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4912 -    ..
4913 - Summary/Objective
4914 -
491401 - Follow up ref SDS 12 WZD8, ref SDS 10 0000.
491402 -
491403 - Gaps in intelligence that weaken national security were exposed today,
491404 - when four (4) planes were hijacked by terrorists, many of whom were
491405 - known to US authorities, but the plot escaped detection because not
491406 - enough analysis is allocated to understand correlations, implications
491407 - and nuance of information collected by technology. ref SDS 0 UP5K  US
491408 - soil suffered the most devastating attack by foreign powers in over
491409 - 200 years, with loss of over 3,000 lives, destruction of the World
491410 - Trade Center in New York, and damage to the Pentagon, estimated to
491411 - cost over $100B to repair, plus disruption of American life and the
491412 - economy.  Some authorities are calling for increased intelligence
491413 - capability.
491414 -
491415 -      [On 011024 Anne Reed with EDS confirms need for analysis to
491416 -      strengthen intelligence. ref SDS 18 I44L
491418 -       ..
491419 -      [On 011025 DOD requests proposals for solutions. ref SDS 19 0001
491421 -       ..
491422 -      [On 011031 economy steepest drop in 10 years impacted by attacks.
491423 -      ref SDS 21 0001
491425 -       ..
491426 -      [On 011102 job losses most in 2 decades. ref SDS 22 0001
491428 -       ..
491429 -      [020118 received notice CIA seeking intelligence support through
491430 -      In-Q-Tel. ref SDS 24 7O3M
491432 -       ..
491433 -      [020125 respond to In-Q-Tel. ref SDS 25 0001
491435 -       ..
491436 -      [On 040414 1443 letter to Ross on duration of Iraq war to contain
491437 -      terrorist attacks on US soil notes price of freedom is eternal
491438 -      vigilence. ref SDS 30 2695
491440 -       ..
491441 -      [On 091014 1537 Anat Berko wrote a book published in 2007,
491442 -      and with the same title "Path to Paradise," and presents
491443 -      motivations of suicide terrorists, and their handlers.
491444 -      ref SDS 32 AK5J
491446 -       ..
491447 -      [On 100903 1532 10 years later World Trade Center has not been
491448 -      re-constructed, but work underway, and controversy over granting
491449 -      permit for building a Muslim Mosque near "Ground Zero."
491450 -      ref SDS 33 NL4H
491452 -       ..
491453 -      [On 110316 1220 letter commending Ross' son Hutch making
491454 -      progress in military service to stand guard because eternal
491455 -      vigilance is the price of freedom, with Middle East
491456 -      exploding into multiple revolutions. ref SDS 35 6N6J
491457 -
491458 -
491460 -  ..
4915 -
4916 -
4917 - Progress
4918 -
491801 - CNN reports terrorists hijacked four (4) US commercial jet airplanes
491802 - today, ref OF 3 01BR, shortly after leaving the East Coast and headed
491803 - for the West Coast.  This ensured the planes had a full load of fuel,
491804 - which made them effective bombs, for the hijackers, who gave up their
491805 - lives to attack the US. ref OF 3 0001
491807 -  ..
491808 - Two planes were flown into the World Trade Center in New York City,
491809 - ref OF 3 6L5J, causing total destruction of the Twin Towers, and
491810 - adjacent buildings. Approximately 6,000 people were killed, including
491811 - many foreign nationals. Most people below the floors that were
491812 - directly hit, were able to escape the building in time to avoid
491813 - injury.
491815 -  ..
491816 - Many New York firefighters and policemen were killed while attempting
491817 - rescue efforts, when the buildings collapsed.
491819 -  ..
491820 - A third plane was flown into the Pentagon in Washington DC, killing
491821 - approximately 200 people. ref OF 3 PPUP
491823 -  ..
