Re 9/11. BushCo Knew but did not pass on the WARNINGS to America

[opihimoimoi]

WTF???

The Big Picture shows a Path to Wag the Dog...They wanted sumpthin to happen.

Condi Failed us

Karen Failed us

They all Failed us

They Coulda Woulda Shoulda: WARNED US, Do something: Like warn the airlines....

Either they are Inept, Rookies, Noobs, or complicit


Bushies body language implicates a plot he wanted this

[Philosoraptor]

1. praising w for what Clinton would've been shot for.

big balls in law town.

[opihimoimoi]

2. The only things Bush got Balls for is to: LIE CHEAT STEAL for FASCISM

The real goal seems to lie in the direction of OWNING THIS NATION...Lock Stock, and Barrel.

The Ghosts of those 3,000 victims will haunt BushCo with defeat/humiliation/and exposure to the harshness of History.

[Captain Hilts]

3. What do balls have to do with it? He's just a liar. nt

[opihimoimoi]

4. It takes Balls to tell big LIES...lol... :o)

[bullimiami]

5. EXACTLY! If they would have ONLY warned the airlines that

it is possible that planes could be hijacked and if they were they might be crashed into things...

the pilots and crew would not have given the planes over so easily, thinking it was a conventional hijacking.

IF THEY HAD WARNED US PUBLICLY, the hijackers wouldnt have had a chance. A handful of men in a cabin full of pissed off people who knew that they meant in the end to kill them all, bomb or no bomb.

In the least we would have had 4 flight 93s, no wtc and no pentagon, but more likely the hijackers would have been taken down, beaten and tied up and the planes would have landed safely.

NO 9/11, no bush exploitation. MIHOP of course. Right now we have the most evil government in the history of this country.

[opihimoimoi]

6. Evil is as EVIL DOES......Diabolically Evil.....and...on our dime too.

DAMNNNNN....

[Octafish]

7. Bush knew something was up. FAILED TO WARN USA.

He DID warn Johnny Ashcan.



Here’s evidence of Bush’s awareness

Why would Osama bin Laden want to kill Dubya, his former business partner?

By James Hatfield

Editor's note: In light of last week's horrific events and the Bush administration's reaction to them, we are reprising the following from the last column Jim Hatfield wrote for Online Journal prior to his tragic death on July 18:

July 3, 2001—There may be fireworks in Genoa, Italy, this month, too.

A plot by Saudi master terrorist, Osama bin Laden, to assassinate Dubya during the July 20 economic summit of world leaders, was uncovered after dozens of suspected Islamic militants linked to bin Laden's international terror network were arrested in Frankfurt, Germany, and Milan, Italy, in April.

German intelligence services have stated that bin Laden is covertly financing neo-Nazi skinhead groups throughout Europe to launch another terrorist attack at a high-profile American target—his first since the bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen last October.

According to counter-terrorism experts quoted in Germany's largest newspaper, the attack on Dubya might be a James Bond-like aerial strike in the form of remote-controlled airplanes packed with plastic explosives.

SNIP…

In June 1977, Dubya formed his own drilling company, Arbusto Energy ("arbusto" means "bush" in Spanish), in Midland, Texas. Like his father before him, Dubya founded his oil business with the financial backing of investors, including James R. Bath, a Houston businessman whom Dubya apparently first met when they were in the same Texas Air National Guard unit. (Interestingly, both Dubya and Bath were both suspended from flying in August and September 1972, respectively, for "failure to accomplish annual medical examination.")

CONTINUED…

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/Hatfield-R-091901/hatfield-r-091901.html

Some more on the Genoa warnings…

Plot to assassinate Bush – reports

MOSCOW, Russia -- Osama bin Laden has threatened to assassinate U.S. President George W. Bush at a G8 meeting in Italy, the head of Russia's Federal Bodyguard Service has said, according to reports.

