Russian President Vladimir Putin had warned his US counterpart George W.Bush about an imminent terrorist threat two days before the 9/11 attackstook place, a former CIA analyst has reportedly revealed.
The warning is mentioned by George Beebee, a senior Bush-era CIA analyst,in his book titled “The Russia Trap: How Our Shadow War with Russia CouldSpiral into Nuclear Catastrophe,” which was released earlier this week,according to RT.
“Putin had telephoned President Bush two days before the attacks to warnthat Russian intelligence has detected signs of an incipient terroristcampaign, ‘something long in preparation,’ coming out of Afghanistan,”reads part of the book.
Although Moscow’s warning to Washington has been public knowledge for yearsas top Russian intelligence officials talked about them shortly after theincident, Beebee suggested Bush had been warned by Putin personally meaningthat it was not just limited to exchange between the intelligence agencies.
The September, 11, 2001 attacks, also known as the 9/11 attackslink, were a series of strikes in the US which killednearly 3,000 people and caused about $10 billion worth of property andinfrastructure damage.
US officials assert that the attacks were carried out by 19 al-Qaedaterrorists but many experts have raised questions about the officialaccount.
They believe that rogue elements within the US government, such as formerVice President Dick Cheney, orchestrated or at least encouraged the 9/11attacks in order to accelerate the US war machine and advance the Zionistagenda.[image: PressTV-Debate: 14th anniversary of 9/11 attacks]link
In addition to Russia, Britain’s intelligence service and that of theUnited States itself had also warned of such an incident, however, itremains a mystery whether the White House heeded those warnings and didanything to prevent it.
Condoleezza Rice, then national security adviser and later secretary ofstate, also hinted at the mindset of the White House officials at the timein her memoirs.
In ‘No Higher Honor,’ Rice did say that she had ignored an earlier warningfrom Putin about Saudi-funded extremists in Pakistan that the Russianpresident then said would cause a “major catastrophe.”
Rice wrote, after dismissing the warning, she “chalked it up to Russianbitterness toward Pakistan for supporting the Afghan mujahideen” fightersduring the Soviet Union’s war in Afghanistanlink.
A special review commission on 9/11 has found that disagreements stillpersist within the FBI over whether there was a broader conspiracy in theUS to carry out the 2001 attacks.
Former al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden eluded US authorities for years inthe wake of the attacks, but US Special Forces finally got a hold of himand killed him in 2011, during a raid in Pakistan.