FBI probes advance IM warnings on attacks
IDG News Service -
The FBI is investigating whether someone with knowledge of the World Trade Center attacks sent a warning to employees of an instant messaging company two hours before terrorists crashed two commercial jetliners into the New York landmark, an Odigo Inc. executive confirmed today.
Odigo is working with the FBI to identify the sender of a message to two recipients in the company's international sales office and research-and-development office in Herzliya, Israel, Alex Diamandis, the company's vice president of sales and marketing, confirmed in an e-mail.
The message was a nonspecific threat that didn't mention the World Trade Center, Diamandis said. "It was the timing that made it unusual."
Heightened awareness of danger immediately after the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks prompted the Israeli staff to comb through server logs for the IP address of the sender. They passed the information on to Israeli security services, which then passed it on to the FBI. Diamandis wouldn't reveal details of the address or the message, citing the ongoing investigation.
Odigo's headquarters is at 11 Broadway in New York, a few blocks south of the World Trade Center complex and in the area that was blocked off for a time following the attacks.
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