Many essays have discussed the U.S. government's foreknowledge of the 9/11 attacks.
Indeed, the number of facts pointing towards likely foreknowledge are so numerous that it
is easy to get lost in the details.
This essay focuses solely on the proof that American and allied intelligence services
actually heard the hijackers discuss and make
their plans before 9/11.
Initially, an FBI informant hosted and rented a room to two hijackers in 2000.
And a CIA agent allegedly met with Bin
Laden in an American hospital in July 2001
Furthermore, Israel tracked the
hijackers' every move prior to the attacks, and
sent agents to film the attack on the World Trade Centers.
Moreover, the intelligence services of the French and other governments had infiltrated the highest levels of Al-Qaeda's camps, and actually listened to the hijackers'
debates about which airlines' planes should be
hijacked, and allied intelligence services also intercepted phone conversations between Al-Qaeda members regarding the attacks.
And the National
Security Agency and the FBI were
each independently listening in on the phone calls between the supposed mastermind of the attacks and the lead hijacker. Indeed, the FBI built its own antenna in
Madagascar specifically to listen in on the mastermind's phone calls. The
day before 9/11, the mastermind told the lead hijacker
"tomorrow is zero hour" and gave final approval for the attacks. The NSA
intercepted the message that day and the FBI was likely also monitoring the mastermind's phone calls.
Shortly before 9/11, the NSA also intercepted multiple
phone calls to the United States from Bin Laden's chief of operations.
The CIA and the NSA had been intercepting phone
calls by the hijackers for years.
Indeed, two days before 9/11, Osama Bin Laden called his stepmother and told her "In two days, you're going to hear big news and you're not
going to hear from me for a while.” US
officials later told CNN that “in recent years they've been able to monitor some of
bin Laden's telephone
communications with his [step]mother. Bin Laden at the time was using a satellite
telephone, and the signals were intercepted and sometimes recorded." Indeed, before
9/11, to impress important visitors, NSA analysts would occasionally play audio tapes of
bin Laden talking to his stepmother.
And according to CBS News, at 9:53 a.m on 9/11, just 15 minutes after the hijacked plane
had hit the Pentagon, "the
National Security Agency, which monitors communications worldwide, intercepted a phone
call from one of Osama bin Laden's operatives in Afghanistan to a phone number in the
former Soviet Republic of Georgia", and secretary of Defense Rumsfeld learned about
the intercepted phone call in real-time (if the NSA monitored and transcribed
phone calls in real-time on 9/11, that implies that it did so in the months
leading up to 9/11 as well).
Forget complicated arguments about warnings. The government actually heard the plans for 9/11 from the hijackers' own mouths.
http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2007/04/government-heard-911-plans-from.html