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Bill S
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Bill S asked in Politics & GovernmentGovernment · 1 decade ago

Can you prove to me that our government didn't know about 9/11 before it happened? Cuz I can prove...?

Can you prove to me that our government didn't know about 9/11 before it happened? Cuz I can prove they did..

1994: Two attacks take place which involve hijacking planes to crash them into buildings, including one by an Islamic militant group. In a third attack, a lone pilot crashes a plane at the White House. Yet after Sept. 11, over and over aviation and security officials say they are shocked that terrorists could have hijacked airliners and crashed them into landmark buildings. [New York Times, 10/3/01]

1996-2001: Federal authorities have known for years that suspected terrorists with ties to bin Laden were receiving flight training at schools in the US and abroad. One convicted terrorist confessed that his planned role in a terror attack was to crash a plane into CIA headquarters. [Washington Post, 9/23/01]

1998: An Oklahoma City FBI agent sends a memo warning that "large numbers of Middle Eastern males" are getting flight training and could be planning terrorist attacks. [CBS, 5/30/02] A separate CIA intelligence report asserts that Arab terrorists are planning to fly a bomb-laden aircraft into the WTC (World Trade Center). [New York Times, 9/19/02, Senate Intelligence Committee, 9/18/02]

Dec 1998: A Time magazine cover story entitled "The Hunt for Osama," reports that bin Laden may be planning his boldest move yet - a strike on Washington or possibly New York City. [Time, 12/21/98]

Summer 2000: A secret military operation named Able Danger identifies four future 9/11 hijackers, including lead hijacker Mohamed Atta, as a potential threat and members of Al Qaeda. Yet none of this is mentioned later in the 9/11 Commissions' final report. When questioned, the 9/11 commission's chief spokesman initially says that staff members briefed about Able Danger did not remember hearing anything about Atta. Days later, however, after provided detailed information, he says the uniformed officer who briefed two staff members had indeed mentioned Atta. [New York Times, 8/11/05]

2000 – 2001: The military conducts exercises simulating what the White House later says is unimaginable: hijacked airliners used as weapons to crash into targets and cause mass casualties. One imagined target is the WTC. [USA Today, 4/19/04] Another is the Pentagon. [Military District of Washington (Army), 11/3/00]

June 28, 2001: CIA Director George J. Tenet has been "nearly frantic" with concern. A written intelligence summary for national security adviser Condoleezza Rice says: "It is highly likely that a significant al Qaeda attack is in the near future, within several weeks." Rice will later claim that everyone was taken by complete surprise by the 9/11 attack. By late summer, one senior political appointee says, Tenet had repeated this threat "so often that people got tired of hearing it." [Washington Post, 5/17/02]

Late July 2001: The US and UN ignore warnings from the Taliban foreign minister that bin Laden is planning an imminent huge attack on US soil. The FBI and CIA also fail to take seriously warnings that Islamic fundamentalists have enrolled in flight schools across the US. [Independent, 9/7/02]

Summer 2001: Russian President Putin later says publicly that he ordered his intelligence agencies to alert the US of suicide pilots training for attacks on US targets. [Fox, 5/17/02]

Aug 6, 2001: President Bush is warned by US intelligence that bin Laden might be planning to hijack commercial airliners. The White House waits eight months after 9/11 to reveal this fact. [New York Times, 5/16/02] Titled “Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US,” the intelligence briefing specifically mentions the World Trade Center. Yet Bush later states the briefing “said nothing about an attack on America.” [Washington Post, 4/12/04, White House, 4/11/04, CNN, 4/10/04, Intelligence Briefing, 8/6/01]

Aug 24, 2001: Frustrated with lack of response from FBI headquarters about detained suspect Moussaoui, the Minnesota FBI begins working with the CIA. The CIA sends alerts calling him a "suspect 747 airline suicide hijacker." Three days later an FBI Minnesota supervisor says he is trying to make sure that Moussaoui does not "take control of a plane and fly it into the World Trade Center." [Senate Intelligence Committee, 10/17/02] FBI headquarters chastises Minnesota FBI for notifying the CIA. [Time, 5/21/02] FBI Director Mueller will later say "there was nothing the agency could have done to anticipate and prevent the [9/11] attacks." [Senate Intelligence Committee, 9/18/02]

These are just HIGHLIGHTS from this...

http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up10pg

Well... where's your proof?

