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.

[The Raven]

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

It's funny...MS-NBC is running the "Failure of Leadership" headlines and won't get off the prison story. It reminds me of when the libs tried to get rid of Al Haig....he was in every issue of the NYT - front and center - with something negative.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

who was the president in 2000?

But you see, Bush was running for President -
- The stock market *knew* he was going to win so it tanked
- Enron execs *knew* Bush would bail them out, so "Kenny-boy" ran the company in the ground
- Knowing that Algore was going to lose, the internet dot coms decided to just "end it all"
- Janet Reno figured out that all the terrorist plots they were uncovering were just Bush and his buddy Bin Laden trying to make Clinton look bad, so they ignored them...

[11th Earl of Mar]

We need to know what the Governor of Texas knew about this.

And when did he know it?

[MattMa]

With your four point, you have cleared up a lot of questions. Now I know the rest of the story. ;)

[Rebelbase]

My only doubts on this are why has it taken this long after 9/11 for this to be revealed? Does the FBI have evidence that this actually happened?

[Joe Brower]

"Are reporters this stupid, or do they think think the rest of us are this stupid?"

I'll take door #2.

[LurkedLongEnough]

I do remember seeing this posted a long time ago. Glad it's coming out again, except that the agency withstands so much public critique and underappreciation in spite of what it does accomplish, which often stays secret.

[AJFavish]

Links to original stories from Sunday Times are here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1133149/posts

Regards,

Allan J. Favish
http://www.allanfavish.com

[T'wit]

Good answer, good answer :-)

[wita]

Hey, I want door 1 and 2, they both apply. Reporters are stupid to think that what they are intentionally doing is called reporting.

[T'wit]

>> Are reporters this stupid, or do they think think the rest of us are this stupid?

> Hey, I want door 1 and 2

Yes! Yes!

If door 3 is "They never miss a chance to hate America," I'll take that one too.

[AFPhys]

You wrote:

To: TeleStraightShooter
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!
18 posted on 05/12/2004 3:04:38 AM EDT by Grampa Dave


But you forgot the DING DING DING DING!!!

[eddie willers]

Helter Skelter

[Dr. Frank fan]

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.

I'm with you.

[Dr. Frank fan]

- The stock market *knew* he was going to win so it tanked

Funny thing is, I've seen lefties actually MAKE this argument, with a straight face.

[TeleStraightShooter]

Why am I not suprised to find WND 3 days behind the curve?
;^>

[Freedom of Speech Wins]

Bump, Pakistanis involved.

[Mixer]

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

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I am shocked that you are planning on here from those rats at all about this.

; )

[Ciexyz]

Sigh, another story about the clueless Americans.

[Redbob]

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

Imagine that: the Pakis named a city after their mothers!
Isn't that sweet!