Tuesday, August 08, 2006

AlterNet: MediaCulture: How 9/11 Could Have Been Prevented


9/11 could have been prevented the same way any hijacking is prevented, and we have ben dealig with high-jackings for years. (But then, there would have been no "new Pearl Harbor")

There were certainly more than enough warnings!

AlterNet: MediaCulture: How 9/11 Could Have Been Prevented:

"Wherever you are, death will find you/even in the looming tower.'
--The Holy Q'ran

Was 9/11 preventable? Add New Yorker writer Lawrence Wright, author of 'The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11,' to the growing ranks of those answering a resounding 'Yes!' to that simple but highly-charged question.
The failures of the CIA, FBI, the National Security Agency and many other branches of government to share information -- and the concomitant failure to stop the 9/11 hijackers -- have already been well-documented by others, but few have offered Wright's coherent focus on what the New York Times accurately describes as 'the stupidity, hubris and dereliction of duty that occurred within the United States government.' In particular, Wright's relentlessly detailed account of the flawed investigation of the October 2000 bombing of the American destroyer USS Cole -- a seminal and largely misunderstood event in the run-up to the 9/11 attacks -- amply demonstrates how 'jealousy and turf wars' were used by U.S. intelligence operatives as 'an excuse to hide information that should have been shared.'

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