9/11 Kin Upset Hijacker-In-Training Freed

[MrPrax]

WASHINGTON - Relatives of Sept. 11 victims are upset that authorities didn't act more forcefully when a man told the FBI in 2000 that he'd been trained as a hijacker for Osama bin Laden.

In April 2000, the man, a British Muslim, went to the FBI's Newark, N.J., office and told agents of plans to hijack U.S. airliners, according to the report of a Senate-House committee that studied the attacks. After his claims were investigated, he was turned over to British authorities and eventually freed.

Victims' families, responding Thursday to new details of the case or in some instances hearing about it for the first time, said the episode was another example of lapses by authorities who might have foiled the Sept. 11, 2001, plot if they had been more vigilant.

More...
http://www.journalnet.com/articles/2004/06/03/ap/Headlines/d82vu2j02.txt

Didn't see it elsewhere, but if duped...sorry

[MrPrax]

1. Another Interesting Tidbit...Bush gets a Lawyer

Bush Knew About Leak of CIA Operative's Name

Witnesses told a federal grand jury President George W. Bush knew about, and took no action to stop, the release of a covert CIA operative's name to a journalist in an attempt to discredit her husband, a critic of administration policy in Iraq.

Their damning testimony has prompted Bush to contact an outside lawyer for legal advice because evidence increasingly points to his involvement in the leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame's name to syndicated columnist Robert Novak.

The move suggests the president anticipates being questioned by prosecutors. Sources say grand jury witnesses have implicated the President and his top advisor, Karl Rove.

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He confirmed that Bush had contacted Washington attorney Jim Sharp. "In the event the president needs his advice, I expect he probably would retain him," McClellan said. There is no indication Bush has been questioned yet.

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_4629.shtml

Even the Right Wing seems to be circling the bodies...

[lostnfound]

2. Link not working?? nt

[MrPrax]

3. Huh...

Link is dead...
Even at Google reference...
http://news.google.ca/news?hl=en&edition=ca&ie=UTF-8&q=9%2F11+Kin+Upset+Hijacker-In-Training+Freed&btnG=Search+News

Found the story here:
Dallas NBC
http://www.nbc5i.com/news/3381186/detail.html

The Scotsman
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3018063

NPR Morning News Audio from Wall Street Journal reporter interview
http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1922805

Seattle PI (this appears to be the same AP story By SIOBHAN MCDONOUGH
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER as the one I posted)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Hijacker%20Warning

seems quite a good lead that authorities dropped...too bad it might have been prevented