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We were warned about 9/11. Here are some of the warnings.

• Was Bush Warned?
• Air Force Officer Disciplined for Saying Bush Allowed Attacks
• US Had “Steady Stream” of Warnings
• Numerous Terror Warnings
• Warned of Airplanes as Weapons
• Mosad Warns US
• Warnings Ignored
• Bush Wins, Public Loses
• Senate Panel: FBI Missed Warnings
• Warnings from Overseas
• Damage Control for Bush over Warnings
• Bush Administrations Explanations Fail the Smell Test
• FBI’s Shifting Versions of Warnings Explanation
• Lessons of warnings
• Media Coverage of Warnings Scandal
• US authorities were warned about the terrorist acts - Even by Arabs
• US pulls the plug on Muslim websites - TVNL comment: They did this the day before the attacks. Did they know something?
• White House, CIA Kept Key Portions of Report Classified - President Bush was warned in a more specific way than previously known about intelligence suggesting that al Qaeda terrorists were seeking to attack the United States
• Bush's 9-11 Secrets - The Government Received Warnings of Bin Laden's Plans to Attack New York and D.C.- Even though Bush has refused to make parts of the 9-11 report public, one thing is startlingly clear: The U.S. government had received repeated warnings of impending attacks—and attacks using planes directed at New York and Washington—for several years. The government never told us about what it knew was coming. - See for yourself. The report lists 36 different summaries of warnings dating back to 1997. Among them:...
• Willie Brown got low-key early warning about air travel
• This war on terrorism is bogus - The 9/11 attacks gave the US an ideal pretext to use force to secure its global domination - We now know that a blueprint for the creation of a global Pax Americana was drawn up for Dick Cheney (now vice-president), Donald Rumsfeld (defence secretary), Paul Wolfowitz (Rumsfeld's deputy), Jeb Bush (George Bush's younger brother) and Lewis Libby (Cheney's chief of staff). The document, entitled Rebuilding America's Defences, was written in September 2000 by the neoconservative think tank, Project for the New American Century (PNAC). - All of this makes it all the more astonishing - on the war on terrorism perspective - that there was such slow reaction on September 11 itself. The first hijacking was suspected at not later than 8.20am, and the last hijacked aircraft crashed in Pennsylvania at 10.06am. Not a single fighter plane was scrambled to investigate from the US Andrews airforce base, just 10 miles from Washington DC, until after the third plane had hit the Pentagon at 9.38 am. Why not? - Was this inaction simply the result of key people disregarding, or being ignorant of, the evidence? Or could US air security operations have been deliberately stood down on September 11? If so, why, and on whose authority? The former US federal crimes prosecutor, John Loftus, has said: "The information provided by European intelligence services prior to 9/11 was so extensive that it is no longer possible for either the CIA or FBI to assert a defence of incompetence."
• What Did Bush Know Before 9/11 Attacks? - Briefing Notes May Hold Key to Crucial Question - Did U.S. President George W. Bush receive — and ignore — advance warning of a plan by Al Qaeda to hijack passenger planes and fly them into buildings in the United States?
• Probe of Intercepted Messages Focuses on Shelby - Justice Department Investigating Leak of Classified NSA Material Regarding Sept. 11 Attacks - The investigation centers on the disclosure in 2002 that the National Security Agency had intercepted two messages on the eve of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks signaling that something was to happen the next day. - The intercepts included the phrases "The match begins tomorrow" and "tomorrow is zero day."
• Under Oath, German Agent Says US Warned About 9/11 - The United States was warned of impending September 11 terrorist attacks by an Iranian spy, but ignored him, German secret service agents testified yesterday in the trial of an alleged al-Qaida terrorist.
• Suicide hijack threat 'neglected' - US aviation officials should have done more to protect passengers from suicide attacks, an independent commission probing the 11 September attacks says - The preliminary report found that aviation security officials had looked at the possibility of suicide hijackings as far back as March 1998 - nearly six years ago. - TVNL Comment: Do you remember the comments made by Condoleza Rice after the attacks saying that they had no way of knowing that anyone would use a plane as a bomb? She was either lying or she is incompetent as a National Security Advisor if the did not know this.
• Defector: Bin Laden Son 'Forewarned Iran of 9/11' - An Iranian defector, preparing to testify in Germany's second major Sept. 11 trial, said on Tuesday that a son of Osama bin Laden had personally told Iranian leaders of the planned attacks on U.S. cities in 2001.
• German Court Delays Verdict in 9 / 11 Trial - Zakeri said he agreed to work for the CIA in 1992 and had attended alleged meetings in July 2001 between senior al-Qaida figures and Iranian leaders. He said a few days before the Sept. 11 attack, he had tried to warn U.S. authorities that something was planned against the United States or Israel, but was not taken seriously.
• Clinton Aides Plan to Tell Panel of Warning Bush Team on Qaeda - Senior Clinton administration officials called to testify next week before the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks say they are prepared to detail how they repeatedly warned their Bush administration counterparts in late 2000 that Al Qaeda posed the worst security threat facing the nation — and how the new administration was slow to act. - "Until 9/11, counterterrorism was a very secondary issue at the Bush White House," said a senior Clinton official, speaking on condition of anonymity. "Remember those first months? The White House was focused on tax cuts, not terrorism. We saw the budgets for counterterrorism programs being cut."
