Bush Warned Privately of Coming Nuke Terror Attack
With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
September 24, 2001
Monday, Sept. 24, 2001 9:56 a.m. EDT
Hours before his rousing Thursday night address to a joint session of Congress, President Bush warned a congressional prayer meeting that there was credible evidence a second wave of terrorist attacks would strike the U.S., this time featuring chemical, biological or even nuclear weapons.
"It was quite a remarkable scene," Newsweek's Howard Fineman told radioman Don Imus Monday morning.
"The president confessed to [the prayer meeting] his anxieties. He said, 'You know, I have to walk a fine line here. You know my problem.'"
Bush then explained:
"I don't want to alarm people. But there is evidence, there's enough evidence that we face further attacks."
The president's warning included the phrase "chemical, biological and plutonium - meaning the possibility of even nuclear terrorism," the Newsweek reporter said.
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