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Thread #39362   Message #558023
Posted By: Don Firth
25-Sep-01 - 01:48 AM
Thread Name: AMERICAN ATTACKS**PART ELEVEN: Long Haul
Subject: RE: AMERICAN ATTACKS**PART ELEVEN: Long Haul
No, DougR, I don't expect the government to reveal everything they know (I certainly hope not!), but at the time I made the statement, most of what I'd heard about the government's reaction smacked of knee-jerk, including the fact that the best they could say was that bin Laden was a "confirmed suspect." There was (and for that matter, still is) reason to believe that Saddam Hussein and/or any of a number of others might have been behind it, or were at least involved. The instantaneous naming of bin Laden sounded a lot like "culprit of the day" to me.

My confidence that the government knows what it's doing is gradually increasing, but time will tell.

Don Firth