• "We should have had orange or red-type of alert in June or July of 2001" - A former FBI translator told the 9/11 commission that the bureau had detailed information well before Sept. 11, 2001, that terrorists were likely to attack the U.S. with airplanes. - A former FBI wiretap translator with top-secret security clearance, who has been called "very credible" by Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, has told Salon she recently testified to the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States that the FBI had detailed information prior to Sept. 11, 2001, that a terrorist attack involving airplanes was being plotted.
• Panel Hasn't Heard From Official It Wants Most - As she prepares to leave her job at the end of the year, Ms. Rice, the president's national security adviser, now finds herself at the center of a political storm, furiously defending both the White House and her own reputation.
• Documentation of Plans to Crash Airplanes Into Buildings that Bush and Condi Claim They Knew Nothing About: They Lie, Assassinate People's Characters Instead of Refuting Their Evidence -- and They are, Most Dangerous to the Nation, Incompetent. - A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL
• Odigo says workers were warned of attack - Odigo, the instant messaging service, says that two of its workers received messages two hours before the Twin Towers attack on September 11 predicting the attack would happen, and the company has been cooperating with Israeli and American law enforcement, including the FBI, in trying to find the original sender of the message predicting the attack. - Micha Macover, CEO of the company, said the two workers received the messages and immediately after the terror attack informed the company's management, which immediately contacted the Israeli security services, which brought in the FBI. - TVNL Comment: Conspiracy theory to conspiracy fact!
• 9-11 panel to probe - FBI informant's tip - Man who translated lead on al-Qaida plot confirms meeting with 3 investigators - When he watched the planes hit the Twin Towers on 9-11, former FBI translator Behrooz Sarshar says he "immediately" remembered a tip about an al-Qaida plot the bureau got from an informant more than four months before the terror group attacked America.
• Briefing on Al Qaeda Included Specifics - White House Says Declassification of Pre-9/11 Document Will Be Delayed - The classified briefing delivered to President Bush five weeks before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks featured information about ongoing al Qaeda activities within the United States, including signs of a terror support network, indications of hijacking preparations and plans for domestic attacks using explosives, according to sources who have seen the document and a review of official accounts and media reports over the past two years.
• Bush Was Warned of Possible Attack in U.S., Official Says - President Bush was told more than a month before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, that supporters of Osama bin Laden planned an attack within the United States with explosives and wanted to hijack airplanes, a government official said Friday. - The disclosure appears to contradict the White House's repeated assertions that the briefing the president received about the Qaeda threat was "historical" in nature and that the White House had little reason to suspect a Qaeda attack within American borders.
• Bush Gave No Sign of Worry In August 2001  - President Bush was in an expansive mood on Aug. 7, 2001, when he ran into reporters while playing golf at the Ridgewood Country Club in Waco, Tex. - But if top officials were at battle stations, there was no sign of it on the surface. Bush spent most of August 2001 on his ranch here. His staff said at the time that by far the biggest issue on his agenda was his decision on federal funding of stem cell research, followed by education, immigration and the Social Security "lockbox."
• Text: President's Daily Brief on Aug. 6, 2001 - The following is the text of an Aug. 6, 2001, intelligence briefing for President Bush that outlined al Qaeda plans to strike within the United States. It was released Saturday by the White House.
• BUSH HOLIDAYED AFTER TERROR ATTACK MEMO - GEORGE Bush was warned a month before 9/11 that Osama bin Laden was "determined to strike inside the US" - but went on holiday the next day.
• Panel Says Bush Saw Repeated Warnings - Reports Preceded August 2001 Memo - By the time a CIA briefer gave President Bush the Aug. 6, 2001, President's Daily Brief headlined "Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US," the president had seen a stream of alarming reports on al Qaeda's intentions. So had Vice President Cheney and Bush's top national security team, according to newly declassified information released yesterday by the commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
• Who let bin Ladens leave U.S.? - The Bush administration has refused to answer repeated requests from the Sept. 11 commission about who authorized flights of Saudi Arabian citizens, including members of Osama bin Laden’s family, from the United States immediately after the attacks of 2001.
• Did al-Qaida trainee warn FBI before 9/11? - Says he told agents of terrorist plan to hijack passenger planes - More than a year before 9/11, a Pakistani-British man (Niaz Khan), told the FBI an incredible tale: that he had been trained by bin Laden’s followers to hijack airplanes and was now in America to carry out an attack. The FBI questioned him for weeks, but then let him go home, and never followed up.
• Another Lost Opportunity - A convicted terrorist was providing U.S. officials with very specific information about a terrorist attack three months before 9/11. - In the spring of 2001, one of the U.S. government’s most valuable terror informants gave the FBI a far more alarming account of Al Qaeda plans to attack inside the United States than has ever been publicly disclosed, according to newly available court documents. - TVNL Comment: This is an MSNBC Web Exclusive. How can they decide NOT to report this on their TV network? Can anyone tell me how this is not deception? Can anyone tell me how this is not shilling for Bush? Cam anyone tell me how this is not assisting in the cover up?
• Odigo says workers were warned of attack - Odigo, the instant messaging service, says that two of its workers received messages two hours before the Twin Towers attack on September 11 predicting the attack would happen, and the company has been cooperating with Israeli and American law enforcement, including the FBI, in trying to find the original sender of the message predicting the attack.
• F.A.A. Alerted on Qaeda in '98, 9/11 Panel Said - American aviation officials were warned as early as 1998 that Al Qaeda could "seek to hijack a commercial jet and slam it into a U.S. landmark," according to previously secret portions of a report prepared last year by the Sept. 11 commission. The officials also realized months before the Sept. 11 attacks that two of the three airports used in the hijackings had suffered repeated security lapses.