Declassified Documents This Week Confirm Library Tower Plot
In recent days, the Left has been apoplectic that, in interviews for my book Courting Disaster, I continue to assert that CIA questioning of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed helped thwart a plot to hijack an airplane and fly it into the tallest building on the West Coast — the Library Tower in Los Angeles. Those claims have been debunked, the critics argue, because key operatives in the plot were arrested in 2002, before KSM was captured. Using information from KSM to break up the plot Library Tower plot would “have been a tremendous achievement in surmounting the time-space continuum,” writes the Huffington Post. FBI agent and CIA critic Ali Soufan has made much the same claim.
It does not seem to dawn on them that while two terrorists in the plot were indeed captured in 2002, the 19 other operatives in the plot who were still at large when KSM was captured (including KSM’s partner in hatching the plot, Jemmah Islamiyah terrorist Hambali) might still have been determined to carry it out.
Unfortunately for HuffPo and the other critics, new evidence emerged this week in declassified CIA documents released by the Obama administration which confirms that this was in fact the case. Specifically, the administration released Top Secret Congressional testimony from then-CIA director Mike Hayden on April 12, 2007, before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. (Hayden’s testimony begins on page 6 of this PDF), which shows that the plans for the West Coast plot were alive and well after KSM’s capture, and were disrupted because of information he provided the CIA.
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