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Bin Laden Was Planning 9/11 Anniversary Attack

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Posted on Jul 18, 2011
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Documents taken from Osama bin Laden’s Pakistan compound indicate that the head of al-Qaida was plotting an attack to mark the 10th anniversary of 9/11. The records contained names of possible operatives, but little else that was useful, according to Siobhan Gorman of The Wall Street Journal. —ARK

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Siobhan Gorman reports that information recovered from Osama bin Laden’s Abbottabad compound indicates that the slain terrorist leader was in the initial stages of planning an attack for the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks with his “operations chief” Attiyah Abd al-Rahman ... . Bin Laden and Rahman were discussing names of operatives to be involved, according to the seized documents; Gorman also notes that most analysts have finished their review of the documents, but have found little actionable intelligence.

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By william Galison, July 19, 2011 at 11:22 am Link to this comment
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Why the hell should we believe anything the US government or the shill media tells
us at this point.

You brainless journalists have discredited yourselves permanently. and are seen
by most Americans as traitors.

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By johnnyfarout, July 19, 2011 at 7:56 am Link to this comment

Once again, we are learning that to spell Al Qaeda one must use the letters… “C I A”. This is the correct spelling around the world. Next we’ll read and hear in breathless fox-speak that it has been uncovered from the once secret compound, that Islam entertained ordering billions of step ladders for their mosques and was ‘suggesting’ that the faithful climb up them on Ramadan and jump all together down, shaking north America loose from the earth in irresistible seismic waves. Something we should panic about and get the TSA on forthwith. But just how does one stop a determined fanatic with a step ladder in line at an airport!? Especially if it was surgically implanted (snickering with foolish laughter), and that… but, jumping off step ladders while in flight has been forbidden from the early days of commercial flying… but wouldn’t we all be a lot safer if everyone on board had a stepladder… you know, if they were handed out at the boarding gate? Tit for tat. There’s just so many things to fear as we think harder everyday to put food on our families. OMG, If the Chinese start shrinking themselves in a mean attempt to make our debt to them bigger….where will this all end?! But if billions of dollars gets spent on secret organizations to have everything all figured out and then we are 1% safer…it’s well worth it. Isn’t it? Universal fear is sooo much more profitable than any commie universal health care. That’s fer’ sure. Plus it’s way more American.

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By Napolean DoneHisPart, July 19, 2011 at 7:14 am Link to this comment

Yeah right… who wrote this crap?

Just like the guy who exposed the Murdoch scandal was found dead this weekend of ‘unknown causes.’

Scheer, hope you like the rest of your hack life kissing up to the hegemony you shill.

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By bogi666, July 19, 2011 at 12:51 am Link to this comment
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Keep irrational fears alive, that’s the function of the USG now, keep creating imagined fears for public consumption to continue the warmongering and weapons testing using human guinea pigs worldwide. Another 911 attack, I mean if that’s the best the warmongers can do the people of the USA are in deep trouble not from the foreign terrorists but from our own Military/judicial[scotus] dictatorship installed government.

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By theway, July 19, 2011 at 12:39 am Link to this comment

Glad to meet people from the “same planet”.I wondered whether people who think for themselves still exist.

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By blogdog, July 18, 2011 at 10:42 pm Link to this comment

OBL’s bogyman legend still does and will for years serve well the Global War OF Terror - if they keep digging and deciphering no doubt they’ll ‘discover’ at the heart of the plot: getting material from Pakistan’s ISI to make a ‘dirty bomb’ - maybe a page in the Ray Davis affair that led to his being taken into custody for killing a pair of ISI agents as they were closing in on him - if spun out just so, we could be seeing an accretion to the ‘evidence’ that will be cited to launch wholesale war on Pakistan - pretext: secure the nukes - anything’s possible, given the madmen at the helm of the empire.

...talking about the same madman faction which made sure Pakistan got its nukes

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By radson, July 18, 2011 at 5:29 pm Link to this comment

Siobhan Gorman go run on the Autobahn ,it will make a
better story and if you get run over ,well you could always blame it on BIN.

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By PatrickHenry, July 18, 2011 at 5:23 pm Link to this comment

TPTB testing the U.S. gullibility gene again.

Tell a lie over and over again and one day it may be accepted as fact.

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By rbrooks, July 18, 2011 at 4:52 pm Link to this comment
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Another enormous stinking pile, brought to you by the little hack men in the CIA basement! They’re not that good at fake videos, and they really really suck at fake assassinations, but who needs to care when they’ve got the WSJ ready and quivering to launch their amateur-hour efforts? Hitler must be gibbering with pride over his descendants.

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By diamond, July 18, 2011 at 2:16 pm Link to this comment

Every time I see that grainy footage of an old guy with the TV remote in his right hand when bin Laden was left handed I have to laugh. Even though there’s nothing funny about the state running a disinformation campaign over someone who spent most of his career working for that very state, or at least its intelligence services.

And as for what this old guy (whoever he was) was planning I can only go back to that priceless quote from Mandy Rice-Davies, blonde bombshell of a long ago government scandal, when told in court that some upper class twit had said something disparaging about her character- “Well he would say that, wouldn’t he?” she said. And the CIA would also say that, wouldn’t they? I don’t believe a single word that the CIA says about bin Laden. They’re lying about this entire incident in Abbottabad and anything they say about what was written, said or watched in that compound cannot be taken seriously except by morons.

They would much rather talk about this bin Laden stand in, and the mythology of his plans to carry out another 9/11 than talk about how they blew the World Trade Centre up with thermite and have had the media lying about it for them ever since. They have completely corrupted the media, the judicial system and the last remaining vestiges of American democracy and now they just don’t know how to shut up and are doomed to go on lying and creating further narratives that become progressively more absurd with every passing year. Pathetic. If they publish the manufactured diaries they pretend to have found in the compound they should call them “Goldstein’s Complaint”.

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By scotttpot, July 18, 2011 at 1:43 pm Link to this comment

An unnamed source said that Al-Qaeda was going to unlease a mass gas attack.
Thats right.Operatives trained in The Tribal areas of Pakistan would fart often and
repeatedly without concern humanity creating widespread public disgust . All the Hallmarks of an Al-Qaeda attack.

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By Don, July 18, 2011 at 1:31 pm Link to this comment
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what a lie, he didn’t even plan the first so how could
he plan the second. Did he have up to date AA schedule
of flights

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By Anarcissie, July 18, 2011 at 11:27 am Link to this comment

I believe documents taken from the bin Laden compound, once they have been processed through the imaginations of the Pentagon, the politicians, and the media, could be usefully appended to The Arabian Nights.  Poor Osama, dead and at the bottom of the sea, but still allowed no rest.

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By SoTexGuy, July 18, 2011 at 11:03 am Link to this comment

.. and then?

So what! The Koch brothers, plus Scalia, Thomas and Roberts, O’Reily (Murdoch), Bachmann, Palin, Cantor and more are brazenly defying the Constitution and the will of the majority of Americans. Openly planning the corruption and takeover of America for private ends and gains..

Bin Laden was a piker in comparison.

Adios!

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