Sept. 11 probe: Wiretaps in Italy hear pair talk of `terrifying' plan by a `madman'

Yahoo ^ | Tue May 28 | PIERO VALSECCHI

[The Magical Mischief Tour]

Evidently the whole freaking world knew... except the FBI.

[Lucas1]

Course on the other hand perhaps he was talking about something else :) Who knows...lets hope that is what he meant.

[Lucas1]

Yeah well if the lady in Minnesota is right...perhaps they did know a lot more than we think.

[cmsgop]

Abdulsalam Abdulrahman

Say This Five Times Fast!

[Dog Gone]

You couldn't tell from those conversations what was planned or where.

[moyden]

I can hear Hillary now: "What did the Italians know, and when did they know it?!!"

[terilyn]

No kidding. All it sounds like are the rantings of a "mad man".

[Thud]

ping

[Dog]

"above the head"

What the heck does that mean??

[Dog Gone]

I guess, in hindsight, it means an attack from the air. But it certainly would have been "over our head" if we were eavesdropping at the time.

[aristeides]

Indexing.

[Aim small miss small]

"above the head"

...a turban?

[genefromjersey]

Again: what in blue hell is any of this crap worth now ??

[terilyn]

Or, if the White House was a target as is now speculated from the Flight 93 tapes, it could mean the "head" of the U.S., ie the President?

Who knows, maybe the attack would be "above the head" of the Statue of Liberty as they crashed into the WTC.

[Darlin']

What this article fails to say is:

Yes, the taped conversations took place in early 2001 and so Italian police and intelligence sources knew of their existence for some time. However, they have only recently been translated and given to U.S. authorities.

The reasons given:

The tapes were difficult to hear due to lots of background noise and the terrorists spoke to each other in a little known or little used dialect.

So the whole world didn't know after all. Even if the tapes had been translated, transcribed and given to us earlier there is still not enough information on them for anyuone to determine the type of monsterous act they were planning.

[aristeides]

The whole world may not have known. But apparently a whole lot of Moslems knew, including the head of the main mosque in Milan. And he at least -- and I assume virtually all the others who were in the know -- seem to have thought of it as a religious duty to keep the secret.

[Fish out of Water]

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[snippy_about_it]

"terrifying thing, it will move from south to north, from east to west

This is exerpt from Osama tape translation Here

"This is America, God has sent one of the attacks by God and has attacked one of its best buildings. And this is America filled with fear from the north, south, east and west, thank God."

[swarthyguy]

Higher than the head of the statue of liberty? Remember that calendar from Holland?