[jimbo123]

"[Data analyst J.D. Smith] found Atta by linkages not to immigration issues but to the mosque system..."

[beyond the sea]

Hello................ SeeBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, ..........

[Sacajaweau]

And the picture was purchased when?

That was one of the things that bothered me after 9-11. Where did the FBI get all the pictures AND the historical timeline which they posted a couple of days after 9-11.

[linkinpunk]

Contractor James D. Smith testified...

Testified where? To whom?

[Peach]

A Pentagon secret intelligence team identified 9/11 leader Mohamed Atta through a probe of blind Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman — the mastermind of the first attempt to destroy the World Trade Center, it was revealed yesterday.

[ConsentofGoverned]

"[Data analyst J.D. Smith] found Atta by linkages not to immigration issues but to the mosque system..."

IF you want to find rats go to the garbage dump that breeds them..If most of the Able Danger story is told many in DC will be destroyed..so don't expect DOD/DOJ to find any evidence supporting AD. If A Spector holds senate hearings we will get the" Magic bullet" from his past expertise with the Warren commission..lets hope C Weldon can put a spot light on the AD and 9/11 commission..time will tell.

[silverleaf]

If they linked Atta to the planners of the first WTC bombing, then they also linked him to Iraqi intelligence, which supported the logistics of the first WTC bombing.

Hell-o? Mainstream media?

[Peach]

An outside contractor to the intelligence unit, code named Able Danger, has told congressional staffers Atta's name was discoveredby a computer data-mining search of connections to Abdel-Rahman, the Muslim cleric in prison for inspiring the 1993 trade center bombing and a plot to blow up New York landmarks.

So staffers are working on this matter this summer?

[PGalt]

Thanks for posting jimbo123. JUMBO BUMP!

[JacksonCalhoun]

You mean the blind sheik who was illegally assisted by his lawyer Lynne Stewart, who was supported at a rally by Mother Sheehan whose son was killed in a war against these terrorists?

[Zacs Mom]

"A Pentagon secret intelligence team identified 9/11 leader Mohamed Atta through a probe of blind Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman"

The man who's defense attorney, Lynne Stewart, has been convicted of enabling her client, the terrorist Sheik, Omar Abdul Rahman, to carry out his murderous agendas while in prison by helping him to communicate with his terrorist organization (radical Egyptian Brotherhood in Egypt.



Lynne Stewart also just happens to be cindy sheehan's HERO!!
In fact, when sheehan spoke in support of Lynne Stewart at a Pro-Stewart Rally in SF on 4/27/05, she described this Stewart as, "my human Atticus Finch." !!

Heres a link to the transcript of sheehan's Pro-stewart speech:
click here to read a transcript of sheehan's speech.

BTW, note that one of this event's sponsors was the
International Socialist Organization

Oh yeah, one more point of interest, Stewart was recruited to the Rahman case by Ramsey Clark, skerry's 60's buddy, saddam's defense attorney and just an all around @$$ who has a long history of anti-American causes dating back to the Vietnam War.

[gaspar]

If German intelligence was following Atta, Benalshib, and members of the Hamburg cell prior to 9/11, why weren't the CIA and FBI? Why were they allowed to enter the USA (after July 1991) using passports from Egypt and Libya that used their own name?

[Purdue Pete]

Lots of dot connecting going on here...take a look.

[YaYa123]

Until this morning, while preparing my previous reply on this thread, I did not know Jamie Gorelick was Pentagon General Counsel. I did not know she was the Pentagon official who wrote the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy.

"Sept. 11 Commission member Jamie Gorelick, who critics say hobbled the war on terrorism when she served as deputy attorney general under President Clinton, was a leading proponent for one of the Clinton administration's most controversial proposals when she served as general counsel for the Pentagon in 1993 and 1994."

Maybe others just assumed Gorelick's only position in the Clinton Administration was DOJ Deputy to Janet Reno. The following is from Captain's Quarter: "As general counsel to the DoD, Gorelick was the top lawyer in the department (the position requires Senate confirmation). Recall that Janet Reno, Gorelick's soon-to-be boss, was attorney general during this entire time, and that Gorelick herself was the protege of none other than Hillary Clinton."

[sandydipper]

Normal - a civilian showed the FBI how to find Atta.

[TVenn]

Tapes Depict Proposal to Thwart Bomb Used in Trade Center Blast
By RALPH BLUMENTHAL
The New York Times
Section A; Page 1; Column 4; Metropolitan Desk
October 28, 1993, Thursday, Late Edition - Final
Correction Appended

Excerpts

L aw-enforcement officials were told that terrorists were building a bomb that was eventually used to blow up the World Trade Center, and they planned to thwart the plotters by secretly substituting harmless powder for the explosives, an informer said after the blast.

