Posted on 10/15/2001 1:37:20 AM PDT by TheOtherOne
Publisher's wife rented out apartment to two suspected hijackers: report
10/15/2001
Agence France-Presse
(Copyright 2001)
MIAMI, Oct 14 (AFP) - A realtor married to the editor of the Sun newspaper -- where the first in a string of anthrax cases broke out - - rented an apartment to two suspected hijackers in last month's terror attacks, the Miami Herald reported Sunday.
The revelation marks the first known link between the hijacking suspects and the anthrax outbreak, officials said.
The Herald reported that the wife of Sun editor Michael Irish rented out an apartment in nearnby Delray Beach apartment to alleged hijackers Marwan Alshehhi and Saeed Alghamdi.
Alshehhi was aboard United Flight 175, the second jet to strike the World Trade Center.
Alghamdi was on United Flight 93, which crashed 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh when passengers thwarted an attempt to target another building.
"There is now a link between the editor's wife and the terrorists," said FBI spokeswoman Judy Orihuela.
Orihuela said the FBI wasn't drawing immediate conclusions about the connection.
"Right now it looks like a coincidence," Orihuela said from outside the Boca Raton headquarters of American Media Incorporated (AMI), the Sun tabloid's parent company.
"We are not searching the apartment at this time. We are focusing on this building."
The Sun employed photo editor Bob Stevens, who died earlier this month from inhalation anthrax . Two other AMI employees were exposed, and five more are being retested to confirm positive blood test results.
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What's wrong with this picture?
1) Shouldn't they have searched the apartment already?
2) If so, I wouldn't want to be one of the investigators who did the search!!!
Confirming a clear link between the terrorists targeting America and the South Florida company hit by anthrax cases, the FBI said Sunday that the Sun tabloid editor's wife rented a Delray Beach apartment to two of the hijackers.
The Sun is part of the American Media Inc. tabloid chain, and it employed photo editor Bob Stevens, who died this month from inhalation anthrax. Two other AMI employees were exposed, and five more are being retested to confirm positive blood test results.
Sun editor Michael Irish's wife, Gloria, rented unit 1504 at the Delray Racquet Club to Marwan Alshehhi and Saeed Alghamdi this summer, said FBI spokeswoman Judy Orihuela.
Alshehhi was aboard United Airlines Flight 175, the second jet to strike the World Trade Center. Alghamdi was on United Flight 93, which crashed 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh when passengers apparently thwarted an attempt to target another building.
"There is now a link between the editor's wife and the terrorists," Orihuela said. "It's just a coincidence right now," Orihuela said. "I'm sure there will be some sort of follow-up."
"We are not searching the apartment at this time," Orihuela said from outside the tabloid's Boca Raton headquarters. "We are focusing on this building."
The Delray apartment is central to a massive federal investigation into the terrorist attacks. Investigators trying to piece the puzzle together created a diagram that includes photos of the 19 hijackers who seized control of four airplanes on Sept. 11.
At the center of the diagram, which was obtained by the Miami Herald: an image of a house with the address 755 Dotterel Road. Arrows connect nine of the hijackers to the icon.
Two terrorists, Alshehhi and Alghamdi, rented the apartment in Delray Beach just north of Boca Raton, the FBI said. The other seven, including suspected ringleader Mohamed Atta, are connected because they visited the apartment or otherwise had a direct tie to the inhabitants, a federal official familiar with the investigation told the Miami Herald.
Previously, only Saeed Alghamdi and another terrorist, Ahmed Alnami, both aboard United Flight 93, had been connected to the Delray Racquet Club apartment.
It is clear that the apartment was a meeting ground for terrorists, authorities say. Now they must determine whether unit 1504 was also a hatching ground for the anthrax attacks.
Gloria Irish, the wife of tabloid editor Michael Irish, was approached by reporters Sunday afternoon while walking her black Labrador retriever outside her Delray Beach home.
"I can't believe you people," said Irish, who works for Pelican Properties. "We are not making any comments."
Mike Irish, who, records show, is a licensed airplane pilot, several years ago was a member of the Civil Air Patrol based at a small-plane airport in Lantana, just north of Delray Beach, an official there told the Washington Post. One of the hijackers, Atta, reportedly rented a plane at that airport to practice flying for three days in August. Stevens, the Sun photo editor who died of anthrax Oct. 5, also lives in Lantana. But there is no indication whether Irish or Stevens ever crossed paths with Atta.
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suspected hijackers ............Miami Herald reported......
hijacking suspects..............alleged hijackers .........
Who's F*'d up here? the French or the Miami Herald?
Has this made the national news?
The only way I can accept this is to think that our government is trying to not pat the terrorist on the back by giving them lots of media coverage. We all know it's linked. May be our loving and caring government is trying to not encourage copy-cat Islamics and not reward the terrorist with free advertizing.
This makes possible a scenario where the Feds consider the truth TOO HORRIBLE for the American people to handle.
You are the first person in fifty years to die of anthrax. That's the first person in one and a half generations, or a 1 in 371 million chance. Add to this you have some connection with one of the twenty hijackers. Say everyone has business connections with a thousand people. That's a 1 in 13,000 chance, to deal with one. Factor these two together and you have a 1 in 4.8 trillion chance of this happening to you.
Quite a coincidence!
Once the link is established (publicly - it is already clear to everyone outside the FBI), the use of binary nerve gasses and other materials should be authorized for clearing the Afghani caves and bunkers. It is a longstanding doctrine that we can and will respond in kind to CBN attacks and that policy must be carried through if it to have any credibility at all.
You ask a good question--what's wrong with this picture--regarding the information in this article. I can't for the life of me understand why they would not want to look more closely at that apartment. Plus, I'd like to know what was written in the "threatening letters" that accompanied the anthrax.
Sounds like the Condidit excuse....they going to wait untill a whole bunch of people get infected ...?
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