but in that morning, i managed to get hold of the national security —— security adviser kaunda lisa ricetely that the submission was, the sub prime suspect was al-qaeda under the leadership of a summer bin laden. there were some mention of iraq there as a possibility but she said it was something i had to be discussed later on. the first thing to establish was the responsibility, was the threat still there. for a while, we bought another plane was coming towards washington, dc. i mean, it was, and it hit the pentagon and that hit home, you know, very hard indeed, because the pentagon is only very few miles from the embassy, as the crow flies. some people heard the noise of the plane hitting the pentagon. and we all smelt the drifting odour of kerosene burning aircraft fuel coming up from the pentagon over the river towards us in the embassy. but it wasn't until the aircraft that crashed in the field in pennsylvania we were told by the americans as far as they could say, as far as they could tell, the attack was over. and then i had to decide what to do with the embassy staff, to keep the

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