Britain accused of 9/11 blunder

Commission says FBI, attorney general and UK agencies failed to take terror threat seriously enough

Julian Borger in Washington
Wednesday April 14, 2004
The Guardian

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British intelligence about a terrorist suspect arrested in the US in 2001 could have helped disrupt the September 11 plot, but an urgent request for information was treated as a low priority in London, a commission of inquiry found yesterday.

The finding marked the first time that Britain has been drawn into hearings by Washington's September 11 commission, and came on a day when the FBI and attorney general, John Ashcroft, also came under blistering attack for their alleged failure to take the al-Qaida threat seriously enough.

A report by the commission staff published last night said that the FBI tried to find out as much as possible about a French citizen, Zacarias Moussaoui, who was arrested on August 16 as he was learning how to fly a jumbo jet on a flight simulator.

As Mr Moussaoui, now on trial for his involvement in the September 11 plot, had once lived in London, an FBI legal attaché in London "promptly prepared a written request of the British government for information concerning Moussaoui and hand delivered the request on August 21.
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Edit: http://www.guardian.co.uk/september11/story/0,11209,1191483,00.html
Uncomfortable stuff ahead of Poodle's visit to the UN tomorrow and his pow wow with Shrub on Friday.

but there's plenty of guilt to spread around.

bLame cLinton, bLame anybody but bush.

He's the mastermind of the 9/11 along with Cheney and James Baker. Chalabi was his stalking horse and Osama a teaser to get the oil industry in the mood for war again...

can Britain fall on the sword for the USA? However the Bush administration ignored all the other info from Germany, Russia and other countries so why would Britain's info make one damn bit of difference?

for the American people to finally get whiplash? Bush and his administration have tried to finger everyone within a 3000 mile radius of Washington, DC to try to deflect the blame for 9/11.

They had MORE THAN ENOUGH information about terrorists striking the WTC that has already been revealed by the administration themselves. That doesn't even count the fact that NONE of the REAL questions have ever been asked.

Fool me once.......

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