It looks like helter skelter is coming down fast, so heres a chance to look smug in the fallout shelter with all the facts at your melty fingertips...
How much do you know about the middle East? Take the online quiz....
How much do you know about Osama Bin Laden?.....read the interview with him....
How much do you know about Osama Bin Laden now?.....read another interview with him....or you could read the CIA's unclassified report on Bin Laden...
The lack of US Military intelligence is rationalised by a CIA officer thus: "A former senior Near East Division operative says, "The CIA probably doesn't have a single truly qualified Arabic-speaking officer of Middle Eastern background who can play a believable Muslim fundamentalist who would volunteer to spend years of his life with shitty food and no women in the mountains of Afghanistan. For Christ's sake, most case officers live in the suburbs of Virginia. We don't do that kind of thing."
