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The intelligence agency possessed many individual pieces of information but failed to put them together and connect the dots.
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How did intelligence failures contribute to the 9/11 attacks?
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- supports After the September 11 attacks, German intelligence discovered that KSM, identified as Mukhtar, had communicated with a telephone used by Ramzi Bin…
- supports All of KSM’s cousins were known to the CIA to have connections to al‑Qaeda, and Abu Musab and Abu Khalid were also known to the agency for handling…
- supports Ramzi Bin al‑Shibh used the same phone to communicate with Zacarias Moussaoui.
- supports The CIA and FBI were focused on placing Khalid al-Mihdhar on watch lists and determining what Zacarias Moussaoui was planning.
- supports There was an existing link between Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the al‑Ghamdi alias.
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- The intelligence agency possessed many individual pieces of information but failed to put them together and connect the dots.
But that is precisely the point: despite possessing many of the individual pieces, the intelligence agency failed to put them together and "connect the dots."
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- CIA had multiple clues linking 9/11 mastermind to terror plot before attack but failed to act: Report | World News cited evidence
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