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Bush assassination plot foiled in 2001

by Open-Publishing - Friday 26 November 2004
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Demos-Actions Europe G7 - G8... Attack-Terrorism

In the summer of 2001, just months before 9/11, George W. Bush flew to Genoa, Italy to attend the economic summit of 8 leading industrialized nations. What did 50,000-80,000 protesters have to do with a terrorist assassination plot? Nothing.

July 21, 2004 (revised Nov 26, 2004)
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The G8, as it’s called, includes the leaders of Germany, France, Russia, Canada, Italy, Japan, Britian and the United States. They met in Genoa in late July 2001, 7 weeks before 9/11. 7 weeks before the trajic events of 9/11, there was also a plot to assassinate George W. Bush.

50,000-80,000 protesters were on hand to protest the meeting. German police notified Italian intelligence of an anarchist group that would also be at the event. This group was coming to provoke police and did not appear associated with anti-globalist acitivists, said Alessio Vinci of CNN, nor did they have anything to do with an assasination attempt. During altercations, Carlo Giuliani(23) was killed by a stray bullet shot by carbenieri apparently in self defense.

The protesters were not told of the plot or the dangers that it may or may not entail. One of those warnings came from Italian Deputy Prime Minister Gianfranco Fini. "Islamic extremists were said to be trying to hit Bush in the air", he told Panorama news magazine.

Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak was informed of a threat weeks before the meeting, using "airplanes stuffed with explosives", he told french television. Egyptian intelligence had passed this warning on to American officials. Italian Foreign Minister, Renato Ruggiero said, "What I know is that intelligence (services) in Italy knew that an air attack was considered to be possible and that was the reason why we closed the airspace in Genoa during the G8 summit".

German secret service was also aware and passed information to Italian authorities, this was more specific. The bomb attack involved Osama Bin Laden. Yevgeny Murov, head of Russia’s bodyguard service for President Putin, also said, "Bin Laden is threatening the American president, but we know what international terrorism is today and therefore all the bodyguard units concerned are preparing for this. We view the threats as totally serious, but hope that with joint efforts we can solve all the problems." Ari Fleischer, white house spokesman, was aware of the threat, but did not comment further.

Given the amount of warnings and knowing the loose specifics of the assassination plot, Italian authorities prepared. Unprecedented massive security was established as well as a "red zone". Italy began by imposing border controls, steel rings surrounding the meeting were raised for protesters, however, surface-to-air-missiles(missile batteries) were also brought in and air space was shut down around the meeting due to the terrorist threat. 15,000 police were also on hand, as well as fighter jets and naval ships. In total, $110 million was spent to ensure the safety of the G8 leaders, specifically George W. Bush, from the threats of Osama Bin Laden and the use of airplanes carrying explosives. This was just 7 weeks before the attack on the WTC in NYC, and Pentagon in Washington, would materialize.

Due to lack of imagination by US intelligence, the United States was not able to thwart a similar attack. This may have been due to the fact that the warning George W. Bush received about attacks on the United States in the August 6 PDB entitled, "Bin Laden determined to strike in the US", did not involve an assassination plot.

The Guardian reported that Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban had received threats of US military action against them earlier in July and it raised the possibility that 9/11 was a pre-emptive strike, as well as the warnings surrounding the G8 summit.

The New York Times reported a senior US security official saying that the volume of warnings from foreign intelligence agencies was often so great that serious threats were frequently difficult to separate from false alarms.

After the 9/11 attacks in the United States, Gianfranco Fini said, "Many people joked about the Italian intelligence force. But actually they had information that in Genoa there was the hypothesis of an attack on the American president with the use of an aeroplane, that is why we closed the airspace above Genoa and installed anti-aircraft missiles. Those who joked should now reflect."

Perhaps we should all reflect.

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Plot to assassinate Bush - July 9, 2001 - CNN
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/06/20/russia.binladen/index.html

Bomb explodes in Italian G8 city - July 16, 2001 - CNN
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/07/16/italy.bomb/index.html

G8 summit death shocks leaders - July 21, 2001 - CNN
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/07/20/genoa.protests/

Extremists ’planned Genoa attack on Bush’- September 27, 2001 - BBC NEWS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/europe/1566982.stm

Bin Laden ’tried to kill G8 leaders in Genoa - September 26, 2001 - GUARDIAN
http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,558624,00.html

Transcript: Bin Laden determined to strike in US - April 10, 2004 - CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/10/august6.memo/
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Forum posts

  • Dam, I wish the Terrorist would have succeeded in wiping that coward off the face of this earth. I mean it is shame for me to say it but Bush has only caused death and destruction to others since he’s been in Power, he should suffer a violent death since he is violent man. He’s the devil in the flesh, far from being a man of god. And all of you Bush supporters you need to wake up out of that fantasy you’re in and look at the deeds of this blood thirsty monster.

