WP, p. 1: 9/11 Panel Points to Missed Chances (Moussaoui key)

[DeepModem Mom]

9/11 Panel Points to Missed Chances
Publicizing Threat Might Have Halted 'Jumpy' Hijackers
By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, April 17, 2004; Page A01


The commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks has concluded that the hijackers would probably have postponed their strike if the U.S. government had announced the arrest of suspected terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui in August 2001 or had publicized fears that he intended to hijack jetliners.

A report on the case released this week noted that "publicity about the threat" posed by Moussaoui "might have disrupted the plot." Commission Chairman Thomas H. Kean (R) said the conclusion is based in part on extensive psychological profiles of the Sept. 11 hijackers, who were "very careful and very jumpy."....

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Such a delay could have given the FBI, the CIA, and British and French intelligence services more time to discover Moussaoui's ties to al Qaeda and the terrorist cell in Germany that planned the attack. The FBI also might have had more time to track down two hijackers who had entered the country but were not located before the attacks.

These and other findings disclosed by the commission this week make it clear that the scope of missed opportunities in the Moussaoui case was broader than previously believed. A wide array of U.S. counterterrorism officials and foreign intelligence services -- including the director of the CIA -- knew about Moussaoui's arrest but repeatedly missed the clues he offered to the catastrophe that was about to unfold, the reports and testimony show....


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18864-2004Apr16.html

[FreakinDJ]

1. Wipes out the current right wing spin

That if "You" were not actively trying to warn people about the terroroist threat on 9/10/2001 then you have nothing to say.

Sounds like another round of appyling parenting to world policies. Some thing the local radio jocks used to argue going to war against Iraq