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Thanks for the link. I've seen Mylroie on Fox News many times and have always been impressed at her knowledge and expertise. This article gave me shivers. It was prophetic in so many ways. A couple of days ago I began going through some old NY Times articles from the '93 bombing. I was taken aback by the attitude of the FBI & NYPD officials at the time. They basically concluded that the perpetrators of the WTC bombing were rinky-dink, two-bit crooks, inept and inexperienced. And even though it was known that the money the terrorists used was electronically transferred from Germany, the FBI didn't think that there was any foreign connection. They felt the terror gang was a locally organized group of incompetents, nothing more.

Four days after the bombing, the New York Times received a letter of demands from the alleged bombers. The demands mostly dealt with America's relationship with Israel, but it also claimed that "they," the terrorists, had 150 suicide warriors trained to continue attacks on military and civilian sites if the demands weren't met. The FBI's response was that they didn't believe there were 150 warriors or that any threat existed.

The arrests in the '93 attack came swiftly, and as Mylroie stated, that was enough for the FBI. They'd gotten their men afterall, and so the case was completed. The same thing happened with Oklahoma City. When McVeigh and Nichols were picked up shortly afterwards, the FBI again was satisfied that they had everything in place. We now know there has been and still is suspicion of a Middle East connection. I just don't get the FBI's mindset or how they operate. I worked in the security field for 23 years and I was taught to conduct thorough investigations, leaving no stone unturned. We were told: "The only stupid question is the one you don't ask."

The bottom line is that Clinton and his minions dropped the ball after the '93 attack. Had he authorized a "Tiger Team," it's quite possible that 9/11 may have been averted. All of the things President Bush enacted after 9/11 should have been put in place in '93 by Clinton. That's why I don't understand the 9/11 Commission's failure to include the '93 WTC bombing plot in with their hearings. They are making the same error as the intelligence community by limiting the scope of their investigation.