Bush avoided an assassination attempt, on 9/11 Options

[Guest_Frank_Nabbit_*]

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An Assassination Attempt?

Bush awoke a little before 6:00 a.m. on September 11, pulled on shorts and an old T-shirt and laced up his running shoes. [CBS, 11/1/02] At 6:30 a.m., Bush, a reporter friend, and his Secret Service crew took a four-mile jog in the half-light of dawn around a nearby golf course. [Washington Post, 1/27/02, Washington Post, 09/11/01]

At about the same time Bush was getting ready for his jog, a van carrying several Middle Eastern men pulled up to the Colony's guard station. The men said they were a television news crew with a scheduled "poolside" interview with the president. They asked for a certain Secret Service agent by name. The message was relayed to a Secret Service agent inside the resort, who hadn't heard of the agent mentioned or of plans for an interview. He told the men to contact the president's public relations office in Washington, DC, and had the van turned away. [Longboat Observer, 9/26/01]


General Ahmed Shah Massoud.

The Secret Service may have foiled an assassination attempt. Two days earlier, Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of Afghanistan's Northern Alliance, had been murdered by a similar ruse. Two North African men, posing as journalists from "Arabic News International," had been requesting an interview with Massoud since late August. Ahmad Jamsheed, Massoud's secretary, said that by the night of September 8, "they were so worried and excitable, they were begging us." An interview was arranged for the following day. As it began, a bomb hidden in the video camera exploded, killing the two journalists. Massoud was rushed by helicopter to a hospital in Tajikistan, but was pronounced dead on arrival (although his death was not acknowledged until September 15). [International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism, 10/30/01, Newsday, 10/26/01] The assassination is widely believed to have been timed to remove the Taliban's most popular and respected opponent in anticipation of the backlash that would occur after the 9/11 attacks. [BBC, 9/10/01, BBC, 9/10/01 (B), Time, 8/4/02, St. Petersburg Times, 9/9/02] The Northern Alliance blamed al-Qaeda and the ISI, Pakistan's secret service, for the attacks. [Radio Free Europe, 9/10/01, Newsday, 9/15/01, Reuters, 10/4/01]

[Ripper]

Wow. (IMG:http://forums.thesmartmarks.com/style_emoticons/default/huh.gif)


I was reading this article and at the begaining all I could picture was bush rolling out of bed nude and putting on shorts. I will never eat again.

Thanks.

Ripper

[justsoyouknow]

Shouldn't this be in Current Events or something?

[Guest_Bottled Black_*]

Sure if you consider 2 and a half years ago current.

[justsoyouknow]

There's lots of stuff in current events that happened a long time ago. Plus I figure that a discussion of the President should belong with all the people that pride themselves on arguing over the President. You won't find those people in General Chat.

[Guest_cobainwasmurdered_*]

horse shit. i highly doubt this.

[Guest_Astro_*]

JSYK - Copy and paste it in Current Events - and watch Dr Tom Shit his pants

[Mole]

Why does it seem all of these Presidents run?

[Guest_Astro_*]

Dead men can't run the whitehouse

[TheDevilAndGodAr...]

Wow, how much more fucked up would that day have been if this happened?

[Guest_Man Of 1,004 Modes_*]

Wow, how much more fucked up would that day have been if this happened?

We would've had a black president if I'm thinking of the right guy as Vice Pres.

[Vern Gagne]

Wow, how much more fucked up would that day have been if this happened?

How do you we know it didn't? (IMG:http://forums.thesmartmarks.com/style_emoticons/default/huh.gif)

Robin William stars in the Ghost President.

[TheDevilAndGodAr...]

I meant if it were successful.

[Guest_Bottled Black_*]

Wow, how much more fucked up would that day have been if this happened?

We would've had a black president if I'm thinking of the right guy as Vice Pres.

Umm No, you're thinking of Secretary of State, Colin Powell. This guy is Vice President, when he's not in hiding. (IMG:http://www.cnn.com/interactive/us/0201/enron.fall/key.players/images/adminstration.dick.cheney.jpg)

[Guest_Coffey_*]

Damn, despite me not liking Bush at all, having him being assassinated on 9/11 would've been abyssmal. I don't agree with his war tactics, or some other areas, but you can't deny that the man helped calm our nation down. At least a little bit. He did a good job in that field. He told the mass basically what they wanted to hear. At least up until the point that war was basically declared. A lot of people, however, did want revenge.

Now, imagine what would've happened if Bush was killed along with the people in the other attacks. The Vice President would've had to try to calm everyone down. People would've panicked. It would've been a lot worse, I'm sure.

[Guest_croweater_*]

As anti-bush as I am, i'll give credit where it's due and for the weeks just post 9/11 he (and of course the white house) did a fantastic job. This would have completely fucked everything in the knuckle head and I imagine we would be living in a very different world had the assasination attempt been successful