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Posted on 04/23/2002 2:07:10 AM PDT by kattracks
A Staten Island mailman who was a follower of the blind terror sheik tracked down confidential addresses of FBI agents and prosecutors pursuing Al Qaeda, according to court records and federal sources.
Ahmed Sattar, described by federal prosecutors as a point man for a major terror group in America, was spotted by one federal agent near his home. The agent moved his family from the area.
Sattar also was put on the federal payroll, receiving thousands of dollars to be a paralegal for Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman during his 1995 terror trial, government officials said.
Even though federal investigators became suspicious of Sattar as early as 1993, he had the authority as a mailman to deliver and pick up express mail from Kennedy Airport, giving him access to restricted areas barred to the public.
After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Sattar was reassigned to a post office in a remote section of Staten Island with no access to the airport.
The FBI arrested Sattar two weeks ago along with the sheik's lawyer Lynne Stewart and two others on charges of providing support to a terrorist group.
The charges contrast sharply with Sattar's image as a mild-mannered 15-year veteran of the Postal Service quietly raising four children with an American wife on Staten Island.
But a review of documents and interviews with federal officials reveal that for years, Sattar has been under suspicion for his activities on behalf of al-Gama'at al-Islamiyya, a particularly vicious terror group that slaughtered 58 tourists in 1997 at Luxor, Egypt.
Sattar's affiliation with terrorism surfaced in 1993, as the FBI zeroed in on the sheik's involvement in an al-Gama'at conspiracy to blow up New York landmarks such as the Holland Tunnel and the United Nations.
The English-speaking Sattar became the spokesman for the blind cleric.
The FBI knew in early 1993, shortly after the World Trade Center bombing, that an FBI informant named Emad Salem told the bureau that Sattar said he obtained the unpublished home address of a lead agent in the sheik's investigation.
Salem told the agent, John Anticev, who then recalled seeing Sattar in a postal uniform near his home. Fearing for his children's safety, Anticev moved, court records state.
Sattar also was investigated for obtaining the home address of other agents and prosecutors looking into the origins of Al Qaeda, a federal source told the Daily News.
Nevertheless, he was allowed to continue delivering mail to a facility inside a restricted section at Kennedy Airport.
Postal Inspector spokeswoman Pat Bossert confirmed that Sattar had access to Kennedy in picking up express mail, but insisted he did not have "special access" to other restricted areas.
She declined to discuss the FBI's investigation of Sattar's efforts to obtain addresses of agents and prosecutors.
'Cleaned Up Everything'
Investigators also discovered that Sattar was involved deeply with Trade Center bomber Mohammed Salameh. The informant Salem said Satter became agitated when he learned Salameh had been arrested.
"As soon as he had heard about Salameh's arrest, he had run home right away and 'cleaned up everything,'" Salem told the FBI. Later, Sattar asked Salem "if there was a way to clean chemicals off the body so that no residue was left behind," according to court documents.
Sattar's wife, Lisa, doesn't believe the charges. She describes him as a quiet man, a devoted father who works two jobs to pay for their small rented apartment.
"Supposedly all this stuff went on from the home. It's highly unlikely," she said. "Our apartment is very small. I can hear him talking on the phone."
Sal, I realize the guy was just an opportunist, but this is an indication of the "paralegals" that are working for law firms and the type info they have access to after Discovery. Could happen with witness lists, available documents, etc.
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A post from the past
Acquisition of Loomis Fargo & Co. Makes Securitas a World Leader in Cash Handling
"Securitas has now acquired the remaining 51 percent of the shares in Loomis Fargo & Co. ("Loomis"). Burns International already owned 49% of the company following the merger of Loomis Armored Inc. with Wells Fargo in 1997. With the acquisition of the other 51 percent, this makes Securitas the second largest cash handling services provider in the U.S. and a world leader in cash handling services.
Loomis, based in Houston, Texas, has operations in 220 locations in the U.S. with 2,200 employees and 2,600 vehicles. Organized into four geographic divisions, the company has clients across the country."
Please allow me to recap a few items:
1.In early 1992 McVeigh works for Burns International Security for a short while and we have a lot of information about his employment there including interviews with fellow employees.
2. In early 1993 McVeigh moves to Kingman, AZ and goes to work for State Security Service in April 1993. And according to the chief of security at State Security McVeigh ends his employment there in June or July 1993. According to Stephen Jones, McVeigh went from the security job to a job at True Value Hardware in early 1994. So the question is, what is McVeigh doing in Kingman from July 1993 to early 1994?
3. There is today a Loomis Fargo & Co office in an Arizona town 32 miles from Kingman.
4. Burns International Security and Loomis Fargo are connected(see above quote)
5.From November 1994 until April 4,1995 Robert Jacks lived within a block of McVeighs residence in Kingman with his buddy Gary Allen Land.
6.Loomis Fargo&Co have a location within blocks of the Murrah building on the same street.
7.On the morning of April 19,1995, Robert Jacks is performing duties for his employeer, Loomis Armored,Inc when he sees and reports to the FBI a suspicious Ryder truck that was in the vicinity of the Murrah building.
8. Later on the day of the bombing, Robert Jacks and Gary Land check in to a motel in Perry, OK and then check out the same day. McVeigh is jailed in Perry at the time.
