I need Help - media link for early WTC bombing ...FBI involved?

[cthrumatrix]

I remember reading some time ago a news article(s) in regard to the first WTC bombing in the early 90's.

The article sugessted or implied that the FBI/Agency was complict(or knew of it) or there was some connection.

Does anybody have a link and can you please share what information you have.

Thank you in advance

[gandalf]

1. There certainly where those articles...

I remember them too. The idea was the FBI had planned to exchange the bomb against a dummy in the last moment but failed to do so. I do not, however, remember the logic behind it.
Could it be that Gore Vidal wrote something about it?

whatreallyhappended has something on it according to google, but is not available at the moment.

[DUreader]

2. The damning stuff I read was from trial testimony transcripts

I do not recall which articles highlighted it.

[cthrumatrix]

3. a kick for help...

[cthrumatrix]

4. kick

[KC]

5. Here is a link for you

http://www.unansweredquestions.org/timeline/popups/930226.html

which has a link for this article:
The New York Times later reports on Emad Salem, an undercover agent who ends up being the key government witness in the trial against the bomber. Salem testifies that the FBI knew about the attack beforehand and told him they would thwart it by substituting a harmless powder for the explosives. However, this plan was called off by an FBI supervisor, and the bombing was not stopped

[leftofthedial]

6. if I recall correctly

the FBI had infiltrated the group responsible, but failed to thwart the plot prior to the bomb going off.

[gandalf]

7. NY Times article

I have only a conspiracynuts-link -- but it gives a NY Times article as a source:
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/OK/wtcbomb.html

<snip>
HE NEW YORK TIMES
Thursday October 28, 1993 Page A1

"Tapes Depict Proposal to Thwart
Bomb Used in Trade Center Blast"

By Ralph Blumenthal

Law-enforcement officials were told that terrorists were building
a bomb that was eventually used to blow up the World Trade Center,
and they planned to thwart the plotters by secretly substituting
harmless powder for the explosives, an informer said after
the blast.

The informer was to have helped the plotters build the bomb
and supply the fake powder, but the plan was called off by
an F.B.I. supervisor who had other ideas about how the informer,
Emad Salem, should be used, the informer said.

The account, which is given in the transcript of hundreds of
hours of tape recordings that Mr. Salem secretly made of his
talks with law-enforcement agents, portrays the authorities as
being in a far better position than previously known to foil
the February 26th bombing of New York City's tallest towers.

The explosion left six people dead, more than a thousand people
injured, and damages in excess of half-a-billion dollars.
Four men are now on trial in Manhattan Federal Court
in that attack.

Mr. Salem, a 43-year-old former Egyptian Army officer, was used
by the Government to penetrate a circle
of Muslim extremists who are now charged in two bombing cases:
the World Trade Center attack, and a foiled plot to destroy
the United Nations, the Hudson River tunnels, and other
New York City landmarks. He is the crucial witness in the
second bombing case, but his work for the Government was
erratic, and for months before the World Trade Center blast,
he was feuding with th F.B.I.