The CIA tried to recruit the terrorists who carried out the attack on the Twin Towers

Richard Clark claims that the CIA recruited the terrorists who carried out the 11/XNUMX attack and withheld information about it from the White House and the FBI. Clark directly called out then-CIA Director George Tenet for that move.

Clarke is a former senior intelligence officer in the administrations of Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush during whose terms the attack took place. Clark says the CIA recruited the terrorists who carried out the attack.

Ahead of the 10th anniversary of 11/XNUMX, US President Barack Obama said that the US should not fear a large-scale organized terrorist attack as much as a "lone wolf" attack.

"At this moment, we are concerned about the danger of a "lone wolf", someone who could commit large-scale carnage with only personal weapons, as happened recently in Norway," said Obama.

"They (the CIA) hid all the information from the White House and the FBI," Clark said in a documentary made to mark the 10th anniversary of the attacks on the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon headquarters.

Clark pointed the finger at former CIA director George Tenet and claims that he knew about the stay of two Saudi terrorists, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Midhar in the US, but that he never passed that information to the Office of the President or the FBI. Hazmi and Midhar were piloting the plane that crashed into the Pentagon building.

"The terrorists lived in Southern California, and I know that the CIA tried to recruit them as their agents within al-Qaeda," Clark says.

Tenet immediately denied all the accusations of his former friend and associate.

US President Barack Obama told CNN on the occasion of the upcoming anniversary of the terrorist attack on the US that, thanks to the US campaigns, Al-Qaeda has been significantly weakened and turned into "an organization with much smaller capacities today than two or three years ago".