Posted on 05/24/2010 5:46:49 PM PDT by jveritas
Despicable press traitors !
He came back to the US after 911 and left in 2002 only to show up in London. Our Feds lost track of him in VA. That’s what I was talking about.
In my excitement, I read your article wrong. I see now that yours deals with his recent movements. The WaPo has no business publishing information that they know he can access on the internet.
Excellent work by you!!!
You are most welcome. Did the Washington Post write about this latest interview with terrorist Anwar Al Awlaki and did they find out that their article saved his life?
Yes, it’s an excellent program.
So much information packed into one hour of excellent TV.
Where’s your sarcasm tag?
Obama was in power in December 2009, not Bush.
Colorado U.S. Attorney Canceled Cleric’s Arrest
By Ryan J. Reilly | November 30, 2009 2:30 pm
Anwar al-Aulaqi
Anwar al-Awlaki
The interim U.S. Attorney for Colorado, David Gaouette, rescinded a felony arrest warrant in 2002 for the radical Islamic cleric who has emerged as a focus of investigators in the Nov. 5 shooting deaths at Fort Hood, according to ABC News.
Gaouette was an assistant U.S. Attorney in charge of terror cases in the state when the warrant for Anwar al Awlaki was rescinded, ABC said.
The day after the warrant was canceled, federal authorities detained the U.S.-born Awlaki at New York’s JFK airport as he arrived on a flight from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
After questioning, Awlaki was released and continued on his way to Washington, D.C., where he was an imam at a suburban mosque attended by two of the 9/11 hijackers, Nawaf Alhamzi and Hani Hanjour.
Awlaki also had met in 2000 with Alhamzi and another future 9/11 hijacker, Khalid Almihdhar, at a mosque in San Diego.
Members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force in San Diego, speaking anonymously, told ABC News they were “disappointed and shocked” by Gaouette’s decision not to arrest Awlaki in 2002.
“This was a missed opportunity to get this guy under wraps so we could look at him under a microscope,” a JTTF source told ABC.
It isn’t clear why the warrant was canceled. A spokesperson for Gaouette said he was “unfamiliar with the particulars of the Awlaki case, and would have to research it before he could comment,” ABC reported.
The cleric had first come under FBI scrutiny in 1999. The Bureau found that Awlaki had been in contact with an associate of “blind sheik” Omar Abdel Rahman, whose followers were convicted of attempting to blow up the World Trade Center in 1993, ABC News said.
Awlaki, who now lives in Yemen, runs a Web site that promotes violent jihad against the West. He was in email contact last year and this year with Maj. Nidal Hasan, who is accused of killing 13 people in a shooting spree at the Fort Hood military base in Texas.
After looking into the email contacts, the FBI decided they didn’t merit further investigation. The Bureau missed information in Hasan’s training file at Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington that would have shown his colleagues were troubled by views the Army psychiatrist expressed about Muslim conflict with the West. The apparent failure to connect the dots — reminiscent of pre-9/11 intelligence lapses — is the subject of congressional investigations.
Awlaki praised suspected Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Hasan on his blog earlier this month.
Read the full report here: How Anwar Awlaki Got Away – ABC News.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/FtHoodInvestigation/anwar-awlaki/story?id=9200720
http://www.mainjustice.com/2009/11/30/report-colorado-u-s-attorney-rescinded-clerics-arrest-warrant/
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December 2, 2009
DAVID M. GAOUETTE APPOINTED U.S. ATTORNEY BY U.S. DISTRICT COURT JUDGES AND SWORN IN BY CHIEF U.S. DISTRICT COURT JUDGE WILEY Y. DANIEL
http://www.justice.gov/usao/co/about_dave.html
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Who is David Gaouette and what is his connection to Anwar al-Awlaki?
By Jerry Gordon | 12/02/09
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Fort Hood Jihadi mass shooter Major Nidal Hasan, has been widely reported to have had email contact with American-born radical Yemeni Anwar al-Awlaki.
Awalaki, you may recall, had been a preacher at the radical Dar al Hijrah Mosque in Falls Church, Virginia frequented by Hasan and his family.
Awlaki’s jihad-promoting website, in which he praises Hasan’s recent murder of 13 people, called for attacks against the West. According to an AP Report:
Awlaki said the only way a Muslim can justify serving in the U.S. military is if he intends to “follow in the footsteps of men like Nidal.”
“Nidal Hassan (sic) is a hero. He is a man of conscience who could not bear living the contradiction of being a Muslim and serving in an army that is fighting against his own people,
The Homeland Security Department’s intelligence division became concerned about Awlaki late last year when he published a new group of violent lectures targeting U.S. audiences, according to a Jan. 22, 2009 intelligence note.
