The other man who was involved in all three attacks was Melvin Lattimore operating out of OKC for all three!!!! Lattimore has also been known to the Feds for his involvement in all three by FBI informants for years.
The Feds really have not "touched " Samir Khalil, AL Hussaini and Melvin LAttimore (until after 9/11 for LAttimore only)and yet they have known to do so-WHY?? Were these men FBI/CIA informants?
Was there not FBI and COngressional Connivance?
Why did Bodansky wait for seven years to go public? Why did Bodfansky tell Davis to keep the details from the public (and courts) starting in 1996 becasue it was "too hot to handle"?
Why did Davis comply with Bodanskys request until after 9/11? She was urged repeatedly for years after 1995 by William Jasper(New American), Charles Key (OK REp), Paul Sperry (WND), Jerry Bohnen (KTOK radio news director in OKC), and Mike McNulty (Waco tape producer) to release details of the memo when she was told and knew that doing so had the strong cahnce of heading off future terror attacks and more government coverup? Why did she refuse their honorable requests for seven years? Even David Schippers told her on 9/11 that it was time to go public with the Bodansky memo-why did even Schippers have to prod Davis to do so after she had waited so long? Schippers showed he had a good conscience by asking Davis to move forward with the memo.
Which Republican and Dempocratic members in COngress , who in the FBI and CIA was Bodansky protecting for seven years? Waiting so long may have cost American lives because it delayed accountability and reform-which we still do not have. Was Bodansky's going public a "controlled release" to set the stage for going after Iraq? We may need to do something about Iraq now but it makes it harder politically and militarily to go after Iraq now when the evidence Bodansky and Davis had and sat on for seven years showed we could have and should have done so in 1995-1996 before 9/11 and before Iraq has gotten stronger militarily and politically (with the Arabs who no longer want to suppport an American coalition against).
Why has the letter by OK Republican Senator Inhofe's DC office chief of staff ,Herb Johnson, on the DOJ orders to the FBI to coverup the ME connection to OKC bombing never been released by Inhofe, by Jayna Davis Attorney Dan Nelson or by Davis herself?
I have personally asked David Schippers, the well known Chicago and former DOJ attorney working with Jayna Davis, Jim Crogan and James Reeser (BlueDogDemo)to have the Herb Johnson letter released. I have also asked Schippers to go public about what he learns from Davis and James Reeser, about Khalid Mohammed and the OKC bombing. I have told Schippers about Lattimore and the Ashcroft's coverup of the Travelers Aid witnesses and urged Schippers to go public about both stories. I am hoping and praying Schippers will follow through and succeed so America does not have to wait for another seven years as it did for the details of the Bodansky memo.
Feds Point Finger at Kuwaiti for 9-11
Wed Jun 5, 4:47 AM ET
By JOHN J. LUMPKIN, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - The likely mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks is a Kuwaiti-born lieutenant of Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) who had previously plotted to attack the World Trade Center and to bomb several airliners simultaneously, a top U.S. counterterrorism official says. Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, one of the FBI (news - web sites)'s most-wanted terrorists, is at large in Afghanistan (news - web sites) or nearby, the law enforcement official told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
U.S. investigators believe Mohammed, working under bin Laden's leadership, planned many aspects of the Sept. 11 attacks.
"There's lots of links that tie him to 9-11," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. "He was intricately involved."
Mohammed is accused of working with Ramzi Yousef in the first bombing of the World Trade Center, which left six dead in 1993. He and Yousef also were accused of plotting in 1995 to bomb several trans-Pacific airliners heading for the United States. Yousef, now serving a life sentence in the United States after being convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, also is believed to have planned to crash a plane into CIA (news - web sites) headquarters. Mohammed was charged by federal prosecutors in New York in 1996 in connection with the alleged 1995 plot. The State Department is offering a reward of up to $25 million for information leading to his capture.
Other bin Laden lieutenants are also believed to have helped put together the Sept. 11 attacks, the official said. But evidence is mounting that Mohammed was at the center of the operational planning.
