Journalist Ahmed Rashid recalled his January 2006 interviews with unidentified senior U.S. officials: ” ‘The kind of warnings and threat perceptions that passed across my desk every morning would not let me to sleep at night,’ one U.S. intelligence official told me. ‘It was without a doubt the scariest time of our lives–there was a real fear that al Qaeda had a follow-up plan to 9/11 which involved WMD,’ said a State Department official.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]
– Ahmed Rashid, Descent Into Chaos, Page 120