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In reply to the discussion: Kristen Breitweiser (911 Widow) letter to Condi Rice: Here's Your 9/11 Smoking Gun [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)49. Smirko slept aboard a destroyer at G8 summit in Genoa July 2001.
Pretzeldent Smirko was attending the G-8 summit at Genoa. Instead of staying on land at a luxury hotel, the commandeer-n-thief chose to sleep aboard a guided missile destroyer. Why? He was warned by Putin that "Osama bin Laden" was planning to attack the conference with hijacked jetliners. Here's the article from July 2001:
Why would Osama bin Laden want to kill Dubya, his former business partner?
By James Hatfield
Editor's note: In light of last week's horrific events and the Bush administration's reaction to them, we are reprising the following from the last column Jim Hatfield wrote for Online Journal prior to his tragic death on July 18:
July 3, 2001There may be fireworks in Genoa, Italy, this month, too.
A plot by Saudi master terrorist, Osama bin Laden, to assassinate Dubya during the July 20 economic summit of world leaders, was uncovered after dozens of suspected Islamic militants linked to bin Laden's international terror network were arrested in Frankfurt, Germany, and Milan, Italy, in April.
German intelligence services have stated that bin Laden is covertly financing neo-Nazi skinhead groups throughout Europe to launch another terrorist attack at a high-profile American targethis first since the bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen last October.
According to counter-terrorism experts quoted in Germany's largest newspaper, the attack on Dubya might be a James Bond-like aerial strike in the form of remote-controlled airplanes packed with plastic explosives.
Why would Osama bi Laden want to kill, Dubya, his former business partner?
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http://web.archive.org/web/20060906150015/http://www.onlinejournal.org/Special_Reports/Hatfield-R-091901/hatfield-r-091901.html
FTR: The guy died a few days after this was published. A suicide.
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Kristen Breitweiser (911 Widow) letter to Condi Rice: Here's Your 9/11 Smoking Gun [View all]
JohnyCanuck
Oct 2015
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And there's good reason to believe the idea had been percolating for quite some time.
forest444
Oct 2015
#14
Tom Clancy's 'Debt of Honor', published in 1994, has terrorists flying a jet into Congress during
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Oct 2015
#26
I'd like to hear from the "Official Story" adherants here why this was not LIHOP in order to allow
ChisolmTrailDem
Oct 2015
#10
"...their questions for the 9/11 Commission went unanswered..." And hardly anyone gives a damn. I...
ChisolmTrailDem
Oct 2015
#16
LIHOP is established but, considering the relationship between the bushes and the bin laden
ChisolmTrailDem
Oct 2015
#22
Not so unlikely if you consider that Cheney was fully in charge of the government at that point.
hedda_foil
Nov 2015
#76
She Lied! It was well known in the intelligence community that 7 years before........
W T F
Oct 2015
#21
There has not be a single terrorist attack by a foreign entity on U.S. soil
passiveporcupine
Oct 2015
#67
I think it could be argued the fort hood shooter also had international connections..nt
Jesus Malverde
Nov 2015
#75
Although there are lingering unanswered questions about the FBI role in that operation.....
JohnyCanuck
Nov 2015
#81
Those leftover from such a horrible tragedy don't get to move on like the BFEE did.
Rex
Oct 2015
#37
picture of rice walking past anti aircraft battery milan italy aug. 2001
captainarizona
Oct 2015
#42
Foreign intelligence agencies were also inundating the Bush junta with warnings n/t
deutsey
Oct 2015
#52
I specifically remember a news report in late 90's of a possible jetliner strike on the WTC.
ErikJ
Nov 2015
#79
Nazis are still getting theirs. I hope I don't have to wait as long for the BFEE to get theirs. nt
ChisolmTrailDem
Nov 2015
#95