Avoid Past Mistakes and Make The Changes Needed To Minimize Terrorist Attacks in the United States

Reports are emerging that Sadam Hussein of Iraq gave money and assistance to Bin Laden and his terrorist network to attack the World Trade Centers (WTC) and Pentagon on 9/11/2001 using hijacker pilots flying out of Boston’s Logan airport and other US airports. Prior to the WTC attack the USG has stated that Bin Laden was involved in the bombings of Kobar Towers (Saudi Arabia apartments for US soldiers), Kenyan and Tanzanian embassies and the USS Cole.

Recently, Israeli government officials and Lorie Mylroie, an expert on Hussein and Iraq, have given interviews published in several articles implicating Hussein and Iraq and Bin Laden in not only the WTC attacks, but also the OKC bombing.

There is reliable, credible evidence from Saudi intelligence and the former CIA counter terrorism chief Vincent Cannistraro that Sadam Hussein paid seven Pakistanis to assist McVeigh in the OKC bombing. There is also evidence that Terry Nichols met with Bin Laden terrorists in the Philippines to gain support and help.

One of the men arrested in OKC the day of the OKC bombing, Asad Sidiqqy, was a Pakistani (possibly paid by Hussein?) and was also a suspect in the first WTC bombing in the early 1990s. Siddiqy was driving a blue cavalier seen near the Murrah building with McVeigh along with two other Pakistanis (who were also arrested in Dallas) moments before the Murrah building was bombed.

An Iraqi who served in Hussein’s elite Republican guard, Al Hussain Hussaini, was alleged to have been with McVeigh before and at the scene of the OKC bombing. It has been alleged by some close to the OKC bombing case that Hussaini has been and may still be a baggage handler at Boston’s Logan airport, the same place where there is great concern that the hijacker pilots had help breaching airport security to gain access to the planes which crashed into the WTC. Bin Laden has a large number of family members living in the Boston area and it is suspected by authorities that a Bin Laden terror cell is in Boston that helped Bin Laden and the Iraqi effort against the WTC. Could Hussain be part of this cell or have helped the hijacker pilots at Logan airport?

There are over twenty witness affidavits implicating up to seven Middle Eastern men believed to be tied to a Bin Laden cell in Dallas who are believed to have helped McVeigh build his bomb in OKC on April 18, 1995. These affidavits were described to the Senate Intelligence Committee and given to the FBI in 1999 after the FBI and US prosecutors refused to even look at the evidence for over three years.

Bin Laden’s secretary, el Hage, lived in Dallas and was indicted for the WTC and Kenyan and Tanzanian bombings. Also indicted was the Egyptian, Ali Mohammed, who knew el Hage and was close to Bin Laden (helped him move from Sudan). Mohammed was also indicted for setting up Bin Laden cells inside the United States and training Bin Laden terrorists within the US, all while Ali Mohammed was a highly placed informant working for the FBI out of Sacramento from 1992 to 1998.

It is suspected that Mohammed helped el Hage and Bin Laden set up the Bin Laden cell in Dallas that provided support for McVeigh. And in December of 1999, Andrea Michel (wife of Alan Greenspan) reported that the Egyptian airlines was crashed into the ocean in a suicide mission by an Egyptian pilot because Bin Laden wanted to put pressure on the USG for its treatment of Ali Mohammed and el Hage. It should be noted that one or more of the pilots involved in the recent WTC attacks were Egyptian and that Ali Mohammed is Egyptian. A special plea bargain was done with Ali Mohammed in 2000 with Janet Reno after the Egyptian airliner crash.

A number of domestic John Does who helped McVeigh have been identified on the FreeRepublic and to Congress and to the DOJ recently. Yet the FBI, the AG and IG of the DOJ and legal counsels of several Congressional Committees have refused to apprehend or question these witnesses. This failure deprives the USG of potential valuable information that these domestic John Does could provide on any Middle Eastern terrorists and cells who may have helped McVeigh.

The former Pentagon terror advisor Jesse Clear told me and legal counsels for the Senate Intelligence and Judiciary Committees that he believed that Middle Eastern and domestic terrorists worked together to do the OKC bombing, a cooperation arrangement that has been repeated around the world in other terrorist attacks. Clear was ridiculed and not taken seriously by many of his government pears in counter intelligence and counter terrorism.

Unfortunately, Clear and the FBI strongly defended a failed FBI and CIA policy of allowing terrorist cells to operate without apprehension in the US so US intelligence could follow and track terrorists working out of these cells for years. Clear even gave me a taped recording of a conversation he had about the subject with FBI agent, Paul Geiger, from the FBI counterintelligence unit at buzzards point #3 near DC.

