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U.S. Senate Describes the Threshold Conditions for Starting the 9/11 Wars in 1996 Statute

In the early to mid-1990s, there occurred a series of mass-casualty airplane disasters including TWA FL800, Valuejet Flight 592 in the Florida Everglades, the USAF Boeing 737 in Croatia that carried Secretary of Commerce, Ron Brown, AA Flight 965 in Buga Columbia, US Air Flight 1016 in Charlotte, North Carolina, and US Air Flight 427 in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, North Carolina. During this time frame, the Terror Timeline (http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/) shows that numerous airplane-related incidents and intelligence "discoveries" occurred which established the perception that a terrorist group headed by a Saudi national of the prominent bin Laden family had used and had planned to use airplanes as tools in a variety of terrorist acts. This collective history led the 104th Congress to craft legislation that amended title 49 of U.S. Code to "reauthorize programs of the Federal Aviation Administration, and for other purposes." This short report deals with one particular "other purpose" for this legislation, namely to describe the Congressional state-of-mind as of 1996 regarding the conditions necessary to trigger war between the United States and another country.

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