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johnnie

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Mon Mar-20-06 03:36 PM
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FBI agent warned of possible hijacking before September 11

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"ALEXANDRIA, United States (AFP) - An
FBI agent testified that he warned his bosses about Zacarias Moussaoui 70 times before the September 11 attacks, and raised fears he planned to hijack an airliner.

Agent Harry Samit took the witness stand at the death penalty trial of the confessed Al-Qaeda plotter, as it resumed with dramatic testimony after a week in peril of being thrown out by a judge over a witness-coaching scandal.

Samit, who arrested Moussaoui, also admitted under cross-examination that he accused his superiors of "criminal negligence" and "careerism" in a US government inquiry into their failure to act upon his warnings"

More:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1521&ncid=1505&e=2&u=/afp/20060320/pl_afp/usattackstrial_060320193610

70 times? I thought no one had any idea at all that this kind of thing would ever happen :shrug:

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