The Associated Press said Yevgeny Murov was quoted by Itar-Tass news agency as saying: "Bin Laden is threatening the American president, but we know what international terrorism is today and therefore all the bodyguard units concerned are preparing for this.

"We view the threats as totally serious, but hope that with joint efforts we can solve all the problems."

The Group of Eight summit is meeting between July 20-22 in Genoa, Italy. Leaders from Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United States are expected to attend the summit.

Murov -- Russian President Vladimir Putin's chief bodyguard -- did not elaborate on the threats. He said agents from Russia's Federal Bodyguard Service have travelled to Genoa to coordinate with their counterparts from the other nations taking part in the summit to investigate the threats.

CONTINUED…

http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/06/20/russia.binladen/

Missiles won't stop Them. Neither will Bush.

Missiles to protect summit leaders

Special report: globalisation

Rory Carroll in Rome
Wednesday July 11, 2001
The Guardian

Italy has installed a missile defence system at Genoa's airport to deter airborne attacks during next week's G8 summit, fuelling hysteria about looming violence.
A land-based battery of rockets with a range of nine miles and an altitude of 5,000 feet has been positioned in the latest security measure against perceived threats from terrorists and protesters.

Unidentified planes, helicopters and balloons risk being shot down should they drift too close to the heads of state from the group of seven leading industrialised nations and Russia.

Colonel Alberto Battaglini, of the ministry of defence, said the precaution was not exces sive. "The measure, which was planned by the previous government, may seem open to criticism, but in reality it is merely to act as a deterrent against any aerial incursion during the summit.

CONTINUED…

http://www.guardian.co.uk/globalisation/story/0,7369,519925,00.html

Gee. What was Boosh so afraid of? He won’t tell us, but it would seem he did tell AG Johnny Ashcan…

Ashcroft Flying High

WASHINGTON, July 26, 2001


Fishing rod in hand, Attorney General John Ashcroft left on a weekend trip to Missouri Thursday afternoon aboard a chartered government jet, reports CBS News Correspondent Jim Stewart.

In response to inquiries from CBS News over why Ashcroft was traveling exclusively by leased jet aircraft instead of commercial airlines, the Justice Department cited what it called a "threat assessment" by the FBI, and said Ashcroft has been advised to travel only by private jet for the remainder of his term.

"There was a threat assessment and there are guidelines. He is acting under the guidelines," an FBI spokesman said. Neither the FBI nor the Justice Department, however, would identify what the threat was, when it was detected or who made it.

A senior official at the CIA said he was unaware of specific threats against any Cabinet member, and Ashcroft himself, in a speech in California, seemed unsure of the nature of the threat.

"I don't do threat assessments myself and I rely on those whose responsibility it is in the law enforcement community, particularly the FBI. And I try to stay within the guidelines that they've suggested I should stay within for those purposes," Ashcroft said.

CONTINUED…

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/07/26/national/main303601.shtml

The Coward of Crawford

[opihimoimoi]

8. Bush did not spread the LOVE when the Warning went only to a few buddies

When a Great Nation dies/is weakened....WHO GAINs??? We must follow the money trail...

In this case...its the GOP and their Pick/Runt of the Litter...Bushy Dog

[Octafish]

11. His mom must not have loved him as a child.

The only ones Bush loves are his base -- the "haves and have-mores."

Indict. Convict. Imprison. Etc.

[opihimoimoi]

12. Prolly dropped jr a couple of times...on his HEAD no less. IT SHOWS

[alfredo]

9. Remember, they told Ashcroft to avoid commercial

airlines a couple weeks before 9-11. They knew.

[opihimoimoi]

10. The COMMON PEOPLE are starting to see BUSHCO is R NOT 4 The COMMON GOOD

They SACRIFICED us for their Personal GAIN.

Evil People can sleep at night knowing they killed innocent people for their own gain.

They hunger for POWER is such... TRUELY DIABOLICAL and EVIL.

