Reply #140: How about this for a summation?

[NewJeffCT]

Last summer, on August 1, 2004, the Bush Admin raised the terror alert, I think they even got specific about certain financial institutions in NYC and all that. It was quickly discovered that the alert was based on 3 year old information... even our complacent media called them on that BS. I remember Will Pitt's article pretty well here on DU.

However, to Cover their Asses, the Bush Admin said they got the information from the aforementioned Mohammed Naaem Noor Khan and it wasn't all 3 year old info.

Khan was really a double-agent who had infiltrated very high levels of Al Qaeda and his outing caused outrage among British & Pakistani intelligence people. The Brits had to arrest several suspected Al Qaeda prematurely... some escaped and others went further underground.

Now, it seems, the suicide bombers from last week had ties to Khan... so, if he had not been outed, the bombers likely would have been caught.