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Ashton Carter, John Deutch & Philip Zelikow in 1999 article in CFR's Foreign Affairs asked us to imagine that "catastrophic terrorism" - "long part of the Hollywood and Tom Clancy repertory of nightmarish scenarios" - could happen "next month"
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How prescient were Carter, Deutch & Zelikow, that when "catastrophic terrorism" did finally come to the US less than three years later on 9/11, so many would think it looked "like a movie" or "like right out of a Tom Clancy novel"!
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NBC's Katie Couric 15 min after "collapse" of WTC2 says "It looks like a movie frankly. It combines the horror of the TWA Flight 800 bombing and the Murrah Federal Building because it’s both of these incidents coming together in the most horrific way."
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