How they can live with themselves is beyond my comprehension.....

[alfredo]

13. This make the Nov election so important.

[opihimoimoi]

14. Us DEMs are Angry and we making the whole Nation angry with us

by telling the TRUTH and pointing out the LIES for all to see.

We ain't taking this GOP Chit no mo....

[alfredo]

17. That's the attitude

[bluedog]

15. the warnings he got.............

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Meacher sparks fury over claims on September 11 and Iraq war
September 6, 2003

"...the war on terrorism is a smokescreen and that the US knew in advance about the September 11 attack on New York but, for strategic reasons, chose not to act on the warnings."


Who Knew? The unanswered questions of 9/11
September 3, 2003

"CBS reporter David Martin revealed that weeks before the attacks, the CIA had warned Bush personally of Osama Bin Laden’s intent to use hijacked planes as missiles. That followed the damaging exposure by The Associated Press’s John Solomon of a pre-9/11 FBI memo from an officer in Phoenix warning of suspicious Middle Eastern men training at flight schools—a warning that went unheeded."


U.S. Clamps Secrecy on Warnings Before 9/11
August 7, 2003

"The committee managed, 'inadvertently,' it says, to get some contents of a key briefing Bush received in August 2001. It included 'FBI judgments about patterns of activity consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks; as well as information acquired in May 2001 that indicated a group of Bin Ladin (sic) supporters was planning attacks in the United States with explosives.'"


Bush's 9-11 Secrets
July 31, 2003

"The U.S. government had received repeated warnings of impending attacks—and attacks using planes directed at New York and Washington—for several years. The government never told us about what it knew was coming."


9/11 report, Rice remarks in conflict; Investigators say Bush got specific data on threats
July 29, 2003

"...the briefing given to the president a month before the suicide hijackings included recent intelligence that al-Qaida was planning to send operatives to the United States to carry out an attack using high explosives."


The Secret Saudi Flight on 9-13 Could be the Key to the Bush-Saudi-Al Qaeda Connection
May, 2003

"One has to wonder when George W. said, "You're either with us or against us" - just exactly who he meant by "us." "Us" is beginning to look like a Bush-Saudi-Al Qaeda conspiracy, especially when one includes the well-known business ties between George H. W. Bush, James Baker, and the Bin Laden family through the infamous Carlyle Group."


The Secrets of September 11
April 30, 2003

"One such CIA briefing, in July 2001, was particularly chilling and prophetic. It predicted that Osama bin Laden was about to launch a terrorist strike 'in the coming weeks,' the congressional investigators found. The intelligence briefing went on to say: 'The attack will be spectacular and designed to inflict mass casualties against U.S. facilities or interests. Attack preparations have been made. Attack will occur with little or no warning.'"
http://www.msnbc.com/news/907379.asp?0cv=CB10

Is Bush A Liar - or is memory serving him badly?
Posted October 10, 2002

http://www.visualjournalism.com/Files/
reviews/bush911/pageBig.shtml

FBI Warned D.C. It Was A Target
September 25, 2002

"A Minnesota FBI agent investigating Zacarias Moussaoui testified yesterday that he notified the Secret Service weeks before Sept. 11 that a terror team might hijack a plane and 'hit the nation's capital.'"
http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/57848.htm

Moussaoui Warnings Ignored
September 24, 2002

"An FBI supervisor, sounding a prophetic pre-Sept. 11 alarm, warned FBI headquarters that student pilot Zacarias Moussaoui was so dangerous he might 'take control of a plane and fly it into the World Trade Center,' a congressional investigator said in a report Tuesday."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=512&ncid
=716&e=4&u=/ap/20020924/ap_on_go_co/attacks_intelligence

America had 12 warnings of aircraft attack
September 19, 2002

"American intelligence received many more clues before the 11 September attacks than previously disclosed, that terrorists might hijack planes and turn them into weapons, a joint congressional committee was told yesterday."
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/
story.jsp?story=334633


