FBI agent warned of hijacking before 9/11
No one could have anticipated terrists flying planes into buildings...
An FBI agent said his bosses repeatedly disregarded warnings that September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui was a "very dangerous" terrorist who could hijack an airliner.
Agent Harry Samit testified at Moussaoui's death penalty trial that he became "desperate" after "criminally negligent" superiors blocked his probe into what he thought was a wider plot.
"You wanted the people in Washington to know that because you were concerned that Moussaoui was going to try to hijack a plane?" defense counsel Edward MacMahon asked Samit.
Samit also said he pleaded with his supervisors to warn the Secret Service after learning Moussaoui had planned trips to New York and to look at the White House in Washington.
That revelation was especially alarming, because he discovered Moussaoui had told his flight simulator instructor to show him how to complete a flight between London Airport and New York.
Agent Harry Samit testified at Moussaoui's death penalty trial that he became "desperate" after "criminally negligent" superiors blocked his probe into what he thought was a wider plot.
"You wanted the people in Washington to know that because you were concerned that Moussaoui was going to try to hijack a plane?" defense counsel Edward MacMahon asked Samit.
Samit also said he pleaded with his supervisors to warn the Secret Service after learning Moussaoui had planned trips to New York and to look at the White House in Washington.
That revelation was especially alarming, because he discovered Moussaoui had told his flight simulator instructor to show him how to complete a flight between London Airport and New York.
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