[dirtboy]

Le Figaro is as reputable as any U.S. newspaper. I'd believe this story until Le Figaro itself retracts it. An official U.S. denial of this could simply be disinformation to cover the CIA's arse

Nice try. Dubai has already stated that bin Laden wasn't in the country at the time claimed by Le Figaro. And the rest of the article is full of re-masticated crap.

[Tom Bombadil]

I've watched enough movies to know that the CIA is evil as are most business people (sarcasm)

[Magician]

This article isn't about the Le Figaro story, although it would be important if true (I'll believe it isn't true if Le Figaro itself retracts it - it is a very reputable paper - the largest in France).

The story is about the enormous amount of information the CIA had concerning the 9-11 attack PRIOR to the attack. In addition to what Ruppert cites above, there is also Janes Intelligence Weekly's story that the Mossad sent over here a high level delegation to the CIA four weeks before that attack, and they told the CIA that there was a massive attack coming involving about 200 Al-Qaida operatives.

In response to all of the information they were getting, the CIA and FBI did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING as far as anyone can tell. No questioning of known Al-Qaida suspects in the U.S. No one was rounded up.

Why the apparent lack of activity by our CIA and FBI after getting so many warnings from so many reputable sources? One must start worrying about either serious incompetence, or possible complicity. If complicity was involved, it may be that they didn't expect more than a multiple hijacking of limited consequences and were tragically mistaken.