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NY Times: Bush Warned bin Laden Would Hijack Planes
"The White House said tonight that President Bush had been warned by American
intelligence agencies in early August that Osama bin Laden was seeking to hijack
aircraft..."
CNN: Bush
briefed on hijacking threat before 9-11
"President Bush's daily intelligence briefings in the weeks leading up to the
September 11 terror attacks included a warning of the possibility that Osama bin
Laden's al Qaeda network would attempt to hijack a U.S.-based airliner, senior
administration officials said Wednesday"
UK
Guardian: Bush knew terrorists would hijack planes
"George Bush received specific warnings in the weeks before 11
September that an attack inside the United States was being planned by Osama bin
Laden's al-Qaeda network, US government sources said yesterday…. The memo
received by Bush on 6 August contained unconfirmed information passed on by
British intelligence in 1998 revealing that al-Qaeda operatives had discussed
hijacking a plane to negotiate the release of Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, the
Muslim cleric imprisoned in America for his part in a plot to blow up the World
Trade Centre in 1993."
Sunday Herald: Britain warned
Bush to expect 9-11 al-Qaeda hijackings
"Britain gave President Bush a categorical warning to expect
multiple airline hijackings by the al-Qaeda network a month before the September
11 attacks which killed nearly 3000 people and triggered the international war
against terrorism."
Village Voice:
Officials Warned of Plans to Attack DC, NY with Planes
"The U.S. government had received repeated warnings of impending
attacks—and attacks using planes directed at New York and Washington—for several
years. The government never told us about what it knew was coming."
AP: 9/11 report, Rice conflict; Bush got specific data on threats
"...the briefing given to the president a month before the
suicide hijackings included recent intelligence that al-Qaida was planning to
send operatives to the United States to carry out an attack using high
explosives."
MSNBC: White House
Briefed on Imminent bin Laden Attack
"One such CIA briefing, in July 2001, was particularly chilling and prophetic.
It predicted that Osama bin Laden was about to launch a terrorist strike 'in the
coming weeks,' the congressional investigators found. The intelligence briefing
went on to say: 'The attack will be spectacular and designed to inflict mass
casualties against U.S. facilities or interests. Attack preparations have been
made. Attack will occur with little or no warning.'"
MSN: Condoleezza Rice's False
Statement
A: "The overwhelming bulk of the
evidence was that this was an attack that was likely to take place overseas."
- White House National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, in a
May 16 news briefing.
B: "Bin Laden
Determined to Strike in U.S."
- Title of the CIA's Aug. 6 briefing memo to President Bush . . .
Newsweek: Day before 9-11,
Pentagon Generals Cancelled Flights
(link dead)
"On Sept. 10, NEWSWEEK has learned, a group of top Pentagon
officials suddenly canceled travel plans for the next morning, apparently
because of security concerns."
SF Gate: Mayor got 8-hour warning Before 9-11 Attacks – September 12, 2001
For Mayor Willie Brown, the first signs that something was amiss
came late Monday when he got a call from what he described as his airport
security - - a full eight hours before yesterday's string of terrorist attacks
-- advising him that Americans should be cautious about their air travel.
Florida State: Jeb Bush Declares Martial Law 9-7-01
"Based on the potential massive damage to life and property that
may result from an act of terrorism at a Florida port, the
necessity to protect life and property from such acts of terrorism..."
CBS News: Ashcroft Avoided Commercial Travel Prior to 9-11
"In response to inquiries from CBS News over why Ashcroft was
traveling exclusively by leased jet aircraft instead of commercial airlines, the
Justice Department cited what it called a "threat assessment" by the FBI, and
said Ashcroft has been advised to travel only by private jet for the remainder
of his term."
UK Independent: Taliban Mole Warning Ignored
"Weeks before the terrorist attacks on 11 September, the United States and the
United Nations ignored warnings from a secret Taliban emissary that Osama bin
Laden was planning a huge attack on American soil."
NY Times:
"President Mubarek Warned US of Al Qaeda Plot”
"Egyptian intelligence warned American officials about a week before Sept. 11
that Osama bin Laden's network was in the advance stages of executing a
significant operation against an American target, President Hosni Mubarak said
in an interview on Sunday."
