9/11 Update
From MSNBC:
More than a year before 9/11, a Pakistani-British man told the FBI an incredible tale: that he had been trained by bin Laden’s followers to hijack airplanes and was now in America to carry out an attack. The FBI questioned him for weeks, but then let him go home, and never followed up. Now, the former al-Qaida insider is talking.
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Khan told NBC News that for the next few weeks he was trained by al-Qaida to hijack passenger planes, and then sent to the United States. But when he told the FBI, headquarters was skeptical and, after several weeks, senior FBI officials ordered him released to the custody of British intelligence. Khan said, “I told them before the 9/11, about more than year, be… hijacking in America or on America airline.”
Matt's Chat
Why wasn't Dick Clarke shaking his trees with his hair on fire? What did Clinton know and when did he know it?HALLIBURTON! Lie after lie after lie after lie. I demand an investigation!
Okay, now that I got that infantile exercise out of the way... Isn't it interesting that the liberals get a pass on stuff like this? Where is the insider, tell-all book about this? Could it be that these folks don't won't to embarrass anybody (themselves at the very least, Clinton at the most)? Isn't that a bit odd?
If Dick Clarke knew everything and was Commander-in-Chief of Counterterrorism Forces, wouldn't he have been involved? Is he covering this up? Why wasn't this in his book? Why didn't he use The Forcetm and read this guy's mind like he did Condi Rice? Why didn't he discredit Khan as a Vast Right Wing Conspirator or a Zionist Neo-Con? Could it be that Dick Clarke didn't know everything and thus his credibility is shot. If he didn't know about this, it is quite likely he didn't know about a great many things.
Just asking...
11:30AM Update
Mahatma has more commentary.12:30PM Update
CyberCast News Service has an interesting article about Dick Clarke's perjury and the agenda of those who used him (Chuck the Schmuck and Barbara Boxer).1:30PM Update
Newsday, CBS (FOX News had the same AP story) and the Washington Times also have coverage of this story.The Reuters article is interesting:
There is no evidence Khan was part of the Sept. 11 plot, but he was urged to go public partly at the urging of lawyers for Sept. 11 victims' families, according to the reports.Emphasis added. I don't think these are the same families cheering in the stands at the 9/11 Commission...
Mark's Remarks
This is amazing....family members of the 9/11 victims HAVE FORGOTTEN the indignation and pain and are now out for money...It is disgraceful to the memories of those who fell that their relatives are now more worried about civil suits than in getting justice. It makes me ill, and I am sure it makes those relatives looking down from above ill as well. Utterly disgraceful. However, if you ARE AFTER blame, this only goes to show you that Dick Clarke was an utter buffoon and that Bill Clinton's intelligence apparatus (or lack of one after the numerous budget cuts) was way more inept than anything Bush had. Sue Clinton's sorry arse, after all he did get a 12 million dollar advance for the coming BS he is putting out as memoirs.
