WARNINGS!!

U.S officials had several warnings that terroirsts might attack the United States on its home soil even by using airplanes as weapons. Before September 11,2001 attack two congressional committees said in a report released Wednesday. In 1998, U.S. intelligence had information about a group of unidentified Arabs planned to fly an explosives laden airplane into the World Trade Center according to a joint inquiry of the House and Senate intelligence committees. The Federal Aviation Administration believed originating outside the United States would be detected before it reached its target inside the country, the report said. The FBI's New York office took no action on the information.


Later on another alert came just a month before the attack. That was when the CIA sent a message to the FAA warning of a possible hijacking or an act of a sabotage against a commercial airliner.

Early 1994 the goevernment received information that international terrorists "had seriously considered the use of airplanes as a means of carrying out terroist attacks" the report says.
It said that in 1998, officials received reports concerning a "bin Laden plot involving aircraft in the New York and Washington, areas." Officials received reports that al Qaeda was trying to establish an operative cell in the United States and that bin Laden was attempting to recruit a group of five to seven young men from the United States to travel to the Middle East for training in conjunction with his plans to strike U.S. domestic targets.

Stephen Push, who lost his wife in the World Trade Center, told lawmakers at the hearing, "Our loved ones paid the ultimate price for the worst American intelligence failure since Pearl Harbor."

http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/09/18/intelligence.hearings/