HammRadio Today: 4/16/2007 --
France Warned US about HiJackings BEFORE 9/11
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4/16/2007 9:01 PM
Byline: Mike Cunningham
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Story Summary
The CIA was warned by the French. Yes, those same French folks who didn't let us use their air space and then we changed the name of our beloved French Fries to Freedom Potato Sticks.
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The CIA was warned by the French. Yes, those same French folks who didn't let us use their air space and then we changed the name of our beloved French Fries to Freedom Potato Sticks.
One of the standard responses to any story that claims the US was warned about hijackings, the administration response is always goes like this: "Yeah, but they didn't tell us it was going to be 4 planes. 2 from Boston. 2 from New York. and that they would then use the planes as missiles and fly these planes into buildings. If we knew they were going to do that, that would be so much different. Maybe we would have prevented this." And in this story that's the party line (well the line from the French officials):
"They never told us that so how could we prepare for that. At the time, Lorenzi said, officials had heard echoes only about a standard hijacking — they had no idea al-Qaida planned to slam planes into buildings, let alone the World Trade Center and the Pentagon."
BUT all they needed to know was that these guys were going to FUCKING HiJack the plane. who gives a fuck what they planned on doing with it afterwards. They could have flown everyone to Cuba to get some Mojitos on the beach. Stop the Hijacking... that's all you needed to fucking do. I'm sure that Rush, Hannity, O'Reilly will blame the French for this one. That they should have known better.
You have to remember that a plane hijack (in January 2001) did not have the same significance as it did after Sept. 11. At the time, it implied forcing a plane to land at an airport and undertaking negotiations,” said Pierre-Antoine Lorenzi.
And finally when Bush says that the terrorists hate our Freedom. It might be good to remind them what the rich folk in Dubai are building.
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