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This is one of those brilliant articles that makes you wonder why it hasn’t been written before. Thank you for your work, I’m pointing it out to everyone I know, and many that I don’t.
If you ever decide to do a sequel regarding 9/11, I’ve been looking into what Bush knew about planes used as weapons at the Genoa G8 Summit in July, 2001. I’m including my brief work below:
The Bush Administration would like us to believe that the August 6, 2001 memo entitled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US” was not itself an “inkling” of warning. Fine then, let’s forget about the memo for one moment.
Let us never forget, and in fact let us remind the public as often as possible, that Bush himself admitted prior knowledge of the terrorist plot to fly jetliners into buildings.
In his prime time news conference disaster of March 6, 2003, Bush referred to intel he received before the G8 Summit in Genoa, Italy:
“Ed, I asked for the briefing. And the reason I did is because there had been a lot of threat intelligence from overseas. And so—part of it had to do with Genoa, the G8 conference that I was going to attend. And I asked, at that point in time, let’s make sure we are paying attention here at home, as well.
“The report, itself, I’ve characterized as mainly history, and I think when you look at it you’ll see that it was talking about ‘97 and ‘98 and ‘99. It was also an indication, as you mentioned, that bin Laden might want to hijack an airplane, but as you said, not to fly into a building, but perhaps to release a person in jail. In other words, serve it as a blackmail.”
This, like the majority of his utterances, was a lie. The threat was specific: al Qaida operatives might hijack aircraft and assassinate Bush and other foreign leaders by crashing them into the meeting itself. This is why, as mulitple news sources reported, anti-aircraft guns were stationed strategically throughout Genoa during the conference. (Think about it: why would you use anti-aircraft battery to prevent blackmail?) Additionally, Bush stayed on an aircraft carrier and other leaders slept on luxury cruise liners. The Italian government closed off local air space and had fighter jets patrolling the skies during the summit. (http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0406-11.htm) Security measures were unprecedented and underreported.
These events took place in July of 2001. If the Bush Administration dares to suggest that they had no warning of the kind of attack that took place on September 11, we must conclude that they are dangerously incompetent in forgetting the G8 warnings and the August 8 memo, and not making the elementary connections between the two before and during September 11. Or they are lying.
Posted by Fred Maske on August 3, 2004 at 10:18 AM from Glendale CA
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http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/899/
This is one of those brilliant articles that makes you wonder why it hasn’t been written before. Thank you for your work, I’m pointing it out to everyone I know, and many that I don’t.
If you ever decide to do a sequel regarding 9/11, I’ve been looking into what Bush knew about planes used as weapons at the Genoa G8 Summit in July, 2001. I’m including my brief work below:
The Bush Administration would like us to believe that the August 6, 2001 memo entitled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US” was not itself an “inkling” of warning. Fine then, let’s forget about the memo for one moment.
Let us never forget, and in fact let us remind the public as often as possible, that Bush himself admitted prior knowledge of the terrorist plot to fly jetliners into buildings.
In his prime time news conference disaster of March 6, 2003, Bush referred to intel he received before the G8 Summit in Genoa, Italy:
“Ed, I asked for the briefing. And the reason I did is because there had been a lot of threat intelligence from overseas. And so—part of it had to do with Genoa, the G8 conference that I was going to attend. And I asked, at that point in time, let’s make sure we are paying attention here at home, as well.
“The report, itself, I’ve characterized as mainly history, and I think when you look at it you’ll see that it was talking about ‘97 and ‘98 and ‘99. It was also an indication, as you mentioned, that bin Laden might want to hijack an airplane, but as you said, not to fly into a building, but perhaps to release a person in jail. In other words, serve it as a blackmail.”
This, like the majority of his utterances, was a lie. The threat was specific: al Qaida operatives might hijack aircraft and assassinate Bush and other foreign leaders by crashing them into the meeting itself. This is why, as mulitple news sources reported, anti-aircraft guns were stationed strategically throughout Genoa during the conference. (Think about it: why would you use anti-aircraft battery to prevent blackmail?) Additionally, Bush stayed on an aircraft carrier and other leaders slept on luxury cruise liners. The Italian government closed off local air space and had fighter jets patrolling the skies during the summit. (http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0406-11.htm) Security measures were unprecedented and underreported.
These events took place in July of 2001. If the Bush Administration dares to suggest that they had no warning of the kind of attack that took place on September 11, we must conclude that they are dangerously incompetent in forgetting the G8 warnings and the August 8 memo, and not making the elementary connections between the two before and during September 11. Or they are lying.
Posted by Fred Maske on August 3, 2004 at 10:18 AM from Glendale CA
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