Updated: 9/11: Bush Knew - A BuzzFlash Perspective
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A collection of compelling articles, which refute, or, at the very least, call into question, the assertions that Bush and his administration had no prior knowledge of events that would lead to the 9-11 tragedy.
Updated: 9/11: Bush Knew - A BuzzFlash Perspective
9/11: Bush Knew
A collection of compelling articles, which refute, or, at the very least, call into question, the assertions that Bush and his administration had no prior knowledge of events that would lead to the 9-11 tragedy.
A note about the articles.
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The Secrets of September 11
April 30, 2003
"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.'"
http://www.msnbc.com/news/907379.asp?0cv=CB10
Is Bush A Liar - or is memory serving him badly?
Posted October 10, 2002
http://www.visualjournalism.com/Files/
reviews/bush911/pageBig.shtml
FBI Warned D.C. It Was A Target
September 25, 2002
"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.'"
http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/57848.htm
Moussaoui Warnings Ignored
September 24, 2002
"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."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=512&ncid
=716&e=4&u=/ap/20020924/ap_on_go_co/attacks_intelligence
America had 12 warnings of aircraft attack
September 19, 2002
"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."
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/
story.jsp?story=334633
U.S. Was Aware on bin Laden Threat
September 19, 2002
"Basically, we know that bin Laden had the means and the intent to attack Americans, both at home and abroad."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=512&ncid
=716&e=5&u=/ap/20020919/ap_on_go_co/attacks_intelligence
9/11 Probers Say Agencies Failed to Heed Attack Signs
September 19, 2002
"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."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36754-2002Sep18.html
9/11 report documents credible clues
September 18, 2002
"The U.S. intelligence community received a surprising number of credible reports of a likely terrorist attack prior to Sept. 11, including some threats to domestic targets, according to a congressional report to be unveiled today."
http://www.msnbc.com/news/809370.asp?pne=msntv
U.S. knew of 12 plots for jet attacks
September 18, 2002
"Plan to attack WTC was among warnings that preceded 9/11, panel told."
http://www.msnbc.com/news/809484.asp
Panel Presents 9/11 Intelligence
September 18, 2002
"An intelligence briefing two months before the Sept. 11 attack warned that Osama bin Laden ( news - web sites) would launch a spectacular terrorist attack against U.S. or Israeli interests, congressional investigators said Wednesday."
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=542&ncid=703&
e=1&u=/ap/20020918/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/attacks_intelligence
Spy Agencies Had Pre-9/11 Threats on U.S. Soil
September 17, 2002
"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."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=578&ncid
=578&e=1&u=/nm/20020917/ts_nm/attack_
congress_intelligence_dc
Ashcroft Flying High
July 26, 2001
"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."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001
/07/26/national/printable303601.shtml
Bush briefed on hijacking threat before September 11
May 16, 2002
"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."
http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/05/15/bush.sept.11/index.html
Revealed: The Taliban minister, the US envoy and the warning of September 11 that was ignored
September 7, 2002
"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."
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=331115
Why would Osama bin Laden want to kill Dubya, his former business partner?
July 3, 2001
"A plot by Saudi master terrorist, Osama bin Laden, to assassinate Dubya during the July 20 economic summit of world leaders, was uncovered after dozens of suspected Islamic militants linked to bin Laden's international terror network were arrested in Frankfurt, Germany, and Milan, Italy, in April."
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/Hatfield
-R-091901/hatfield-r-091901.html
Bin Laden’s Relatives Evacuated From NYC
October 2, 2001
"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 ther United States fearing they might be subjected to violence.'"
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0110/S00008.htm
Our Pearl Harbor: The latest NSA revelations suggest the 9-11 plot could have been foiled.
June 21, 2002
"Recent news that the National Security Agency (NSA) intercepted two messages the day before the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks -- messages that indicated imminent action -- obliges us to reconsider whether the airliner hijackings that led to 3,000 lost lives and $20 billion in property damage could have been foiled."
http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2002/06/prados-j-06-21.html
Al-Qaida monitored U.S. negotiations with Taliban over oil pipeline
June 5, 2002
"A memo by military chief Mohammed Atef raises new questions about whether failed U.S. efforts to reform Afghanistan's radical regime -- and build the pipeline -- set the stage for Sept. 11."
