from the New York Times:
"Four in 9/11 Plot Are Called Tied to Qaeda in '00"
By DOUGLAS JEHL
Published: August 9, 2005
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 - "More than a year before the Sept. 11 attacks, a small, highly classified military intelligence unit identified Mohammed Atta and three other future hijackers as likely members of a cell of Al Qaeda operating in the United States, according to a former defense intelligence official and a Republican member of Congress."
read it and weep
Tuesday, August 09, 2005
Wednesday, August 03, 2005
Great post from Juan Cole
He really sums up the history of this war well:
"The Bush administration responded to these attacks [on September 11] by the former proteges of Ronald Reagan by putting the old Mujahideen warlords back in charge of Afghanistan's provinces, allowing Bin Laden and al-Zawahiri to escape, declaring that Americans no longer needed a Bill of Rights, and suddenly invading another old Reagan protege, Saddam's Iraq, which had had nothing to do with 9/11 and posed no threat to the US. The name given this bizarre set of actions by Bush was "the War on Terror.""
"The Bush administration responded to these attacks [on September 11] by the former proteges of Ronald Reagan by putting the old Mujahideen warlords back in charge of Afghanistan's provinces, allowing Bin Laden and al-Zawahiri to escape, declaring that Americans no longer needed a Bill of Rights, and suddenly invading another old Reagan protege, Saddam's Iraq, which had had nothing to do with 9/11 and posed no threat to the US. The name given this bizarre set of actions by Bush was "the War on Terror.""
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