TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS

Wednesday, April 14, 2004

THE WASHINGTON POST Apr. 12, 2004

Failures of U.S. intelligence agencies to process information that each had on Osama bin Laden's network before Sept. 11, 2001 will be one focus of hearings this week by the commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks.

In particular, the hearings will examine intelligence from 1999 that dealt with two al-Qaida terrorists who ended up being on the plane that hit the Pentagon.

Khalid Almihdhar, who piloted the plane that hit the Pentagon, and Nawaf Alhazmi, who was aboard with him, came to the attention of the National Security Agency in 1999.
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When the NSA analyzed communications in 1999 from a Yemen site, it picked up conversations of men named Salem, Nawaf and Khalid, who appeared to NSA analysts to be "part of 'an operational cadre,'" according to a commission staff paper. The NSA analysts worried that "something nefarious might be afoot," the paper said.

This is being spun by the media-government complex as a reason to merge the military and all the civilian agencies.

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