Bush to give address Monday on 9/11 anniversary
Fri Sep 8, 2006
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush will deliver a prime-time televised speech on Monday night to mark the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the White House announced on Friday.
Spokesman Tony Snow said the speech will reflect "what September 11 has meant for our country and where we've been since September 11 and how we move together."
The Oval Office address, estimated to last 16 to 18 minutes, will culminate a series of addresses Bush has delivered to insist that five years after the catastrophic hijacked plane attacks that killed almost 3,000 people, America is safer but still faces a threat from al Qaeda.
"It will not be a political speech. It will not be calls to action by Congress, but instead reflect a date that's burned into all our experiences," Snow said. He said the speech "will have a note of optimism and at the same time sobriety about what we've been through."
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-09-08T131631Z_01_WBT005934_RTRUKOC_0_US-BUSH-SPEECH.xml&src=090806_1105_TOPSTORY_sept._11_media_warBin Laden determined to strike in US- August 6, 2001
Transcript: The text of a memo to George Bush about Bin Laden on August 6, 2001.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/10/august6.memo/