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What happened next is not entirely clear. Slovakian authorities say they immediately contacted their counterparts at Dublin Airport to explain the situation, but the Dublin Airport Authority says it did not hear from the Slovakians until Tuesday morning. (According to the Irish media, a telex went to the wrong number.) Slovakian officials described the oversight as a "silly and unprofessional mistake" and apologized to the Irish. But in a statement from the Slovakian Interior Ministry, the government took exception to the arrest of the passenger: "[For an] incomprehensible reason, [the police] took the person into custody and undertook further security...
...worked her journalistic contacts to press her son's case, and got early word to Sarkozy of what had happened. In an Elysée meeting in July, Sarkozy told the UAE leader that he wanted "utmost attention" given to Alexandre's alleged attack, according to a confidential diplomatic telex from the French ambassador to the Emirates to his bosses in Paris...
...problem was that communications between FBI and CIA headquarters is ad hoc - usually by telephone, sometimes by a classified telex. An FBI agent assigned to the CIA wrote a telex to the FBI about al-Hazmi and al-Midhar but for reasons that are still unclear it was never sent. There was no mechanism to register the lapse, or that the FBI in fact did not have al-Midhar and al-Hazmi under coverage. The ball was dropped...
...problems were easily correctible. For instance, had the CIA field station in East Asia been able to send a telex directly to FBI headquarters in Washington or FBI field offices in California, where al-Hazmi and al-Midhar ended up, the FBI no doubt would have launched a full field investigation and almost certainly found out about the other 17 hijackers. The chances are the FBI would have stopped 9/11...
...imagine I'll ever forget, in The Shadow of the Sun, an account of sharing space with a furious cobra, or, in Another Day of Life, his lonely admission of dependency on daily telex connections with Warsaw, when he "felt like a wanderer in the desert who catches sight of a spring." And there are lines that resonate today, some of which I found last night flipping randomly through the books I do have here, such as a meditation in The Soccer War on how tyranny enforces life-denying silence on its subjects. But what sticks in my mind most...