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...Counter Terror Center a tip in 1999 about a terrorist suspect named Marwan, along with a phone number in the United Arab Emirates, but the CIA was slow to run it down--and never went to overseas governments for help. Marwan turned out to be Marwan al-Shehhi, the pilot of United Airlines Flight 175, which crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center...
...several points the CIA could have asked the FBI to trace the two hijackers' activities in the U.S., which would have led to 9/11 pilot Hani Hanjour, who was training with al-Hazmi. The State Department could have put them on the TIPOFF list much earlier. The FAA could have put them on its no-fly list, keeping them off domestic flights...
...election night, everything converged on Nashville’s Loews Vanderbilt Plaza Hotel. O’Mary tore himself away from the room of CNN watchers to pick up more field staff from the airport. Some came off their plane cheering because the pilot had told them Florida had been called for Gore. O’Mary had to tell them it had been taken back...
...Italy, and at 19 met 21-year-old Rajiv Gandhi in 1965 at a Greek restaurant in Cambridge, England, where they both were undergraduates. "For him, there was never anybody else," says a family friend. "For her, too." The couple married in 1968 in New Delhi. Rajiv became a pilot for Indian Airlines and Sonia threw herself into running the house for her Prime Minister mother-in-law Indira, managing the servants and organizing receptions under the lemon trees behind Indira's colonial Lutyens bungalow. For 12 years, the couple enjoyed a life of easy privilege on the edge...
Both Xu and Yuan were pleased with the success of the pilot program and expressed hope for the expansion into exchange with other prominent academic institutions in India, Taiwan and the rest of the Asia-Pacific region...