Posted on 11/19/2006 9:14:16 AM PST by vadkins
Peter Lance's new book, Triple Cross, (the complete title is: Triple Cross, How Bin Laden's Master Spy Penetrated the CIA, the Green Berets and the FBI -- And Why Patrick Fitzgerald Failed to Stop Him) is out in bookstores on 11/21/2006. This is a link to the Able Danger Blog's review of the book. Here is the text of the Harper Collins' press release for the book:
TRIPLE CROSS How Bin Laden's Master Spy Penetrated the CIA, the Green Berets and the FBI -- And Why Patrick Fitzgerald Failed to Stop Him
By Peter Lance
In TRIPLE CROSS, five-time Emmy-award winning investigative reporter Peter Lance reveals how U.S. attorney Patrick Fitzgerald and the FBI's elite bin Laden squad failed to stop Ali Mohamed, a1 Qaeda's master spy, in the years leading up to the 9/11 attacks. Recruited as an FBI informant as early as 1992, Mohamed -- an intimate of Osama bin Laden -- was allowed to remain free for years, planning and executing multiple acts of terror, including the 1998 African embassy bombings that killed 224 and injured 4000 -- while Fitzgerald and key FBI agents did little to stop him.
Mohamed had been on the FBI's radar since 1989, when the FBI's Special Operations Group photographed a cell of his trainees firing AK-47s at a Long Island shooting range. Yet despite their prior knowledge of this New York cell, the Bureau ended its investigation, paving the way for multiple acts of terror in the years that followed.
Of the Islamic radicals trained by Ali Mohamed and photographed by the FBI: one went on to kill Rabbi Meier Kahane in 1990, three were convicted in the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, and another American Muslim was convicted by Patrick Fitzgerald in 1995 in a plot to blow up the bridge and tunnels into Manhattan. Mohamed himself was opened as a Bureau informant on the West Coast in 1992-a year before the WTC bombing. Worse, he continued to snooker Fitzgerald and other FBI and Justice Department officials for years as he learned the FBI's playbook on a1 Qaeda.
After a five-year investigation into FBI negligence on the road to 9/11, Lance reveals:
How Assistant U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, who was directing the FBI's elite bin Laden squad (I-49), allowed Ali Mohamed to remain an active a1 Qaeda agent despite the fact that the FBI knew he had sworn allegiance to bin Laden as early as 1993. Mohamed moved the Saudi billionaire from Afghanistan to Sudan, trained his personal bodyguard, set up a1 Qaeda terror camps in Khartoum, and trained the terrorists responsible for the 1993 WTC bombing and Day of Terror plots.
How Fitzgerald and other top officials buried a treasure trove of a1 Qaeda-related evidence in 1996 -- including proof of a liquid-based airliner bomb plot that was a precursor to the August 2006 plot revealed by U.K. authorities. The evidence included proof of an active a1 Qaeda cell operating in NYC five years before 9/11.
How Mohamed twice smuggled a1 Qaeda's second-in-command, Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, into the U.S. in the 1990s to raise half a million dollars for the Jihad -- and left his post at Fort Bragg, against orders, to hunt down Soviet Spetsnaz commandos in Afghanistan in the midst of America's covert war.
How Mohamed stole TOP SECRET memos and other classified intelligence from Fort Bragg and passed it onto the a1 Qaeda leadership, including memos to the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the positions of all Special Forces units worldwide. Copies of that intelligence, with Mohamed's notes in Arabic, are part of more than 30 pages of declassified or formerly SECRET documents included as appendices to the book.
How, after meeting Mohamed face-to-face in 1997, Fitzgerald called him "the most dangerous man I have ever met" and vowed, "We cannot let this man out on the street." Yet for another ten months he allowed Mohamed to remain free, while the a1 Qaeda spy continued to support the African embassy bombing plot he had set in motion in 1993-after being freed from custody on the word of his FBI control agent.
How Mohamed had told Fitzgerald that he had "hundreds" of a1 Qaeda sleepers ready to go "operational" at any time -- and yet to this day the FBI has failed to detect them. Mohamed, who wasn't even arrested until a month after the 1998 embassy bombings, remained in U.S. custody for three full years before 9/11. But even after cutting a deal that allowed him to escape the death penalty and enter witness protection, Fitzgerald failed to extract the 9/11 planes-as-missiles plot from Mohamed.
