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DRAFT AGENDA as of 2/20/04

FOR INTERNAL USE ONLY

NATIONAL COMMISSION ON TERRORIST ATTACKS UPON THE UNITED STATES


EIGHTH PUBLIC HEARING • MARCH 23-24, 2004
HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING, ROOM 216 • WASHINGTON, DC

COUNTERTERRORISM POLICY

TUESDAY, MARCH 23

9:00 - 9:30 a.m. Staff Statement No. 5: Diplomacy

9:30 - 11:00 a.m. The Honorable Madeleine K. Albright, former Secretary of State

11:00 - 12:30 p.m. The Honorable Colin L. Powell, Secretary of State

12:30-1:30 p.m. Break

1:30 - 2:00 a.m. Staff Statement No. 6: Military

2:00 - 3:30 p.m. The Honorable William Cohen, former Secretary of Defense

3:30-5:00 p.m. The Honorable Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24

8:30- 9:00 a.m. Staff Statement No. 7: Intelligence

9:00 - 10:30 p.m. The Honorable George Tenet, Director of Central Intelligence

10:30 - 11:00 a.m. Staff Statement No. 8: National Policy Coordination

11:00 - 1:00 p.m. Richard Clarke, former National Coordinator for Counterterrorism

1:00-2:00 p.m. Break

2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Samuel L. Berger, former Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs

3:30 - 5:00 p.m. Condoleezza Rice, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
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particularly significant because it
may have represented a missed
opportunity for American
officials to penetrate the Qaeda
terror cell in Germany that was at
the heart of the plot. And it came
roughly 16 months before the
hijacker showed up at flight
schools in the United States.

In March 1999, German intelligence officials gave the Central Intelligence Agency the
first name and telephone number of Marwan al-Shehhi, and asked the Americans to
track him.

The name and phone number in the United Arab Emirates had been obtained by the
Germans by monitoring the telephone of Mohamed Heidar Zammar, an Islamic militant
in Hamburg who was closely linked to the important Qaeda plotters who ultimately
mastermined the Sept. 11 attacks, German officials said.

After the Germans passed the information on to the C.I.A., they did not hear from the

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