Police: Student spoke of attacks before Sept. 11

THE JOURNAL NEWS ^ | (Original publication: Oct. 11, 2001) | By JEFFREY SCOTT SHAPIRO

[vannrox]

This, as well as the artwork showing the airplane crash in the WTC, makes me think that a SIZABLE portion of the (hereto assumed) innocent arabic community, has been "in the know" about the effort to destroy the USA. I fear that the reports of this knowledge will become more and more numerous...

[the_doc]

What artwork are you referring to?

[nagdt]

bold off

[Gordian Blade]

Afterward, the agents tried to question their father, who chastised them for harassing his children, they said.

Isn't that peachy? 5,000+ people dead, his son knew about it beforehand (apparently), and he says the agents are harassing his children? Will someone please be kind enough to pinch me and wake me up? Or wake everybody else up?

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Medved discussed this on his show today. It is fascinating. It appears that we may have been so deeply asleep that even the "loose lips" of these people didn't squander their plans. It does place the "Arab" (wrong term, I know) community here in a very bad place -- the plan being more widely known than previously thought in that community. And yet none stepped up to alert anyone to it.

[KQQL]

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.

Why did his dad gone back to Pak land and why do we let mentally crack pots come to America????/

[fhayek]

A couple of weeks ago, a guy called Bob Brinker's radio program and said that he remembered someone with an accent called Bob Brinker and predicted that the stock market would fall on September 11th. They were going to research their logs to verify this. Did anyone hear if anything came of that?

[ASTM366]

I wonder why none of those "patriotic Arab Americans" who knew of the pending attack didn't report it to the FBI?

Could it possibly be true that some of them were cheering inside when the attack happened?

What do you think?

[WarrenC]

We have too damn many of these people in this country. Ann Coulter was right to recommend repatriation of non-citizens of middle eastern origin.

[F.J. Mitchell]

Like the Indian who picked up the frozen snake and let it thaw in his pocket and was bitten as a reward. We must be careful of befriending snakes.

[Lent]

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.

I'd like to know what other anti-American crap was going on in that class.

[freedom9]

There were thousands of people worldwide that were aware of the impending attacks.

[RnMomof7]

There was an Arab calender in the Netherlands that had a picture of a burning plane flying in New York city..It looked very like that day..

It was posted on FR..I asked an internet friend from the Netherlands and he said the picture was posted all over after the events of 9/11. It seems to indicate that someone somewhere knew of the plans when that Calender was printed

I will see if I can locate the link for you

[MrFred]

There have also been reports of how few arab street vendors there seemed to be around the WTC on the morning of the attack. It sure seems like the Arab world in the US knew something was going to happen.

[EaglesUpForever]

Police sources said that, after the interviews, the boy's father left for Pakistan.

Hello? Are they following him over there? Wouldn't it be natural to consider the father as a very likely source of this info? I would think they should have thoroughly interrogated the entire family.

I really hope America doesn't literally kill itself by being too PC.

[vannrox]

Go HERE to see the artwork issue that I was referring to...

Coincidence? Islamic Calendar Depicts Civilian Jet Hitting Manhattan for September

[Teacher317]

It appears that we may have been so deeply asleep that even the "loose lips" of these people didn't squander their plans.

This was not a failure on the part of those who heard the threat. 31 days ago, it simply would have been laughed off as a 'tin-foil-hat' paranoid fantasy. Within a few minutes of the WTC attack, however, our behavior changed, as is evidenced by the passengers on the Pennsylvania plane, and the passengers on the O'Hare plane a few days ago.

[bettina0]

Apparently a middle schooler in Texas informed his teacher that "World War III will start tomorrow (Sept. 11) and the United States will lose." The boy has been withdrawn from school. A woman I work with said her niece's friend (a Muslim woman and well known to my co-worker for years) told her not to travel to NYC on Sept. 11. The niece called the FBI and reported the conversation after the attack. Her Muslim friend and her family are no longer in the area. A Muslim doctor at St. Joseph's Hospital in Paterson, NJ, laughed when he heard of the attack. A nurse reported him to the FBI. A lot of people knew about this.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Yes, you are right. I was not attempting to cast blame or aspersion, simply voicing my amazement of how complacent we were then -- compared to today it seems a whole different lifetime.