Indicator's Leading to 9/11 Tragedy

Abstract

The study involves an in depth analysis of warnings, indications and threats which the US government and intelligence agencies were receiving before 9/11. The commission report of 9/11 was taken into consideration to have an insight of post 9/11 scenario. The commission report helped a lot to know the reasons, persons and the motive behind the 9/11 tragedy. The after math of 9/11 was analyzed by reading the books “Breakdown” and the war on freedom. Historical background is also covered in the paper. The indications are discussed which if encrypted by the US officials properly would have avoided the 9/11 terrorist attack.

Indicator's Leading to 9/11 Tragedy

Introduction

It is a fact that life is no more the same after 9/11. The country we live in and the world are no more the same after 9/11. Reports have shown that U.S. intelligence had sufficient knowledge that 9/11 attack was being planned since 1995. In several agencies, people who had data were very worried that why no act was done against the information provided. There is a lot of evidence that the US intelligence agencies had knowledge of 9/11 attacks on Washington and New York. Further it was revealed that these attacks by be in interest of the Bush administration (Ahmed, 2002).

Discussion

Project Bojinka

In early 1995, the US intelligence was aware about such attacks on US grounds. FBI and FAA both had in depth knowledge regarding possible hijack attacks by terrorists related to Osama (Ahmed, 2002).

Reports state that U.S. intelligence knew that Osama had intentions to make use of hijacked planes as a weapon. The Chicago Sun-Times reported that “The FBI had advance indications of plans to hijack U.S. airliners and use them as weapons, but neither acted on them nor distributed the intelligence to local police agencies. From the moment of the September 11th attacks, high-ranking federal officials insisted that the terrorists' method of operation surprised them. Many stick to that story. Actually, elements of the hijacking plan were known to the FBI as early as 1995 and if coupled with current information, might have uncovered the plot (Ahmed, 2002).”

The unheard Loud Bang

In Manila, a guard in January 1995 reported about smoke. The police found bombs, laboratory equipments and chemicals. One of the tenant Abdul hakim Murad was arrested. The Philippines police seized a computer. A document revealed the fact that Al-Qaeda was funded by Philippine international relations and information center. Another document showed a plot to kill Pope John Paul II on his Philippines visit. The other tenant was Ramzi Yousef who had a key role in bombing World Trade Center in 1993. The computer had another plot of a terrorist campaign's using US Airlines. This was named project Bojinka (Gertz, 2002).

Special Investigative Group Intelligence Command (SIG-IC) reported that in the future, the CIA headquarters would be targeted. In the plan of Murad, it was stated that a commercial aircraft fully loaded by explosives would be crashed by him. By September 11 the plan was changed a bit to give ...