9.May 2,1995 Robert Jacks and Gary Land are captured by the FBI in Carthage, MO. and released 18 hours later.
All the information has been sourced in previous threads, this is simply an attempt to summarize what we know.
Securitas owns Globe, Globe had the contract to provide security at Logan
Website for Pinkertons-Burns-Securitas
I think most people here are familiar with the organization Pinkertons has been affiliated with.
Akal used to have a listing of the court contracts on their site, but the listing is no longer there. Some of the things I came across suggest that the US Marshall Service may be trying to do away with contracts for court protection (which would be a wise move IMO), so it's possible they've managed to do that.
However, as of Jan. 2000, it looks like AKAL did have the D.C. courts:
[t]his is a supplemental response to your letter concerning application of section 4.165(c) of McNamara O'Hara Service Contract Act (SCA) Regulations, 29 C.F.R. Part 4, to a court security contract performed by AKAL Security (AKAL) in Washington, D.C.
Maybe we'll have better luck tomorrow.
I do wish those that rightly criticize Ruby Ridge would realize that most federal law enforcement agents are very good, very professional people who really do put their lives on the line.
The security firms we're talking about create the very same type of threat as posed by the "postal worker" aide to the terrorist sheik, namely terrorist access to VERY sensitive information that can lead to blackmail and/or assassination of witnesses, agents, or anyone they consider a threat to their terrorist organizations.
Father = Hansen; son = Hammad. Yet another Johnny Taliban? I didn't know that FEMA had reported that the sprinklers had been disabled. Was this widely reported? (I've missed little hunks of news access so I don't know if this is the normal media news blackout or if I just missed it.) Especially interesting since this little creep had access to same.
Father = Hansen; son = Hammad. Yet another Johnny Taliban? I didn't know that FEMA had reported that the sprinklers had been disabled. Was this widely reported? (I've missed little hunks of news access so I don't know if this is the normal media news blackout or if I just missed it.) Especially interesting since this little creep had access to same.
Thanks, Lion's Cub. This would fit with your research, rd, and it is VERY welcome news that at least some agencies are trying to rebuild security that X42 carefully dismantled (starting from day one when they undid WH security). Rd, also a very good point about paralegals who could be sprinkled throughout various law firms and having access to all kinds of discovery, etc.
Really? Things are changing for the better? Is Horiuchi on trial for murder? Can at least a civil suit proceed against him? What about the guy who shot that kid in the face? Will the Director reccomend decriminalising soft drugs to focus on terrorism, or do we get more lame-ass "Drugs fund terror" propaganda? Apperently you are too close to the situation. From the outside it looks just like the Catholics: We'll fire a handful of eggregious perverts, but let the gay mafia take over anyway; Or the Moslems (Religion of Peace (tm)): Some lame "condemnations" but Wahabbism still rolls on.
Cite some results people can see, otherwise the FBI should go to hell with the chickenhawks in collars and the towelheads.
Link to Memphis Driver's License Fraud/Smith Murder Thread
See reply #16 in above thread for more of the article about the report.
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New York Times
March 29, 2002
Towers Withstood Impact, but Fell to Fire, Report Says
By JAMES GLANZ and ERIC LIPTON
Fireproofing, sprinkler systems and the water supply for hoses were all disabled in the twin towers on Sept. 11 in the face of a blaze so intense that it drove temperatures as high as 2,000 degrees and generated heat equivalent to the energy output of a nuclear power plant, a federal report on how the towers fell has concluded.
The fire, combined with these failures, brought down the towers even after they had shown surprising and lifesaving resiliency to massive structural damage caused by the impact of two hijacked airliners, the report says.
The report's findings detail for the first time the horrific series of events that led to the collapse of two of the world's tallest buildings. They are contained in a draft of a report commissioned by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Tracking down Hammad's employeer, Denko Mechanical, Inc, would be a worthy task for the "old AKAL gang." My research has hit a brick wall. Wonder why a commercial plumbing contractor would make it so difficult to find contact information? Seems like that would be bad for business.
The UN Commissioner General Peter Hansen is 60 years old , according to his UN bio.
If the information on the ages is correct, I guess these are two different Peter Hansens that have both spent considerable time in Jordan and now live in NY. Small world, maybe.
DOS Process (Address to which DOS will mail process if accepted on behalf of the entity) DENKO MECHANICAL, INC. 232 E 26TH ST STE 21 NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10010 Chairman or Chief Executive Officer SERGEI DENKO 232 E 26TH ST STE 21 NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10010 Registered Agent NONE NOTE: New York State does not issue organizational identification numbers. |
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Kind of Fits in with the Plumbing business.
In a telephone interview on Saturday, Mr. Hammad's father, Peter Hansen, said his son was a plumber, and he provided a letter he said he had obtained from his son's employer attesting to his work at the trade center. In the letter, dated Feb. 13, Sergei Denko, president of Denko Mechanical, said Mr. Hammad had been working for his company in the basement garage area of 1 World Trade Center.
"He was there for a couple of days," Mr. Denko said in an interview.
Mr. Hansen, 56, said he immigrated to the United States 15 years ago. He said he was not in frequent contact with his son, who was born in Jordan, but he said it was inconceivable that his son was involved in any terrorist activity.
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