#TODOFacts ☻Philippine Police discovered clues of 9/11 attacks, 6 years before it happened. We all know what went down that fateful morning on Sept. 11, 2001. On that day, Islamic terrorists hijacked four planes and rammed three of them into the two towers of the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Virginia. The White House would have been the final target of the fourth plane; however, the passengers courageously battled with the terrorists onboard, causing it to crash on a field in Pennsylvania instead. All in all, the attacks cost almost three thousand Americans their lives and destroyed at least $10 billion worth of infrastructure. Most of all, it shattered the US notion of invincibility. For the longest time since Pearl Harbor in World War II, America had been attacked and left shaken. If only they listened to the Philippines years ago. CLUE#1 - Operation Bojinka Six years earlier, on January 6-7, 1995, the Philippine National Police accidentally uncovered the forerunner to the 9/11 attacks when a mysterious fire which broke out in the Doña Josefa apartment in Manila led them to discover a cache of bomb-making equipment. Doña Josefa apartment The Josefa apartment, where the fire that foiled the Bojinka plot took place. [Source: CBC] More importantly, incriminating documents led them to the existence of Operation Bojinka, a plot hatched by the notorious Pakistani terrorists Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (also known as the architect of the 9/11 attacks), Ramzi Yousef (his nephew and mastermind of the 1993 WTC car bombing), Abdul Hakim Murad, and their Afghan financier Wali Khan Amin Shah. Operation Bojinka—Serbian for ‘loud bang’—itself eerily resembled 9/11: The terrorists would launch a series of simultaneous attacks against designated targets, which included Pope John Paul II, US President Bill Clinton, President Fidel Ramos, and a host of other dignitaries during their scheduled trips to the country. Other soft targets included the US embassy and government buildings. Bojinka document One of the Bojinka documents found. This Word document apparently lists flight times. [Source: CBC] However, the main part of the plot consisted of hijacking and blowing up at least a dozen planes flying back and forth between the US and Asia. The casualties—if the plot succeeded—would’ve have been horrific too: Over 4,000 dead according to FBI estimates. Murad also suggested hijacking more planes and crashing it into several US buildings including the CIA headquarters in Virginia. This proposal may have served as the inspiration for Mohammed’s 9/11 plan.
Posted on: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 04:47:30 +0000