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BACKGROUND INFORMATION
APRIL 28,2004
BACKGROUND INFORMATION FOR COMMISSION SITE VISITS
TO USCENTCOM AND USSOCOM
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. Itinerary
G. USSOCOM Today
• "Rumsfeld: No Frustration with War Pace," Atlanta Journal and Constitution, August 14, 2002
• "The Secret War: Frustrated by intelligence failures, the Defense Department is dramatically
expanding its 'black world' of covert operations," Los Angeles Times, William M. Arkin,
October 27, 2002
• General John Abizaid testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee,
September 25, 2003
• "Five U.S. Soldiers Killed in Copter Crash Near Kabul," The Washington Post, Associated Press,
November 24, 2003
• "General Warns of Pakistani, Saudi Extremists," The Washington Post, Bradley Graham,
January 30, 2004
• "NATO To Expand Force in Afghanistan; Defense Ministers Promise Rumsfeld Regional Security
Teams," The Washington Post, Bradley Graham, February 7, 2004
• "The Mess in Afghanistan," The New York Review of Books, Ahmed Rashid, February 12, 2004
• "The Other War: Why Bush's Afghanistan problem won't go away," The New Yorker,
Seymour M. Hersh, April 12, 2004
• "Schofield's Olson to command Afghanistan Coalition," William Cole, April 15, 2004
• The Military
UNITED STATES SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND
AND
UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND
ITINERARY FOR
9-11 COMMISSION
28 APRIL 2004
1130 Depart for MacDill AFB Officers' Club via DV Surrey Bus
Accompanied by VADM Olson
1630 Depart MacDill AFB, FL via Mil Air, en route to Andrews AFB, MD
Farewell by: BGen George J. Trautman, Deputy Director J5