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Israelis warned of 9/11 attack

 

 

For some strange reason, the following story keeps reappearing in one of Israel's leading daily newspapers. Perhaps it knows something the rest of us don't. In any event, it was conspicuously omitted in the recently released commission report on 9/11.

 

Odigo says workers were warned of attack
Ha'aretz  Saturday, July 31, 2004 / Av 13, 5764

By YUDAL DROR

JERUSALEM—Odigo, the instant messaging service, says that two of its workers received messages two hours before the Twin Towers attack on September 11 predicting the attack would happen, and the company has been cooperating with Israeli and American law enforcement, including the FBI, in trying to find the original sender of the message predicting the attack.

Micha Macover, CEO of the company, said the two workers received the messages and immediately after the terror attack informed the company's management, which immediately contacted the Israeli security services, which brought in the FBI.

"I have no idea why the message was sent to these two workers, who don't know the sender. It may just have been someone who was joking and turned out they accidentally got it right. And I don't know if our information was useful in any of the arrests the FBI has made,"said Macover. Odigo is a U.S.-based company whose headquarters are in New York, with offices in Herzliya.