Ex-curry waiter's Sept 11 tip-off thought 'too fantastic' By Oliver Poole (Filed: 05/06/2004) The failure of the British and American security services to act on leads that might have helped prevent the September 11 terrorist attacks is starkly exposed by their investigation of Niaz Khan. Eighteen months before the attack on the Twin Towers the former curry waiter from Burnley entered an FBI office in New Jersey and told startled agents he had been trained to hijack a plane and fly it into a building. His tale of al-Qa'eda training camps equipped with mock Boeing aircraft was carefully noted by...