Reply #26: re:follow-up question

[rschop]

No I did not, it was my goal to try to figure out how I could stop this attack on the World Trade Center Towers not document this disaster before the fact.The complete details of how I figured out this attack take up about 120 pages in the first part of this 630 page book. (The bulk of the time doing this analysis was trying to understand the motivation of the al Qaeada terrorists in publishing their Fatwa world-wide and then holding a press conference to announce this again. I found a speech by Tenet in 1998 that says the al Qaeda terrorists had declared war on the US in that year, in 1998. So the CIA knew this. CNN also broadcast the press conference where this Fatwa was presented by Bin Laden and one Pakistani reporter in perfect English says right after Bin Laden had issued this Fatwa; "You have just declared war on the US, how can you do this when you are so small and they are so big." What took me 2 hours took this journalist just a few seconds. However the conclusion I came to was that because this Fatwa had been issued 10 years after they started al Qaeda and was going to put them a huge risk, and this had to mean that they were now going to massively ratchet up the level of their attacks and this had to mean an attack inside of the US. It took me just a short time after this point to figure out the target had to be the World Trade Center Towers. No other target even came close to the magnitude and symbolic importance of the WTC Towers and after I knew that the Cole had been attacked after the al Qaeda terrorists had missed the USS Sullians in the exact same location it was obvious they never give up if they miss their target the first time. I concluded they had no other option other than to use hijacked aircraft and made a time line of their flight training time and other preparations to put this plan together.) I did not want to be the person who went to the FBI told them this story and then after it was over said I told you so. After I talked to my people and they universally said I should not go to the FBI I decided that the best approach was to read the papers every day and find corroborating information that would confirm my speculation and when I had that take that to the FBI with my story so I could get them to believe me. I recently called FBI Agent Taglieri and asked him what he thought I might have done prior to 9/11 to have been believed at the FBI and he said I might have told them that my story was more than speculation. But when look at this the sad thing i in fact I actually did not have anything that was more than speculation. In fact it was all speculation and I was convinced the FBI would do nothing with pure speculation. they needed hard evidence prior to assigning agents to a serious investigation on this.

Two notes that are worth mentioning. I gave the FBI signed statements after each FBI interview saying that I would be more than willing to submit to any number of polygraph tests on any number of question what so ever that the FBI wanted to put to me to verify my belief in truth of this account. I gave these same interview summaries to both Joint Inquiry Committee investigators and to the 9/11 Commissioners and even offered to testify under oath. These FBI interview summaries are included in the book. On the flight to New York, after I had put all of the pieces in place of the attack on the WTC Towers that was to occur in the first two weeks of September, I asked what will the next attack be and came to the conclusion that the al Qaeda terrorists were always one step ahead of the FBI. So they would change the plans for their next attack and instead of using 4-inch knives they would use a shoe bomb with Islamic terrorists who did not have middle eastern names but English sounding names. I was so sure that the next attack would be a shoe bomb when I interviewed Vince Taglieri in September 2001, that when I sent him email (around the 19 or 20th of September 2001) summarizing the interview, the email had to be sent to the San Jose office attention FBI agent since he said the individual agents did not have email, I stated that the security point at airports had to check for shoe bombs and had to have explosive detectors at every security point, and even put this in capital letters so they would not miss it. The fact that Richard Reid got on a US airliner in December 2001 with a shoe bomb shows my email probably ended up in the circular file.

Second, and this account is in the book, in June 2001 when we were getting ready to fly over to Las Vegas for the DAC conference, one of the sales persons came to me and said what would she do if the al Qaeda terrorists who were going to attack the World Trade Center Towers were on our flights to Las Vegas. I said in the first place that these people were devote Muslims and it was highly unlikely that they would be on out flights to Las Vegas since Las Vegas was sin city and devote Muslims just would not be caught dead in sin city. But I said just in case of the very slim chance they might be on our flights, she should look for them and if she spotted them on her flight she should immediately get right off of the aircraft. I said they would be very easy to spot, 4 or 5 young middle eastern people all sitting in first class and business class in groups of two and threes. They did not like Americans so they would be huddled down whispering to each other and not be talking to the other American passengers. I went on to say if she looked them in the face they would never return eye contact and that would be the dead give way that were in deed the terrorists who were going to carry out the attacks on the World Trade Center Towers. I further went on to say I would her one better and give this same information to the whole company. So I had a meeting with the 15 people who worked for me that were going to DAC in Las Vegas the next week. I started off by saying every one knew I had been talking about the huge attack on the World Trade Center Towers since February, and one of the sales persons was very concerned that these terrorists might be on our flights to Las Vegas. While I personally thought it was very unlikely I did not want anyone killed while they traveled for the company. So I said just in case they might be on our flights, look for these terrorists on your flight. They will be very easy to spot 4 or 5 young middle eastern males sitting together in twos and threes in business and first class. They dead give away is that they will never give you eye contact. I went on to say if anyone spots them on their flight, they should get right off of their flight throw their ticket away and buy a new ticket. I further went on to say, "Do not say anything to anyone. Everyone is worth far more than the price of a ticket to Las Vegas." I went on to say "if you tell security these people were terrorists you will be immediately arrested not the terrorists. The security people will never arrest the terrorists but will for sure arrest them." I went on to say: "THE LAWS OF THIS COUNTRY ARE DESIGNED TO ALLOW THESE TERRORISTS TO GET ON THESE AIRPLANES UNMOLESTED AND THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT THIS!" (The terrorists flew to California and then took National Airlines from Califronia to Las Vegas, the same airline on the same week end we did and were in Las Vegas the second week in June, the exact same week we were in Las Vegas for DAC. GO FIGURE) I had known about the FAA ruling that allowed passengers to board with 4-inch knives and had been worried about that since the middle 1990s, but was unaware that if two middles eastern people were questioned who were on the same flight because it was thought they might be terrorists, it was an immediate fine of $1.500,000.00. It looks like the FAA and Norman Mineta basically did everything they could to ensure the terrorists would not be stopped while getting on board an aircraft. I did not know this until after the attacks on 9/11.