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
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That's him. But with the Dems back in power, we'll have to wait until 2008 to investigate Fitzgerald and try him for treason.
When he briefly left the noisy room with this call, someone in the FBI grabbed the briefcase, and sure enough, he had taken homework with him, a few classified documents. Enough to "have something on him."
He made waves.
Mr. O'Neil thereafter, took the job as security chief of the World Trade Center, where he died, 9-11-2001.
When a stupid or ill-motivated man, especially in government, does something he knows is wrong, he calls it his duty. As you stated, the definition of "duty" gets prostituted that way.
This was posted on Amazon.com
Lance likes to profile as a regime opponent and friend of the "9/11 Truth" movement, but nothing could be further from the truth. During the Coast-to-Coast AM debate last year with D.R. Griffin and Alex Jones, Lance unrolled a very ingenious cover story for the WTC 7 demolition: that covert ops had it pre-wired to blow because of sensitive documents stored there by government agencies. Likely story! The trial balloon went over like a lead balloon, of course.
Anyone can post anything at Amazon but knowing this guy thinks that the CIA blew up WTC 7 would weigh heavily against my decision to buy his book.
I backtracked the "Reply To" on this post and it ended with mine. Am I the "freeper in question" that you refer to? If so, that's an absurd imputation. G didn't have anything to do with OBL, pro or con, as far as I know. He was a ruthless, unethical, dishonest prosecutor with only his own interests at heart. That's the point I made and clearly wrote.
You are correct. Instead of kissing up to the liberal bureaucrats, W should have kicked some ass, named names (Gorelick, Clinton, etc.), and told it like it is. He should have stood up to the Democrats, (and back-stabbing Republicans), and told the American people that a new bureaucracy was not only not necessary, but an impediment to intelligence gathering. Instead, he gave in to the demagogues and allowed the rats to escape blame, only to further subvert the terror wars.
Member of the Scottish Parliament? Flavor enhancer used in Chinese food?
No really, I don't know what MSP is.
OK. That answers two questions.
First, you are not.
Second, you are not in the world of aviation.
MSP is the identifier for Minneapolis-St. Paul International.
I have a friend same name as yours in the MSP area.
Jeff Chandler is my nom de clavier.
Er...
It's 'thumb hole', not butt hole. For once, not due to PC.
Fact of the matter is that
(a) Recent feel good laws apply more to looks than function. However, since they seem to change in interpretation almost monthly, I for one am never quite sure what remains legal and what has been morphed into evil.
(b)Previous anti-atuomatic [and explosives] laws applied to function and the fact that joe average could - and was encouraged to - buy a Tommy Gun after WWI.
those old laws are entirely sufficient & some of us believe it should be cheaper and easier to possess a full auto.
(c) MSM always states "AK47", which is full or simi auto and not legal, when showing someone with a civil version, which is semi-auto by definition.
(d)MSM then generally slips to a different scene, another time, showing someone else shooting anything in full auto - sometimes at a legal pay-to-play event or just file footage of bad guys pretending to be proficient with the real thing.
(e) "Automatic" in general use typically means anything that loads anothe round as a result of firing the previous round; it loads but does not shoot that round. Better to use 'semi-automatic' for self loading, user initiated, versus 'full-automatic' for something that fires 'em off as long as the trigger is held down - such as an AK47 or proper M-16. But remember that even these time honored relics are capable of both semi and full auto fire, it is the capability that is illegal.
If that's really the case, I would take this book with a kilogram of salt. I wouldn't believe him on the WTC 7 story. But I would approach this current book now with a certain degree of skepticism.
OTOH, from the brief contact I had with Lance, I get the feeling he may be onto something on this story. I wouldn't rule it out of hand just yet. In my experience as a journo, sometimes you come across stuff that frankly leaves you shaking your head. Part of the difficulty as a journo is deciding what belongs in the wacko file, and what belongs in print. I gave up trying to write fiction after a couple years of seeing reality on the streets. No one would believe you if you wrote some of what you see as fiction, but they believe it when you write it as nonfiction.
Like I said, Lance has gone into the wacko file for the WTC 7 demolition. About this -- there probably are some kernels of truth here, but IMO one has to dig for them.
Thanks for filling me in his Coast-to-Coast AM dig where Lance went off the deep end. I was not aware of it.
:-)
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