I have complained of this bad and failed policy to Federal officials for over four years and this was even discussed by Clear with Geiger. This failed policy was exactly the case with Ali Mohammed who set up even more cells and trained more terrorists how to set up more cells while he was allowed to roam as an FBI informant and as a follower and trainer for Bin Laden.

And this failed policy of tracking known terrorists in the US was followed and defended by FBI Director Louis Freeh in May 1995 before Congress. Freeh bragged that the FBI had help populate three Abu Nidal terrorists cells in the US with known middle eastern terrorists who were allowed to roam to long train others and set up more cells like Ali Mohammed without apprehension. The three cells Freeh described he stated were in Dallas, Los Angeles and in Virginia near DC. Abu Nidal is a brutal, blood thirsty terrorist who is close to Sadam Hussain and who may have helped in the recent WTC attacks. In 1999 and in 2000 CBN News and terrorism expert Steve Emerson reported Abu Nidal meeting with Sadam Hussein in Iraq.

Even Jane Thomas, a USG employee associated with the OKC bombing museum and terror training center, tried in early 2000 to defend to me the failed FBI policy of not moving against known Middle Eastern terrorists in order to protect FBI operations, informants and to track the terrorists. Thomas quoted FBI agents who had explained this to her at FBI training seminars she had attended. Her description closely paralleled the known FBI techniques used with the Klu Klux Klan and mob figures which are not successful for terrorists since the FBI loses track of them while they continue to set up cells and train more terrorists in the US.

On 9/12/2001 officials in the CIA have been quoted by NBC News reporter, Fred Francis as saying that Bin Laden has many terrorist cells inside the US capable of carrying out attacks. In 2000, CBS National News reported that Bin Laden had many terror cells in the US that were feared to have planned an attack on the FBI headquarters in DC and public tours of the headquarters were canceled as a result.

Besides domestic terrorists helping foreign terrorist cells in the US, it is suspected and has been reported that terrorist organizations Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah , and Hamas collaborate with Bin Laden terrorists overseas and probably inside the US. It is also known that China, Russia and North Korea help encourage, fund and provide other assistance (planning expertise and intelligence) to Middle Eastern terror groups backed by Iraq and Iran that attack US targets. In fact, Newsweek reported in 1998, that Bin Laden gave remnants of US cruise missiles to China. Also it has been widely reported that Bin Laden has acquired nuclear, biological and chemical weapons from nations part of the former Soviet Union and from the Chinese.

Based on the information presented in this article I recommend the following to help minimize terrorist attacks inside the US:

The USG should not blindly rely on help from nations which openly and privately support terrorists even though these nations are currently offering help to track down and punish terrorists. This would include the nations of North Korea, China, Syria, Egypt, Russia, Sudan, Libya, Iraq and Iran.

The US should completely destroy (finish the job this time) the overseas capability of Sadam Hussain and Iraq, Bin Laden and Afghanistan and Pakistan, and Syria and Iran and Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad to mount terror attacks against the US. This would include but not be limited to their training, communication and logistic centers as well as all their weapons and means of financial support.

USG officials and authorities should admit and promise to not repeat their mistake of not acting earlier against Bin Laden and Sadam Hussein for so long when they knew of Bin Laden’s involvement in with bombings of Kobar Towers, Tanzanian and Kenya embassies, and the USS Cole and of Sadam Hussein’s role in backing Bin Laden terrorist activities including his involvement in the OKC bombing.

Apprehend and question all suspected and known domestic and foreign John Does suspects believed involved in the OKC bombing to learn of more about Middle Eastern and domestic men and cells associated with Bin Laden, Sadam Hussein and Iraqi and Pakistani support of McVeigh to help carry out the OKC bombing. Anything learned from these John Does would be important to help understand and eliminate domestic and Middle Eastern and foreign cells that could be involved in possible future terrorist acts in the US.

The FBI should question the Iraqi, the alleged OKC bombing suspect, Al Hussain Husaini about his activities as a baggage handler at Boston’s Logan airport where some of the WTC hijackings were launched. The FBI should try to learn all it can from Hussain about Middle Eastern, Bin Laden and particularly Sadam Hussein sponsored activities in the US even if it he was not involved in OKC or in the WTC attacks.

The USG should re-interrogate Ali Mohammed to learn where the terror cells are in the US that Ali set up for Bin Laden, who their members are and what measures they use to avoid detection. Then the US should move immediately against the cells and individuals that Ali Mohammed identifies.

