'95 Philippine plot had echoes of September 11 Posted by Scott Manning on March 15, 2002 | Comments (0)

The confidential documents tell of a chillingly familiar plan: Recruit Islamic extremists; send them to aviation schools in the United States to prepare to hijack commercial planes and crash them into buildings such as the Pentagon and World Trade Center.

The suicide plot sounds like what happened September 11. In fact, Philippine police pieced the plan together in 1995 after busting a terrorist cell led by Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Other documents tell of a plan to attack U.S. nuclear facilities. Full Story...