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  • Madrid, Spain
    Tuesday Jul 10, 2001
    Zinedine Zidane

    Moving To Real Madrid

    Madrid, Spain
    Tuesday Jul 10, 2001

    In 2001, Zidane joined Real Madrid for a world record fee of 150 billion Italian lire, (about €77.5 million by fixed exchange rate; a reported 12.8 billion pesetas) in instalments, and signed a four-year contract.




  • U.S.
    Tuesday Jul 10, 2001
    September 11 (9/11) Attacks

    Meeting with Condoleezza Rice

    U.S.
    Tuesday Jul 10, 2001

    In July 2001, J. Cofer Black, CIA's couterterrorism chief and George Tenet, CIA's director, met with Condoleezza Rice, the National Security Advisor, to inform her about communications intercepts and other top-secret intelligence showing the increasing likelihood that al-Qaeda would soon attack the United States. Rice listened but was unconvinced, having other priorities on which to focus. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld questioned the information suggesting it was a deception meant to gauge the U.S. response.




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