New 9/11 Files Reveal ‘Explosive-Packed Airplane’ Warning on US City
By June 1999, intelligence officials said his operatives had conducted experiments with explosives to “increase their energy output.”Briefs prepared for President George W. It said the FBI was conducting approximately 70 investigations in the United States that it considered related to bin Laden.The newly released documents do not show that U.S. officials knew of the specific September 11 plot before it occurred. A fourth plane, United Airlines Flight 93, crashed in Pennsylvania after passengers and crew fought back.The collection also includes a September 12, 2001, report in which a source indicated the attacks had been planned for two years and had also targeted the U.S.
- ▪By June 1999, intelligence officials said his operatives had conducted experiments with explosives to “increase their energy output.”Briefs prepared for President George W.
- ▪It said the FBI was conducting approximately 70 investigations in the United States that it considered related to bin Laden.The newly released documents do not show that U.S. officials knew of the specific September 11 plot before it occurr
- ▪A fourth plane, United Airlines Flight 93, crashed in Pennsylvania after passengers and crew fought back.The collection also includes a September 12, 2001, report in which a source indicated the attacks had been planned for two years and ha
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By Alex BackusEditor0ShareNewsweek is a Trust Project memberSee more of our trusted coverage when you search.Prefer Newsweek on Googleto see more of our trusted coverage when you search.As Americans paused to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks on Friday, newly declassified documents offered a striking look at warnings U.S. intelligence officials were receiving years before hijacked planes struck the World Trade Center and Pentagon.One intelligence brief from September 1998 said Osama bin Laden's “preferred option is to strike the US on its own soil in Washington” and raised the possibility that al-Qaeda “may fly an explosive-packed airplane into a US city.”The warning was among 71 President's Daily Brief products declassified and released by the CIA on Friday,…
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