When I heard Bush was claiming that his regime had foiled a WTC type attack in LA back in ’02, it didn’t ring true. My BS detectors started going off like crazy. In an election year, the regime wouldn’t have been jumping up and down and bragging about this feat? Bringing it up now seems a little too convenient, and the story itself is fishy- supposedly the plotters planned to use shoe bombs to force open the cockpit door!
Atrios http://atrios.blogspot.com/2006_02_05_atrios_archive.html#113959341313123194 points out that an attack on the LA building Bush referred to had been considered as part of the WTC plot but that Osama had decided to scale back the operation to just 4 planes. This was documented by the 911 Commission. Maybe Bush thinks he should get credit for retroactively causing Osama bin Laden to curb his destructive ambitions back in 1999.
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