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Former adviser: Terrorism not urgent issue for Bush administration before 9-11
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush White House scaled back the struggle against al-Qaida after taking
office in 2001 and spurned suggestions that it retaliate for the bombing of a U.S. warship "because it hap-
pened on the Clinton administration's watch," a former top terrorism adviser testified Wednesday.
The Clinton administration had "no higher priority" than combatting terrorists while the Bush admin-
istration made it "an important issue but not an urgent issue," said Richard Clarke, who advised both
presidents. He testified before the commission investigating the 9-11 attacks, the worst terrorist strikes
in American history.
Clarke's turn in the witness chair turned what had been a painstaking, bipartisan probe of pre-9-11
intelligence failures and bureaucratic miscommunications into a nationally televised criticism of Bush on
the terrorism issue that he has made the core of his campaign for a new term.
FBI dispels congressional terror theory that two Saudis were intel agents
WASHINGTON (AP) - Dispelling a theory raised by congressional investigators, the FBI has conclud-
ed that two Saudi men questioned about the 9-11 hijackers were not intelligence agents for their country
or aiding the terrorist plot, officials said.
After conducting additional interviews and reviewing documents, FBI agents recently closed down their
investigation into Omar al-Bayoumi and Osama Basnan, two friends who raised suspicions because one
briefly lent money to two of the 19 hijackers while the other received money from the Saudi royal family.
The FBI concluded at most the two Saudi men occasionally provided information to their kingdom or
helped Saudi visitors settle into the United States, but did so in compliance with Muslim custom of being
kind to strangers rather than out of some relationship with Saudi intelligence, the officials said.
Scientists find gene mutation separating man from apelike creatures
(AP) - Touching off a scientific furor, researchers say they may have discovered the mutation that
caused the earliest humans to branch off from their apelike ancestors - a gene that led to smaller, weaker
jaws and, ultimately, bigger brains.
Smaller jaws would have fundamentally changed the structure of the skull, they contend, by eliminating thick mus-
cles that worked like bungee cords to anchor a huge jaw to the crown of the head. The change would have allowed
the cranium to grow larger and led to the development of a bigger brain capable of tool-making and language.
The mutation is reported in the latest issue of the journal Nature, not by anthropologists, but by a team of
biologists and plastic surgeons at the University of Pennsylvania and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
The report provoked strong reactions throughout the hotly contested field of human origins with one scientist
declaring it "counter to the fundamentals of evolution" and another pronouncing it "super."
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