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Bush Details Failed 2002 Al Qaeda Attack

By Don Gonyea

Published February 9, 2006 at 5:01 PM PST

This story was published more than 18 years ago.

President Bush on Thursday revealed what he said were new details of a failed al Qaeda plot in 2002 to crash a plane into the tallest building on the West Coast. The president also said that international cooperation has significantly weakened the al Qaeda terrorist network since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

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You're most likely to find NPR's Don Gonyea on the road, in some battleground state looking for voters to sit with him at the local lunch spot, the VFW or union hall, at a campaign rally, or at their kitchen tables to tell him what's on their minds. Through countless such conversations over the course of the year, he gets a ground-level view of American elections. Gonyea is NPR's National Political Correspondent, a position he has held since 2010. His reports can be heard on all NPR News programs and at NPR.org. To hear his sound-rich stories is akin to riding in the passenger seat of his rental car, traveling through Iowa or South Carolina or Michigan or wherever, right along with him.