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Congressional investigators have concluded that the FBI bungled several opportunities to uncover the 9/11 terror plot, Newsweek reported this week. The agency failed repeatedly to aggressively pursue evidence that al Qaida operatives were hiding in the U.S., according to a 900-page congressional report. Two 9/11 hijackers even lived in the San Diego home of an FBI informant. Agents never investigated them even though they had extensive contact with a suspected Saudi government agent. FBI spokesmen said the agency never had any reason to believe the men, Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid Almihdhar, were terrorists. One of the investigators said the agency should have spotted trouble, but didn’t because it “doesn’t have a clue about terrorism.”
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