Cia-Observation

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As already known shortly after Sep11th, the CIA observed two of the official hijackers, Khalid Al-Midhar and Nawaq Alhazmi, since early 2000: Source: http://www.msnbc.com/news/760647.asp

In January 2000, Khalid al-Midhar is observed by the CIA in Malaysia. He is later the suspected hijacker aboard American Airlines Flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon. The CIA officially "lost" his track later. Almost unknown, the FBI observed al-Midhar and Khalid Nawaq Alhazmi, too, however "someone" cancelled their investigation in August 2000 for unexplained reasons. Source: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=1&u=/nm/20020602/ts_nm/attack_hijackers_cia_dc_1

"...Newsweek said the information was held at the CIA's Counterterrorism Center, the base camp for the agency's war on bin Laden. The magazine said that when Almihdhar's visa expired, the State Department, not knowing any better, issued him a new one in July 2001, even though the CIA had linked him to one of the suspected bombers of the USS Cole (news - web sites) in Yemen in October 2000. On May 24th 2002, US Media released the famous whisteblower-letter of Colleen Rowley: "When, in a desperate eleventh-hour measure to bypass the FBI HQ roadblock, the Minneapolis division undertook to directly notify the CIA's counterterrorist center, FBI HQ personnel chastised the Minneapolis agents for making the direct notification without their approval." Source : http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/134460617_moussaoui24.html Now, one should recognise this: "Newsweek said FBI officials have prepared a detailed chart showing how agents could have uncovered the terrorist plot if they had learned about Almihdhar and Alhazmi sooner, given their contacts with at least five of the other hijackers." So : the CIA's Counterterrorism Center had information on Almihdhar and Alhazmi -- as Al Qaeda operatives -- and was directly notified about Moussaoui,HabibZacarias (by desperate agents in Minneapolis). Furthermore, since the Minneapolis agents were reprimanded by their superiors after talking to this office, it's pretty clear that someone there was talking to higher-ups at the FBI.

NOTE: We know that Coleen Rowleys memo to the FBIHQ and her own contacts with the NSLU had been finally ignored on August 28th. Source: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,249997,00.html

That was 5 days after the CIA released their urgent memo ("cable" ->), including to the FBI!!! http://www.msnbc.com/news/760647.asp "...The CIA tracked two suspected terrorists to a Qaeda summit in Malaysia in January 2000, then looked on as they re-entered America and began preparations for September 11. Inside what may be the worst intelligence failure of all...