Admit to, stop and change the FBI and CIA failed policies of populating known terror cells with known terrorists and of tracking these terrorists for years without arresting and prosecuting or deporting them immediately so that they cannot setup more cells and train more terrorists when the USG loses track of them.

Act immediately, now, against all known terrorist cells and terrorist individuals in the US. This would include the three Abu Nidal terrorist cells and those known to populate them as described by FBI Director Louis Freeh as operating out of Dallas, LA and near DC. It would also include any known Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah groups and individuals in the US.

The USG should investigate and move to deport or prosecute all illegal aliens, all foreign nationals that can not justify a legal, non subversive and non terrorist presence in the US since these men or women could be members of these terrorists cells in the US.

Focus on continuing to eliminate terror cells in the US while at the same time destroying training, funding and safe haven support for terrorists overseas. This is vital because sleeper terrorists in these cells in the US can be activated to attack the US again at any time especially if their leaders and base of support are being attacked and destroyed by the US overseas. CIA sources told Fred Francis of NBC that these sleepers do exist in the many Bin Laden cells within the US. These US cells may be capable of delivering nuclear, biological and chemical weapons within the US.

Protect dams, food and water supplies, electrical generation facilities, financial centers, computer communication systems, fuel refineries and chemical plants, critical infrastructures such as bridges, fuel pipelines, nuclear power plants, etc.

Change the attitudes of Congressmen, their staffs and committees, and those senior officials in the FBI and CIA and DOJ, to be more receptive to valid information offered by researchers and investigators pertaining to the WTC and OKC attacks. Currently, these men still suffer from their arrogance that they know best about their failed policies, and will not listen to and learn from researchers and investigators particularly if the information and advice appears critical and embarrassing even though constructive. These men should put adequately protecting the lives of the public ahead of their careers.

I have encountered resistance to listen and receive information from all these types of men in government for over six years and they still refuse to receive and take seriously the information I have offered them even pertaining to the recent attacks on the WTC and Pentagon contained in this article.

The officials who have failed to adequately protect the American public from Middle Eastern terrorists (see my numerous article on FreeRepublic) includes US Senator James Inhofe, Congressman Istook, and legal counsels for the Senate Judiciary, Kolan Davis, for the House Judiciary, Keith Ausbrook, and Senator Grassley’s investigator for the Senate Finance and Judiciary Committee, John Gill. It also includes AG Ashcroft who has received but failed to adequately and timely act on considerable info on the OKC bombing provided to him in person from credible witnesses.

What is extremely troublesome is that these same men who have failed us so badly, are still making the same mistakes and yet are the ones entrusted with the role of protecting us from terrorists in the future. To this date, I doubt their reliability, integrity and judgment on the combating of Middle Eastern terrorist cells and individuals. I pray they will read and listen and learn from their mistakes and change their policies and approaches for the better to save the lives of innocent American citizens.

I find it amusing and sickening that some of these political officials and elected leaders skillfully avoid personal blame and accountability by placing most of the blame on failures of US intelligence for the terrorist attacks on the US. These same officials have repeatedly had the opportunity for years to move but have not moved against Iraq and Afghanistan, against Bin Laden and Sadam Hussein, when it has been proven they were involved in attacks on Americans. If they had moved earlier, there may have not been an attack on the WTC and Pentagon and the loss of thousands of innocent lives. I pray they will not keep making the same mistakes identified in this article.

Assuming all this to be correct, I'm curious as to where the politicians buy their testosterone supplements, as they have none in the natural sense. Everybody is quoting warnings in the form of "60-Minutes" & the overseas papers, yet we're told there was 'no intelligence.'

A few thousand bodies later, I wonder if they've got a clue yet?

McVeigh's attorney, Stephan Jones, was on the money, but he got totally blocked.

Just the known laxity of the FAA on airport security with no Congressional action is enough to hold the U.S. Government responsible for negligent homicide. The Boston Airport was famous for it's security failures. The Hart Rudman Report was recent enough to suffice as not only intelligence, but a guarantee.

Watch where the consequent tax dollars ultimately get spent - Texas???

A friend of mine has been lobbying Congress & the White House for years to get on the FAA - to no avail. He alone warned of the methodology of these hijackers. There was no surprise, except the date, possibly not even that.

Clinton's Executive Order 12866, and its application, guaranteed this event.

The frightening part is that the oldest hijacker / terrorist technique is to operate with a 'caboose;' a backup. Thus, we may be certain that there are more attacks to come.

Beware FEMA!

Excellent article, Pat. You've not only expressed the thoughts I've had ever since seeing that news story when it broke last night--it didn't warrant much more than a raised eyebrow on most networks--but you've put all the pieces together in great (and dismaying) detail. I plan on putting links to this page frequently. I don't know if it will change many minds, but people should read it. I am left with the sad conclusion that we could have stopped this long ago, as long ago as 1995.

