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...will follow him to the gates of hell.' SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN, Republican U.S. presidential candidate, speaking about Osama bin Laden at a debate between Republican candidates for their party's presidential nomination...
SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN, Republican presidential candidate, speaking about Osama bin Laden at a debate among Republican candidates for their party's presidential nomination...
...someone to take the blame for Iraq, Tenet maintains, he took the fall. Now, several years later, the book is partly a revealing score-settler: Tenet tags Secretary of State and former National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice for mishandling her job before 9/11 and being slow to realize that Osama bin Laden was preparing to attack the U.S. Rice is portrayed as a National Security adviser who avoided fights, rather than one who tried to settle them. The book suggests that the 9/11 commission protected Rice in its final report and omitted facts that would have embarrassed the relatively more...
...Information released by the Interior Ministry revealed that three of the cells involved had been using Iraq as a theater of terror operations as well as a training and staging area for attacks against Saudi Arabia. That may be a case of history repeating itself - Saudi native Osama bin Laden and other Arabs who had participated in the Afghanistan jihad of the '80s later returned to their home countries to fight the authorities during the '90s. One cell of 59 Saudis and non-Saudis sent members to "external training camps" to "participate in regional conflicts" - a reference to Iraq, according...
...does anyone seriously believe Osama bin Laden would be deterred from attacking the United States if he found out we are spending more on intelligence than everyone thinks? I called around to check with my former colleagues. "Who cares whether the intelligence budget is $25 or $75 billion?" a recently retired CIA officer told me, bringing up only one real problem that bothers him. "The entire budget is being flushed down the drain - into contractors' pockets...