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Here is the text of the 8/6/2001 PDB get the PDF file here.

Declassified and Approved
for Release, 10 April 2004
Bin ladin Determined To Strike in US
Clandestine, foreIgn government, and media reports indicate Bin Ladin
since 1997' has wanted to conduct terrorist attacks in the US. Bin Ladin
implied in US television interviews in 1997 and 1998 that his followers would
follow the example of World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Youse! and "bring
the fighting to America."
Af1er us missile strikes on his base in Afghanistan in 1998, Bin Ladin
told followers he wanted to retaliate in Washington, according to a -- -- service.
An Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ) operative told - - service
at the same time that Bin Ladin was planning to exploit the operative's
access to the US to mount a terrorist strike,
The millennium plotting in Canada in 1999 may have been part of
Bin Ladin's first serious attempt to implement a terrorist strike in the
US. Convicted plotter Ahmed Ressam has told the FBI that he conceived the
idea to attack Los Angeles International Airpor1 himself, but that6in
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Ladin lieutenant Abu Zubaydah encouraged him and h~tped facilltatetne
operation. Ressam also said that in 1998 Abu Zubaydah was p1annfng-'hrs
own US attack.
Ressam says Bin Ladin was aware of the Los Angeles operation.
Although Bin Ladin has not succeeded, his attacks against the US
Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 demonstrate that he prepares
operations years in advance and Is not deterred by setbacks. Bin Ladin
associates surveilled our Embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam as early
as 1993, and some members of the Nairobi cell planning the bombings were
arrested and deported in 1997.
AI-Qa'ida members-including same wha are US citizens-have resided
in ar traveled to the US far years, and the graup apparently maintains a
support structure that cauld aid attacks. Two ai-Calida members found guilty
in the conspiracy to bomb our Embassies in East Africa were US citizens, and a
senior EIJ member lived in California in the mid-1990s.
A clandestine source said in 1998 that a Bin Ladin cell in New York
was recruiting Muslim-American youth for attacks.
We have not been able to corroborate some of the more sensational
threat reporting, such as that from a -~._. service in
1998 saying that Bin Ladin wanted to hijack a US aircraft to gain the
release of "Blind Shaykh" 'Umar 'Abd aI-Rahman and other US-held
extremists.
continued'
Declassified and Approved
for Release, 10 April 2004
For the President Only
6 Auousl 2001
Declassified and Approved
for Release, 10 April 2004
- Nevenheless, FBI information since that time indicates patterns of
suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for
hijackings or other types of aNacks, including recent surveillance of
federal buildings in New York.
The FBI is conducting approximately 70 luillieid investigations
throughout the US that it considers Bin ladin-related. CIA and the
FBI are investigating a call to our Embassy in the UAE in May saying
that a group or Bin ladir1 supporters was in the US planning at1acks
with explosives.
Declassified and Approved
for Release, 10 April 2004
For the President Only
6 Augusl 2001

The talking points are usless spin. Bush needs to go!
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