Al Qaeda
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Al Qaeda
President Bush said that the 72-story building, known as the Library Tower until U.S. Bancorp acquired naming rights in 2003, was to have been the target of a follow-up attack by Al Qaeda after the terrorist strikes of Sept. 11, 2001. He said he had devoted significant counterterrorism resources to the building and to Los Angeles International Airport, because Al Qaeda is known to carefully research its targets and to try to strike more than once. An article about the U.S. Bank Tower in Los Angeles, which President Bush described as the target of a thwarted attack by Al Qaeda, misidentified the building's designer.