...d—one was seriously hurt and was on oxygen while the other’s wounds seemed minor; a doctor had been requested; the flight attendants were unable to co... ...at about 9:45 the President told the Vice President:“Sounds like we have a minor war going on here, I heard about the Pentagon.W e’re at war . . . som... ...he CIA suffered exposure of its botched effort to land Cuban exiles at the Bay of Pigs.The Vietnam W ar brought on more criticism.A promi- COUNTERTERR... ...d actually thought the operation too complicated for the CIA—“out of their league”—and an effort to get results “on the cheap. ” But a senior Joint St... ...achi and then to Afghanistan to renew contacts with Bin Ladin and his col- leagues.Though KSM may not have been a member of al Qaeda at this time, he ... ...ar. Both denials are somewhat suspect. (He likewise denied knowing Omar al Bay- oumi—a man from San Diego we will discuss shortly—even though witnesse... ...told us, no one looked at the bigger picture; no analytic work foresaw the lightning that could connect the thundercloud to the ground. 113 W e see li... ...other particular allegation is that a flight carrying Saudi nationals from Tampa, Florida, to Lexington, Ken- tucky, was allowed to fly while airspace... ...with special approval by senior U.S. government officials. On September 13,Tampa police brought three young Saudis they were protecting on an off-duty...