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To: X Y Zebra who wrote (10547)	10/2/2001 12:17:09 AM
From: puborectalis	Respond to of 74559

If Only.......".Access Denied " FBI agents in Minneapolis weren’t given approval to search terrorist suspect’s hard drive by the Justice Department. If ‘two and two’ were put together could hijackings have been stopped, asks one investigator By Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman NEWSWEEK WEB EXCLUSIVE Oct. 1 — Top Justice Department and FBI officials turned down a request by Minneapolis FBI agents early last month for a special counterintelligence surveillance warrant on a suspected Islamic terrorist who officials now believe may have been part of the Sept. 11 plot to attack the World Trade Center and Pentagon, NEWSWEEK has learned. THE HANDLING OF the case of Zacarias Moussaoui—who is now being held in detention in New York—has raised new questions about how U.S. law enforcement officials handled critical intelligence that, in retrospect, might have alerted them in advance to the deadliest terrorist plot in U.S. history. Sources familiar with the case tell NEWSWEEK that FBI agents in Minneapolis seized Moussaoui’s computer in mid-August after officials at an Eagan, Minn., flight school tipped them off that the 33-year-old French citizen was acting suspiciously. Moussaoui had sought training only in making turns—not take-offs and landings—and specifically asked about flying over New York air space, officials said. But, while Moussaoui himself was placed in detention on minor immigration charges on August 17, agents in Minneapolis were never given approval by Justice Department officials in Washington to open up the hard drive on the suspect’s computer. The Minneapolis agents sought approval to do so—and to take other investigative steps aimed at Moussaoui—in early September under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), officials said. This came after a FBI “trace”—a request for information from friendly foreign governments—yielded a report from French intelligence that Moussaoui had been associated with members of an Algerian terrorist group and may have traveled to Afghanistan. When agents finally cracked into the computer hard drive after the Sept. 11 attack, officials found new information that only made them more suspicious about Moussaoui. Among the contents, sources said, was data on “wind patterns” relating to crop-dusters as well as a wealth of other information he had pulled down from the Internet involving crop-dusting aircraft. The information was considered sufficiently alarming that FBI officials requested the immediate downing of all crop-dusting aircraft, fearing that terrorists might be plotting to use them for a chemical or biological attack. (The planes have since been allowed to fly—but not over urban areas.) From the moment he was detained more than six weeks ago, Moussaoui has consistently refused to cooperate with U.S. law enforcement and many officials are now highly suspicious of his conduct. One widely held theory among the law enforcement community is that Moussaoui—who entered the country only last February after living in London—was supposed to have been the fifth hijacker on the United Airlines flight that crashed in southwest Pennsylvania, the only one of the four seized that day that had only four, instead of five, hijackers aboard. • Oct. 8 Issue: Bioterror, The New Threat • Commemorative Edition: Spirit of America • Special Report: War on Terror • Special Report: After the Attack • Extra Edition: America Under Attack • Newsweek International Edition Coverage • Web-exclusive Archives But there is still no consensus on the matter. “The bottom line is that nobody in the intelligence community has been able to figure out what this guy was up to,” said one official. Nevertheless, in the wake of the Sept. 11 attack, the rejection of the FISA warrant has produced tension between field agents in Minneapolis and their Justice Department and FBI superiors in Washington. Officials in Washington are adamant that there was insufficient grounds to approve the warrant based on what was produced by Minneapolis agents. “There does not seem to be any disagreement that the legal standards [for a FISA warrant] weren’t met,” said one top U.S. law enforcement official. The law requires the bureau to show evidence that the suspect is an “agent” of a foreign power or terrorist group, something the Minneapolis field agents never had, the officials said. • MSNBC coverage • MSNBC: photos, video But other law enforcement officials are equally insistent that a more aggressive probe of Moussaoui—when combined with other intelligence in the possession of U.S. agencies—might have yielded sufficient clues about the impending plot. “The question being asked here is if they put two and two together, they could have gotten a lot more information about the guy—if not stopped the hijacking,” said one investigator.

To: X Y Zebra who wrote (10547)	10/2/2001 1:16:30 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Re: natural birth control. The "Billings Method" is 99% effective if you don't cheat. Better than condoms, better than diaphragms, better than foam, close to equivalent to the Pill but without side effects. But it requires education, planning, forethought, honesty - and the ability to use a thermometer - and an accurate thermometer. Anyone who is motivated enough to take "the Pill" every day ought to be able to take her temperature every day. The Catholic Church endorses the Billings Method. I used to work as a counsellor in an abortion clinic, and as a counsellor in a maternity ward. The reason that women get pregnant in the US isn't that they don't have access to birth control, it's because they don't use it. Many don't use it at all, many don't use it properly. Human beings have a tendency not to plan before they have sex. It's probably the reason the species keeps reproducing. No priest in the world will prevent a woman from taking her temperature in order to keep track of when she is ovulating. Getting her husband to abstain during ovulation is the problem. The woman may not want more children but the husband does. Or they may tell themselves, "just this once." If you want to use artificial birth control, fine with me. Due to health problems my doctors have never allowed me to take the Pill, so I know it's not the be-all and end-all of contraception.