Reply #12: Paul Thompson does...

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April-May 2000: Hijacker Marwan Alshehhi boasts of planning an attack to a Hamburg librarian. He says, "There will be thousands of dead. You will think of me... In America something is going to happen." He specifically mentions the WTC. Meanwhile, at the same time in the US, hijacker Mohamed Atta is even more forthcoming when applying for a $650,000 loan at the Department of Agriculture. Atta says he just arrived from Afghanistan, asks about security at the WTC, discusses al-Qaeda and its need for American membership, says bin Laden "would someday be known as the world's greatest leader," threatens to cut the throat of the bureaucrat and steal the money from her safe, asks "How would America like it if another country destroyed and some of the monuments in it like the cities in country had been destroyed?," referring to a government building in Washington, asks "How would you like it if somebody flew an airplane into your friends' building?", and so on.

There are other entries that show the plot was ongoing for more than a year.

http://billstclair.com/911timeline/