"We did not take into account during that period the kind of actions we were prepared to follow after 9/11, tt was not clear how to get at al-Qaida in a way to destroy al-Qaida, and we were not prepared, before 9/11, to take down the Taliban. [...] President Bush and his entire national security team understood that terrorism had to be among our highest priorities, and it was."
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Colin Powell, as quoted in Julian Borger, "Bush team 'agreed plan to attack the Taliban the day before September 11'", The Guardian, London, (24 March 2004).
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