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someone please follow up. thnx!

This is absurd. It should be clear to lawyers like Gorelick and Schnell that interested parties like themselves shouldn't be serving on the Commission.

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Mary Jo White - US Atty for South Manhattan - ain't she the one that no billed any Muslim connection to the TWA 800 debacle?

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Dietrich Snell actively participated in the following events: ... Dietrich Snell, the prosecutor who convicted Murad, says after 9/11 that he doesn't ...
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Context of 'February 1995' - Dietrich Snell, the prosecutor who convicted Murad, says after 9/11 that he doesn't remember any such offer. But court papers and others familiar with the ...
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Statement by Deputy Attorney General for Public Advocacy Dietrich ... Office of New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. The People's Lawyer -- is dedicated to aggressively prosecuting and defending the interests of all ...
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9/11 Panel's Findings Strain German Case (washingtonpost.com) - Dietrich Snell, who headed the commission's team that investigated the origins and role of the Hamburg cell, told a panel of five German judges hearing the ...
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Manipulating the "Sharp" Decline -- April 29, 2004 -- TimesWatch.org - The story's lead character, Dietrich Snell, tells the Times that he heard ... Lee and Eric Lichtblau began: "When Dietrich Snell first felt his office shake ...
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ON CLINTON'S WATCH: FEDS NIXED DEAL FOR PLANE PLOT TIPOFF - It was something that he said," recalled Dietrich Snell, the ex-prosecutor who convicted Murad. "We took seriously what he was telling us, but what we were ...
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Investigator: Bin Laden Approved Plot Two Years Before 9/11 - The testimony by Dietrich Snell, a New York deputy attorney general, was based on the Sept. 11 Commission's report to the US Congress, which he worked on. ...
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By Peter Lance Regan Books, an imprint of Harper-Collins; 2004 ... the former Deputy AG in New York Attorney General Spitzer's office, Dietrich Snell, who joined the 9/11 Commission staff as a 'team leader', ...
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FrontPage magazine.com :: Cover Up by Jamie Glazov But Dietrich Snell's source for the genesis of the plote in 1996 -- two years later -- in which an alleged lone KSM came up with the plan -- was Khalid ...
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ON CLINTON'S WATCH: Feds Nixed Deal for Plane Plot Tipoff

Published: 9/25/01
GREG B. SMITH

Terrorist told of plan to crash into CIA's HQ
Two years ago, federal prosecutors turned down a cooperation offer from a terrorist who claimed he was part of a well-financed 1995 plot to crash an airplane into the CIA headquarters.

Abdul Hakim Murad said he got his pilot's license after training at several American flight schools, including one that is now under scrutiny in the terror investigation. Murad was convicted in 1996 for his role in a highly choreographed scheme to blow up 12 U.S.-bound jetliners flying out of Southeast Asia.

The Pakistani-born man said that in addition to the jetliner bomb plot, he and his co-conspirators were looking into using his flying skills to crash an aircraft into the CIA headquarters in Langley, Va.

"It was not something that we focused on. It was something that he said," recalled Dietrich Snell, the ex-prosecutor who convicted Murad. "We took seriously what he was telling us, but what we were focused on was the plot to blow up the 12 airliners."

U.S. Attorney Said No Deal
Snell, who left office in 1998, did not recall Murad coming forward to offer information in return for leniency in sentencing. But court papers and two sources familiar with the situation confirm that Murad did try to cooperate with Manhattan U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White's office. He was turned down, the sources said.

It's not clear whether Murad's claims of a plan to fly a jet into the CIA buildings have any ties to the Sept. 11 attack on America. Murad gave investigators information that both resembles and bears no resemblance to the Sept. 11 attack.

His plan to blow up jetliners collapsed when bomb-making chemicals that he and his co-conspirator, Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, were mixing caught on fire inside a Manila apartment.

Murad was captured in January 1994 in Manila, where he told Philippine interrogators about a plot he called "bojinka," or "big sound." In that scheme, he, Yousef and at least 10 others planned to get off the planes at stops along the planes' routes. The bombs would be detonated by timers in sequence over the Pacific, and none of the terrorists would be killed.

