The FBI has confirmed that it failed to act on a tip from a British man a year before Sept. 11 that Al Qaida was planning a large-scale attack in the U.S. The 29-year-old man approached the FBI in Newark NJ and told them he had been trained as a hijacker for Osama Bin Laden and had been taught the layout of the cockpit on a Boeing commercial plane. After questioning, the FBI allowed him to leave the country voluntarily. And according to the Independent of London no action was taken beyond placing his name on a no-fly list. The FBI claims it couldn’t substantiate his claims even though he passed a lie detector test. It wasn’t until after Sept. 11, 2001 that U.S. officials tried to contact him again.