How as early as 1991 the FBI was aware of a New Jersey mail box store directly linked to a1 Qaeda, but failed to monitor the location. Fitzgerald himself had named the store owner as an unindicted coconspirator in the 1995 Day of Terror case. Six years later, in July 2001 , the FBI blew an extraordinary chance to interdict the 9/11 plot when two of the 9/11 hijackers got their fake IDS at the very same store. "All the FBI had to do was monitor that location, the way they sat on John Gotti's Ravenite Social Club," says Lance, "and they would have been in the middle of the 9/11 plot."
PETER LANCE'S first two FBI investigative books, 1000 Yearsfor Revenge and Cover Up, were national bestsellers. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) called 1000 Years "A must read for the FBI, the 9/11 Commission, Congress and anyone whose job it is to protect national security." Kristen Breitweiser, one of the "Jersey Girls," called it "a 500-page smoking gun." Lance testified before the 9/11 Commission in 2004.
His investigation of former FBI agent R. Lindley DeVecchio, reported in Cover Up, led to DeVecchio's indictment on four counts of second degree murder in March 2006.
TRIPLE CROSS
How Bin Laden's Master Spy Penetrated the CIA, the Green Berets, and the FBIand Why Patrick Fitzgerald Failed to Stop Him
By Peter Lance
Hardcover: $27.95 ISBN 978-0-06-088688-2
I don't think you could make less sense if you tried. But I'll bet you'll prove me wrong.
Wow! Fitzgerald has a lot to account for. Probably will get a pass on this.
In honesty, I have to say that the FBI has been covering its behind concerning its role in the events leading up to 9/11. The agency seems to have made several blunders, and has been working to limit the damage to the agency.
An example of the FBI obscuring facts: the FBI sent two agents to Prague in May, 2001, to investigate possible contacts between Mohammed Atta and the Iraqi Embassy. But after the events of September 11th, the FBI took the position that Atta was in the United States at the time he was sighted in Prague.
Oh no I will not even begin to try, cause I am well aware just how much smarter and better you are than me.
Actually full auto firearms, including AK-47s, are legal in many states, just prohibitively expensive. A full auto AK47 costs in the range of $10,000 while a semi-auto costs $400-$600.
for the forum, a link to the amazon.com listing for the book:
http://www.amazon.com/Triple-Cross-Penetrated-FBI-Fitzgerald/dp/0060886889/sr=1-1/qid=1163961899/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-9004286-3434428?ie=UTF8&s=books
Duty is word unknown. "Career" is not duty.
Duty means that because all of that is immaterial to duty. Duty cares, sure, but duty is buty.
And a fine, constantly upward career culiminating in a nice pension and such is not duty. So duty is scorned, forgotten.
But not quite forgotten -- it subliminates, the psyche's energy meant to be used for duty goes elsewhere. It gets used. Comes out in meanness for some, in callousness for others. Always anger in some way, a slow burning constant hate of the world and everyone in it.
Duty means making choices in the most optimistic heart-felt and diligently considered manner.
Just how is Mr. Fitzgerald's career?
Duty is duty, that is. What a typo!
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I once had a couple beers with Peter Lance (I seem to recall he liked Dos Equis; I prefer reinheitsgebot-valid ones). This was back in college, in the Pittsburgh area. A university which will remain nameless had gotten him to speak at a lecture to aspiring college journos like me. At the time he was speaking to us, he was, or had just finished up a stint at the ABC News program 20/20.
My memories of him were these. He's a straightforward, meat-and-potatoes kinda reporter, with a healthy distrust of authority. More importantly, Lance struck me as someone for whom the truth matters a great deal. Lance gave me the impression he was the sort of guy who, if he came across information which directly contradicted the original premise of his story, would tell the facts instead of changing them to suit the original premise. You may not agree with everything he's written or produced, but for my money, I would tend to trust him instead of some of these other NYT/CBS News/WaPo types.
He's now a refugee from the MSM. Having spent an evening listening to him, and talking about the news over a couple of beers, I can see why he's an author now, and having nothing to do with television news.
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My accusations aren't unfounded, except to the ignorant. I just didn't realize that anyone on this forum wouldn't know about Guiliani.
I wasn't trying to grill you--it was for my information. I have that peeve also, but am obviously less knowledgeable than you. Thanks.
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