Clinton, Bush received multiple warnings on bin Laden hijack plots before 9/11, declassified files show

Former presidents Bill Clinton and George W.Bush were given multiple warnings that 9/11 organizer Osama bin Laden and his terror network were planning to hijack large commercial jets in an effort to attack the United States, according to a batch of files released by the Trump administration on Friday.The reports, contained in previously classified documents from presidential daily briefs (PDBs) and high-level CIA intelligence memorandums, noted that operatives had already evaded security checks during a trial run at an unidentified New York airport three years before members of al-Qaeda took down the World Trade Center.The plotters aimed to leverage hijacked flights to demand the release of imprisoned extremists, including Shaykh 'Umar 'Abd al-Rahman and Ramzi Yousef.USS COLE COMMANDER RECALLS CHILLING 9/11 WARNING AT CIA JUST 20 MINUTES BEFORE FIRST PLANE HITFormer President Bill Clinton greets former Presidents George W.

Bush and Barack Obama during a ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the Sept.11 terrorist attacks at the National 9/11 Memorial & Museum in New York City on Sept.

11, 2026.Newly declassified files reveal that intelligence warnings about a potential terror attack spanned across presidential administrations.

(Getty Images)"Some members of the bin Ladin network have received hijack training, according to various sources, but no group directly tied to bin Ladin's al-Qa'ida organization has ever carried out an aircraft hijacking," a Dec.4, 1998 presidential daily briefing states.

"Bin Ladin could be weighing other types of operations against US aircraft."Months before the December 1998 briefing, a Sept.10, 1998, PDB memorandum noted that bin Laden’s preferred option was to strike on U.S.

soil in Washington, D.C.That report warned that the terror network responsible for the East Africa embassy bombings could possibly fly a plane packed with explosives into an American city.AMERICA BUILT A FORTRESS AFTER 9/11.

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