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| 1 | Unlikely Terrorists On No-Fly List | archived: ref 468 |
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| CBS News October 5, 2006 |
60 Minutes, in collaboration with the National Security News Service, has obtained the secret list used to screen airline passengers for terrorists and discovered it includes names of people not likely to cause terror, including the president of Bolivia, people who are dead and names so common, they are shared by thousands of innocent fliers. | |||||
| 2 | F.A.A. Alerted on Qaeda in '98, 9/11 Panel Said | archived: ref 380 |
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| New York Times September 14, 2005 |
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. | |||||
| 3 | NORAD/FAA, P-56 Responses, Pre-9/11 Exercises | archived: ref 426 |
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| Rep. McKinney 9/11 Congressional Briefing August 18, 2005 |
This is what the 9/11 Commission says but there are a lot of problems with this. For instance, from other accounts, we know that within minutes of the plane disappearing, American Airlines headquarters was notified, according to newspaper reports and even the testimony of some people from AmericanAirlines, and then according to the New York Times, the National Military Command Center, the NMCC, located in the Pentagon, was also notified. This was within minutes. This is what you would expect, that notification would be going out. | |||||
| 4 | US aviation received 52 al-Qaeda warnings before 9/11 | archived: ref 359 |
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| Times Online (UK) February 11, 2005 |
America's aviation authority received numerous warnings about al-Qaeda attacks in the six months before 9/11, including five that mentioned hijackings and two that mentioned suicide operations, it has emerged. | |||||
| 5 | Critics Want Full Report of 9/11 Panel | archived: ref 361 |
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| New York Times February 11, 2005 |
In the months before the Sept. 11 attacks, federal aviation officials reviewed dozens of intelligence reports that warned about Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda, some of which specifically discussed airline hijackings and suicide operations, according to a previously undisclosed report from the 9/11 commission. | |||||
| 6 | 9/11 Report Cites Many Warnings About Hijackings | archived: ref 360 |
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| New York Times February 10, 2005 |
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 - In the months before the Sept. 11 attacks, federal aviation officials reviewed dozens of intelligence reports that warned about Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda, some of which specifically discussed airline hijackings and suicide operations, according to a previously undisclosed report from the 9/11 commission. | |||||
| 7 | Request for Hearings by House Members | archived: ref 364 |
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| Letter to Chairman of the House Committee on Government Reform February 10, 2005 |
We are writing to request that our Committee hold hearings to investigate two extremely serious questions raised by an article that appeared in this morning's New York Times. The first question is whether the Administration misused the classification process to withhold, for political reasons, official 9/11 Commission staff findings detailing how federal aviation officials received multiple intelligence reports warning of airline hijackings and suicide attacks before September 11. The second question relates to the veracity of statements, briefings, and testimony by then-National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice regarding this issue. ALSO, listen to truthout.org interview with Waxman |
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| 8 | 9/11 Tapes Reveal Ground Personnel Muffled Attacks | archived: ref 207 |
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| New York Observer June 20, 2004 |
Despite all the high secrecy surrounding the briefing, a half-dozen different family members were so horrified by voice evidence of the airlinesà disregard for the fate of their pilots, crew and passengers that they found ways to reveal some of what they heard on those tapes, and also what they felt. To them, the tapes appeared to show that the first instinct of American and United Airlines, as management learned of the gathering horror aboard their passenger planes on Sept. 11, was to cover up. | |||||
| 9 | Panel Says Chaos in Administration Was Wide on 9/11 | archived: ref 204 |
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| New York Times June 18, 2004 |
The staff report included an exhaustive minute-by-minute re-creation of the morning of the attacks, showing that there had never been a hope of intercepting and shooting down the planes before they hit their targets because of communication gaps between Norad and the F.A.A., which prevented armed fighter jets from being scrambled fast enough. The timeline demonstrated that the last of the four planes had crashed before Mr. Cheney ordered the shoot downs. | |||||
| 10 | Slow Alerts Marred 9/11 Defense | archived: ref 298 |
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| CBSnews.com June 17, 2004 |
In testimony before the panel, Gen. Ralph Eberhart said military pilots would have been able to "shoot down the airplanes" if word of the hijackings had been immediate. The commission, though, made no such claim. Some military pilots "were never briefed about the reason they were scrambled," the panel said. The Secret Service, worried about a plane approaching the capital, went "outside the chain of command" to ask for warplanes to be sent aloft. | |||||