Where were all these "experts" in August 2001?
Sitting on their arses, just like they have been ever since. I am particularly galled to see a German bagging on us for intelligence failures. The Germans haven't had effective intelligence since they shot Canaris (and it was hurting before then).
Case in point. Remember where Mohammed Atta and his boys got all fired-up about crashing planes into buildings for the Religion of Death? It was a place called Hamburg, previously best known for the whores of the Reeperbahn.
Could someone tell me what country Hamburg is in, and under whose internal security organizations' benevolent gaze was this plan hatched?
Care to name a country in which the foreign minister is a member of the anti-American Green Party?
Hint: one answer fits both questions.
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