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L.A. Terror Plot Bush's Second Choice
President Bush revealed new details Thursday about a foiled al-Qaida plot to launch a 9/11-style attack against Los Angeles only after deciding that still secret information about another foiled al-Qaida attack was still too sensitive to discuss. "When we were preparing the president's speech we had originally picked a different plot to try and declassify to talk about," senior White House terrorism advisor Fran Townsend said Friday. "And we were unable to because our allies in the war on terror had other operational equities still in place," she told the Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends." "And so we agreed not to talk about that one." Townsend said the White House settled on the Los Angeles plot "because the known cell members were in custody and the leads had been run out."
Story Continues Below The top Bush terrorism official said the LA operation was "really quite far along" when U.S. intelligence uncovered it, explaining: "These cell operatives were trained. They were in place. They had been to see bin Laden. And they had picked a target. So we disrupted this before it could harm the American people and, in particular, the people of Los Angeles."
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