Friedman, George. "Intel-Sharing a Snag for Coalition." Stratfor.com, 21 Sep. 2001. [http:// www.stratfor.com]
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Friedman, George. "Intel-Sharing a Snag for Coalition." Stratfor.com, 21 Sep. 2001. [http:// www.stratfor.com]
"Summary: The United States and Europe will comprise the core of an emerging global anti-terrorism coalition. But the highly sensitive nature of intelligence-gathering and the pursuit of national priorities will make for an uneasy transatlantic partnership. The result will be enhanced, but still limited, sharing of intelligence as the European Union and United States pursue their own priorities."
Bonner, Raymond.
"Europe Moves Against Those Tied to Attacks."
New York Times, 22 Sep. 2001. [http://www.nytimes.com]
"The pursuit of the network behind the terrorist attacks in the United States [has] spread across Europe..., with arrests of four people in Britain and seven men in France and the issuing of two arrest warrants in Germany."
Scarborough,
Rowan. "Intercepts Foretold of 'Big Attack.'" Washington Times,
22 Sep. 2001. [http://www.washtimes.com]
According to a senior administration official, "[t]he day before terrorists struck the United States, its intelligence agencies detected discussions between Osama bin Laden's lieutenants of an impending 'big attack'.... The official said ... that the detection was not discovered until days after the Sept. 11 assault on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The time lapse is typical of intelligence analyses, in which computers sift through loads of that day's collection to find valuable material."
Clark, James, Tony Allen-Mills, and Stephen Grey. "SAS Troops Clash with Taliban Unit Deep Inside Afghanistan." Sunday Times (London), 23 Sep. 2001. [http://www.sunday-times.co.uk]
"SAS troops in Afghanistan have been fired upon by Taliban soldiers.... Nobody was hurt, military sources said, adding that the gunfire had been 'more symbolic than directed'. They suggested that the small SAS team had 'spooked' Taliban soldiers near Kabul, who had fired indiscriminately before fleeing.... SAS troopers, together with members of MI6 and the CIA, are working with the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance in the search for Osama Bin Laden."
Frantz, Douglas,
with Raymond Bonner. "A Top Boss in Europe, an
Unseen Cell in Gaza and Decoys Everywhere." New York Times,
23 Sep. 2001. [http://www.nytimes.com]
"Officials in Europe, the United States and Pakistan say they have identified new elements of the bin Laden terrorist network, including a top lieutenant in Europe and a previously undisclosed cell in the Gaza Strip."
Warrick,
Joby, Joe Stephens, Mary Pat Flaherty, and James V. Grimaldi. "FBI
Agents Ill-Equipped to Predict Terror Acts." Washington Post,
23 Sep. 2001, A1. [http://www. washingtonpost.com]
"The attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center found the nation's chief domestic law enforcement agency ill-equipped and unprepared. An agency that must track terrorists who rely heavily on technology lacks computers that can quickly access the Internet. Boxes of evidence have piled up in previous terrorist plots, but the FBI has not had translators to decipher them. It lacks Arab agents who can penetrate terrorist cells and has too few veterans who see connections among foreign suspects and far-flung sites."
Woolsey,
R. James. "The Iraqi Connection: Blood Baath." The New Republic,
24 Sep. 2001. [http://www.thenewrepublic.com]
"In the immediate aftermath of Tuesday's attacks, attention has focused on terrorist chieftain Osama bin Laden. And he may well be responsible. But intelligence and law enforcement officials investigating the case would do well to at least consider another possibility: that the attacks -- whether perpetrated by bin Laden and his associates or by others -- were sponsored, supported, and perhaps even ordered by Saddam Hussein."
Ringle, Ken. "The Nature and Nurture of a Fanatical Believer: A Void Filled to the Brim With Hatred." Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2001, C1.
[http://www.washingtonpost.com]
According to Jerrold Post, George Washington University psychiatry professor and co-author of Political Paranoia -- The Psychopolitics of Hatred, "[t]he suicidal terrorist ... is simply an extreme example of 'the true believer' described by social philosopher Eric Hoffer in a landmark book of that name half a century ago -- the individual whose inner sense of worthlessness, confusion or rage seeks refuge and validating rebirth within a charismatic mass movement."
Tagliabue, John,
and Raymond Bonner. "German Data Led U.S. to
Search for More Hijackers After Attack." New York Times, 29
Sep. 2001. [http://www.nytimes.com]
"In the hours following the Sept. 11 terror attacks, German intelligence agents intercepted a phone conversation between jubilant followers of Osama bin Laden that led the F.B.I. to search frantically for two more teams of suicide hijackers, according to officials in both countries."
Risen, James.
"U.S. Pursued Secret Efforts to Catch or Kill
bin Laden." New York Times, 30 Sep. 2001. [http://www.nytimes.com]
According to U.S. intelligence officials, the CIA "secretly began to send teams of American officers to northern Afghanistan about three years ago in an attempt to persuade the leader of the anti-Taliban Afghan opposition [Ahmed Shah Massoud] to capture and perhaps kill Osama bin Laden."
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