The terrorist attack on September 11, 2001 could be prevented on the condition of cooperation of the services of intelligence countries in the world. This was stated by the former head of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI-6) John Soehers, reports RIA Novosti.
According to him, after a terrorist attack committed to the World Trade Center, the security and intelligence services of the world began to share information with each other. He noted that if only close partner states were exchanged integrated, now the situation has changed in favor of greater openness.
“If cooperation in the field of intelligence was established and efforts to combat terrorism were combined, which we developed for two decades after September 11, 2001, the September 11 terrorist attacks would be intercepted, they would not have happened,” Soehers emphasized.
According to the ex-head of intelligence, the number of prevented terrorist attacks is ten times higher than the number of perfect. “The campaign to combat terrorism goes into a new phase: the intelligence and safety services have literally thousands of people who need to follow,” he concluded.
On September 5, 2019, it became known that Russian President Vladimir Putin a few days before the terrorist attack warned the former American president George Bush Jr. about a possible attack. This was stated by the diplomat George Bibi, the former Chief Analyst of the Central Intelligence Department (CIA) of the United States in Russia. According to him, Putin called Bush, as Russian intelligence “revealed signs of an impending terrorist campaign.”