FBI Dropped the Ball–Again
As we approach the anniversary of 911, we hope that the FBI will get intelligence information about the NEXT terrorist attack. But it’s hard to feel hopeful when we hear about yet another time they dropped the ball before September 11, 2001. Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil, who was an aide to the former Taliban foreign minister, says he was sent to warn American diplomats and the UN just weeks before 911 that Osama bin-Laden was planning to launch a huge attack on U.S. soil. Neither organization paid attention to the warning. When he urged the U.S. to launch a military campaign against al-Qaeda, he was told this was politically impossible.
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