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Bremer criticized Bush on terrorism before attacks

Friday, April 30, 2004 Posted: 0035 GMT (0835 HKT)

WASHINGTON (AP) -- L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. administrator in Iraq, said in a speech six months before the September 11, 2001 attacks that the Bush administration was "paying no attention" to terrorism.

"What they will do is stagger along until there's a major incident and then suddenly say, 'Oh my God, shouldn't we be organized to deal with this,"' said Bremer at McCormick Tribune Foundation conference on terrorism on February 26, 2001.

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/29/bremer.bush.ap/