- "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 , or the White House," the September 1999 report said.
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- That's the AP talking. Today.
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- Maybe they finally got around to reading what Brasscheck
reported eight months ago. If so. Bravo. I'm glad they were able to finally
find the time to research the story. Brasscheck got its information in
turn from a mass market paperback written by the head of the US House of
Representatives Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare published
in 1993.
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- http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&ncid=716&e=1&u=/ap/20020517
/ap_on_go_pr_wh/attacks_1999_warning_6
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- By the way, something that has always puzzled me about
the Pentagon attack.
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- It turns out those masterminds of terrorism weren't so
smart after all. You see it was public knowledge that a section of the
Pentagon was undergoing renovations and would therefore be relatively empty
on 9/11. Yet of all the ways the terrorists could have attacked that huge
and vulnerable structure, they chose to fly into a mostly empty area thus
keeping casualties at the Pentagon to an absolute minimum.
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- Contrast that with the World Trade Tower attack in which
engineer Osama bin Laden is reputed by the US government to have calculated
precisely the building-collapsing impact of the collisions in advance from
his cave in Afghanistan.
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- By the way, not a single general or other member of the
upper level brass died in the Pentagon attack. Quite amazing when you realize
that generals are as common in the Pentagon as paper clips.
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- Equally strange, to me at least, is that Bush did not
consider two jetliners flying directly into the World Trade Center to be
significant enough to merit a pause from his reading of a story to a small
group of children in a Florida grammar school.
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- So let's get the official story straight:
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- 1. The government was so concerned about violence against
commercial aircraft in the US that attorney general John Ashcroft was told
to stop flying on commercial planes in the summer of 2001. - Reported in
the UK. Not here.
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- 2. Bush went to Genoa in July of 2001 where the threat
of a suicide plane attack was so high that the Italians put anti-aircraft
batteries at the airport. - Amazing media amnesia on this one. You'd think
it happened 100 years ago not two months before 9/11.
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- 3. The week of 9/11, the FAA sent an alert to all US
airports warning of an impending hijacking of a US plane. Mob bagman and
San Francisco mayor Willie Brown was warned off planes that week. Check
it out in the San Francisco Chronicle. The Brown story was reported a day
or two after 9/11
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- 4. Then on 9/11 when four commercial jetliners simultaneously
left their flight paths and stopped communicating with air traffic control.
The FAA - which has just issued a hijack alert - and its military partner,
NORAD, with which it is fully functionally integrated, couldn't figure
out what to do and did nothing even though standard operating procedures
of what do to in the event of air hijackings are in place and have been
for years.
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- 5. The mastermind terrorists were smart enough to do
the impossible: neatly drop two massively tall office towers with two very
different types of collisions, but failed to pick up a US newspaper and
learn that the portion of the Pentagon they targeted was the ONLY part
of the building that could be hit without killing thousands.
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- 6. In order to catch the villain, it was necessary to
remove a sovereign, albeit entirely screwed up, government from power and
replace it with an equally screwed up government. That the new government
is agreeable to terms for a new oil pipeline tapping hundreds of billions
of dollars worth of energy and the old one wasn't is pure coincidence.
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- 7. And even though we didn't catch the bad guy and have
no idea where he is, that's OK. Instead we'll embark on a 'money is no
object' global military campaign to 'stamp out terrorism where ever it
is found' and install laws that restrict the movement and financial privacy
of US citizens. That these two reactions happen to enrich and advance the
agenda of the very same people who were negligent (at best) in allowing
the attack to happen in the first place is pure coincidence.
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- That's the story they're asking you to believe.
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- I'm glad to see some people are finally questioning it
though I imagine when Bush & Co. find a way of paying off or extorting
the Democrats, the issue will go away.
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