Bin Laden Plotted to Attack U.S. on 9/11 Anniversary .

[RamboLiberal]

Source: WSJ

Osama bin Laden was working to assemble a team of militants to attack the U.S. on the 10th anniversary of 9/11, according to communications Navy SEALs seized from his Pakistani hideout when they killed the al Qaeda leader this spring.

Bin Laden and his operations chief, Attiyah Abd al-Rahman, swapped views about the composition of the attack team, with bin Laden repeatedly rejecting names that Mr. Rahman suggested, according to U.S. officials familiar with the intelligence taken from the bin Laden compound.

The plans were only in the discussion phase, U.S. officials said. They haven't seen any signs the nascent plot ever went beyond the early planning, the officials said.

Still, earlier this month in his first meeting with senior staff at the Central Intelligence Agency, acting Director Michael Morell told his staff that one of their top priorities would be to make sure that neither that plan nor any others were carried out.



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[Taverner]

1. Yes, but by that time Al Queda consisted of three men and a squirrelmonkey

[Kaleko]

4. Hey, your hypnosis level has gone way down.

Time to take some of those blue pills offered in the Matrix.

[htuttle]

6. Squirrel monkeys are vicious!

"He'll bite your head clean off!"

[warrior1]

2. Good thing

The President killed him. President Obama, that is.

[gratuitous]

3. Oh sure, I believe this

No reason to doubt the total, 100% veracity of this.

[n2doc]

5. So that is what Cantor and his gang are waiting for n/t

[plumbob]

7. Oh, FFS, is he dead or not? Can we stop talking about CIA employees

who turned on us, please, after they're dead, and talk about the damage living CIA folks are giving us?

[DeSwiss]

8. K&R

- We've always been at war with Eastasia.....









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[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

10. That video is infantilic libertarian bullcrap. -nt

[Bragi]

9. They verified it was his doodle on the napkin /nt

[buckrogers1965]

11. So he was poised on the verge of attack for the past decade?

Yeah, right, I believe that. *presses the "I believe" button repeatedly, but it must be broken.

[Bragi]

12. Give it smack, that'll fix it! /nt