    • I may have voted for Bush, but I have never wanted Kerry dead all throughout the tight election. You are a sicko.

    • Kerry does not have the blood of hundreds of thousands of people on his hands, in fact he actually did something W. has NEVER done and saved a person’s life.
      All the criminal acts by W. can understandably make someone feel the way that other person felt, and as for W..... you reap what you sow!!

    • Oh, please Kerry has raped, killed, and pillaged Vietnamese villages. He admitted it himself. He admitted that he participated as any other US soldier.

    • Kerry did not admit that he raped, killed and pillaged villages. that just shows once again how ill informed bush voters are, and how they believe all the crap spewed from those many many right wing "news" sites. please stop showing your ignorance of the facts. kerry came back from vietnam and did an honorable thing. he helped stop a senseless war. why don’t you research the FACTS on that time period instead of falling in the simple rove media spin trap...gosh, you guys are like shooting fish in a barrel. you probably don’t even know who rove is

    • Actually, no, Kerry did NOT say any such thing.

      The Swift Boat Liars cobbled together edited transcripts from Kerry’s Congressional testimony that made it appear that Kerry said that. It’s like the edited comments on David Letterman; same thing. Do you really believe those? Please, get a grip on reality.

    • And you are the reason we have that son of a bitch for a president may your karma catch up to you also.

    • secret service monitors all communication including all posted messeges. What you are implying in your post may be considered a threat and can be investigated.

  • Assassination can not be the answer. The vicious mindsets remain. So better work some political
    change!

    • I agree, after all if someone assasinated Bush, guess what.... we’d be stuck with Cheney! Let’s work for that Political change!!

  • kerry....bush....blah, blah, blah.

    I find it amusing that the italian government finds the safety of an american president more important, then an american president finds the safety of it’s own citizens.

    Italians spent $110,000,000.000, of the $30+ Billion dollars americans spend on defense...apparently a lack of imagination(bull$hit) failed 3,000 people. C’mon you clods.

    The buck stops here, bush knew. Period. What did he know and when did he know it?...that is the question of the century...but hey, the patriot act I & II should keep all of your mouths shut. Just ask Kerry he loved it, bush wants to take more away...and the poster up there, who voted for bush, remember, anyone who takes away your liberty is a traitor/enemy to the country. If you willfully give it up, you get what you deserve. I tell you what, you come down my street armed with riot gear on, little blue hats, & tanks, your going to see falluja right here. I will protect my country from all enemies foreign and domestic. I took an oath to defend the constitution, not the revised bush doctrine of deceit and imperialism.

    Don’t come crying when you gave up your guns, your rights, and your liberty. I will not let my forefathers die in vain for bush, kerry, or some talking heads that brainwash me into believing I have no other choice. The RNC/DNC spin machine has all of you wrapped up tighter then virgin pu$$y on prom night. I dare you to come talking smack in my neighborhood. We don’t care about either party. We care about our country. Even George Washington warned us of this at his farewell speech...look it up, and then wake the phuq up. You want to "keep" your way of life? You won’t, if you don’t support liberty and start speaking up. Look at the dollar fools, it’s an orchestration of economic desparity...our debt increases....and we spend more? Oh yeah, bush is smart, smarter then his supporters...because he’s the one cashing in...and he’s cashing in hard.

    "I was tipped off by a person very high up in TV that the news has been locked down tight, and there will be no TV coverage of the real problems with voting on Nov. 2. My source said they’ve also been forbidden to talk about it even on their own time."
    — Beverly Harris of the non-partisan organization blackboxvoting.org

    http://www.boycottthenews.org/

  • It just come to evidence that Americans are a very stupid people... somehow more than most civilized countries are... they just voted for a murderer, who kills thousand innocents... but they don’T care for a second... because they are safely vegetating next to their TV in their safe home in their safe country... letting Bush and medias scare them, in order to make them do whatever they want.. and God.. it works.. Americans are just a bunch of stupid and pathetic people... it just came to evidence...

    • It really must be so annoying for the whole world that a bunch of very stupid people can affect the whole wide world. HA! HA! HA!

