There was even a hint of irony in the location of the JTTF’s anniversary party, the same place where Neal Herman’s retirement party had been held on September 11, 1999: the spectacular 50,000 square foot restaurant Windows on the World, located on the top floor of the World Trade Center’s North Tower.

In any case, one lesson that the FBI should have learned from the Malaysian summit was just how well coordinated al Qaeda was. Attended by a who’s-who of top al Qaeda operational killers, that meeting set the stage for not only the Cole bombing and the 9/11 attacks, but also the October 2002 Bali bombings, to which Hambali was later linked. Despite the FBI’s ongoing complaint that they were consistently blindsided by the CIA on the presence of al-Midhar and al-Hazmi, both at the K.Then the LIWA people show you a link chart with a picture of this fellow Ali Mohamed so close to bin Laden.

Until now, most of the blame for failure to track the two Saudis has been leveled at the Central Intelligence Agency.A hearing is a meeting of the Senate, House, joint or certain Government committee that is open to the public so that they can listen in on the opinions of the legislation. THE COURT: Your offer is to plead guilty to five counts charging you with conspiracy to kill nationals of the United States, conspiracy to murder, kidnap and maim at places outside of the United States, conspiracy to murder, conspiracy to destroy buildings and property of the United States, and conspiracy to destroy national-defense utilities of the United States. Within DOD, there was knowledge of al Qaeda operating for the better part of two years before September 11, 2001. Shaffer, an intelligence officer with experience running black operations, jumped at the opportunity. Weldon claimed to be in contact with people in the government still able to do data-mining who got 13 hits on Mohamed Atta.