In the year leading up to 9/11, CIA analysts were watching air-defense movements in southern Iraq, nuclear saber-rattling between India and Pakistan, and targets for NATO bombing in Yugoslavia. On Sept. 11, 2001, the NSA had 1,500 formal requests in its inboxes, involving almost 200,000 "Essential Elements of Information." Nevertheless, as Tenet testified to the committees on Oct. 17, 2002, "The fact that [analysts] were swamped does not mitigate the fact that we didn't overcome that [with] a separate unit or better training for these people."