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911
Pre-Attack Warnings
People Who Avoided the Airlines And The Twin Towers
Source Not Specified
7-7-5
Much has
been reported about how warnings of attacks by Muslim extremists
in the year leading up to 9/11/01 were ignored. So far no official
has been fired or otherwise punished for his or her failure
to act on such information.
What is more informative than who failed to act on a tip, is
who acted on a tip. A number of people apparently knew to stay
clear of the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001.
Government Officials and Business Leaders
There is evidence that a group of Pentagon officials was warned
to avoid the attack targets. Newsweek reported: http://911research.wtc7.net/sept11/warnings.html#ref1#ref1
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Three weeks ago there was another warning that a terrorist strike
might be imminent - On September 10, Newsweek has learned, a
group of top Pentagon officials suddenly canceled travel plans
for the next morning, apparently because of security concerns.
A number of business leaders who would normally have been in
the World Trade Center, were instead at a meeting hosted by
Warren Buffett on September 11th at Offutt Air Force Base in
Omaha, Nebraska. That group included Anne Tatlock, CEO of Fiduciary
Trust Inc., a company that occupied five floors on or above
the 90th floor of the http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/attack/wtc2.html
South Tower. http://911research.wtc7.net/sept11/warnings.html#ref2#ref2
2 (This is the same Air Force Base
that George W. Bush would fly to later that day. It has an underground
command center.) http://911research.wtc7.net/sept11/warnings.html#ref3#ref3
3
San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown admitted to having received
a warning from what he described as his airport security late
Monday evening, just hours before the attack. http://911research.wtc7.net/sept11/warnings.html#ref4#ref4
4
Salman Rushdie, who is under the continuous protection of Scotland
Yard, was prevented from flying on September 11th, 2001. Ariel
Sharon, who was scheduled to give an address to Israeli support
groups in New York City on September 11th, cancelled his plans
the day before.
On 9/11/01, Jim Pierce, cousin of President Bush, was scheduled
to attend a conference on the 105th floor of the South Tower,
where his company's New York offices were based. But the conference
was moved across the street to the Millennium Hotel, because,
the story goes, the groop was too large.
http://911research.wtc7.net/sept11/warnings.html#ref5#ref5
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Privileged Companies
Another group of people that received warnings in advance of
the attack were employees of Odigo, the instant messaging service.
Two employees received e-mail messages two hours before the
first World Trade Center assault, predicting the attack. http://911research.wtc7.net/sept11/warnings.html#ref6#ref6
6
According to reporter Christopher Bollyn, Zim American Israeli
Shipping Co. broke a lease in order to vacate the World Trade
Center just days before the attack. Bollyn's source claims that
Zim's lease extended through the end of the year and that the
termination cost $50,000. http://911research.wtc7.net/sept11/warnings.html#ref7#ref7
7
The company heading a consortium that had just obtained a 99-year
lease on the World Trade Center was supposedly spared by a last-minute
cancellation. According to the New York Times, Silverstein Properties
had planned to meet on 9/11/01 on the 88th floor of one of the
towers to "discuss what to do in the event of a terrorist
attack," but cancelled the meeting Monday night "because
one participant could not attend." http://911research.wtc7.net/sept11/warnings.html#ref8#ref8
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References
1. Bush: We're at War, Newsweek, 9/24/01
2.
http://911research.wtc7.net/resources/books/index.html
'9/11' Facing our Fascist State, I/R Press, 2002, page 52
3. September 11th: The President's Story, CBS, 9/11/02 http://911research.wtc7.net/cache/sept11/cbs60minutes_presidentstory.html
[cached]
4. http://www.sfgate.com/today/0912_chron_mnreport.shtml
Willie Brown got low-key early warning about air travel, SFGate.com,
9/12/01 http://911research.wtc7.net/cache/sept11/sfgate_0912_mnreport.html
[cached]
5. http://web.archive.org/web/20040411172330/
http:/www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_401406.html
President's cousin escaped death thanks to schedule change,
Ananova, 9/18/01 http://911research.wtc7.net/cache/sept11/ananova_pierce.html
[cached]
6.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml
?itemNo=77744&contrassID=/has%5C
Odigo says workers were warned of attack, HAARETZ.com, http://911research.wtc7.net/cache/sept11/haaretz_odigo.html
[cached]
7. http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/02/09/AmericanFreePress0902.html
Israeli Company Mum About WTC Pullout, American Free Press,
8. Reinsurance Companies Wait to Sort Out Cost of Damage, 9/12/01,
page C6
http://911research.wtc7.net/sept11/warnings.html
Question #10 - Who sent the warning message to the Odigo employees?