Got Pilot Training Upstate
"The whole crux of bojinka was to have timed explosions and the operatives to be off the flights and escaping," Snell said. "That's a fundamental difference between what happened two weeks ago at the World Trade Center and bojinka."

But there are similarities. Snell recalled that Murad told investigators about the suicide mission to crash a plane into the CIA building. "I remember him saying he thought about maybe getting a small plane or somehow get access to a small plane and crash it into the CIA," Snell said, adding, "There was never any mention of hijacking." And Murad noted that he got his commercial pilot's license after training at several U.S. flight schools, including ones in upstate Schenectady and North Carolina.

Last week, FBI agents showed up at the same Schenectady flight school, asking questions about a student who trained there. And several of the suspected hijackers are believed to have studied at flight schools around the U.S.

Snell said he has no way to know whether Murad could have provided investigators with information that would be relevant to the probe of the Sept. 11 attack. "I think it's pretty unlikely, but I don't know," he said. "I'd be guessing like everyone else."

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Snell and the Terrorist’s Plea Bargain

The Times promoted the “Quiet but Aggressive Staff” on the 9-11 Commission. The story’s lead character, Dietrich Snell, tells the Times that he heard a terror suspect promise revenge as he was led away. The New York Daily News had a slightly different story in 2001.

Reporters Jennifer 8. Lee and Eric Lichtblau began: “When Dietrich Snell first felt his office shake on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001 — the reverberations from the first jetliner crashing into the World Trade Center down the street — he ran into the office of his boss, the attorney general of New York, Eliot L. Spitzer. Mr. Snell, who was a federal prosecutor in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing case, had a feeling that this was no accident. Gazing through the windows at the burning tower, Mr. Snell told his co-workers, Mr. Spitzer said, that one of the defendants convicted in a terrorism case had warned as he was being led away: ‘We're going to get them. We're going to get them.’”

But the New York Daily News had a slightly different and more detailed Snell story on September 25, 2001. From the viewpoint of the 9-11 commission and the widows that promote it, Snell was part of the problem. Greg B. Smith reported: “Two years ago, federal prosecutors turned down a cooperation offer from a terrorist who claimed he was part of a well-financed 1995 plot to crash an airplane into the CIA headquarters.”

"It was not something that we focused on. It was something that he said," recalled Dietrich Snell, the ex-prosecutor who convicted Murad. "We took seriously what he was telling us, but what we were focused on was the plot to blow up the 12 airliners."

“Snell, who left office in 1998, did not recall Murad coming forward to offer information in return for leniency in sentencing. But court papers and two sources familiar with the situation confirm that Murad did try to cooperate with Manhattan U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White's office. He was turned down, the sources said.”

Cover Up
By Jamie Glazov
FrontPageMagazine.com | January 27, 2005

Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Peter Lance, a five-time Emmy-winning investigative reporter and author of the bestselling 1000 Years for Revenge: International Terrorism and the FBI -- The Untold Story. He is the author of the new book Cover Up: What the Government Is Still Hiding About the War on Terror.

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From the Washington Post:

HAMBURG, March 9, 2005 -- The U.S. commission investigating the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, found no direct evidence that the Hamburg-based radicals who hijacked the four airliners shared details of the plot with a Moroccan man on trial here, an attorney for the commission testified Wednesday.

The statements by Dietrich Snell, who headed the bipartisan panel's investigation into the Hamburg cell and was on the stand for a second day, bolstered the alibi given by the defendant, Mounir Motassadeq, who is being tried on more than 3,000 counts of accessory to murder for allegedly aiding the hijackers.

Motassadeq has acknowledged being friends with three of the hijackers in Hamburg. But he has denied knowing anything about the Sept. 11 conspiracy before the attacks.

Prosecutors were hoping that Snell, one of the authors of the final report issued by the commission last July, would shed more light on Motassadeq's involvement with the Hamburg cell. But the U.S. lawyer said the commission found no concrete signs that the plotters shared their plans with the defendant.

