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<DIV><FONT face="Courier New">All,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Courier New">This just up on the Drudge Report news. Does
anyone in Washington, D.C.know their ass from a hole in the ground?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Courier New">Dick Schmidt</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face="Courier New">Much of the information that led
authorities to raise the terror alert at several large financial institutions in
the NY and D.C. areas was 3 or 4 years old... NYT Tuesday Page One Splash To
Claim: Intelligence and law enforcement officials 'had not yet found concrete
evidence that a terror plot or preparatory surveillance operations were still
under way'... WASH POST Page One: Alerts Stemmed from Pre-9/11 Act /// 'There is
nothing right now that we're hearing that is new,' said one senior law
enforcement official who was briefed on the alert. 'Why did we go to this level?
... I still don't know that.' <BR><BR></DIV></FONT></STRONG>
<CENTER><FONT face=ARIAL,VERDANA,HELVETICA><FONT size=4>QAIDA DOCUMENTS YEARS
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