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CIA warned of possible attacks by French intelligence before 9/11
April 16, 2007 |
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Add yet another advanced warning about the 9/11 attacks to the already-lengthy list. This time, according to reports, it came from French intelligence …
French intelligence services warned their US counterparts, eight months before the attacks of September 11, 2001, that al-Qaeda was planning to hijack a US-bound plane, a media report said today.
The information that Osama bin Laden's group, working with Taliban militants and Chechen rebels, had been plotting the move was passed on to Bill Murray, head of the Central Intelligence Agency's Paris bureau, Le Monde daily said.
The paper published a copy of the first page of a five-page document which it said had been handed over to the CIA in January 2001 by the French foreign intelligence agency, the DGSE.
Joshua Holland is an editor and senior writer at AlterNet.
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