My prayer is that this is no "Gulf of Tonkin" event. As time goes on, I fear we'll find still more being exposed.

Addressing reality, I have a nagging feeling that Cheney is the functional President, not Bush - bad feeling.

I wonder if the media is ready to tell America that their "Ethnic Albanians" are Muslims, now.

Steve Elson is getting a fair amount of exposure, so maybe there's a percentage of the population willing to listen.

We can't discount the horror of what happened, but we can illustrate the deliberate programming of what happened. There was no shortage of official complaints or documentation of the risk, and its high-probability for becoming a reality. Even the time frame was known.

There is no excuse.

As an example of what the FAA gets away with, check the list of articles at -

Airline Safety ‘Net

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If you wish to be safer on board an airplane, then allow citizens to remain in posssion of thier concealed weapons when they board an aircraft.

How many times must it be proven that people are safer, much safer when they are armed. Terrorists know an aircraft is defenseless, no one on board is allowed to carry anything remotely resembling a weapon. Easy pickings for 5 or 6 armed men. Throw the metal detectors away (not the bomb detectors) and air travel will be much safer.

Intelligence Lapse

From the Wall Street Journal, Washington Wire, Friday September 14, 2001, at http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB1000434099992421472.htm

INTELLIGENCE LAPSE: Both parties are angry at lack of information sharing.

Republicans are the most vocal in decrying sketchy briefings by the FBI and CIA. A closed-door forum Wednesday for about 400 House members leaves many so steamed that White House lobbyist Calio is back again Thursday for a GOP-only session so they can vent. Bush arranges another bipartisan overview later that day.

GOP Sen. Grassley says after one update, "They could have given us some more information, and should." Some blame GOP Sen. Hatch for intelligence officials' tight lips: They say the officials "pulled the Hatch down" after his televised disclosures this week that the U.S. had intercepts linked to terrorist leader Osama bin Laden.

How many of these angry elected representatives and their staffs ignored warnings of the potential consequences of information that they received in the past?

I lost one of my best replies on an Arator thread, documenting how a lot of this disaster can be laid at the feet of Clinton, the media, and the people who voted for him for the "good economy." A few people must have hit the abuse button and all the good posts get lost with the "bad." With all that Clinton did to help Arafat vs. Israel, and Bin Laden's boys in the Balkans, and his policies continuing, I can't see our foreign policy as a reason for this, except in regards to Iraq. Nothing about this makes sense at all, but we can all count on the terrorist cells continuing to be tolerated (what other word is there?) by the government, even though their claimed reasons for that tolerance now have 10,000 reasons why it is a failure.

Here's the sickening part -

The whole Balkan mess is about access to Caspian Sea oil and the heroin (opium; originally) from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Turkey.

If you go to the actual history as oppposed to the media presentations, you have a close replay to the original version we know as the "Viet Nam War." Pay close attention to the direction of tax dollars.

America was described the 'horrible Serbians" who were committing atrocities (blown to an extreme proportion by the media). The fact is that the Serbs had been driven from their homes by the Muslims ("Ethnic Albanians") and wanted to take back what was rightfully theirs. As with Viet Nam, only half the story was told.

Atrocities of limited proportion were committed by both sides, but only the Serbian allegations were published.

In the current crisis, the media applied the psycholigical warfare technique of Perception Control ("....there was no intelligence that this was about to happen."), as opposed to the more simple propaganda (lies, selective facts & half-truths).

In a sentence, the American people financed Bin Laden with heroin purchases - documented by author, Youseff Bodansky.

Next, go to the roles of companies such as "Brown & Root" (Cheney's old outfit) in the current Balkan mess (Camp Bondsteel, in particular). Go to the role of a 'private' company known as "MPRI" (CIA mercenaries) in the Balkans and South America.

The connections are endless and conclusive.

Follow the defense tax dollars in particular. Watch for major players to buy the bulk of Boeing stock.

Recently, it was announced that the Viet Nam era helicopters were to be retired. If logic holds, Textron/Bell (Texas) will be given a new and damnably expensive contract for a new generation of helicopters; when the Viet Nam era aircraft are more than adequate. Notice also that the overhaul facility is in Texas.

There is every possibility that there is a "Satan" behind the current crisis, but not the one the Muslims seem to believe - the American people.

The scammed "Gulf of Tonkin Resolution" and the USS Liberty incident tell us that fifty-six thousand dead GIs meant nothing to Texas. The current horror is NOT beyond the realm of possibility!

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