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Arlen Specter: “I made a personal visit to Saudi Arabia, to Dhahran on August 25 and Riyadh on August 26, and my personal conclusion…”

On the recordSeptember 12, 1996
I made a personal visit to Saudi Arabia, to Dhahran on August 25 and Riyadh on August 26, and my personal conclusion, backed up by the staff report, was that there was no intelligence failure. In fact, in the preceding year, there had been more than 100 intelligence reports on alerts of a general nature, and very specific reports on an alert to the danger of a car bomb at Khobar Towers.
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Arlen Specter
Democratic · Pennsylvania
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the findings of the Intelligence Committee regarding the Khobar Towers terrorist attack.

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