On Dec. 23, 2008, Awlaki, on his Web site, encouraged Muslims across the world to kill U.S. troops in Iraq.
Awlaki also used these postings to declare his support for the Somali terrorist group, al-Shabaab, according to the Homeland Security intelligence note, obtained by The Associated Press.
In December of last year, Customs officials intercepted a flash drive of Awlaki’s lectures that his wife sent from Yemen to an Islamic publishing house in Denver, the intelligence note said.
Awlaki was arrested in 2006 with a small group of suspected al-Qaida militants in the capital San’a. He was released more than a year later after signing a pledge he would not break the law or leave the country.
Awlaki first appeared on the FBI’s radar in 1999 when he was indirectly in contact with the jailed blind sheik, Omar Abdel Rahman, who is currently serving a life sentence for his role in planning the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.
In 2000, Awlaki met with Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid Almihdhar, 9-11 terrorists who participated in the attack on the Pentagon. In 2002, federal authorities intercepted Awlaki at JFK airport and were forced to release him, although he was on a terror watch list.
Immediately following his release, Awlaki was escorted to a flight to Washington, D.C. by a representative of Saudi Arabia and remained briefly in Northern Virginia. In Virginia, Awlaki met with radical cleric Ali al-Timimi about recruiting Muslims for jihad. (In 2005, Al-Timimi was convicted in the Virginia Paintball Jihad Network case).
Soon after, Awlaki, a suspected Al Qaeda recruiter and spiritual inspiration for multiple terror plots, relocated to the U.K and later to Yemen.
This brings us to David Gaouette, Obama appointee for Colorado US Attorney. David Gaouette, rescinded the 2002 felony arrest warrant for Awlaki signed by a federal judge in Denver. According to investigators, Gaouette had been fully briefed on Awlaki’s alleged terrorist ties.
This past August, Gaouette was appointed to his present post by Attorney General Eric Holder. Presently, he claims unfamiliarity with the Awlaki case. The clerk’s office for the Federal District Court in Colorado has been unable to provide a copy of the Awlaki arrest warrant.
Note this from a post on the
Arakis Report:
“The agent says the supervisory assistant U.S. Attorney on the case, David Gaouette, had been fully briefed on Awlaki’s suspected terrorism ties. At the time, Gaouette oversaw all terror cases in the Denver-based District of Colorado, according to a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s office.
Gaouette, an assistant U.S. attorney since 1989, was appointed this August by President Obama as the U.S. Attorney for Colorado.
When asked why Awlaki’s arrest warrant had been rescinded, a public affairs officer said Gaouette was unfamiliar with the particulars of the Awlaki case, and would have to research it before he could comment.
Gaouette’s office did not reply to a request for a copy of the Awlaki arrest warrant. The clerk’s office for the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado was also unable to provide a copy of the warrant, citing the age of the case and the fact that the warrant was rescinded.”
“Investigators are mad as hell,” said Paul Sperry, “and they have a valid point in asking whether a dozen soldiers would be alive today if they’d been allowed to put the screw to Awlaki when they had the chance.”
Informed sources indicate that Awlaki arrived on a Saudi jet, worked for the Saudi Embassy and was probably protected by then Saudi Ambassador Prince Bandar.
Gaouette is viewed as a “career guy” who didn’t make the call. (Apparently, arrest warrants signed by judges are rarely rescinded).
Awlaki’s release was most likely ordered from the Justice Department or the White House. Sources claim that Awlaki was selected to facilitate the most critical cell on 9-11 - all-Saudi the Pentagon cell.
http://www.redcounty.com/who-david-gaouette-and-what-his-connection-anwar-al-awlaki/34412
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This man needs to be hauled in and interrogated~!! Who in the 2002 DOJ or WH would’ve approved this ?
What a dangerous imbecile !!
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U.S. Attorney Defends Decision to Scrap Awlaki Arrest Warrant
Gaouette Says “Bad Reputation” Not Enough Reason to Arrest Terror Suspect in 2002; Awlaki Now Linked to Ft. Hood Shooting
By JOSEPH RHEE
Dec. 7, 2009
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/us-attorney-defends-decision-scrap-anwar-al-awlaki/story?id=9243302
Thank you!
Worth hearing .. on now .. Trevor Loudon about
the commies/chicago/obama etc.
Has anyone found the WaPo article? I want to know who wrote it in case we ever meet.
I swear this is like reading parts of a Vince Flynn novel!
Exactly, but this isn’t a novel!
Did you see the Fox program AMERICAN TERRORIST?
My mistake. The guy has been a known terrorist since 9/11. Didn't think he was still out.
Wonder why we didn't go after him when he was in that Yemen prison in 2006?
Missed it. Good?
I don’t know. I’m glad you misread. I did that too!!!
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