To me, Boyle sounds like your garden variety paranoid, ultra left-wing, America hating, international socialist sociopath, not much different from Barbara Hatch Rosenberg.
Professor Boyle recently pointed out that he is on a terror watch list so I doubt he agrees with the occasional writer who describes him as an insider. Boyle, no doubt is very smart and I find his close ally, Sherwood Ross, to write very lucidly. But I hope they spend a little more time looking into this issue of a US biodefense insider instead of chewing the same food for thought that has been served up for the past half decade. There was a “deep insider” involved, just as computerbytesman posited in November 2001. It’s just that the “deep insider” was working with OBL’s sheik and giving lectures on signs of the coming day of judgment. (Ali Al-Timimi had a high security clearance working for the Navy. All the while he shared a fax with famed Russian bioweaponeer Alibek and distinguished former USAMRIID head Charles Bailey, a prolific Ames anthrax researcher. Sherwood and Frances should take a break from their effort to impeach the President and address some basic material facts that have come to light. This isn’t rocket science, people. They are going to rip that summa off Dr. Boyle’s chest if he does not address in the court of public opinion the new facts that have come to light.
In terms of other potentially interesting new developments, there was a recent indictment of a Salafist very near the place of mailing who was keeping up Al Qaeda’s website who lived 6 or so miles from the mailbox used.
Azzam.com posted an exclusive interview with Ayman al-Zawahiri and stressed the importance of cash donations and gas masks and chemical-resistant suits. Ibn Khattab, the Arab Chechnyan fighter who was Bin Laden’s good friend, had told his public that azzam.com was highly recommended and that only the two charities identified by the website should be used to route donations — announcing in 2000 that Benevolence International Foundation was one of the charities that should be used. In February 2000, the Quoqaz.net website posted donation links for the two charities, one being BIF. Qoqaz also linked Islamic Assembly of North America, the charity for which GMU microbiology student Ali Al-Timimi was the tleading speaker at annual conferences.
Ibu al-Khattab, the late Arab-Afghan commander of foreign mjuahideen in Chechnya (who in March 2002 was killed by a poison letter), expressly endorsed Azzam Publications.
“The brothers in Britain, may Allah reward them, have put in much efforts to publicize the Jihad. There is an organization by the name of Azzam Publications, which is run by brothers who are known to us and maintain regular contact with us. So anyone who wishes to support us or requires any further information about the situation here, they should contact this organization. We keep them informed with news updates about the state of affairs here, so if the people have any questions we can answer them through this organization. So the brothers at Azzam Publications, may Allah preserve them, are cooperating with us in media efforts. They have made many commendable efforts to publicize the Jihad, so if you make contact with them and support them, Inshallah, it will be very beneficial.”
Azzam.org had “no bricks and mortar address, but operates a post office box in London, and bill[ed] itself as “an independent media organisation providing authentic news and information about jihad and the Foreign Mujahideen everywhere”. One posting datelined from the southern Afghan city of Kandahar and was a message to Muslim youth from top terror suspect Bin Laden. A farewell message from Azzam Publications .. exhorts “Muslims all over the World (to) render as much financial, physical, medical, media and moral support to the Taliban as they can.” Azzam also urged those with computer expertise to mirror the website so as to keep it up after authorities took it down. One can access old websites as they existed on past dates through www.archives.org and its wonderful Wayback Machine — except to the extent blocked.
The azzam.com website gave instructions on how to route money to teh Taliban. It recommended carrying an official letter of the organization stating that the donation was for “for the suffering people of Afghanistan.” The posted form letter from people in South Arlington, read:
“We would like to introduce our official delegation from the Islamic Centre of South Arlington who are carrying monetary assistance for the suffering people of Afghanistan. The members of this delegation are listed below:
1. Abdullah Muhammad Saeed, American passport Holder
2. Ishaq Mansoor Al-Katib, American passport holder
3. Muhammad Abdur-Rasheed, Canadian Passport Holder
They are carrying a quantity of cash donations which have been collected by the Muslim community of South Arlington and are to help the suffering people of Afghanistan. We request all those to whom it may concern to allow the bearers of this letter to pass freely without let or hindrance and to provide them such assistance or protections as may be necessary.
* * *
Signed,
Chairman of the Islamic Centre of South Arlington, USA”
A man formerly known as Paul Hall was arrested in Phoenix on a federal criminal complaint in March 2007 and agreed to be removed to District of Connecticut for further prosecution where there has been investigation of Azzam Publications website located on a server there. He is alleged to have provided classified information to the London-based Azzam Publications about a U.S. Navy battle group as it traveled from California to the Persian Gulf region in 2001. He allegedly “described a recent force protection briefing given aboard his ship, voiced enmity toward America, praised Osama bin Laden and the mujahedeen [and] praised the October 2000 attack on the USS Cole.”
On August 6, 2001, the numeric Internet addresses for the domain Qoqaz.net were changed by its administrators to correspond directly with those of another existing domain: Minna.com. Thus, all web visitors to qoqaz.net and minna.com were shown the same identical Qoqaz.net homepage. Minna.com at the time was registered to:
Mokhtar, Mazen (MMZ265) mazen@ABETTERMARKET.COM
Minna International Corporation
216 Bishop Blvd.
North Brunswick , NJ 08902
Although moderate in his posts and lectures, he for a time used the email signature: “Hamas has no victims, it only has legitimate targets.” In one atypical posting, he wrote that suicide bombing should be encouraged
“[b]ecause it’s an effective method of attacking the ennemy [sic] and continuing jihad, which is at the very least a [religious requirement] on the MuslimsÉ Those who commit suicide seek death, but martyrs are not counted as dead, as Allah said above. They seek a greater life for themselves with Allah, and a greater future for Muslims. May Allah support them, bless them and forgive us for not being with them.” (April 1996)
For example, in November 2000, an e-mail was sent from an individual to Azzam Publications, stating in part:
On your site there is an article about JOINT U.S./RUSSIAN CHEMICAL ATTACK ON AFGHANISTAN IMMINENT Appeal for donations to the Taliban Government Appeal for gas masks I would like to donate where do I start. Or where do I send a shipment of gas masks to?