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/06/05/
memo/index_np.html?x
U.S. had agents inside al-Qaeda
June 4, 2002
"U.S. intelligence overheard al-Qaeda operatives discussing a major pending terrorist attack in the weeks prior to Sept. 11 and had agents inside the terror group, but the intercepts and field reports didn't specify where or when a strike might occur, according to U.S. officials. The disclosures add to a growing body of evidence to be examined in congressional hearings that open today into how the CIA, FBI and other agencies failed to seize on intelligence pointing to the deadliest terror attack in U.S. history."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/attack/2002/06/03/cia-attacks.htm
Heads-Up To Ashcroft Proves Threat Was Known Before 9/11
June 3, 2002
"Don't let them fool you, folks: They knew.
They might have been surprised by the ferocity of the attacks, but the highest-ranking members of the George W. Bush administration knew before Sept. 11 that something terrible was going to happen soon."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?
file=/gate/archive/2002/06/03/hsorensen.DTL
Egypt Warned U.S. of a Qaeda Plot, Mubarak Asserts
June 3, 2002
"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."
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/04/national/04WARN.html
U.S. Ignored Warnings From French
May 28, 2002
"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."
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0222/ridgeway2.php
Whopper of the Week: Condoleezza Rice Abroad at home.
May 23, 2002
"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.
"Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S."
- Title of the CIA's Aug. 6 briefing memo to President Bush . . .
http://slate.msn.com/?id=2066154
Tracking a Counterterrorism Breakdown
Timeline Shows Failure to Connect Key Clues Before Sept. 11
May 23, 2002
"Lawmakers are questioning what the administration knew and when. NPR's Mike Shuster reports on Morning Edition that government agencies had several clues that might have triggered alarms in the months before Sept. 11. But no one put them together."
http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2002/may/timeline/index.html
U.S. was warned that Moussaoui had close ties to al-Qaida, analyst says
May 23, 2002
"Who knew what, and when? Could the FBI have prevented the Sept. 11 attacks?"
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/05/23/warning/index_np.html
Poppies for planes: White House hides behind veil of executive privilege
May 22, 2002
"Clinton National Security Advisor Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger was "totally preoccupied" with the prospect of a domestic terror attack. He warned his replacement, Condoleezza Rice, "You will be spending more time on this issue than on any other." Problem was, she didn't."
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemId=13365
The U.S. ignored foreign warnings, too
May 21, 2002
"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."
http://www.iht.com/articles/58269.html
Bush knew of terrorist plot to hijack US planes
May 20, 2002
"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."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/september11/story/0,11209,718312,00.html
Britain warned US to expect September 11 al-Qaeda hijackings
May 19, 2002
"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."
http://www.sundayherald.com/24822
U.S. planned for attack on al-Qaida
May 16, 2002
"President Bush was expected to sign detailed plans for a worldwide war against al-Qaida two days before Sept. 11 but did not have the chance before the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, U.S. and foreign sources told NBC News."
http://www.msnbc.com/news/753359.asp
Bush Was Warned bin Laden Wanted to Hijack Planes
May 15, 2002
"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..."
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/16/politics/16INQU.html?
US agents told: Back off bin Ladens
November 7, 2001
"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."
http://www.old.smh.com.au/news/0111/07/world/world100.html
Hijackers reportedly made test runs
October 11, 2001
"During a six-hour flight from Boston to Los Angeles in August, movie actor James Woods said te only passengers besides himself seated in first-class were four men who he said appeared to be Middle Eastern in origin. Woods said the four neither ate nor drank, did not read or sleep and talkedto each other in whispers.
On Sept. 12, Woods called the FBI to tell investigators about his experience. He was interviewed by agents on Sept. 13, but has had no comment."
http://www.gazettenet.com/americantragedy/10112001/7363.htm
Bush: ‘We’re At War’
September 24th, 2001
"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."
http://www.msnbc.com/news/629606.asp
US 'planned attack on Taleban'
September 18, 2001
"A former Pakistani diplomat has told the BBC that the US was planning military action against Osama Bin Laden and the Taleban even before last week's attacks."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/
newsid_1550000/1550366.stm
Israeli security issued urgent warning to CIA of large-scale terror attacks
September 16, 2001
"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."
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$52PMOXQAAD
W5PQFIQMGSFFOAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2001/09/16/wcia16.xml&sShe
et=/news/2001/09/16/ixhome
Willie Brown got low-key early warning about air travel
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.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=
/chronicle/archive/2001/09/12/MN229389.DTL
Commission warned Bush
September 12, 2001
"But on Wednesday, two former senators, the bipartisan co-chairs of a Defense Department-chartered commission on national security, spoke with something between frustration and regret about how White House officials failed to embrace any of the recommendations to prevent acts of domestic terrorism delivered earlier this year."
http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/09/12/bush/index.html
Jeb Bush signs Executive Order allowing him to declare martial law in Florida...
