning.html">http://www.mdw.army.mil/...</a><br>
Contingency planning Pentagon MASCAL exercise simulates<br>
scenarios in preparing for emergencies<br>
Story and Photos by Dennis Ryan<br>
MDW News Service</p><p>
Exercise SimulationsWashington, D.C., Nov. 3, 2000 -- The fire and smoke from the downed passenger aircraft billows from the </p><p>
Pentagon courtyard.<br>
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Quote:
<a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/17/attack/main509471.shtml">http://www.cbsnews.com/...</a><br>
'99 Report Warned Of Suicide Hijacking</p><p>
WASHINGTON, May 17, 2002</p><p>
Former CIA Deputy Director John Gannon, who was chairman of the National Intelligence Council when the report was written, </p><p>
said U.S. intelligence long has known a suicide hijacker was a possible threat.</p><p>
(AP) Exactly two years before the Sept. 11 attacks, a federal report warned the executive branch that Osama bin Laden's </p><p>
terrorists might hijack an airliner and dive bomb it into the Pentagon or other government building...... <br>
</p><p>
<B>......"I don't think anybody</B> could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade </p><p>
Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon; that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked </p><p>
airplane as a missile," national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said Thursday. <br>
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From the Aug. 6, 2001 PDB delivered to Bush while he was on vacation at his Crawford, TX ranch.....the words that he used all of his presidential powers to attempt to conceal from you.....and from me:
Quote:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/10/august6.memo/
Transcript: Bin Laden determined to strike in US
Saturday, April 10, 2004 Posted: 6:51 PM EDT (2251 GMT)
The following is a transcript of the August 6, 2001, presidential daily briefing entitled Bin Laden determined to strike in US. Parts of the original document were not made public by the White House for security reasons.
.......Al Qaeda members -- including some who are U.S. citizens -- have resided in or traveled to the U.S. for years, and the group apparently maintains a support structure that could aid attacks.
Two al-Qaeda members found guilty in the conspiracy to bomb our embassies in East Africa were U.S. citizens, and a senior EIJ member lived in California in the mid-1990s.
A clandestine source said in 1998 that a bin Laden cell in New York was recruiting Muslim-American youth for attacks.
We have not been able to corroborate some of the more sensational threat reporting, such as that from a ---- service in 1998 saying that Bin Laden wanted to hijack a U.S. aircraft to gain the release of "Blind Sheikh" Omar Abdel Rahman and other U.S.-held extremists.
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......
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