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Prince Turki Al Faisal
Saudi Ambassador to Britain and Ireland
His Royal Highness Prince Turki al Faisal is the current Saudi ambassador to Britain and Ireland and served as chief of the Saudi General Intelligence Department from 1977-2001. His Royal Highness was one of the defendants in a lawsuit accusing Saudi officials, businessmen and institutions of supporting al Qaeda before the Sept. 11 attacks. All charges against him were later dismissed.
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Cofer Black
U.S. State Dept. Coordinator for Counterterrorism
Cofer Black is the State Department coordinator for counterterrorism with the rank of ambassador at large (2002-present). Black was the director of the CIA Counterterrorist Center, where he served as the CIA director's special assistant for counterterrorism as well as the national intelligence officer for counterterrorism.
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Steve Coll
Foreign Correspondent and Editor, The Washington Post
Steve Coll has been a foreign correspondent and editor at The Washington Post since 1985. From 1998 to 2004, Coll served as the paper's managing editor and is currently an associate editor. In 2005, Coll won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction for his best-selling book "Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001.
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Lyz Glick
Widow of Flight 93 Passenger Jeremy Glick
Lyz Glick is the widow to Jeremy Glick, one of the passengers aboard United Flight 93. Lyz received a call from her husband during the hijacked flight. During this conversation her husband described a plan to attack the hijackers and she had contact with him as the plane went down over Pennsylvania.
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Bob Graham
Former U.S. Senator
As chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in the 107th Congress, former Senator Bob Graham led efforts to improve intelligence agency cooperation and efficiency. Since Sept. 11, 2001, he has concentrated his efforts on counterterrorism. He was the primary author of many parts of the USA Patriot Act, and authored the book "Intelligence Matters." He has criticized the Bush administration of engaging in a cover-up of the intelligence failures that led to the 9/11 attacks.
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Rohan Gunaratna
Sr. Research Fellow, Inst. of Defense and Strategic Studies
Rohan Gunaratna is an al Qaeda expert and author of "Inside al Qaeda." He serves as the head of the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies in Singapore. He's also Senior Fellow, Combating Terrorism Centre, at the United States Military Academy at West Point.
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John Miller
Commanding Officer, L.A. Police Dept. Counter-Terrorism Bureau
John Miller is an Emmy Award-winning journalist and former co-host of ABC's 20/20. In 1998, Miller was the last Western journalist granted an interview with al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. During that interview, bin Laden expanded his threat from U.S. military interests abroad to U.S. citizens. Since January 2003, Miller has been the commanding officer of the Los Angeles Police Department's Counter-Terrorism Bureau.
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Richard Picciotto
Fmr. Battalion Chief, NYC Fire Dept.
Richard Picciotto was a battalion chief for the New York City Fire Department and was on the scene at the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. On Sept. 11, 2001, Picciotto was buried under the rubble for four hours and eventually rescued. He has written a book entitled "Last Man Down: A New York City Fire Chief and the Collapse of the World Trade Center."
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Michael Scheuer
CIA Senior Intelligence Analyst
Michael Scheuer is one of the CIA's foremost experts on Osama bin Laden and the senior intelligence analyst who created a secret CIA unit for tracking and eliminating bin Laden in 1996, dubbed "Alec Station." Scheuer is the author formerly known as "Anonymous" of the books "Imperial Hubris" and "Through Our Enemies' Eyes."
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Gary Schroen
Former CIA Officer
Gary Schroen is a former CIA officer who oversaw CIA operations in Islamabad until August 2001. He was CIA Islamabad station chief from 1996 to 1999, when the U.S. had a window of opportunity to strike directly at bin Laden. Three days after 9/11 he was ordered by his supervisor Cofer Black to "put together a small team of CIA operatives, drop into northern Afghanistan, pave the way for the U.S. military to topple the Taliban, and bring Osama bin Laden's head back to the U.S., packed in dry ice." He has written a book entitled "First In: An Insider's Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan."
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Caspar Weinberger
Former U.S. Secretary of Defense
Caspar Weinberger is best known as the U.S. secretary of defense under President Ronald Reagan (1982-1987), and for his related roles in the Strategic Defense Initiative program (SDI, popularly known as Star Wars). Weinberger participated in the transfer of U.S. TOW missiles to Iran during the Iran-Contra Affair. He was later indicted on several felony charges of lying to the Iran-Contra independent counsel during its investigation. Weinberger received a presidential pardon from George H.W. Bush in 1993, just days before his trial was scheduled to begin.
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