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johnnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 03:36 PM
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FBI agent warned of possible hijacking before September 11
"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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MadMaddie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 03:37 PM
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1. This is criminal....these people need to be held accountable!!
The house of cards is coming down......
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 03:38 PM
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2. If this isn't evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors
I don't know what is!
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 03:40 PM
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3. Only 70 times? Well, that was his mistake, then!!!
You need to tell these GOP dunces at least a HUNDRED times before it sinks into their little peabrains! Thus, per BushCo logic, the fault of 9/11 rests squarely on the shoulders of AGENT HARRY SAMIT!!!! Bring him in, spin the wheel of justice, and convict his ass!!!
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The_Casual_Observer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 03:41 PM
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4. FBI more interested in their own personal vacation schedules,
overtime, who's turn is it to bring the coffee, and where to go for lunch.

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Minnesota_Lib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 03:42 PM
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5. "careerism" = Close your eyes and let it happen to gain neocon favor.
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wakeme2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 03:42 PM
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6. Please explain to me why they want to give Moussaoui the DP
When the FBI could have STOPPED 9-11 but they had their thumb up their asses 70 times
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 10:43 PM
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7. FBI REFUSED TO INVESTIGATE!
The Minnesota flight instructors -- NOT THE SCHOOL -- reported Moussaoui to the FAA. The FAA told them to call the FBI. The FBI said to "fuhgedaboudid." The flight instructors then called the DEMOCRATIC Congressmen Oberstar and Sabo. These DEMOCRATS got the FBI off their ass in Washington. The DEMs busted Moussaoui. But the puke FBI FAILED to get a FISA warrant and so, they say, they couldn't look into Moussaoui's laptop. Of course, they blame Moussaoui and want him dead.



The strange case of Zacarias Moussaoui: FBI refused to investigate man charged in September 11 attacks

By Patrick Martin
5 January 2002

The case of Zacarias Moussaoui raises many questions about the conduct of the FBI and other US intelligence agencies in the period leading up the September 11. It is the clearest example of the almost inexplicable refusal on the part of these agencies to take any action that could have prevented the bloodiest terrorist attack in American history.

Moussaoui was arraigned January 3 on six counts of conspiracy to commit murder and terrorism in the September 11 attacks. A French-born man of Moroccan Arab descent, Moussaoui refused “in the name of Allah” to make a plea, and a plea of not guilty was entered for him at the request of his public defender.

SNIP...

FBI refusal to act

Moussaoui was arrested in Minnesota August 16 after officials of a flight school, the Pan Am International Flight Academy in Eagan, a suburb of Minneapolis, tipped off the FBI that he was seeking flight training on a Boeing 747 jumbo jet.

His conduct aroused suspicion: his attitude was belligerent, he was evasive about his personal background, he declined to speak French with an instructor who knew the language, and he paid the $6,300 fee in cash. He insisted on training to fly a jumbo jet despite an obvious lack of skill even with small planes. The prospective student reportedly did not want to learn how to take off or land, only how to steer the jet while it was in the air.

The instructor and a vice president of the flight school briefed two Democratic congressmen from the Minneapolis area in November about their repeated efforts to get the FBI to take an interest in Moussaoui’s conduct. Their accounts were first reported in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, then in the New York Times December 22.

The vice president of the flight school, who briefed Minnesota Congressmen James Oberstar and Martin Sabo, said it took four to six phone calls to the FBI to find an agent who would help. The instructor became so frustrated by the lack of response that he gave a prescient warning to the FBI that “a 747 loaded with fuel can be used as a bomb.”

CONTINUED...

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/jan2002/mous-j05.shtml



Great article, there, johnnie! Much obliged.

Bush is not incompetent. He is a traitor.
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johnnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 10:48 PM
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8. Thank you
The whole thing is just messed up. Why isn't there a hell of a lot more outcry over this shit?
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-20-06 11:09 PM
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9. You're welcome.
I asked the same question:


Know your BFEE: Moussaoui Must Die for Bush and 'His' Government

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=602016


FAA Lawyers Co-ordinate Testimony to Hurt 9-11 Victims' Court Cases

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=698420&mesg_id=698420


Great thinks mind alike. :)
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