September 7, 2001
"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..."
http://sun6.dms.state.fl.us/eog_new/eog/orders/
2001/september/eo2001-261-09-07-01.html
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A collection of compelling articles, which refute, or, at the very least, call into question, the assertions that Bush and his administration had no prior knowledge of events that would lead to the 9-11 tragedy.
A note about the articles.
* * *
The Secrets of September 11
April 30, 2003
"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.'"
http://www.msnbc.com/news/907379.asp?0cv=CB10 Is Bush A Liar - or is memory serving him badly?
Posted October 10, 2002
http://www.visualjournalism.com/Files/ reviews/bush911/pageBig.shtml
FBI Warned D.C. It Was A Target
September 25, 2002
"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.'"
http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/57848.htm Moussaoui Warnings Ignored
September 24, 2002
"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."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=512&ncid =716&e=4&u=/ap/20020924/ap_on_go_co/attacks_intelligence
America had 12 warnings of aircraft attack
September 19, 2002
"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."
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/ story.jsp?story=334633
U.S. Was Aware on bin Laden Threat
September 19, 2002
"Basically, we know that bin Laden had the means and the intent to attack Americans, both at home and abroad."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=512&ncid =716&e=5&u=/ap/20020919/ap_on_go_co/attacks_intelligence
9/11 Probers Say Agencies Failed to Heed Attack Signs
September 19, 2002
"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."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36754-2002Sep18.html 9/11 report documents credible clues
September 18, 2002
"The U.S. intelligence community received a surprising number of credible reports of a likely terrorist attack prior to Sept. 11, including some threats to domestic targets, according to a congressional report to be unveiled today."
http://www.msnbc.com/news/809370.asp?pne=msntv U.S. knew of 12 plots for jet attacks
September 18, 2002
"Plan to attack WTC was among warnings that preceded 9/11, panel told."
http://www.msnbc.com/news/809484.asp Panel Presents 9/11 Intelligence
September 18, 2002
"An intelligence briefing two months before the Sept. 11 attack warned that Osama bin Laden ( news - web sites) would launch a spectacular terrorist attack against U.S. or Israeli interests, congressional investigators said Wednesday."
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=542&ncid=703& e=1&u=/ap/20020918/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/attacks_intelligence
Spy Agencies Had Pre-9/11 Threats on U.S. Soil
September 17, 2002
"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."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=578&ncid =578&e=1&u=/nm/20020917/ts_nm/attack_
congress_intelligence_dc
Ashcroft Flying High
July 26, 2001
"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."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001 /07/26/national/printable303601.shtml
Bush briefed on hijacking threat before September 11
May 16, 2002
"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."
http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/05/15/bush.sept.11/index.html Revealed: The Taliban minister, the US envoy and the warning of September 11 that was ignored
September 7, 2002
"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."
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=331115 Why would Osama bin Laden want to kill Dubya, his former business partner?
July 3, 2001
"A plot by Saudi master terrorist, Osama bin Laden, to assassinate Dubya during the July 20 economic summit of world leaders, was uncovered after dozens of suspected Islamic militants linked to bin Laden's international terror network were arrested in Frankfurt, Germany, and Milan, Italy, in April."
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/Hatfield -R-091901/hatfield-r-091901.html
Bin Laden’s Relatives Evacuated From NYC
October 2, 2001
"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 ther United States fearing they might be subjected to violence.'"
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0110/S00008.htm Our Pearl Harbor: The latest NSA revelations suggest the 9-11 plot could have been foiled.
June 21, 2002
"Recent news that the National Security Agency (NSA) intercepted two messages the day before the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks -- messages that indicated imminent action -- obliges us to reconsider whether the airliner hijackings that led to 3,000 lost lives and $20 billion in property damage could have been foiled."
http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2002/06/prados-j-06-21.html Al-Qaida monitored U.S. negotiations with Taliban over oil pipeline
June 5, 2002
"A memo by military chief Mohammed Atef raises new questions about whether failed U.S. efforts to reform Afghanistan's radical regime -- and build the pipeline -- set the stage for Sept. 11."
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/06/05/ memo/index_np.html?x
U.S. had agents inside al-Qaeda
June 4, 2002
"U.S. intelligence overheard al-Qaeda operatives discussing a major pending terrorist attack in the weeks prior to Sept. 11 and had agents inside the terror group, but the intercepts and field reports didn't specify where or when a strike might occur, according to U.S. officials. The disclosures add to a growing body of evidence to be examined in congressional hearings that open today into how the CIA, FBI and other agencies failed to seize on intelligence pointing to the deadliest terror attack in U.S. history."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/attack/2002/06/03/cia-attacks.htm Heads-Up To Ashcroft Proves Threat Was Known Before 9/11
June 3, 2002
"Don't let them fool you, folks: They knew.
