Cheney Refuted Aug 26, 2009
But it doesn't inspire confidence that both reports dwell not on whatever it was that Paracha was up to but, rather, on the Library Tower plot, details of which were revealed by Sheikh Mohammed under interrogation. As I have at , the Library Tower, a building in Los Angeles now known as the U.S. Bank Tower, was in no danger at the time of Sheikh Mohammed's arrest ... He was in a good position to know, because he was working at the time for ("Hambali")leader of a Southeast Asian al-Qaida... (Slate)
Holder Throwing a Bone to Radical Left Aug 22, 2009
The interrogation of KSM yielded information that was vital to apprehending other al Qaeda terrorists and preventing additional attacks on the United States, including the plot to destroy the Library Tower in Los Angeles. T]here is little doubt that further investigations and potential prosecutions of CIA officials would chill future intelligence activities. (Human Events Online)
GOP Senators Urge Holder Not to Appoint Special Prosecutor on Torture Aug 20, 2009
The nine GOP Senators echoed that sentiment in their letter, saying that the harsh tactics used on alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed produced information that was absolutely vital to apprehending other al Qaeda terrorists and preventing additional attack on the United States, including the West Coast plot seeking to destroy the Library Tower in Los Angeles. In 2002, the Bush administration provided the CIA and intelligence contractors with legal guidance as to what harsh methods... (Roll Call)
Just the facts May 24, 2009
Also at least one major plot Bush claimed was disrupted, a plan to attack the Library Tower in Los Angeles, only came to the U.S. s attention after plotters had been picked up abroad. Cheney is seeking the release of CIA reports that purport to show information gained from the so-called enhanced interrogations. (Yahoo News -- Politics)
Cheney, Obama terrorism claims difficult to verify May 23, 2009
Among them were plans to blow up fuel tanks at a New York airport, a plot to blow up airliners bound for the East Coast and a scheme to destroy the Library Tower skyscraper in Los Angeles. Al-Qaida's efforts to produce anthrax at laboratories in Afghanistan were derailed by the U.S. invasion in 2001. (AZCentral -- News)
U.S. Blabocracy Makes Intelligence Sources Clam Up May 22, 2009
The ensuing pageant of self-flagellation obscured the memos revelation that, after waterboarding, Zubaydah ratted out KSM. Once captured and waterboarded, KSM exposed plans to smack a jet into Los Angeles 73-story Library Tower. Officials arrested this al-Qaeda conspiracy s 17-man team and stopped yet another mass-incineration of American citizens. (Human Events Online)
No excuse for torture May 20, 2009
One of the excuses used by gasbag radio and Fox News for embracing torture now is that supposedly we got important information by waterboarding Khalid Sheikh Mohammed more than 180 times, during which he confessed to a plot to fly an airplane into the Library Tower in Los Angeles ... schuro wrote on May 17, 2009 12:56 PM:" Vida is correct in stating that a plot to crash a plane into the Library Tower in LA was not broken by any confession extracted from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Google it.... (Helena Independent Record)
On Your Mind May 17, 2009
It saved the Los Angeles Library Tower and thousands of American lives. Obama authorizes Predator drones to bomb al-Qaida and Taliban strongholds in Pakistan, fully aware that non-combatant men, women and children will simultaneously be killed. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
LETTERS: NCT, May 12, 2009 May 12, 2009
Forget how Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was captured six months after the foiling of the Library Tower plot he supposedly helped thwart. Don't ask why the CIA illegally destroyed 92 interrogation videotapes. (North County Times)
Obama failing to defend torture law May 1, 2009
2) As I have said before, as since this is a repeat yourself over and over again until it sounds like the truth blog, the liberal anger towards enhanced interrogation methods really makes it seem as though you are upset that we stopped al Qaeda from taking out the Library Tower and killing thousands more Americans. 3) If you are so confident that enhanced interrogation doesn t work, then why were the results of it blacked out on the memos you released. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
More Library Tower Nonsense Apr 28, 2009
The U.S. Bank Tower, formerly known as the Library TowerOn April 21 I posted a Chatterbox column that if the Central Intelligence Agency and former Bush speechwriter hoped to convince the world that the "enhanced interrogation techniques" (and since repudiated by President Obama) prevented terror attacks against the U.S., they would have to come up with a better example than the Library Tower plot. The CIA and Thiessen had argued that torturing Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, mastermind of the 9/11... (Slate)
The Missing Witness Apr 28, 2009
Al-Qaida's plot to bomb the Library Tower was not worth torturing anyone over. Timothy Noah | April 21, 2009. (Slate)