U.S. Was Aware on bin Laden Threat
September 19, 2002

"Basically, we know that bin Laden had the means and the intent to attack Americans, both at home and abroad."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=512&ncid
=716&e=5&u=/ap/20020919/ap_on_go_co/attacks_intelligence

9/11 Probers Say Agencies Failed to Heed Attack Signs
September 19, 2002

"U.S. intelligence agencies received many more indications than previously disclosed that Osama bin Laden's terrorist network was planning imminent "spectacular" attacks in the summer of 2001 aimed at inflicting mass casualties."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36754-2002Sep18.html

9/11 report documents credible clues
September 18, 2002

"The U.S. intelligence community received a surprising number of credible reports of a likely terrorist attack prior to Sept. 11, including some threats to domestic targets, according to a congressional report to be unveiled today."
http://www.msnbc.com/news/809370.asp?pne=msntv

U.S. knew of 12 plots for jet attacks
September 18, 2002

"Plan to attack WTC was among warnings that preceded 9/11, panel told."
http://www.msnbc.com/news/809484.asp

Panel Presents 9/11 Intelligence
September 18, 2002

"An intelligence briefing two months before the Sept. 11 attack warned that Osama bin Laden ( news - web sites) would launch a spectacular terrorist attack against U.S. or Israeli interests, congressional investigators said Wednesday."
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=542&ncid=703&
e=1&u=/ap/20020918/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/attacks_intelligence

Spy Agencies Had Pre-9/11 Threats on U.S. Soil
September 17, 2002

"U.S. intelligence agencies picked up threats of attacks inside the United States and of using airplanes as weapons during the spring and summer before last year's Sept. 11 attacks, but were more focused on the possibility of an assault overseas, a congressional source said on Tuesday."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=578&ncid
=578&e=1&u=/nm/20020917/ts_nm/attack_
congress_intelligence_dc

Ashcroft Flying High
July 26, 2001

"In response to inquiries from CBS News over why Ashcroft was traveling exclusively by leased jet aircraft instead of commercial airlines, the Justice Department cited what it called a "threat assessment" by the FBI, and said Ashcroft has been advised to travel only by private jet for the remainder of his term."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001
/07/26/national/printable303601.shtml

Bush briefed on hijacking threat before September 11
May 16, 2002

"President Bush's daily intelligence briefings in the weeks leading up to the September 11 terror attacks included a warning of the possibility that Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network would attempt to hijack a U.S.-based airliner, senior administration officials said Wednesday."
http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/05/15/bush.sept.11/index.html

Revealed: The Taliban minister, the US envoy and the warning of September 11 that was ignored
September 7, 2002

"Weeks before the terrorist attacks on 11 September, the United States and the United Nations ignored warnings from a secret Taliban emissary that Osama bin Laden was planning a huge attack on American soil."
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=331115

Why would Osama bin Laden want to kill Dubya, his former business partner?
July 3, 2001

"A plot by Saudi master terrorist, Osama bin Laden, to assassinate Dubya during the July 20 economic summit of world leaders, was uncovered after dozens of suspected Islamic militants linked to bin Laden's international terror network were arrested in Frankfurt, Germany, and Milan, Italy, in April."
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/Hatfield
-R-091901/hatfield-r-091901.html

Bin Laden’s Relatives Evacuated From NYC
October 2, 2001

"Patrick Tyler of the New York Times is reporting from Washington: 'In the first days after the attacks on Sept. 11, the Saudi Arabian ambasador to Washington, Prince Bandar ibn Sultan, supervised the urgent evacuation of 24 members of Osama bin Laden's extended family from ther United States fearing they might be subjected to violence.'"
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0110/S00008.htm

Our Pearl Harbor: The latest NSA revelations suggest the 9-11 plot could have been foiled.
June 21, 2002

