à ? May key al-Qaeda operatives reported leaving Afghanistan to go to U.S., Canada and Great Britain while others were preparing for martyrdom.
à ? May-July National Security Agency picked up 33 (classified) communications about impending attacks.
à ? June Germany warned the CIA of terrorist plans to hijack commercial aircraft and use them as missiles against U.S. and Israel targets.
à ? June - Bin Laden said in a TV interview "coming weeks will hold important surprises that will target American and Israeli interests."
à ? July Egypt warned us that 20 al-Qaeda members had slipped into the U.S. 4 of them training to fly. Egypt had informants inside al-Qaeda.
à ? July Due to fear of severe U.S. retaliation, Afghanistan Foreign Minister warned local consul and UN officials of huge attack on targets inside U.S. that would kill thousands.
à ? July Argentina relayed warning to us from reliable source of an attack of major proportions against the United States.
à ? July and again in August England warned us of "a very serious threat" involving multiple airplane hijackings and that al-Qaeda was in the final stages of preparing the attack. British spy agencies and Prime Minister Blair were involved. Warnings said to have reached Bush.
à ? Late summer Jordan warned twice that aircraft would be used in a major attack inside U.S. -- code named "The Big Wedding". Warning was deemed so important that one message was sent through the King's men and the second through Germany. Following 9/11, Bush administration reportedly had Jordan retract the warnings. But, The Christian Science Monitor called the warnings "confidently authenticated". "The Big Wedding" is code for 9/11.
à ? August Israel warned us that a "major assault on the U.S. imminent"; gave terrorist list of persons residing in U.S.; 4 actual hijackers were on the list.
à ? August Morocco warned us that Bin Laden planned large scale operation in summer or fall and that he was very disappointed that the 1993 World Trade Center attack had failed. Information came from a source that penetrated al-Qaeda deeply enough to be close to Bin Laden.
à ? August Russia's Vladimir Putin instructed his intelligence people to warn Bush "in strongest possible terms" that pilots were in training for suicide missions on U.S. targets. Following 9/11, the Russian head of intelligence said "we had clearly warned them on several occasions."
à ? August France echoed earlier Israel warning.
à ? August Egypt warned us that al-Qaeda was in advanced stages of planning significant attack on U.S. Following 9/11, President Mubarach confirmed the warning was sent.
à ? August Former CIA agent passed along information from Persian Gulf informant of "spectacular terrorist operation" that would occur shortly.
The House/Senate joint inquiry into pre-9/11 intelligence found warnings on use of aircraft as weapons stretching into the summer of 2001. The 9/11 Commission omitted the House/Senate findings from its report.
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