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...Qaeda than was a Marin County, Calif., 19-year-old named John Walker Lindh. "They didn't see it; they didn't analyze it; they didn't locate it or disrupt it," says a U.S. official."It's just that simple." In Senate hearings last month, CIA Director George Tenet, a Clinton Administration holdover who managed to hold on to his job after 9/11 because he is close to Bush, stubbornly defended the agency's record. "It was not the result of the failure of attention and discipline and consistent effort," he insisted...
Abdullah also told TIME he endorses the Tenet and Mitchell proposals for confidence-building measures in the region, and he called for international peacekeepers to separate the warring sides. On a visit to Washington last week, Abdullah's foreign policy adviser, Adel al-Jubeir, assured Administration officials that the Saudi proposal was serious. U.S. sources say it will be discussed with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak during his visit to Washington next week and will undoubtedly come up during Vice President Dick Cheney's trip to the region...
BIOTERRORISM: "Documents recovered from al-Qaeda facilities in Afghanistan," Tenet testified, "show that bin Laden was pursuing a sophisticated biological-weapons research program." A U.S. intelligence official told TIME the CIA and its allies, through interviews and documents, have discovered that bin Laden is "further along than we had believed." This information builds on earlier reports of al-Qaeda camps in eastern Afghanistan that were used for developing and testing chemical and biological weapons, and supports President Bush's planned $11 billion increase in bioterror funding...
FUTURE THREATS: "The terrorists have considered attacks in the U.S. against high-profile government or private facilities," Tenet said, "famous landmarks and U.S. infrastructure nodes, such as airports, bridges, harbors and dams, [and] high-profile events, such as the Olympics." A chilling list--yet the official says there's "nothing specific" to worry about, no apparent active plan. Tenet makes such warnings annually, in part so he's on the record in case something dreadful does happen...
...Tenet will soon have more chances to parry and thrust; the House and Senate plan a joint investigation into why the U.S. didn't get wind of the attacks...