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.
Glad to hear that!
I've got those pesky neighbors too :P
The story was investigared and throughly trashed by the N.Y.Post.
Pretty much..lol
Early September 2001: Rumors in New York City's Arab-American Community About Attacks >{? A veteran detective involved with post-9/11 investigations later claims that rumors in New York City's Arab-American community about the 9/11 attacks are common in the days beforehand. The story “had been out on the street” and the number of leads turning up later is so “overwhelming” that it is difficult to tell who knows about the attacks from secondhand sources and who knows about it from someone who may have been a participant. After 9/11, tracking leads regarding Middle Eastern employees who did not show up for work on 9/11 are “a serious and major priority.” [Journal News, 10/11/01]
September 6, 2001: New York Student Forecasts Destruction of WTC
Antoinette DiLorenzo, teaching English to a class of Pakistani immigrants, asks a student gazing out the window, “What are you looking at?” The student points towards the WTC, and says, “Do you see those two buildings? They won't be standing there next week.” At the time, nothing is thought of it, but on September 13, the FBI will interview all the people in the classroom and confirm the event. The FBI later places the boy's family under surveillance but apparently is unable to find a connection to the 9/11 plot. An MSNBC reporter later sets out to disprove this “urban myth,” but to his surprise, finds all the details of the story are confirmed. The fact that the family members are recent immigrants from Pakistan might mean the information came from Pakistan. [MSNBC, 10/12/01] Supposedly, on November 9, 2001, the same student predicts there will be a plane crash on November 12. On that day, American Airlines Flight 587 will crash on takeoff from New York, killing 260 people. Investigators will later determine that the crash is accidental. One official at the school later says many Arab-American students have come forward with their own stories about having prior knowledge before 9/11: “Kids are telling us that the attacks didn't surprise them. This was a nicely protected little secret that circulated in the community around here.” [Insight, 9/10/02]
People and organizations involved: World Trade Center, Antoinette DiLorenzo, Federal Bureau of Investigation
I don't remember the trashing. I remember it showing up on Snopes; but not an official source.
And it was more than one child. One in Manhatten and one in Brooklyn.
(and the family here in NJ...but that was a child)
The one in Manhattan was the one that didn't pan out at all; it wasn't specific and was something akin to "telephone", where the story just grew and grew and by the time the police were alerted, had morphed into something it hadn't been at the beginning.
The N.Y. Post covered both stories quite extensively; as well as the Urban Legend about how all Jews had stayed out of Manhattan, especially lower Manhattan, on 9/11.
The Jews were an urban legend.
I don't remember any official sources about the Manhattan one. Mr. Mean just posted the article about it above.
There were so many different articles ( most of them untrue/inaccurate ) at that time, that I doubt that the whole story will ever see the light of day.
>>> I doubt that the whole story will ever see the light of day.
That much is true!!!
C2C needs to book him! They are running out of guests.
I think they are having on a fews guys tonight who were part of an exchange program with aliens. Not from Mexico. The ones in the sky.
They just had a cop on saying he needs to leave Detroit....that bad things are coming. I believe that with all the auto industry layoffs and collapse of the City of Detroit....
I've never visited Detroit. I think that's good.
Its bad.
Worse than South Central after dark.
Ooops, I didn't read the article carefully.
The boy was right about the start of WWIII.
And he will probably be right that America will lose.
With all the PC crap going on, the whole western civilization is steady on the road to suicide.
I remember this.
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