” ‘Osama bin Laden warned three weeks ago [late August 2001] that he would attack American interests in an unprecedented attack, a very big one,’ said Abdel-Bari Atwan, editor of the London-based al-Quds al-Arabi, an Arabic-language weekly news magazine. ‘Personally, we received information that he planned very, very big attacks against American interests. We received several warnings like this. We did not take it so seriously, preferring to see what would happen before reporting it.’ “ [The 25th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]
– David Ruppe, “Who Did It? U.S. Searches for Terror Clues; Analysts See Signs of Osama Bin Laden,” ABC News, Sep. 11, 2001