ewspapers in Germany, the German intelligence service BND told both US and Israeli intelligence agencies in June that Middle East terrorists were "planning to hijack commercial aircraft to use as weapons to attack important symbols of American and Israeli culture" (Martin, "US government alerted").
             Also, on June 13 the government of Egypt sent an urgent warning to the US because of a video that had been made by Osama bin Laden. In the video, "Osama spoke of assassinating President Bush and other heads of state in Genoa by using an airplane stuffed with explosives" (Martin, "US government alerted").
             During the summer before the attacks, Russian intelligence notified the CIA that twenty-five terrorist pilots had been specifically training for suicide missions. "In an interview September 15 with MSNBC, Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed that he had ordered Russian intelligence in August to warn the US government 'in the strongest possible terms' of imminent attacks on airports and government buildings" (Martin, "US government alerted").
             Mossad, Israeli's intelligence service, gave the FBI and CIA a warning in August that as many as 200 of Osama bin Laden's followers were coming to America to prepare "a major assault on the United States." The advisory spoke of a "large-scale target" in which Americans would be "very vulnerable." "The Los Angeles Times cited unnamed US officials confirming this Mossad warning had been received" (Martin, "US government alerted").
             The US government had been warned by four different countries that an attack might occur. This information alone should have been enough to investigate the matter, but the US government received other warnings as well. Two FBI reports were also given to the government. The FBI located in Phoenix, Arizona sent in a report on July 10 an...