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In an effort to bolster his "weakened and fractured" Republican Party's pitiful poll numbers before the 2006 elections, President Bush resorted to presenting vague and weak new details about an alleged thwarted Al Qaeda attack on West Coast city (Los Angeles), thwarted by a Southeast Asian nation who arrested a key al-Qaeda operative. This, was Bush's proof that his anti-terror efforts have hurt al-Qaeda.
And a pathetic case he did indeed present by failing or refusing to name the Southeast Asian nation nor the key al-Qaeda operative who was supposidly arrested .
That President Bush did not name the country nor the key al-Qaeda operative arrested is, in my humble opinion, highly suspicious in itself.
The Bush administration's penchant for naming names of arrested, captured and killed key al-Qaeda operatives is well known, they drool everytime, why not now?
Why not name the "key al-Qaeda operative who was supposidly arrested"?
Could it be President Bush himself is "living under constant pressure" to show that his anti-terror efforts have indeed hurt al-Qaeda lately?
Could it be President Bush is just blathering again in an effort to distract from his scandal-ridden administration?
Could it?
Well?
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/09/bush.terror.ap/index.html
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush said the U.S.-led global war on terror has "weakened and fractured" al Qaeda and allied groups, outlining as proof new details about the multinational cooperation that foiled purported terrorist plans to fly a commercial airplane into the tallest skyscraper on the West Coast.
"The terrorists are living under constant pressure and this adds to our security," Bush said. "When terrorists spend their days working to avoid death or capture, it's harder for them to plan and execute new attacks on our country. By striking the terrorists where they live, we're protecting the American homeland."
But the president said the anti-terror battle is far from over.
"The terrorists are weakened and fractured, yet they're still lethal," the president said in a speech at the National Guard Memorial Building. "We cannot let the fact that America hasn't been attacked in 4 1/2 years since September 11 lull us into the illusion that the threats to our nation have disappeared. They have not."
Bush has referred to the 2002 plot before. In an address last October, he said the United States and its allies had foiled at least 10 serious plots by the al Qaeda terror network in the last four years, including plans for September 11-like attacks on both U.S. coasts. The White House initially would not give details of the plots but later released a fact sheet with a brief, and vague, description of each.
The president filled in details on Thursday.
He said that Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the September 11 attacks who was captured in 2003, had already begun planning the West Coast operation in October, just after the September 11, 2001, attacks. One of Mohammed's key planners was Hambali, the alleged operations chief of the al Qaeda related terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah. Instead of recruiting Arab hijackers, Hambali found Southeast Asian men who would be less likely to arouse suspicion and who were sent to meet with Osama bin Laden, Bush said.
Under the plot, the hijackers were to use shoe bombs to blow open the cockpit door of a commercial jetliner, take control of the plane and crash it into the Library Tower in Los Angeles, since renamed the US Bank Tower, Bush said.
The president said the plot was derailed when a Southeast Asian nation arrested a key al Qaeda operative. Bush did not name the country or the operative...
And a pathetic case he did indeed present by failing or refusing to name the Southeast Asian nation nor the key al-Qaeda operative who was supposidly arrested .
That President Bush did not name the country nor the key al-Qaeda operative arrested is, in my humble opinion, highly suspicious in itself.
The Bush administration's penchant for naming names of arrested, captured and killed key al-Qaeda operatives is well known, they drool everytime, why not now?
Why not name the "key al-Qaeda operative who was supposidly arrested"?
Could it be President Bush himself is "living under constant pressure" to show that his anti-terror efforts have indeed hurt al-Qaeda lately?
Could it be President Bush is just blathering again in an effort to distract from his scandal-ridden administration?
Could it?
Well?
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/09/bush.terror.ap/index.html
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush said the U.S.-led global war on terror has "weakened and fractured" al Qaeda and allied groups, outlining as proof new details about the multinational cooperation that foiled purported terrorist plans to fly a commercial airplane into the tallest skyscraper on the West Coast.
"The terrorists are living under constant pressure and this adds to our security," Bush said. "When terrorists spend their days working to avoid death or capture, it's harder for them to plan and execute new attacks on our country. By striking the terrorists where they live, we're protecting the American homeland."
But the president said the anti-terror battle is far from over.
"The terrorists are weakened and fractured, yet they're still lethal," the president said in a speech at the National Guard Memorial Building. "We cannot let the fact that America hasn't been attacked in 4 1/2 years since September 11 lull us into the illusion that the threats to our nation have disappeared. They have not."
Bush has referred to the 2002 plot before. In an address last October, he said the United States and its allies had foiled at least 10 serious plots by the al Qaeda terror network in the last four years, including plans for September 11-like attacks on both U.S. coasts. The White House initially would not give details of the plots but later released a fact sheet with a brief, and vague, description of each.
The president filled in details on Thursday.
He said that Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the September 11 attacks who was captured in 2003, had already begun planning the West Coast operation in October, just after the September 11, 2001, attacks. One of Mohammed's key planners was Hambali, the alleged operations chief of the al Qaeda related terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah. Instead of recruiting Arab hijackers, Hambali found Southeast Asian men who would be less likely to arouse suspicion and who were sent to meet with Osama bin Laden, Bush said.
Under the plot, the hijackers were to use shoe bombs to blow open the cockpit door of a commercial jetliner, take control of the plane and crash it into the Library Tower in Los Angeles, since renamed the US Bank Tower, Bush said.
The president said the plot was derailed when a Southeast Asian nation arrested a key al Qaeda operative. Bush did not name the country or the operative...
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