Spain links Syrian cabal to Sept. 11 plot--Prosecutors follow the money trail

Zouaydi is starting the last year of a 9 year sentence. In Bill Ayers words, in a year he’ll be free as a bird. Only in his early 50s, and I suspect still not only rich but able to reactivate his old connections.

thank you

Yep... the al Jazeera reporter who was enabling the hijackers is out already.

Maybe he can get a job on Current TV. Al-Thanni, al-Azzam, al-Gore, what's the difference.

Not one of the dozen key defendants named here last month [Sept 2003] as members or supporters of an alleged Madrid-based cell accused of working for Al Qaeda and helping advance the Sept. 11 plot is a native of Spain, or even nearby Muslim North Africa.
Instead, all migrated to Spain from Syria, where--according to the Spanish indictment--most became affiliated with an ultramilitant Islamic group called the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood.
Virtually from the moment of the Sept. 11 attacks, investigators in Europe and the U.S. were perplexed by what appeared to be a Syrian connection to the hijackings, both here and in Hamburg, Germany, whose university campuses produced three of the four Sept. 11 pilots and several accused or convicted accomplices.

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Because if you had bothered to read this article, you would see that your statement is wrong and the fingers point elsewhere. You are actually way off target.

And it gets worse :

November 2005 : (LONDON, UK : FORMER RUSSIAN KGB AGENT ALEXANDER LITVINENKO MAKES AN AUDIO RECORDING IN WHICH HE DISCLOSES THAT HE HAS BEEN THREATENED BY RUSSIA FOR BELONGING TO A COMMISSION PROBING SOVIET LINKS TO ITALIAN POLITICIANS ) A tape apparently recorded by ... Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko a year before he was poisoned [poisoning was in Nov 2006] has revealed he was digging up links between Vladimir Putin and one of the world’s most dangerous terrorists....
A Telegraph investigation uncovered the audio recording, in which the dissident claims ... that Russia’s president had a “good relationship” with Semion Mogilevich - a Ukrainian crime boss who was on the FBI’s most wanted list and whom Mr Litvinenko believed was selling weapons to al-Qaeda.....
In the tape, made in November 2005 in the same London sushi restaurant where Mr Litvinenko held one of his final meetings, he also connects Russia’s foreign intelligence and state security services – the SVR and FSB - with a former KGB agent whom he believed had links to al-Qaeda....
And in an early indication of his fears of the Kremlin, Mr Litvinenko discloses in broken English that Russia had threatened him for working with a commission probing alleged Soviet links with Italian politicians. He says Russian special services were “very afraid” of the commission’s work.
.-— Is this Alexander Litvinenko’s beyond the grave attack on Putin?, Telegraph UK, January 23, 2015, by Lyndsey Telford, Edward Malnick and Claire Newell

Because if you had bothered to read this article, you would see that your statement is wrong and the fingers point elsewhere. You are actually way off target.

And it gets worse :

November 2005 : (LONDON, UK : FORMER RUSSIAN KGB AGENT ALEXANDER LITVINENKO MAKES AN AUDIO RECORDING IN WHICH HE DISCLOSES THAT HE HAS BEEN THREATENED BY RUSSIA FOR BELONGING TO A COMMISSION PROBING SOVIET LINKS TO ITALIAN POLITICIANS ) A tape apparently recorded by ... Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko a year before he was poisoned [poisoning was in Nov 2006] has revealed he was digging up links between Vladimir Putin and one of the world’s most dangerous terrorists....
A Telegraph investigation uncovered the audio recording, in which the dissident claims ... that Russia’s president had a “good relationship” with Semion Mogilevich - a Ukrainian crime boss who was on the FBI’s most wanted list and whom Mr Litvinenko believed was selling weapons to al-Qaeda.....
In the tape, made in November 2005 in the same London sushi restaurant where Mr Litvinenko held one of his final meetings, he also connects Russia’s foreign intelligence and state security services – the SVR and FSB - with a former KGB agent whom he believed had links to al-Qaeda....
And in an early indication of his fears of the Kremlin, Mr Litvinenko discloses in broken English that Russia had threatened him for working with a commission probing alleged Soviet links with Italian politicians. He says Russian special services were “very afraid” of the commission’s work.
.-— Is this Alexander Litvinenko’s beyond the grave attack on Putin?, Telegraph UK, January 23, 2015, by Lyndsey Telford, Edward Malnick and Claire Newell
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A. Litvinenko: “Certainly, here it is. The number two person in the terrorist organization al Qaeda, who they are crediting with the series of explosions in London, Ayman al-Zawahiri, is an old agent of the FSB. Being sentenced to death in Egypt for terrorism and hunted by Interpol, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in 1998, was in the territory of Dagestan, where for half a year he received special training at one of the educational bases of the FSB. After this training he was transferred to Afghanistan, where he had never been before and where, following the recommendation of his Lubyanka chiefs, he at once ... penetrated the milieu of bin Laden and soon became his assistant in al Qaeda.”

Given that in 2024 &2025 Hamas and Hezbolla leaders were still flying to Moscow, I don’t think there groups went “independent.”