Was there a failure by the FBI to collect, analyze or disseminate intelligence about the 9-11 conspiracy? The FBI had the principal responsibility for a number of major investigations abroad involving al-Qaeda prior to 9-11. These cases included, among others, the bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in August 1998 for which Osama bin Laden was indicted, the millennium plot to blow up Los Angeles Airport and the bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen in October 2000. The FBI also had a responsibility for penetrating, tracking and countering terrorist conspiracies in the United States. If it did not pursue leads arising out of these cases abroad and at home, or pass the information on, it would constitute an intelligence failure.
Consider the following three FBI events:
1) In the summer of 2001, Phoenix, FBI agents had received reports of Islamists training to be pilots at American flight schools. One informer reported a putative liaison between one of the Islamist trainees and Abu Zubyada. Abu Zubyada had been identified by Ahmad Ressam, who had been arrested six months earlier. as a principal in the Millennium conspiracy to attack Los Angeles Airport. By July 2001, FBI agent Kenneth Williams of the Phoenix field office had sent a memo to FBI headquarters detailing te possible connections and asking for an investigation of Islamists training in US flight schools. Williams reportedly suggested in the memo that " the FBI should accumulate a listing of civil aviation universities/colleges around the country" to find radical Islamists. This memo was of direct concern to the FBI's Radical Fundamentalist Unit, which focused on Osama Bin Laden on his organization (which included Abu Zubyada.)
2) One month later, in Minnesota, the subject of Islamist pilots at US flying schools again came across the FBI's radar. In early August, an executive at the Pan Am Flight Academy in Eagan, Minnesota reported to the FBI field office in Minneapolis that an Islamist student named Zacarias Moussaoui was acting suspiciously in requesting simulated training on the Boeing 747-400.
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As a result, Moussaoui's computer was not searched by the FBI prior to 9- 11, although Moussaoui himself was imprisoned on an immigration charge. He was subsequently indicted in the 9-11 plot.
3) While Moussaoui was being detained, the FBI learned that Khalid Al- Mihdhar, a radical Islamist, who was a possible suspect in the bombing of the USS Cole, had entered the United States in June 2001. This information came from the CIA, which on August 23, 2001 reported that Khalid Al-Mihdhar, along with Nawaf Al-Hazmi, had attended a summit meeting of al-Qaeda leaders in Malaysia in January 2000. The meeting had been photographed by Malaysian intelligence, which identified Al-Mihdhar and Al-Hazmi to the CIA in January 2000, and in on March 5th 2000 the CIA received an "information only" cable that both men connected to al-Qaeda were in the US. They had taken rooms in San Diego and were taking flying lessons in US flying schools in 2001. Such al-Qaeda residents were also of direct concern to the FBI's Radical Fundamentalist Unit.
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http://edwardjayepstein.com/shadow4.htmHere's where it was Epstein, Minstrel Boy! He asks some grat questions, principally why wasn't Dick Clarke informed the FBI had warnings Al Quaeda was training pilots in the US? Clarke would've busted a nut busting them. The BFEE is guilty, not of gross criminal incompetence, but the BFEE is guilty of treason. They planned these attacks. Otherwise someone, perhaps Frasca, would have actually done his or her job.
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