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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Selectric II who wrote (3847)	11/7/2003 1:25:54 PM
From: shadowman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20039

Apparently this person is dishonest? In the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, commentators and government officials described America’s inability to detect and prevent the terrorists’ plot as a “failure of imagination.” No one imagined, they claimed, that terrorists would be able to hijack four airliners simultaneously and then crash three of the four into significant economic and political landmarks. No one could have predicted, the early story went, that terrorists would deviate from the normal course of hijackings, in which hostages were taken and used as bargaining chips for some political goal or in which the objective was simply to blow up the plane in order to kill its passengers. Soon it became apparent, however, that this explanation was far off the mark. In fact, the U.S. intelligence community had ample indications that terrorists might attempt to hijack planes and turn them into guided missiles. In 1994, for instance, Algerian terrorists hijacked an Air France plane with 227 passengers and crew on board, wired it with explosives, and loaded it with three times the fuel needed to fly from Algeria to France. Their intention: to use the plane as a bomb and crash it into the Eiffel Tower. This fact was well known to U.S. intelligence agencies. Those agencies also knew as early as 1995 that terrorists – including Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the first World Trade Center bombing – had planned to crash a private aircraft into the CIA Headquarters building in Langley, Virginia. And FBI agents knew for years that suspected terrorists were taking flying lessons in the United States. By August 2001, some agents and CIA officers had come to believe that some of these student pilots might be plotting airline suicide attacks. ists.dartmouth.edu