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...early 1999, when the National Security Agency, eavesdropping on a suspected terrorist facility in the Middle East, first learned (but kept to itself) that a 25-year-old Saudi named Nawaf Alhazmi had links to Osama bin Laden? Or was it in March 2000, when the CIA heard from its spies overseas (but did not tell the FBI) that Alhazmi had flown to Los Angeles a few weeks before? Then there was the bungled meeting between the CIA and the FBI in June 2001, when the CIA hinted at Alhazmi's role but would not put everything it knew...
...that followed the attacks of 2001, when very little was comforting, it was almost a relief to hear top Bush Administration officials argue that there was really no way the U.S. government could have foreseen, much less prevented, the deadly attacks on Washington and New York City. Osama bin Laden's plot was too diabolical, they said, too well executed and too perfectly aimed at the blind spots of our homeland defense for anyone to have imagined or foiled it. "We were surprised by what happened here," said Vice President Dick Cheney five days afterward...
...policy-making body that shadows the cabinet - of its executive powers, making it an advisory body only, and also allows for greater parliamentary scrutiny of military spending. Hospital Blast RUSSIA More than 41 people were killed and many more injured when a suicide bomber crashed a truck reportedly laden with more than a ton of explosives into the military hospital in Mozdok, the town in Northern Ossetia that is the principal rear base for the Russian war effort in Chechnya. The main hospital building was leveled. Last June a suicide bomber killed 20 people in the town, and Chechen guerrillas...
...intelligence believes that Al-Ghamdi trained at Osama bin Laden's al-Farouq camp and fought with the al-Qaeda leader at Tora Bora. Escaping the U.S. bombardment, he returned to his native Saudi Arabia and reported to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, plotting "second wave" attacks on Americans and their allies until Mohammed's arrest in Pakistan last March. As more and more al-Qaeda field leaders were rounded up, al-Ghamdi rose in the ranks, safely hiding in Saudi Arabia until the May 12 attacks galvanized the kingdom's rulers into cracking down. U.S. officials believe al-Ghamdi may have...
...Meanwhile, it turns out that neighboring Iran may be holding a number of senior al-Qaeda men prisoner, some of whom the U.S. has accused Iran of sheltering. And if the reports prove true, they underscore precisely why bin Laden's group has done its best to operate without state sponsorship - because states, by nature, are liable to diplomatic, economic and military pressure...