17 April 2007

What is misleading about this Washington Post headline?

"French 'knew in 2001 al Qaeda was planning hijack'".

What is important about the story is not so much that French intelligence knew but that they passed the information on to American intelligence, if that is not an oxymoron, ergo the could have easily read "Americans 'knew in 2001 al Qaeda was planning hijack'".

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