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I am so glad our intelligence was working two months before 9/11? No wonder we didn’t believe the advance warnings, we were too busy working with other governments to keep our president safe from terrorists who might use planes packed with explosives and crash them into buildings in Genoa. Our intelligence didn’t fail, they were just too busy with other "stuff". One does not need to be an investigative reporter, a deep thinker, or sherlock holmes to figure this one out.
G8 summit death shocks leaders
July 21, 2001
About 15,000 police are on duty as part of the $110 million security
operation. Surface-to-air missiles, fighter jets and naval ships form
part of the security operation, which is also responsible for defending the
summit from attacks by terrorists.
http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/07/20/genoa.protests/
Airspace closed
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/europe/1566982.stm
Reports prior to the summit said that the German secret service had
passed on information to the Italian authorities about a bomb attack planned
by Osama Bin Laden.
There were also reports that Bin Laden’s supporters might launch an air
attack.
The White House was aware of the threat, said spokesman Ari Fleischer,
but he would not comment further.
Italy closed airspace over Genoa during the summit and also over Naples for
the preparatory summit which took place there.
"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," Mr Ruggiero said. Air defences
were also established.
"Islamic extremists were said to be trying to hit Bush in the air," Mr Fini
told the Panorama news magazine."
Bin Laden ’tried to kill G8 leaders in Genoa’
http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,558624,00.html
The president of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, was aware of a plot by Osama bin
Laden to kill the leaders of the world’s wealthiest nations during the G8
summit in Genoa, it emerged today.
Speaking to French television, Mr Mubarak said he was informed of a threat
in the weeks before the summit to attack the city using an "aeroplane
stuffed with explosives".
2nd-OP