[Dog Gone]

It was unclear whether Khaksar's overture was relayed to the highest levels of the Clinton Administration. Nor is it clear whether the United States lost an opportunity to neutralize bin Laden and his Taliban protectors before the devastating attacks of Sept. 11.

Sure.

[gaspar]

McIllwain, the Political Officer in Peshawar, would have had to prepare a memorandum of conversation for the Pakistan political officer John R. Schmidt and through him to Ambassador William B. Milam. The subject was too important for a memorandum of the conversation to be sent by cable to Washington, where it would be read by a host of people. Its interesting that the journalist did not bother to explain what Gregory Marchese was up to these days or who he worked for.