(MyFoxBoston.com) -- A new report claims three people saw the 9/11 hijackers videotape security checkpoints at Logan four months before the attack. When the witnesses told Logan officials, they say their concerns went unanswered.
The New York Post is reporting that three eyewitnesses saw something and said something but were ignored. One of the eyewitnesses, according the report, was an American Airlines official and actually confronted hijacking ringleader Mohamed Atta after watching him and a friend videotape and test a security checkpoint in May 2001.
The witness alerted security, but, according to records, security never questioned Atta or flagged him as a threat. The two men then boarded an American Airlines flight to Washington D.C.
In another incident, according to records obtained by the Post, another American Airlines passenger screener told federal agents after the attacks that she had also observed Atta videotaping the main security checkpoint in May 2001.
She, too, told her supervisor, but reportedly was told it was a public area and nothing could be done about it.
Two months before these eyewitness accounts, federal authorities reportedly warned airlines, including American, that Al Qaeda terrorists typically conduct surveillance before attacking a target.
On September 11, 2001, the U.S. witnessed the worst terrorist attack on American soil.
These eyewitness accounts reportedly surfaced in a wrongful death lawsuit brought on by the family of one of the 9/11 victims, but because it was settled, the evidence never aired in open court. The testimony is expected to factor prominently in another 9/11 lawsuit that's expected to be heard next year.
Brian Sullivan, a former FAA special agent, told the New York Post that he's convinced that, had action been taken after the sighting of Atta by the American Airlines employees, the 9/11 attacks, at least at Logan, could have been deterred.
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