[GPSCC-chat] "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US"

[Brian Good]

August 6, 2001, a CIA memo was presented to President Bush entitled 
"Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US". (1)  According to Ron Suskind, Bush's 
response to the briefing was to tell his CIA representative "All right. You've 
covered your ass, now." (2)

National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice had already received dire warnings 
about upcoming al Qaeda attacks in CIA briefings on May 30 and July 10.  
The CIA's Cofer Black said  "The only thing we didn't do was pull the trigger to 
the gun we were holding to her head."  Though warnings came from 4 FBI offices 
and 13 foreign countries (Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Italy, Germany, Afghanistan, 
Cayman Islands,  Argentina, Russia, the UK, Morocco, the UAE, and India), Dr. 
Rice told the 9/11 Commission she could not remember if before 9/11 she 
discussed with the president the presence of al Qaeda cells inside the United 
States. (3)

Many of the warnings were quite specific.  One from a former Iranian intelligence
figure resulted in an FBI memo entitled "Kamikaze Pilots".  (4)  Vladimir Putin
warned of suicide pilots training for attacks in the USA. (5)  FBI agents warned
of upcoming attacks in lower Manhattan. (6)  Israel warned of terrorists inside 
the USA planning something big, and they named names including at least four 
alleged 9/11 plotters. (7) (8) Two of these were already known to the CIA as al 
Qaeda agents inside the USA and. according to Bob Woodward, they bought 
ten airline tickets for September 11, 2001 under their real names, and this fact 
could have been turned up by a simple credit-card check. (9)  

When Condi testified under oath to the 9/11 Commission, she claimed emphatically
that the "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US" memo was not a warning. (3)  The
Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission, Dr. Philip Zelikow, was an old friend of 
Condi's--they'd authored a book together, and he'd served on the transition team 
with her at the beginning of the Bush term.  Zelikow was overheard telephoning the 
CIA authors of the memo to ask them to validate Condi's assessment.  They refused, 
telling the 9/11 Commission that they intended the memo to indicate that the threat 
of an attack was "current and serious".  (10)  

The German journalist,  
              Oliver Schröm, tells us that the 1-1/2 page memo we have
seen was only part of the memo--the whole thing was 11-1/2 pages.  (8)   Peculiar
redactions at the bottom of both pages seem to be consistent with a 12-page memo.  
They're placed centrally, like page number notations.  They're too long to fit "Page
1 of 2" but they fit "Page 12 of 12" very nicely.  The redactions are discussed at the 
end of this 5-minute video "Condi Lied Under Oath to the 9/11 Widows".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcrgeuLb3dQ&list=UUCU5Ac7Vd7cqPk074nnKSTw&index=10&feature=plcp


(1)  http://articles.cnn.com/2004-04-10/politics/august6.memo_1_bin-conduct-terrorist-attacks-abu-zubaydah?_s=PM:ALLPOLITICS
(2)  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/19/AR2006061901211.html
(3) http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/911/archive/hearing9/9-11Commission_Hearing_2004-04-08.htm
(4) http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2011/02/01/the-fbi-%E2%80%9Ckamikaze-pilots%E2%80%9D-case/
(5) http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,53065,00.html
(6) http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/October-2002/True-Believer/
(7) http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/cia-pannen-mossad-agenten-waren-atta-auf-der-spur-a-216421.html
(8) http://www.antiwar.com/article.php?articleid=2305
(9) Woodward, State of Denial p. 79-80
(10) Shenon, The Commission p. 374-85
 		 	   		  
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