They might have been surprised by the ferocity of the attacks, but the highest-ranking members of the George W. Bush administration knew before Sept. 11 that something terrible was going to happen soon."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi? file=/gate/archive/2002/06/03/hsorensen.DTL
Egypt Warned U.S. of a Qaeda Plot, Mubarak Asserts
June 3, 2002
"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."
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/04/national/04WARN.html U.S. Ignored Warnings From French
May 28, 2002
"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."
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0222/ridgeway2.php Whopper of the Week: Condoleezza Rice Abroad at home.
May 23, 2002
"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.
"Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S."
- Title of the CIA's Aug. 6 briefing memo to President Bush . . .
http://slate.msn.com/?id=2066154 Tracking a Counterterrorism Breakdown
Timeline Shows Failure to Connect Key Clues Before Sept. 11
May 23, 2002
"Lawmakers are questioning what the administration knew and when. NPR's Mike Shuster reports on Morning Edition that government agencies had several clues that might have triggered alarms in the months before Sept. 11. But no one put them together."
http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2002/may/timeline/index.html U.S. was warned that Moussaoui had close ties to al-Qaida, analyst says
May 23, 2002
"Who knew what, and when? Could the FBI have prevented the Sept. 11 attacks?"
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/05/23/warning/index_np.html Poppies for planes: White House hides behind veil of executive privilege
May 22, 2002
"Clinton National Security Advisor Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger was "totally preoccupied" with the prospect of a domestic terror attack. He warned his replacement, Condoleezza Rice, "You will be spending more time on this issue than on any other." Problem was, she didn't."
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemId=13365 The U.S. ignored foreign warnings, too
May 21, 2002
"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."
http://www.iht.com/articles/58269.html Bush knew of terrorist plot to hijack US planes
May 20, 2002
"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."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/september11/story/0,11209,718312,00.html Britain warned US to expect September 11 al-Qaeda hijackings
May 19, 2002
"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."
http://www.sundayherald.com/24822 U.S. planned for attack on al-Qaida
May 16, 2002
"President Bush was expected to sign detailed plans for a worldwide war against al-Qaida two days before Sept. 11 but did not have the chance before the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, U.S. and foreign sources told NBC News."
http://www.msnbc.com/news/753359.asp Bush Was Warned bin Laden Wanted to Hijack Planes
May 15, 2002
"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..."
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/16/politics/16INQU.html? US agents told: Back off bin Ladens
November 7, 2001
"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."
http://www.old.smh.com.au/news/0111/07/world/world100.html Hijackers reportedly made test runs
October 11, 2001
"During a six-hour flight from Boston to Los Angeles in August, movie actor James Woods said te only passengers besides himself seated in first-class were four men who he said appeared to be Middle Eastern in origin. Woods said the four neither ate nor drank, did not read or sleep and talkedto each other in whispers.
On Sept. 12, Woods called the FBI to tell investigators about his experience. He was interviewed by agents on Sept. 13, but has had no comment."
http://www.gazettenet.com/americantragedy/10112001/7363.htm Bush: ‘We’re At War’
September 24th, 2001
"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."
http://www.msnbc.com/news/629606.asp US 'planned attack on Taleban'
September 18, 2001
"A former Pakistani diplomat has told the BBC that the US was planning military action against Osama Bin Laden and the Taleban even before last week's attacks."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/ newsid_1550000/1550366.stm
Israeli security issued urgent warning to CIA of large-scale terror attacks
September 16, 2001
"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."
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$52PMOXQAAD W5PQFIQMGSFFOAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2001/09/16/wcia16.xml&sShe
et=/news/2001/09/16/ixhome
Willie Brown got low-key early warning about air travel
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.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file= /chronicle/archive/2001/09/12/MN229389.DTL
Commission warned Bush
September 12, 2001
"But on Wednesday, two former senators, the bipartisan co-chairs of a Defense Department-chartered commission on national security, spoke with something between frustration and regret about how White House officials failed to embrace any of the recommendations to prevent acts of domestic terrorism delivered earlier this year."
http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/09/12/bush/index.html Jeb Bush signs Executive Order allowing him to declare martial law in Florida...
September 7, 2001
"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..."
http://sun6.dms.state.fl.us/eog_new/eog/orders/ 2001/september/eo2001-261-09-07-01.html
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