A second U.S. official, also speaking on condition of anonymity, acknowledged that Mohammed played a critical role in planning the attacks but said questions remain about the extent of his leadership. The official said other bin Laden lieutenants, including Abu Zubaydah, now in U.S. custody, are also believed to have played top organizational roles.
Mohammed, 36, is one of the highest-ranking al-Qaida leaders still at large, officials said, and continues to plan attacks against U.S. interests. Although he was born in Kuwait, officials there say he is a Pakistani national and note that people born in Kuwait do not automatically qualify for citizenship.
According to the counterterrorism official, within three months of Sept. 11, the FBI learned that Mohammed had performed some financial transactions to fund the attacks; since then the United States has gathered other significant evidence pointing to him as the key planner. The official declined to go into detail, citing a need to protect intelligence information.
The FBI describes Mohammed as in his mid-30s, slightly overweight and sometimes wearing a beard and glasses. His aliases include Ashraf Refaat Nabith Henin, Khalid Abdul Wadood, Salem Ali and Fahd Bin Abdallah Bin Khalid. U.S. officials have repeatedly said that capturing or killing bin Laden's cadre of lieutenants — men like Mohammed — is a key goal in the war on terrorism. In some ways, they are considered as dangerous as bin Laden: Where al-Qaida's leader serves as an inspiration to his followers, his top aides conduct the nuts-and-bolts planning of attacks.
The lieutenants are said to pick targets and attack dates, maintain operational secrecy and provide money and training to the foot soldiers and overseas cells chosen to carry them out — sometimes at the cost of their own lives. Most of the 19 suicide hijackers are thought not to have known the entirety of the Sept. 11 plot — or that they were going to die — but Mohammed apparently did, the counterterrorism official said.
Mohammed has not been charged in connection with the attacks, in which hijacked airliners crashed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon (news - web sites) and a southwestern Pennsylvania field, killing more than 3,000. He was a close associate of Abu Zubaydah when both were free, officials said.
Some of the hijackers trained at Abu Zubaydah's Khalden camp in Afghanistan, officials said. Generally, though, the hijackers trained in groups of one or two at several camps, and they were kept apart from most other trainees.
Abu Zubaydah, captured in Pakistan in March, is said to have told U.S. interrogators that the hijacked plane that crashed in Pennsylvania was destined for the White House, suggesting he knew of the planning.
According to investigators, the Sept. 11 attacks were largely paid for by Shaikh Saiid al-Sharif, also known as Mustafa Ahmed al-Hisawi, who is bin Laden's financial chief. Officials traced a number of financial transactions between him and several of hijackers, but Shaikh Saiid was not believed to have the wherewithal to plan an operation of Sept. 11's magnitude. He is at large.
A fourth bin Laden lieutenant, Tawfiq Attash Khallad, is also suspected of playing a planning role. He met with Sept. 11 hijackers Khalid Almihdhar and Nawaf Alhazmi in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in January 2000, just before Almihdhar and Alhazmi entered the United States. Khallad paid for some of the pair's travel before Sept. 11, the counterterrorism official said.
Khallad, believed to be a chief planner of the October 2000 USS Cole (news - web sites) bombing, remains at large, the official said.
Some key connections have yet to be worked out, the official acknowledged, such as who selected the hijackers to conduct the Sept. 11 operation.
Bin Laden and his top two deputies, Ayman al-Zawahri and Mohammed Atef, were believed to have known about the attacks in advance, by virtue of their station in al-Qaida. Al-Zawahri's family was killed by a U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan. It is not known where he is.
Atef, killed by U.S. airstrikes in November, had a martyrdom video of other purposed hijackers at his house. Ramzi Binalshibh was a member of Atta's cell in Germany, but was unable to enter the United States. He remains at large.
Bin Laden himself admitted foreknowledge of the Sept. 11 attacks on a Nov. 9 videotape of him having dinner with a Saudi sheik, al-Zawahri and some other supporters.