dead or alive

* "Members of the independent commission that investigated the Sept. 11 terror attacks called on Congress to determine whether the Pentagon withheld intelligence information showing that a secret American military unit had identified Mohammed Atta and three other hijackers as potential threats more than a year before the attacks.
The former commission members said the information, if true, could rewrite an important chapter of the history of the intelligence failures before Sept. 11, 2001." (link)

* "He said the original chart, like the new one, had included the names and photographs of Mr. Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi, as well as Mr. Mihdhar and Mr. Hazmi, who were identified as members of what was described as an American-based "Brooklyn" cell, as one of five such Al Qaeda cells around the world." (link)

* except all of those people quoted except atta have since been found alive (link)

* curt weldon is a freak - the only question is why all this stuff is coming out now? i suspect there'll be much written & re-written about this story. i dont have any immediate thoughts...

i wonder if the 911comm report has been moved to the 'fiction' part of bookstores yet - and of course, its not accidentally fiction, but intentionally so. i think we now have proof.