Tom
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its from a CNN article:
According to the 9/11 commission:
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the plot, planned to have nine of the planes crash into the FBI and CIA headquarters, the Pentagon and the White House, as well as nuclear plants and the tallest buildings in California and Washington state.
Mohammed was arrested in March 2003 in Pakistan and turned over to U.S. authorities.
The hijackers of the 10th plane, which Mohammed planned to pilot, would contact the media, kill all of the adult men onboard and then make a statement denouncing the United States before freeing the women and children.
The plot also called for hijacking and blowing up 12 airliners in Southeast Asia, but al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden scrapped that part of the plan because it was too difficult to coordinate operations on two continents.
Bin Laden scaled back the plot in the United States to the four planes that were eventually used in the attack.
They narrowed down the list of targets to the World Trade Center towers, the Pentagon and either the White House or the Capitol.
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These are major terrorists. Apparently, taking out Afghanistan as a headquarters has broke up their organization a lot, that's good. Saddam never quit fighting us, so its good his activities are cut out too.
They were originally going after buildings in Wa state and Ca. They arrested that one in Ohio a week or two ago. This is bad stuff happening.
Even Putin is supporting Bush's statements more than some democrats.
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Moscow: President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Russia had several times in the past warned the United States that Saddam Hussein planned "terrorist attacks" on US territory, Russian news agencies reported.
After the events of September 11, 2001, and before the start of the military operation in Iraq, Russian special services several times received such information and passed it on to their American colleagues," Interfax quoted Putin as saying.
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Saddam never quit fighting us, its good he's been taken out of power.
[ 06-18-2004, 11:39: Message edited by: Tom ]
According to the 9/11 commission:
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the plot, planned to have nine of the planes crash into the FBI and CIA headquarters, the Pentagon and the White House, as well as nuclear plants and the tallest buildings in California and Washington state.
Mohammed was arrested in March 2003 in Pakistan and turned over to U.S. authorities.
The hijackers of the 10th plane, which Mohammed planned to pilot, would contact the media, kill all of the adult men onboard and then make a statement denouncing the United States before freeing the women and children.
The plot also called for hijacking and blowing up 12 airliners in Southeast Asia, but al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden scrapped that part of the plan because it was too difficult to coordinate operations on two continents.
Bin Laden scaled back the plot in the United States to the four planes that were eventually used in the attack.
They narrowed down the list of targets to the World Trade Center towers, the Pentagon and either the White House or the Capitol.
*****************************************
These are major terrorists. Apparently, taking out Afghanistan as a headquarters has broke up their organization a lot, that's good. Saddam never quit fighting us, so its good his activities are cut out too.
They were originally going after buildings in Wa state and Ca. They arrested that one in Ohio a week or two ago. This is bad stuff happening.
Even Putin is supporting Bush's statements more than some democrats.
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Moscow: President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Russia had several times in the past warned the United States that Saddam Hussein planned "terrorist attacks" on US territory, Russian news agencies reported.
After the events of September 11, 2001, and before the start of the military operation in Iraq, Russian special services several times received such information and passed it on to their American colleagues," Interfax quoted Putin as saying.
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Saddam never quit fighting us, its good he's been taken out of power.
[ 06-18-2004, 11:39: Message edited by: Tom ]