"What emerged from our investigation was essentially a sketchy pattern," Snell said, explaining that there were hints that outsiders may have known what the hijackers were up to but nothing solid.

Motassadeq, 31, is the only person so far convicted for playing a role in the Sept. 11 attacks. In 2003, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison, but the verdict was overturned last year by a German appellate court, which ruled that the evidence against him was too weak to justify the conviction.

The commission's findings about the workings of the Hamburg cell were based largely on the interrogations of two captured al Qaeda leaders whom investigators consider to be central organizers of the plot: Ramzi Binalshibh and Khalid Sheik Mohammed. The U.S. Justice Department has provided the Hamburg court with summaries of statements made by Binalshibh and Mohammed, both of whom said that Motassadeq and others in Hamburg were intentionally kept in the dark.

German prosecutors have tried to challenge the veracity of the statements, pointing out inconsistencies in what they said and arguing that Binalshibh and Mohammed had a motive to lie to cover up for their friends. Snell, during his two days in the witness chair, urged the court to use caution in evaluating the detainees' statements, saying that the commission had suspected that the al Qaeda leaders might be trying to protect other conspirators.

The report found several instances in which Binalshibh "attempted to exonerate individuals," Snell said. A five-judge panel of German judges is hearing Motassadeq's retrial. A verdict is due in May.

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Published: 9/25/01
GREG B. SMITH

Terrorist told of plan to crash into CIA's HQ
Two years ago, federal prosecutors turned down a cooperation offer from a terrorist who claimed he was part of a well-financed 1995 plot to crash an airplane into the CIA headquarters.

Abdul Hakim Murad said he got his pilot's license after training at several American flight schools, including one that is now under scrutiny in the terror investigation. Murad was convicted in 1996 for his role in a highly choreographed scheme to blow up 12 U.S.-bound jetliners flying out of Southeast Asia.

The Pakistani-born man said that in addition to the jetliner bomb plot, he and his co-conspirators were looking into using his flying skills to crash an aircraft into the CIA headquarters in Langley, Va.

"It was not something that we focused on. It was something that he said," recalled Dietrich Snell, the ex-prosecutor who convicted Murad. "We took seriously what he was telling us, but what we were focused on was the plot to blow up the 12 airliners."

U.S. Attorney Said No Deal
Snell, who left office in 1998, did not recall Murad coming forward to offer information in return for leniency in sentencing. But court papers and two sources familiar with the situation confirm that Murad did try to cooperate with Manhattan U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White's office. He was turned down, the sources said.

It's not clear whether Murad's claims of a plan to fly a jet into the CIA buildings have any ties to the Sept. 11 attack on America. Murad gave investigators information that both resembles and bears no resemblance to the Sept. 11 attack.

His plan to blow up jetliners collapsed when bomb-making chemicals that he and his co-conspirator, Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, were mixing caught on fire inside a Manila apartment.

Murad was captured in January 1994 in Manila, where he told Philippine interrogators about a plot he called "bojinka," or "big sound." In that scheme, he, Yousef and at least 10 others planned to get off the planes at stops along the planes' routes. The bombs would be detonated by timers in sequence over the Pacific, and none of the terrorists would be killed.

Got Pilot Training Upstate
"The whole crux of bojinka was to have timed explosions and the operatives to be off the flights and escaping," Snell said. "That's a fundamental difference between what happened two weeks ago at the World Trade Center and bojinka."

But there are similarities. Snell recalled that Murad told investigators about the suicide mission to crash a plane into the CIA building. "I remember him saying he thought about maybe getting a small plane or somehow get access to a small plane and crash it into the CIA," Snell said, adding, "There was never any mention of hijacking." And Murad noted that he got his commercial pilot's license after training at several U.S. flight schools, including ones in upstate Schenectady and North Carolina.

Last week, FBI agents showed up at the same Schenectady flight school, asking questions about a student who trained there. And several of the suspected hijackers are believed to have studied at flight schools around the U.S.

Snell said he has no way to know whether Murad could have provided investigators with information that would be relevant to the probe of the Sept. 11 attack. "I think it's pretty unlikely, but I don't know," he said. "I'd be guessing like everyone else."