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...operative in the early 1990s. After sharing his expertise in explosives, guerrilla warfare and counterintelligence with the highest levels of bin Laden's organization and taking a key role in organizing the 1998 attacks on the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, Sergeant Mohammed turned himself in to the FBI after falling out with al-Qaeda leaders. He is currently serving a prison sentence for his role in the embassy bombings...
...August 6 2001 Presidential Daily Briefing referred to repeatedly during Dr. Rice's testimony occupying plenty of headline space for some weeks to come - its very headline "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States" suggests that the President was alerted to the general danger by the FBI and CIA more than a month ahead of the attacks. The classified document, which has been shown to the Commission, allegedly also contains an explicit reference to an al-Qaeda interest in hijackings in the U.S. although Rice insisted it included no concrete warnings. The dispute over just what the briefing...
...accused by members of Congress and the media of a wag-the-dog strategy--of attempting to divert attention from the scandal over his affair with Monica Lewinsky. After the Cole bombing, Clarke advocated striking al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan but could not win support from the FBI and the CIA, which were not yet convinced that al-Qaeda was responsible. Meanwhile, Clinton was engaged in a last-ditch effort at winning an Israeli-Palestinian peace accord. And it's hard to imagine the U.S. public, much less American allies, supporting a full-scale assault against al-Qaeda, an enemy...
...theory, greater vigilance at home might have exposed their conspiracy. There were clues. Two of the hijackers, Khalid al-Midhar and Nawaq al-Hamzi, were sought by the FBI and the CIA as suspected terrorists. An FBI agent in Phoenix, Ariz., had noted a pattern of Arab men signing up for lessons at flight schools. Zacarias Moussaoui, the suspected 20th hijacker, was learning to fly in Minnesota, apparently without asking for landing lessons. Clarke argues that if the President had been demanding action every day from his top aides, they would have passed the heat down the chain of command...
...complicated prescription-drug benefits--which don't fully kick in until 2006--in the nearly 700-page law and are skeptical that drug costs will be lowered. Now questions about how the bill was pushed through Congress could make them even more leery. The House Ethics Committee and the FBI launched investigations into whether G.O.P. members of the House offered fellow Republican Nick Smith of Michigan a bribe--in the form of a hefty contribution to his son's congressional campaign--to vote for the measure on Nov. 22. And the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human...