When they come here to kill Americans.
just a few hints: when the Philippine government finds plans to hijack airlines and fly them into high-profile targets like the WTC, Pentagon, and Whitehouse, and gives you the information, you do something about it before it happens. Don't wait until you can use it as a provocation to start a war in a country not particularly relevant to the terrorists, but very relevant to our oil cartel.
Agreed. Still don't know why Clinton avoided the issue and left it to Bush to figure out in the first 9 months of his presidency.
“In 1994, two jetliners were hijacked by people who wanted to crash them into buildings, one of them by an Islamic militant group. And the 2000 edition of the FAA’s annual report on Criminal Acts Against Aviation, published this year, said that although Osama bin Laden ‘is not known to have attacked civil aviation, he has both the motivation and the wherewithal to do so,’ adding, ‘Bin Laden’s anti-Western and anti-American attitudes make him and his followers a significant threat to civil aviation, particularly to U.S. civil aviation.’”[4]
"The War on Freedom: How and Why America was Attacked, September 11, 2001", Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, Director of the Institute for Policy Research & Development in Brighton, UK.
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Forgot this one:
https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4540958/ns/nightly_news/
"The tape proves the Clinton administration was aggressively tracking al-Qaida a year before 9/11. But that also raises one enormous question: If the U.S. government had bin Laden and the camps in its sights in real time, why was no action taken against them?
“We were not prepared to take the military action necessary,” said retired Gen. Wayne Downing, who ran counter-terror efforts for the current Bush administration and is now an NBC analyst.
“We should have had strike forces prepared to go in and react to this intelligence, certainly cruise missiles — either air- or sea-launched — very, very accurate, could have gone in and hit those targets,” Downing added.
Gary Schroen, a former CIA station chief in Pakistan, says the White House required the CIA to attempt to capture bin Laden alive, rather than kill him.
What impact did the wording of the orders have on the CIA’s ability to get bin Laden? “It reduced the odds from, say, a 50 percent chance down to, say, 25 percent chance that we were going to be able to get him,” said Schroen."
