Odigo says workers were warned of attack (two hours before 9/11)

[9215]

There seemed to be quite a bit of interest in this topic at LBN.


http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=77744
Odigo says workers were warned of attack
By Yuval Dror <mailto:[e-mail] >
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.
.........Odigo usually zealously protects the privacy of its registered users, said Macover, but in this case the company took the initiative to provide the law enforcement services with the originating Internet Presence address of the message, so the FBI could track down the Internet Service Provider, and the actual sender of the original message. ......more

[maddezmom]

1. this is the first I've heard of this

has the mainstream press reported on it at all?

[M0rpheus]

6. It's been out there for a while...

http://www.atnewyork.com/news/article.php/8471_893851
http://www.newsmax.com/showinside.shtml?a=2001/10/3/204153



http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/WTC_Investigation010927.html
"According to Alex Diamandis, the vice president of sales and marketing for Odigo, two messages were received by a pair of employees at the U.S.-based company roughly two hours before the terrorist attack. Diamandis said the messages warned that "something bad is going to happen in two hours," but made no reference to the twin towers, New York or any specific location. "

[shanti]

8. yes, it HAS been out there for awhile

but the dam has broken and everything's up for grabs now! isn't it great?

[maddezmom]

10. thanks for the links

[NNN0LHI]

2. Please. No more of this Odigo stuff

We have been down this road many times before. I feel like I am in the Twilight Zone. I am not telling you what to post or not to post. I am just begging you to give it a rest for a little while. Peace.

Don

[alarcojon]

4. Could you give me a link

as to why you feel this story is worthless? I would like to see both sides. I have never heard any of this before.

[9215]

13. This may be it:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=460829&mesg_id=460829

[shanti]

9. why do you say this?

...guess you're not a LIHOP'er, eh?

[9215]

11. ..................

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[David__77]

3. I haven't heard this before.

Interesting.

[Nlighten1]

5. Funny...they have had 3 years to find this user...

what is taking them so long?

[9215]

7. Apparently Wash Post reported this too.

Apparently this was also reported in the Washington Post

http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/a048.htm

.......More serious was an article in the Sept. 28, 2001 edition of the Washington Post stating that officials with the instant messaging firm of Odigo in New York confirmed that two employees in Israel received text messages warning of an attack on the WTC two hours before the planes crashed into the buildings!
The firm's vice president of sales and marketing, Alex Diamandis said it was possible that the warning was sent to other Odigo members, but they had not received any reports of such.
The day after, the Jerusalem Post claimed two Israelis died on the hijacked airplanes and that 4,000 were missing at the WTC.
A week later, a Beirut television station reported that 4,000 Israeli employees of the WTC were absent the day of the attack.
This information spread across the Internet but was quickly branded a hoax.
On Sept. 19, the Washington Post reported about 113 Israelis were missing at the WTC and the next day, President Bush noted more than 130 Israelis were victims.
Finally, on Sept. 22, the New York Times stated "There were, in fact, only three Israelis who had been confirmed as dead: two on the planes and another who had been visiting the towers on business and who was identified and buried.".......

[9215]

12. All 9/11 Airports Serviced by ONE Israeli Company!

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/ICTS.html

ALL 9-11 AIRPORTS SERVICED
BY ONE ISRAELI OWNED COMPANY

It's one of those times when an innocuous comment in an unrelated news report triggers a revelation. In the article at <http://afrocubaweb.com/news/israelispying.htm> there is the following paragraph:
To make the situation worse, a private security company called ICTS, owned by an Israeli, Ezra Harel, and registered in the Netherlands, was employed at Charles de Gaulle airport to screen passengers boarding US planes. Most of its personnel are ex-Shin Bet officers. The company covers security at Boston’s Logan airport, where the American Airlines plane came down after flight attendants and passengers overpowered Reid.
The point of the article was that ICTS knew Reid was dangerous, but allowed him on board a flight from Tel Aviv to Paris. Maybe they did and maybe they didn't. But the idea that an Israeli owned company had inside access to the airport used to launch an abortive terror attack brought to mind the strange message Odigo Systems, another Israeli owned company with offices near the World Trade Towers, received that warned of the impending attacks before the hijacked planes had even left the ground.
So, I went back to another story that had surfaced briefly, reported at www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26626 <http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26626> about how at least one hijacker had smuggled a GUN aboard one of the hijacked planes. Even prior to 9-11, getting a gun on board a passenger plane represented a serious lapse of security. I wondered why this story of a gun was being concealed behind talk of box cutters and screwdrivers. Then I went back to the first article and its mention that ICTS handled security at Logan International Airport, from which two of the 9-11 hijacked planes had departed. <http://afrocubaweb.com/news/israelispying.htm> Sure enough, a visit to ICTS' own web site at <http://www.icts-int.com/> confirms that ICTS is in fact an Israeli owned company, and that it sells services to every airport from which the hijacked planes operated, including security, sometimes through wholly owned subsidiaries like Huntleigh USA Corporation <http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:m3ZqXvCFSroC:www.union-network.org/uniproperty.nsf/1667988b5e105a37c1256b3c0049ef61/4c6f0ba768119014c1256af500217f48%3FOpenDocument+ICTS+security+Newark&hl=en&start=1>. It has been suggested that the incredible feat of hijacking four aircraft without a single arrest at the gate would require the resources of a nation-state. This is even more true with the revelation that at least one gun had managed to be aboard a hijacked plane. One company had automatic inside access to all of the airports from which hijacked planes departed on 9-11, and to the airports used by Richard Reid, the shoe bomber. An Israeli company. One that Mossad agents could easily find employment with without the management knowing who they were or what their purpose really was. But one thing is clear. By virtue of the Odigo warning, someone knew enough about the planned attacks to warn Odigo before the planes had even departed the airport gates, yet they did not call the Israeli security company at the airports which could have stopped the flights from leaving.