[Shermy]

Suicide note? Note meant just to flee? Fake?

A handwritten letter by Smith dated Feb. 5 - the day of her arrest - was included in pretrial discovery material the government provided to defense attorneys.

After the hearing, defense attorney Jeffrey Jones showed the letter to several reporters.

Asked if the letter appeared to be a suicide note, Jones said, "That's certainly one interpretation."

Written on green flowered stationery headed "Gardening Angel," the note read: "I Katherine Smith tried to help Kal. He didn't give me any money. He was I thought my friend. I was trying to help him. Now I've lost everything and am called a liar when I was telling the truth. I can't live without any honor. I live a lonely life true enough but I didn't lie to the FBI. Forgive me John. Forgive me Vernola. I can't live this way. I love you both and wish and pray for the best. Love Mama."

The names in the letter, apparently discovered during the FBI's investigation, refer to alleged conspiracy ringleader Khaled Odtllah, who is known as "Kal," and Smith's son and daughter, John Barton IV and Vernola Buchanan.

Katherine Smith links:

Feb. 11
WOMAN ARRESTED FOR AIDING ARABS IN DRIVER'S LICENSE SCAM PRESUMED DEAD
Feb. 12
Feds fear license examiner is dead - Memphis Woman's co-defendants tied to 9/11, judge told
Feb. 13:
Body in car identified as license examiner - Update on Memphis, Tennesse License Examiner
Feb. 14
TENN DRIVER LICENSE SCANDAL: FLAMING DEATH NO ACCIDENT, FBI SAYS
Flaming death no accident, FBI says - Gasoline found on clothes of license examiner
Feb. 15
New York Times (with Pics of car) F.B.I. Says Arson Killed Woman Accused in License Scheme
Sm ith led low-impact life until arrest, fiery end (Not a thread)
Images of the burned car owned by Katherine Smith * alternate title: How Arabs Kill Witnesses
FBI Agent: Arson Killed Key Suspect (driver's license examiner accused of supplying terrorists)
Feb.16
TE NN DRIVER LICENSE SCANDAL: FLAMING DEATH NO ACCIDENT, FBI SAYS
Terror Links In Tenn. Mystery? (CBS News)
Feb. 18:
Mourners remember the good deeds of license examiner, not how she died
Feb. 20
Terror in Tennessee? (Front Page magazine)
Feb. 22
Terroris m expert [Steven Emerson] monitors the Mid-South (WMC-TV Memphis 2/23)
Feb. 24:
March 6
Patrol says examiner's death not due to crash (+ witness accounts)

*TN License Scandals

Pics of License Scam suspects

Color Pics of Suspects

[aristeides]

I don't think many people intending suicide would pour gasoline all over themselves. It doesn't sound too pleasant.

I see no mention in this article of Hammad's "father" Peter Hansen.

[okie01]

If it's a legitimate suicide note, Katharine Smith chose a truly bizarre way to do the need. We're not only asked to believe that she chose to incinerate herself, we're asked to believe that she chose to do so inside a car...while it was in motion.

And that she wrote what seems a very coherent apologia on Friday, gave the matter rational thought all weekend, then calmly did herself in around midnight Sunday -- out on the highway, rather than on an isolated country road.

The method, the manner, the timing and the location all belie the easy "suicide" answer. I'm not buying it...

I can envision one possible scenario for her actions, as described: That she somehow knew she was implicated in the WTC and Pentagon attacks...and she chose to die by fire, as many of the victims had, to assuage her own sense of guilt.

[JDGreen123]

Thanks Shermy. Phil Valentine mentioned this on his show in Nashville today. He said somebody in Memphis must have pictures of authorities in wrong doing to come to any other conclusion than that these guys are terrorists and part of a larger ring. If they are so innocent, why were they held so long? Why did Ms. Smith catch on fire BEFORE her car ever hit a pole?

Just another "nothing to see here, move along now" response from our government. They scare us with iffy threats then pass over a case that has real substance.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Thanks for the info and the links, Shermy.