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...aide to President George W. Bush came close last week to boasting that authorities had busted up more than just a plot. "I believe that the string of arrests represents a strategic success against al-Qaeda as opposed to the wrapping up tactically of a single cell," said a senior White House official. But others found that view premature. "We know we've disrupted a plot, but we don't know that we've derailed it," said a senior counterterrorism hand. "And we certainly don't know that it's the only plot." --With reporting by Massimo Calabresi/Washington
...Based in large part on massive investigation by the FBI, CIA, Treasury and other U.S. and foreign agencies, the commission estimated that the devastating plot that would spark the war on terrorism cost around $400,000 to $500,000, ?the vast majority of which was provided by al-Qaeda...
...shut down formal operations on Saturday, the September 11 Commission released a pair of staff monograph reports that reveal tantalizing and important new nuggets about the 9/11 plot - including the possibility that 9/11 ringleader Mohammed Atta and another hijacker visited an INS office in Miami together in May 2001 with Adnan Shukrijumah, a trained pilot who today remains one of the most wanted al-Qaeda terrorists with a $5 million U.S. bounty on his head. The commission also revealed new but ambiguous evidence of a financial connection between one of the hijackers and a Saudi national in San Diego...
...commission notes that it is unclear whether the money was meant to be given to Hazmi for the 9/11 plot or any other purpose. Since the Saudi didn't have a U.S. bank account, Hamzi may have simply cashed the travelers check for him, and passed on the money. The commission said it "appears likely" that Hazmi was merely helping Salmi out by cashing the check for him. Still, there the report notes that, when interviewed in Saudi Arabia June of this year Salmi "claimed not to recall? the transaction...
...PLOT A rogue CIA agent tries to recover his memory before he is killed...