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To: geode00 who wrote (10658)	4/18/2004 2:11:42 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

Pre-9/11 Files Show Warnings Were More Dire and Persistent www.nytimes.com/2004/04/18/politics/18SEPT.html?hp Bush says he didn't know the exact date or second, or the exact longtitude or latitude of the attack, so he could do nothing. ----------- But now, after three weeks of extraordinary public hearings and a dozen detailed reports, the lengthy documentary record makes clear that predictions of an attack by Al Qaeda had been communicated directly to the highest levels of the government. The threat reports were more clear, urgent and persistent than was previously known. Some focused on Al Qaeda's plans to use commercial aircraft as weapons. Others stated that Osama bin Laden was intent on striking on United States soil. Many were passed to the Federal Aviation Administration. While some of the intelligence went back years, other warnings — including one that Al Qaeda seemed interested in hijacking a plane inside this country — had been delivered to the president on Aug. 6, 2001, just a month before the attacks. Mr. Bush, who is in the midst of a campaign for re-election, said last Sunday that none of the warnings gave any hint of the time, place or date of an assault. "Had I known there was going to be an attack on America I would have moved mountains to stop the attack," he said. Throughout President Clinton's eight years in office, law enforcement and intelligence agencies tracked Al Qaeda through a succession of plots in the United States and overseas. The commission found new evidence that counterterrorism became a priority for the Clinton national security team. But the panel said the effort was stymied by bureaucratic miscommunications, diplomatic failures, intelligence lapses and policy miscalculations. -----------

To: geode00 who wrote (10658)	4/20/2004 4:05:16 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Re: Why does the small country of Iraq require so much "diplomacy"? Cf.: "The Grand Chessboard" amazon.com The chapter on Eurasia, starting about page 140 is most revealing. Brzezinski is on the Board of Directors of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline Company. This is a consortium loosely linked to the Exxon/Esso/Standard Oil of New Jersey complex. This is why Brzezinski was so bitterly opposed to the Harken/Chevron/Standard Oil of California proposal to use the U.S. military to steal Iraq's oil. In spite of this temporary setback, B-T-C Pipeline has just secured a $3 Billion line of credit. God works in wondrous ways.