(2003-07-21) — Recently-leaked documents indicate that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) prevented what could have been a devastating attack on the World Trade Center towers in New York City. The documents show that terrorists had planned to hit the towers, and perhaps the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol buildings on September 11, 2001.

A little-known group of Islamic fundamentalists intended to hijack several airplanes and ram them into the buildings, causing untold devastation.
But thanks to the funding increases during the Clinton administration, the CIA had the resources to uncover the plot. It arrested several dozen men who currently await trial for conspiracy to attempt mass murder.
President George Bush acknowledged today that the terrorists are in U.S. custody, and that their arrest has been kept secret to allow the CIA to round up their confederates on several continents.
“September 11th could have gone down as a dark day in U.S. history if it had not been for the solid intelligence work of the CIA,” said Mr. Bush. “That’s why I always follow the agency’s guidance, and have absolute trust in CIA reports.”
A spokesman in the CIA’s New York office, located on the 99th floor of World Trade Center Two, said he his colleagues were “just doing what we’re paid to do…provide reliable information to protect all Americans.”

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