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Title: French "knew in 2001 al Qaeda was planning hijack"
Source: Reuters
URL Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSL1612543820070416
Published: Apr 16, 2007
Author: staff
Post Date: 2007-04-16 09:16:14 by Ada
Keywords: None
Views: 663
Comments: 21

PARIS (Reuters) - French secret services produced nine reports between September 2000 and August 2001 looking at the al Qaeda threat to the United States, and knew it planned to hijack an aircraft, the French daily Le Monde said on Monday.

The newspaper said it had obtained 328 pages of classified documents that showed foreign agents had infiltrated Osama bin Laden's network and were carefully tracking its moves.

One document prepared in January 2001 was entitled "Plan to hijack an aircraft by Islamic radicals", and said the operation had been discussed in Kabul at the start of 2000 by al Qaeda, Taliban and Chechen militants.

The hijack was meant to happen between March and September 2000 but the planners put it back "because of differences of opinion, particularly over the date, objective and participants," Le Monde said, citing the report.

The attacks on U.S. cities that eventually took place on September 11, 2001 killed almost 3,000 people.

Le Monde said the French report of January 2001 had been handed over to a CIA operative in Paris, but that no mention of it had ever been made in the official U.S. September 11 Commission, which produced its findings in July 2004.

The newspaper quoted a former senior official at France's DGSE secret service agency as saying that, although France thought a hijack was being planned, the DGSE did not know that the plot involved flying aircraft into buildings.

"You have to remember that a plane hijack (in January 2001) did not have the same significance as it did after September 11. At the time, it implied forcing a plane to land at an airport and undertaking negotiations," said Pierre-Antoine Lorenzi.

Le Monde said the documents showed the French believed bin Laden was still receiving help from family members and senior officials in Saudi Arabia ahead of September 11, 2001, despite attempts to clamp down on the network after al Qaeda's attacks on U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998.

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#6. To: Ada (#0) (Edited)

Well, well. So in spite of all the "hate the French" hysterial whipped up by the Bush shills and Faux News, it was the French who provided intelligence warning the US. Meanwhile, the Israelis withheld evidence as their "art student" Mossadniks danced with joy over the successful attacks.

France stood to gain nothing by not preventing 9/11. The Mossad and its Neoconservative mouthpieces stood to gain everything.

Rupert_Pupkin  posted on  2007-04-16   14:09:57 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: Rupert_Pupkin (#6)

How does this story makes France look bad? I'm afraid I do not understand you.

aristeides  posted on  2007-04-16   14:34:39 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: aristeides (#8)

French secret services produced nine reports between September 2000 and August 2001 looking at the al Qaeda threat to the United States, and knew it planned to hijack an aircraft, the French daily Le Monde said on Monday.

Le Monde is still a neocon mouthpiece. This paragraph does seem to suggest that the French had foreknowledge and did not tell anyone in the U.S.

Even if the paper says that the January 2001 report was handed over to a CIA official, we have already seen that the CIA dropped the ball on so many occasions leading up to the events of 9-11-2001 that the agency could be said to be complicit.

It does seem to be factual that Bin Laden was still receiving help from family and Saudi officials. However, it is unclear that the ties were used to fund the attacks. It is more likely that the Pakis were intimately involved as the ISI had long-standing connections not only with the CIA, but with MI6 and Mossad.

BTP Holdings  posted on  2007-04-16   14:47:25 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: BTP Holdings. everyone here (#9) (Edited)

It is more likely that the Pakis were intimately involved as the ISI had long-standing connections not only with the CIA, but with MI6 and Mossad.

I'm sure that all those agencies knew, but only our gov could have scheduled all the NORAD drills/stand-downs to insure mass-confusion, our gov disarmed the pilots two months pre-911, our gov ordered the demolition charges set, our gov ordered the remote controllers placed in the planes, the destruction of the crime scene, and on, and on, and on.

Yes, there was foreign knowlege and possible complicity, but they were not the originators and enablers of 9/11. imo

Lod  posted on  2007-04-16   15:03:09 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#14. To: lodwick (#13)

I agree.

robin  posted on  2007-04-16 15:05:34 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: lodwick (#13)

only our gov could have scheduled all the NORAD drills/stand-downs to insure mass-confusion, our gov disarmed the pilots two months pre-911, our gov ordered the demolition charges set, our gov ordered the remote controllers placed in the planes, the destruction of the crime scene, and on, and on, and on.

Agreed. And most of those things could not have been done by the CIA alone. And on Jan. 5, 2001, an administration was still in power that had shown no willingness to do that sort of thing.

It's possible, I suppose, that the CIA guy in Paris failed to pass on the French warning because he was already in on the conspiracy. But he wouldn't have done so because he was carrying out the wishes of his political superiors at the time.

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