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Government heads
had attack warnings
By Jodi Enda and Jonathan S. Landay
Knight Ridder Newspapers
WASHINGTON (KRT) — Presi
dent Bush was told weeks before
the Sept. 11 attacks that Osama bin
Laden’s terrorist network might try
to hijack U.S. planes, and the ad
ministration passed the warning to
federal agencies, White House offi
cials confirmed Wednesday night.
White House Press Secretary Ari
Fleischer said the president was
told in August that bin Laden was
interested in hijacking an airplane.
“Concerns about hijackings have
been around for decades,” Fleisch
er said, confirming a report by CBS
News. “The president ... received
information that Osama bin Laden
was interested in hijacking an air
plane in the traditional pre-9-11
sense of hijacking an airplane. The
president did not receive informa
tion that bin Laden wanted to use
airplanes for suicide bombers or
use airplanes as missiles.”
The information was then shared
with the appropriate domestic
agencies, he said. “Keep in mind
that’s exactly why we have metal
detectors at airports.”
Nevertheless, the revelation is
the latest evidence that U.S. intelli
gence and law enforcement ana
lysts failed to connect pieces of in
formation that could have alerted
them to the terrorists’ plans. Both
the CIA and the FBI have tried to
deflect the mounting criticism, but
on Capitol Hill pressure is mount
ing for a thorough investigation of
what both agencies knew, when
they knew it and what, if anything,
they did with it.
In hindsight, some warning sig
nals were obvious.
It was reported earlier this month
that FBI headquarters failed to act
on a memo last July from its Ari
zona field office warning a number
of Arabs seeking pilot, security and
airport operations training from at
least one U.S. flight school.
A section of that classified memo
cited bin Laden by name, speculat
ing that al-Qaida and other groups
could organize such flight training.
In Minnesota, officials at another
flight school alerted law enforce
ment officials last summer that
Zacarias Moussaoui, a French man
of Moroccan heritage, was taking
flying lessons but didn’t want to
learn how to take off or land. Offi
cials believe Moussaoui was sup
posed to have been the fifth hijack
er of United Airlines Flight 93,
which crashed in Pennsylvania. He
will go on trial Sept. 30 in Alexan
dria, Va., on six conspiracy counts,
including committing acts of inter
national terrorism.
U.S. intelligence officials,
meanwhile, knew that in 1995,
two associates of bin Laden had
discussed crashing a plane into
CIA headquarters outside Wash
ington. A group affiliated with bin
Laden tried and failed to crash a
hijacked jetliner into the Eiffel
Tower in Paris, and Egypt and
Italy had warned the CIA that bin
Laden was plotting to fly an air
plane into last June’s economic
summit in Genoa, Italy.
Other evidence pointed to the
World Trade Center as a possible
target. Bin Laden’s al-Qaida organ
ization had already tried and
failed to blow up the New York
landmark with a truck bomb, and
his associates had a pattern of
learning from their mistakes and
trying again.
©2002, Knight Ridder/Tribune Information
Services.
Laboratory
continued from page 1
students as a teaching assistant in
the Green Lab last term. She said
she noticed “real differences” be
tween her organic chemistry expe
rience as a University sophomore
five years ago compared with the
way today’s sophomores experi
ence the same course.
“Now (the curriculum] pays spe
cial attention to hazard, which is
nice, because even in a controlled
setting, there are still exposure is
sues,” she said.
Organic Chemistry instructor
Leif Brown has observed that the
new lab has helped to generate
more excitement and positive
learning experiences for students.
“Green chemistry students have
been a lot more enthusiastic than tra
ditional chemistry students,” Brown
said. “A large part of that is being in a
state-of-the-art environment. They
definitely feel like a happier group
than in the last few years.”
Brown also noted that the Green
lab brings an entirely new and more
open structure to the study of organ
ic chemistry, leading to greater feel
ings of comfort for students.
“In a traditional lab, there are haz
ardous chemicals and inhalation is
a concern, so you need more venti
lation systems. Those take up a lot
of lab space,” Brown said. “With a
Green lab ... we’re not dealing with
all the hazardous materials. We’ve
removed all that clutter, added
floor-to-ceiling windows and creat
ed a very open environment, so that
our students can see each other and
feel less isolated when they work.
The new lab has a much more open,
laid-back feeling to it.”
As a first-year graduate student,
Huffman said she appreciates the
distinct emphasis of the University
curriculum on real world applica
tions of Green concepts.
“Our faculty tries to emphasize the
way the lab or experiment is usually
done in industry — the traditional
way — and then explain why we
have made changes, in a greener,
safer way,” Huffman said. “It’s cool
because it gets kids thinking about
environmental and safety issues.
And this is more like the real world,
because, in order to survive, indus
try will need to be more concerned
with environmental sustainability
and being a good global citizen.”
Gail Eisen is a freelance
reporter for the Emerald.
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