Iranian in Germany "Tried to Warn" U.S. of Impending Attacks

Iranian in Germany "Tried to Warn" U.S. of Impending Attacks

Deutsche Presse-Agentur
September 13, 2001

An Iranian man awaiting deportation in Germany tried to warn the United States that the terrorist attacks which shook the nation on Tuesday were about to be carried out, according to press reports.

The Hanover daily "Neue Presse", in a report published in its Friday edition, said the man, being held in detention near this northern German city, had told U.S. intelligence officials by telephone that attacks would take place this week. However, they had hung up the phone when the 29-year-old man said he was being detained.

Just hours before the kamikaze airplane attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington he had asked in vain to be allowed to send a fax to U.S. President George W. Bush.

The man had for the past month insisted that he had important information for the United States and must urgently pass it on by telephone. The German authorities had eventually allowed him to make the call, the paper wrote.

The report said that the man had been interrogated on Thursday by German and U.S. justice and intelligence officials.

There was no immediate confirmation available from the German prosecutor-general's office.

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