September 11th was by far the largest intelligence failure in United States history. In 1996, the Philippines warned the FBI of terrorists thinking about taking flight school. Later that year, Somalia offered to turn Osama Bin Laden over to Saudi Arabian authorities, but they declined and he got off scott-free. In January of 2000, at the terrorist summit in Malaysia, the CIA scopes out two men who have airplane tickets to the United States. They contact the …showed first 75 words of 291 total…

…showed last 75 words of 291 total…encrypted message from Saudi Arabia to Afghanistan saying, “Tomorrow is zero hour,” and “Tomorrow, it begins.” It took two days to decode the message but it was too late. The United States had all of the pieces to the jig saw puzzle of a plan when it cam to stopping the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. They just never put them together, thus causing the largest intelligence failure ever, and the loss of thousands of lives