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To: cologne_blood
But there are still some unanswered questions to me

1: Why the FBI HQ resisted opening a broader investigation after it catched Moussaoui?

Why the assumption that they have not? Just because it doesn't make it to the top CNN's Headline news, does not mean it is happening. Effective counter-terrorism rely on secrecy. Terrorists watch the news for information. If one of theirs gets caught, they pay close attention. To avoid sending them all to ground, investigators will try to keep as much from the media as possible. Make no assumptions in this regard.

2: Why did the government’s Justice Department plus top FBI officials blocked an FBI request for a national security warrant to search Moussaouis laptop?

I don't know anything about this. But since FBI is part of the Justice department, your question seems a bit confused. which part of the Justice department denied FBI? could be adepartmental turf battle, or an attempt to keep information compartmentalized and keep it off the evening news where it could tip off Moussaouis confederates. Remember, the FBI is still suffering from it's reno/clinton hangover and there have been several leaks of sensitive information for political purposes without regard to national security concerns.

3: Why Ashcroft has been advised to travel only by private jet instead of commercial airlines a few days before 9/11?

I don't know that he was. But this sounds a lot like the Micheal Moore claims that members of the Saudi Royal Family and Bin Ladens reletives were cleared to leave the U.S. before u.s. airspace was re-opened to the general public after 9/11. Claims which turned out be false, in spite of being picked up by the mainstream media.

4: Why there was no reaction to the very precise warnings of several foreign intelligence (Israel, Russia, Egypt, France, British, Jordan)?

Exactly which warnings are you talking about? When were these issued and what source?

26 posted on 12/12/2005 1:39:48 PM PST by PsyOp (The commonwealth is theirs who hold the arms.... - Aristotle.)
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To: PsyOp

Hi PsyOp, thanks for your reply

1&2:
Moussaoui had been arested by Minnesota FBI Agents on August,15th and they immediately requested a search warrant for his laptop but the request was denied.
A few days later France intelligence gives the FBI bureau Minnesota a large file about Moussaouis connection to radical islamists, but again FBI HQ refuses search warrant for the laptop. On August,21th the Minnesota FBI e-mails FBI HQ saying it's “imperative” that the Secret Service be warned of the danger a plot involving Moussaoui might pose to the President's safety. Nothing happens again.
A Day later John O Neill quits FBI in Frustration.

3. You may read this: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/07/26/national/main303601.shtml

And he was not the only one who had been warned before 9/11 to fly commercial lines. On September,3rd the islam critic author Salman Rushdie is banned by US authorities from taking internal US flights. He says the FAA told his publisher the reason was because it had “intelligence of something about to happen.
BTW: The Story about the flight of the bin laden relatives is true.

4:
– The Italian government shared "general" information of possible attacks in March 2001 based on bugs in apartments in Milan.

– An Iranian in custody in New York City told local police last May of a plot to attack the World Trade Center.

– German intelligence alerted the Central Intelligence Agency, Britain's MI-6 intelligence service, Israel's Mossad in June 2001 that Middle Eastern terrorists were training for hijackings and targeting American and Israeli interests.

- On June,13th Egyptian president Mubarak warns the US of an attack with airplanes

- Jordan intelligence makes a communications intercept deemed so important that King Abdullah's men relay it to Washington through the CIA station in Amman. To make doubly sure the message gets through it is passed through an Arab intermediary to a German intelligence agent. The message states that a major attack, code named "The Big Wedding", is planned inside the US and that aircraft will be used.

- In August Russian President Putin warns the US that suicide pilots are training for attacks on US targets.

Source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,53065,00.html


So why were told that 9/11 was a big surprise and why it took 1 hour!!! to scramble F16?


27 posted on 12/13/2005 3:06:01 AM PST by cologne_blood
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