The report on BBC News 24 0400 hrs, 10 February 2006 is inconsistent, the BBC said that the plot was foiled in 2002 yet the clip a few seconds later showed the President saying that the attacks were foiled in the weeks following 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington D.C., also, the secured doors on aircraft did not take effect until after February 2002, so shoe-bombs and blowing up of secured doors were not applicable in the weeks after 9/11 since aircraft doors to the cockpit were easily accessible. The BBC and the statement of President Bush are highly inaccurate and continue to mislead all of us. Following is an extract of the BBC report.

Alistair Yates, President Bush has given a warning to Americans of the continuing danger posed by international terrorism. He revealed more details of a plot to attack Los Angeles in 2002, a plot which he said had been thwarted through international cooperation. The President is trying to persuade Americans that the White House is justified in using all means at its disposal to combat terrorism. The target being the tallest sky scraper on the West Coast of the US, according to President Bush, just weeks after the World Trade Centre Attack, an Al Qaeda Cell was planning an almost identical strike hijacking and crashing a plane into the heart of Los Angeles.

President Bush said, “We now know in October, 2001 that the master-mind of the September the 11th attacks had already set in motion a plan to have terrorist operatives to hijack a plane using shoe bombs to breach the cockpit door and fly the plane into the tallest building on the West Coast (of mainland USA)”

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