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Peter Bergen claims the CIA identified al-Qaeda as responsible for 9/11 ‘within two hours’
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""Now, at the CIA, within two hours, they knew that it was Bin Laden and al-Qaeda because they had access to the passenger manifest.""
Peter Bergen claims that CIA officials concluded within two hours of the 9/11 attacks that Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda were responsible, citing access to passenger manifests and prior tracking of two al-Qaeda-linked individuals. He contrasts that rapid attribution with what he describes as earlier failures to act on warning signs in 2001.
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