"Recent news that the National Security Agency (NSA) intercepted two messages the day before the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks -- messages that indicated imminent action -- obliges us to reconsider whether the airliner hijackings that led to 3,000 lost lives and $20 billion in property damage could have been foiled."
http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2002/06/prados-j-06-21.html


Al-Qaida monitored U.S. negotiations with Taliban over oil pipeline
June 5, 2002

"A memo by military chief Mohammed Atef raises new questions about whether failed U.S. efforts to reform Afghanistan's radical regime -- and build the pipeline -- set the stage for Sept. 11."
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/06/05/
memo/index_np.html?x

U.S. had agents inside al-Qaeda
June 4, 2002

"U.S. intelligence overheard al-Qaeda operatives discussing a major pending terrorist attack in the weeks prior to Sept. 11 and had agents inside the terror group, but the intercepts and field reports didn't specify where or when a strike might occur, according to U.S. officials. The disclosures add to a growing body of evidence to be examined in congressional hearings that open today into how the CIA, FBI and other agencies failed to seize on intelligence pointing to the deadliest terror attack in U.S. history."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/attack/2002/06/03/cia-attacks.htm

Heads-Up To Ashcroft Proves Threat Was Known Before 9/11
June 3, 2002

"Don't let them fool you, folks: They knew.

They might have been surprised by the ferocity of the attacks, but the highest-ranking members of the George W. Bush administration knew before Sept. 11 that something terrible was going to happen soon."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?
file=/gate/archive/2002/06/03/hsorensen.DTL

Egypt Warned U.S. of a Qaeda Plot, Mubarak Asserts
June 3, 2002

"Egyptian intelligence warned American officials about a week before Sept. 11 that Osama bin Laden's network was in the advance stages of executing a significant operation against an American target, President Hosni Mubarak said in an interview on Sunday."
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/04/national/04WARN.html

U.S. Ignored Warnings From French
May 28, 2002

"A key point in unraveling why the FBI failed to follow up leads on Al Qaeda terrorism now centers on the Bureau's contemptuously brushing aside warnings from French intelligence a few days before 9-11."
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0222/ridgeway2.php

Whopper of the Week: Condoleezza Rice Abroad at home.
May 23, 2002

"The overwhelming bulk of the evidence was that this was an attack that was likely to take place overseas."
- White House National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, in a May 16 news briefing.

"Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S."
- Title of the CIA's Aug. 6 briefing memo to President Bush . . .

http://slate.msn.com/?id=2066154

Tracking a Counterterrorism Breakdown
Timeline Shows Failure to Connect Key Clues Before Sept. 11
May 23, 2002

"Lawmakers are questioning what the administration knew and when. NPR's Mike Shuster reports on Morning Edition that government agencies had several clues that might have triggered alarms in the months before Sept. 11. But no one put them together."
http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2002/may/timeline/index.html

U.S. was warned that Moussaoui had close ties to al-Qaida, analyst says
May 23, 2002

"Who knew what, and when? Could the FBI have prevented the Sept. 11 attacks?"
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/05/23/warning/index_np.html

Poppies for planes: White House hides behind veil of executive privilege
May 22, 2002

"Clinton National Security Advisor Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger was "totally preoccupied" with the prospect of a domestic terror attack. He warned his replacement, Condoleezza Rice, "You will be spending more time on this issue than on any other." Problem was, she didn't."
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemId=13365

The U.S. ignored foreign warnings, too
May 21, 2002

"When the hubbub about what the White House did or didn't know before Sept. 11 dies down, Congressional or other investigators should consider the specific warnings that friendly Arab intelligence services sent to Washington in the summer of 2001."
http://www.iht.com/articles/58269.html

Bush knew of terrorist plot to hijack US planes
May 20, 2002

"George Bush received specific warnings in the weeks before 11 September that an attack inside the United States was being planned by Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network, US government sources said yesterday."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/september11/story/0,11209,718312,00.html