Odigo, an Israeli/American instant messaging service company,
http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/01/11/WTC_OdigoWarning2.html
reported that two of its workers received warning messages two
hours before the Twin Towers attack on September 11 which predicted
the attack would happen. http://boards.historychannel.com/threadedout.jsp?forum=160&thread=116555
The company cooperated with Israeli and American law enforcement,
including the FBI, in trying to determine the origin of the
message predicting the attack.
Micha Macover, CEO of the company, said the two workers received
the messages and immediately after the terror attack informed
the company's management, which immediately contacted the Israeli
security services, which brought in the FBI.
Related research:
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=77744
Wednesday, September 26, 2001
Odigo says workers were warned of attack
By Yuval Dror
Odigo, the instant messaging service, says that two of its workers
received messages two hours before the Twin Towers attack on
September 11 predicting the attack would happen, and the company
has been cooperating with Israeli and American law enforcement,
including the FBI, in trying to find the original sender of
the message predicting the attack.
Micha Macover, CEO of the company, said the two workers received
the messages and immediately after the terror attack informed
the company's management, which immediately contacted the Israeli
security services, which brought in the FBI.
"I have no idea why the message was sent to these
two workers, who don't know the sender.
It may just have been someone who was joking and turned out
they accidentally got it right.
And I don't know if our information was useful in any of the
arrests the FBI has made," said Macover.
Odigo is a U.S.-based company whose headquarters are in New
York, with offices in Herzliya.
As an instant messaging service, Odigo users are not limited
to sending messages only to people on their "buddy"
list, as is the case with ICQ, the other well-known Israeli
instant messaging application.
Odigo usually zealously protects the privacy of its registered
users, said Macover, but in this case the company took the initiative
to provide the law enforcement services with the originating
Internet Presence address of the message, so the FBI could track
down the Internet Service Provider, and the actual sender of
the original
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/170653.html
Friday, September 28, 2001
Odigo Clarifies Attack Messages
By Brian McWilliams, Newsbytes.
AN official at Odigo today made a more substantial comment on
warnings the instant messaging firm received prior to the Sept.
11 terrorist attacks.
The company's vice president of sales and marketing acknowledged
that messages warning of attacks were received but would not
comment on the contents of the messages.
He had replied to a question about whether he could confirm
that Odigo had received messages warning about the World Trade
Center attacks.
A sender in the alt.politics.bush newsgroup had written on Tuesday
that Odigo workers received messages two hours before the Twin
Towers attack on Sept. 11 predicting the attack would happen.
The incident was also the subject of a report in the Ha'aretz
daily newspaper in Israel, which on Wednesday [September 26,
2001; above] quoted Odigo CEO Micha Macover as saying that "two
workers received the messages predicting the attack would happen."
Odigo Vice President of Sales and Marketing Alex Diamandis told
Newsbytes Thursday that he could not comment on the text or
origin of the message, but said that the sender of the instant
message was not personally known to the Odigo employees.
Even though the company usually protects the privacy of users,
Odigo recorded the Internet protocol address of the message's
sender to facilitate his or her identification, he said.
The Odigo workers, based in the company's research and development
and international sales office in Israel, were signed on to
the same Odigo messaging server used by worldwide users of the
company's free, Odigo-branded messaging software, Diamandis
said today.
Diamandis today in a telephone interview also said the warning
message did not identify the World Trade Center as the attack
target.
Diamandis declined to reveal any other information contained
in the message, including whether the warning named the targets
for the attack.
"Providing more details would only lead to more conjecture,"
he said.
He did confirm that soon after the terrorist attacks on New
York, the Odigo employees notified their management, who contacted
Israeli security services.
In turn, the FBI was informed of the instant-message warning.
The Odigo service includes a feature called People Finder that
allows users to seek out and contact others based on certain
interests or demographics.
Diamandis said Thursday that it was possible the attack warning
was broadcast to other Odigo members, but the company has not
received reports of other recipients of the message.
In addition to operating its own messaging server network, Odigo
has licensed its technology to over 100 service providers, portals,
wireless carriers and corporations, according to the company.
Odigo is at http://www.odigo.com
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Reported by Newsbytes.com, http://www.newsbytes.com
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