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October 1, 2006 9/11 Panel Members Weren’t Told of Meeting By PHILIP SHENON WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 — Members of the Sept. 11 commission said today that they were alarmed that they were told nothing about a White House meeting in July 2001 at which George J. Tenet, then the director of central intelligence, is reported to have warned Condoleezza Rice, then the national security adviser, about an imminent Al Qaeda attack and failed to persuade her to take action. Details of the previously undisclosed meeting on July 10, 2001, two months before the Sept. 11 terror attacks, were first reported...

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September 5, 2001, Wednesday TYPE: COMMITTEE HEARING LENGTH: 30153 words COMMITTEE: SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE HEADLINE: U.S. SENATOR JOSEPH BIDEN (D-DE) HOLDS HEARING ON THE THREAT OF BIOTERRORISM *** Excerpt follows: (HELMS = Senator Jesse Helms, WOOLSEY = Former CIA Director James Woolsey) HELMS: Mr. Woolsey, let me ask you something. Now, the January 2001, this year's National Intelligence Council Report on biological warfare threats, it said that there are 25 -- let me see how many biological warfare states with missile warheads -- in Iraq alone. And they are unaccounted for, that is to say, the 25 missiles. Now,...

Copyright 2001 North Jersey Media Group Inc. The Record (Bergen County, NJ) June 25, 2001, MONDAY; ALL EDITIONS SECTION: NEWS; Pg. A9 LENGTH: 552 words HEADLINE: TALIBAN LEADERS DISMISS U.S. REPORTS OFTERRORIST PLOT SOURCE: Wire services BYLINE: AMIR SHAH, The Associated Press DATELINE: KABUL, Afghanistan BODY: Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have rejected U.S. concerns about the possibility of a terrorist strike by the followers of Osama bin Laden, saying Sunday that the Saudi dissident is under their strict control and cannot use Afghan territory as a base for attacks. The remarks came a day after the Arabic satellite channel Middle East...

<p>The commission investigating the September 11 attacks was told yesterday that as many as 13 of the 19 hijackers used passports that had been doctored or bore other suspicious indicators in order to enter the United States.</p> <p>Commission staff members also said they had evidence that five men associated with the plot had been kept out of the country — four being refused visas by consular officers and a fifth being turned away at an Orlando, Fla., airport by an immigration inspector.</p>

HAMBURG, Germany (Reuters) - Iran's secret service had contacts with Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network ahead of the September 11 attacks on the United States, a German court heard on Thursday. Two members of Germany's Federal Criminal Police told a court in Hamburg a former Iranian spy had informed them of the contacts and had also said he tried to warn Washington about the attacks in mid-2001, but that the CIA had not believed him. The police officers were speaking at the trial of a Moroccan accused of aiding the September 11 attacks. The Iranian, identified only by his...