Dette er hovedoppslaget i BBC-world-radio her til morgen.
Dog ikke lagt ut på deres websted (ennå?). Opprinnelsen er gårsdagens
melding, som bl.a. sier om det FBI-memo som det nå kommer fram at Bush
II visste om allerede i juli:
"The memo's existence had been known for months but it was not until
recent weeks that lawmakers and congressional staff gained full access
to it.
The agent who wrote it asked for a check on all flight schools to see if
a pattern existed.
Even though his memo was reviewed, the FBI did not take any action on
its central recommendation: to check flight schools and compile
information on the visa applications by foreign students.
More importantly, when Zacharias Moussaoui, a Frenchman of Moroccan
descent, was arrested in August, the FBI did not connect this with the
lead from the memo.
Mr Moussaoui raised concerns when he sought flight training in Minnesota
by making it clear he was less interested in learning to land airplanes.
One FBI agent even speculated, in a closed meeting in August, that Mr
Moussaoui might have intended to crash a plane in the World Trade
Center, the newspaper said." (se hele meldingen nedemfor)
Grunnen til at det hvite hus plutsleig nå innrømmer kjennskap fra juli
2001 (omtrent da Blair begynte å studere Koranen i sin ferie!) til
dette, er at kongresshøringene om CIAs og FBIs bemerkelsesverdige (og
for Bush II bemerkelsesverdig politisk profitable) svikt i forbindelse
med 11. sep., begynner om få dager. Man vil "forebygge ryktespredning"
sies det...
Som det heter i et ordtak: det kommer sjelden røyk uten at det er ild et
eller annet sted.
Karsten Johansen
BBC i går:
Wednesday, 15 May, 2002, 18:24 GMT 19:24 UK
FBI ignored Bin Laden memo
The FBI has been criticised for failure to prevent attacks
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) failed to act upon a
document that mentioned Osama Bin Laden before the 11 September attacks,
a US newspaper report says.
A memorandum - by an FBI agent in Arizona last summer - urged the FBI to
investigate Middle Eastern men enrolled in US flight schools, the New
York Times reported citing US officials.
Mr Mueller acknowledged the FBI's failures
The classified memo suggested that Bin Laden's followers could use the
schools to train for terror operations.
However, the check on flight schools was not carried out and, later in
August , the FBI failed to link the arrest of one of the key suspects
with the lead from Arizona.
The 11 September attacks - which the US believes have been masterminded
by Bin Laden - killed more than 3,000 people.
The FBI has repeatedly been accused of failing to detect possible
warning signs - the alleged memo is the latest detail to emerge.
'Warning unheeded'
The memo's existence had been known for months but it was not until
recent weeks that lawmakers and congressional staff gained full access
to it.
The agent who wrote it asked for a check on all flight schools to see if
a pattern existed.
Even though his memo was reviewed, the FBI did not take any action on
its central recommendation: to check flight schools and compile
information on the visa applications by foreign students.
More importantly, when Zacharias Moussaoui, a Frenchman of Moroccan
descent, was arrested in August, the FBI did not connect this with the
lead from the memo.
Mr Moussaoui raised concerns when he sought flight training in Minnesota
by making it clear he was less interested in learning to land airplanes.
One FBI agent even speculated, in a closed meeting in August, that Mr
Moussaoui might have intended to crash a plane in the World Trade
Center, the newspaper said.
Mr Moussaoui is now on trial in the US, accused of conspiring with Osama
Bin Laden, the hijackers and others to commit the attacks on the US.
Prosecutors believe he was meant to be the 20th hijacker and he is the
only person charged over the 11 September attacks.
FBI's overhaul
Some US lawmakers described the memo as the most significant document to
emerge in the congressional inquiries on whether the government might
have been warned about the possible attacks, the newspaper said.
Several senators said the letter represented a warning that went
unheeded.
The FBI Director, Robert Mueller, has repeatedly said he wished agents
had acted more aggressively in putting the Arizona and Minnesota leads
together.
Mr Mueller, who came to lead the FBI only two weeks before the attacks,
said that he was overseeing a broad restructuring of the organisation in
order to address its past flaws.
As part of the overhaul, the FBI will create a special counter-terrorism
unit to oversee all its terrorism investigations.
The Washington-based "super-squad" will be made up of hundreds of agents
and analysts, as well as an office of intelligence, headed by a former
employee of the Central Intelligence Agency, the CIA.
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