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ABC News – Bush: Al Qaeda Wanted to Hit West Coast: President Bush outlined details of a thwarted terror plot to attack the tallest building on the West Coast, saying the plot shows the United States faces a threat from a determined enemy and that global cooperation is needed to stop it.
BBC – Deal struck on US anti-terror law: US Congress members have reached agreement with the Bush administration to extend the life of a controversial anti-terrorist law.
More here… DailyKos – Bush’s Propaganda Alert: Code Red
UPDATE – Independent – LA shoe-bomb plot: Terrorists planned a West Coast 9/11 in 2002: Once again, President George Bush finds himself in deep political trouble. And, once again, he has chosen to invoke the spectre of a terrorist attack on US soil, only to draw immediate suspicion about his motives at the start of what promises to be a long, bruising mid-term election campaign… “Let’s call this what it was,” said Mr Weiss, the Los Angeles city council member. “President Bush is digging out of an extraordinarily large political hole … He’s trying to build support for the NSA [National Security Agency] wiretapping programme and so, to build that support, he dusts off details that are at best three years old, at worst closer to four years old … But this plot was evanescent … and it’s not clear precisely how American assets interrupted the plot. It’s just part of his constant speechifying, to impress upon people what he’s doing in the war on terror.”
By richard February 10, 2006 - 9:38 am
I was in Thailand in 2003 when Hambali – http://www.bangkokpost.com/breaking_news/breakingnews.php?id=78587 – was arrested by, depending on who you believe, the Thai security forces (as the Thai media claimed) or the CIA (as the American media claimed). No-one has seen him since. The Americans admit taking custody of him yet refuse to say where he is… But Thailand is rumoured to be one of the locations for the CIA’s network of “ghost prisons”, and we all know what goes on in such places – Hint: “Their detention outside the US enables CIA interrogators to apply interrogation methods banned by US law, and to do so in a country where co-operation with the Americans is particularly close, thereby reducing the danger of leaks,” – http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/10/14/wpris14.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/10/14/ixworld.htmlTo put it bluntly, Hambali, the alleged mastermind of the skyscaper plot, is likely to have been severely tortured before he yielded up the “intelligence” which Bush is now waving about in everybody’s faces.Let’s not forget that the sole source for the US claim of links between Iraq and Bin Laden was the tortured confession of another alleged Al Qaeda leader, Ibn Al-Libi – http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1663743,00.htmlWe have no more reason to believe the Americans about this alleged terror conspiracy than we do to believe any government that routinely tortures its political detainees…