America warned two years ago over September 11: Report

Britain's foreign intelligence service MI6 warned the United States about terrorist plans to use civilian planes in "unconventional ways" two years before the September 11 strikes, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
In 1999, MI6 handed a secret report to liason staff at the US embassy in London after the intelligence service learned of such plans by followers of prime terror suspect Osama bin Laden, The Sunday Times said.

The information did not specify targets and would not necessarily have enabled US agencies to prevent the September 11 plane attacks on New York and Washington, the paper quoted intelligence sources as saying.

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have been sharply criticised for intelligence failures ahead of September 11, when hijacked planes were steered into the World Trade Center and Pentagon with the loss of some 3,000 lives.