"Filipino authorities alerted the FBI as early as 1995 that several
Middle Eastern pilots were training at American flying schools and at
least one had proposed hijacking a commercial jet and crashing it into
federal buildings."
Burde ikke en slik advarsel normalt sett føre til etterforskning i et
land med så strenge krav til sikkerhet som USA?
KJ.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/september11/story/0,11209,709874,00.htm
FBI agent warned of flying school fears
John Solomon in Washington
Saturday May 4, 2002
The Guardian
Two months before the September 11 hijackings, an FBI agent in Phoenix,
Arizona, alerted headquarters that several Middle Eastern men were
training at a US flying school and recommended contacting schools across
the country where Arabs might be studying.
"FBIHQ should discuss this matter with other elements of the US
intelligence community and task the community for any information that
supports Phoenix's suspicions," the agent recommended in a memo, it was
revealed yesterday.
The FBI sent the intelligence to its terrorism experts in Washington and
New York for analysis and had begun discussing a nationwide check on
flight schools when the September 11 attacks occurred, officials said.
At least one leader of the 19 hijackers, Hani Hanjour, received flight
training in Arizona in 2001 but his name had not surfaced in the FBI
intelligence from Arizona.
None of the Middle Eastern men identified by the Arizona
counterterrorism agents or any information contained in their July 2001
memo pointed to the suicide plot, officials said.
"The Phoenix communication went to appropriate operational agents and
analysts but it did not lead to uncovering the impending attacks," said
John Collingwood, assistant director of the FBI.
Officials said that counterterrorism agents in Phoenix were suspicious
about several Arab men who were seeking airport operations, security
information and pilot training.
Filipino authorities alerted the FBI as early as 1995 that several
Middle Eastern pilots were training at American flying schools and at
least one had proposed hijacking a commercial jet and crashing it into
federal buildings.
A month after the 2001 memo from Arizona to FBI headquarters, FBI agents
in Minnesota arrested a French citizen of Moroccan descent, Zacarias
Moussaoui, after a flight school instructor became suspicious of his
desire to learn to fly a commercial jet. AP
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