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Is it true? Did American Muslums in NY area have warning to stay away on 9-11?
self | 4/3/02 | Will Rainey

Posted on 04/03/2002 12:45:20 PM PST by WillRain

I am afraid this post is a bit "illegal" in terms of what is allowed here, but I hope it survives.
My history porf makes repeated reference to a CNN report which he claims to have seen which stated that Muslums in the NYC area were warned to stay away from the WTC on 9-11.

Is this true? Are there other reliable reports out there on this? Or is it an Urban Legand?

If so, I would like this thread to be a clearing house of links to these scources so that I (and others) may verify the truth/falsehood of these reports.

Thank you for your patience and in advance for your contributions.


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KEYWORDS: 911; conspiracy; mulsums; newyork; wtc
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To: DJ MacWoW
I'm not sure if you understand that the "article" you linked to was from a press release with EXCERPTED bits from the interview... Here is the question asked and answered from the *actual* interview (bold typeface added by me.)

VIBE: What was your experience on September 11?

MJ: I was in New York (after performing at the Madison Square Garden on Sept. 7 and 10), and I got a call from friends in Saudi Arabia that America was being attacked. I turned on the news and saw the Twin Towers coming down, and I said, Oh my God. I screamed down the hotel hallway to all our people. Everybody get out, let's leave now! Marlon Brando was on one end, our security was on the other end. We were all up there, Elizabeth Taylor was at another hotel. We jumped in the car, but there were these girls who had been at the show the night before, and they were banging on the windows, running down the street screaming. Fans are so loyal. We hid in New Jersey. It was unbelievable-I was scared to death.

61 posted on 04/03/2002 4:37:12 PM PST by SarahW
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To: WillRain
This is what you have been looking for...

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ARABS Recieved Warning
to avoid the WTC on 9-11-01.
- New York Post.


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62 posted on 04/03/2002 4:38:05 PM PST by vannrox
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To: veronica

Also...Urban Legend? Who says? Debunking the debunkers.


63 posted on 04/03/2002 4:39:52 PM PST by vannrox
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To: DJ MacWoW
The last Michael Jackson song I rocked out to was Rockin' Robin, if that gives you a clue. I'm all for calling him a freak pedophile, but don't go starting urban legends. It's clear his Saudi friend called him after the planes hit.
64 posted on 04/03/2002 4:50:28 PM PST by SarahW
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To: boris
HERE it is...


65 posted on 04/03/2002 4:54:25 PM PST by boris
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To: spqrzilla9
member since December 15th, 1990
66 posted on 04/03/2002 4:57:38 PM PST by Concentrate
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To: Jim Robinson
It's my sense that there is really something wrong with this thread.
67 posted on 04/03/2002 5:04:36 PM PST by Concentrate
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To: WillRain
"My history porf....."

Ahr ewe in koledge? What duz your speling porf say about this posibul Muslum Urban Legand?

68 posted on 04/03/2002 5:12:44 PM PST by ALASKA
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To: TopHat1948; WillRain; summer
Trade Center Warning baffles police; an 'urban myth' turns out to be true--but what does it mean?

by Jonathan Alter

MSNBC

October 12, 2001--YOU KNOW the “myths” I mean. Maybe you heard the one about the “friend of a “friend” who was stood up by her Afghan boyfriend, who then e-mailed her on September 10 not to get on a commercial airliner the next day or go out to the malls on Halloween. The FBI said yesterday it was not a “credible threat.”

The story I was looking for had circulated less widely and in more general form. It recounted the story of a kid who bragged around school before the attacks that the World Trade Center was going to be destroyed. On October 11, an aggressive young reporter for The JournalNews of Westchester, N.Y. — Jeffrey Scott Shapiro — published a article that tracked the story down to New Utrecht High School in Brooklyn. Shapiro identified a teacher who witnessed a freshman in her class saying: “Do you see those two buildings? They won’t be standing there next week.”

“This is the only case we know of where someone said the World Trade Center was coming down prior to it happening,” a police source told me. I had to take a closer look.

