New 9/11 Files Reveal ‘Explosive-Packed Airplane’ Warning on US City
Newly declassified CIA files detail warnings about bin Laden and possible attacks on the US years before September 11.
As the U.S. marked the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks on Friday, newly released documents shed light on intelligence warnings about potential attacks years before the tragedy. One September 1998 brief noted "Osama bin Laden's preferred option is to strike the US on its own soil in Washington" and speculated that al-Qaeda "may fly an explosive-packed airplane into a US city."
President George W. Bush's 2001 daily briefs focused on bin Laden's "experimentation by crude means to make and deploy biological agents." Intelligence agencies also raised concerns about hijackings and chemical/biological attacks on U.S. soil in the years leading up to the 9/11 tragedy.
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