From a story about the story today (no, it's not the pig-latin twins or that basketball player whatzizname). Let's play name that country, ok? No looking ahead to the answers at the end, ok?

Quick...Question #1: which country in the middle east is a huuuuge source of goodwill and dollars for the 1600 Crew and their families interests? Final answer?

Let's look at the board:

The key clues focused on two young Saudi hijackers, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, who perished as they helped crash an airliner into the Pentagon
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Considerable information in the report about whether officials helped the hijackers remains classified. The unclassified report — the part that was released — suggests evidence of "foreign support for some of the Sept. 11 hijackers while they were in the United States" but doesn't identify the sources.

Last November, news reports surfaced about an FBI investigation into whether money from the wife of the Saudi ambassador to the United States indirectly found its way to two of the hijackers.

The Saudis denied any links; the ambassador, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, issued a statement Thursday calling any such contentions "outrageous" and false.

Then there's another game: thwart two investigations at once...what did he know and when did he know it? I seem to remember something about "we could not have known before hand" as an "operative" statement from he Lying Bastard 1600 Crew concerning the hijackings...

Congressional sources connected with the investigation said administration officials tried to remove all references to the "President's Daily Brief," a classified intelligence report given to the president daily. The administration relented when shown general descriptions of the brief on the CIA's Web site.

But the administration would not allow investigators to review the briefs, so it is unclear, with one exception, what information Presidents Clinton and Bush were provided about terrorism before Sept. 11.

The exception, previously acknowledged by the Bush administration: On Aug. 6, 2001, part of a CIA briefing to Bush included general concerns that al-Qaida could attempt a traditional hijacking to secure the release of their allies from prison.