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List of Chapters | Main Menu | Contact | About Futurepower ® The U.S. government had planned to attack Afghanistan long before the second World Trade Center bombing. The Guardian [guardian.co.uk], a respected newspaper in England, reported in a September 22, 2001 story, Threat of U.S. strikes passed to Taliban weeks before NY attack. [guardian.co.uk], that the Bush administration had threatened the Taliban with military strikes about two months before the recent World Trade Center bombing. The story says that the threat "raises the possibility that Bin Laden ... was launching a pre-emptive strike in response to what he saw as U.S. threats". The BBC gave the same information in an earlier, September 18, 2001 story, U.S. "planned attack on Taleban" [bbc.co.uk]. The story says, Niaz Naik, a former Pakistani Foreign Secretary, was told by senior American officials in mid-July that military action against Afghanistan would go ahead by the middle of October. The BBC story also says: Mr Naik was told that Washington would launch its operation from bases in Tajikistan, where American advisers were already in place. [in mid-July] The second bombing of the World Trade Center actually helped the U.S. government do what it already planned to do. The WTC bombing made the planned attack on Afghanistan more politically acceptable because now the Bush administration could claim it was necessary retaliation. List of Chapters | Main Menu | Contact | About Futurepower ® | Go to top Futurepower
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