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America was warned of terror plans

LONDON, Sunday (AFP)

Britain's foreign intelligence service MI6 warned the United States about terrorist plans to use civilian planes in "unconventional ways" two years before the September 11 strikes, a newspaper here reported Sunday.

In 1999, MI6 handed a secret report to liaison staff at the US embassy in London after the intelligence service learned of such plans by followers of prime terror suspect Osama bin Laden, The Sunday Times said.

The information did not specify targets and would not necessarily have enabled US agencies to prevent the September 11 plane attacks on New York and Washington, the paper quoted intelligence sources as saying.

Further details of MI6's warnings are expected to emerge during secret Congressional hearings into US intelligence failures later this week in Washington, The Sunday Times said. "The Americans knew of plans to use commercial aircraft in unconventional ways, possibly as flying bombs," it quoted a senior Foreign Office source as saying.

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