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As early as Thursday the Justice Department and the FBI will announced the indictment of two men who carried out the attack on the USS Cole which killed 17 United States Sailors more than two years ago, ABC News has learned.One of the men, Fahd Mohammad Ahmed Al Quoso, may also be linked to the 9/11 terrorist plot, sources invloved in the investigation told ABC News.Sources said Al Quoso said an operative who would eventally become a suicide bomber in the Cole attack each carried $18,000 in cash money belts to Bangkok, Thailand in 1999, and gave it to Waleed...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Thirteen days before the Sept. 11 attacks, a frustrated FBI agent warned headquarters that "someday, someone will die" after he was denied permission to pursue a man who would become one of the hijackers, a congressional panel was told Friday. The agent's efforts were among many missed opportunities to stop two of the hijackers after they were spotted attending an al-Qaida meeting in Malaysia in January 2000, according to the report to the House and Senate Intelligence Committees. It was the latest revelation of apparent failures by intelligence and law enforcement authorities before the attacks. In...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A veil of secrecy will begin to rise Wednesday when a congressional committee reveals some of the information that U.S. spy agencies knew about suspected terrorist activity before the September 11 attacks -- including the disclosure that analysts knew al Qaeda had previously plotted to use aircraft as terrorist weapons. The recently declassified documents will be made public for the first time during an open hearing of the joint House-Senate Intelligence Committee. One of the main questions investigators are probing: Could the September 11 attacks have been prevented? Joint Senate House Intelligence hearings CNN plans coverage of...

<p>WASHINGTON - On Aug. 20, 2001, Saleh Ibn Abdul Rahman Hussayen, a man who would soon be named a minister of the Saudi government and put in charge of its two holy mosques, arrived in the United States to meet with some of this country's most influential fundamentalist Sunni Muslim leaders.</p>

THE US government had intercepted conversations by early 1999 indicating that two September 11 hijackers-to-be were connected to a suspected al-Qaeda facility in the Middle East. But the National Security Agency did not pass on the information to other agencies, a congressional report on intelligence failures said. The NSA interception was the first evidence in American possession that eventual hijackers Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi were connected to each other and to al-Qaeda, but some of that information was not brought to the attention of other agencies until early 2002 after Congress began investigating pre-September 11 failures, according to excerpts...

Not for commercial use. Solely to be used for the educational purposes of research and open discussion. Police never asked me about Sept. 11 hijackers, wife of Malaysian militant suspect says JASBANT SINGH; Associated Press Writer Associated Press Worldstream June 14, 2002 Friday 5:14 AM Eastern Time KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia Released after 58 days in jail without charge, the wife of a Malaysian militant suspect accused of hosting al-Qaida terrorists said Friday her interrogators never asked her about two Sept. 11 hijackers who allegedly stayed at the couple's apartment. U.S. authorities say Khalid Almihdhar and Nawaf Alhazmi, who were aboard...