Did the Mossad, the security service of Israel, give Washington counterparts significant advance warnings of the impending attack?

See the story at:
[url]http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$52PMOXQAADW5PQFIQMGSFFOAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2001/09/16/wcia16.xml&sSheet=/news/2001/09/16/ixhome.html[/url]

Quote from the story:

"An administration official in Washington said: 'If this is true then the refusal to take it seriously will mean heads will roll. It is quite credible that the CIA might not heed a Mossad warning: it has a history of being overcautious about Israeli information'."

I'm glad that Israel is at least trying to act as a dutiful and loyal ally would act. Maybe next time they will be believed.

Eric The('Course,Hopefully,ThereWon'tBeA[u]Next[/u]Time!)Hun[>]:)]

.... Bush should CIA Director George Tenet now!

[url]http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?id=51294[/url]

Or how about this from the same story:

"Only the fourth hijacked airliner, which was less than 30 minutes from Washington when it crashed, might have been successfully intercepted: air traffic controllers at a regional centre in Nashua, New Hampshire, told a Boston newspaper that at least one F-16 fighter was in hot pursuit, and defence officials confirmed that the fighters already launched from Langley were on their way to intercept the flight when passengers apparently took matters into their own hands."

Can you imagine how we would all feel, [b]IF[/b] the F-16s [b]HAD[/b] to shoot down this American jetliner, rather than it being crashed heroically by some courageous passengers!

As a nation we might have never recovered from an American pilot [b]having[/b] to shoot down a plane in which his/our own countrymen were flying.

Eric The(GodBeWithUSAll!)Hun[>]:)]