New NSA docs contradict Bush Administration 9-11 claims

[Octafish]

78. So, 'bin Laden determined to strike in the United States' wasn't the only time Bush heard.

Here's what DUers knew:

The unelected moron George W Bush was advised by the CIA that Osama bin Laden was "determined to strike in the United States."

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/file/white-house-releases-pre-911-intel-memo?page=0


Bush had been warned by the Russians that Osama would try to assassinate Bush at Genoa "using hijacked airliners."

Plot to Assassinate Bush – Reports

http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/06/20/russia.binladen/index.html


Seems the Italians, too, thought enough of Bush to warn him…

Italy Tells of Threat at Genoa Summit

Plot: Officials there took seriously a report that terrorists would try to crash a plane to kill Bush and other leaders.

From a Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON — U.S. and Italian officials were warned in July that Islamic terrorists might attempt to kill President Bush and other leaders by crashing an airliner into the Genoa summit of industrialized nations, officials said Wednesday.

Italian officials took the reports seriously enough to prompt extraordinary precautions during the July summit of the Group of 8 nations, including closing the airspace over Genoa and stationing antiaircraft guns at the city's airport.

But a U.S. official said that American counter-terrorism experts considered the warning "unsubstantiated."

In either case, the reports suggest that Western governments were aware that terrorists might one day use a hijacked airplane as a suicide weapon--as they did Sept. 11 in attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

The Genoa warning was disclosed last week by Italian Deputy Prime Minister Gianfranco Fini. In remarks on a television talk show reported by the Italian news agency ANSA, Fini said: "Many people were ironic about the Italian secret services. But in fact they got the information that there was the possibility of an attack against the U.S. president using an airliner. That's why we closed the airspace and installed the missiles. Those who made cracks should now think a little."

To reduce the terror threat from hijacked aircraft, the Italians and NATO installed anti-aircraft missiles around the conference site.

CONTINUED (REGISTRATION NEEDED, WELL-WORTH IT)…

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-092701genoa.story

I still remember reading about the incident: Bush the Coward from Crawford chose to sleep in the Captain's quarters aboard a missile destroyer, safely offshore. Only after 9-11 did it make a LOT of sense.


Missiles to protect summit leaders

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/jul/11/globalisation.rorycarroll


The story was reported in-depth by Jim Hatfield, the "discredited" Bush biographer who “committed suicide” just before 9-11.

Why Would Osama bin Laden Want to Kill Dubya, His Former Business Partner?

http://web.archive.org/web/20060906150015/http://www.onlinejournal.org/Special_Reports/Hatfield-R-091901/hatfield-r-091901.html


So what did Bush do to protect the American people on 9-11? Nothing, unless he protected us when he flew AWAY from Washington DC aboard Air Force One.