9-11 'hijacker' told all, FBI didn't believe him

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | May 12, 2004 | Times of London

[TeleStraightShooter]

A British Muslim trained to be a 9-11 hijacker told an FBI counterterrorism taskforce in 2000 of a plot by terrorists to fly passengers planes into buildings, but the agents did not believe him.

The 29-year-old al-Qaida recruit – interrogated for three weeks in Newark, N.J. – passed a lie detector test, the Times of London reported.

The man, whose name was withheld by the paper because of threats from militants, was a waiter in a curry restaurant in Manchester, England.

He was lured by al-Qaida at a mosque in Oldham, England, and attended a terrorist training school in Pakistan.

The interrogation came after the man had second thoughts about his suicide mission and surrendered to police, the Times said.

He had gambled away thousands of British pounds given to him by al-Qaida, reported the paper.

At that time, 18 months before the 9-11 attack, other hijackers were entering the United States and enrolling at flight schools.

The story arose from inquiries by the U.S. independent 9-11 commission examining the attacks, which has led to a reopening of the case.

The man was brought back to Britain in 2000 by two FBI agents and handed to British security officials at London's Heathrow airport. He was questioned by Special Branch, the arm of British Police that deals with national security matters.

The FBI, which wants the man to be a witness in its investigation, has criticized British authorities for ignoring a request to find him after Sept. 11, but Special Branch officers claim they went back to him and took "appropriate action," the Times said.

The man was born in Britain but grew up in Pakistan before returning to Oldham at 16. He ran up huge debts gambling, the Times said, at the time a recruiter approached him at his local mosque, offering money for "a job."

He accepted.

"If your life has no color and a mullah says you can be a hero by dying, why not?" he said, according to the Times. "I think there are a lot of frustrated Muslim youths in Britain who feel the same way."

In Lahore, Pakistan, he was trained in hijacking and became familiar with a Boeing cockpit.

"I knew they wanted me to do some kind of operation in which I would die but my life was such a mess that in my mind I was already dead," he said, according to the London paper.

"At that time if they had told me to strap a bomb to my body and blow myself up I would have done it as easily as taking a glass of water to drink."

He returned to Britian, where he was given 5,000 pounds, then was sent to New York where he was to meet an operative at the airport.

In the meantime, however, he married and had a baby.

On the flight to New York, thoughts of his family changed his mind and he decided instead to slip away to Atlantic City, N.J., where he lost his money in casinos then turned himself in.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Talk about "out of the blue"

[sixmil]

There's no way we could have prevented 9/11.^TM

[sixmil]

P.S. Islam is peace.^TM

[Lancey Howard]

A British Muslim trained to be a 9-11 hijacker told an FBI counterterrorism taskforce in 2000 of a plot by terrorists to fly passengers planes into buildings, but the agents did not believe him.

Hmmmm.... Can't blame Bush. This story is going nowhere.

[ScaniaBoy]

So, this happened on Clinton's (and Clarke's) watch.

It is a must for the 911 commission to investigate if there where any communications between FBI and CIA in this case, and if there weren't was this due to the stringent rules regarding collaboration between national security and law enforcement agencies - the Gorlick Wall.

[ScaniaBoy]

....and, no, I'm not going to old my breath on this :)

[GottaLuvAkitas1]

"Can't blame Bush. This story is going nowhere"

LOL you got that right.

Thanks Gore for dragging out the 200 election. LOL

[TeleStraightShooter]

The Gorlick Wall

We have a Winner!

[The KG9 Kid]

"If your life has no color and a mullah says you can be a hero by dying, why not? ... At that time if they had told me to strap a bomb to my body and blow myself up I would have done it as easily as taking a glass of water to drink."

Islam is the Manson Family on a global scale.

[Tunehead54]

Bookmark bump - way too late. Nite Nite. ;-)

[norton]

"...passed a lie detector test, the Times of London reported."

The first means nothing, the second I can't comment on.

[Grampa Dave]

Lets see the year 2000 was when the last recession started, our stock markets fell by about 30 to 40% and Gorelick's Wall prevented any possible way of preventing 9/11.

Tell us Straight Shooter, who was the president in 2000?

Who was the chief law enforcement officer, (The Attorney General)?

[ScaniaBoy]

You might have seen this previously - was published in The Sunday Times. If not: PING!

ScaniaBoy

[ntnychik]

Ping

[Allan]

ping

[TeleStraightShooter]

Tell us Straight Shooter, who was the president in 2000?
Gladly I will Gramps from Oregon: If memory serves me correctly, it was that hillbilly-whore-hopper Billy Jeff!

Who was the chief law enforcement officer, (The Attorney General)?
Reno, & her activist underling Gorelick {who sits on the partisan 9/11 committe} helped re-enforce the wall of seperation between the FBI & the CIA....

[Grampa Dave]

Son! You get an A+++++++!

Thank you and good night.

PS: How will ABCNNBC BS = The FRAUDCASTERS try to blame GW for this?

Thanks again!

[devolve]

Blurring the timeline.

[Nick Danger]

I am sick and tired of these "gotcha" stories, even if this one did happen on Clinton's watch. Whoope-dee-doo. We know in hindsight that all the stories having to do with airplanes and buildings were true. All the stories about putting poison in the drinking water were BS. So were all the stories about blowing up bridges during rush hour. That's the best part about hindsight: it's always right.

Are reporters this stupid, or do they think think the rest of us are this stupid? No matter what happens, there's always some Cassandra out there who "warned" about it. Just like they "warned" about 500 other things, 500 of which never happened. "See that? This heroic whistleblower here wrote a memo two years ago warning that there would be a forest fire in California. But nobody listened!"

Spare me.