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"Do you deny," Mr. Salem says he told the other agent, "your supervisor is the main reason of bombing the World Trade Center?" Mr. Salem said Mr. Anticev did not deny it. "We was handling the case perfectly well until the supervisor came and messed it up, upside down."

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The informer was to have helped the plotters build the bomb and supply the fake powder, but the plan was called off by an F.B.I. supervisor who had other ideas about how the informer, Emad A. Salem, should be used, the informer said.

The account, which is given in the transcript of hundreds of hours of tape recordings Mr. Salem secretly made of his talks with law-enforcement agents, portrays the authorities as in a far better position than previously known to foil the Feb. 26 bombing of New York City's tallest towers. The explosion left six people dead, more than 1,000 injured and damages in excess of half a billion dollars. Four men are now on trial in Manhattan Federal Court in that attack.

Mr. Salem, a 43-year-old former Egyptian army officer, was used by the Government to penetrate a circle of Muslim extremists now charged in two bombing cases: the World Trade Center attack and a foiled plot to destroy the United Nations, the Hudson River tunnels and other New York City landmarks. He is the crucial witness in the second bombing case, but his work for the Government was erratic, and for months before the trade center blast, he was feuding with the F.B.I.

Supervisor 'Messed It Up'

After the bombing, he resumed his undercover work. In an undated transcript of a conversation from that period, Mr. Salem recounts a talk he had had earlier with an agent about an unnamed F.B.I. supervisor who, he said, "came and messed it up."

"He requested to meet me in the hotel," Mr. Salem says of the supervisor. "He requested to make me to testify and if he didn't push for that, we'll be going building the bomb with a phony powder and grabbing the people who was involved in it. But since you, we didn't do that."

The transcript quotes Mr. Salem as saying that he wanted to complain to F.B.I. headquarters in Washington about the bureau's failure to stop the bombing, but was dissuaded by an agent identified as John Anticev.

"He said, I don't think that the New York people would like the things out of the New York office to go to Washington, D.C.," Mr. Salem said Mr. Anticev had told him.

Another agent, identified as Nancy Floyd, does not dispute Mr. Salem's account, but rather, appears to agree with it, saying of the New York people: "Well, of course not, because they don't want to get their butts chewed."

Mary Jo White, who, as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York is prosecuting defendants in two related bombing cases, declined yesterday to comment on the Salem allegations or any other aspect of the cases. An investigator close to the case who refused to be identified further said, "We wish he would have saved the world," but called Mr. Salem's claims "figments of his imagination."

The transcripts, which are stamped "draft" and compiled from 70 tapes recorded secretly during the last two years by Mr. Salem, were turned over to defense lawyers in the second bombing case by the Government on Tuesday under a judge's order barring lawyers from disseminating them. A large portion of the material was made available to The New York Times.

In a letter to Federal Judge Michael B. Mukasey, Andrew C. McCarthy, an assistant United States attorney, said that he had learned of the tapes while debriefing Mr. Salem and that the informer had then voluntarily turned them over. Other Salem tapes and transcripts were being withheld pending Government review, of "security and other issues," Mr. McCarthy said.

William M. Kunstler, a defense lawyer in the case, accused the Government this week of improper delay in handing over all the material. The transcripts he had seen, he said, "were filled with all sorts of Government misconduct." But citing the judge's order, he said he could not provide any details.

[Calpernia]

>>>>A Pentagon secret intelligence team identified 9/11 leader Mohamed Atta through a probe of blind Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman — the mastermind of the first attempt to destroy the World Trade Center, it was revealed yesterday.

Just adding a thought here.

Remember that Coptic family that was killed in Jersey City?

A close cousin of that family was a translator for the prosecution in Stewart's trial.

Stewart was S.O.A.R.'s lawyer.

[kcvl]

A Pentagon secret intelligence team identified 9/11 leader Mohamed Atta through a probe of blind Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman — the mastermind of the first attempt to destroy the World Trade Center, it was revealed yesterday.

Someone ask Cindy Sheehan if she still SUPPORTS the Sheik's attorney, LYNN STEWART!!! I have noticed that all these so-called news organizations following Cindy Sheehan around have NEVER asked her ONCE about any of that!

[kcvl]

They treated National Security as a DAMN JOKE!!!