491824 - The fourth plane crashed in Pennsylvania, ref OF 3 SR9N, and is
491825 - believed to have been headed for either the White House or the Capital
491826 - building.  It is also believed that passengers learned during calls
491827 - using cell phones after the plane was commandeered that the other
491828 - planes had been used as bombs, and so attacked the hijackers,
491829 - preventing them from succeeding with their objective, yet still losing
491830 - their own lives in the effort.
491832 -  ..
491833 - Responsibility for the attack is attributed to a network of terrorist
491834 - groups principally in the Middle East and North Africa. ref OF 4 RX4I
491835 - Al Qaidi, headed by Osama bin Laden has been singled out as most
491836 - likely having instigated the attack on the US today, ref OF 3 IV9O and
491837 - ref OF 4 BQ5G  This group has terrorist training camps supported by
491838 - the Taleban government of Afghanistan, according to intelligence
491839 - analysis performed after that attack by the Foreign & Commonwealth
491840 - Office (FCO) of the British Government. ref OF 4 RX4I,
491841 -
491842 -      [On 091014 1537 Anat Berko, PhD, and former Lieutenant Colonel in
491843 -      the Israeli Defense Forces, wrote a book published in 2007, and
491844 -      with the same title "Path to Paradise," and presents motivations
491845 -      of suicide terrorists, and their handlers. ref SDS 32 AK5J
491847 -  ..
491848 - The motive for the attack is attributed to political ambitions of
491849 - Osama bin Laden, who is very wealthy and is exiled from Saudi Arabia.
491850 - He reportedly seeks overthrow of the Saudi regime and believes that
491851 - attacking the US can further that cause.  Additionally, Bin Laden
491852 - heads a militant, fundamentalist branch of Islam that seeks to murder
491853 - US citizens and to destroy the US and other western nations because
491854 - western culture is seen as harmful to Islamic culture. ref OF 4 0068
491856 -  ..
491857 - Jihad is a general call to arms of all Islamic peoples for a holy war
491858 - against the US and western culture.
491860 -  ..
491861 - Previously, Muslim terrorists bombed the World Trade Center on 930226,
491862 - causing $500M in damages and less than 20 deaths; and aided by failed
491863 - intelligence and law enforcement.  This prior incident was told in a
491864 - movie produced and broadcast by HBO, reported on 980423 2123,
491865 - ref SDS 9 MV6L  The HBO movie further dramatized difficulty improving
491866 - intelligence to prevent future terrorism on US soil, by showing the
491867 - leader of the first attack who had been caught and imprisioned,
491868 - none-the-less saying that...
491869 -
491870 -              "Next time we'll bring them both down." ref SDS 9 L75L
491872 -  ..
491873 - Today, was the "next time"!!
491875 -  ..
491876 - Wide spread news reports claim that information was on file in various
491877 - US intelligence agencies about many of the 20 or so people who carried
491878 - out the terrorist attack, but nobody had enough time, using approved
491879 - tools that everybody likes, to remember how to find information for
491880 - analysis that links people and activity into patterns revealing intent
491881 - to do harm, i.e., intelligence failed to enable proactive problem
491882 - handling due to lack of tools for finding the right information and
491883 - doing critical analysis, as explained in POIMS. ref OF 1 2300
491884 -
491885 -      [On 050810 new reporting may confirm that information was on file
491886 -      for over a year about Al Qaeda attack group. ref SDS 31 VY5G
491888 -       ..
491889 -      [On 101011 1656 nobody has time to work intelligently too
491890 -      many people having too many problems not enough time to
491891 -      perform audit trail "connect the dots" maintaining well
491892 -      ordered record, foreclosures fraud, mistakes causing
491893 -      economic recovery to stall due to poor management again in
491894 -      financial services. ref SDS 34 G057
491896 -  ..
491897 - Difficulty finding critical details in time to be effective using
491898 - popular information technology (IT) approved for use on the job, was
491899 - reported on 960406. ref SDS 7 4249  On 010420 Jeff Conklin reports
491900 - organizations large and small have only a weak ability to remember and
491901 - learn from the past. ref SDS 14 IE4M  Earlier on 921127 people are
491902 - frustrated that small inconsequential details later explode into major
491903 - problems, because nobody has enough time for analysis to "connect the
491904 - dots" that reveal emerging trends. ref SDS 2 0674
491906 -  ..
