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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Thursday, July 28, 2005

Remember that pre 9/11 PDB Rice minimized as a "historical document"

This just burns my butt. Another little ass covering lie by the whitehouse regarding national security. Remember when the "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in the U.S." presidential daily brief came out in the 9-11 hearings and it was denied that it was anything more than a "historical document."(condi Rice) That it didn't represent anything specific, but was just kind of a general impression of the intelligence services. LIAR!!!! The source was an Al-Quaida bomber, the one who got caught trying to bomb the LA airport. How much more f***ing specific information do you need? For god's sake he was the f***ing "strike in the US."

SEATTLE (Reuters) - The "millennium bomber" convicted of plotting to blow up the Los Angeles airport faces sentencing on Wednesday, knowing his decision to stop cooperating with authorities will mean more time in prison.
Ahmed Ressam had made a deal with prosecutors that would have resulted in a 27-year sentence in exchange for his testimony and information about other cases, but U.S. Western District Judge John Coughenour is expected to sentence him to 35 years because he quit cooperating.
The 38-year-old Algerian was caught on the U.S.-Canada border in December 1999 with nitroglycerin in the trunk of his rented car, and he told authorities he planned to blow up Los Angeles International Airport on the eve of the new millennium.
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(to the second to last paragraph which is our point)

Ressam was convicted in 2001. He initially provided testimony that was used in the briefing paper "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in the U.S.," which was given to President Bush on Aug. 6, 2001, ahead of the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington.

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