Two key witnesses in the terror attack probe were found with a computer file labeled "killpresidentbush.exe" and documents linked to a money launderer for Osama Bin Laden, sources told the Daily News.Posted on 09/22/2001 2:05:18 AM PDT by kattracks
Two key witnesses in the terror attack probe were found with a computer file labeled "killpresidentbush.exe" and documents linked to a money launderer for Osama Bin Laden, sources told the Daily News.
The witnesses were identified as Saudi nationals who tried to board a flight from Kennedy Airport to Los Angeles two days after the Sept. 11 World Trade Center attack, a source familiar with the federal investigation confirmed. Their names remain secret.
The two are among a group of 10 material witnesses now in custody in the FBI's probe of the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
The two men showed up at Kennedy Airport on Sept. 13 seeking to board a Los Angeles-bound flight with tickets dated Sept. 11, the day of the attack.
Authorities at the airport grew suspicious because their tickets were backdated and because all four of the flights that were hijacked flew out of Eastern airports and were bound for the West Coast.
The Daily News has learned that authorities found two pieces of evidence that prosecutors believed could link the two Saudis to the terror plot.
One of the men had a computer file labeled "killpresidentbush.exe," said a source familiar with the investigation.
The source would not describe the contents of the computer file.
The other man had documents with references to a man the FBI has identified as a money launderer for Bin Laden, the Saudi millionaire who has called for Muslims to attack American civilians.
Investigators were taking the potentially explosive evidence very seriously.
The "killpresidentbush" reference was of particular significance because of death threats that were made against the President on Sept. 11 — the day of the attacks.
The White House revealed afterward it had received information that the terrorists' ultimate goal was to kill President Bush.
A death threat was called in to the White House that morning, saying the plotters were out to get Air Force One. The caller provided secret information that caused grave concern about the President's safety.
In fact, the threat was taken so seriously, White House officials say, that Bush crisscrossed the country in Air Force One, going from Florida to Louisiana to Nebraska before returning to the White House.
In addition, it is believed the hijacked plane that crashed in Pennsylvania may have been on the way to attack the White House or Air Force One.
Neither of the men in custody here has been charged with any crimes.
The FBI and Manhattan U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White wouldn't comment on the status of the investigation yesterday.
The number of material witnesses grew this week from four to 10 as the New York-based Joint Terrorist Task Force fanned out across the globe chasing thousands of leads — and seeking more than 200 individuals for questioning.
So far, more than 80 individuals have been detained, including 35 who are being held on noncriminal immigration violations.
The task force has focused much of its energy on the 10 material witnesses in custody because agents believe each has pertinent information regarding the terrorism hijack plot.
They also view them as a threat to flee.
In other developments, federal authorities here arrested a Middle Eastern man yesterday with fake pilot documents who arrived at Kennedy Airport on Wednesday on a flight from Spain.
Wael Abdel Rahman Kishk had a bogus pilot's certificate from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, which has been linked to at least one of the 19 suspected hijackers.
Agents also found two fake Federal Aviation Administration medical certificates pilots must possess to fly and an Egypt Airlines pilot's shirt, according to a complaint filed by Acting Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Alan Vinegrad.
Under questioning, Kishk admitted he wasn't a pilot and had the documents and shirt "to impress his friends," the complaint alleged.
Kishk was held without bail. Assistant U.S. Attorney Catherine Friesen would not say if Kishk is linked to the terror probe.
Public defender Michael Schneider said Kishk denies having any connection to the terror attack and insists that he was coming to the U.S. to attend college.
The FBI also has turned to unusual sources in its quest for those responsible for last week's attacks.
A lawyer says the bureau is trying to talk with Ramzi Yousef, an admitted terrorist convicted of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Bernard Kleinman said he has been barred from speaking with his client, who is jailed for life in the Supermax prison in Florence, Colo.
This week, Kleinman said he asked a Second Circuit U.S. appeals judge to allow him a telephone conversation with Yousef. The judge has not ruled on the request.
There's no "prime directive" here that can be easily enforced. If you can do math, you can encrypt your communications fairly easily. Even if you don't want to write the actual code, you can come here, copy a copy of PGP onto a floppy or CD and go home. If you have an internet connection it's even easier to distribute it to everyone you want.
Our only option is of a broader scope - remake the world in our image so we don't have to lay awake at night wondering if Saddam and Osama are chatting via encrypted IRC.
It might not be pretty, but we do need to know. I hope our leaders will be wise enough to tell us the truth as ugly as it could get.
November 7, 2000
September 20, 2000
Make that September 20, 2001
Making those heroes aboard even MORE significant!
I noticed the look on Laura's face too. It was definately worry. I'm sure there's much about this we still don't know. We need to keep our President ever present in our prayers!
I agree. I also think the 700 lb gorilla/guerilla hiding in plain sight that nobody wants to recogonize is that these traitors are American blacks who got promoted into trusted positions due to affirmative-action without any concern for serious background checks,their capability,OR their loyalty. They put out the "AF-1 was in danger" BS story to cover something else. Maybe even the possibility there was a suitcase nuke in DC ready to explode. I HONESTLY suspect this is what happened,and that they found and disarmed it before it could go off. No way in hell they could admit that there are prominent black Americans working as agents for radical Islam,and no way in hell they could EVER admit they found a nuke in DC.
There is definitely a LOT of strange stuff going on in the background. We haven't heard diddly-squat from ANY of the black "leaders" since this thing happened. Not one word. No way this could be hidden from the media,but the media is leftist and would NEVER report a underground group of black American enemy agents as long as they can possibly avoid it. I suspect when/if the true details are ever reported,they will be watered down substantially. Hell,this may even be what the media,the black "leaders",and the White House and other political leaders are working on now,a cover story to hide the truth. Has anybody even SEEN Farakhan,Jackson,or Sharpton since this thing happened? I don't even think Sharpton showed up to tag along with Bubbette! like he normally does when she toured the WTC site. I saw Nadler,I saw Pataki,I saw Gulianni,I saw Schumer,I saw Bubbette!,but I didn't see Sharpton. Kinda strange for a man who is a NY politician who is planning to run for president to not show up for some camera "face time" during a tragedy like this,isn't it?
Face it,there is NO WAY IN HELL the terrorists could ever hope to take down AF-1 once the SS knew it was in danger. The story that AF-1 was in danger and had to divert to Nebraska is to cover that it was DC that was in danger,not AF-1. Nebraska is where the back-up site was to run the gooberment if DC were taken out in a nuke war. Gee,that's almost enough to make you wonder,huh?
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