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To: JohnM who wrote (36417)8/7/2002 9:17:11 PM
From: stockman_scott  Respond to of 281500
 
Long before 9/11, the White House debated taking the fight to al-Qaeda. By the time they decided, it was too late. The saga of a lost chance...

time.com



To: JohnM who wrote (36417)8/7/2002 10:32:50 PM
From: LindyBill  Respond to of 281500
 
suggest some reading.

If there are any Clancy fans here, I just finished his new one, "Red Rabbit." It is a fictionlized version of the attempted assassination of the Pope in 1981. It gives you a very good picture of where the Russians and the Americans were in at that time, in relation to the world and each other, and is a very good read, IMO.