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Homer: Not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol must be working like a
charm.
Lisa: That's spacious reasoning, Dad.
Homer: Thank you, dear.
Lisa: By your logic I could claim that this rock keeps tigers away.
Homer: Oh, how does it work?
Lisa: It doesn't work.
Homer: Uh-huh.
Lisa: It's just a stupid rock.
Homer: Uh-huh.
Lisa: But I don't see any tigers around, do you?
[Homer thinks of this, then pulls out some money]
Homer: Lisa, I want to buy your rock.
[Lisa refuses at first, then takes the exchange]
Plot to crash plane into L.A. tower was foiled: Bush
Last Updated Thu, 09 Feb 2006 11:29:20 EST
CBC News
U.S. President George W. Bush says there was a plot to hijack an airliner and fly it into a Los Angeles skyscraper as a sequel to the 2001 attacks on New York and Washington.
The plotters planned to use "shoe bombs" to break into the cockpit, Bush said in a speech in Washington on Thursday.
U.S. President George W. Bush, Thursday.
Bush portrayed the United States and its allies as winning what he calls the war on terror. He spoke of a succession of al-Qaeda figures killed or captured, and said a number of plots were thwarted.
The Los Angeles plot was aimed at the tallest building on the West Coast, he said.
He called it the Liberty Tower, but apparently meant the Library Tower, a 73-storey office building facing the Los Angeles Central Library. The building was renamed US Bank Tower in 2003.
Bush, who is under fire for a practice of spying on phone and e-mail conversations without warrants, had previously said that intelligence efforts had foiled Sept. 11-like attacks on both U.S. coasts.
There have been reports that the Los Angeles tower was among the targets, but Bush had not previously named it.
He gave a bare outline of the plot:
"In the weeks after Sept. 11, while Americans were still recovering from an unprecedented strike on our homeland, al-Qaeda was already planning its next attack," he said.
"In October 2001, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attack, had already set in motion a plan to have terrorist operatives hijack an airplane using shoe bombs to breach the cockpit door and fly the plane into the tallest building on the West Coast.
"We believe the intended target was Liberty Tower in Los Angeles, California.
"Rather than use Arab hijackers as he had on Sept. 11, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed sought out young men from Southeast Asia, whom he believed would not arouse as much suspicion."
As Bush described it, the would-be hijackers were found through Asian intermediaries.
"Once those operatives were recruited, they met with Osama Bin Laden and then began preparations for the West Coast attack.
"Their plot was derailed in early 2002 when a Southeast Asian nation arrested a key al-Qaeda operative. Subsequent debriefings and intelligence operations made clear the intended target and how al-Qaeda hoped to execute it.
"This critical intelligence helped other allies capture the ringleaders and other known operatives who had been recruited for this plot. The West Coast plot had been thwarted."
Bush did not say why he was making the information public now or why he had not done so before.
charm.
Lisa: That's spacious reasoning, Dad.
Homer: Thank you, dear.
Lisa: By your logic I could claim that this rock keeps tigers away.
Homer: Oh, how does it work?
Lisa: It doesn't work.
Homer: Uh-huh.
Lisa: It's just a stupid rock.
Homer: Uh-huh.
Lisa: But I don't see any tigers around, do you?
[Homer thinks of this, then pulls out some money]
Homer: Lisa, I want to buy your rock.
[Lisa refuses at first, then takes the exchange]
Plot to crash plane into L.A. tower was foiled: Bush
Last Updated Thu, 09 Feb 2006 11:29:20 EST
CBC News
U.S. President George W. Bush says there was a plot to hijack an airliner and fly it into a Los Angeles skyscraper as a sequel to the 2001 attacks on New York and Washington.
The plotters planned to use "shoe bombs" to break into the cockpit, Bush said in a speech in Washington on Thursday.
U.S. President George W. Bush, Thursday.
Bush portrayed the United States and its allies as winning what he calls the war on terror. He spoke of a succession of al-Qaeda figures killed or captured, and said a number of plots were thwarted.
The Los Angeles plot was aimed at the tallest building on the West Coast, he said.
He called it the Liberty Tower, but apparently meant the Library Tower, a 73-storey office building facing the Los Angeles Central Library. The building was renamed US Bank Tower in 2003.
Bush, who is under fire for a practice of spying on phone and e-mail conversations without warrants, had previously said that intelligence efforts had foiled Sept. 11-like attacks on both U.S. coasts.
There have been reports that the Los Angeles tower was among the targets, but Bush had not previously named it.
He gave a bare outline of the plot:
"In the weeks after Sept. 11, while Americans were still recovering from an unprecedented strike on our homeland, al-Qaeda was already planning its next attack," he said.
"In October 2001, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attack, had already set in motion a plan to have terrorist operatives hijack an airplane using shoe bombs to breach the cockpit door and fly the plane into the tallest building on the West Coast.
"We believe the intended target was Liberty Tower in Los Angeles, California.
"Rather than use Arab hijackers as he had on Sept. 11, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed sought out young men from Southeast Asia, whom he believed would not arouse as much suspicion."
As Bush described it, the would-be hijackers were found through Asian intermediaries.
"Once those operatives were recruited, they met with Osama Bin Laden and then began preparations for the West Coast attack.
"Their plot was derailed in early 2002 when a Southeast Asian nation arrested a key al-Qaeda operative. Subsequent debriefings and intelligence operations made clear the intended target and how al-Qaeda hoped to execute it.
"This critical intelligence helped other allies capture the ringleaders and other known operatives who had been recruited for this plot. The West Coast plot had been thwarted."
Bush did not say why he was making the information public now or why he had not done so before.
