Jun 29, 2001 article excerpt <---- Check this out DUers

I don't know if this is available freely on the Internet. I found it in a library database.

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"Bin Laden's Trackers Point to Threat of Major Attacks: From New York to
Israel to the Gulf, Terror Chief Demands the World Pay Attention"
Forward
New York, N.Y.
Jun 29, 2001

...Connecting the dots, experts said that Mr. Bin Laden was on the warpath. The warnings issued around the world before the weekend "related to a specific piece of American intelligence that indicates that Osama Bin Laden is planning to launch an attack imminently," Vincent Cannistraro, a former head of counterterrorism at the Central Intelligence Agency, told the Forward.

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Mr. Bin Laden, however, remains at large. A paramilitary contingency operation to go clandestinely into Afghanistan and arrest him, pursuant to a 1998 federal indictment issued in New York, was "considered too risky" and called off by the Bush administration "about six weeks ago," Mr. Cannistraro said. The operation, originally conceived during the Clinton administration, would have caused too many casualties and relied on inadequate support from bases in neighboring countries, he said.

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Is this something that is widely known??

This needs to be widely disseminated.... I'll try to hunt down the article. Thanks for the info, skoooo.

PM me....

I knew I had read this somewhere. I was telling my husband just yesterday that we had a huge discussion about it in Summer2001 'cause I had been reading this stuff and was so unhappy w/Bush & Co. That's when I really began to get active in searching out alternative news sources!!

:kick:

An Al Qaeda attack against an Israeli target was thwarted over a year ago, said Steven Emerson, a terrorism expert and producer of the documentary "Jihad in America."

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Mr. Bin Laden "wants to establish his credentials with the Bush administration," Mr. Emerson said.

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bases in neighboring countries? Sounds like Saudi Arabia didn't want baby bush to stop their terrorist offspring.:puke:

to their line of shit long and hard, you learn to find the translation for the Bushspeak!!!:puke:

telling a Repuglican the same thing...Please post a link if you find one...

in Iraq.

Interesting that this was the time when we were paying the Taliban $43MM. I wonder if they were trying to buy OBL rather than kill him?

Bin Laden's Trackers Point to Threat of Major Attacks: From New York to
Israel to the Gulf, Terror Chief Demands the World Pay Attention
Forward
New York, N.Y.
Jun 29, 2001
Authors: Donadio, Rachel
p. 6
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I checked the site for the journal Forward. They do have some of their articles online, but this isn't one of them. That means, you either need to go to a good (university or big public) library and see if they don't have the article online, or see if they have the old paper issues.