Wednesday, June 02, 2004
DAILY MAIL (London) May 27, 2004: Niaz Khan... the diminutive Briton who is making the extraordinary claim that he warned about the attacks on New York's Twin Towers 18 months before they actually took place on September 11, 2001.
The former curry house waiter claims he alerted American and British officials to the Al Qaeda plot.
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A report seen by this newspaper and prepared for a powerful U.S. security committee into the tragedy confirms that Khan contacted counter-terrorism officers at the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Newark, New Jersey, as early as April 2000.
He was grilled for three weeks and twice passed a lie detector test...
Khan was simply shipped back to Britain, where our intelligence services also discounted his warning of Bin Laden's air hijack plot.
Now Khan has been approached by lawyers for the families of the 9/11 victims who say his revelations may prove that Al Qaeda's terrorist attacks on the U.S. could have been prevented.
One American attorney, Michael Bryant, acting for a group of bereaved families, said this week: 'If this man informed America before 9/11 that there was a terror plot to fly planes into buildings, we want to speak with him.
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