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...weeks before the attacks, "close associates of bin Laden were warned to return to Afghanistan" by Sept...
...Bin Laden himself "asserted shortly before 11 September that he was preparing a major attack on America...
...addition, the white paper says "at least three" of the 19 hijackers have been identified as associates of al-Qaeda, bin Laden's organization. The document doesn't identify the three. But Bush Administration sources tell TIME that U.S. authorities have acquired evidence placing the suspected leader of the hijackings, Mohamed Atta, at al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan. Other evidence suggests that Atta also met with senior al-Qaeda leaders, including Ayman al-Zawahiri, a top bin Laden lieutenant...
...NATO diplomat told TIME that "the sheer weight of information"--rather than any single piece of intelligence--left the ambassadors of all 19 NATO countries "without a shred of doubt" about al-Qaeda's complicity. And on Thursday the predominantly Islamic nation of Pakistan gave the case against bin Laden a major vote of confidence when Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammed Riaz Khan said the Pakistani government sees "sufficient grounds for indictment" of the Saudi exile...
...this is heartening to U.S. investigators, who have few doubts about the connection to bin Laden. "It is so obvious, based on where [the hijackers] were, who they were talking to, the places they've been and their known telephone numbers," says a senior U.S. intelligence official. But pinning down the supporting details has been a painstaking process. U.S. prosecutors haven't yet been able to charge anyone with a direct role in the attacks, and investigators now believe few if any accomplices were in the country for significant periods before Sept. 11. And they are a long way from...