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...longer. The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon exposed serious gaps in the nation's ability to collect and act on information about potential terrorists. The CIA knew almost two years ago that Khalid Al-Midhar had connections to Osama bin Laden, and by August of this year it had enough information to put him and a traveling companion on a watch list. But by then immigration officials had already allowed them into the country. The FBI couldn't find them, and when the men boarded American Flight 77, the airline had never been warned or provided...
...suicide pilots knew about their confederates before they gathered Tuesday morning at their assigned planes--or if they knew others would undertake similar missions. But preliminary information suggests that the cells followed classic bin Laden practice: over time, cell members built up a small local support network to collect information, rent houses, buy equipment for the "sleeper" operatives while they waited to be activated. As happened with the East Africa embassy bombings, agents think only a few superior handlers--a Commander X or two--sent perhaps by HQ at the penultimate moment, knew how the final pieces were meant...
...loads, perhaps even seat configurations. The car was found there again Tuesday night, containing a "ramp pass" to enter restricted areas of Logan Airport. Maybe that someone was reconnoitering with accomplices who worked on the planes, who could plant weapons onboard. Monday night, some of the Boston suicide squads collected at the Park Inn in suburban Chestnut Hill. By Wednesday dozens of police in bulletproof vests descended on Room 432 to collect and remove evidence...
...obtained from instant background checks mandated by federal law for gun purchases. Americans may be willing to let their e-mails pass one time through a sort of national filter that would screen for hints of terrorist activity. They will be far more reluctant to allow the government to collect a national e-mail database...
While individual writers may collect their emotions in their reporting in fact, some of the best writing in recent memory has been the result of the tragedy—newspapers don’t wait for emotions before publishing. At first, the competition was over images: papers, limited by the frozen images of photography, competed for the best shots of the collapsing towers to grace their pages...