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Originally Posted by tw
The 9/11 Commission Report makes it bluntly obvious. He was told on 6 Aug that an attack was immenent involving buildings and planes.
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Just so everyone undersands what that PDB really said. It did not say that terrorist are going to grab some planes and fly them into buildings. It did not say when anything about timing. It did say that 70+ investigations were underway on various possible Bin Laden schemes.
We have not been able to corroborate some of the more sensational
threat reporting, such as that from a -~._. service in
1998 saying that Bin Ladin wanted to hijack a US aircraft to gain the
release of "Blind Shaykh" 'Umar 'Abd aI-Rahman and other US-held
extremists.
- Nevenheless, FBI information since that time indicates patterns of
suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for
hijackings or other types of aNacks, including recent surveillance of
federal buildings in New York.
The FBI is conducting approximately 70 luillieid investigations
throughout the US that it considers Bin ladin-related. CIA and the
FBI are investigating a call to our Embassy in the UAE in May saying
that a group or Bin ladir1 supporters was in the US planning at1acks
with explosives.
should the bush team have know that in one month al quaeda was going to hi jack 4 planes and fly them into buildings? i don't know. i don't know what the PDBs said everyday for the 6 months before this one. I do know that it isn't completely honest to say that Bush knew about imminent hijackings and planes flying into buildings.
PDB 6 AUG 2001