SCHOOL OF RICH DIVERSITY

New Utrecht High School in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, is a wonderful melting pot. The day I visited, two girls — one Chinese, one Russian — sat poring over SAT prep material near polling booths set up for the the New York City mayoral runoff. I heard at least three languages spoken I couldn’t even begin to identify. The school offers courses in Urdu because 116 students come from Pakistan.

Outside the school, Bensonhurst has changed immeasurably since the days of black versus white racial confrontation in the 1980s. Immigrants, many of whom speak little English, far outnumber native speakers on the streets. The restaurants and shops offer food from dozens of countries.

Since September 11, hundreds of leads have poured into the local police precinct, but incidents have been few. Someone tried to throw a Molotov cocktail into a mosque, but it hit a canopy pole instead of the building and did little damage. Reports that Arab immigrants had been cheering at a local supermarket after the towers collapsed (a frequent rumor around the country) were investigated and turned out to be false. So were the dozens of rumors of Arabs mysteriously disappearing from their homes just before the attack.

The police say they have been working closely with two of the three mosques in the area. One is run by an Irishman who converted to Islam and became an imam; the other by a baggage handler for American Airlines. This latter fact, not surprisingly, aroused a great interest at first. His friends in the community thought he might lose his job. But the imam is backed by the airline and remains close to the police in the area. “I feel sorry for the dark-skinned people in the neighborhood,” says a police officer. “They’ve done nothing wrong and most have been cooperative.”

STRANGER THAN FICTION

It’s that context that makes the story of the Pakistani freshman so strange. I can’t tell you who filled in the details for me; the heat is on and the FBI is particularly jumpy. Both teacher and student have, with the help of the school, successfully ducked all efforts to contact them. But here’s what I’ve pieced together:

On September 6 — five days before the attack — Antoinette DiLorenzo, who teaches English as a second language to a class of Pakistani immigrants, led a class discussion about world events. She asked a freshman (his name has been withheld): “What are you looking at?” The youth was peering out the third floor window toward lower Manhattan. After he made the remark about the World Trade center not being there next week, the teacher didn’t immediately think much of it, though it stuck in her mind.

On September 11, school was canceled after the attack and again the following day. On Thursday September 13, a clearly agitated DiLorenzo, saying she had been afraid to come forward, reported the incident to the principal’s office. “It scared the hell out of everyone,” according to a source at the school.

The police and FBI were alerted and twelve NYPD officers entered the school and secured DiLorenzo’s classroom for three hours, locking the doors with the students inside. While the students were brought lunch and a movie and told to be calm, the youth in question and his older brother, a sophomore, were taken to be interrogated by the FBI, stationed at the police precinct nearby.

DiLorenzo, the key to the believability of this story, was also questioned. She was described by school officials as having a superb and unblemished record in the New York school system. A police source described her as “100 percent credible.”

Moreover, according to police, the youth confirmed having made the September 6 statement about the towers. At the moment he did so, his older brother elbowed him, said he had been “kidding,” and the youth in question agreed. The younger brother seemed upset and said he was “having a bad day.” When asked why, he said that his father was supposed to come back from Pakistan that day. Further details of the interrogation are unclear, in part because the FBI is not discussing it.

Because of the suspension of air travel, it took the father a few days to return. About a week after September 11, the father visited the school and angrily asked why his sons had been interrogated by the authorities. He said that his family’s constitutional rights had been violated.

Having done nothing wrong beyond spreading a rumor that turned out to be true, the student was returned to his classroom. He remains in the school.

The FBI placed the boy’s family under surveillance but, according to sources, does not see a connection to the plot to blow up the towers. The case remains under investigation, but with thousands of leads, it doesn’t appear to be going anywhere.

TRUTH NO ANSWER

So what to make of all of this? There is no doubt in my mind that the story is true. But what does it mean?

There are only three possibilities: 1.) the youth was clairvoyant; 2.) the youth, knowing about the 1993 bombing, was just venting anger in a particularly timely way; 3.) word of the attack on the World Trade Center was rumored in his family or neighborhood and he heard about it.

Investigators don’t know what to believe. On the one hand, one argues, “This is too much of a coincidence that the kid said this” before September 11. On the other hand, scores of tips in the area have not checked out when pursued by police. One police officer says he would need a couple of other similarly confirmed cases to conclude definitively that word was on the street.

