Habib 'warned of big US event'

[seemslikeadream]

Habib 'warned of big US event'
By Martin Chulov
February 02, 2005


New claim ... Freed terror suspect Mamdouh Habib INTELLIGENCE officials allegedly intercepted a telephone conversation between Mamdouh Habib and his wife several days before the September 11 terror attacks in which he warned of a looming "big event" in the US.

The alleged call, detailed in The New York Times, did not spell out specifics of the planned strikes on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon.
However, it mirrored several other conversations between accused terrorists that were tapped around the same time by the Pakistani Internal Security Department on behalf of the CIA.

A national security source confirmed that the call allegedly made by Mr Habib originated in Pakistan.

The interception is believed to have been made in Sydney by ASIO, which at the time had placed Mr Habib on a watch list.

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The CIA has previously said that in the days before the September 11 strikes on New York and Washington, a sharp increase in "chatter" was intercepted from operatives in terror training camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan, alluding to an imminent big event.
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http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12122618-2,00.html

[underpants]

1. Sorry not specific enough, they needed the flight numbers and seats

THEN they would have moved heaven and earth.

[leveymg]

2. Same conversation between 1000 husbands and wives in Brooklyn

in the days before 9/11. How come they're not also leaking the transcripts of those UKUSAAU Echelon intercepts now?

[peacetalksforall]

3. So this fits what we've been told...

US UK Canada and Australia with their tool, Echelon, listen to the telephone calls of each other's country, not their own, and exchange the data.

[paulthompson]

4. Here's the original article

It came and went in the NY Times, because they buried the interesting bits:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/29/international/29habib.html?pagewanted=all&position=

I think this guy is probably innocent, because he's right that word of attacks was widely in the air in places like Kandahar. So why didn't the US stop it?

[leveymg]

6. Paul, how are you? Back from NZ?

If you're around, I'd like to finally meet.

- Mark

[xchrom]

5. just not enough warnings?

that is the single biggest lie this admin has told. repeatedly.