Khalid Mohammed: On the FBI Most Wanted List
Posted on 07/02/2002 7:16:51 PM PDT by OKCSubmariner
Terrorism trial begins in New York
May 13, 1996
From Correspondent Brian Jenkins
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Jury selection began in New York Monday in the federal trial of three men accused of plotting to bomb 11 planes headed for the United States on a single day in 1995.
Ramzi Yousef is charged with masterminding the plot. He also will be tried later this year, accused of planning the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993. Four men are already serving life in prison for that crime.
The alleged plot was discovered in the Philippines in January 1995, when a fire broke out in a Manila apartment 200 yards from the Vatican's embassy, a week before the arrival of Pope John Paul II.
Police were shocked by what they found inside: a smoking mixture of explosives in a sink, street maps and garments like those worn by the Pope's entourage, suggesting a plot to kill the Pontiff.
They also say they found computer disks containing detailed plans to blow up U.S. airliners.
The alleged plot involved leaving bombs on flights that would take off from Tokyo, Seoul, Taipei, Hong Kong, Bangkok and Singapore.
Vince Cannistraro, former director of the CIA's Counter terrorism Division calls it, "Extraordinarily ambitious, very complicated to bring off, and probably unparalleled by other terrorist operations that we know of."
Kenneth Timmerman, director of the Middle East Data Project, believes the sophistication of the plot is a sign the intelligence agency of another country is behind it. Some see the hand of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein; others the government of Iran.
Fingerprints on a bomb recipe notebook found in the burned apartment convinced the FBI that the brains behind "Project Bojinka" was Yousef, a young engineer born in either Iran or Pakistan, also accused in the World Trade Center bombing. Authorities think Yousef flew out of New York just hours after that explosion, later launched a failed plot in Thailand to bomb an Israeli consulate, and wound up in the Philippines.
The FBI believes he staged a test for Project Bojinka in December 1994, leaving a bomb under a seat on a Philippine Airlines flight, killing a Japanese tourist.
According to Cannistraro, "His particular, peculiar evil genius was to devise a method of putting together a liquid explosive that could not be detected by the security apparatuses in effect at most airports at that time."
"This is somebody who is really a world class operator. . And I don't think we have seen someone like this, as accomplished as this, ever," said Timmerman.
It really helps add to the thesis of the article for this thread.
Lorie Mylroie, an expert and author on Iraq and Sadam Hussain, has analyzed evidence in the OKC bombing and the 1993 WTC attacks and she concluded they were directly linked.
After masterminding the World Trade Center bombing, Youssef would temporarily hide out in the Phillipines and join with several other terrorists to plot an intricate series of terrorist attacks on the United States, code named “Project Bojinka.”
In order to carry out his terror campaign, the complaint alleges Yousef recruited potential terrorists at Southwest College in Cebu City, including Terry Nichols. Witnesses say Nichols went to the Phillipines for the expressed purpose of learning how to build a bomb.
Nichols’ passport records show he was indeed in the Phillippines at the same time as Youssef. In fact, Phillipine intelligence believed Nichols was a Pakistani, Arab or U.S. national. Further, Nichols would eventually marry a Filipino woman who lived for a time at the same boarding house as Youssef.
Much thanks.
When he (Nichols)returned from the Philippines in January 1995, he settled in Herington, Kan., a quiet town not far from Fort Riley. He bought a bungalow and devoted himself to furnishing it.
There is not one single listing for a Lebney in the U.S. according to www.switchboard.com.
Below is a bit of trivia. At least the spooks have a sense of humor.
Lebbene is a cheese shaped into small balls and often known in the Middle East. It is called Lebney in Syria.
Lets keep on a "roll" until this thing is resolved once and for all!!!
OSAMA BIG EYED AS 9/11 MASTERMIND
Within three months of Sept. 11, he said, the FBI learned that Mohammed had moved money that was used to pay for the attacks and since then the United States has gathered other significant evidence pointing to him as the key planner.
Mohammed is accused of working with Ramzi Yousef in the first bombing of the World Trade Center, which left six dead in 1993.
Khalid Mohammed: On the FBI Most Wanted List
Nichols had a ME helper (likely Hussaini) riding with him in his pickup along with a Ryder truck on April 18, 1995 in Newkirk, OKlahoma (near Kansas and OK central border). I posted an article on this on FR on April 19, 2002. The ME man looked like one of the John DOe #2 sketches the FBI showed to the witness in Newkirk who is the wife of a police officer.
Khalid Mohammed probably helped make sure that Nichols got all the help Nichols and McVeigh needed when they came back to the US from the Philippines including the ME helper with Nichols in Newkirk, OK. THe FBI and DOJ covered up the witness account of the ME man with Nichols in Newkirk and kept it from the attorneys and courts and trials and the news media.
The Newkirk story is another example of a coverup of Federal forewarning and foreknowledge of a ME assisted attack on the Murrah building.
Or should I call it a "lily white "(Nichols and McVeigh) assisted attack by ME men on the Murrah building?
Ramzi Yousef
Well, Pat, the "ping list" is growing, but I'm curious to know more about what OKC bombing victims and survivors think about all this.
I don't think there will be any resolution until more of them "get on board."
So, if you're out there, post. No one has to know who you are.
And if you aren't going to post, at least spread the word.
In January 1995, Yousef and his associates plotted to blow up eleven U.S. commercial aircraft in one spectacular day of terrorist rage. The bombs were to be made of a liquid explosive designed to pass through airport metal detectors. But while mixing his chemical brew in a Manila apartment, Yousef started a fire.
He was forced to flee, leaving behind a computer that contained the information that led to his arrest a month later in Pakistan. Among the items found in his possession was a letter threatening Filipino interests if a comrade held in custody were not released. It claimed the "ability to make and use chemicals and poisonous gas... for use against vital institutions and residential populations and the sources of drinking water."
• Yousef lived for a time in a Pakistani boarding house run by Saudi exile Osama bin Laden. Although in an interview in 1997 bin Laden said he did not know Yousef personally. Yousef fled the country the night of the attack and made it onto the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, with a $2 million reward for information leading to his arrest. Law enforcement authorities apprehended him after receiving a tip from an informant.
. Arrest and conviction
Pakistani police arrested Yousef a month later, on February 7, 1995, in an Islamabad hotel room. Authorities also arrested Shah in Malaysia
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