“Makes Bush look real bad, though, he couldn’t get either one.”
Didn’t help that the Democrats were playing for the other side at the time.
I seem to recall in early 2002 that it was leaked to the NYTimes that we could track the terrorists through their cellphone use. Within an hour of the paper hitting news stands, every AQ cellphone went dead.
Hmmm, what if we couldn’t?
Interesting way to get the enemy to
1: self identify
2: destroy a useful asset.