Terror expert: Bush L.A. story "more in the realm of an idle daydream?"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Bush said four Southeast Asians who met with Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan in October 2001 were taught how to use shoe bombs to blow open a cockpit door and steer a plane into the Library Tower, the tallest building on the West Coast. But Asian authorities captured the four first, he said.

The intelligence officials, who declined to be identified because they did not want to criticize the White House publicly, said there is deep disagreement within the intelligence community over the seriousness of the scheme to attack the 73-story building and whether it was ever much more than talk.

Bruce Hoffman, a terrorism specialist with the Rand Corp., said Bush's account still leaves key questions unanswered.

"It doesn't really give us any more indication of whether this was a plot that was derailed or pre-empted, or a plot that was more in the realm of an idle daydream," Hoffman said.

http://www.courant.com/news/nationworld/hc-bush0210.artfeb10,0,3963401.story?coll=hc-headlines-nationworld

[colonel odis]

1. "um ... yeah .... they were gonna blow up Los ANGELES. that's the ticket!"

[Quakerfriend]

2. That's sweet!

*co. hates CA almost as much as he hates NY. This whole thing just makes this band of criminals all that more transparent.