Posted on 04/16/2007 4:48:11 PM PDT by ventanax5
Nine months before al-Qaida slammed airliners into the World Trade Center, French intelligence suspected the terror network was plotting a hijacking -- possibly involving a U.S. airline -- and warned the CIA, former French intelligence officials said Monday.
But the French warning hinted at a plot in Europe, not the United States, and there was no suggestion of suicide attacks or multiple planes. One former official said al-Qaida may have leaked misinformation to divert intelligence agencies from the bigger, deadlier plot to come on Sept. 11, 2001.
The warning was another example of how intelligence agents sensed al-Qaida was hard at work in the months leading up to Sept. 11 but were unable to piece together fragmented warnings into a coherent plot.
Le Monde first reported the story Monday as it published excerpts of 328 pages of classified documents from France's main foreign intelligence agency, the DGSE. One note, dated Jan. 5, 2001, reported that al-Qaida was plotting a hijacking.
Details were vague
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My thought EXACTLY!!
That’s the question I’d like to see answered. Not that the current DOJ will properly investigate.
Yes, they were careful not to mention the exact date in the headline, weren’t they?
Note the French warning came in January. Bush was inaugurated in Jan. It’s not Clinton’s fault. It’s all about Bush. Pretty convenient don’t you think?
Bush was not yet inaugurated on Jan 5th. Let’s not forget the Al Whore fiasco!
and what did Mrs. Bill Clinton know?
So, had it not been for Al Whore, President Bush would have been inaugurated on Jan 5 ?
not at all, but it;s my recollection that the ignauguration was later than usual that year. I could be wrong about that.
Its been January 20 for quite some time. FDR was the first on this date.
You can add the fact that the POS clinton hacks were ordered not to provide any type of transition help or information. They have historically been the party of traitors and live up to that model every day.
The current DOJ will not investigate anything that will make Clinton or Democrats look bad.
They should have prosecuted the people that wreaked the White Houe computers.
I knew about Jan 20th, someone that I love was born on that date, for some reason, I thought it was later that year. Of course, you are right.
It's so painfully obvious by omission that you wonder what they are up to?
Nine months...lets see....Sept...Aug...July.....Janurary: why knock me over with a feather - thats nine months.
OK Chirac....was it before or after Jan 20th?
The big question is why the CIA didn't stand up on a soapbox and say something.
Maybe they did and Clinton didn't pass it along. Maybe they told Bush during the hectic first days of a Whitehouse that started the transition late, thanks to Loser Al Gore, and it slipped in a crack.
Totally meaningless. Terrorists planning to hijack airplanes is like car thieves planning to steal cars, that is one of the most obvious things that terrorists attempt to do “hijack airplanes”. There is zero news in this report.
Maybe the answer is in Sandy Burglar’s socks.
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