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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That's confirmation I've been waiting for a long time. Don't know how reliable the source is, but the terrorism involved with that crash seemed about as obvious as the double Russian crashes the other day.
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The first thing I would like to know is if this guy was even on the plane. Unfortunately, the article is unclear on that point.
The logical question ... was this guy onboard?
silly canadians... move along, nothing to see here...
You're right, pretty cloudy on if the guy was on the plane.
However, if the guy wasn't on the plane, it would make the argument that he caused the crash suspect.
There should be a passenger manifest somewhere.
There will be hundreds of evenets which will remain classified for a very long time!
I have always felt that the government covered that incident up because the public was still reeling from the 9/11 horror and the airline industry lobbyists were in a panic.
Agencies can only cover up so much terrorism before the public gets wise and stops believing in their government. I wish we'd learn the truth about this and OKC--which I also believe was never fully explained...
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A big hole in the 9/11 report. Along with absolving the Saudi government, but mentioning as an aside that Saudi charties close to the govt. could have been involved.
Abderraouf Jdey
http://www.fbi.gov/terrorinfo/jdey.htm
I don't know about the rest of you folks but such a confident, NOT, statement coming from the governmental body charged with invetigating this event puts any rumors of sabotage to rest in my mind.
/sacoff
Until 9/11 I little considered the power of the airline lobby in this country. It's immense. They got indemnities and bonanza after bonanza of corporate welfare.
Just checked the passanger list for Flight 587 -- No one with first or last names of Jdey, Abderraouf, or Farouk on board.
The WORLD has AQ 'terrorists'.............AQanadia has....AQ Operatives.....that's .....queer...
/sarcasm
Wonder if he missed his flight like mousouie? (sp)
Take the bulls*** away and then interpret it.
There are those among us who still think the steel cutting charges detonated at OK City was done by a lone Timmy McViegh and fertilizer...
Nichols was not at the scene...
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