-Caveat Lector- "ONE FBI MEMO, written by a Phoenix agent in July 2001, warned about suspicious activities by Middle Eastern men at an Arizona flight school. Last week, in little-noticed testimony before a Senate panel, FBI Director Robert Mueller referred to another internal document that may prove more explosive: notes by a Minneapolis agent worrying that French Moroccan flight student Zacarias Moussaoui might be planning to "fly something into the World Trade Center."
this may be heavy for survivors Cardinal Mahony Kept Cleric's Abuse Secret for 16 Years - Scandal: Archbishop failed to inform police and instead reassigned priest. In a letter, he admits mishandling case. 5/16/02 By Glenn F. Bunting, Times Staff Writer "A popular Los Angeles priest told Cardinal Roger M. Mahony in 1986 that he molested young boys, but was reassigned to parishes and allegedly continued his sexual abuse of minors for more than a decade, documents and interviews show. Mahony later approved a secret $1.3-million payment to two men who said they had been abused by the priest, Father Michael Stephen Baker, from 1984 to 1999. The cardinal arranged for the priest to quietly retire from the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles in late 2000. In a letter of complaint that led to the settlement, attorney Lynne M. Cadigan wrote that Mahony and the archdiocese had failed to ensure that Baker did not repeat his sexual offenses against children." http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-051602mahony.story http://www.msnbc.com/news/751100.asp Unheeded Warnings - FBI agent's notes pointed to possible World Trade Center attack NEWSWEEK - May 20 issue — The FBI has insisted it had no advance warning about the 9-11 attacks. But internal documents suggest there were more concerns inside the bureau's field offices than Washington has acknowledged. ONE FBI MEMO, written by a Phoenix agent in July 2001, warned about suspicious activities by Middle Eastern men at an Arizona flight school. Last week, in little-noticed testimony before a Senate panel, FBI Director Robert Mueller referred to another internal document that may prove more explosive: notes by a Minneapolis agent worrying that French Moroccan flight student Zacarias Moussaoui might be planning to "fly something into the World Trade Center." from AOL White House Defends Threat Response By RON FOURNIER .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (May 16) - Under fire from angry lawmakers, the White House on Thursday defended its decision not to alert Americans to information before the Sept. 11 attacks that Osama bin Laden's terrorist network wanted to hijack U.S. airplanes. President Bush had received general, nonspecific information during a vacation briefing at his ranch Aug. 6 that bin Laden's group was considering hijackings, and he never considered making the information public, said National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice....Despite the statements that U.S. officials had no warnings of suicide attacks with airplanes, The Associated Press reported in March that Filipino police turned over to the United States in 1995 a confession of convicted terrorist Abdul Hakim Murad in which he proposed such an idea. ''Murad's idea is that he will board any American commercial aircraft pretending to be an ordinary passenger, then he will hijack said aircraft, control its cockpit and dive it at the CIA headquarters,'' one Filipino police report from 1995 said. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/15/attack/main509096.shtml 9/11: Did Bush Do Enough? WASHINGTON, May 16, 2002 (CBS) Members of Congress are raising questions as to whether the Bush administration should have reacted better to warnings in August that Osama bin Laden's followers might hijack a jet. The White House revealed Wednesday night that President Bush was briefed on U.S. intelligence in August, while at his Crawford, Texas, ranch, that bin Laden's network might hijack U.S. passenger planes. CBS News National Security Correspondent David Martin first disclosed the fact that the White House had received the bin Laden warning. On Thursday, the White House defended its decision not to alert Americans before the Sept. 11 attacks, saying such a warning would have risked shutting down the country's airline system. The defense came after Democrats led angry calls for Mr. Bush to hand over a top-secret CIA briefing he received in August about the threats. Lawmakers also called for the release of an FBI memo before Sept. 11 that warned headquarters that many Middle Eastern men were training at least one U.S. flight school.... Members of Congress pointed to three pre-Sept. 11 warning signs: the U.S. intelligence Bush received, the fact that an FBI agent had written a memo urging FBI headquarters to investigate Middle Eastern men enrolled in American flight schools, and the arrest in Minnesota of Zacarias Moussaoui, who was believed to be training for a suicide hijacking. Moussaoui has emerged as the lone defendant charged in the aftermath of the attacks, which killed more than 3,000 people in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. He is charged with conspiring with bin Laden and the 19 suicide hijackers to attack Americans. 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