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To: Enigma who wrote (77313)	9/24/2001 9:27:17 AM
From: Richnorth	Respond to of 116752

Why the CIA & FBI failed to avert terror strikes 24 September WASHINGTON -- US intelligence agencies failed to foil the Sept 11 terror attacks despite tips that followers of prime suspect Osama bin Laden were in or heading for the United States, a report said on Monday. The Washington Post said in an investigative report that lack of communication between the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), lack of language skills, insufficient emphasis on data analysis and outdated equipment all contributed to the spectacular failure. 'In the past two years, the CIA cabled to the FBI names of about 100 suspected associates of Osama bin Laden thought to be bound for or already in the United States,' the paper said. 'An Aug 23 cable bore the names of two, Khalid Al-Midhar and Nawaq Alhazmi. The FBI sought the men, but failed to locate them before they boarded the airliner that crashed into the Pentagon.' The FBI, which has named terrorism as its top target, has tripled its anti-terrorism budget over the past 10 years and multiplied by five its number of intelligence gatherers, the paper said. But old rivalries between it and the CIA, a lack of translators to interpret data in foreign languages including Arabic, outdated computers were among the factors which left it 'ill-equipped and unprepared', the paper said. 'Even when it had information, the report said, the FBI sometimes did not know what to make of it,' the paper said. -- AFP