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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: greenspirit who wrote (256487)	5/18/2002 2:17:17 AM
From: sandintoes	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

Did you see this? Note the YEARS!!! Excuse me, but wasn't CLINTON president, and Reno in charge then????? So THEY knew and didn't bother to pass it on??? To busy stealing the silverware to worry about our country! 1999 Report Warned of Suicide Hijack Fri May 17,12:57 PM ET By JOHN SOLOMON, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Exactly two years before the Sept. 11 attacks, a federal report warned the executive branch that Osama bin Laden (news - web sites)'s terrorists might hijack an airliner and dive bomb it into the Pentagon (news - web sites) or other government building. "Suicide bomber(s) belonging to al-Qaida's Martyrdom Battalion could crash-land an aircraft packed with high explosives (C-4 and semtex) into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency (news - web sites) (CIA (news - web sites)), or the White House," the September 1999 report said. The report, entitled the "Sociology and Psychology of Terrorism: Who Becomes a Terrorist and Why?," described the suicide hijacking as one of several possible retribution attacks al-Qaida might seek for the 1998 U.S. airstrike against bin Laden's camps in Afghanistan (news - web sites). The report noted that an al-Qaida-linked terrorist first arrested in the Philippines in 1995 and later convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing had suggested such a suicide jetliner mission. "Ramzi Yousef had planned to do this against the CIA headquarters," author Rex Hudson wrote in a report prepared for the National Intelligence Council and shared with other federal agencies. The intelligence council is attached to the CIA and is made up of a dozen senior intelligence officers who assist the U.S. intelligence community in analysis of threats and priorities. The report contrasts with Bush administration officials' assertions that none in government had imagined an attack like Sept. 11 before that time. "I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon; that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile," national security adviser Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites) said Thursday. The report was written by the Federal Research Division, an arm of the Library of Congress (news - web sites) that provides research for various federal agencies under contracts. The report was based solely on open-source information that the federal researchers gathered about the likely threats of terrorists, according to Robert L. Worden, the division's chief he federal research division. "This information was out there, certainly to those who study the in-depth subject of terrorism and al-Qaida," Worden said. "We knew it was an insightful report," he said. "Then after Sept. 11 we said, 'My gosh, that (suicide hijacking) was in there.'" Asked about the report at his daily press briefing, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer (news - web sites) described it as a psychological, sociological evaluation of terrorism. "I don't think it's a surprise to anybody that terrorists think in evil ways," he said. "It is not a piece of intelligence information suggesting that we had information about a specific plan." story.news.yahoo.com.