(Continued from Part 2.)
Early Warnings Ignored
Apparently, numerous warnings came from other governments and ftom the U.S.’s own intelligence agencies that an attack on the Wordl Trade Center was planned, but the government ignored them or shut the investigations down.
Newsweek describes some of the intel the CIA received:
“Some sources who have read the still-secret [C.I.A.] congressional report say some sections would not play quite so neatly into White House [re-election] plans.
“One portion deals extensively with the stream of U.S. intelligence-agency reports in the summer of 2001 suggesting that Al Qaeda was planning an upcoming attack against the United States—and implicitly raises questions about how Bush and his top aides responded.
“One such CIA briefing, in July 2001, was particularly chilling and prophetic. It predicted that Osama bin Laden was about to launch a terrorist strike ‘in the coming weeks,’ the congressional investigators found.
“The intelligence briefing went on to say: ‘The attack will be spectacular and designed to inflict mass casualties against U.S. facilities or interests. Attack preparations have been made. Attack will occur with little or no warning.’” (1)
The video, One Nation Under Siege, listed some of the reports:
“Prior to 9/11, Putin of Russia warned that there was going to be a terrorist attack on the United States. The German Intelligence warned us, the Moroccan Intelligence warned us, the Jordanian Intelligence warned us, even Moula Omar, head of the Taliban warned us. The Moussad warned us the attack was coming on the United States. …
“This was brought up by the 9/11 Commission, on the sixth of August, why the President received a briefing, the Presidential daily briefing, which said ‘Osama bin Laden determined to attack in the United States and the attack talked about high-jacking America planes’ and yet, both the leaders of the FBI and the CIA said, ‘Well, we knew an attack was coming, but we were certain it was going to be overseas.’
“How could they have possibly given the President a briefing on the sixth of August saying ‘Osama bin Laden determined to attack in the United States’, and then tell us the attack is coming overseas? They’re simply lying to the American People, and the tragedy is it doesn’t matter how ridiculous something is, if you say it often enough, most American’s will believe it.” (2)
Here is a report describing the work of Dick Stoltz, Retired Special Agent; Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Agency, which was stonewalled:
“Mr. Stoltz, a veteran undercover agent with the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms, had played an important role in Operation Diamondback between 1998 and 2001. The sting operation involved a group of Middle Eastern men living in New Jersey who were caught on tape in an ATF weapons sting conspiring to buy millions of dollars of weapons including components for nuclear bombs.
“The case came to a screeching halt with the arrest of only a handful of suspects in June of 2001 even though there was ample evidence that some of the people who were attempting to buy these weapons had connections with the Taliban, Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden himself.
“The 9/11 Commission refused to contact Agent Stoltz despite all attempts made by several witnesses from the intelligence & Law Enforcement Communities, and the 9/11 Family group, Jersey Moms.” (3)
The 9/11 Truth group asked:
Q: What happened to the over 20 documented warnings given our government by 14 foreign intelligence agencies or heads of state?
A: They were mostly ignored and/or used to perpetrate a propaganda campaign intended to make it appear that 9/11 was actually executed by 19 agents of Osama bin Laden, using cell phones from their caves in Afghanistan. As such, the federal government’s “explanation” is actually the most ridiculous conspiracy theory that anyone could possibly ever fabricate to explain what actually happened on 9/11. (4)
So the American intelligence and law-enforcement communities had in their hands many reports from their own people and overseas governments that the 9/11 attack was being prepared and failed to act on them. This failure has never been adequately explained.
(Continued in Part 4.)
Footnotes
(1) Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball, “The Secrets of September 11,” Newsweek National News Online, 30 April 2003, downloaded from https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3067907/, 7 Sept. 2007.
(2) Transcript to the video One Nation Under Siege, a Power Hour Production.
(3) Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, U.S. Army Reserve, Commander of Special Troops Battalion, 9th Theater Support Command. Former Chief of the Army’s Controlled HUMINT (Human Intelligence) Program, overseeing Army Intelligence and Security Command’s global controlled HUMINT efforts. A former member of the Able Danger data mining program that targeted Al Qaeda’s global structure on Patriots Question 9/11, downloaded from https://www.patriotsquestion911.com/, 14 Aug. 2007.
(4) 9/11Truth.org, Answers to 9/11 Families’ Questions, posted 20 July 2007 at https://blogs.albawaba.com/post/2011/73057, downloaded August 6, 2007.