CHELSEA HELPING IN MIDDLE EAST NEGOTIATIONS

Photograph by: Diana Walker, 1999
Secretary of Defense William Cohen, President Clinton, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, and National Security Advisor Sandy Berger hear, see and speak no evil.

[TVenn]

CIA net closes on bin Laden's dapper banker
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/581561/posts

CIA agents are narrowing the search for Osama bin Laden’s banker, who they fear may finance another September 11-style attack.

Sheikh Saiid, 33, a bon vivant who has funded al- Qaeda by £200 million a year, was thought to have flown to Afghanistan on the eve of the attacks in America.

Now intelligence reports have revealed that his taste for the finer things in life stopped him from joining bin Laden in a cave hideout.

The urgency for the CIA is that Saiid has contacts among weathy benefactors in the Gulf states as well as access to enough cash to finance another terrorist attack on his own, without bin Laden’s help.

The suave, immaculately dressed Saudi-born financier vanished a few hours before the hijacks began, boarding a business class flight from Dubai to Karachi.

Saiid had left his departure late but he knew the precise timings for the attacks and had to wait until the hijackers sent back the money they had not used in the United States.

The suspicion is that Saiid may have stayed in Pakistan until he felt it was safe enough to fly back to the Middle East. He may have returned through an airport such as Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, where security is not regarded as thorough Saiid is believed to have access to a number of passports under various aliases and has no shortage of rich contacts who could provide shelter. He is never photographed and was not one of the 22 named on the FBI’s most wanted list released last month.

He spent his time cultivating connections with mosques, businessmen and Muslim charities as well as setting up bogus companies and aid groups.

Unlike the zealots at the top of al-Qaeda, their banker argued that he had to adopt a more luxurious lifestyle to put his donors at ease.

Investigators in the Gulf who have followed his tracks say he always preferred to pay his bills in cash. Police in Dubai have revealed that he rented a sizeable appartment and that whenever he stayed in luxury hotels he booked suites.

Nor did he follow the al-Qaeda rules on hiring economy-class vehicles. Saiid is said to have had a preference for large, air-conditioned, American-made cars.

Intelligence agents want to question him in the hope of shutting down al-Qaeda’s financial empire and perhaps persuading him to betray bin Laden.

If anyone might be prepared to betray bin Laden for their own benefit then suggestions are that Saiid — also known as Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawasawi — could do it.

Intelligence agencies in Pakistan, the UAE and Ireland have revealed new details about Saiid’s operations and his role in the September 11 attacks.

He is believed to have helped to finance al-Qaeda in Africa, where it was behind the 1998 bombings of the US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

Soon after the US attacks, police in Dublin raided the offices of the Islamic Relief Agency, a Saudi-backed charity accused of fundraising for the embassy bombings in East Africa.

The office was run by Ibrahim Buisir, a Libyan whom the US suspects of being another bin Laden acolyte.

US investigators told USA Today that Saiid acquired Visa credit cards for three of the hijackers which the men used to pay for their airline tickets over the Internet. He also wired up to £70,000 to a branch of the SunTrust bank in Florida so that the men could pay for their living expenses, flight school tuition and airline tickets.

For the past three months the FBI have been piecing together Saiid’s relationships with the hijackers. On September 4 three of the team sent Saiid a Federal Express package with at least £12,950 left over from their £70,000 advance. The FBI found a Federal Express return receipt in a dustbin at the Comfort Inn in Portland, Maine, where Mohammed Atta, the hijackers’ leader, stayed the night before the hijacking.

The money was sent to Dubai where Saiid set up his operational base after arriving from Qatar in June.

Saiid did business through three of the hijackers: Atta, who piloted the first plane to crash into the World Trade Centre; Waleed al-Shehri who was on board; and Marwan al-Shehhi, who was at the controls of the second jet.

Shehhi had been calling the banker’s mobile telephone. The last contact came from the three men hours before they boarded their flight.

Intelligence sources believe that Saiid then contacted bin Laden to say the operation was underway before he hurriedly left Dubai.

On September 8, Saiid was captured on a security camera visiting a Federal Express office in Dubai, where he retrieved the package sent by Atta.

The hijack leader had addressed it to Almohtaram, which is Arabic for “The Respected One”. This was the title several of the terrorists had given Saiid.

[TomasUSMC]

found Atta by linkages not to immigration issues but to the mosque system,"

THAT is why no one would touch this information, because it linked terror to the Religion of Peace, and well we can't have that.

...... especially after.... well after reading the new Iraqi Constipatution.