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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (4449)	9/7/2002 12:23:15 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 15516

Bush Knew! - or should have. news.independent.co.uk The warnings were delivered by an aide of Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil, the Taliban Foreign Minister at the time, who was known to be deeply unhappy with the foreign militants in Afghanistan, including Arabs. Mr Muttawakil, now in American custody, believed the Taliban's protection of Mr bin Laden and the other al-Qa'ida militants would lead to nothing less than the destruction of Afghanistan by the US military. He told his aide: "The guests are going to destroy the guesthouse." The minister then ordered him to alert the US and the UN about what was going to happen. But in a massive failure of intelligence, the message was disregarded because of what sources describe as "warning fatigue". At the same time, the FBI and the CIA failed to take seriously warnings that Islamic fundamentalist students had enrolled in flight schools across the US. TP

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (4449)	9/7/2002 11:05:24 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15516

The liar in chief is not spinning fast enough to stay ahead of the fact checkers. His house of cards is shaking. White House: Bush misstated report on Iraq msnbc.com Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s office on Friday night withdrew a 2,300-word article he had written for Sunday’s editions making the case for pre-emptive military action. ... Pentagon spokeswoman Victoria Clarke said Rumsfeld withdrew the article because the timing “was not right,” He needs more people to be asleep when he makes his case. TP