DECLASSIFIED BRIEF: PRESIDENT BUSH 11 Days Before 9/11: "Bin Ladin Operations Are Expert and Flexible" There were multiple, credible warnings before the terrorist attack, during the Clinton and Bush Administrations. This President's Daily Brief or PDB is notable because it reads like a road map to the 9/11 plot. **Look at the bottom 'For the President Only' While the 9/11 Commission Report is impressive in many ways, it downplays the roll of Saudi Government connected individuals, or even omits them. And it does not entirely capture the depth and breadth of warnings: especially to the Clinton White House, and later the Bush White House that we can now see independently thanks to the @CIA declassification. - Bin Ladin's al-Qa'ida organization stresses careful planning, tight security practices, and flexibility throughout all stages of terrorist strikes-sound operational practices that allow it to pose a continuing threat to US interests even in a heightened security environment. - Al-Qa'ida cells prepare for an attack well beforehand by conducting thorough surveillance of potential targets. - Group members are expert in conducting different types of attacks and know how to protect their plans from discovery. - al-Qa 'ida's camps in Afghanistan provide training in the construction of improvised bombs of varying sizes from widely available materials. - Operatives train for as long as several months in various forms of assassination, kidnapping, the use of rockets, mortars, and other longer-range weapons, as well as crude chemical and biological attacks.