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'Newspaper: Echelon Gave Authorities Warning Of Attacks'. Ned Stafford van Newsbytes leest de Frankfurter Allgemeine en meldde reeds op 13 september j.l.: 'U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies received warning signals at least three months ago that Middle Eastern terrorists were planning to hijack commercial aircraft to use as weapons to attack important symbols of American and Israeli culture, according to a story in Germany's daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ).
The FAZ, quoting unnamed German intelligence sources, said that the Echelon spy network was being used to collect information about the terrorist threats, and that U.K. intelligence services apparently also had advance warning. The FAZ, one of Germany's most respected dailies, said that even as far back as six months ago western and near-east press services were receiving information that such attacks were being planned. Within the American intelligence community, the warnings were taken seriously and surveillance intensified, the FAZ said. However, there was disagreement on how such terrorist attacks could be prevented, the newspaper said'.

Online.ie schrijft op 14 september j.l.: 'German police have confirmed an Iranian man phoned US police from his deportation cell to warn of the planned attack on the World Trade Centre. The Lower Saxony Justice Ministry has confirmed the man warned of the impending series of terrorist attacks, but had not been believed. Spokesman Frank Woesthoff said the man phoned America "several times", but refused to give further details. He said the US Secret Service had not told the ministry about the calls received from the Langenhagen prison until after the attacks. [...] The Hanover daily newspaper Neue Presse reported the 29-year-old was dismissed as mentally unstable when he gave the warning of a terrorist attack to occur this week'.

Ken McCarthy zag het achteraf vantevoren allemaal al aankomen. Hij schrijft:
'* Would it surprise you to learn that the tactic of using hijacked planes on suicide attack missions has been part of policy on the part of Islamic terrorist organizations since the early 1980s...
* That one Middle Eastern country, a sworn enemy of the United States, has two airport facilities devoted exclusively to the training of attacks on commercial airliners...
* That Boeing 707s, 727s, and 747s were known to be used as a part of this training...
* That a suicide squadron including Falcon Jets and DC-3s has been staffed and in operation for this purpose since 1983...
* That the plan to launch a major terrorist-guerilla offensive INSIDE the United States has been the publicly stated goal of a state sponsored terror network since the late 1970s and that the conspirators have been laying the groundwork for this end methodically and in plain view...
* That the men arrested for the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center were known by US law enforcement not to be the masterminds behind the attack. Further, that the domestic infrastructure that made that attack possible was thoroughly understood, but has been allowed to operate and grow unhampered...
Why aren't we getting these facts?
Before you assume that the above information is being pulled out of thin air and is being manufactured after the fact as part of an Internet conspiracy theory, you should know where I found this information.
In a book... published in 1993!'
Het boek in kwestie heet Tartget America & the West en is van een auteur met meer van dit soort boeken op zijn naam, Yossef Bodansky.

Joseph Farah van World Net Daily vraagt zich met betrekking tot de aanslagen af: '"What did the government know and when did it know it?" There's a growing body of evidence that those entrusted and paid by the people to know about threats indeed had some warning, but failed to pass it on to the public. Gelukkig komt hij ook met de bewijzen, zij het dat je die zelf moet verifiëren.

Artikeltje op 27 september j.l. in The Times: Rushdie's air ban [by James Doran] THE author Salman Rushdie believes that US authorities knew of an imminent terrorist strike when they banned him from taking internal flights in Canada and the US only a week before the attacks'.

Hier een artikel van iemand die zich vragen stelt over de tijden tussen de aanvallen van de vliegtuigen en Bush die na verluid na de eerste aanval nog een halfuur met een stel tweedeklassers van een basisschool over een geitje heeft zitten praten.
'So what do we have here?
A) Officials knew that the third plane, and quite possibly the second, was set to strike important targets.
B) They tracked the third plane for at least half an hour.
C) Supposedly George Bush, Jr. needed to approve shooting the plane down.
D) But instead of going into an emergency meeting, he continued his visit to an elementary school, hearing about goats.'
 

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Toch blijft ook dit gegeven nog een rare bijsmaak houden: 'Millions of shares sold before disaster [by James Doran] THE CIA has asked the City regulators in London to investigate suspicious sales of millions of shares before last Tuesday’s attacks in America in the belief that the paper trail will lead to the terrorists'.

De NRC schrijft op 10 oktober: 'We hebben airsupremacy boven Afghanistan, beweert het Pentagon – Amerikaanse vliegtuigen kunnen doen en laten wat ze willen in het Afghaanse luchtruim. Maar dat is niet helemaal waar. Snelle gevechtsvliegtuigen lijken niks meer te vrezen van radargeleide luchtafweerraketten. Maar transportvliegtuigen en helikopters hebben geen vrij spel. De belangrijkste reden: de van de schouder te lanceren Stinger-raket, erfgoed van de Amerikaanse bemoeienis met de oorlog tegen de Sovjet-bezetters in de jaren tachtig.' 'My sources in the intelligence community have recently given me details of efforts by Afghani rebels to turn over to the United States, without charge, 30 to 40 Stinger missiles (SAM), with a possibility of an additional 100 missiles thereafter. Incredibly, this offer was rejected by Justice Department and Central Intelligence Agency officials' schrijft Rodney Stich al in 1995. Hij geeft ook mogelijke redenen voor het weigeren van de gift.

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