The U.S. intelligence community might have known ahead of time about al-Qaeda’s plan to attack the United States on September 11, 2001, had it managed to follow through in the 1990s on plans to eavesdrop on Afghanistan’s proposed new phone system.
According to David Davis, a Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom, former shadow home secretary and former chairman of the Conservative Party, officials during the Clinton administration had an inside business source in 1998 who was negotiating with the Taliban to install a communications network for the developing country…
