FBI ‘ignored warnings’ on Moussaoui

AN FBI agent testified yesterday that his superiors repeatedly ignored his warnings before 9/11 that Zacarias Moussaoui might be a terrorist intent on hijacking an airliner.

Agent Harry Samit, questioned by defence attorney Edward MacMahon in Moussaoui’s death penalty trial, said he referred to Moussaoui in the context of terrorism some 70 times in communications with superiors after arresting him on August 16, 2001, but failed to get the FBI to conduct an all-out investigation.

Moussaoui is the only person charged in the US in connection with the attacks of September 11, 2001.