Update:

Kojak,

FIRST: It's all from main stream news... no conspiracy theory websites. Not that I trust the main stream media, but that's what most people listen to, to get the "news". Most of this stuff came out back when the families were trying to get the 9/11 commission to do their job. The commission was a whitewash and a cover-up. Even a former member of the commission... who quit because it was a farce... says it's a cover-up. Maybe they're covering up utter incompetence, but no government is THAT stupid. I think it has more to do with the cozy relationship between the Bush family and the Bin Laden family. http://www.wanttoknow.info/officialsquestion911com...

SECOND: That's what the $80 billion of our tax dollars allotted for intelligence gathering is SUPPOSED to do... put the pieces together and figure out what's going on. Google: "Able Danger". They DID know what was going on. All the above was in main stream news. Our CIA can't even figure out what's going on

Update 2:

FINALLY: Logic dictates none of the such. The people have to be SCARED. No one gets scared from a terrorist plot that never happens.. one that is foiled. If they had stopped the attacks, we wouldn't have gone along with the wars, the Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act, all the executive orders, the scanners and pat-downs in the airports, etc.

Do you have any idea how far back the Bush's and the Bin Laden's go? Dubya's first oil business, Arbusto Energy was finance by Osama Bin Laden's brother back in the 1980's. Also, the Bush's and the Bin Laden's are both involved in the Carlyle Group, and investment firm involved in aerospace and defense. Cheney's former company, Halliburton gained significantly from the wars.

None of this seems strange to you?

Update 3:

You do know we went into Iraq based on a lie, right?

And 25 years after the Vietnam War, it gets declassified that we went into war on a lie there as well... the 2nd Gulf of Tonkin incident never happened.

And recently it has come to light that FDR did know the Japs were going to attack Pearl Harbor. Countries go to war based on lies all the time. Hitler got into power that way.

Don't trust your government. No government has ever really shown itself as being trustworthy.

Why all the secrecy if there is nothing to hide?

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  • Kojak
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    1 decade ago
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    FIRST..... Not so sure all this is accurate and factual....but lets accept that it is.....for argument sake

    SECOND It is very easy to cherry pick information in hindsight....much of this data was buried in literally tons of other reports that were NOT accurate.... to discern which report was "real" and should be items of concern would have been impossible

    THIRD Who was privy to this knowledge.....at what level and how many agencies had ALL of this data

    FINALLY Logic says they did not know...... maybe should have known....but did not know..... Why do I say that?..... Well President Bush is supposed to have planned / allowed to attack as an excuse to go to war..... If he had stopped the attack while it was in progress....He still would of had his excuse.....and be declared a "national hero" in addition..... and the risk of being found complicit in this tragedy would have been foolish

    MY OPINION.....The Federal government is constructed wrong.....all agencies compete for funds.... That is why Waco occurred.....the disaster of Ruby Ridge.....the FBI or some other agency needs to win the attention / favor of Congress to get funding..... so they compete with other agencies....try to "out shine" their competitors.....so they do not share information....hoping "they" will pull off the next coup and win extra funds.... this keeping the "good stuff" for themselves prevented the government from putting the pieces together......

    Delta Force was called in to advise the Justice Department in the crisis at Waco.....they quickly saw the whole farce was a potential disaster and went home.....telling Janet Reno she was on her own

    EDIT By the way.....you really have not proven anything....at best you have shown if the system worked....they should have known....BUT NOT THAT THEY DID KNOW

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