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record of them or any pre-authorized interview. Upon hearing this, the men drove away from the school. As they were driving away from the school, an eyewitness saw the men in the van shake their fists out the window and scream something about death to America and Bush. The van fled away and hours later, the president was whisked away from the school to an underground bunker for protection. Only days before, in Afghanistan, the head of the Afghan Northern Alliance had been killed by men posing as journalists who had cameras filled with deadly explosives. It may have been possible that these two men were terrorists who believed they could perform the same function by taking out the President at the same time the towers were falling. Of course this would have been carried out on television as the cameras were rolling. On September 10, life was going as usual with no national interruptions. Planes were filled with travelers, children were sitting at their desks in schools and 50,000 people in and around the Twin Towers in New York City were conducting routine global business. Within 24 hours, the hand writing was on the wall, and from place to place strange warning signs could be seen but nobody could decipher them. Bin Laden had announced in June of 2001, that he would hit America within two weeks. The date he had set was July 4, America's Day of Independence. When July 4 passed without incident, nobody paid much attention to the handwriting that continued to appear on the wall. S ECRETS 1 N THE M OSQUE