The New York Times > Washington > '01 Memo to Rice Warned of Qaeda and Offered Plan
Eight months before the September 11 attacks, seven months before the August 6 Presidential Daily Briefing (titled "bin Laden Determined to Strike in US"), Richard Clarke warned National Security Advisor (now Secretary of State) Condoleeza Rice that al Qa'ida had terror cells in the US and other countries and were seeking unconventional means of attcking the US. He also provided a plan to fight al Qa'ida, focussing on Afghanistan.
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Yeah, and now the fingers of blame are focusing on the FBI (which actually HAD a special agent assigned to al Qaeda, who resigned 2 weeks before 9/11 and subsequently took a job which put him inside the WTC, where he was killed (horribly ironic story there)), as well as the FAA (which, imho, was unnecessarily impeded from doing their job by regulations and agencies within our government).
PS : Please correct your link here to my blog. You corrected it on the other blog, but forgot this one. :)
Done, Aine!
Sorry about that, but there must be some sort of automatic redirect going on, because every time I've clicked your link on my blog, I've gone to your new site...
Sorry for the oversight, which is now corrected.
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