[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 63 (Thursday, May 16, 2002)]
[House]
[Page H2514]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                  DISTURBING INFORMATION FOR AMERICANS

  (Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, last night and this 
morning, Americans got some very, very disturbing news. America was 
informed that sometime last August, the President of the United States 
was informed of efforts by bin Laden and his followers to engage in a 
hijacking scheme against American citizens. That information, while 
disturbing, was not acted upon, with no information flowing to the 
American people.
  It is suggested that this was done because it was a hijacking in the 
normal sense of the word. The fact of the matter is, we know that a 
major plot was interrupted to crash a number of 747s in Southeast Asia 
into the Earth simultaneously, and we know that an effort was 
interrupted to crash a plane into the Eifel Tower. We know that we 
interrupted the millennium scheme.
  While it is disturbing that this effort was not taken as seriously as 
it should have been, it is also very disturbing that this information 
and the briefing of the President of this information has not been 
released to the American people or to the Congress of the United States 
for over 8 months.

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