FBI Allowed 1993 WTC Bombing -
Could Have Prevented It
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From Los Angeles Times
October 28, 1993
9-23-1
- Paper Says FBI Blocked Plan To Foil N.Y. Blast
- NEW YORK (Reuters) - Law enforcement offlcials planned to thwart the bombing of the World Trade Center by substituting harmless powder for explosives, but the scheme was called off by the FBl, a newspaper reported today.
- Tape recordings secretly made by an FBI informer reveal that authorities were in a far better position than previously known to foil the Feb. 26 bombing of New York's tallest towers, the New York Times reported.
- Four men are now on trial for carrying out that bombing, in which six died and more than 1,000 were injured.
- The New York Times published conversations the informer, a 43 year-old former Egyptian army officer, Emad Ali Salem, taped with his FBI handlers.
- On the tapes, Salem recalls that the FBI had planned on "building the bomb with a phony powder and grabbing the people who were involved in it."
- But the informer. who is heard lecturing his handlers, said the powder scheme was called off and "we didn't do that."
- Salem also is heard on the tapes criticizing the agents for ignoring his warnings that the World Trade Center was to be bombed.
- "Guys, now you saw this bomb went off and you both
know that we could avoid that," the newspaper quoted him as
saying.
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