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WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 2002

Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) on Tuesday said he would introduce legislation to create an independent panel to review the September 11 terrorist attacks.

The announcement came as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told a Senate committee that terrorist groups would obtain weapons of mass destruction. The general threat was the third the Bush administration has stated in as many days.

Also testifying about terrorist activity was Kenneth Williams, who told a closed Senate panel that his suspicions about potential airplane hijackings was based on interviews with Arab students who expressed distaste for the United States. The FBI never followed up after determining it didn't have the resources to carry out an investigation, The Washington Post reported.

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