http://www.economist.co.uk/world/asia/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=876941&CF
ID=439613&CFTOKEN=64862334
In the house of anthrax
Nov 24th 2001 | KABUL
>From The Economist print edition
Chilling evidence in the ruins of Kabul
(...) After the September 11th attacks, it was generally agreed that western intelligence agencies had failed through lack of "human intelligence"-men on the ground, as opposed to spy satellites and computers monitoring phone calls and e-mails. This failure was to be rectified. Yet since the fall of Kabul on November 13th, journalists have been fanning out across the city. They have stripped houses such as this one, and others directly connected to the al-Qaeda network, of all sorts of documents and other valuable evidence. These have included the names and addresses of al-Qaeda contacts in the West. For the West's intelligence agencies, September 11th was Black Tuesday. There may be no words with which to describe their failure in the week since the fall of Kabul. -------------------------
Why are the spooks ignoring the evidence?
a - There isn't going to be a trial (But how about the names and addresses? ) b - They don't need it - they already know. c - They put it there in the first place. d - They forgot, or they're having too much fun flying their Predators.
Tip: Non-uniformed Americans with guns have been spotted who speak the lingo and have kissing-and-hugging type familiarity with Muj commanders. Apparently the humint gap has been bridged in the past 40 days.
Hakki