In the meantime, police and school authorities in Brooklyn are looking ahead. “It’s creepy,” one told me before I got on the subway to go back to the office. “But what the hell are we going to do about it now?”

69 posted on 04/03/2002 5:14:21 PM PST by denydenydeny
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To: murdoog
How did they (snopes) get it (Hillary defending the Panthers) wrong?

They tossed a lot of chaff up in the air to confuse the issue. Hillary was not a lawyer at the time so she didn't "defend" them. Paul Harvey never reported the story (I don't know if he did or not, but it is beside the point and they suggested that made the story untrue). There were a couple other irrevelent points. Fact of the matter is almost the entire Yale Law school and certainly Hillary Clinton were very much invovled in defending the murderers of Alex Rackley. I was in HS and was free lancing for the local paper. Went to several meetings at Yale Law to take pictures. Doctor Ben Spock was there, William Sloan Coffin and other liberal heros. The protests they planned were big social events.That Hillary wasn't in the thick of it is not believable.

70 posted on 04/03/2002 6:17:57 PM PST by LarryLied
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To: WillRain
"For Mayor Willie Brown, the first signs that something was amiss came late Monday when he got a call from what he described as his airport security - - a full eight hours before yesterday's string of terrorist attacks -- advising him that Americans should be cautious about their air travel."
71 posted on 04/04/2002 1:01:42 AM PST by Tarakotchi
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To: Concentrate
member since December 15th, 1990

All of us from the black helicopter contingents get these special dates to identify ourselves among the Illuminati.

72 posted on 04/04/2002 8:05:09 AM PST by spqrzilla9
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To: veronica
"Odigo says workers were warned of attack...

September? LOL. That story turned out to nothing."

AFAIK there was no follow-up reported to that story. Who sent those messages?

73 posted on 04/05/2002 12:40:02 AM PST by Tarakotchi
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To: Clemenza
This Urban legend site is deminished some in its credibility since it lists as false the cropduster incident on the Mississippi river which is near where I live and to my knowledge has never been demonstrated to be false. From the broadcast interviews on the local news it was a VERY elaborate hoax if it was not true.
74 posted on 04/05/2002 10:39:01 AM PST by WillRain
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To: ALASKA
Heha, very cute.
Does the word tpyo...I mean "typo" mean anything at all to you?

I confess I am too lazy to proofread these message board posts (and yes, I am a bad speller, but not THAT bad). So sue me.

75 posted on 04/05/2002 10:53:15 AM PST by WillRain
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To: WillRain
They might not have all known ---but what happened on 9-11 wasn't everything the Muslims had planned to have happen to us. They closed up ALL government buildings here that day ---federal, state, city, and county. And here is 2000 miles away from NY. There was obviously a very good reason to do that.
76 posted on 04/05/2002 10:56:09 AM PST by FITZ
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To: LarryLied
They tossed a lot of chaff up in the air to confuse the issue. Hillary was not a lawyer at the time so she didn't "defend" them. Paul Harvey never reported the story (I don't know if he did or not, but it is beside the point and they suggested that made the story untrue). There were a couple other irrevelent points. Fact of the matter is almost the entire Yale Law school and certainly Hillary Clinton were very much invovled in defending the murderers of Alex Rackley. I was in HS and was free lancing for the local paper. Went to several meetings at Yale Law to take pictures. Doctor Ben Spock was there, William Sloan Coffin and other liberal heros. The protests they planned were big social events.That Hillary wasn't in the thick of it is not believable

How do you know the "entire Yale law School" was involved. Did you ask each one? And since you did not personally see Hillary there how do you know she was actually involved?

The bottom line is, you know absolutely nothing. This is why sites like Snopes exist to counter people such as yourself who apread stories they know nothing about.

77 posted on 04/05/2002 11:13:36 AM PST by meia
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To: meia
Amen. I find the legend about the 7-11/Quicky Mart/Bodega employees cheering to be particularly annoying. Almost as annoying as the "Jew Tax" and the Proctor and Gamble Satan stories.
78 posted on 04/05/2002 11:17:57 AM PST by Clemenza
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To: WillRain
Thanks All.
79 posted on 04/06/2002 11:40:58 AM PST by WillRain
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