U.S. learns of terrorist plans; analyst quits over Cole warning. “During a hearing on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, senators said that a Pentagon intelligence expert on terrorism in the Persian Gulf warned of

possible terrorist attacks on U.S. forces there before the bombing of the USS Cole, but that higher-ups failed to pass the information to military

commanders.

The intelligence official, whose name was not disclosed, resigned in protest the day after the Cole attack.” Nando Times