OzOne wrote in message ...
On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 05:20:56 GMT, "Maxprop"
scribbled thusly:

The line that homeland security is the reason for no more
attacks....What was the reason in all the years prior to 911?

You seem to have conveniently ignored the other, failed al Qaeda attempt
to
level the WTC some years before 9/11.

You're correct of course....FBI did nothing to prevent the attack.
Guess the system works eh?

Whose system? Al Qaeda's? Yeah, that one seems to work. Ours? Nope, that
one's broken and so far no one seems inclined to fix it.
FBI--CIA--NSA--they all grandstand and do everything they can to take credit
for successes, all the while racking up more and more failures due to a
complete inability to cooperate and share intel.

Oh and was it AlQaeda?

FBI foreknowledge

In the course of the trial it was revealed that the FBI had an
informant, an Egyptian man named Emad Salem, who was involved with the
bombing conspiracy. Salem claims to have informed the FBI of the plot
to bomb the towers as early as February 6, 1992, information he was
privy to possibly because he himself initiated the plot. Salem's role
as informant allowed the FBI to quickly pinpoint the conspirators out
of the hundreds of possible suspects.

Salem asserted that the original FBI plan was to supply the plotters
with a harmless powder instead of actual explosive to build their
bomb, but that an FBI supervisor decided that a real bomb should be
constructed instead. He substantiated his claims with hundreds of
hours of secretly-recorded conversations with his FBI handlers, made
during discussions held after the bombings.

Salem said he wished to complain to FBI headquarters in Washington
about the failure to prevent the bombing despite foreknowledge, but
was dissuaded from doing so by the New York FBI office. The FBI has
never contradicted Salem's account.

Rather nicely confirms my contention that the system is broken, eh?

As long as incompetence and resistance to cooperate is the norm in
Washington--both in politics and in police work/intel--we can expect more of
the same. I'm watching to see if our new Homeland Security system accrues a
better track record, but I'm skeptical, human nature being what it is. So
far, so good, but the verdict is still out, of course, on HS.

Max