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2004-06-04 Home Front: WoT

Did al-Qaida trainee warn FBI before 9/11?

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Posted by tipper 2004-06-04 2:17:26 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 A classic case showing how things were pre-9/11 and how they are now.

Pre-9/11 there is simply no way the feds could have held this guy in custody. He gave them pretty good, though non-specific, info, which is no doubt part of the matrix of information we had just before the attacks. But you always come back to the old questions.

What should we have done, based on information like this? Start profiling Arabs at airports? Given the way the left acts NOW, post-9/11, how would that have gone over? We didn't have the PATRIOT act. We were still treating terrorism as a law enforcement problem, remember?

We'd act very differently now than we did then.

Posted by RMcLeod 2004-06-04 2:27:49 AM|| 2004-06-04 2:27:49 AM|| Front Page Top

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Scotland Yard only interviewed Khan for about two hours, and then released him

Scotland Yard probably had received all the FBI reports.
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Posted by Mike Sylwester 2004-06-04 3:30:48 AM|| 2004-06-04 3:30:48 AM|| Front Page Top

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