Echoes of 9/11 in 1974
Then-National Security Advisor Dr. Condoleezza Rice repeatedly mentioned after 9/11 that , ‘"No one could have imagined them taking a plane, slamming it into the Pentagon" -- I'm paraphrasing now -- "into the World Trade Center, using planes as a missile”’ (transcript of Rice's 9/11 commission statement). She made that statement right after 9/11 and again at a National Security Briefing on May 16th, 2002:
DR. RICE: Steve, I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon; that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile. All of this reporting about hijacking was about traditional hijacking. You take a plane -- people were worried they might blow one up, but they were mostly worried that they might try to take a plane and use it for release of the blind Sheikh or some of their own people.
Rice is obviously ignorant of past history. On February 22, 1974, Samuel Byck attempted to assassinate then President Nixon. Byck method was to hijack an airliner and crash it as a “missile” into the White House. Byck constructed a bomb out of 2 gallon jugs of gasoline and an igniter and concealed it in luggage to carry onto the plane.
Byck enetered the Baltimore/Washington International Airport and killed an airport security guard before storming aboard a DC-9 Delta Airlines. After a standoff with police, an officer on the jetway suceeded in firing a bullet through the door of the aircraft, seriously wounding Byck.
As early as September 1972 President Nixon convened a terrorism study group that included a Rudolph Giuliani. Ahead of his time, Nixon was studying acts of terrorism and how to effectively prevent it.
Nixon urged then-Secretary of State William Rogers for the ability "to act quickly and effectively in the event that, despite all efforts at prevention, an act of terrorism occurs involving the United States, either at home or abroad."
Unusual terrorist plots such as a nuclear-spiked dirty bomb and the hijacking of commercial aircrafts as negotiation tools for Middle Eastern radicals or for the purpose of mass murder were discussed in detail by the Nixon advisors.
Thus 9/11. contrary to Rice’s uneducated responses, should not have come as a big surprise to her and Bush’s staff. Rice needs to do her homeword as well as the rest of the Bush administration. Their lethargic atttitude aided the 9/11 attack. Bush and his staff need to wake up before the next attack!
By Christian Gatsby
DR. RICE: Steve, I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon; that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile. All of this reporting about hijacking was about traditional hijacking. You take a plane -- people were worried they might blow one up, but they were mostly worried that they might try to take a plane and use it for release of the blind Sheikh or some of their own people.
Rice is obviously ignorant of past history. On February 22, 1974, Samuel Byck attempted to assassinate then President Nixon. Byck method was to hijack an airliner and crash it as a “missile” into the White House. Byck constructed a bomb out of 2 gallon jugs of gasoline and an igniter and concealed it in luggage to carry onto the plane.
Byck enetered the Baltimore/Washington International Airport and killed an airport security guard before storming aboard a DC-9 Delta Airlines. After a standoff with police, an officer on the jetway suceeded in firing a bullet through the door of the aircraft, seriously wounding Byck.
As early as September 1972 President Nixon convened a terrorism study group that included a Rudolph Giuliani. Ahead of his time, Nixon was studying acts of terrorism and how to effectively prevent it.
Nixon urged then-Secretary of State William Rogers for the ability "to act quickly and effectively in the event that, despite all efforts at prevention, an act of terrorism occurs involving the United States, either at home or abroad."
Unusual terrorist plots such as a nuclear-spiked dirty bomb and the hijacking of commercial aircrafts as negotiation tools for Middle Eastern radicals or for the purpose of mass murder were discussed in detail by the Nixon advisors.
Thus 9/11. contrary to Rice’s uneducated responses, should not have come as a big surprise to her and Bush’s staff. Rice needs to do her homeword as well as the rest of the Bush administration. Their lethargic atttitude aided the 9/11 attack. Bush and his staff need to wake up before the next attack!
By Christian Gatsby
