
9/11 and the war on terror
The History Hour
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Bush's National Security Advisor
Bush had been inaugurated just 11 days before they published the report. The commission had given no indication an attack had come from high jacked aircraft. But that summer, there were warnings about planes. In July, two thousand and one an fbi officer in phoenix, arizona, sent a now infamous memo calling for an investigation into a number of middle eastern men enrolled locally into pilot training programs. Two thousand kilometers away, in minnesota, local fbi agents arrested a french national called zicarius musawi, who'd asked a local flying school to teach him to fly a bowing seven fore seven.
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