FederalAviationAdministration officials received 52 warnings prior to Sept. 11,2001, fromtheir own security experts about potential al-Qaida attacks, includingsomethat mentioned airline hijackings or suicide attacks, The New York Timesreported.

heTimes said in Thursday editions that a previously undisclosedreport by the9/11 commission that investigated the suicide airliner attackson the WorldTrade Center and the Pentagon detailed warnings given to FAAleaders fromApril to Sept. 10, 2001, about the radical Islamic terroristgroup and itsleader, Osama bin Laden.

The commission report, writtenlast August,said five security warnings mentioned al-Qaida’s training forhijackings andtwo reports concerned suicide operations not connected toaviation.