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TERROR REPORT SLAMS CIA The CIA failed to pass on warnings to the FBI about two of the terrorists who went on to become September 11 hijackers, it has been claimed. An FBI agent who was working with the CIA more than a year before the attacks on New York and Washington said he wanted to warn FBI bosses about al Qaeda suspects Khalid Al-Midhar and Nawaq Alhamzi. They had been spotted at a gathering of terror suspects in Malaysia and were understood to be headed to America, it was reported. US officials told ABC News the agent was denied...

The United States faces greater terrorism threats now than before the attacks on 9/11, according to a terrorism expert. Jack Cloonan, a retired FBI agent whose mission was once to find Osama bin Laden, spoke at Butler University Monday night. His exclusive assignment was to track down members of al-Qaeda, and build a case against its leader, Osama bin Laden. From 9/11 to the recent train bombing in Madrid, Spain, al-Qaeda has taken responsibility for some of the most deadly acts of terrorism in world history. The man behind al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, has been the most elusive fugitive in...

Former Attorney General Janet Reno is being wrongly blamed for ex-President Clinton's decision not to bomb Osama bin Laden's compound in Khandahar, Afghanistan, and the ex-president is apparently willing to let her take the fall. Based on information from former FBI agent Jack Cloonan, ABC News reported Wednesday that "federal agents seeking bin Laden had developed a plan to have a plane fly in and attack a compound in Kandahar, Afghanistan, where the terror leader was believed to have been holed up back in 1998 - three years before the devastating attacks of Sept. 11, 2001." "But when the plan...

The FBI made secret plans to capture and arrest Osama bin Laden five years ago, long before the terror leader's deadliest plan came to fruition. Jack Cloonan, a former FBI agent who is now an ABCNEWS consultant, said that federal agents seeking bin Laden had developed a plan to have a plane fly in and attack a compound in Kandahar, Afghanistan, where the terror leader was believed to have been holed up back in 1998 — three years before the devastating attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. But when the plan went up the chain of command for approval, it was...