Regarding an FBI agent’s unsuccessful search for 9/11 attackers Khalid al-Midhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, Attorney General John Ashcroft said: ” ‘We know this for a fact: for two and a half weeks in late August and early September [2001], we knew the names of at least two al Qaeda terrorists who were here to kill us. And we missed them.’ “ [The 25th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]
– John Ashcroft, Never Again, Page 153