Declassified CIA doc proves Clinton administration had been informed about a potential 9/11-style attack at least since 1998

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In 2017, CIA published online nearly 13 million pages of declassified records, including papers on the US role in overthrowing foreign governments and the secret 'Star Gate' telepathy project.

A peculiar 1998 memo (President's daily brief) from the archive (under the title Bin Ladin Preparing To Hijack US Aircraft and Other Attacks), proves that Clinton administration had already been informed about a potential al-Qaeda 9/11-style operation.

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Reporting suggest Bin Ladin and his allies are preparing for attacks in the US, including an aircraft hijacking to obtain the release of Shaykh Umar Abd al-Rahman, Ramzi Yousef, and Muhammad Sadiq Awda. 

One source quoted a senior member of the Gama at al-Islamiyya (IG) saying that, as of late October, the IG had completed planning for an operation in the US on behalf of Bin Ladin, but that the operation was on hold. A senior Bin Ladin operative from Saudi Arabia was to visit IG counterparts in the US soon thereafter to discuss options – perhaps including an aircraft hijacking.

IG leader Islambuli in late September was planning to hijack a US airliner during the “next couple of weeks” to free Abd al-Rahman and the other prisoners, according to what may be a different source. 

The same source late last month said that Bin Ladin might implement plans to hijack US aircraft before the beginning of Ramadan on 20 December and that two members of the operational team had evaded security checks during a recent trial at an unidentified New York airport.

Some members of the Bin Ladin network have received hijack training, according to various sources, but no group directly tied to Bin Ladin's al-Qaida organization has ever carried out an aircraft hijacking. Bin Ladin could be weighing other types of operations against US aircraft.

It is also worth noting that in 2007, former founder and chairman of Stratfor, George Friedman, wrote:

                         There is no doubt that Israel was pleased when, after 9/11, the United States saw itself as an anti-Islamist power. Let us remind our more creative readers, however, that benefiting from something does not mean you caused it.