On October 31, 2001 The Electronic Herald (UK) Reported the Following Story: ŠThe Electronic Herald / Reported by Ian Bruce
ISRAEL'S military intelligence service, Aman, issued an urgent warning of an impending terrorist "spectacular" against America, several days before the suicide bombers flew passenger airliners into New York's Trade Towers and the Pentagon on September 11.
Aman had no details of the targets, but picked up enough indicators of major terrorist activity from a combination of informants and electronic eavesdropping to send out an alert, which also covered US interests in Britain, France and Germany.
Much of the Israeli intelligence centered on Imad Mughniyeh, head of the Iranian-backed Hizbollah movement's foreign operations section, and on Dr Ayman Al Zawahiri, the Egyptian-born terrorist mastermind reputed to be Osama bin Laden's chosen successor.
The Israelis say they have evidence linking both men to agents representing SSO, Iraq's foreign intelligence service, and believe Baghdad has provided finance and logistical support to them.
Links between the terrorist network and Iraq have been established by Pakistan's shadowy ISI agency and by the Czech Republic's counter-intelligence service.
Salah Suleiman, an Iraqi SSO agent, was detained on the Pakistan border last October after a series of trips into Taliban-controlled territory to meet bin Laden. After interrogation, he was deported.
Iraqi agent, Ahmad Khalil Ibrahim Samir Al-Ani, has been expelled by the Czechs for "conduct incompatible with his diplomatic status". They had been monitoring his activities after a tip-off from Israel that he was planning to bomb Radio Free Europe, a station financed by the CIA that broadcasts to Iraq and Iran. Baghdad regards the broadcasts as "an act of aggression".
During the surveillance, they photographed Al-Ani with Mohammed Atta, the al Qaeda agent believed to have flown the first plane into the World Trade Center.
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On December 8, 2001 The Calgary Herald (Canada) Reported the Following Story: ŠThe Calgary Herald / Herald News Services - Beirut
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak says he warned the United States that "something would happen" 12 days before the Sept.11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.
Mubarak did not reveal how he learned in late August of a possible terror attack on the U.S.
He said he was taken aback by the scale of the Sept. 11 attacks. "We expected that something was going to happen and informed the Americans. We told them," Mubarak said. He did not mention a U.S. response.
Washington has said that in the weeks before the Sept. 11 attacks, the CIA issued a warning that suspected terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden was pressing for terror action against Americans.
The warning was based on new intelligence but did not have specific information on the type of attack.
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Album Cover Depicts WTC in Flames Months Before Attacks Source: Internet September 2001
The Oakland based band, Coup, released their new album on July 19, 1991. The front cover eerily depicts the World Trade Center Towers exploding in smoke. The album has been pulled and the album cover replaced. Click on the cover image for a larger image.
