I did that!

Library tower....

Liberty Tower (not yet built in New York City)



Dumb ol George anyways...

He gave a bare outline of the plot:

"In the weeks after Sept. 11, while Americans were still recovering from an unprecedented strike on our homeland, al-Qaeda was already planning its next attack," he said.

"In October 2001, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attack, had already set in motion a plan to have terrorist operatives hijack an airplane using shoe bombs to breach the cockpit door and fly the plane into the tallest building on the West Coast.

"We believe the intended target was Liberty Tower in Los Angeles, California.

"Rather than use Arab hijackers as he had on Sept. 11, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed sought out young men from Southeast Asia, whom he believed would not arouse as much suspicion."

As Bush described it, the would-be hijackers were found through Asian intermediaries.

"Once those operatives were recruited, they met with Osama Bin Laden and then began preparations for the West Coast attack.

"Their plot was derailed in early 2002 when a Southeast Asian nation arrested a key al-Qaeda operative. Subsequent debriefings and intelligence operations made clear the intended target and how al-Qaeda hoped to execute it.

"This critical intelligence helped other allies capture the ringleaders and other known operatives who had been recruited for this plot. The West Coast plot had been thwarted."

Bush did not say why he was making the information public now or why he had not done so before.

Well, cudda been worse, he cudda sent operatives to thwart a bombing of the Statue of Library.