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Stories from 2002-05-16
"President Bush was expected to sign detailed plans for a worldwide war against al-Qaida two days before Sept. 11 but did not have the chance before the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington." [more]
"Jordan has been presented with a British proposal for a forward military base along its frontier with Iraq for use in any campaign to topple President Saddam Hussein." [more]
"The Bush administration notified congressional leaders in August of 'an increased level of threats on domestic targets by al Qaeda' but said nothing about hijackings, Capitol Hill sources said today." [more]
"The revelation has put the White House on the defensive to explain why stricter security measures were not taken and why the public was not informed." [more]
"White House spokesman Ari Fleischer confirmed that Bush had been told about the possibility of hijackings but he declined to say what had been revealed during his intelligence briefings." [more]
"The campaign now fights a scattered, hit-and-run enemy that travels more easily and furtively than its pursuer." [more]
"Journalists on an Israeli military-escorted tour of the site saw a small entrance in the floor of a shower in a small four-room house about 100 yards from the Egyptian border fence. A short shaft lined with wood planks led into the tunnel." [more]
"Karzai warned Tuesday he was prepared to call in US military help to bring Padsha Khan to heel if he failed to respond to the Wednesday ultimatum and that he had already assembled a large government force to attack the ethnic Pashtun strongman based in eastern Paktia province." [more]
"[Bush] admits to having known in general what was going to happen. Terrorists were slipping into the country. They were studying at American flight schools. They intended to hijack planes. They were financed by Osama bin Laden. Knowing all of this, Bush still left us totally undefended." [more]
"[L]awmakers [have] called for a deeper investigation into why American intelligence agencies and the Federal Bureau of Investigation had failed to put together individual pieces of evidence that, in retrospect, now seem to suggest what was coming." [more]
"Democrats led angry calls on Thursday for President Bush to hand over a top-secret CIA briefing and an FBI memo that warned of potential hijackings by Osama bin Laden's terrorist network weeks before the Sept. 11 attacks." [more]
"John Walker Lindh's attorneys yesterday asked that most of the charges against the California man captured with Taliban soldiers be dismissed because they violate Lindh's First Amendment right to associate with any cause, no matter how unpopular." [more]
"In the eight months since the terrorist attacks Sept. 11, the Bush administration has moved more quickly than any administration since World War II to make government activities, documents and other information secret, liberals and conservatives say." [more]
"Two months after [Cynthia] McKinney was subjected to one of the most withering attacks ever directed at a sitting member of Congress, a lot of people who official Washington treats with respect are echoing her call 'for transparency and a thorough investigation.' " [more]
"About 30 U.S. Special Forces troops arrived in Yemen on Thursday to train forces ... in counterterrorism. Elsewhere, U.S. and Indian troops Thursday began their first joint military exercises in years. " [more]
"President Bush had received general, nonspecific information during a vacation briefing at his ranch Aug. 6 that bin Laden's group was considering hijackings, and he never considered making the information public, said National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice." [more]
"he White House said on Thursday it warned U.S. airlines that it had received general threats of hijackings last year before the Sept. 11 attacks." [more]
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(IHT, Apr 30)
"In just five years, Bush has challenged more than 750 new laws, by far a record for any president, while becoming the first president since Thomas Jefferson to stay so long in office without issuing a veto." [more]
(Interactivist Info Exchange, Jul 26)
"Horizontalism is not an ideology, however, it is a relationship — a way of relating to one another in a directly democratic way while at the same time creating through the process of discovery. What has resulted is the creation of an amazing complex of movements, all linked." [more] |
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