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Watch Lawrence Wright, staff writer at The New Yorker, share his insights into al-Qaeda and the Western intelligence failures leading up to 9/11.
Speaker: Lawrence Wright, Staff Writer, The New Yorker
Presider: Rachel Bronson, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
October 5, 2006
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