"Mohammed, Youseff, and Nichols fled the Philippines within a few days of a suspected explosives fire associated with Yousef’s apartment in the Philippines."
I incorrectly included Murad in the list of men who had fled the Philippines at the time of a fire (not a blast?) suspected of having been associated with explosives. Murad was arrested in the Philippines soon afterwards. A number of reliable news sources have published information stating Murad was arrested in the Philippines including the New American magazine in an article by William Jasper. John Berger was kind enough to call this error to my attention and provide an additional news story for Murad's arrest:
http://taipeitimes.com/news/20 01/09/14/story/0000102905
As far as John Bergers observation in reply #35 that WISE is not needed as a "linch pin" connection to Padilla, I agree. But one of many points made in my aritcle was that McVeigh may have had connections with the Islamic terrroist type people from WISE in Southern Florida possibly learned of by Israeli intelligence. But I can not rule out that Padilla never had anything to do with WISE and therfore thought it appropriate to mention the possibility in the ariticle.
John Berger also asked me give him source articles for use on his website. And Berger wanted to know which police officials had provided information that Mohammed had traveled to the US.
I posted the following source article on FreeRepublic by Jim Gomez of the Associated Press on June 26, 2002:
"9/11 Mastermind Linked to Youseff in Philippines (OKC Bombing)"
link: www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/706139/posts?page=1
In that story a Rodolfo Mendoza is identified as a northern Philippine police official who supervised operations against AlQaeda agents in the Philippines. The story cites a police report prepared by Mendoza describing Mohammed's role with Murad, Youseff, Murad and others. The report also says Mohammed traveled to Israel and the United States.
Recall in my previous writings that the former Pentagon terror advisor Jesse Clear and Stephen Jones were blocked by the Clinton administration for several years in getting information out of the Philippines on the connections to OKC. Clear gave me the details of the blockage in 1996.
And our Hamas appeaser (gave speech to American Muslim Counsel last week), FBI director Mueller, returned from a fact finding (or coverup?) trip to the Philippines less than two months ago. Why am I not confident that Mueller won't repeat the behavior of the Clinton administration of blocking or deliberately altering the real story out of the Philippines (and even using major news media to do it for him) for political damage control reasons? Remember Mueller was the only Republican named as a US attorney (Northern California)for both of Clintons terms when Clinton dumped all the other Repub US attorneys.
As far as some of the other info in the my article, I have confidential sources which I can not reveal at this time but I am very confident in the sources.
I and others have posted several other articles and replies on FR recently that provide part of the background for my article to the point of common knowledge for those who follow these things closely.
I have not written this article for major news media. I really wrote it to connect the dots for my friends at FR and for some people who have the supporting documentation.
My real intent is to integrate and connect the dots. I am trying to do this in a way that the story can get out before it is altered and doctored by some in the major news media for the government. This has been and still is an on going problem for years in the OKC case.
The major media in the US has deliberately not reported key facts about OKC and 9/11 for many years under Clinton and Bush. The major media in the US has altered or withheld some information to keep callers from DOJ, the White House and FBI happy for political and nnot national security reasons.
I have provided extremely well documented stories to the mainline press before on OKC and 9/11. All they did was either steal it (gave me no credit when they rewrote the story) , not carry it at all or totally rewrite and alter the story in a way that was false and misleading and intentionally changed the conclusions of the article for ulterior motives. This behavior includes that of print and TV media in the US. I know of journalists in print and TV media who have had their stories and my stories spiked at the highest executive levels of the media to keep the public from learning of the conclusions in the OKC and 9/11 cases for purely political damage control reasons.
Of course when criticized for this, the executives will show up on Nightline in some type of public forum and say they do not know what people are complaining about for they claim they published all the facts (but in isolated disjointed fashion spread out over years with no conclusions).
Oh yeah, major media reported the news but deliberately in a way that the public could never understand the big picture and cause an elected politician or bureaucrat to be held accountable (it might be bad for big business at the major media).
And it is a fact that major media reporters rely too heavily on disinformation fed them by government officials in and out of Federal law enforcement. Part of it is laziness and part of it is fear of losing their jobs. The bar is raised to three independent sources for a reporter on a story relying on someone like me while the same reporter may not even have to quote one government source (its news don't you know)if he is relying on an unnamed source in the DOJ, FBI, Pentagon, White House etc. And if the reporter makes the political powers that be in the government unhappy, suddenly the reporter gets cut off from his government sources and has to work three times harder to get a story. And political campaign advertising dollars pay for a lot of the bills for big news media outlets who are careful no to bite the hand that feeds them.
As I said, given this type of behavior by major media, I do not write my articles for major media nor do I intend to help major media help a political figure or an embarrassed DOJ or FBI cover up a story.
I hope it is that simple. I fear that it is not.
Can't wait to see which "major news organization" is going to claim credit for "breaking the story."
They're out there, they're reading, and the administration, imho, is just waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Perhaps it will happen sooner than we think.