Posted on 05/05/2023 7:29:09 AM PDT by Twotone
LIKE MANY GREAT SPY STORIES, this one begins with a brief, mundane scene whose significance only becomes apparent later on. Around lunchtime on February 1, 2000, a man dropped a piece of paper near a table in a Middle Eastern restaurant outside Los Angeles and paused long enough to strike up a conversation with two Arabic-speaking men dining nearby. It would take FBI agents nearly 20 years to understand the full meaning of that small event.
The man who dropped the piece of paper was Omar al-Bayoumi, a Saudi intelligence asset, recently declassified FBI documents show. And the two Arabic-speaking men with whom he struck up a conversation with were Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar, the first two future 9/11 hijackers to arrive in the United States. Was this meeting, as the alleged agent later claimed to investigators, mere happenstance? Or was it an intelligence operation being conducted on U.S. soil? It was an intelligence operation, according to a previously-unreported court filing SpyTalk has obtained that corroborates and expands our understanding of this extraordinary meeting, which took place just as the 9/11 plot was taking shape.
The court filing details a five-year inquiry by an investigator for the Guantanamo Military Commission into whether the meeting at the Mediterranean Gourmet restaurant was an operation that involved not only Saudi agents but CIA officers as well.
The theory that the CIA had launched a failed effort to recruit the hijackers through the Saudis has been around for years, and was always circumstantial at best, but the document obtained by SpyTalk reveals there is more evidence to support it. One former FBI agent claimed to the investigator that the CIA possesses top secret “operational” files and a “paper trail” about the Saudi spy who met the hijackers that are still being suppressed.
(Excerpt) Read more at spytalk.co ...
Umm, after all the lies and obvious corruption of all but the bottommost levels of the FBI, we are supposed to believe this drivel? Please, Kabuki.
There comes a point where systematic arrogance and incompetence becomes indistinguishable from deliberate malfeasance. Since the former is a far more frequent occurrence than the latter, it is more probable in this case as in many others.
Is this what they are calling the terrorists' defense attorney this time?
Biden Demanded $200M ‘No Strings’ Gift for Iran Right after 9/11, Report Shows
NN ^ | 05-12-21 | Jay Greenberg
Posted on 5/12/2021, 2:22:09 PM by McQ444
Shortly after Islamists attacked America on 9/11, then-Senator Joe Biden demanded that the United States should send a taxpayer-funded, “no strings attached” gift of $200 million to the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bombshell report has revealed. In the weeks following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Biden reportedly said that “this would be a good time” to hand over a huge chunk of tax dollars to the Iranian regime while America was in mourning.
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It was “the Wall” Jamie Gorelick constructed between FBI and CIA to keep them from sharing information they had about Clinton in USSR.
You either forgot your < /sarc > tag or are sorely misinformed.
The author, Seth Hettena,formerly wrote for Rolling Stone.
put their lives at risk, and the lives of their families,” said James W. Hutton, an attorney for the SEALs who filed the complaint in the Superior Court of San Diego.
AP insisted yesterday that there had been no wrongdoing.
“We believe AP’s use of the photos and the manner in which they were obtained were entirely lawful and proper,” said Dave Tomlin, assistant general counsel for the organization.
Mr. Hutton takes issue with AP’s implication that the SEAL photos were on par with pictures showing ill treatment of prisoners by U.S. Army personnel in Iraq’s Abu Ghraib facility.
“These photos do not show any prisoner abuse,” Mr. Hutton said, but depict “standard procedures during covert actions.”
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“The SEAL photos had obscured the faces of the insurgents. But when the AP published them, they did not bother to obscure the faces of the SEALs. They did not give the Americans the same respect as the insurgents.
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You do know that most people now understand there were no hijackers and planes didn’t hit the buildings. Not you but most people. 😉
Yes, sadly the normies always go with the head fake. 😏
No, I don't know (personally, face to face) anyone who now "understands" that story. Or even considers it possible. We saw the planes, we heard the phone calls from passengers, we got the info on the Muslim flight students who were learning to fly but not to land. Four planeloads of people don't just disappear, and fragments of four planes don't pop up at sites of destruction unless planes were involved.
Show me some evidence that there were no hijackers and no planes.
Normies? You mean NORMAL INDIVIDUALS?
Normal is a new “N” word, because it triggers those who are NOT.
That’s just idiocy.
The Patriot Act is working as intended - it restricts the rights of dangerous patriots.
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