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Posted on 08/13/2005 9:03:35 AM PDT by TVenn
Shoot, even I remember this.
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BTTT
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/531840/posts
FBI checking whether terrorist sought a loan to buy crop-duster plane
I felt that he was trying to make the cultural leap from the country that he came from. I was attempting, in every manner I could, to help him make his relocation to our country as easy for him as I could."
Liberalism as psychosis, exhibit 38748783393A.
Okay that kinda explains why Mark Steyn would come down on her...
I didn't understand when it mentioned that in the article...but, I still think she did good when she went against the Ag. Department after 9/11 to talk about the incident...only to be dismissed as a kook!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/532375/posts
Robert Epling of Community Bank of Florida said he's been told that Mohamed Atta, one of the suspected hijackers, sought a USDA loan for a crop-duster. The USDA is a tenant in the bank, which checked its files about Atta at the request of the FBI.
"We understand he was turned down" at the USDA "and they referred him to us," said Epling. A loan officer at the bank remembered a phone call from someone inquiring about crop-dusters, an unusual request because there are so few of the planes left in the area, Epling said. Nothing came of the inquiry from the unnamed person.
James Lester, an employee of South Florida Crop Care in Belle Glade, told the FBI that Atta was among the men who in groups of two or three visited the crop-dusting firm nearly every weekend for six or eight weeks before the attacks.
Atta was a persistent questioner and "I recognized him because he stayed on my feet all the time. I just about had to push him away from me," Lester said
I remember this, because its covered in Savages book "The Enemy Within"
How many times has Bunny Greenhouse been up to Capital Hill, compared to this woman?
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http://www.nationalreview.com/impromptus/impromptus061002.asp
Like many others, I read with sinking heart about Johnell Bryant, the Department of Agriculture official to whom the 9/11 terrorist Mohamed Atta applied for a loan — he wanted to buy a crop-duster, for purposes that need not now be guessed. According to the New York Times, “[Ms. Bryant] told Atta that he could not have a loan of $650,000 to buy a twin-engine, six-passenger plane, which he wanted to equip with a very large tank. He then became agitated . . . and asked [Bryant] what was to keep him from slitting her throat and stealing money from the safe behind the desk in her Florida office.”
But Johnell Bryant didn’t kick Atta out of her office or call the police. She jollied him. And “later in their meeting, . . . [Atta] told her he wanted to buy an aerial picture of Washington that hung in her office. He pulled out a wad of cash and threw money on her desk, even after she said she would not sell it. He asked about the White House and Pentagon, and she pointed them out.”
He praised al Qaeda to her, and also its leader, Osama bin Laden. According to Bryant, Atta “mentioned that this man would someday be known as the world’s greatest leader.” The terrorist went on to ask about various American cities, and specifically mentioned that the football stadium used by the Dallas Cowboys had “a hole in the roof.” He also wondered whether “he would be able to visit various landmarks in Washington, since he was not a citizen. ‘I told him that there wouldn’t be a problem with that, that there is security inside of most of the buildings,’ . . . but it would be like that in airports.”
Today, Bryant says, “Should I have picked up the telephone and called someone? . . . I don’t know how I could possibly expect myself to have recognized what the man was. And yet sometimes I haven’t forgiven myself.”
Compare this woman's vivid recollection, and the events she relates, with the 9/11 Commission's reliance on staff collected "facts", and tell me who's more credible?
NATIONAL DESK | June 7, 2002, Friday
TRACES OF TERROR: THE RINGLEADER; U.S. Official Says She Met Central Figure in 9/11 Plot
By TINA KELLEY (NYT) 524 words
Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 24 , Column 5
ABSTRACT - Agriculture Department official Johnell Bryant says Mohamed Atta, man believed to have been ringleader of terrorist attacks of Sept 11, asked him for loan in April or May 2000 to buy crop-duster and questioned her about security at World Trade Center and buildings in Washington; says he also spoke to her about Al Qaeda and praised Osama bin Laden; photo (M)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/september11/story/0,11209,729049,00.html
Hijacker 'applied for US plane loan'
Staff and agencies
Friday June 7, 2002
Excerpt
A US government official has claimed that September 11 hijacker Mohamed Atta applied for a $650,000 government loan to buy a small plane and fit it with a large chemical tank one and a half years before the attacks on New York and Washington.
Johnell Bryant, a loan officer at a US department of agriculture office in south Florida, said Atta visited her in the spring of 2000, saying he had just arrived from Afghanistan and hoped to get his pilot's licence and buy a plane to use for charter flights and for crop dusting.
"He wanted to finance a twin engine six-passenger aircraft and remove the seats," Ms Bryant told ABC's World News Tonight programme in an interview broadcast last night.
"He said he was an engineer, and he wanted to build a chemical tank that would fit inside the aircraft and take up every available square inch of the aircraft except for where the pilot would be sitting."
She told ABC the televised interview was against the wishes of her bosses. ABC says she passed a lie detector examination.
Ms Bryant said Atta used his real name when she interviewed him.
"I spelled it A-T-T-A-H, and he told me, 'No, A-T-T-A, as in 'Atta boy!'" Ms Bryant said.
She said she rejected Atta for a loan because he was not a US citizen, and then reported a bizarre conversation with the terrorist.
Gorelick was placed on the 911 commission with the sole purpose of keeping the facts of Atta and her memo not to allow FBI and CIA to share intelligence a secret from the committee. She was there to guide the committee the way the Clintonista's wanted it guided.
She told[Bryant] ABC the televised interview was against the wishes of her bosses. ABC says she passed a lie detector examination.
Maybe it is time for Al Felzenberg to get a lie detector examination.
The fact that she is liberal backs up her story. She doesn't seem to be one that would discredit the Bush blaming 9/11 report.
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