Another one the FBI messed up. Letting Yasin go.
Yes. And we can easily see some of the same errors in the first case, the same weaknesses in our system, came back to affect how we'd fail the next time. By the way, who was president then? Gees, I just can't remember. I believe he kept us out of any wars though, so he must have been a great man, or so his supporters think.
According to an old FR thread called "Batting a Thousand" the Egyptian officer that infiltrated the group was an FBI informant who had alerted them ( FBI )that an attack was imminent and suggested using some sort of fake powder to scuttle the whole event (he was supposedly in charge of supplying some of the explosives).......however due to some sort of mis-communication and bungling between some of FBI agents his plan was never carried out and the event occurred.
It's amazing that this story is never discussed to any degree........it a very good primer on fedgov incompetence or worse.