- The FBI is investigating claims that some people in New
York had warning of the 11 September attacks. Detectives confirmed on Friday
that several warnings were made, but have yet to find their ultimate source
and are still investigating the possible tip-offs, the New York Daily News
reported.
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- An FBI spokesman, James Margolin, told the newspaper
on Friday: "Among the e-mails and tips we received are reports of
people overhearing people boasting about or warning about coming attacks."
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- The most serious of the alleged warnings was given by
an unnamed pupil at a school in Jersey City, which lies across the Hudson
river from where the World Trade Centre stood and where a number of the
hijackers lived. The pupil gave the warning several days before the attacks
and told people not to travel to lower Manhattan on the morning of 11 September.
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- Jersey City schools' superintendent Joanne Kenny said:
"Staff determined that comments made or notes written were serious
enough so we called the juvenile bureau of the police and they followed
it up."
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- The force handed the warnings to the FBI's joint terrorist
task force. A source close to the FBI said: "They ran into a dead
end, and whoever gave the warning denied it."
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- Dozens of members of a mosque in the Bronx told the FBI
they had also been given a vague warning to stay out of lower Manhattan.
But the mosque's leaders denied having prior knowledge of the attack.
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- A third warning being investigated is said to involve
a Pakistani pupil at a Brooklyn secondary school who told a teacher during
a heated political argument: "Look at those two buildings. They won't
be here next week."
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- A spokesman for New York's education authority said:
"I don't know what the status of the FBI's investigation is."
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- http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=99277
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