Declassified CIA briefs warn of explosive-plane attack before 9/11
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Newly released CIA President's Daily Briefs show that, three years before the 9/11 attacks, officials warned al-Qaeda could fly an explosive aircraft into a US city, with notes that Washington was a prime target and that the plot was widely known among extremists.
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