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PARIS (AP) — A French intelligence service learned as early as January 2001 that al-Qaeda was working on a plot to hijack U.S. airliners, and it passed the information on to the CIA, Le Monde reported Monday.

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Le Monde reported that the documents included a note dated Jan. 5, 2001, which said al-Qaeda had been working on a hijacking plot for months. The intelligence note reported that bin Laden had attended a meeting in Afghanistan in October 2000, where a final decision to carry out the plot was made, the newspaper said.

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Comments

[patrick]

And I hate to say it, but that has been common knowlege since 2001 here! The USA got plenty of pre warnings from French and German Intelligence services that got filed in the "nevermind, it's just French" folder on some CIA jerks desk...The French have been fighting terror pretty successfully and keeping it quiet for quite a while now.
The investigations are never trumpeted for cheap political points as they are in America....of course that may change if our little lawn dwarf of doom, Sarkozy gets elected.
There was a great series of articles in 2002 that traced the decision of Al Qaeda to trigger the events leading to the bombing to a meeting in Germany with the Taliban and the US over energy where they were given the alternative that they cooperate in the construction of an oil pipeline project that would direct the flow of oil from the breakaway Soviet Republics to American controlled ports...They were offered all kinds of incentives to agree and if they didn't, America would do it anyway and destroy the Taliban. The World Trade Center Bombing occurred a few months later.

[spork_incident]

And back into the Memory Hole it will go, no doubt.

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