News Type: Event — Seeded on Fri Jul 25, 2008 9:18 AM EDT President Bush had warned of new threats of terrorism when he announced Robert S. Mueller III's appointment as FBI director in 2001, but neither he nor Mr. Mueller knew how quickly the FBI would have to respond. Just a week after Mr. Mueller assumed the director's job, al Qaeda terrorists crashed hijacked jetliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, killing nearly 3,000 people. The Sept. 11 attacks gave urgency to and greatly defined Mr. Mueller's...
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