RE: U.S. warned in 1995 of plot to hijack planes, attack buildings

Hey Chuck, for what it's worth. I read your messages exactly the same way
Chris did. And my reactions have been much the same. So maybe some
reflection might be in order, eh?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chuck Lewis [SMTP:clewis@iquest.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 6:00 AM
> To:   midrange-nontech@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: U.S. warned in 1995 of plot to hijack planes, attack
> buildings
>
> Chris wrote:
>
> <Well, make up your mind. In your last post you said all you were doing
> was relaying info.>
>
> What the heck are you talking about ?
>
> <How can you say it was a "MAJOR intelligence breakdown?" Is there some
> chain that they failed to
> follow from one end to the other? Is this the same plot? I mean, it
> targeted different places than
> those listed in the report you gave a URL for. Where do you feel they
> dropped the ball?>
>
> Huh ? Ramzi Yousef at the time was KNOWN to be the original WTC bomber...
> They also mention the
> Pentagon as a target. Those are "different places" ?
>
> <Don't be stupid, Chuck.>
>
> Excuse me ? I think you are not understanding how the intelligence
> community works.
>
> <They will uncover many plans as time goes on. Do you think that only one
> terrorist ever has any
> one kind of plan? So if bin Laden didn't think of attacking the WTC it
> would have never happened?>
>
> Again, you are missing the WHOLE picture here.
>
> <The sort of inflamatory, finger pointing rhetoric that you attached to
> that story is pretty
> mindless. There is nothing in the story to say that there was any chance
> that anyone could ever
> have stopped what happened based on what was found six years ago.>
>
> It was ANYTHING but "inflammatory, finger pointing rhetoric", brother...
>
> <By "fly off the handle" I mean you jumped to a conclusion not led to by
> the article you referred
> to and took that opportunity to insult people who are dedicated to saving
> lives. I didn't think
> you were all that stirred up about it.>
>
> That is not what was intended and I am sorry you took it that way.  I have
> many friends in this
> group, DEA, SS, FBI, and the "others".
>
> <My guess is that doing stuff like that is just SOP with you.>
>
> Not at all.
>
> <It sure is. So you are free to add editorial. You are also free to post
> follow ups lying and
> saying, "I was just passing on the information." But when you lie and say
> such, I am also free to
> point out that you aren't telling the truth.>
>
> Again, you are way out of you league, I'm afraid...
>
> Chuck
>
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