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Titolo: PDB del 6/8/01 completo

US 'al-Qaeda memo': Full text of PDB( Presidential Decision Brief ) del
6/8/01
Giano
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3617289.stm
The following is the full text of the intelligence briefing of 6 August
2001, prepared for President George W Bush, concerning the al-Qaeda threat
to the United States.
It was declassified on 10 April.
Three sections were edited, the White House said, to "protect the names of
foreign governments that provided information to CIA".
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For the President Only
Bin Laden Determined To Strike in US
Clandestine, foreign government, and media reports indicate (Osama) Bin
Laden since 1997 has wanted to conduct terrorist attacks in the US. Bin
Laden implied in US television interviews in 1997 and 1998 that his
followers would follow the example of World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef
and "bring the fighting to America".
After US missile strikes on his base in Afghanistan in 1998, Bin Laden told
followers he wanted to retaliate in Washington, according to a
...(edited)... service.
An Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ) operative told a ... (edited) ... service at
the same time that Bin Laden was planning to exploit the operative's access
to the US to mount a terrorist strike.
The millennium plotting in Canada in 1999 may have been part of Bin Laden's
first serious attempt to implement a terrorist strike in the US.
Convicted plotter Ahmed Ressam has told the FBI that he conceived the idea
to attack Los Angeles International Airport himself, but that Bin Laden
lieutenant Abu Zubaydah encouraged him and helped facilitate the operation.
Ressam also said that in 1998 Abu Zubaydah was planning his own US attack.
Ressam says Bin Laden was aware of the Los Angeles operation.
Although Bin Laden has not succeeded, his attacks against the US Embassies
in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 demonstrate that he prepares operations years
in advance and is not deterred by setbacks.
Bin Laden associates surveilled our embassies in Nairobi and Dar-es-Salaam
as early as 1993, and some members of the Nairobi cell planning the bombings
were arrested and deported in 1997.
Al-Qaeda members - including some who are US citizens - have resided in or
travelled to the US for years, and the group apparently maintains a support
structure that could aid attacks.
Two al-Qaeda members found guilty in the conspiracy to bomb our embassies in
East Africa were US citizens, and a senior EIJ member lived in California in
the mid-1990s.
A clandestine source said in 1998 that a Bin Laden cell in New York was
recruiting Muslim-American youth for attacks.
We have not been able to corroborate some of the more sensational threat
reporting, such as that from a ... (edited)... service in 1998 saying that
Bin Laden wanted to hijack a US aircraft to gain the release of "Blind
Sheikh" Omar Abdel Rahman and other US-held extremists.
Nevertheless, FBI information since that time indicates patterns of
suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for
hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of
federal buildings in New York.
The FBI is conducting approximately 70 full field investigations throughout
the US that it considers Bin Laden-related.
The CIA and the FBI are investigating a call to our embassy in the United
Arab Emirates in May saying that a group of Bin Laden supporters was in the
US planning attacks with explosives.

 6/8/01
Ok. Da cosa si poteva capire che al quaeda avrebbe portato un attacco con
4 aerei di linea contro il WTC, il pentagono e presumibilmente la casa
bianca?
Raffaele
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E gia`! Secondo te un allarme di quella importanza doveva essere
complementato specificatamente con il come , il dove, il quando?
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Nevertheless, FBI information since that time indicates patterns of
suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for
hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of
federal buildings in New York.
Questo doveva essere sufficiente a far si di indagare meglio su cio`che
succedeva e una disposizione precisa del NSA a tal riguardo avrebbe potuto
far concentrare le indagini su quella traccia, ma tutti nell'amministrazione
hanno snobbato l'allarme perche`erano intenti ad altro: grande capo Piccolo
Cespuglio insieme allo Stregone Colomba Bianca e la sqaw Riso in Gondoletta
erano in hollyday, piu`intenti a un piatto di Sophora Secundiflora(Mescal)
che ad altro, mentre quelli della tribu`PNAC gia`stavano danzando attorno al
fuoco ed erano sul piede di guerra; questo dicono i piu`realistici; mentre
per quei critici piu`"avanzati",tutto andava perfettamente liscio,nessuno
era confuso e per dissotterrare l'ascia di guerra non c'era niente di meglio
di un attentato al villaggio per montare sui cavalli... arco e frecce e
partire. <g>
G.   rrrr

far concentrare le indagini su quella traccia,
Perche' su quella e non su tutte le altre cavolate presenti nello stesso
documento e che si sono rivelate tutte infondate?
-Stefano

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Noto che ora non ti bastano piu`le ca***te a tre stellette, tesoro mio, e
preferisci le cavolate semplici; come fai, spiegami , te la strofini sui
cavolfiori?
Per un paese delle risorse capaci di affrontare una guerra ci si
aspetterebbe prima di tutto una certa organizzazione di sicurezza "in
difesa" all'estero(ambasciate),ma specialmente nel territorio nazionale...
Come strategia, anche, mi pare che siamo debolucci dece'...e` ora che cambi
allenatore!:)
G.  rrrr

Come strategia, anche, mi pare che siamo debolucci dece'...
Se lo dici tu...
-Stefano

 partire. <g>
Ovviamente il pensiero che potessero essere delle seplici persone che
cercano di fare il loro lavoro, cercando di mettere insieme i tasselli di
un puzzle semplicemente troppo grande, non ti passa minimamente per la
testa?
Mi pare un pò troppo comodo dire che gli usa tutto possono, prima, e
definirli inetti invece quando sembra più conveniente...
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