Keep an eye on this one:

Miami Herald:

U.S. report on 9/11 to be 'explosive'

The report will show that top Bush administration officials were warned in the summer of 2001 that the al Qaeda terrorist network had plans to hijack aircraft and launch a ``spectacular attack.''

Joe Conason in Salon [premium]: (excerpts)

... U.S. and Italian officials were warned ... that Islamic terrorists might try to hijack an airliner and crash it into the [G8] summit location, with the hopes of killing Bush and others.     ...     And just before the summit opened [in 2001], the Times of London reported that the CIA station chief in Rome had warned Italian secret services of a possible "suicide attack" by al-Qaida.

Almost simultaneously, on July 26, 2001, Attorney General John Ashcroft abruptly stopped flying on commercial aircraft, reportedly due to a "threat assessment" by the FBI.

posted by Quiddity at 7/10/2003 04:15:00 PM