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Mon Sep 28 15:09:14 CDT 2009


but not materially damaged, Rumsfeld and civilian and military aides 
communicated with other government leaders.

CBS cited notes taken by unidentified Rumsfeld aides inside the command 
center after the American Airlines jet slammed into the southwest side of the 
Pentagon, killing 125 Pentagon workers and all 64 people onboard the plane.

Intelligence information reaching Rumsfeld pointed toward Osama bin Laden's 
al-Qaida network as masterminding the four suicide hijackings, according to 
the CBS report. At 2:40 p.m., barely five hours after the plane hit the 
Pentagon, the notes quote Rumsfeld as saying he wanted ``best info fast. 
Judge whether good enough to hit S.H.'' -- an apparent reference to Saddam 
Hussein, the Iraqi president -- ``at same time. Not only UBL'' -- the 
initials used to identify bin Laden.

In the months since the Sept. 11 attacks, the Bush administration has 
searched for but not found an Iraqi connection. President Bush is considering 
the possibility of military action to overthrow Saddam, calling him an 
international menace with ambitions to acquire nuclear weapons.





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