The U.S. National Security Agency engaged the so-called Echelon communications monitoring network, following on warnings of possible terrorist attacks, as long as three months ago, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper reported. . . .
The U.S. National Security Agency engaged the so-called Echelon communications monitoring network, following on warnings of possible terrorist attacks, as long as three months ago, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper reported.

Western and Middle East intelligence services had received warnings more than six months ago that terrorists were planning attacks using hijacked airplanes against "prominent symbols of American and Israeli culture" in the U.S. and elsewhere, the FAZ said Wednesday, citing "information available to this newspaper."

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