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The Seattle Times: Nation & World: 9-11 was preventable, probe chairman says: "The chairman of the commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks said he believes the strikes could have been prevented, a claim President Bush's spokesman rejected yesterday.

In an interview with CBS on Wednesday night, Tom Kean, a Republican and a former governor of New Jersey, said the attacks could have been avoided: 'I do not believe it had to happen.'

Asked if people should have been fired, he replied: 'There were people certainly, if I was doing the job, who would certainly not be in the position that they were in at that time because they failed. They simply failed.'
White House spokesman Scott McClellan said the administration has not changed its view. 'As we have previously said, there is nothing that we have seen that leads us to believe that September 11th could have been prevented,' he said. 'That still stands.' "

How attacks on Dean may impact race | csmonitor.com: "When an independent Democratic group ran a TV ad last week featuring Osama bin Laden's face and an anti-Dean message, the Democratic presidential front-runner appealed to his supporters. The result: $552,000 in Internet donations over three days."

sacbee.com -- 24-Hour News: Top Stories -- Scores killed in Philippine landslides: "Mud and floodwaters swept away villages across the eastern Philippines on Sunday, killing at least 83 people and blocking rescue workers from reaching victims - including entire families buried alive."