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Bush warned of Al Qaeda plot in Aug/01
WASHINGTON (AP) — President George W. Bush's August 2001 briefing on terrorism threats, described largely as a historical document, included information from three months earlier that Al Qaeda was trying to send operatives into the United States from Canada for an attack, several people who have seen the memo said.
The so-called presidential daily briefing, or PDB, delivered to Bush on Aug. 6, 2001 — a month before the Sept. 11 attacks — said there were various reports accused terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden had wanted to strike inside the United States as early as 1997 and continuing into the spring of 2001, the sources said.
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The document also included FBI analytical judgments that some Al Qaeda activities were consistent with preparation for airline hijackings or other types of attacks, some members of the commission looking into the Sept. 11 attacks said earlier this week.
The second-to-last bullet told the president there were numerous —
at least 70 — terror-related investigations under way by the FBI in 2001 involving matters or people on U.S. soil, the sources said.
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the final bullet told the president of a recent intelligence report indicating Al Qaeda operatives were trying to enter the United States to carry out an attack with explosives, the sources said. There was no specifics about the timing or target, the sources said.
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