World News Tonight (ABC) - 2002-09-18

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[0:00] in advance. Congress's own

[0:02] investigation. The latest FBI bulletin

[0:05] about possible hijackings. Watch out for

[0:07] chhatchins in first class and explosives

[0:10] mixed with coffee. The golden arches

[0:13] under pressure. McDonald's is

[0:15] desperately hungry for customers.

[0:18] Medicine on the cutting edge tonight.

[0:19] Experimental surgery to replace a hip.

[0:22] Less invasive and a faster recovery.

[0:24] We'll take a closer look. and how they

[0:27] kept the magnificent cave a secret for

[0:30] more than a dozen years.

[0:35] >> From ABC News World Headquarters in New

[0:38] York, this is World News Tonight with

[0:41] Peter Jennings.

[0:42] >> Good evening everyone. We begin tonight

[0:43] with a failure of government

[0:45] intelligence that will likely haunt the

[0:46] US intelligence community for many

[0:49] years. Today, a special congressional

[0:51] committee released a report which

[0:53] describes for the first time just how

[0:56] many warnings the US had before the

[0:58] September attacks that Osama bin Laden

[1:01] had plans for the United States. ABC's

[1:03] Linda Douglas is on Capitol Hill. Some

[1:06] of this must have been hard for the

[1:07] intelligence community to listen to.

[1:10] >> It was, Peter. This newly declassified

[1:12] intelligence intelligence shows that the

[1:14] government got several tips that Osama

[1:17] bin Laden might be planning to attack

[1:18] the United States and that he might want

[1:21] to use an airplane as a weapon.

[1:24] >> The committee's chief investigator

[1:26] testified that in July 2001, senior

[1:29] government officials were warned in a

[1:30] briefing that Osama bin Laden will

[1:32] launch a significant terrorist attack

[1:34] against US andor Israeli interests i