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Never had John Kerry encountered a more target-rich environment than the week that saw the Bush White House hauled in to explain itself to both the Supreme Court and the 9/11 commission, not to mention the first anniversary of the aircraft-carrier landing that turned "mission accomplished" into a punch line. But what did the challenger find himself talking about for three days? The question of what, precisely, he tossed over a fence in front of the Capitol during an antiwar protest 33 years ago. The point of contention was whether the much decorated Vietnam veteran who still carries...
...last fall, Heatwole has talked to the TSA about the holes in the airport screening process, and he has even provided them with a videotape with training instructions for those employees who man the X-rays. And while normally the penalty for carrying a concealed dangerous weapon aboard an aircraft is 10 years in prison, Nat will probably get off with a $5,000 fine and a few months hard time...
...mountain trails around Spera, where thick pine forests provide cover from U.S. aircraft, have become a major infiltration point for Taliban and al-Qaeda operatives. The watchful locals, members of the Zadran tribe, sympathize with the jihadists. It's ambush country, and some time around 7:30 p.m. Tillman's patrol was attacked. In the 12 to 15 minutes of shooting that followed, two Americans were wounded. An Afghan militia man was killed. So was Tillman...
Bojinka was only one of several hints of potential attacks involving aircraft, yet U.S. intelligence did not give the idea serious consideration. Others included an attempt by Algerian terrorists to crash a hijacked plane into the Eiffel Tower in 1994. A foreign intelligence service told U.S. agents in 1998 of al-Qaeda plans to hijack a plane and bargain for the release of blind cleric Omar Abdel Rahman, who was in a U.S. prison for his role in the first World Trade Center attack...
...attended. They would have also discovered a notebook containing the name Ahad Sabet, the alias of Ramzi bin al-Shibh, who wired money to Moussaoui and was a roommate of 9/11 pilots Atta, al-Shehhi and Ziad Jarrah. That might have enabled agents to speculate about a plot involving aircraft and to bar the three pilots from all flights...