UW researchers have been working to change that through the first longitudinal study of LGBT older adults, called Aging with Pride: National Health, Aging, Sexuality/Gender Study. This number is expected to increase to more than five million by 2060, yet this population is critically understudied. "Because of offensive actions against al-Qaeda since 9/11, and defence actions to improve homeland security, we believe we are safer today," it notes.In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers from the University of Washington’s School of Social Work have released new findings this month on the health and aging of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender older adults in the U.S.Īpproximately 2.7 million adults age 50 and older self-identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. The report says that America is a safer place since the attacks, after action by the Bush administration. The secretary of defence did not enter the chain of command until the morning's key events were over" The president could not reach some senior officials. "The chain of command did not function well. attempted and failed to improvise an effective homeland defence against an unprecedented challenge"
"The hijackers had to beat only one layer of security - the security checkpoint process. While praising the response of members of the emergency services to the attacks, the report finds institutional weaknesses within the US which both made it easier for extremists to attack and harder for the authorities to respond adequately: Not hardening aircraft cockpit doors or taking other measures to prepareįor the possibility of suicide hijackings Not expanding no-fly lists to include names from terrorist watch lists and not searching airline passengers identified by computer-based screening Not discovering false statements on visa applications and not recognising faked passports "Not linking the arrest of Zacarias Moussaoui, described as interested inįlight training for the purpose of using an airplane in a terrorist act, to Allowing two hijackers, Khalid al-Midhar and Nawaq Alhamzi, to enter and move about the US without proper surveillance despite their known links to al-Qaeda.The report accuses the "organisations and systems of that time" of:
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The report finds that the 9/11 plot might have been nipped in the bud had the security services done their work more thoroughly, although it accepts that "since the plotters were flexible and resourceful, we cannot know whetherĪny single step or series of steps would have defeated them". There was no operational link between al-Qaeda and ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.No single individual was to blame, but both individuals and institutions had to take responsibility for failing to stop the attacks.Indeed, it barely came up during the 2000 presidential campaign" "The terrorist danger from Bin Laden and al-Qaeda was not a major topic for policy debate among the public, the media or in the Congress."The FBI did not have the capability to link the collective knowledge of agents in the field to national priorities".
"At no point before 9/11 was the Department of Defense fully engaged in the mission of countering al-Qaeda, even though it was perhaps the most dangerous foreign enemy threatening the United States".We do not believe leaders understood the gravity of the threat" "The most important failure was one of imagination."What we can say with confidence is that none of the measures adopted by the US government from 1998 to 2001 disturbed or even delayed the progress of the al-Qaeda plot".
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