491907 - Lack of analysis has, also, been attributed to cost cutting by
491908 - reducing labor expense for skilled analysts, and relying instead on
491909 - technology for gathering information and data, as reported on 980815.
491910 - ref SDS 10 1173
491911 -
491913 -  ..
491914 - First Bombing World Trade Center Enabled Failed Intelligence
491915 -
491916 - Failed intelligence enabled the first terrorist attack on the World
491917 - Trade Center February 26, 1993.  Perpetrators were in custody, but
491918 - were released by mistake.  An informant being paid $500 per week was
491919 - fired for reporting an attack was being planned, because FBI
491920 - management refused to believe the intelligence.  See...
491921 -
491922 -            Freedom Daily
491924 -             ..
491925 -            FBI Blunders and the First World Trade Center Bombing
491926 -            by James Bovard, Posted November 10, 2004
491927 -
491928 -              http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0408c.asp
491930 -             ..
491931 -            The FBI placed an informant named Emad Salem, a 43-year-old
491932 -            former Egyptian military officer, in the midst of the
491933 -            Muslim protesters [and Salem received $500 a week, plus
491934 -            expenses].  Salem insinuated himself and became the
491935 -            bodyguard for Sheik Abdul Rahman, a radical Muslim cleric.
491937 -             ..
491938 -            In mid 1992, Salem repeatedly warned the FBI that the
491939 -            Muslim group was planning to carry off a catastrophic
491940 -            bombing in New York City. FBI supervisors were convinced he
491941 -            was concocting tall tales and fired him.
491942 -
491943 -
491945 -  ..
491946 - Intelligence Mistakes Enabled 2nd World Trade Center Attack
491947 -
491948 - Many people feel intelligence takes too much discipline to "connect
491949 - the dots" that show patterns of cause and effect, but with the cost
491950 - preliminarily estimated at $20B and loss of 3,000 lives that could pay
491951 - for a lot of effort to invest time for working intelligently.
491952 -
491953 -      [On 010916 report a lot of information never sees light of day,
491954 -      because it is too hard to find anything without SDS, ref SDS 17
491955 -      KA6H, SDS amazing memory mechanism obviously works. ref SDS 16
491956 -      0001
491958 -       ..
491959 -      [On 011024 Anne Reed with EDS confirms need for analysis to
491960 -      strengthen intelligence. ref SDS 18 I44L
491962 -       ..
491963 -      [On 011025 DOD requests proposals for solutions. ref SDS 19 0001
491965 -       ..
491966 -      [On 011029 new realites of new world order somebody must do hard
491967 -      work that connects data and information into useful intelligence.
491968 -      ref SDS 20 HT4J
491970 -       ..
491971 -      [On 011105 Jeff Conklin reports that SDS support for Com Metrics
491972 -      under the POIMS technology specification, ref SDS 23 4S6H, is a
491973 -      step in the right direction to implement management standards for
491974 -      documenting accurate communications, because SDS work product
491975 -      "walks the talk" of organizational memory that enables people to
491976 -      work intelligently. ref SDS 23 6T6O
491978 -       ..
491979 -      [On 020217 DOD program manager explains need to support FAR
491980 -      requirements for documenting work showing accurate communications
491981 -      that save lives, time and money, ref SDS 27 1332; when people
491982 -      cannot point to an accurate record they point fingers in
491983 -      accusation and blame to avoid accountability for mistakes.
491984 -      ref SDS 27 9360  SDS offers a direct solution to make management
491985 -      productive. ref SDS 27 3105
491987 -       ..
491988 -      [On 020504 study shows professional standards for communication
491989 -      practices and requirements on good management specified in FAR,
491990 -      ISO, Health Care, Covey, Drucker, law, contract notice
491991 -      provisions, and 2,000 years of literacy for contemporaneous
491992 -      documentation for alignment and feedback to work intelligently,
491993 -      quickly, and accurately are ignored in government, business,
491994 -      health care, every sector. ref SDS 29 NS6F
491996 -  ..
