9/11 Staff Members - Who Are They?

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1995 -In Seattle, Secretary Perry will address members of the Washington State China Relations Council, 11:20 a.m. (PST), at the Four Seasons Olympic Hotel (Spanish Ballroom), 411 University St. News media wishing to cover the event should contact Alexis Albion, the Council's media liaison, (206) 441-4419. In addition, DoD plans to have a live audio feed of the Secretary's remarks in the DoD press briefing room at the Pentagon.

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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."

[SkyPilot]

While the MSM, DU, and the Democrats are obsessed with the Cindy Sheehan non-story hype, the scandal of Jamie Gorelick and the Clinton administration ignoring the forming of 9/11 right under their noses will come back to bite them.

Howard "I-Hate-Christians-but-I-Have-Vaules" Dean can squawk all he wants about how Democrats are really, really (really) serious about National Security now. It won't work because it isn't true.

The simple fact is Gorelick and the Democrats waged a massive cover up during the 9/11 commission to hide their bungling of Mohammad Atta, the hijackers, and their lack of response to clear signals of an imminent terrorists attack on US soil. They should be held accountable, not only for their ineptitude, but for the cover up.

[SkyPilot]

[stocksthatgoup]

How is it that these people didn't provide information regarding 'Able Danger'? Alexis Albion, Michael Hurley, Dan Marcus, Lloyd Salvetti and Steve Dunne.

[Former Proud Canadian]

Add this guy: Dietrich Snell

Here is a very interesting thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1461535/posts

This "commission" was compromised from the start. They have zero credibility.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Good project. Freepers may have to do all the work but it doesn't look like anyone else will.

[SubMareener]

Here is the Staff's Report on the Military. What a great place to mention Able Danger, but they didn't.

[stocksthatgoup]

What section of the 9/11 report was Dietrich Snell responsible for?

[Just mythoughts]

No wonder the liberals demanded an outside commission.

Hear no Atta, see no Atta, speak no Atta.

We taxpayers should demand our money back and accountability for having a fraudulent hoax perpetuated upon US using our own money.

[SkyPilot]

Hear no Atta, see no Atta, speak no Atta.

That about sums it up.

[mewzilla]

I know you saw it, stocks, but in case anyone missed it:

quick google Dietrich Snell. Explains a lot about Attagate

[mewzilla]

As for what Snell did on the committee, see Jane Austin's reply #175 on that google Snell thread. Interesting info.

[MinuteGal]

Too many people think that these DC "staffs" are a bunch of dewy-eyed interns, barely-post-adolescence political wannabees and part-time college students.

They are shocked to learn that the "staffs" are born-to-lose attorneys, hardened professional bureacrats, puffed-up academics and the usual sprinkling of "consultants" (out-of-work educated idiots).

My question is: how much salary and expenses did these 9/11 "staff people" get paid for this special commisssion's Potemkin investigation?

Somewhere, there must be an open record of the amount of taxpayers' dollars these professional oinkers slurped out of the public trough.

Since it now looks like the Commission's "work" will continue till the cows come home, the oinkers will apparently continue slurping till their sinecures turn into a veritable non-stop orgiastic feast.

Eee-Eye-Eee-Eye-O

Leni

[mewzilla]

FWIW, I think we might want to focus on the folks who handled the counterterror stuff, Snell and that bunch, since Zelikow so conveniently split up the duties.

[mewzilla]

That would be Snell, Hurley, and whoever was working with them.

[SubMareener]

He seems to have been another Staff member who should have been a witness!!! He was the prosecutor of Abdul Hakim Murad, a conspirator in the 1995 Bojinka plot with Ramzi Yousef, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, and others, who was convicted in 1996 of his role in the Bojinka plot.

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.

[mewzilla]

And Snell's a deputy AG in Eliot Spitzer's office now. Isn't that interesting?

[SubMareener]

WOW!! All these connections are making me want to reach for my tin hat!