Britain warned US to expect September 11 al-Qaeda hijackings
May 19, 2002

"Britain gave President Bush a categorical warning to expect multiple airline hijackings by the al-Qaeda network a month before the September 11 attacks which killed nearly 3000 people and triggered the international war against terrorism."
http://www.sundayherald.com/24822

U.S. planned for attack on al-Qaida
May 16, 2002

"President Bush was expected to sign detailed plans for a worldwide war against al-Qaida two days before Sept. 11 but did not have the chance before the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, U.S. and foreign sources told NBC News."
http://www.msnbc.com/news/753359.asp

Bush Was Warned bin Laden Wanted to Hijack Planes
May 15, 2002

"The White House said tonight that President Bush had been warned by American intelligence agencies in early August that Osama bin Laden was seeking to hijack aircraft..."
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/16/politics/16INQU.html?

US agents told: Back off bin Ladens
November 7, 2001

"US special agents were told to back off the bin Laden family and the Saudi royals soon after George Bush became president, although that has all changed since September 11, it was reported today."
http://www.old.smh.com.au/news/0111/07/world/world100.html

Hijackers reportedly made test runs
October 11, 2001

"During a six-hour flight from Boston to Los Angeles in August, movie actor James Woods said te only passengers besides himself seated in first-class were four men who he said appeared to be Middle Eastern in origin. Woods said the four neither ate nor drank, did not read or sleep and talkedto each other in whispers.

On Sept. 12, Woods called the FBI to tell investigators about his experience. He was interviewed by agents on Sept. 13, but has had no comment."
http://www.gazettenet.com/americantragedy/10112001/7363.htm

Bush: ‘We’re At War’
September 24th, 2001

"On Sept. 10, NEWSWEEK has learned, a group of top Pentagon officials suddenly canceled travel plans for the next morning, apparently because of security concerns."
http://www.msnbc.com/news/629606.asp

US 'planned attack on Taleban'
September 18, 2001

"A former Pakistani diplomat has told the BBC that the US was planning military action against Osama Bin Laden and the Taleban even before last week's attacks."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/
newsid_1550000/1550366.stm

Israeli security issued urgent warning to CIA of large-scale terror attacks
September 16, 2001

"ISRAELI intelligence officials say that they warned their counterparts in the United States last month that large-scale terrorist attacks on highly visible targets on the American mainland were imminent."
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$52PMOXQAAD
W5PQFIQMGSFFOAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2001/09/16/wcia16.xml&sShe
et=/news/2001/09/16/ixhome

Willie Brown got low-key early warning about air travel
September 12, 2001

For Mayor Willie Brown, the first signs that something was amiss came late Monday when he got a call from what he described as his airport security - - a full eight hours before yesterday's string of terrorist attacks -- advising him that Americans should be cautious about their air travel.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=
/chronicle/archive/2001/09/12/MN229389.DTL

Commission warned Bush
September 12, 2001

"But on Wednesday, two former senators, the bipartisan co-chairs of a Defense Department-chartered commission on national security, spoke with something between frustration and regret about how White House officials failed to embrace any of the recommendations to prevent acts of domestic terrorism delivered earlier this year."
http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/09/12/bush/index.html

Jeb Bush signs Executive Order allowing him to declare martial law in Florida...
September 7, 2001

"Based on the potential massive damage to life and property that may result from an act of terrorism at a Florida port, the necessity to protect life and property from such acts of terrorism..."
http://sun6.dms.state.fl.us/eog_new/eog/orders/
2001/september/eo2001-261-09-07-01.html

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[opihimoimoi]

16. A STUNNING LIST: Thanks for the time/effort.

The Democratic Party should make million of Bumper stickers SHOUTING:

THEY KNEW

Are the BushCo guys so Arrogant this could be hidden? Or, They just don't care...as if they gonna take over our Gov't and supress us?

Sending beer and ribs....thanks again...

Opi