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>From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed] Note: We store 100's of related "New Paradigms Posts" at: http://www.msen.com/~lloyd/oldprojects/recentmail.html Subject: Did Bush have fair warning of attacks? Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit Middle East Times <http://www.metimes.com/2K2/issue2002-21/methaus.htm> Did Bush have fair warning of attacks? by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed This is the first part of Chapter 4 excerpted from the explosive 400-page exposé, "The War on Freedom: How and Why America was Attacked, September 11, 2001," by the leading British political scientist and human rights activist Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, the director of the Institute for Policy Research & Development in Brighton. With recent revelations that U.S. authorities were indeed aware of at least some of the dangers Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden presented to the United States, and that the White House and Congress had been briefed, at least in general, on these dangers, this book argues that in fact there was a great deal of highly relevant information known that simply was not fully analyzed and acted on in time to prevent the attack. Chapter 4. Warning Signs of 9/11 and Intelligence Failures THE U.S. INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY "What is happening in the United States took me by surprise. I anticipated that in the aftermath of Sept. 11, there would be an enormous hue and cry to find out what went wrong. There has been no hue and cry in the United States. No recriminations, nothing even similar to what happened after Pearl Harbor in 1941.... The United States has drawn a veil of silence over the issue of intelligence failure." --Wesley Wark, Canadian Intelligence Expert and Consultant to the Privy Council Office of Canada on Intelligence Policy, [qoted in the] Globe & Mail, December 18, 2001) "We've been focusing on this perpetrator Osama Bin Laden for 3 years, and yet we didn't see this one coming," said Vincent Cannistraro, former chief of CIA counter-terrorism operations. A U.S. Air Force General described the attack as "something we had never seen before, something we had never even thought of." FBI Director Robert Mueller further declared that, "there were no warning signs that I'm aware of." Senior FBI officials insisted that in terms of intelligence warnings received prior to September 11: "The notion of flying a plane into a building or using it as a bomb never came up." [1] According to this official version of events, no one in the Bush administration had the slightest idea of the identities of those who orchestrated the September 11 attacks, the nature of their plans, or their targets. Contrary to these prolific claims, there is compelling evidence that the U.S. intelligence community had extensive forewarning of the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington. Further evidence suggests that the attacks may, in fact, have been in the interest of certain elements of the Bush administration (see Chapter VII). USING PLANES AS BOMBS The Pentagon commissioned an expert panel in 1993 to investigate the possibility of an airplane being used to bomb national landmarks. Retired Air Force Col. Doug Menarchik, who organized the $150,000 study for the Defense Department's Office of Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict, recalled: "It was considered radical thinking, a little too scary for the times. After I left, it met a quiet death." Other participants have noted that the decision not to publish detailed scenarios issued to some extent from fear that this may give terrorists ideas. Nevertheless, a draft document detailing the results of the investigation was circulated through the Pentagon, the Justice Department and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Senior agency officials decided against a public release. [2] The veracity of the Pentagon's "radical thinking" was confirmed in 1994 when there occurred three attempted attacks on buildings using airplanes. The first, in April of that year, involved a Federal Express flight engineer facing dismissal. Having boarded a DC-10 as a passenger, he invaded the cockpit, planning to crash the plane into a company building in Memphis. Fortunately, he was overpowered by the crew. The second attempt occurred in September. A lone pilot crashed a small plane into a tree on the White House grounds, just short of the president's bedroom. The third incident occurred in December. An Air France flight in Algiers was hijacked by members of the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) - who are linked to Al Qaeda - aiming to crash it into the Eiffel Tower. French Special Forces stormed the plane on the ground. [3] AL QAEDA'S PROJECT BOJINKA Western intelligence had been aware of plans for such terrorist attacks on U.S. soil as early as 1995. Both the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had detailed information about the possible use of hijack/suicide attacks by terrorists connected to Osama Bin Laden. The New York Times reported that: "In 1994, two jetliners were hijacked by people who wanted to crash them into buildings, one of them by an Islamic militant group. And the 2000 edition of the FAA's annual report on Criminal Acts Against Aviation, published this year, said that although Osama Bin Laden 'is not known to have attacked civil aviation, he has both the motivation and the wherewithal to do so,' adding, 'Bin Laden's anti-Western and anti-American attitudes make him and his followers a significant threat to civil aviation, particularly to U.S. civil aviation'." [4] Moreover, the U.S. intelligence community was aware of Bin Laden's specific intentions to use hijacked civilian planes as weapons. In this regard, the Chicago Sun-Times reported that: "The FBI had advance indications of plans to hijack U.S. airliners and use them as weapons, but neither acted on them nor distributed the intelligence to local police agencies. "From the moment of the September 11attacks, high-ranking federal officials insisted that the terrorists' method of operation surprised them. Many stick to that story. "Actually, elements of the hijacking plan were known to the FBI as early as 1995 and, if coupled with current information, might have uncovered the plot." [5] Details of these advanced indications have been noted in a report by the respected German daily Die Welt: "Western secret services knew as far back as 1995 that suspected terror mastermind Osama Bin Laden planned to attack civilian sites using commercial passenger planes." Quoting sources "close to western intelligence agencies," the newspaper reported that: "The plan was discovered in January 1995 by Philippine police who were investigating a possible attack against Pope John Paul II on a visit to Manila... "They found details of the plan in a computer seized in an apartment used by three men who were part of Bin Laden's Al Qaeda network. It provided for 11 planes to be exploded simultaneously by bombs placed on board, but also in an alternative form for several planes flying to the United States to be hijacked and flown into civilian targets. "Among targets mentioned was the World Trade Center in New York, which was destroyed in the September 11 terror attacks in the United States that killed thousands." This plot "re-surfaced during the trial in New York in 1997 of Pakistani Ramsi Yousef, the mastermind of the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993.... "[The] U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and CIA would have known about the plan at the latest at this time." [6] As the Washington DC-based Public Education Center (PEC) observes: "Federal investigative sources have confirmed that Murad" - who was "a close confidant and right-hand man to Yousef, who was convicted of crimes relating to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center" - "detailed an entire plot to dive bomb aircraft in the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, Virginia," along with other U.S. buildings. "Yousef independently boasted of the plot to U.S. Secret Service agent Brian Parr and FBI agent Charles Stern on an extradition flight from Pakistan to the United States in February 1995," continues the PEC report. "The agents later testified to that fact in court... [T]he plan targeted not only the CIA but other U.S. government buildings in Washington, including the Pentagon." [7] Rafael M. Garcia III, Chairman/CEO of the Mega Group of Computer Companies in the Philippines, who often works with the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) in his field of expertise, was involved in the intelligence operation that uncovered Project Bojinka. Notes: [1] Cited in Public Education Center, <http://www.publicedcenter.org/faaterrorist.htm> Washington Post, January 2, 2001. [2] Warrick, Jo and Stephens, Joe, 'Before Attack, U.S. Expected Different Hit, Chemical, Germ Agents Focus of Preparation,' Washington Post, 2 October, 2001. [3] Wald, Matthew, 'Earlier Hijackings Offered Signals That Were Missed,' New York Times, 3 October 2001. [4] New York Times, 3 October 2001. [5] Novak, Robert, Chicago Sun-Times, 27 September 2001. [6] Agence France Press, 'Western intelligence knew of Laden plan since 1995,' 7 December 2001. Printed in Hindustan Times. 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