Publicizing arrest could have halted Sept. 11 hijackers

[TacticalPeek]

April 17, 2004, 1:19AM

Publicizing arrest could have halted Sept. 11 hijackers

Report indicates Moussaoui case likely key to detecting terrorism plot


By DAN EGGEN
Washington Post

WASHINGTON -- The commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks has concluded that the hijackers probably would have postponed their strike if the U.S. government had announced the arrest of suspected terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui in August 2001 or had publicized fears that he intended to hijack jetliners.

A report on the case released this week noted that "publicity about the threat" posed by Moussaoui "might have disrupted the plot." Commission Chairman Thomas Kean, said the conclusion is based in part on extensive psychological profiles of the Sept. 11 hijackers, who were "very careful and very jumpy."

"Everything had to go right for them," Kean said. "Had they felt that one of them had been discovered, there is evidence it would have been delayed."

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http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/world/2512531

[DenverDem]

1. That's the reason it wasn't publicised.

No Pearl Harbor, no WWIII, PNAC game over.

How much more MIHOP do you need?

[soflalady]

3. Was the panel limited?

I don't trust my memory, but I thought part of the deal for Bush to "allow" the investigation was that it should only deal with events UP TO 9-11? No one mentions it, so I thought maybe I got it wrong.

[fearnobush]

2. LIHOP

More circumstantial stuff to launch the LIHOP grand jury.

[MinnFats]

4. Remember what happened to Colleen Rowley?

Minneapolis FBI agent: MPLS office of the FBI all but begged FBI headquarters to back their effort to get a search warrant to seize Moussaoui's computer and inventory its contents. They were turned down....

[JohnOneillsMemory]

5. PBS just reran 'The Man Who Knew.' They should recap Rowley's letter

exposing the total squelching of investigation against Mousaoui at the Minneapolis FBI office.

[skip fox]

11. No . . . At DoJ!!!

Really. This is on SAshcroft's head:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x45821



A number of other sources indicate, rather unambiguously, that it was Justice's attorneys, not agents or attorneys at
the FBI, who turned down the request:

http://www.capitalismmagazine.com/2001/october/ww_intel.htm

<snip>

The FBI went to its Justice Department superiors for a warrant to allow it to collect intelligence on. what appeared to be
a criminal conspiracy or terrorist planning. It was denied. The Justice. Department Office of Intelligence and Policy
Review (OIPR) refused to take the case to a judge who could consider a warrant request.

<snip>

[TheWizardOfMudd]

6. Reason #666 why secrecy sucks

Secrecy sucks.

[Ernesto]

8. "countries that keep secrets have somthing to hide"

A quote from your president.

[Tuttle]

7. but wait...

how can we blame Clinton if the arrest happened in August 2001?

Back to the drawing board...

Tut-tut

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

9. Why Is All Of The 911 Commission's Focus On The Twin Towers?

Why aren't they talking about the Pentagon as well, since that was also part of the same terrorist plot? According to the Pentagon's own website, 10 months before 911 they were already engaged in contingency planning and rehearsals in case a hijacked airliner was used as a bomb by terrorists and were crashed into the Pentagon. This was already on their minds. Why isn't the 911 Commission asking questions about it?

http://www.mdw.army.mil/news/Contingency_Planning.html

[skip fox]

10. Remember "Follow the FISA"?? Here it is again:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x45821