9/11 families: 'They all let us down'

Testimony about missed clues tough for families to hear
Friday, March 24, 2006; Posted: 4:26 p.m. EST (21:26 GMT)

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (AP) -- Geraldine Davie fought back tears as she talked of her deep frustration about the U.S. government's failure to act on repeated warnings before the September 11 terrorist attack that killed her 22-year-old daughter at the World Trade Center.

"They all let us down," Davie said last week, voicing a sentiment shared by many of the victims' family members who are monitoring the sentencing trial of admitted al Qaeda member Zacarias Moussaoui.

Davie and other family members of September 11 victims heard the FBI agent who arrested the 37-year-old Frenchman testify that he spent four weeks trying to warn his bosses in Washington about the radical Islamic student pilot.

FBI agent Harry Samit said resistance to his efforts to thoroughly investigate Moussaoui blocked "a serious opportunity to stop the 9/11 attacks."

The court proceedings have been painful for victims' family members.

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