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[Maria Winslow <maria.winslow AT dexxtra.com>]

With cooperative worldwide intelligence, some of these people may have found 
the barriers
to this act too great. For example, if we knew something about terrorist 
group activity,
participants, movements, etc, then things could be done that are not violent 
on a large
scale. For example, we will probably find that some of the hijackers had 
passports from
Egypt, Jordan, etc. I am sure those countries would not issue passports to 
suspected
terrorists if they knew, and a Libyan passport won't get you very far these 
days. A fake
passport is more likely to arouse suspicion.

We have used intelligence to combat the mafia and drug cartels. We really 
need to build up
this capability. I know the CIA is the traditional agency for this, but most 
of us are a
little uncomfortable with the secrecy of the agency. Perhaps a special branch 
of the
military should combat this issue? It seems obviously pertinent to NATO as 
well.

Someone made the point that nations should be afraid to harbor terrorists, 
and I absolutely
agree. The Taliban is clearly not scared enough, although I hate to think 
what the solution
to this might be...

Maria