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11/07/2003 Archived Entry: "Another warning that was ignored..."
Another warning that was ignored....
Remember Ahmed Shah Massoud, who was assassinated two days before 9/11? Seems he had tried to warn the US government about an Al-Qaeda attack in April, 2001.
Assassinated Afghan opposition leader Ahmed Shah Massoud had "limited knowledge" of a planned attack against the United States and was warning the West of the threat, according to a newly declassified cable from the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency. Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, the Taliban's main opposition, was killed September 9, 2001, by a bomb inside a video camera during an interview at his headquarters with two Tunisian al Qaeda operatives posing as journalists.
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"Through Northern Alliance intelligence efforts, the late commander Massoud gained limited knowledge regarding the intentions of the Saudi millionaire, Usama bin Laden and his terrorist organization, al-Qaida, to perform a terrorist act against the U.S., on a scale larger than the 1998 bombing of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania."
The heavily edited DIA document does not specify what it meant by "limited knowledge," and the portion that follows the reference is blacked out.
It continues by referring to a speech Massoud gave to the European Parliament in April 2001 in which the cable says he "warned the US government" about bin Laden. Massoud was on a diplomatic trip to Europe seeking financial support for his cause from the EU and individual countries.
Seems the geniuses in the White House ignored this warning, too.
Replies: 3 people speak up
It still doesn't beat the National Security Briefing given on August 6, 2001 (while shrub was on his first one month vacation at the ranch!) which stated al Queda or OBL was about to hijack planes and crash them into buildings. They had 36 days to retrofit every airplane with new cockpit doors and they did shit.
I can hear them now... "don't bother chimpboy, it's his first vacation since he started work 6.5 months ago and he needs a rest...."
Fuck them
Posted by Wayne @ 11/07/2003 08:34 AM NY
9-11 was the Pearl Harbor the neo-cons neede to start stealing the treasuries of the world.Chimp is just the front man. Cheney rules.
Posted by hammerdown @ 11/08/2003 09:03 AM NY
Spade,
FDR used the attack on Pearl Harbor to mobilize the Republic against international fascism and millions of citizens soldiers eagerly answered the call to arms(including uneducated, poor, working-class "Joe's" like my dad).
When I think of the contrast between FDR and the early '40's and Bush the lesser and today, I could weep.
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 11/08/2003 11:04 AM NY
