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To: unclewest who wrote (16609)	11/18/2003 8:05:08 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793801

This guy gave a riveting presentation on C-Span II over the weekend. If he is to be believed, the only way to stop another attack is to take the job of surveillance away from the FBI and give it over to Homeland Security. Or better yet, Special Forces Intelligence. >>>The shocking story of the FBI's bungled pre-9/11 battle against terrorism, as told through the stories of three people on the frontlines: the world's most dangerous terrorist, and two Americans who tried in vain to stop him. As two jetliners hit the World Trade Center on Sept. 11th, the lives of three strangers converged. For years they had been on a collision course: FBI agent Nancy Floyd, FDNY Fire Marshal Ronnie Bucca and Ramzi Yousef, the bomb-making terrorist an American judge once called, "an apostle of evil." Floyd, Bucca and Yousef were soldiers on opposing sides of a covert terror war -- one that had been fought in hotel rooms, mosque basements and back rooms from New York City to Manila and Islamabad over the previous twelve years. In 1000 YEARS FOR REVENGE -- a work of groundbreaking investigation that reads like an international thriller -- five time Emmy-winning investigative reporter Peter Lance reveals the details of the FBI's hapless struggle to stop Osama bin Laden's New York al Qaeda terror cell -- an effort hamstrung by a Bureau plagued with infighting, misinformation and negligence. FBI agent Floyd spent months working to gain the trust of a key informant who had penetrated the cell around Yousef and blind Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, only to be dismissed and discredited within the Bureau. Fire Marshal Ronnie Bucca, who had TOP SECRET clearance in his Army Reserve unit and specialized in military intelligence, tried desperately to convince the FBI of what he knew to be the truth: that Yousef, who built the first World Trade Center bomb, would one day return to New York to finish the job. Bucca actually uncovered an Egyptian intimate of the blind Sheikh, working in New York City government, who had obtained the blueprints of the Trade Center prior to Yousef's 1993 bombing; but when he tried to get the FBI to take him seriously he was spurned. On July 24th, after the release of the 858 page “declassified” report of the Joint Senate-House Inquiry into the 9/11 attacks, the media reported that the document contained "no smoking guns" that would have proven the 9/11 attacks could have been prevented. Drawing on dozens of first person interviews with key sources inside and outside the FBI, as well as thousands of pages of court transcripts and declassified documents from the Bureau and foreign intelligence sources, Peter Lance presents a 500 page "smoking gun," proving that the FBI could have stopped Ramzi Yousef in 1992 as he built the World Trade Center bomb, and that they blew a second chance to stop the 9/11 attacks after Yousef's capture in 1995 when the Bureau received detailed intelligence proving that Yousef had already begun to execute his design for Sept. 11th, later carried out by his uncle Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. peterlance.com