Instead of disclaiming ability to direct or assist the donor, a response from an Azzam Publications administrative e-mail account stated, “Instructions later this weekend.”
Now from his correspondence, we know that Ayman did not actually fear a chemical attack by US or Russia. Instead, 100+ pages provided by the DIA under FOIA show he was busily planning an attack of his own.
In Fall 2004, the federal authorities indicted the fellow behind Azzam Publications selling “Green Birds,” Babar Ahmad in London, pointing, in part, to the “distribution of videotapes and compact discs depicting fighters in Bosnia, Chechnya and elsewhere, and the eulogizing of dead fighters, for the purpose of recruiting individuals and soliciting donations to support the mujahideen in Afghanistan and Chechnya.” Of Pakistani descent, Ahmad is a British computer specialist. He is associated with KSM, who had anthrax production documents on his laptop. Ahmad is also the cousin of Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan, who was arrested mid-2004 in Pakistan. Khan’s computers carried detailed surveillance of five financial buildings in New York, Newark and Washington and prompted the Department of Homeland Security to elevate the threat alert level to orange.
In an affidavit, an FBI special agent and computer investigative specialist, alleged that a New Brunswick, NJ man, Mazen Mokhtar, assisted Babar in maintaining the continued operation of the Azzam sites, through the use of mirror sites, when the administrators of Azzam sites shut down the Azzam.com site down after 9/11.” The mirror sites, www.qoqaz.net and www.waaqiah.com, routed people trying to access www.azzam.com. A friend reports: “He said he used to run a hosting service four or five years ago that used to resell Web hosting services to people. He said he didn’t know those guys (mentioned in court papers) and he is not involved in anything like that.” An Egyptian-born imam and political activist, he is a supporter of Palestinian cause and frequent speaker before groups in Brooklyn and the Bronx. He is said to be nice and seems a man of peace. He gave a couple of thoughtful presentations in the Fall of 2006 that are online on YouTube, to include to the Muslim Students Associationa at Rutgers University.
In an affidavit in support of the indictment of Babar Ahmad, “[t]his same fund raising solicitation and instructions were also posted by a specific individual [the North Brunsick, NJ-based Mazen Mokhtar] who resided in the United States and who served as a U.S.-based administrator for www.qoqaz.net, the mirror site of www.azzam.com, as well as for Azzam Publications sites generally in late 2001.”
The affidavit continued:
“During 2001 that person posted the same solicitation and instruction on another U.S.-based website, www.minna.com, which this individual also operated. Further, a search of this person’s residence in New Jersey resulted in the recovery of contact numbers for Azzam Publications in hardcopy and electronic form. Therefore, it is evident that AHMAD worked in concert with this individual to maintain the continued operation of the Azzam sites, through the use of mirror sites, when the administrators of Azzam sites shut the Www.azzam.com site down after 9/11. This U.S. individual’s participation in the effort to continue the existence of the Azzam website content in another form through the use of mirror sites demonstrates that a concerted effort existed between the administrators of Azzam, including Ahmed, and individuals in the United States and others to further the goals of Azzam, that is, to solicit funds for organizations for which support is prohibited under U.S. law, namely the Taliban and Chechen Mujahideen, in an effort to support their goals.
In addition to the specific fund-raising instructions set forth above, throughout 2000 and 2001, the Azzam Publications websites also instructed that individuals use the hawala system — a record-less financial transaction system — to transfer funds to Pakistan and the Taliban to avoid interception of the funds.”
In late April 2007, Mr. Mokhtar was indictef for failing to file tax returns and filing false tax returns The Indictment alleges that for the tax years 2003 and 2004, Mokhtar failed to file business tax returns. The Indictment additionally alleges that for the tax years 2000, 2002 and 2003, Mokhtar filed fraudulent personal tax returns in that he failed to state the entire amount of income he received from his business, Mindcraft. He likely will raise selective prosecution as a defense though it is a difficult defense to establish.
I exchanged emails with Boyle, and he recommended that I believe as Rosenberg believes. He seems to have totally accepted her beliefs. But he also goes many bizarre steps further.
On my web site I discussed him back on December 21, 2006, when I wrote:
I've said before that, when you get far enough away from reality, it's hard to tell the difference between the Radical Right and the Lunatic Left. One conspiracy theorist on the far far Left is currently making his beliefs known to anyone who will listen. This is from today's Free Market News:
Dr. Francis A Boyle, a professor of international law at the University of Illinois-Champaign, and the man who wrote the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, is convinced that "9/11 was allowed to happen, the war on terror is facilitating the downfall of The Republic, and concentration camps are in place, with U.S. citizens as the targets." He also reportedly declared, during an appearance on the Alex Jones program, that the purpose of the anthrax attack was "to foment a police state by killing off opposition to hardline post-9/11 legislation."
The title of the article is: "BOYLE: FEDS WERE BEHIND ANTHRAX ATTACKS."