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The Report is being called “damning” and “scathing.” And perhaps it is, with regard to the past.
With regard to the present, it’s pretty encouraging. Let me point out that terrorists are reading this report and saying, “they were that close to getting us when they weren’t even trying. If we do something like that again they’re going to nail us.”
From the LA Times article:
Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid Almihdhar had more visible links to Al Qaeda than any of the other hijackers. The CIA had observed both men attending an Al Qaeda meeting in Malaysia in January 2000.Today, these guys would likely be caught....Hijackers Hani Hanjour, Mohamed Atta, Marwan Al-Shehhi, Alhazmi and Almihdhar all appear to have had contact with individuals who “had come to the FBI’s attention” during counter-terrorism or counter-intelligence investigations. Four of those people were the focus of active FBI investigations during the time the hijackers were in the U.S.
And in fact, there has so far been no second attack carried out by terrorists on U.S. soil, likely due in part to efforts by the CIA and FBI.
