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Bush team tried to suppress al-Qaida report
You have to get news and analysis from non-American media

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/ne...p?story=609966

Excerpt:
Federal officials were repeatedly warned in the months before the 9-11
attacks that Osama bin Laden and al-Qa'ida were planning aircraft
hijackings and suicide attacks, according to a new report that the
Bush administration has been suppressing. Critics say the new information
undermines the government's claim that intelligence about al-Qa'ida's
ambitions was "historical" in nature. The independent commission
investigating the attacks on New York and Washington concluded that while
officials at the FAA did receive warnings, they were "lulled into a false
sense of security". As a result, "intelligence that indicated a real and
growing threat leading up to 9/11 did not stimulate significant increases
in security procedures".

The report, withheld from the public for months, until after the US
elections says the FAA was primarily focused on the likelihood of an
incident overseas. However, in spring 2001, it warned US airports that if
'the intent of the hijacker is not to exchange hostages for prisoners but
to commit suicide in a spectacular explosion, a domestic hijacking would
probably be preferable.'"

Suicide bombers? Who would've thought, ya know? I mean....it's not like
we've seen this sort of thing for the past 30 years in the middl east.