- 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.
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- 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.
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- Government Officials and Business Leaders
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- 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.
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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.
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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."
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- References
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- 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
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- http://911research.wtc7.net/sept11/warnings.html
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- Question #10 - Who sent the warning message to the Odigo
employees?
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Related research:
- http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=77744
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- Wednesday, September 26, 2001
- Odigo says workers were warned of attack
- By Yuval Dror
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- "I have no idea why the message was sent to these
two workers, who don't know the sender.
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- It may just have been someone who was joking and turned
out they accidentally got it right.
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- And I don't know if our information was useful in any
of the arrests the FBI has made," said Macover.
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- Odigo is a U.S.-based company whose headquarters are
in New York, with offices in Herzliya.
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- 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.
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- 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
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- http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/170653.html
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- Friday, September 28, 2001
- Odigo Clarifies Attack Messages
- By Brian McWilliams, Newsbytes.
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- AN official at Odigo today made a more substantial comment
on warnings the instant messaging firm received prior to the Sept. 11 terrorist
attacks.
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- 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.
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- He had replied to a question about whether he could confirm
that Odigo had received messages warning about the World Trade Center attacks.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Diamandis today in a telephone interview also said the
warning message did not identify the World Trade Center as the attack target.
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- Diamandis declined to reveal any other information contained
in the message, including whether the warning named the targets for the
attack.
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- "Providing more details would only lead to more
conjecture," he said.
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- He did confirm that soon after the terrorist attacks
on New York, the Odigo employees notified their management, who contacted
Israeli security services.
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- In turn, the FBI was informed of the instant-message
warning.
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- The Odigo service includes a feature called People Finder
that allows users to seek out and contact others based on certain interests
or demographics.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Odigo is at http://www.odigo.com .
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- Reported by Newsbytes.com, http://www.newsbytes.com
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