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For more than three years, THE NEW AMERICAN has documented that federal officials had abundant, specific foreknowledge of the 9-11 plot. To that body of evidence can be added the case of Niaz Khan, a British citizen of Pakistani background who tipped off the FBI to the al-Qaeda plot more than a year before 9-11.
In April 2000, Khan was a "walk-in" to the FBI's Newark, New Jersey, office. As Lisa Meyers of NBC News summarized in a June 3 report, Khan told the FBI "that he had been trained by [Osama] bin Laden's followers to hijack airplanes and was now in America to carry out an attack." To Meyers, Khan described how he had been recruited into the ranks of Jihad outside a casino in Manchester, England. The al-Qaeda recruiters had learned of Khan's substantial gambling debts.
Taken to a training camp in Lahore, Pakistan, Khan "and up to 30 other men were taught hijacking basics, including how to smuggle guns and other weapons through airport security, techniques to overpower passengers and crew and how to get into a cockpit"--information he shared with the Feds in April 2000.
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Source: HighBeam Research, Another unconnected "dot".(Insider Report)