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Offline Hortlund

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It is Aug 6th 2001, YOU are the president, here is your intel brief, what do YOU do?
« on: April 13, 2004, 09:11:26 AM »
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Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US

Clandestine, foreign government, and media reports indicate Bin Ladin since 1997 has wanted to conduct terrorist attacks in the US. Bin Ladin implied in US television interviews in 1997 and 1998 that his followers would follow the example of World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef and “bring the fighting to America.”

After US missile strikes on his base in Afghanistan in 1998, Bin Ladin told followers he wanted to retaliate in Washington, according to a ...(redacted portion) ... service.

An Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ) operative told an ... (redacted portion) ... service at the same time that Bin Ladin was planning to exploit the operative’s access to the US to mount a terrorist strike.

The millennium plotting in Canada in 1999 may have been part of Bin Ladin’s first serious attempt to implement a terrorist strike in the US. Convicted plotter Ahmed Ressam has told the FBI that he conceived the idea to attack Los Angeles International Airport himself, but that Bin Ladin lieutenant Abu Zubaydah encouraged him and helped facilitate the operation. Ressam also said that in 1998 Abu Zubaydah was planning his own US attack.

Ressam says Bin Ladin was aware of the Los Angeles operation.

Although Bin Ladin has not succeeded, his attacks against the US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 demonstrate that he prepares operations years in advance and is not deterred by setbacks. Bin Ladin associates surveilled our Embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam as early as 1993, and some members of the Nairobi cell planning the bombings were arrested and deported in 1997.

Al-Qa’ida members -- including some who are US citizens --have resided in or traveled to the US for years, and the group apparently maintains a support structure that could aid attacks. Two al-Qa’ida members found guilty in the conspiracy to bomb our Embassies in East Africa were US citizens, and a senior EIJ member lived in California in the mid-1990s.

A clandestine source said in 1998 that a Bin Ladin cell in New York was recruiting Muslim-American youth for attacks.

We have not been able to corroborate some of the more sensational threat reporting, such as that from a ... (redacted portion) ... service in 1998 saying that Bin Ladin wanted to hijack a US aircraft to gain the release of “Blind Shaykh” ’Umar ’Abd al-Rahman and other US-held extremists.

Nevertheless, FBI information since that time indicates patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York.

The FBI is conducting approximately 70 full field 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 of Bin Ladin supporters was in the US planning attacks with explosives.
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Offline Sandman

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It is Aug 6th 2001, YOU are the president, here is your intel brief, what do YOU do?
« Reply #1 on: April 13, 2004, 09:43:10 AM »
I ignore it all and plan an invasion of Iraq?
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It is Aug 6th 2001, YOU are the president, here is your intel brief, what do YOU do?
« Reply #2 on: April 13, 2004, 09:46:29 AM »
Go on a vacation?
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It is Aug 6th 2001, YOU are the president, here is your intel brief, what do YOU do?
« Reply #3 on: April 13, 2004, 09:48:21 AM »
Buy a pony?
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It is Aug 6th 2001, YOU are the president, here is your intel brief, what do YOU do?
« Reply #4 on: April 13, 2004, 09:52:13 AM »
Resign and leave that mess to Al Gore !
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Offline AKIron

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It is Aug 6th 2001, YOU are the president, here is your intel brief, what do YOU do?
« Reply #5 on: April 13, 2004, 09:53:28 AM »
Get me a turban.
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It is Aug 6th 2001, YOU are the president, here is your intel brief, what do YOU do?
« Reply #6 on: April 13, 2004, 09:58:03 AM »
Nuke everything within 1500 nm of Mecca.
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Offline GtoRA2

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It is Aug 6th 2001, YOU are the president, here is your intel brief, what do YOU do?
« Reply #7 on: April 13, 2004, 10:31:22 AM »
Round up all the suspected al queda drones in the US and deported them.

Well try at least, but the ACLU would be a thorn.
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It is Aug 6th 2001, YOU are the president, here is your intel brief, what do YOU do?
« Reply #8 on: April 13, 2004, 10:39:07 AM »
Launch an unprovoked war of choice against Iraq even though it posed no threat to the US or anyone else in the world.



...-Gixer
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Offline MJHerman

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It is Aug 6th 2001, YOU are the president, here is your intel brief, what do YOU do?
« Reply #9 on: April 13, 2004, 10:50:33 AM »
Insert a clause in the brief which says:

"All references herein to "Osama", "Bin Laden", "Al Qaeda" or other similar terms or words shall in fact be references to "Iraq" and/or "Saddam Hussein", and the reference in the last paragraph to "explosives" shall in fact be a reference to "Iraqi weapons of mass destruction""
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« Reply #10 on: April 13, 2004, 10:53:56 AM »
ask the UN for help - LOL
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« Reply #11 on: April 13, 2004, 11:07:15 AM »
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Nevertheless, FBI information since that time indicates patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York.

The FBI is conducting approximately 70 full field 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 of Bin Ladin supporters was in the US planning attacks with explosives


Immediatley detain, as many as we can, know matter how far along their investigation, anybody related to the "70 full field Investigations" Question them extensively, until they tell us what they know, If they don't answer their questions, ship them back to where ever they came from.

I imagine at least some of these 70 investigations, involved some of the 9/11 hijackers.

Of course this is all Hindsight, but the question that Hortland posed can only be based upon hindsight.
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« Reply #12 on: April 13, 2004, 11:12:37 AM »
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ask the UN for help - LOL



Ironic, considering how now the US is wanting the UN to help with the mess created in Iraq and as many other countries as possible.



...-Gixer
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« Reply #13 on: April 13, 2004, 11:17:39 AM »
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Ironic, considering how now the US is wanting the UN to help with the mess created in Iraq and as many other countries as possible.



...-Gixer


It's only ironic if you believe the US is in Iraq for purely selfish reasons. Some of us believe it was necessary and beneficial to not only the US but Iraq and many others. I also recall that great effort was expended to unite the UN (admittedly unsuccessfully) in ousting the madman Hussein.
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« Reply #14 on: April 13, 2004, 11:24:56 AM »
What would I do?


Try to figure out which one would actually happen out of the 1500 other threats handed to me.
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