491997 - Janes Defense Weekly reports reduced resources for analysis linguist
491998 - skills, cultivation of agent networks, and "tradecraft" hampers
491999 - intelligence, lowering national security posture.  Increased emphasis
492000 - on technical intelligence has placed a growing demand on the people
492001 - who must process the vast amounts of resulting data and prioritize it.
492002 - ref OF 3 PPSV
492004 -  ..
492005 - Failure to add intelligence to information conceals meaning and intent
492006 - which enable prevention, further explained on 980815. ref SDS 10 6424
492008 -  ..
492009 - On 010908 success over many years using good management prevents
492010 - attack, and so causes vigilence to wain.  Like the story of the ant
492011 - and the grasshopper, laziness hampers diligence for investing time to
492012 - perform intelligence (see POIMS, ref OF 1 6649), because cursory
492013 - analysis from reacting on impulse to new information in the moment,
492014 - like replying to email, seems fast, easy and cheaper at the time.
492015 - ref SDS 15 YF5O  NWO explains the price of freedom is eternal
492016 - vigilence. ref OF 1 TW4J
492017 -
492018 -      [On 020131 Secretary of Defense, Don Rumsfeld, urges innovation
492019 -      to meet growing demand for intelligence to enable proactive
492020 -      problem handling. ref SDS 26 QF4H
492021 -
492023 -  ..
492024 - On 000227 cultural inertia prevents strengthening intelligence; only
492025 - major disruption enables people to focus on fundamentals. ref SDS 11
492026 - M35K  On 001104 demand for intelligence during peace and prosperity
492027 - becomes latent, as diligence and vigilance wane, ref SDS 13 XT5H, due
492028 - to laziness, cited on 010908. ref SDS 15 YF5O  Challenge of continual
492029 - vigilence was reviewed earlier on 940628 1255. ref SDS 4 0089
492030 -
492031 -      [On 020131 Secretary of Defense, Don Rumsfeld, explained the
492032 -      cause of cultural inertia that slows innovation. ref SDS 26 KW9N
492034 -       ..
492035 -      [On 040414 1443 letter to Ross on duration of Iraq war to contain
492036 -      terrorist attacks on US soil notes price of freedom is eternal
492037 -      vigilence. ref SDS 30 2695
492039 -       ..
492040 -      [On 110316 1220 letter commends Ross' son Hutch making progress
492041 -      in military service to stand guard because eternal vigilance is
492042 -      the price of freedom, with Middle East exploding into multiple
492043 -      revolutions. ref SDS 35 6N6J
492045 -  ..
492046 - Henry Kissinger reports on 940609 that lack of analysis makes daily
492047 - management an "Alice in Wonderland" of bumbling. ref SDS 3 4238
492048 - George Shultz makes a similar point in a speech on 970402. ref SDS 8
492049 - 8502 Robert MacNamera appears to concur in his book "In Retrospect"
492050 - reviewed on 950417. ref SDS 6 5872
492052 -  ..
492053 - Despite widespread warnings, analysis to connect information and data
492054 - into a comprehensible story seemed like "overkill," ref SDS 10 6424,
492055 - similar to reports on 890324. ref SDS 1 LZ5F and on 950204.
492056 - ref SDS 5 5932
492058 -  ..
492059 - Today, widespread reports show people care about survival and safety
492060 - enough to invest in analysis for strengthening intelligence that
492061 - avoids surprise attacks.
492062 -
492063 -     [On 011024 contacted EDS for partnering to support national
492064 -     security intelligence. ref SDS 18 0001
492066 -      ..
492067 -     [On 011025 DOD requests proposals for solutions. ref SDS 19 0001
492069 -      ..
492070 -     [On 011031 economy impacted by attacks. ref SDS 21 0001
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