“On January 12, 2000, the chief of the CIA’s al Qaeda unit briefed his bosses about the Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia] [terrorist summit] meeting. The official, apparently unaware that the meeting had broken up four days earlier, reported erroneously that the surveillance in Kuala Lumpur was continuing. Three days later, unbeknownst to U.S. officials, [future 9/11 hijackers Nawaf] al Hazmi and [Khalid] al Mihdhar slipped onto a United Airlines flight from Bangkok [Thailand] to Los Angeles.”
– Stephen F. Hayes, The Connection, Page 5