Sally Denton and husband Roger Morris, authors of 'The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America,' were some of the keynote speakers at this weekend's [October 2, 2001] Fifth Annual Great Basin Book Festival at the University of Nevada.
The authors intended to speak about their book, which ties Las Vegas to organized crime and gives unflattering accounts of the city's historical figures, but they focused more on possible ties the terrorists had to Las Vegas and American foreign policy.
After an introduction by Nevada Attorney General Frankie Sue Del Papa, Denton said that Mohamed Atta, suspected of piloting the first plane that struck the World Trade Center, was just the latest in a long line of others to have come to Las Vegas to engage in criminal activity.
She pointed to a Sept. 22 story in the Las Vegas Review-Journal that reported there was as many as seven people who were linked to the attacks in Las Vegas in the months before Sept. 11.
Denton speculated that there is more to the story about the suspected terrorists' Las Vegas visits than the widely reported patronage of the city's strip clubs, and suggested that they may have been engaged in money laundering and planning for their operation."
The authors intended to speak about their book, which ties Las Vegas to organized crime and gives unflattering accounts of the city's historical figures, but they focused more on possible ties the terrorists had to Las Vegas and American foreign policy.
After an introduction by Nevada Attorney General Frankie Sue Del Papa, Denton said that Mohamed Atta, suspected of piloting the first plane that struck the World Trade Center, was just the latest in a long line of others to have come to Las Vegas to engage in criminal activity.
She pointed to a Sept. 22 story in the Las Vegas Review-Journal that reported there was as many as seven people who were linked to the attacks in Las Vegas in the months before Sept. 11.
Denton speculated that there is more to the story about the suspected terrorists' Las Vegas visits than the widely reported patronage of the city's strip clubs, and suggested that they may have been engaged in money laundering and planning for their operation."
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