There is no doubt that there were pre 9-11 war plans. Afghanistan was and still is one of the most dangerous and strategic countries on Earth.
I will admit you have gotten quite a bit better at posting relevant sources then before.
CNN and the BBC are good sources, however some whack job 9-11 conspiracy site is not.
Thanks man.
Mar 2001 - India joins anti-Taliban coalition
India is believed to have joined Russia, the USA and Iran in a concerted front against Afghanistan's Taliban regime.
http://www.janes.com/security/international_security/news/jir/jir010315_1_n.shtml
http://www.indiareacts.com/archivefeatures/nat2.asp?recno=10∓ctg=policyIndia in anti-Taliban military plan
India and Iran will "facilitate" the planned US-Russia hostilities against the Taliban.
26 June 2001: India and Iran will "facilitate" US and Russian plans for "limited military action" against the Taliban if the contemplated tough new economic sanctions don't bend Afghanistan's fundamentalist regime.
One week after 9/11, the BBC printed:
US 'planned attack on Taleban'
The wider objective was to oust the Taleban
A former Pakistani diplomat has told the BBC that the US was planning military action against Osama Bin Laden and the Taleban even before last week's attacks.
Niaz Naik, a former Pakistani Foreign Secretary, was told by senior American officials in mid-July that military action against Afghanistan would go ahead by the middle of October.
In the summer of 2001, while the American media kept the people distracted with "All Condit All The Time", the US Government was informing other governments that we would be at war in Afghanistan no later than October.
How lucky for our government that just when they are planning to invade another country, for the express purpose of removing that government, a convenient "terrorist" attack occurs to anger Americans into support for an invasion.
"To be truthful about it, there was no way we could have got the public consent to have suddenly launched a campaign on Afghanistan but for what happened on September 11."
Tony Blair. July 17, 2002 [Guardian]