Village
Voice: US Ignored France Warnings
"A key point in unraveling why the FBI failed to follow up leads
on Al Qaeda terrorism now centers on the Bureau's contemptuously brushing aside
warnings from French intelligence a few days before 9-11."
Intl. Herald
Tribune: White House Ignored Arab Warnings
"When the hubbub about what the White House did or
didn't know before Sept. 11 dies down, Congressional or other investigators
should consider the specific warnings that friendly Arab intelligence services
sent to Washington in the summer of 2001."
UK News-Telegraph: Israel issued urgent warning of large-scale terror attacks
Israeli intelligence officials say that they warned their counterparts in the
United States last month that large-scale terrorist attacks on highly visible
targets on the American mainland were imminent."
NY
Post: FBI Warned D.C. It Was A Target
"A Minnesota FBI agent investigating Zacarias
Moussaoui testified yesterday that he notified the Secret Service weeks before
Sept. 11 that a terror team might hijack a plane and 'hit the nation's
capital.'"
Yahoo News: FBI Warnings Ignored
"An FBI supervisor, sounding a prophetic pre-Sept. 11
alarm, warned FBI headquarters that student pilot Zacarias Moussaoui was so
dangerous he might 'take control of a plane and fly it into the World Trade
Center,' a congressional investigator said in a report Tuesday."
Independent: America had 12 warnings of aircraft attack
"American intelligence received many more clues before the 11
September attacks than previously disclosed, that terrorists might hijack planes
and turn them into weapons, a joint congressional committee was told yesterday."
Washington Post: 9/11 Probe Says Agencies Failed to Heed
Attack Signs
"U.S. intelligence agencies received many more
indications than previously disclosed that Osama bin Laden's terrorist network
was planning imminent "spectacular" attacks in the summer of 2001 aimed at
inflicting mass casualties."
Yahoo News: Spy Agencies Had Pre-9/11 Threats on U.S. Soil
"U.S. intelligence agencies picked up threats of attacks inside
the United States and of using airplanes as weapons during the spring and summer
before last year's Sept. 11 attacks, but were more focused on the possibility of
an assault overseas, a congressional source said on Tuesday."
Vanity Fair:
Bin Laden Relatives Secretly Evacuated From NY
"Patrick Tyler of the New York Times is reporting from Washington: 'In the first
days after the attacks on Sept. 11, the Saudi Arabian ambasador to Washington,
Prince Bandar ibn Sultan, supervised the urgent evacuation of 24 members of
Osama bin Laden's extended family from the United States fearing they might be
subjected to violence.'"
Sydney
Morning Herald: Administration Told US agents “Back off bin Ladens”
"US special agents were told to back off the bin Laden family and
the Saudi royals soon after George Bush became president, although that has all
changed since September 11, it was reported today."
Ha'aretz Daily: CEO Says Workers Warned Hours Before World Trade Center Hit --
FBI Investigating
"Odigo, the instant
messaging service, says that two of its workers received messages two hours
before the Twin Towers attack on September 11 predicting the attack would
happen, and the company has been cooperating with Israeli and American law
enforcement, including the FBI, in trying to find the original sender of the
message predicting the attack."
NY Times: White House
Approved Secret Evacuation of Bin Ladens After 9-11
"Richard Clarke, who ran White House crisis team after Sept 11 terror attacks,
says top White House officials personally approved evacuation of dozens of
influential Saudis, including relatives of Osama bin Laden, from United States
in days after Sept 11, when most flights were grounded."
Tampa
Tribune: Bodyguards tell of Secret Bin Laden Flight
"The hastily arranged flight out of Raytheon Airport Services, a private hangar
on the outskirts of Tampa International Airport, was anything but ordinary. It
lifted off the tarmac at a time when every private plane in the nation was
grounded due to safety concerns after the Sept. 11 attacks. "
UK
Minister: "Bush had Foreknowledge of 9-11 attacks"
"...it is not
surprising that some have seen the US failure to avert the 9/11 attacks as
creating an invaluable pretext for attacking Afghanistan in a war that had
clearly already been well planned in advance."
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