Sigh!

And the same media, never asked questions then, never asks questions now. Nobody wants to notice how conveniently close this is to a crucial vote in Congress, and how Osama Bin Laden always appear when George Bush is in the worst trouble…

He seems to have gotten a lot younger, and dyed his hair since the [...]

Ok, here is the latest brain-farts from France:

More than 70 Muslim workers at France’s main airport have been stripped of their security clearance for allegedly posing a risk to passengers.

The staff at Charles de Gaulle airport, including baggage handlers, are said to have visited terrorist training camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Earlier this year officials at [...]

Tenet and Black felt they were not getting through to Rice. She was polite, but they felt the brush-off. President Bush had said he didn’t want to swat at flies.

Officials now agree that on July 10, 2001, Mr. Tenet and his counter-terrorism deputy, J. Cofer Black, were so alarmed about an impending Al Qaeda attack [...]

wired.com has an interesting article titled “One Million Ways to Die”, in which Ryan talks about the billions spent by the U.S. government since 9/11 on anti-terrorism projects. The U.S. Admin also instituted a color-coded alert system that has never been green!

But then he asks: how likely are you, statistically speaking, to die from a [...]

Malawi has canceled a $30m fertilizer deal with a Saudi Arabian company with alleged links to al-Qaeda. Finance Minister Goodall Gondwe told parliament that the United States-based Citibank had refused to deal with the unnamed Saudi Arabian fertilizer firm because “they had al-Qaeda connections.”
hmm… a US bank controls Saudi economics?! If a US bank can [...]

Funny how we intercept a letter from al Qaeda’s #2 man echoing the Bush line that they-can’t-cut-and-run line.

In a letter to his top deputy in Iraq, al-Qaida’s No. 2 leader says the U.S. “ran and left” in Vietnam and the jihadists must have a plan ready to fill the void if [...]

Most of the material regarding security systems and procedures at the five buildings was assembled prior to the 9/11/2001 attacks. Surely some security procedures have been changed since then. So government spokesmen were forced to respond to questions about the relevancy and immediacy of the material. “We know this is a terrorist organization that does its homework,” Homeland Security Czar Tom Ridge said. “Al Qaeda often plans well, well in advance. We also know that they like to update their information before a potential attack.”