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To: Elsewhere who wrote (16554)	11/17/2003 6:38:02 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793637

Re Bojinka: Wonder how many others had forgotten this word...certainly regarding what we know now, and knew then.... and before... Re Bojinka: The LOC link no longer works...Do you have a new link for the snip you provided...(Always why we should completely post something that we want to be visible in a year or two...) Did go to the SI search link, inserted Bojinka......and found MANY things of interest....especially in hindsight: Message 18732999 snip>>>>>>>>Lt. Col. Patterson also charges that Clinton was aware of an al-Qaeda plot to hijack airplanes and use them as flying bombs, something the ex-president has never acknowledged. Recounting a 1996 episode in which he said Clinton had asked him to gather up several days' worth of Presidential Daily Briefings from his desk, Patterson recalled: "I opened the PDB to rearrange the notes and noticed the heading 'Operation Bojinka.' I keyed on a reference to a plot to use commercial airliners as weapons and another plot to put bombs on U.S. airliners. ... I can state for a fact that this information was circulated within the U.S. intelligence community, and that in late 1996 the president was aware of it." Plans for Operation Bojinka were discovered during a 1995 raid by Philippine police on the apartment of Ramzi Yousef, an al-Qaeda operative with ties to Iraq who was convicted in 1997 of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. <<<<<<<< 88888888888888888888888888 And this Sept 01 WP article posted on the GWB thread by Michael Cummings: washingtonpost.com Message 17538424 and this one as well......... 88888888888 Message 16870030 888888888888888888888888 Message 16342933