FBI & Probers Targeted / Say terror sheik's Staten I. aide found (Agents) homes

New York Daily News ^ | 4/23/02 | GREG B. SMITH

[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the World Trade Center bombing, that an FBI informant named Emad Salem told the bureau that Sattar said he obtained the unpublished home address of a lead agent in the sheik's investigation.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."

[Tymesup]

"Fireproofing, sprinkler systems and the water supply for hoses were all disabled in the twin towers on Sept. 11 "

Do we know if this was one act, which might have an innocent explanation, or three separate acts, which are more likely the result of bad intent?

On Denko Mechanical, we have:

A list of bids/contracts
Denko shows up as 936-2001, Provision of Building Heating and Air Conditioning System Maintenance, 57,100.00 - which is not inconsistent with work on sprinklers and fireproofing

Trimen Food Service Equipment Incorporated
A list of emergency service providers for Trimen which includes Denko.

[fella]

When your fighting terrorists you can expect them to target your family and friends so they can gain control over you just look at how the drug cartels work.

[rdavis84]

Reply #59 is the current only address ---

Service agent for Food Service equipment company

Denko Mechanical	376 Bertrand Street Winnipeg, Manitoba R24 0P3	Tel: (204)-233-8003
		Fax: (204)-233-8006

[honway]

Russian?

I think the name Sergei Denko may be Russian.
An alternative spelling for Sergei is Sergi.

[honway]

http://www.chinaningbo.com/china-ningbo/srv98/05/d0521.htm

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Contact: member24531@trade netweb.com (D. Sacasa)
URL: http://www.denko.c om
Denko International P.O. Box 144769
Coral Gables, FL 33114 USA
Tel: +1 305 567-9 145
Fax: +1 305 567-9146

[honway]

In Florida Wednesday, the FBI and Coral Gables police entered the home of a suspected hijacker, Mohammad Atta, and issued a "BOLO," or "be on the lookout," for two cars

[honway]

Denko International Group - http://www.denko.com/
Import, export, consumer goods purchasing agent and factory marketing company

Denko International has dropped their website domain, how often does that happen? I know the connection is a long shot.

[honway]

http://www.sunbiz.org/scripts/cordet.exe?a1=DETFIL&n1=F57189&n2=NAMFWD&n3=0000&n4=N&r1=&r2=&r3=&r4=DENKOINTERNATIONAL&r5=

Florida Secretary of State:List of Corporations

DENKO INTERNATIONAL SALES INCORPORATED

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PRINCIPAL ADDRESS
1825 PONCE DE LEON BLVD.
#274
CORAL GABLES FL 33134
Changed 03/29/1999

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MAILING ADDRESS
1825 PONCE DE LEON BLVD.
#274
CORAL GABLES FL 33134
Changed 03/29/1999
INACTIVE Effective Date

NONE
Last Event
ADMIN DISSOLUTION FOR ANNUAL REPORT Event
09/21/2001 Event Effective Date

[honway]

Denko Consulting
10 E. 39th St
New York, NY 10016-0111
(212)-683-6988

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This is one mile from the NY address for Denko Mechanical.

[honway]

There is not a Denko Consulting registered eith the State of New York.

[Tymesup]

I would have flagged a Denko Consulting had there been one when I looked for Denko Mechanical.

[thinden]

"He was there for a couple of days," Mr. Denko said in an interview.

wonder if anybody axed mr. denko exactly what his crew was doing in WTC?

[rdavis84]

"Denko International has dropped their website domain, how often does that happen? I know the connection is a long shot."

Very much like TEJ/AKAL with OKC, shadow companies that don't go thru the process.

We had some here that actually got their incorporation docs. pulled at the Mo. Sec. State office, then deleted out of the computer.

[piasa]

Thanks to Lynne Stewart case I was reminded of this oldie

[piasa]

2000 : (FEDERAL MEDICAL CENTER, ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA : "SECRET DOVE" LYNNE STEWART & SHEIKH OMAR ABDUL RAHMAN'S CONVERSATIONS ARE TAPPED & TAPED; LYNNE'S ARABIC TRANSLATOR, MOHAMMED YOUSRY, DELIVERS MESSAGES FROM RAHMAN TO A STATEN ISLAND, NY, POSTAL WORKER NAMED AHMED ABDEL SATTAR, WHO IN TURN FACILITATES COMMUNICATION BETWEEN RAHMAN & THE ISLAMIC GROUP IN ORDER TO CONTINUE TERRORIST ACTS) Their [Lynne Stewart & Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman's] friendship, along with Stewart’s counsel, continued after Rahman was imprisoned at the Federal Medical Center in Rochester, Minnesota. That is where Stewart, a self-proclaimed “radical activist attorney” who supporters argue is no more than a kindly 62-year-old grandmother, crossed the line into criminality. Throughout 2000, FBI agents, working under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), secretly videotaped Stewart’s legal visits with Rahman and wiretapped telephone conversations between the two. Due to federal authorities’ concerns over Rahman’s attempts to issue fatwahs and direct further the Islamic Group’s activities from prison, Stewart had to agree to a Special Administrative Measure (SAM) in order to gain access to him. The SAM meant that Stewart could only talk to Rahman about legal matters and barred her from conveying messages from the Sheikh to anyone in the outside world, including his family, friends and the media. The SAM did, however, allow an Arabic translator, Mohammed Yousry, to accompany Stewart on her visits with the Sheikh.
It was through Yousry that Rahman, according to a 19-page indictment issued by federal agents, delivered messages in Arabic to a Staten Island-based postal worker named Ahmed Abdel Sattar. While Yousry was a go-between for Rahman and Sattar, Sattar in turn facilitated communication between Rahman and Islamic Group representatives in the Middle East. Sattar, through faxes and telephone conversations, informed Islamic Group members abroad of the Sheikh’s directives and desires; they in turn carried them out. ... The messenger role played by both Yousry [an Arabic translator, Mohammed Yousry, who accompanied Lynne Stewart on her visits with Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman in Minnesota] and Sattar [Staten Island-based postal worker named Ahmed Abdel Sattar] made the two irreplaceable cogs in the Islamic Group’s militant mission. But without Stewart, correspondence with the Sheikh would have been nonexistent.
Stewart not only allowed Yousry to communicate privately with the Sheikh in Arabic, she encouraged and actively aided the two men’s efforts to conduct IG business behind bars. An F.B.I. affidavit prepared by agent Kimberley Whittle detailed the cunning measures Stewart resorted to during her prison visits in order to protect Rahman and assist the Islamic Group’s homicidal agenda. According to the affidavit, Stewart “made random comments out loud for the [prison] guards to hear in order to conceal the real conversation" between Rahman and Yousry. During one such exchange, Stewart—all the while pretending to take notes in her legal pad—misled nearby guards by loudly inserting the nonsensical phrase, “Yes, the um...I am talking to you about...him going out on a, uh, chocolate eh...heart attack here” into a discussion between Rahman and Yousry. A wiretap captured Stewart, Rahman and Yousry joking afterwards about Stewart’s deception, with the aging Leftist lawyer saying she could “get an award for it,” and the Sheikh adding, “as long as the government is using secret evidence we will use secret doves.”
-- " Cheerleaders for Terrorism: Radical lawyer Lynne Stewart continues her support for Islamic terror ," By Erick Stakelbeck, FrontPageMagazine.com, Wednesday, June 17, 2003 posted June 18, 2003