Why had prior Knowledge of the Attacks?

“On Sept. 10.... a group of top Pentagon officials suddenly canceled travel plans for the next morning, apparently because of security concerns.”

                                                                                                    — Newsweek, 24 September 2001

Did you know that Donald Rumsfeld predicted the attack only minutes before it happened?

While many Americans were still sleeping, and others were just getting off to work, several top officials and important people were taking preparations for a calamitous event.  They were selfishly quiet as they scuttled away to safety — instead of warning the innocent population, many even co-workers that would soon be killed and injured.  Here is a list of those that probably had some type of forewarning:

Donald Rumsfeld – after Flight 11 struck the World Trade Center (WTC), he was heard predicting to congressmen that — terrorists would also hit the Pentagon.  At 9:31 a.m. his astute prediction becomes reality.¹

Navy Chief Petty Officer Bernard Brown Sr. – of the Pentagon’s Naval Command Center, took a rare day to play golf.  His son, Bernard Brown Jr. was one of the children on the airliner, which hit the Pentagon.  His center was completely destroyed, 29 of 30 dead.²

Col. Thomas Williams, Fort Belvoir’s new Commanding Officer – left the area of his office in Pentagon just prior to the moment of impact.  But two others died, and another suffered severe burns.”⁷⁴

Pentagon officials – canceled travel plans on September 10th.³

Pentagon’s MASCAL Commanders – had mass casualty rescue gear “out and ready to go”.⁴

San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown – received a warning not to fly on September 10th.⁵  On May 17, 2002, Pacifica Radio reported that Condoleeza Rice was the source of the call to Brown.

Salman Rushdie – was prohibited by The FAA from flying the week before 9/11and Scotland Yard from flying on September 11th.^{6 7}

Employees of Odigo – a Jewish instant messaging service, whose headquarters are in New York, but with offices in Israel, received e-mail warnings of the attack, two hours before the first assault on the WTC.  The warnings were originally received at the Odigo Research and Development office in Herzliyya, a suburb of Tel Aviv, Israel.^{8 9 10}

Zim Navigational – a large Israeli shipping company moved out of its World Trade Center offices with over 200 workers just 3 days before 9-11.¹¹  No Israeli nationals died in the WTC.¹²

Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel – Al-Manar reported that he was warned by Shabak to cancel plans to address Israeli support groups in New York City on September 12th.¹³

Business executives – many of who worked in the WTC, were in Nebraska to attend a meeting at Offutt Air Force Base hosted by billionaire Warren Buffett on the morning of 9/11– visited later that day by George W. Bush.¹⁴

Al Franken – he got a call from former NY Mayor Ed Koch not to work that day.

John Ashcroft, Attorney General – only weeks before the attack, Ashcroft had been advised to travel only by private jet.¹⁵

Mike Vreeland – U.S. Naval Intelligence operative — While in a Canadian jail, Officials opened a month-old sealed envelope from Vreeland on Sept. 14, 2001; in it, he had described the attacks against the WTC and Pentagon.  Vreeland knew accurate information about the attacks and had tried to warn both the U.S. and Canadian governments about them — he was ignored.^{16 17}

Marine Aviation group – on September 8, 2001, moves further away from where the explosion at the Pentagon will happen.  As per Leatherneck magazine, “Most of Marine Aviation had just the weekend before been moved to the ‘Butler building,’ an extension of the Pentagon and about 200 yards from where the impact occurred, not nearly as close as their previous offices.”¹⁸

James Hatfield – an author, published specific information of an upcoming plot, from Germany’s counter-terrorism experts in July 2001.  “…[Bin Laden] to launch another terrorist attack at a high-profile American target …the attack on Dubya [Bush] might be a James Bond-like aerial strike in the form of remote-controlled airplanes packed with plastic explosives.”¹⁹  James Hatfield was found dead just 2 weeks later, it was ruled a suicide, however, foul play was suspected.

Larry Silverstein – head of the WTC and its lease owner, is not in his office on the 88^th floor of the North Tower because of a “doctors appointment.²⁰

President Bush’s cousin – escaped death from the WTC thanks to a “schedule change” the night before.²¹

Fiduciary Trust – evacuated the WTC  — “by chance, an emergency drill had been scheduled for that day.”²²

“Buzzy” Krongard – Director of the CIA.  Massive profits were made on airline “put” options that were bought just prior to 9/11.  The paper trail was traced to “Buzzy” Krongard at the top of the CIA.²³

Did you know that even the Taliban knew about the attacks and was warning our government?

There were highly specific warnings from U.S. agents and from many government sources in Afghanistan, Argentina, Britain, the Cayman Islands, Egypt, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Morocco, and Russia.  Some were hand delivered with supporting evidence.  However, the FBI, through the “199I directive” was told to back off from investigating the al-Qaeda cells in the U.S.^{24 25 26 27 28 29 30}