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From: "Jonathan J. Markowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 03:20:38 -0700
To: "Jonathan Markowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Instant Messages To Israel Warned Of WTC Attack
I can't vouch or confirm any of the information in this
'article'.
Jon
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Instant Messages To Israel Warned Of WTC Attack
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Date: Monday, 1 October 2001, 8:49 p.m.
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Date: Mon Oct 1, 2001 5:18 am
Subject: Instant Messages To Israel Warned Of WTC Attack
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/170583.html
Instant Messages To Israel Warned Of WTC Attack
By Brian McWilliams, Newsbytes
NEW YORK, NEW YORK, U.S.A.,
27 Sep 2001, 11:48 AM CST
Officials at instant-messaging firm Odigo confirmed today
that two
employees received
text messages warning of an attack on the World Trade Center
two
hours before
terrorists crashed planes into the New York landmarks.
Citing a pending investigation by law enforcement, the
company
declined to reveal the
exact contents of the message or to identify the sender.
But Alex Diamandis, vice president of sales and marketing,
confirmed that workers in
Odigo's research and development and international sales
office in
Israel received a
warning from another Odigo user approximately two hours
prior to
the first attack.
Diamandis said the sender of the instant message was not
personally
known to the
Odigo employees. Even though the company usually protects
the
privacy of users, the
employees recorded the Internet protocol address of the
message's
sender to facilitate
his or her identification.
Soon after the terrorist attacks on New York, the Odigo
employees
notified their
management, who contacted Israeli security services. In
turn, the
FBI was informed of
the instant message warning. FBI officials were not
immediately
available for comment
today.
The Odigo service includes a feature called People Finder
that
allows users to seek
out and contact others based on certain interests or
demographics.
Diamandis said it
was possible that the attack warning was broadcast to other
Odigo
members, but the
company has not received reports of other recipients of the
message.
In addition to operating its own messaging service network,
Odigo
has licensed its
technology to over 100 service providers, portals, wireless
carriers, and corporations,
according to the company.
Odigo is online at http://www.odigo.com .
Reported by Newsbytes, http://www.newsbytes.com . 11:48 CST
Reposted 11:53 CST
(20010927/WIRES TOP, ONLINE, PC, BUSINESS/WTCPOST/PHOTO)
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