Israel Matzav

Bin Laden was planning anniversary attack on 9/11

Osama Bin Laden was planning a 10th anniversary attack for 9/11 at the time of his death.

Bin Laden and his operations chief, Attiyah Abd al-Rahman, swapped views about the composition of the attack team, with bin Laden repeatedly rejecting names that Mr. Rahman suggested, according to U.S. officials familiar with the intelligence taken from the bin Laden compound.

The plans were only in the discussion phase, U.S. officials said. They haven't seen any signs the nascent plot ever went beyond the early planning, the officials said.

Still, earlier this month in his first meeting with senior staff at the Central Intelligence Agency, acting Director Michael Morell told his staff that one of their top priorities would be to make sure that neither that plan nor any others were carried out.

Plans for an anniversary attack were one of the few specific potential threats to emerge from the trove of documents and other materials taken from bin Laden's residence in Abottabad, Pakistan, in the May 2 raid.

Much of the other threat information in the trove of materials was general in nature and well known, such as al Qaeda's interest in attacking trains.

I'm glad Bin Laden is dead, but you have to wonder what all those Obama-supporting truthers, who blame 9/11 on Bush, would have said if there were God forbid a 9/11-type attack on Obama's watch.

Labels: 9/11, Barack Hussein Obama, Osama Bin Laden

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 5:34 AM