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...information his Administration had gathered in the months leading up to Sept. 11. Bush's critics imply that if all the warnings and indications had been pulled together in advance, the President or his aides could have discerned the plot and launched a pre-emptive strike on Osama bin Laden last summer. That is a charge the White House dismisses. But Bush's pre-emptive doctrine assumes that we may never have all the intelligence, we may be able to make only educated guesses about our enemies' arsenals and intentions, and we'll need to rely on wisps and warnings...
...joint House-Senate committee investigating intelligence failures before Sept.11 released a scathing staff report last week accusing the CIA of not devoting enough resources to uncovering Osama bin Laden's plots against the U.S. One FBI agent testified that he warned headquarters just 13 days before the attacks that because he was denied permission to pursue Khalid Almihdhar, above, who later turned out to be one of the 19 hijackers, "someday, someone will die." President Bush announced he would now support a blue-ribbon commission to investigate what went wrong. The CIA denies it was aslei*Aep, but since last...
...enforced by imported European judges, not Kim's fiats, will regulate the community. Most of the drab, dilapidated buildings that line Sinuiju's quiet streets will be flattened, modern offices and factories built in their place. Pyongyang has even appointed a non-Korean?39-year-old Chinese entrepreneur Yang Bin, reportedly the second-richest man in China?to govern the new zone. Li, after being told that his role in the grand experiment involves packing his things and leaving, says impassively: "We must obey the higher authority of the country...
...This experiment has to succeed. I don't think the North Korean people can afford a failure." YANG BIN, chief executive of North Korea's new free-trade zone, on the country's efforts to rejoin the global community...
...Gore Speaks Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore warned that a hasty attack on Iraq would "severely damage" the war on terrorism and "weaken" American leadership in the world. Gore argued that George W. Bush had set his sights on deposing Saddam Hussein because the hunt for Osama bin Laden had faltered. By turning to Iraq, Gore said, "the President has manifestly disposed of the sympathy, goodwill and solidarity compiled by America and transformed it into a sense of deep misgiving and even hostility." Three days later Gore said Bush domestic-security measures amounted to an "attack on civil liberties...