10 Foiled Attacks Says White House

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http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/02/09/whitehouse.plots/index.html

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White House lists 10 foiled attacks

Thursday, February 9, 2006; Posted: 12:52 p.m. EST (17:52 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush said Thursday that the U.S.-led global war on terror had "weakened" al Qaeda and cited as proof international efforts that he said had thwarted a terrorist plot to attack Los Angeles.

Members of an al Qaeda affiliate in Asia had planned to crash a commercial airplane into the U.S. Bank Tower in Los Angeles in 2002, Bush said.

In a speech at the National Guard Memorial Building, Bush gave more details on the purported plot.

It was one of a list of 10 terrorist plots that U.S. authorities first released in October 2005.

The list and details from the White House:

1. West Coast airliner plot:

In 2002 the United States disrupted a plot to use shoe bombs to hijack a commercial airliner to attack the tallest building in Los Angeles. The plot was "set in motion" by Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the September 11 attacks.

"Rather than use Arab hijackers, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed sought out young men from Southeast Asia whom he believed would not arouse as much suspicion," Bush said.

2. East Coast airliner plot:

In mid-2003 the United States and a partner disrupted a plot to use hijacked commercial airplanes to attack targets on the East Coast of the United States.

3. The Jose Padilla plot:

In May 2002 the United States disrupted a plot that involved blowing up apartment buildings in the United States. One of the alleged plotters, Jose Padilla, allegedly discussed the possibility of using a "dirty bomb" inside the United States. Bush has designated him an "enemy combatant."

4. 2004 British urban targets plot:

In mid-2004 the United States and partners disrupted a plot to bomb urban targets in Britain.

5. 2003 Karachi plot:

In spring 2003 the United States and a partner disrupted a plot to attack westerners at several targets in Karachi, Pakistan.

6. Heathrow Airport plot:

In 2003 the United States and several partners disrupted a plot to attack London's Heathrow Airport using hijacked commercial airliners. The planning for this alleged attack was undertaken by a major operational figure in the September 11, 2001, attacks.

7. 2004 Britain plot:

In the spring of 2004 the United States and partners, using a combination of law enforcement and intelligence resources, disrupted a plot to conduct large-scale bombings in Britain.

8. 2002 Arabian Gulf shipping plot:

In late 2002 and 2003 the United States and a partner nation disrupted a plot by al Qaeda operatives to attack ships in the Arabian Gulf.

9. 2002 Strait of Hormuz plot:

In 2002 the United States and partners disrupted a plot to attack ships in the Strait of Hormuz, the entrance to the Persian Gulf from the Indian Ocean.

10. 2003 tourist site plot:

In 2003 the United States and a partner nation disrupted a plot to attack a tourist site outside the United States. The White House did not list what site that was.

[Nitro Express]

Well hopefully the outrage over the Islamic attacks and temper tantrum due to some cartoons will drive it home countries need to work together to combat these thugs. It's not just the United States they are after.

There is no bigger menace to world security right now than Islam.

[FORD]

Anyone can rattle off a list of "unspecified targets" and then refuse to prove their case under the excuse of "national security".

Which is this Fraudministration's excuse for everything.

Wanna prove your case, Junior? Give me some specifics on even ONE of these alleged incidents to PROVE that you were indeed able to prevent it.

Otherwise, given the BCE'S proven track record of lies and misinformation, I'll assume they made all this bullshit up.

[FORD]

Originally posted by Nitro Express

There is no bigger menace to world security right now than neoconservatism.

[Angel]

Originally posted by Nitro Express
There is no bigger menace to world security right now than Islam.

BULLSHIT. The biggest threat to the world right now is GWB.

[Nickdfresh]

Seems like most of these "plots" were "disrupted" by foreign governments...

BTW, was any information picked up by the conducting of surveillance on US citizens used to reveal these plots? let me guess...

[Nickdfresh]

NO!!

[DR CHIP]

I said something to chew on, not spew on!

[Warham]

Originally posted by Nickdfresh
Seems like most of these "plots" were "disrupted" by foreign governments...

BTW, was any information picked up by the conducting of surveillance on US citizens used to reveal these plots? let me guess...

No, it was surveillance on Al-Qaeda operatives IN the US.

By the way, they've guessed that about 5,000 calls have actually been monitored by the NSA.

Wow! 5,000! My god, that's got to be what. 1% of 1% of 1% of 1% of the total calls made in this country every day?

[bobgnote]

Originally posted by Nitro Express
Well hopefully the outrage over the Islamic attacks and temper tantrum due to some cartoons will drive it home countries need to work together to combat these thugs. It's not just the United States they are after.

There is no bigger menace to world security right now than Islam.

Hole, Israel USED to be in the are of the West Bank until 126 AD. The Euro-Zionists went in there in 1882, looking to start a fight and wait for the British to conquer, which they eventually did, and do Balfour.

Since its inception, Islam has been merely a reactionary culture, to invasive Europeans and their idiotic melange of Judeo-Christian creeds, to invasive Asian cultures and their insanity, all now augmented by their various corporate insanity. Since 1099, and the first of three sackings of Jerusalem by Europeans, Islam has been conditioned to expect outrage and deceit, from Jews and Christians.

Israel does NOT BELONG in the world! Hey, hear it from Zimmy, IT'S ALL OVER NOW, BABY BLUE.

