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Zelikow discussed some of the controversies that surrounded the report such as its commentary on al Qaeda??s relationship to Iraq...
Most importantly, Johnston asks why the majority of Westerners, including U.N. officials and CNN analysts, were not aware of the list of al Qaeda??s specific demands. This list was made public several years before the Sept. 11 attacks, without response from any Western power. Though never directly sympathetic to the terrorists, the filmmakers constantly offer a perspective that includes the political context that led to the attacks...
...speech, delivered in Spanish and translated simultaneously, Garzon described the March 11 bombing in Madrid as the “largest terrorist attack in modern European history.” ands he said that the nature of the threat from al Qaeda??and terrorism in general—was evolving rapidly...
...attacks. The pertinence of this question was only heightened when the White House admitted last year that an August 2001 Presidential Daily Brief (PDB)—a document the CIA presents daily to the President and his top aides—referred to the possibility of al Qaeda??s using hijacked planes in a terrorist operation against the United States. Last week, the Bush administration finally agreed to make the pre-9/11 PDBs available to the investigative panel, but under conditions so restrictive as to prevent the disclosure of information potentially vital to the commission?...
...which has traditionally doubted the possibility of a Saddam-Osama alliance, is now much less skeptical about such collusion. Stephen Hayes reports in the Weekly Standard: “The CIA has confirmed, in interviews with detainees and informants it finds highly credible, that al Qaeda??s Number 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri, met with Iraqi intelligence in Baghdad in 1992 and 1998. More disturbing, according to an administration official familiar with briefings the CIA has given President Bush, the Agency has ‘irrefutable evidence’ that the Iraqi regime paid Zawahiri...