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From the tick-tock of the ill-fated flights, The 9/11 Report steps back to examine the origins of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda, various U.S. administrations' treatment of the terror threat, and the way the terrorists organized the September 11 attacks. Though not always completely clear in the details, the gist comes through well enough: a complete failure by multiple administrations to take bin Laden and terrorism seriously. It includes such devastating truths as "[The attack] was carried out by a tiny group of people with trivial resources operating from one of the poorest, least industrial...
...seriously the extravagant threats conveyed in al-Qaeda's steady output of infomercials. Over in France, which was singled out for some pretty threatening trashtalking in al-Qaeda's own 9/11 anniversary broadcast, counterterrorism officials see the movement's stepped up video campaign as a sign that Osama bin Laden and Ayman Zawahiri fear they may be becoming irrelevant...
...Still, even though Bin Laden and Zawahiri may no longer speak for a large-scale tight-knit global web of operatives carrying out orders from the center, their tapes can serve as encouragement for localized self-starter cells. "Plotting radicals don't need membership cards or secret handshakes to do clandestine work," the French official says. "What they need is the feeling of association and direction, and at times assistance or orders from above. We've broken a few operational cells nearing attacks whose links and affiliations with the GSPC were fairly remote. But that didn't prevent them from...
...said Joe Arlak, 46 who backs President Bush. "We need to stop dividing as a country and get behind our commander-in-chief." Arlak argued with Joe Lias, 40, who said he was dissatisfied with the war effort in Iraq. "Bush still hasn?t caught bin Laden," said Lias. "If you?re going to stop terrorism, you need to cut off the head of the guy who causes the problems." The debate was one of many that ignited as mourners left the site and picketers took their places...
Khatami, who condemned Osama Bin Laden and those who carry out terrorist acts in the name of Islam, also criticized the US for its “double standard” when it came to violence...