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

We also need to be sensitive to other people's learning curves & rate of
interest in shifting to other topics.
Al Barsa was talking about helping NY businesses get on their feet again when
most people still stunned & thinking relief effort, with no comprehension or
immediate interest in what was going to happen to the economy & the stock
market.
Look at the state of US education in Geography ... a lot of people might have
a bit of trouble understanding the significance of a land locked nation.
Not everyone gets STRATFOR, or watches C-Span.

> I have been buried in the reality of this in what friends in that arena
have
> told me, what STRATFOR has had to say and
> what Congressional hearings have been reporting for the last several
>  years and what NPR has been reporting, etc. And they all lead to this same
> conclusion. We were neglecting human intelligence,
> had more data then we could analyse, etc.
> and something was gonna give. In other word,
> there WAS going to be a major breakdown in this process that could yield bad
>  results, although I admit, I don't think anyone could have imagined the
hell
> that was last Tuesday

MacWheel99@aol.com (Alister Wm Macintyre) (Al Mac)

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