Ex-curry waiter's Sept 11 tip-off 'too fantastic':

"Eighteen months before the attack on the Twin Towers the former curry waiter from Burnley entered an FBI office in New Jersey and told startled agents he had been trained to hijack a plane and fly it into a building.

His tale of al-Qa'eda training camps equipped with mock Boeing aircraft was carefully noted by two FBI counter-terrorism experts, and filed away.

Though he passed two lie detector tests, his allegations were ignored as too fantastic to be believed."