TIN-FOIL HAT CROWD VINDICATED
AP-Bush-Hijackings URGENT
(White House-AP) -- The White House acknowledges that President Bush was told before
September eleventh of a possible plot by Osama bin Laden to hijack
airplanes.But officials say neither Bush nor his advisers had any way of
knowing that suicide hijackers would use the planes as missiles, as
they did against the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
White House spokesman Ari Fleischer says the administration
notified the "appropriate agencies" last summer that hijackings
were possible.