Britain warned US to expect September 11 (2001) al-Qaeda hijackings

[KC]

Britain warned US to expect September 11 al-Qaeda hijackings
By Torcuil Crichton

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.The confirmation of repeated British intelligence warnings about al-Qaeda hijackings -- first established by the Sunday Herald in 1999 -- comes amid claims that the US intelligence community has now received further information of an imminent second wave of terrorist attacks on America.

According to US government officials, the British warning of al-Qaeda plans to hijack US airliners was contained in a crucial briefing sent to Bush on August 6, a month before the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon.

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http://www.sundayherald.com/24822

[FlashHarry]

1. Is this new?

'cause if it is... whoo boy.

[Andy_Stephenson]

2. I've never heard it

so it must be new.

[KC]

7. Me either

I hadn't heard this either..especially the actual date the information was given to *.

It "should" be enough to impeach him.

KC

[didntvote4shrub]

4. No, it's old..

..the article is dated May 19, 2002.

[Homer12]

3. The Administration Defense

We thought it was faulty intellegence????

[demnan]

5. Have you ever seen a more impeachable offense in your life?

No wonder 28 pages were censored out of that report. It wasn't Saudia Arabia, it was Bush.

[radwriter0555]

6. Condi said last year that this was the case. Remember her on teevee

all crying and carrying on?

This is why. Don't FORGET.

[Old and In the Way]

8. "We never thought they'd crash planes into buildings......"

I'm sure you didn't Condi....I'll bet your intel was a major hijacking event....just what your pResident needed to justify the Afghan invasion (that you admitted was on his desk awaiting his signature on 9/10) to get that pipeline project secured.

[indepat]

9. For Chris' sakes, the man was on vacation: surely you would not want

your vacation interrupted to listen to intelligence reports.
(SARCASM OFF)

[zbdent]

11. Bush's entire life was never interrupted by intelligence

too inconvenient.

[The Backlash Cometh]

10. Big Kick

*

[noonwitch]

12. Geez, so everybody warned Bush

Add the british to the Egyptians, the Germans, the Israelis (twice). If anyone knows their business on arab terrorists, it's the Israelis. I am so sick of the Bush administration blaming 9-11 on Clinton, especially when now the British also warned us.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

13. Bush had the greatest security apparatus at his disposal on 9-10-01

and this includes not only the CIA but the British, Israeli, French, Russian, et al. and he blew it. And it's hard to believe that he did not deliberatley blow it given all the intelligence.
So you think Clinton's blow job was bad? Bush's is history's all time greatest "blow job".

[Procopius]

14. It wasn't all Bush's fault

Somone else approved their visas to get in country before Bush got on the scene.

So blame Bush but not only him.

[Old and In the Way]

16. I don't want to blame, I want to investigate and understand the

root cause of the problem. If we don't investigate, how do we really know what happened on 9/11? And how do we know that the conditions are not still in place to allow an even greater tragedy to occur?

We can spend $70MM of taxpayer money to investigate a crummy $30K busted land deal and a tawdry blowjob, but we can't have a public investigation on why 3000 people died on 9/11?

Maybe Clinton does share some of the blame. I have no problem with that...let's get all the facts on the table and exposed. All I know is that this administration has fiercely obstructed and stonewalled an investigation....I can only conclude that there is incriminating reasons for this and, if so, are we safer today because they still control the levers of power?

3000 lives wasted, no one brought to justice, no one accountable. That is a crime.

[WindBreak]

15. This goes nowhere

Governments get multiple warnigs about multiple possible incidents. If they responded to each one they would have time to do nothing else.

There has been concern about OBL since the mid '90s. Move on.

[Old and In the Way]

17. How many warnings reach the level of a CIA presidential

briefing paper.

This wasn't chatter....they had hard intel from many countries and our own agencies....they did nothing to protect us....not even heightened AF alerts.

[el_gato]

18. this is important and must be investigated

Why did Ashcroft stop flying domestic airlines a month before
9/11? Because they knew!

The questions surrounding this issue need to be asked
and the answers need to be provided.

If Bush knew nothing about this in advance, as he says, (the FBI screwed up and lost all that important information in a bureaucratic swamp), then how did they figure out within a few hours that Bin Laden did it from the caves in Pakistan?

If Bush knew nothing of a coming attack, why did his brother Jeb so providently proclaim martial law in Florida?

Does the preponderance of evidence of obstruction of terrorist investigations within the FBI indicate a suspect pattern worthy of thorough investigation and 'housecleaning'?

Why on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001 was Anne Tatlock CEO and President of Fiduciary and Franklin and a group of other CEO's from the WTC at a charity event hosted by Warren Buffett at Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha Nebraska? Fiduciary's offices were spread among the 92nd through 97th floors of the south tower. Tatlock said she was pretty amazed to see the second plane hit her office as she watched it happen from a television set in safety at Offutt AFB. Soon after the President and the Vice President arrived at Offutt AFB and hid out in the underground bunker. Is this a miraculous coincidence or stroke of luck for Tatlock and the other CEO's?

Have you wondered why Bush continued to read with children in a classroom on 9/11 about a pet goat after he was told that the WTC was burning and America was under attack from terrorists?

Why didn't George W Bush in August when he got intelligence briefings about hijackings warn the airlines, the FAA and the people about impensing plane hijackings, especially since he threatened war against the Taliban in secret? George W Bush could have at least called former Mayor Hooligani to tell people to get out of both Towers after the first aircraft hit the first tower based on What George W Bush knew. Also why didn't George W Bush have the airforce out to protect the second tower and the pentagone and other federal buildings after the first plane hit the first tower? Oh and how could the Bush administration claim not to believe that hijackers would use planes as bombs? Did George W Bush ever learn about Kamikaze pilots during World War II?

If the administration, FAA, Military had no foreknowledge of the 9/11 attacks, why were ALL flights from London to the US the morning of 9/11 CANCELLED a full 2 and a half hours before the first airplane crashed, the passengers on these flights from the UK having been told that it was "due to air traffic control problems in WASHINGTON DC"???

Here are the words of a Bush White House official, published in The New Yorker Magazine on 1/14/02. (Article by Lawrence Wright) "Meanwhile, intelligence had been streaming in concerning a likely Al Qaeda attack. It all came together in the third week in June, 2001," (Richard A.) Clarke said. "The CIA's view was that a major terrorist attack was coming in the next several weeks." (The article continues)"On July 5th, Clarke summoned ALL the domestic security agencies -- the FAA, the Coast Guard, Customs, the INS, and the FBI -- and told them to increase their security in light of an impending attack." Well, there it is. Richard Clarke was Clinton's National Coordinator for Security and Counter-Terrorism, still on the same job with G.W. Bush. Clarke reported to Condoleeza Rice, who reports daily to Bush. So how can Bush say "we didn't know"? And why is Richard A. Clarke -- still in the White House as of last October -- not heard of and not heard from????? He has admitted the intelligence "all came together in the third week of June," and all agencies were notified of an imminent domestic attack.

If the Bush Admin had no advance warning of the attack, how in the world could they have identified the 19 hijackers, many of whom must surely have used aliases, in all of 24 hours????

Newsweek, Sept 24, 2001, p.34 "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." Why has nothing been explained about this? Why were the victims of the three fated planes on 9-11 not given the same warning? This must be looked into by an independent investigation and the administration must stop impeding access to the information.

[KC]

19. This should be investigated

and it needs to get out to the media..along with the orignial article stating the date Britain gave * the information.


KC