Posted on 08/27/2004 10:25:04 AM PDT by spyone
Stewart Bell National Post
A captured al-Qaeda operative has told Canadian intelligence investigators that a Montreal man who trained in Afghanistan alongside the 9/11 hijackers was responsible for the crash of an American Airlines flight in New York three years ago.
Canadian Security Intelligence Service agents were told during five days of interviews with the source that Abderraouf Jdey, a Canadian citizen also known as Farouk the Tunisian, had downed the plane with explosives on Nov. 12, 2001.
The source claimed Jdey had used his Canadian passport to board Flight 587 and "conducted a suicide mission" with a small bomb similar to the one used by convicted shoe bomber Richard Reid, a "Top Secret" Canadian government report says.
But officials said it was unlikely Jdey was actually involved in the crash, which killed 265 people and is considered accidental. The fact that al-Qaeda attributed the crash to Jdey, however, suggests they were expecting him to attack a plane.
"We have seen no evidence of anything other than an accident here," said Ted Lopatkiewicz, spokesman for the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board. "There has been no evidence found, from what I can tell -- at least that's been relayed to us -- that there was any criminality involved here. It appears, at least the evidence we have, is that a vertical fin came off, not that there was any kind of event in the cabin."
Jdey, 39, came to Canada from Tunisia in 1991 and became a citizen in 1995. Shortly after getting his Canadian passport, he left for Afghanistan and trained with some of the Sept. 11 hijackers, according to the 9/11 commission in the United States.
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I don't understand your point. Was Robert Reid travelling under his own name? Who knows? Probably not. All the passenger manifest shows is who the tickets where purchased by or whose passport they were under. False passports are these guys trade documents.
What island group and church is this?
By the way, "Nguyen" (with a g) is an extremely common Vietnamese name; it's like Smith here, only much more common. If you go through a list of people and find someone named Nguyen, it really doesn't suggest any connection at all with Kathy Nguyen, because there is such a large number of Nguyens. It just means there's a Vietnamese person on your list.
I think if you take any random list of Vietnamese, you'll probably find that maybe 1/4 of them or so are named Nguyen. For example, I found (through a quick search for any organization of Vietnamese, there's no particular reason for choosing this one) the Vietnamese Professional Society. Three of the 12 members of its Board of Directors are named Nguyen. Link: Vietnamese Professional Society Board of Directors.
I don't remember the full story. It was on one of the old ongoing 'Nuygen anthrax' threads etc. As I remember,....it was a weird, small, informal, prayer/study/social group.........calling itself a church.....maybe just another NYC cult.......
PROFILE, DAMNIT! PROFILE AND PROFILE AGAIN!
And political correctness be damned!
Or they are told to can it NOW or lose the FCC licence...
Many times in the past and currently.
I agree: they are all pure unadulterated evil. "The eyes have it," so to speak.
They would have supplied him with a name passible for a person from the Dominican Republic -- where the flight was bound for. His dark skin would have worked pretty well.
When the airframe or internals are damaged by a small explosive, the pilot would indeed overdrive the available controls. What else could he do?
The papers could have even been legitimate. In that case, one of the singleton passengers would have been researched -- one who looked like the Tunisian, and killed before the flight, his passport, etc taken.
I didn't find anything mentioning a prayer/study/social group though.
But that's not to say he couldn't be in your town or mine at present. Keep your eyes out. Who knows these days!
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