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To: Carolyn who wrote (11049)	1/19/2002 5:44:02 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23908

Was the US government alerted to September 11 attack? Part 2: Watching the hijackers By Patrick Martin 18 January 2002 wsws.org Excerpt: According to a report on the German public television channel ARD, Atta was the subject of telephone monitoring by the Egyptian secret service, which had learned that he had made at least one recent visit to Afghanistan from his home in Hamburg, Germany. The German program, broadcast November 23, said that the American FBI had monitored Atta's movements for several months in 2000, when he traveled several times from Hamburg to Frankfurt and bought large quantities of chemicals potentially usable in making explosives. Atta's name was also mentioned in a Hamburg phone call between Islamic fundamentalists monitored by the German police in 1999. The BBC, commenting on the German report, said, "The evidence ... reinforces concerns that the international intelligence community may have known more about Atta before September 11 than was previously thought, but had failed to act." (Source: British Broadcasting Corporation report, November 26, 2001) Atta came to the attention of US authorities on several occasions in the course of 2001. In January he was allowed to reenter the United States after a trip to Germany, despite the fact that he was in violation of his visa status. He landed in Miami January 10 on a flight from Madrid, on a tourist visa, although he told immigration inspectors that he was taking flying lessons in the US, for which an M-1 student visa is required. Jeanne Butterfield, executive director of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, told the Washington Post, "Nine times out of 10, they would have told him to go back and file [for that status] overseas. You're not supposed to come in as a visitor for pleasure and go to work or school." The recipient of this indulgent treatment, it must be emphasized, had previously been under FBI surveillance for stockpiling bomb-making materials! (Source: Washington Post, October 28, 2001) According to a report on Canadian television, Atta had been implicated in a terrorist bombing in Israel and the information passed on to the United States before he was first issued a tourist visa. (Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, September 14, 2001, reported by Diana Swain from Vero Beach, Florida) [...] ______________ That two-part paper reveals a lot of interesting clues on 911.... Unfortunately, as a pinkie stalwart, wsws.org can't help tainting each and every one of its (geo-)political analyses with crass anti-Americanism. Hence that paper's punchline intimating that Pakistan (ISI) might be behind the 911 terror plot --kinda "You-Yanks-had-it-coming" dig... Of course, they won't ask how come a hardcore terrorist like Mohammed Atta was able to travel to Israel to take part in terrorist activities and move on... just like shoe-bomber Reid. Gus