Al Qaeda Planned to Slam West Coast Building

President Bush on Thursday described a foiled al Qaeda plot to fly a plane into the tallest building on the West Coast -- a plot that began forming shortly after the successful terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

"We now know that in Oct. 2001, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, 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," Bush said.

"We believe the intended target was Liberty Tower in Los Angeles," he added. (Bush apparently meant Library Tower, now the
US Bank Tower.) CNS News
The President On The Global War On Terror Thursday, Feb. 09, 2006

The following article is for those of you on the left who advocate The Al Qaeda Bill Of Rights and don't take the terror threat seriously?

When bin Laden calls…
For several months, liberals have been raising a ruckus about the National Security Agency’s interception of enemy communications from abroad. “Civil liberties are being abused,” they cry. “It’s an abuse of executive power,” they cry.

This is simply not true.

“During war, it is the President’s obligation to intercept every [enemy]communication that he can reasonably make use of” to defeat the al Qaeda terrorists we are at war with, he said, though normal warrant requirements still apply to domestic criminal investigations. The NSA’s targeted Terrorist Surveillance Program falls well within the military obligation of our commander-in-chief, which is established in Article II of the Constitution.

The leakers “have done a great disservice to the country and its defenders,” Woolsey said. “The government is not doing its job if it’s not investigating this vigorously.”