9/11 Report to Cite 10 Missed Opportunities (long shots or required luck?)

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10 opportunities to detect or derail the deadly terrorist hijackings - Six during the Bush Administration

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A127-2004Jul20?language=printer

9/11 Report to Cite 10 Missed Opportunities (long shots or required luck?)
Panel Faults Two Administrations but Doesn't Call Attacks Preventable

By Dan Eggen and Mike Allen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, July 21, 2004; Page A01


The final report by the commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks details as many as 10 missed opportunities by the Bush and Clinton administrations to detect or derail the deadly terrorist hijackings, but the panel stops short of saying the attacks should have been prevented, according to government officials and others familiar with the document.

The report, to be released publicly tomorrow, includes a list of 10 "operational opportunities" that the government missed to potentially unravel the Sept. 11 plot, said a government official who has read the document. Six of the incidents listed came during the Bush administration and four were during the Clinton years, this official said.<snip>

Another government official who has been briefed on the report said the tally of missed opportunities includes the CIA's failure to add two hijackers' names to a terrorism watch list; the FBI's handling of the August 2001 arrest of Zacarias Moussaoui, who has been accused of conspiring in the plot; and several failed attempts to kill or capture Osama bin Laden. The report also notes, however, the inherent difficulties that intelligence agencies have in assembling a clear picture of a terrorist threat, one official said.<snip>

The report also concludes that al Qaeda's relationship with Iran and its client, the Hezbollah militant group, was far deeper and more long-standing than its links with Iraq, which never established operational ties with the terrorist group, said officials familiar with the document.<snip>

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