Issue 17, Tuesday March 30th 2004
Bush denies Al Quaida knowledge, says he acted "promptly".

Faced with increasing criticism of his treatment of the terrorist threat pre-9-11 President Bush claimed yesterday that though he was repeatedly warned about the threat from Al Quaida he was unaware of the links with Bin Laden.

“I didn’t know that the Quaida guy, Al isn’t it ? Yeah, well I didn’t know he was related to the Ladens, how could I have known when they don’t have like the same surname or anything?”
Bush told the independent commission he had acted promptly as soon as he had the necessary information.

“As soon as Condo told me that Al and Bin were in this together I sent our boys over to Iraq deal with their friend Saddam.”

See also : Blair: WMD will remain a mystery


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