Former CIA Official: 9/11 Could Not Be Averted -- Yahoo News/APWASHINGTON - A top former CIA official said the intelligence agency had more than 100 Afghans acting as spies before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, but told a magazine in a rare interview that nothing could have averted the attacks.
Cofer Black, the former head of the CIA's counterterrorism center, said that looking back, he can't think of a thing "we could have done that would have changed anything." Black, a top executive with Blackwater Worldwide, the security firm, made the comment in an interview published in November issue of Men's Journal.
Black told the magazine that the Taliban was ousted in 10 weeks with just "300 Army special forces and 110 CIA officers" — a statement that ignores the more than 1,000 U.S. soldiers and Marines and foreign troops that joined the battle in November. But he acknowledges that victory was temporary.
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My Comment: How may 9/11s (or worse) have been averted since 9/11, and can we stop all of them in the future. These are the questions that I always ask myself when I think about 9/11.
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AP is wrong on the two points they commented on. First Black said that with the resources they had they did the best they could.
The marines took control of one non-strategic town set-up a base, "Camp Rhino," and never strayed from its perimeter. They were a non-factor in overthrowing the Taliban and putting al Qeada on the run.
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