4.10.2004

Just Historical, Condi?

From an AP report on CNN now:

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush's August 2001 briefing on terrorism threats, described largely as a historical document, included information from three months earlier that al-Qaeda was trying to send operatives into the United States for an explosives attack, according to several people who have seen the memo.

    The so-called presidential daily briefing, or PDB, delivered to Bush on August 6, 2001 -- a month before the September 11 attacks -- said there were various reports that Osama bin Laden had wanted to strike inside the United States as early as 1997 and continuing into the spring of 2001, the sources told The Associated Press.