Re: U.S. warned in 1995 of plot to hijack planes, attack buildings

Chris wrote:

<Very weak and uncalled for, Chuck.>

EXCUSE me ? I resent what you imply and I was only providing information... 
Chill

<To say that somehow it was a breakdown in intelligence to fail to prevent last 
weeks attack based
on some info found six years ago.>

Do you know anyone that works in intelligence ? I know and I know EXACTLY what 
many of them feel.
This is a classic example of what many of them feel was total frustration in 
getting information
from the human field vs the electronic field...

<The intelligence groups who follow up those leads stopped many different 
terrorist threats in the
intervening six years. I image they are sick enough about their failure to stop 
this one without
some second guessing finger pointers to help them out.>

Of course they did and I didn't mean to imply otherwise. The biggest boost they 
had was an
undercover Egyptian agent that managed to become the right hand man to the 
Sheik that is know in
prison (and that is the main reason Bin Laden is so ticked off with us - he was 
very fond of this
guy...)

No offense intended with any of this, just information :-)

Chuck