“We have cordoned off all New Jersey playgrounds and are asking all First Graders to show us their best block printing. It was very regrettable that intelligence about the Catholic “R” was revealed because now some youngster may be able to spoof his handwriting and avoid this telltale signature. We are leaving no stone unturned and are vigorously pursuing all leads and all #2 lead pencils. Some children may be prosecuted for spitwads for lack of clear proof that they wrote the anthrax letter. At the same time, we have two dozen agents scouring letters to Santa in hopes of a break as we did when we pursued the “Nathan R” lead in the UNABOM case.”
The United States National Commission on Terrorism, in “Countering the Changing Threat of International Terrorism,” dated June 7, 2000, discussed the issue of foreign students working in areas of sensitive technology.
The report noted:
“The U.S. Government should not be confronted with the dilemma of unconditionally disclosing classified evidence or allowing a suspected terrorist to remain in the United States. At the same time resort to use of secret evidence without disclosure of even cleared counsel should be discontinued, especially when criminal prosecution through an open court proceeding is an option.”
Aware of the balancing required, the report highlighted a quote by Sun Tzu: “Nothing should be as favorably regarded as intelligence; nothing should be as generously rewarded as intelligence; nothing should be as confidential as the work of intelligence.”
With equally keen foresight, Kenneth Katzman in “Terrorism: Near Eastern Groups and State Sponsors, 2001,” CRS Report for Congress, September 10, 2001 explained that past plotting by the bin Laden network suggests that “the network wants to strike within the United States itself.”
Mr. Katzman explained in the September 10, 2001 report to Congress:
“The following Egyptian Islamist figures have been named SDT’s: (1) Shaykh Umar Abd al-Rahman, who was acquitted in 1984 of inciting Egyptian President Anwar Sadat’s assassination, is in a medical detention facility in Missouri following his October 1995 conviction for planning terrorist conspiracies in the New York area; (2) Ayman al-Zawahiri, about 50, who is a top lieutenant of bin Ladin (see below) and was convicted in Egypt for the Sadat assassination, (3) Rifa’i Taha Musa, about 47, another top aide of bin Ladin; (4) Abbud al-Zumar, leader of the remnants of the original Jihad who is serving a 40 year sentence in Egypt; (5) Talat Qasim, about 44, a propaganda leader of the Islamic Group; and (6) Muhammad Shawqi Islambouli, about 46, the brother of the lead gunman in the Sadat assassination. Islambouli, a military leader of the Islamic Group, also is believed to be associated with bin Ladin in Afghanistan.”
Muhammad Islambouli is a key to solution of the Amerithrax mystery. He is connected to both Midhat Mursi (aka Abu Khabab and blind sheik’s son Mohammed. Islambouli was a former student of blind sheik Abdel-Rahman. They go way back. The CIA and FBI knew all of this on September 10, 2001. Thus, if the FBI did not have a FISA wiretap on the microbiologist who had spoken alongside blind sheik Abdel-Rahman’s son — and who had lectured alongside an AQ recruiter and the “911 imam” as recently as July and August 2001 in Canada and England — that would be disappointing given that the IANA charity was promoting the views of Bin Laden’s sheiks who had been expressly the subject of the 1996 Declaration of War.
Handing over the “keys to the kingdom” to the man working with Bin Laden’s sheik and actively supporting the Taliban is not a good idea.