Israel claims to have warned CIA in August of an impebding large terrorist attack

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If the airliner had approached much nearer to the White House it might have been shot down by the Secret Service, who are believed to have a battery of ground-to-air Stinger missiles ready to defend the president's home.

The Pentagon is not similarly defended. "We are an open society," said a military official. "We don't have soldiers positioned on the White House lawn and we don't have the Pentagon ringed with bunkers and tanks."

Israeli warning

-- Lars (lars@indy.net), September 16, 2001

Answers

During the Clinton administration, Congress banned the CIA from recruiting as a paid informer anyone with a criminal record or who was guilty of human rights violations. James Woolsey, another former CIA director, said: "Inside bin Laden's organisation there are only people who want to be human rights violators. If you don't recruit them then you don't recruit anyone."

-- (duh@duh.duh), September 16, 2001.

Well of course, that's the way it has to work. If the government had instituted effective security before a terror attack, then everyone from the ACLU to business travelers to vacationers would have bitched and bitched. If the attack had been deterred, then no would have believed such a thing was possible. Now we do. Now we will be vigilant. For a while.

If I were Bin Labin and ilk, I would lay low til the heat dies down and then strike again.

-- Lars (lars@indy.net), September 16, 2001.


they will lars,,they will. satan knows his end is near--he is very, very angry. and JESUS said''satan was a murderer from the beginning''

-- al-d. (dogs@zianet.com), September 17, 2001.

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