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We?ve learned over recent weeks that the FBI and the CIA had many warnings about upcoming terrorist attacks that they either downplayed or ignored. We?ve been told that during the Clinton years, the CIA was told to stop recruiting a certain type of low-life (possibly criminal) agent and instead of using moles to infiltrate foreign governments, to rely on technological snooping instead.

Now we learn that we did have agents inside al-Qaeda after all?to no avail. They knew attacks were coming, but didn?t get enough specific information to predict the date or type of attacks.
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Sensitive military aircraft parts ended up on eBay last week and a few were even sold, before the U.S. Air Force yanked them off the site. Norb Novocin, the dealer who put the parts up for sale, bought them legitimately in an unclaimed property sale from a warehouse, where they had been in storage. They are used in the SR-71 spy plane, the F-16 fighter, KC-10 aerial tankers and C-5 Galaxy giant cargo jets.

The parts are coded ?D,? meaning that if they are not used, they must be destroyed rather than sold. The shipment got lost 12 years ago on its way from Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to Georgia.
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In China, the country that is supposed to be our good friend and trading partner, books, movies and video games glorifying the Sept. 11 strikes are selling like hotcakes. Most of these are actually being produced and distributed by the government. Videos and DVDs have added dramatic background music to news clips of airplanes crashing into the World Trade Center.

Right after the attacks occurred on Sept. 11, government-controlled Beijing TV worked day and night to produce an anti-American documentary called Attack America. When they didn?t have enough actual 911 footage, they added scenes from old Godzilla movies, with Godzilla attacking Manhattan.
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Around the world, geologists are noticing that old, dry oil wells are mysteriously filling back up. New oil is also being discovered in fields where it previously hasn?t existed.

Mahlon Kennicutt of Texas A&M University thinks the new oil is surging upward from deposits deep below the ones currently being used. “Very light oil and gas were being injected from below, even as the producing was going on,” he says. This suggests there?s much more oil available than we thought.
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