FBI spokesperson John E. Collingwood denies that the bureau had advance knowledge of a plot to turn airliners into flying bombs. "The FBI had no warnings about any hijack plots. There was a widely publicized 1995 conspiracy in Manila to remotely blow up 11 U.S. airliners over the Pacific," Collingwood said in a letter to the Washington Post in October, "but that was disrupted. And, as is the practice, what was learned in that investigation was widely disseminated, even internationally, and thoroughly analyzed by multiple agencies. It does not connect to the current case."
However there is every reason to believe that not only was the 9/11 attacks connected to the Bojinka plot but that it was also connected to the first bombing of the trade towers in 1993. Ramzi Yousef has been convicted of that attack. There is also every reason to believe that Intelligence officials knew in advance of 9/11, bojinka, and the 1993 attack. It turns out the FBI had an informant that was heavily involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing named Emad A. Salem, who claims the FBI knew about the bombing in advance. To believe the bojinka plot being discovered just before it was to be carried out is to believe in an amazing coincidence. It has since been reported in the LA Times that the police in Manila actually set the fire in order to have a reason to go the apartment, and ultimately foil the bojinka plot.
http://www.911readingroom.org/whole_document.php?article_id=150
This seems to indicate that this group had already been heavily infiltrated and according to some reports the informants are even named. Rolando San Juan was reportedly an undercover agent monitoring Yousef and his apartment mate Murad. He was passing what he learned to his brother Erick San Juan, of special intelligence.
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/entity.jsp?entity=aida_fariscal_1
But to suggest that elements of the U.S. Government could have actually been aware and knew of the 9/11 plot because it had already infiltrated deeply the organization behind these terrorist attacks is a serious charge. Is there any other evidence? There is enough evidence to write a book. And several have already been written including several by Peter Lance. The latest of which was called Triple Cross: How bin Laden's Master Spy Penetrated the CIA, the Green Berets, and the FBI--and Why Patrick Fitzgerald Failed to Stop Him.
As great as the work is that Lance has done, as you can tell from the title of his latest book, he puts forth the assumption that it is Al Qaeda that is the one that infiltrated the U.S Intelligence agencies. The only way to believe this is to believe the intelligence agencies are so unbelievably incompetent beyond all imagination. But how can you blame him? Most would prefer that thought to the alternative one. That those who control the agencies would actually allow events to occur in order to promote global political objectives. I believe the evidence grows each day to prove the latter the more obvious explanation.
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