I’ve got better than that. When Meselson’s team returned they were individually debriefed by the CIA. At least one team member was asked if he thought Meselson was a Soviet sympathizer. I have that straight from the horses’s mouth.
Now, and I’m being absolutely deadly serious here, why on earth would the FBI use a person whose citizen loyalty had been questioned at the highest levels as a consultant to a national emergency - a terrorist attack of the utmost importance and sensitivity? When that person had continually demonstrated untrustworthiness spanning over 2 decades?
I’m guessing that the FBI did NOT have access to classified CIA files. I’m further guessing the CIA did not cooperate with FBI over the anthrax attacks. I’m also further guessing that the FBI didn’t bother reading books like Plague Wars. I’m still further guessing that even in September 2006 Douglas Beecher knew little about Matthew Meselson’s reputation, documented record in the public domain of media manipulation and errors concerning BWs spanning across 20 years, and had little idea that Director Mueller would soon be shining his headlights directly onto Beecher for adding unauthorized Meselson-inspired commentary to his peer reviewed paper. Let’s see where Beecher ends up in 6 months from now. Does Knoxville, TN have an opening for a FBI lab technician?
TrebleRebel,
While we wait for hell to freeze over and Ed to admit the bit about an electrostatic charge, note that you have not addressed the fact that the Bucchi tech rep for the east coast told me that a charge is inevitable in the mini-spraydryer due to the velocity coming out of the nozzle.
So while you argue a charge was imparted, it would seem that your argument fails to take into account the charge that is inevitable when using a mini-spraydryer. A mini spraydryer was used — not a pilot scale as Gary thinks could have been used. Why? Just because the small amount of product.
What word, beginning with a vowel apparently, might be redacted in this alleged message to an Albany, NY imam shortly before 9/11:
“how close the individual could get to an (redacted) aircraft.”
It apparently begins with a vowel but I can’t think of any word that would make sense.
Appeal of terror case hinges on directions
Defense claims judge’s statement that FBI had “good and valid reasons” to target Albany imam prejudiced jury
By ROBERT GAVIN, Staff writer
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First published: Sunday, September 2, 2007
ALBANY — When the leader of an Albany mosque was convicted last year of supporting terrorism, the jury never heard about his 14 phone calls to a Syrian number the FBI linked to Osama bin Laden.
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Among those reasons is an FBI report from an informant, which indirectly linked Aref to a terrorist network. The informant stated that only weeks after the 9/11 attacks, a messenger from al-Qaida approached him delivering an explicit message: Osama bin Laden was looking for information about flight schools and “how close the individual could get to an (redacted) aircraft.”
The messenger gave the informant two fax numbers in Damascus, Syria, one of which Aref contacted 14 times between November 1999 and October 2001, court papers said.
Parts of the report were redacted — blacked out — because the information is confidential. Kindlon objected to defense attorneys being kept from seeing what was blacked out and called the implied terror link ridiculous. He said his client called the number in Syria to contact college friends at the Islamic Movement for Kurdistan, a political office in Damascus where Aref worked after fleeing Iraq.
In court papers, prosecutors stated that a senior IMK leader, Mullah Krekar, formed Ansar-al-Islam, a designated terrorist organization, in 2001. Subsequently, when Aref was convicted, the 30 guilty counts included lying to FBI agents about knowing Krekar.
In targeting Aref, the government also had evidence showing that his name, address and telephone number were found in a notebook when U.S. forces raided a suspected Ansar-al-Islam training camp in Iraq on June 11, 2003. Some 80 insurgents were killed, with hundreds of weapons recovered, court papers said.
That same day, Aref’s contact information was found in another raid on a suspected Ansar-al-Islam safe house in Mosul. And in March 2003, Aref’s first name and phone number were found during a U.S. raid on a suspected Ansar-al-Islam facility in Sargat, Iraq, court papers said.
According to witness testimony, after September 11, 2001, “Al-Timimi stated that the attacks may not be Islamically permissible, but that they were not a tragedy, because they were brought on by American foreign policy.” USA v. Khan, 03-CR-296A, “Memorandum Opinion,” p. 31 (ED VA)
http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/290.pdf
This is what Sheikh Ali was teaching kids at the 1st Annual IANA Summer Camp at Frederic, MD, July 2-4, 1994. (Government Exhibit 7A3)
“Reflections on the Meaning of Our Testimony of Faith: ‘There is no go but Allah and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah” by Ali Al-Timimi.
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“6 Wage Jihad in the Path of Allah
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Allah — ta’ala— has said: “Slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them (captive) and beseige them, and lie in wait for them at every place of ambush.” (The Qur’an 9:5) Fight those who believe not in Allah and the Last Day and do not forbid what Allah and His Messenger have forbidden, and practice not the true religion (Islam), being of those who have been given the Scripture (the Jews and the Christians) — until they pay tribute readily and have been brought low. (The Qur’an 9:29)
The Prophet .. has said:
I am commanded to fight mankind till they testify that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, establish the prayers and pay the charity. When they do that they will keep their lives and their property safe from me.”
In an exhibit introduced at Dr. Al-Timimi’s trial, one jihadist wrote an angry email to a mailing list — upon the December announcement by the Taliban it was surrendering — about the overly rosy picture that the website azzam.com had painted. (Gov. Exh. 7D15) (in posts above, I discussed the recent indictment relating to azzam.com of an imam from North Brunswick, NJ who frequently lectured in Brooklyn and the Bronx).
http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/462.pdf
“What about Azzam.com? It seems the news from there was not authentic and (much as I hate to say this) we were duped.”
He explained:
“I have been enraged about the tactics of these brothers for some time now. I’ve expressed my outrage to a number of brothers over the years but it has only contributed to their rumors that I have “sold out.” I had been approached to host their sites when they were in trouble and flatly refused. When I asked on brother why they LIE (yes, LIE) while swearing they swear by Allah it is true, the response I got was “al-Harbu khud’ah” (Hadeeth, “war is deception”). War is deception to the KUFFAAR not to your brothers!!!. I know brothers who are leaving within the next few days who are now scratching their heads in confusion. What do they do with their one way, non-refundable plane tickets now that cost every cent they had placing themselves and their families in great hardship? “