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"I don't think for the past two years there have been too many days when most Americans didn't at some point during the day either experience the result of 9/11/01, or pause and think a little bit about 9/11/01; where they were, what they were doing. And we were headed to Pakistan for a visit with President Musharraf. We had stopped in Souda Bay, Crete, to get gas for the jet. There was a rap on the door. And I opened the door and one of my assistants said, "Turn on the television." I turned on the TV just in time to see the second tower strike. My wife would tell you that the first words out of my mouth were "Osama bin Laden." That's the first thing that I said. I got on the telephone, called back, talked to people in my headquarters, raced off to the jet, got back here on the 12th of September, talked to [Secretary of Defense] Don Rumsfeld, and we started planning for operations in Afghanistan. [Question: "Was one of the objectives to capture and/or kill Osama bin Laden?"] Actually, that isn't right. [Question: "It's two years later. Bin Laden is still not captured."] And let me say this. He may not be captured or killed in the near future. The worst thing that can happen is, perhaps—and this is my personal opinion—two steps. The first step would be a nexus between weapons of mass destruction of any variety. It could be chemical, it could be biological, it could be some nuclear device; and terrorism. Terrorists or any human being who is committed to the proposition of terror, try to just create casualties, not for the purpose of annihilation, but to terrify a population. That goes to step number two, which is that the western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy. Now, in a practical sense, what does that mean? It means the potential of a weapon of mass destruction and a terrorist, massive casualty-producing event somewhere in the western world—it may be in the United States of America, that causes our population to question our own Constitution and to begin to militarize our country in order to avoid a repeat of another mass-casualty-producing event. Which, in fact, then begins to potentially unravel the fabric of our Constitution. Two steps: very, very important."
-Kosher General Tommy Franks, December 01, 2003
http://www.cigaraficionado.com/Cigar/CA_Profiles/People_Profile/0,2540
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BBC: American government told other governments about Afghan invasion IN JULY 2001
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/preplanned.html

Terrorism.
a mode of government by terror or intimidation.
-Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary 1913

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