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Remembering 9/11: The plot nearly unraveled in Minnesota
KSTP.com ^ | 9/9/2021 | Tom Hauser

Posted on 09/10/2021 10:30:46 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo

The terrorist attacks on 9/11 impacted every single person in the United States and most people around the world. To this day, those terrorist attacks impact how we travel and our overall sense of security.

All this week on "Nightcast" at 10 p.m., Chief Political Reporter Tom Hauser will look at various aspects of those attacks from a Minnesota perspective. We started on Tuesday with how 9/11 unfolded in Minnesota. On Wednesday, KSTP talked to relatives of victims of 9/11 about how their families and others are honoring their loved ones. On Thursday, we heard from a flight instructor and Minnesota FBI agent who nearly unraveled the 9/11 plot before it happened. Plus, on Friday, a Minnesota man who served in the CIA and the U.S. State Department and helped write the 9/11 Commission Report will discuss whether we're safer today than we were 20 years ago and what steps still need to be taken.

A former Twin Cities flight instructor tipped off the FBI about a mysterious and potentially dangerous flight student who was later sentenced to life in prison for his connection to the 9/11 attacks.

"He doesn't know jack about flying and he asks really weird questions," Tim Nelson, a former flight instructor at Pan Am International Flight Academy, recalled. "What's he asking? If I turn the transponder and TCAS off, the traffic collision avoidance system, can they still see me on the ground? Why would you ask that question?"

Nelson was convinced Zacarias Moussaoui was a potential terrorist threat.

"It's a truck bomber with an airplane. I said there's nothing legal he can do with this training."

Nelson's call to the FBI failed to thwart the 9/11 attacks, largely because Minneapolis FBI agents couldn't convince FBI headquarters in Washington of the seriousness of the threat Moussaoui might pose.

"The [Minneapolis FBI] supervisor said, out of frustration, exasperated, don't you know this is a guy who could fly into the World Trade Center?" former FBI agent and eventual whistleblower Coleen Rowley said. "And he said this on the phone to that supervisor (in Washington) on something like Aug. 23rd, maybe something like the 25th. You know, two weeks before it actually happened."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; US: Minnesota; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 200008; 20000823; 20000825; 20thhijacker; 911; algerian; colleenrowley; fbi; fbihq; minneapolis; minnesota; moussaoui; mueller; nelson; rowley; tacs; timnelson; transponder; twincities; wilmerhale; zachariasmoussaoui
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1 posted on 09/10/2021 10:30:46 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

2 posted on 09/10/2021 10:33:07 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

NEVER FORGET!!!!!!!!!!!!


3 posted on 09/10/2021 10:33:47 AM PDT by NEWBeginings2021 (A New Beginning!)
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To: BenLurkin

How true.


4 posted on 09/10/2021 10:34:31 AM PDT by NEWBeginings2021 (A New Beginning!)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
One major lesson learned from 9/11 is that a call to the Feds is a courtesy but expect nothing from them.

You'd be better off sending the information to folks like James O'Keefe at Project Veritas because something would be done about it.

5 posted on 09/10/2021 10:35:22 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: BenLurkin

I’ve got a bad feeling about tomorrow...


6 posted on 09/10/2021 10:35:26 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (The best things in life aren't things.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

We all do. Avoid major population centers and events


7 posted on 09/10/2021 10:36:45 AM PDT by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house.... But the fact checkers said the story was false!)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

The story reminds me of the warnings about the attack on Pearl Harbor.


8 posted on 09/10/2021 10:37:38 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
largely because Minneapolis FBI agents couldn't convince FBI headquarters in Washington of the seriousness of the threat Moussaoui might pose.

If you want to understand how the FBI really works, read Peter Strzok's released text messages and emails. He was DEPUTY ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF COUNTER INTELLIGENCE DIV. One would think he would be involved in hunting spies. Yet his day was literally filled with gossiping with his mistress and others about which boss said what, what the media were saying, who met with whom - political ass-kissing and DC bureaucratic climbing.

9 posted on 09/10/2021 10:46:34 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

“Islam is a religion of peace” George W Bush


10 posted on 09/10/2021 10:48:17 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

There is nothing the Muslims could do tomorrow that is worse than what Biden, Harris, and the cabal that runs them are doing to America right now.


11 posted on 09/10/2021 10:49:49 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: PGR88

This is far too charitable.

Whoever at HQ was hearing about Muslims flying planes into buildings realized it was likely to happen, realized he would not be held responsible when it did, realized that he and all his friends would gain power and influence when it did, and realized that the people who would die were irrelevant, or if they were relevant, were capitalists and likely Republicans.

And he was right.


12 posted on 09/10/2021 10:49:50 AM PDT by cmj328 (We live here.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo; Liz; SunkenCiv; poconopundit
"He doesn't know jack about flying and he asks really weird questions," Tim Nelson... recalled. "What's he asking? If I turn the transponder and TCAS off, the traffic collision avoidance system, can they still see me on the ground? Why would you ask that question?" Nelson's call to the FBI failed to thwart the 9/11 attacks, largely because Minneapolis FBI agents couldn't convince FBI headquarters in Washington of the seriousness of the threat Moussaoui might pose...

Even back then FBI dolts only cared about right wing 'terrorists'...Blinded by their own Moby Dick obsessions...

13 posted on 09/10/2021 11:11:55 AM PDT by GOPJ (Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. -- Voltaire)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
James Woods recounts Terrorists Dry Run to 9/11.
14 posted on 09/10/2021 11:13:54 AM PDT by NautiNurse (Puddin' Head Joe--We are checking our watches for the end of your miserable White House tenure.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

If the TallyBahn has read their Sun Tzu, nothing will happen in CONUS tomorrow. Paraphrasing, “when your enemy is self-destructing, do nothing to interfere.” The last thing they’d want to do is “fill America with a terrible resolve.” It would be the end of Xiden and Xi wouldn’t like that. Not that CamelToe is any better, but at least she is lucid.


15 posted on 09/10/2021 11:14:47 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (Claiming Racism, the antidote to personal responsibility)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Some have even alluded to knowing something about tomorrow.

I got my grocery shopping done today and filled up with gas.

Just want to make sure we have everything buttoned down just in case.


16 posted on 09/10/2021 11:18:28 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Clinton and Bush administrations failed.


17 posted on 09/10/2021 11:20:39 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: piasa

Ping.


18 posted on 09/10/2021 11:29:21 AM PDT by Fedora
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

I’m not too worried. Not about TOMORROW.

Moslems may like anniversaries, but not to the point it could easily be foiled. I think they’ll pick much different times so we won’t suspect it. They’re wiley like that. And they likely won’t do the same thing again. Unless it’s the average vest bomb on the ground.


19 posted on 09/10/2021 11:38:03 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: NautiNurse

Yup.


20 posted on 09/10/2021 11:39:54 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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