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From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 04:48:30 -0500


From: Monty Solomon <monty () roscom com>

Cyberspace Security Czar Worries About 'Digital Pearl Harbor'

By Ariana Eunjung Cha, Washington Post
WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A.,
05 Nov 2001, 6:03 AM CST

Back in the early 1990s, when crashing planes and anthrax in the mail
were the stuff of movies or at least far-away places, Richard Clarke
was already warning of terrorism on U.S. soil.

Attacks on our skyscrapers. Biological warfare in Washington and New
York. All sorts of havoc worked up by none other than Osama bin Laden
and his associates.

Clarke, a career public servant who until recently was a senior
advisor to the National Security Council, has had the ear of the
current and past two presidents. But some others in government and
industry had dismissed him as overly cautious and a little paranoid.

...

http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171829.html


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