US media has us all spun out variously, unable to focus at once, as one, so we can support a viable democracy. What we have is corporate charades and puppetry. The print and braodcast trash promote the bogus liberal-conservative dichotomy and the sicker Democrat-Republican non-alternatives.

Liberals are really just like Mr. Hat with Mr. Garrison holding onto his bits, wiggling, making him talk to 3rd graders. FDR took Cousin Ted's social welfare off to a degree, but he could not let go of the insane escalation of Catholic patrols at all levels, including in federal drug enforcement, so bureaucracy costs, both direct and hidden, undermined all reforms. The US economy did not recover until WWII, and look who imitates FDR with disgusting ease, GW! Monkey see, monkey doodoo.

The liberal parades are in denial that their own versions of an*l compulsion ARE JUST AS DANGEROUS AS REPUBLICAN ANIMUS. You liberals have neither ethics nor actual morality, and as lumpen, you allow and enable Republican geeks to devastate our media, by disruptions and assertion of unlawful agendas, particularly Catholic harassment. The resulting 'I'm With Stupid' orgy has caused some folks to think maybe the officials affected the Stupor Bowl, more than the Rolling Stones did:

Look. In the 1970s, when the Steelers got Bradshaw and deposed the Raiders as top AFC team, the theme was, there is a lot of STEALING going on.

WHAT did I tell you. With the illegal power deals in and s*cking funds till our demise and past this, YOU all seem to think you get to keep BOTH the inflationary power deals AND insane military spending including aid to Israel.

BOTH? You get NEITHER! You are like the goofballs in the South Tower, parked in there despite knowing the North Tower got plowed. Actually, US and Israel are like the two towers, already burning, with nobody leaving OR fighting the fires. So last night, when at least two known ripoff bands got Grammys (Green Day and U2), the ripoff trend is back up to where the Rolling Stones were when Mick put up tunes for the Bigger Bang Tour and album, that is, AIMING HIS MEDIA LYRIC DIRECTION AT RON AND KEITH, as in not just Ron Woods, but also RON REAGAN, who had a show, Connected, Coast to Coast, which was just cancelled.

The Rolling Stones are one of the WORST but most popular ripoff rock scams. Like U2, they sound sick when live, since they do not REALLY compose, without big copshop input, all illegal, all going on with the blessing of Congress and Presidents, and YOU can lose a baseball season, the way you guys are tweaking zebras, where they didn't do badly.

But then, so is DAVID LEE ROTH a corporate child star, of the same process, which gives us lameass Stones and U2, on big TV concerts.

All of these corporate geeks hide the illegal costs from the illegal, inflationary 2000+ power deals in the US, so whereinhell do you get that Islam, the PEACE, is the biggest menace in the world, from your remedial Catechism for stupid, dumbass retards looking to get nuked?

The Catholics are all into the copshops and media, they did deregulation AND the inflationary power deals, they are hiding the inflation AND the deals behind illegal laws (California's last three governors were Catholic, and Schwarz gives more money to the Vatican than all of Italy), and NOW, the fatcats AND their geeks LIKE YOU, are all hiding that the 9/11 attacks are bottom lining the simple FACTS, that YOU think you get to have BOTH the illegal inflation AND the military aid to the provocative, Orthodox jewish State of Israel, but you idiots who can't piece this out get to have NEITHER, after awhile.

A SHORT while. Israel and the US are like the tow towers, already burning, but the idiots inside neither evacuate nor fight fires. Die, in time, stupid idiot, then you'll be at peace, at rest, and our water might not be too good, and our pipes and tunnels will get whacked.

Also, we might get star-shelled by radiated cilica bombs, about the time of 'the bombs bursting in air . . .' gave proof you are an airhead, who disses Islam, which has time for you and this nation of thieves, only because you are so stupid AND you are a shove. Dumbass.

[Cathedral]

Originally posted by FORD
Anyone can rattle off a list of "unspecified targets" and then refuse to prove their case under the excuse of "national security".

Which is this Fraudministration's excuse for everything.

Wanna prove your case, Junior? Give me some specifics on even ONE of these alleged incidents to PROVE that you were indeed able to prevent it.

Otherwise, given the BCE'S proven track record of lies and misinformation, I'll assume they made all this bullshit up.

It seems to me they're trying their damndest to get that Patriot Act renewed, that's what it sounds like to me.

If an attack was thwarted this past week, or even in the past few months i'd be impressed, but why talk about shit that is years old if there isn't another damned agenda?
and the Patriot Act is quickly running out of time.

I'm suspicious about all this current terror talk, the timing is just too convenient for my comfort.

[Warham]

I just wonder how many of you believed on 9/11 that we'd be sitting here five years later and nary an attack in that time.

I'm sure some of you thought it'd become a yearly event.

[FORD]

Originally posted by Warham
I just wonder how many of you believed on 9/11 that we'd be sitting here five years later and nary an attack in that time.

I'm sure some of you thought it'd become a yearly event.

Nobody was thinking very clearly that day, which is entirely understandable. Anyone who still believes the lies they were fed that day needs to seriously question their basis for logic and reality.

[blueturk]

Originally posted by Warham
I just wonder how many of you believed on 9/11 that we'd be sitting here five years later and nary an attack in that time.

I'm sure some of you thought it'd become a yearly event.

It IS a yearly event of sorts. Every fucking September Dubya pulls out his fear factor to justify the war. But you can't blame him. It's all he's got. Without 9/11, Bush wouldn't be in office right now.