| | Bush Attorney General [[John Ashcroft]] told the 9/11 investigating commission, "The simple fact of September 11th is this ... We did not know an attack was coming because for nearly a decade our government had blinded itself to its enemies. Our agents were isolated by government-imposed walls." <ref>http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/4/26/153933.shtml</ref> | | Bush Attorney General [[John Ashcroft]] told the 9/11 investigating commission, "The simple fact of September 11th is this ... We did not know an attack was coming because for nearly a decade our government had blinded itself to its enemies. Our agents were isolated by government-imposed walls." <ref>http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/4/26/153933.shtml</ref> |
| − | Ramzi Yousef, who delivered the explosives in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing killing six people, is the nephew of [[Khalid Sheikh Mohammed]], a top figure in al-Qaeda. After the [[September 2001 attack]], it was the opinion of many investigators and analysts that the perpetrators of that attack had a state sponsor - [[Iraq]]. A number of details, including the fact that Yousef was travelling on an Iraqi passport, as well as the date of the 1993 attack - the second anniversary of the U.S. liberation of [[Kuwait]] in the [[Persian Gulf War]] - furthered suspicions of Iraqi involvement in the 1993 incident. His uncle, Sheikh Mohammed was one of the masterminds the 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, and was arrested in Rawalpindi, Pakistan on March 1, 2003.<ref>[http://intelwire.egoplex.com/2007_03_14_exclusives.html Khalid Shaikh Mohammed Admits 9/11, WTC 1993, Plot To Kill Clinton,] By J.M. Berger, INTELWIRE.com]</ref> The Clinton administration neutered the American intelligence agencies that could have stopped the September 11 plot.<ref>http://thecitytroll.blogspot.com/2007/09/reminder-of-who-clintons-are-owned-by.html</ref> | + | Ramzi Yousef, who delivered the explosives in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing killing six people, is the nephew of [[Khalid Sheikh Mohammed]], a top figure in al-Qaeda. After the [[September 2001 attack]], it was the opinion of many investigators and analysts that the perpetrators of that attack had a state sponsor - [[Iraq]]. A number of details, including the fact that Yousef was travelling on an Iraqi passport, as well as the date of the 1993 attack - the second anniversary of the U.S. liberation of [[Kuwait]] in the [[Persian Gulf War]] - furthered suspicions of Iraqi involvement in the 1993 incident. His uncle, Sheikh Mohammed was one of the masterminds the 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, and was arrested in Rawalpindi, Pakistan on March 1, 2003.<ref>[http://intelwire.egoplex.com/2007_03_14_exclusives.html Khalid Shaikh Mohammed Admits 9/11, WTC 1993, Plot To Kill Clinton,] By J.M. Berger, INTELWIRE.com</ref> The Clinton administration neutered the American intelligence agencies that could have stopped the September 11 plot.<ref>http://thecitytroll.blogspot.com/2007/09/reminder-of-who-clintons-are-owned-by.html</ref> |