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Bin-Laden

Affixed family name

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Nov 13, 2025
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Did the US government and intelligence agencies have advanced knowledge of an imminent attack on US soil prior to the September 11 attacks and did they purposefully choose to ignore those warnings?

The available evidence shows that U.S. intelligence agencies possessed about al‑Qaeda’s intent to strike the United States in 2001, but there is that the government had clear, actionable knowledge of ...

Jan 26, 2026
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Al Qaeda has never attacked Israel

has long declared an ideological enemy and has inspired or directed attacks on and Israeli interests abroad, but its record shows relatively few direct, successful operations against the State of Isra...

Jan 13, 2026
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Why the. Cia kept informTion from fbi on 911

The CIA’s withholding of crucial information about two future hijackers from the FBI before 9/11 reflected a mix of institutional stovepipes, operational secrecy and disputed judgment calls, not a sin...

Jan 27, 2026

How did the 9/11 Commission Report address intelligence failures?

Commission cast the that preceded the attacks as systemic—rooted in failures of imagination, policy, capabilities, and management—and concluded that pieces of critical information existed but were not...

Nov 28, 2025

How did the US government verify the authenticity of the bin Laden video?

The U.S. government relied on a mix of physical chain-of-custody (materials recovered by forces), government technical review, and public statements that stopped short of immediate independent confirm...