Posted on 12/06/2005 6:37:33 PM PST by willyd
The day before terrorists attacked New York and Washington, a fifth-grader in a Dallas suburb told his teacher World War III would begin the next day, school officials have told the FBI.
The boy was absent from school the day of the attacks, Sept. 11, and the following day, but has been at school since then, said Rhonda Lucich, a director of elementary education for the Garland Independent School District.
Lucich said the boy approached his teacher on the afternoon of Sept. 10 and casually told her:
"Tomorrow, World War III will begin. It will begin in the United States, and the United States will lose."
Lucich said the child's statements were passed along to the FBI. She said she did not know whether the agency had acted on the tip. An FBI spokesman could not be reached for comment.
Lucich said school officials are concerned, but not alarmed.
"It is one of those things I sincerely want to believe was coincidental," Lucich said.
Lucich declined to name the elementary school involved. She said she was told about the boy's comment by his teacher and the school's principal two days after the Sept. 11 attacks.
She said the boy is multiracial but that she does not believe his ethnicity includes a Middle Eastern background.
U.S. officials believe Middle Eastern terrorists linked to Saudi Arabian exile Osama bin Laden are responsible for last week's attacks on the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon.
Garland is a northern suburb of Dallas. Two charities in the neighboring suburb of Richardson have been investigated in the past for possible ties to Palestinian terrorist organizations.
The Global Relief Foundation Inc. and the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, both based in Richardson, have been investigated on allegations they raised money for Hamas, a Palestinian terrorist organization. Both organizations have denied such activity.
I think this was debunked some years ago.
The boy was "right"? America is going to lose this war? That's what you believe?
Bingo!
As I recall, they were collaborated, but ignored.
>>>the boy was right.
ahem.
Police sources said that, after the interviews, the boy's father left for Pakistan. After his departure, investigators conducted a second interview with the boy and his mother, who told them that her son was having psychological problems.
The FBI didn't do anything about this? If only this boy's tip had been taken seriously, 9/11 could have been averted. Bush should have been all over this. Obviously, a Congressional investigation is needed to investigate this lack of action. The Dems would be fools not to milk this for all its worth.
If he was 10 years old, then 9, 10, 11 constitute a series. Louis Fart-a-kan may be able to make something of this, especially if the portends indicate a Zionist conspiracy. If the boy was Muslim, then that is merely a coicidence.
We had a few kids in NYC say this too.
Your link doesn't work.
That was true.
Snopes is the one that posted it at their site that turned it into a rumor.
http://www.snopes.com/rumors/predict2.htm
Claim: A Dallas schoolboy predicted the start of World War III one day before the terrorist attacks on America.
Status: Undetermined.
Origins: This
is another single-source anecdote, the source in this case being the Houston Chronicle, which reported on September 19 that:
The day before terrorists attacked New York and Washington, a fifth-grader in a Dallas suburb told his teacher World War III would begin the next day, school officials have told the FBI.
The boy was absent from school the day of the attacks, Sept. 11, and the following day, but has been at school since then, said Rhonda Lucich, a director of elementary education for the Garland Independent School District.
Lucich said the boy approached his teacher on the afternoon of Sept. 10 and casually told her:
"Tomorrow, World War III will begin. It will begin in the United States, and the United States will lose."
That was all the information the Chronicle provided in the article other than noting that the FBI had been informed. The article didn't report the boy's name or the school he attended, nor did it report whether the FBI investigated the tip and what they found if they did. From the information given, one could not rule out the possibility that the boy's teacher misremembered or misreported what he had said to her the day before, or that the boy typically made statements like the one quoted but no one ever paid much attention to him before. Sure enough, twelve days later, the Chronicle reported in a follow-up article:
Garland Police spokeswoman Stephanie Funk said today that FBI agents interviewed the child's teacher and decided no further investigation was warranted . . .
Steve Knagg, communications director for the Garland Independent School District, last week said the teacher later decided she could not be certain the boy had actually predicted World War III would begin on the same day as the terrorist attacks.
The Dallas boy's "prediction" appears to have been yet another case of general statements being misremembered or afforded greater significance than they merit in light of subsequent events. And even if the boy's words were recalled accurately by his teacher, he said nothing about terrorists or hijackings or New York City; the specifics in his statement — that World War III has begun, and that the "United States will lose" — have yet to prove true.
A similar incident involving a schoolchild was reported in Brooklyn, New York:
In Brooklyn, a high school freshman who recently immigrated from Pakistan was investigated by federal agents after his teacher reported that he had predicted the Trade Center's collapse a week before the towers were attacked.
The student pointed out a third-story window of New Utrecht High School toward the Trade Center and said, "Do you see those two buildings? They won't be standing there next week," according to three police sources and a city official familiar with the investigation. They said the comment came in the midst of a heated political discussion the student was having with his teacher in an English class for Arab-American students.
Once again, however, no follow-up information surfaced to indicate that the boy had any specific foreknowledge of the September 11 attacks:
Federal agents who visited the New Utrecht school questioned the student and his older brother, who also attends there, the sources said. Afterward, the agents tried to question their father, who chastised them for harassing his children, they said.
Police sources said that, after the interviews, the boy's father left for Pakistan. After his departure, investigators conducted a second interview with the boy and his mother, who told them that her son was having psychological problems.
Additional information:
The NYC stories were true. The FBI investigated and never posted follow ups, which means, they are still under investigation.
"The boy was wrong. This was the start of WW4. I think most would agree that RR won WW3."
I wonder if the historians will reflect that fact.
Sounds more like indoctrination problems.
there are probably many more people who knew that 9/11 was going to happen, then we care to think.
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