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On October 6, 2005, House officials stated that the government had foiled a previously undisclosed second plot to crash a plane into the building in mid-2002.

In his televised 2006 State of the Union Address, President George W. Bush asserted that American counterterrorism officials had foiled a plot to slam planes into the building, which he mis-identified as “ Liberty Tower ”.

According to President Bush, Al-Qaeda leader Khaled Sheikh Mohammed's plan was to use Asian confederates from Jemaah Islamiyah recruited by Islamic militant Hambali for the hijacking.

President Bush asserted the hijackers were going to use shoe bombs to breach the plane's cockpit door.

Some counter-terrorism experts have expressed doubt that the plot was ever fully developed or likely to occur.