Blindsided by terrorists and beset by poor communications, US officials were so slow to react on September 11, 2001, that the last of four hijacked planes had crashed by the time Vice President Dick Cheney ordered hostile aircraft shot down.

Warnings of a possible terrorist attack on New York contained in an August 2001 White House briefing paper never reached City Hall, but probably would not have changed local security precautions, former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani told the September 11 commission today.

US National security adviser Condoleezza Rice testified today “there was no silver bullet that could have prevented” the worst terror strike in the nation’s history.

The September 11 terror strikes on the United States could have been prevented, an independent commission probing the outrage is expected to conclude.

US National security adviser Condoleezza Rice will go before the federal panel reviewing the September 11 attacks next Thursday, it has been announced.

WHEN she testifies publicly before the September 11 Commission, Condoleezza Rice will be making an election-year defence of the Bushs’ administration’s anti-terrorism policy prior to the 2001 attacks.

I BELIEVE that the media is not adequately covering what is most likely the story of the century.