WASHINGTON, June 1: Federal Bureau of Investigation officials rejected an informant’s offer to infiltrate an Al Qaeda training camp in the months before deadly Sept 11 suicide attacks, a US news weekly reported on Friday.
Counterterrorism officials at FBI headquarters rejected the offer made to a special agent in an unidentified field office, US News and World Report said in the edition due to go on sale on Monday, citing two unnamed sources with knowledge of the events.
As a result, the informant did not travel to Afghanistan, where the camp was located, and the FBI did not assess whether his information was accurate, the news weekly said.
The report is the latest in a series of revelations in recent weeks indicating information which could have led to knowledge of the attacks with hijacked airliners was available, but FBI officials either ignored, missed or supressed the clues.—AFP
