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

To: Don Earl who wrote (10323)	3/10/2005 12:00:00 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 20039

The Sept. 11 attacks were planned in May 1998 in the Khalden Camp in southeastern Afghanistan, according to American and British intelligence officers I interviewed. In other words, the 9/11 attacks were planned on Clinton's watch. Lopez: In sum, how many times did Bill Clinton lose bin Laden? Miniter: Here's a rundown. The Clinton administration: 1. Did not follow-up on the attempted bombing of Aden marines in Yemen. 2. Shut the CIA out of the 1993 WTC bombing investigation, hamstringing their effort to capture bin Laden. 3. Had Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, a key bin Laden lieutenant, slip through their fingers in Qatar. 4. Did not militarily react to the al Qaeda bombing in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. 5. Did not accept the Sudanese offer to turn bin Laden. 6. Did not follow-up on another offer from Sudan through a private back channel. 7. Objected to Northern Alliance efforts to assassinate bin Laden in Afghanistan. 8. Decided against using special forces to take down bin Laden in Afghanistan. 9. Did not take an opportunity to take into custody two al Qaeda operatives involved in the East African embassy bombings. In another little scoop, I am able to show that Sudan arrested these two terrorists and offered them to the FBI. The Clinton administration declined to pick them up and they were later allowed to return to Pakistan. 10. Ordered an ineffectual, token missile strike against a Sudanese pharmaceutical factory. 11. Clumsily tipped off Pakistani officials sympathetic to bin Laden before a planned missile strike against bin Laden on August 20, 1998. Bin Laden left the camp with only minutes to spare. 12-14. Three times, Clinton hesitated or deferred in ordering missile strikes against bin Laden in 1999 and 2000. 15. When they finally launched and armed the Predator spy drone plane, which captured amazing live video images of bin Laden, the Clinton administration no longer had military assets in place to strike the archterrorist. 16. Did not order a retaliatory strike on bin Laden for the murderous attack on the USS Cole. nationalreview.com

To: Don Earl who wrote (10323)	3/10/2005 12:59:39 PM
From: sea_urchin	Respond to of 20039

Don > For a part that was ripped from the body of a plane, went through two steel walls, went through the inner partitions, and all of that in the middle of a huge fireball, somehow, it seems to me the surface would have suffered a bit more scratching, denting and sooting than the piece displayed in the photo But there it is, in all its pristine glory, sunbathing on the roof of WTC5! I don't believe it was carried up there specially for a photo-opportunity because we haven't seen the photo before. So, as with the wheel and the engine part, it seems reasonable to believe that it did, in fact, come from the aircraft which was involved. At least, and as PM says, it is unambiguous evidence that an aircraft was involved. But, my concern is what aircraft was it? Was it a 767?