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A bad call? Posted: Sunday, May 19, 2002 At the heart of what is potentially the biggest scandal to blight the presidency since Watergate exactly 30 years ago is that memo passed to Bush on 6 August, warning that Osama bin Laden's organisation was poised to hijack US aircraft to wage a terror campaign. And according to yesterday's Washington Post, the memo left little doubt that the hijacked airliners were intended for use as missiles and that intended targets were to be inside the US. The Post quotes sources attributing a crucial line in the memo to British intelligence: a report from London in 1998, says the newspaper, showed that al-Qaeda members talked about using a hijacked airliner to negotiate the release of Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, who had been convicted of plotting to blow up landmarks in New York City. MORE  Printer friendly version  Send page by E-Mail |