Thursday, March 18, 2004
How our government worked to keep the Taliban safe and secure right up until 9/11
Dawkins writes:
This story in the New York Observer is based on an interview with Julie Sirrs, a former Defense Intelligence Agency analyst, who spills the beans on her tireless - and futile - efforts to alert her superiors (or anyone who would listen) to how grave a threat the Taliban, Al Qaeda, and Osama B.L. were leading up to 9/11. Back then, though, folks didn't seem to care.
(See, the Taliban was going to help us out with a nifty oil pipeline through Afghanistan, and we didn't find it prudent at the time to piss them off by, say, putting a stop to their terroristic endeavors…. You know the routine.)
posted by Blicero : 3/18/2004 12:05:00 PM
This story in the New York Observer is based on an interview with Julie Sirrs, a former Defense Intelligence Agency analyst, who spills the beans on her tireless - and futile - efforts to alert her superiors (or anyone who would listen) to how grave a threat the Taliban, Al Qaeda, and Osama B.L. were leading up to 9/11. Back then, though, folks didn't seem to care.
(See, the Taliban was going to help us out with a nifty oil pipeline through Afghanistan, and we didn't find it prudent at the time to piss them off by, say, putting a stop to their terroristic endeavors…. You know the routine.)
posted by Blicero : 3/18/2004 12:05:00 PM
