Thoughts Of War - What the 9/11 Plotter Tells Us
Great piece written by William Arkin in his Washington Post blog "Early Warning." It is a thought provoking piece about something I really hadn't seen anywhere else. Maybe I just wasn't looking.
"We have Zacarias Moussaoui's defense team to thank for forcing this information to light. While the government refused to produce Khalid Sheikh Mohammed for live testimony, it did make available CIA debriefings of KSM (as intelligence insiders call him), the highest ranking al Qaeda figure in U.S. custody."
"He says, according to the CIA, that he and other al Qaeda plotters "had no idea ... that the damage would be as catastrophic as it was, and he did not plan on the U.S. responding to the attacks as fiercely as they did ... "
In the category of historic misjudgments, thus al Qaeda and the Bush administration have something in common. The Bush administration similarly had no idea that defeat of Saddam Hussein's army would be as catastrophically successful as it ended up being, and they did not plan on Iraqis responding to the war and the American occupation as fiercely as they have."
Early Warning - What the 9/11 Plotter Tells Us - WP
"We have Zacarias Moussaoui's defense team to thank for forcing this information to light. While the government refused to produce Khalid Sheikh Mohammed for live testimony, it did make available CIA debriefings of KSM (as intelligence insiders call him), the highest ranking al Qaeda figure in U.S. custody."
"He says, according to the CIA, that he and other al Qaeda plotters "had no idea ... that the damage would be as catastrophic as it was, and he did not plan on the U.S. responding to the attacks as fiercely as they did ... "
In the category of historic misjudgments, thus al Qaeda and the Bush administration have something in common. The Bush administration similarly had no idea that defeat of Saddam Hussein's army would be as catastrophically successful as it ended up being, and they did not plan on Iraqis responding to the war and the American occupation as fiercely as they have."
Early Warning - What the 9/11 Plotter Tells Us - WP
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