    • It is not so much annoying as it is tragic that some red neck uneducated one toothed shit heads are like lemmings ready to be lead to slaughter by a cowboy wannabe who is controlled by the military industrial complex war industry. The question comes to mind, when did so many Americans become brain dead?

    • Exactly. When DID so many Americans become brain dead? I think we have the Islamic controlled mainstream media to thank for that. All pushing that Bush is a crazed murderer of innocent Islamic Jihad fighters and their little innocent kids. Oooh oooh... and he supports Israel!! Allah forbid!

      All of you vehement Bush haters need to grow up and respect the majority of the people that voted for him. We won, you lost. At no other time in history has there been such belligerent hate for one that is leading our country. If he’s doing such a poor job at kicking some terrorist ass, then why did he win? Thank GOD for our president, and our troops. Freedom is not free, and innocent people will die in war. I know of 4,167 innocent people missing, 454 innocent people killed and their bodies recovered, 157 innocent passengers and crew on hijacked flights, and 343 innocent firefighters that lost their lives. Let the liberal ’lemmings’ sit back, stew, point fingers, and fling accusations on how to let more of this happen again while our president is doing something about it!!

    • Our President’s job is not to ’kick terrorist ass’ as you said, but to lead the nation. You are mistaken in thinking that those that differ in their feelings toward Bush are ignorant, as are those that think he doesn’t deserve his position. He earned the vote, and that makes him president. Too bad for all of us that he did it by touting his religious fervor and scaring the crap out of Baptists who fear for ’family values’. He is not a smart man, Karl Rove is his brain, and Cheney is his pocketbook- that is what us liberals fear for so terribly. Not for the leadership of our country, but it’s very integrity. The media fails to report both sides of any issue and our country is strangely split. Examine your beliefs. The media is not sympathetic to Jihadists, but to those innocents caught in the crossfire and strafe of jets paid for by those other wars we lost but our economy won. Freedom is defensible only by the truly free and we don’t deserve that title, for we are not free if we cannot stand together, whether we disagree or not.

  • America is in decline – it is a sad conclusion but the only one left and I would be surprised if most American themselves don’t secretly agree. The mass of people, bless them, are too busy scraping together a living and getting into endless debt to notice what is happening, and meanwhile your own leaders show their distain for you by passing dreadful laws behind your backs. USA is lucky to have a Constitution - and your politicians are sticking up a finger at it. Your Constitution is the best thing you have of any lasting value - you should defend it with the very blood in your veins, instead of spilling that blood on foreign soil. Lose the Constitution and you lose your freedom from domination by war mongers like George Bush. For a hundred years, America has wielded almost continuous military might against one nation or another, and small nations have paid for it with their blood, while the American family is still paying for it with tax money that would otherwise pay off their debts. If the money George Bush has spent on his latest military excursion, had been spent on individual families, that same money would have taken every family out of their credit card debt. Instead he has spent it on a war merely to remove Saddam Hussein - just a third world nuisance - which justifies the imposition of new and unprecedentedly intrusive laws - on the pretext of a fight against ’terrorism’. Does he think people are stupid? They may appear so for the moment, but they will come to realise their very worst enemy is in their midst. There are much more effective and much cheaper ways to combat terrorism. Half of the American populace is deluded and the other half very angry at them. America needs to wake up before it destroys itself and the world. Does anyone imagine the so-called war against terrorism will ever be declared as won, or that these oppressive new laws now threatening the average hard working American family will be ever be removed from the statutes ? You do realise, don’t you, that the bully you gave the Presidency has enacted the Patriot act behind your backs and without your permission, which empowers any govt. agency to jail you without charge, empty your bank account without your knowledge, and repossess your home without telling you, merely on suspicion of being tainted with terrorism. How the founding fathers would turn in their graves. These are powers no civilised govt. has ever before exacted against its own people, outside of the failed USSR. You have done it to yourselves, and you do have the world’s simpathy, but worse, you are doing it to all of humanity, and now you have to find some way to get us all out of the mess. For this you run the risk of being perpetually hated by all of humanity for centuries to come. See how that will affect your balance of trade. Posterity will write the American epitaph, without regard to the fact that half of you don’t deserve it. It will read ’Theirs was a brave experiment but they forgot to heed the wisdom of their founding fathers, for at the very moment they could have started anew, they allowed stupidity, in the guise of religious fervour, to hand over massive power to a child with sinister friends, and thereby set in motion the wheels of destruction for all of civilisation”. Half of you don’t deserve it, but those of us who are not Americans don’t either and we have no control. Wake up to what the world thinks, or is the world right in thinking you don’t care ?