Posted on 06/15/2002 11:59:45 AM PDT by spycatcher
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BREAKING NEWS: Padilla Associate Nabbed By Feds In Florida, Had Ties To Benevolence International Foundation
If you've plodded through the Padiila-BIF-Terry Nichols stories (listed below) patiently, wading through the tedious speculation, wishing a real connection would emerge, well, your wait has ended! The feds have nabbed the missing link between the Benevolence International Foundation and Jose Padilla!
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CNN - Feds arrest man linked to 'dirty bomb' suspect
Sorry but GWB was NOT the gov of Texas in 1993. It was a Dem named Ann Richards who permitted the Feds to use National Guard tanks in violation of Posse Comitatus by falsifying a drug connection that wasn't.
It's good to see Furhman is a better investigator than an expert witness.
"The second BIF/Chicago connection concerns Wali Khan Amid Shah, alleged to be a "key participant" in a Philippines-based plot to bomb 12 U.S. airliners in 1994, among other plots. What's interested about Wali Khan is that, in addition to BIF links outlined in the court filings, he was also rumored to have met with Terry Nichols, who with Timothy McVeigh was convicted of having committed the OK bombing. This theory is proposed and expounded at length in what sounds like a rousingly paranoid literary outing called Others Unknown: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing Conspiracy."
Notice the book though is well-written not by a paranoid, but Timothy McVeigh's lawyer
Hint: Lots of Møøse Limbs in the Philipines)...
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spycatcher, I mass emailed this to "the usual suspects"- let's see if we draw some traffic from it.
My recollection is that he was described (at the time of the OKC bombing) as a darker skinned, swarthy individual of either hispanic or middle eastern appearance.
Not making any bets as to which of us is right on this one - but my recollection is pretty strong.
Anyone else out there remember how it came down then?
Palos Hills is rapidly becoming known as "little palestine" as Palestinians have purchased up almost an entire townhome development, named "The Riveria" in Palos Hills.
Palos Hills is located near Bridgeview, IL home of the Chicago Area's largest Mosqaue and largest Muzzie population, and less than 10 minutes away from Burbank IL the area's second largest Muzzie population.
I am FAR from surprised that the link between Padilla and BIF has been made. What I *am* surprised at, is that many, MANY more links haven't been made. The extremist muzzies were in the Mosque in Bridgeview, IL *celebrating* the night of Sept. 11th.
Chicago Area Freepers may well recall the TV reports of protesters outside the Mosque, and Bridgeview police (gestapo) threatening to arrest ANYONE who was non-Arabic looking that got within 2 blocks of that mosque.
Deport 'em all!
Rumored? Thats terribly weak.
On the other hand, I think it is possible that Padilla could be JD#2 based on the sketch and the blank spaces in Padilla's whereabouts from about 1994 through 1996.
(1) A bomb set off amongst a crowd of civilians (whether in a car/truck or strapped to a fool convinced to commit suicide) has long been the preferred method of mass murder among the radical Islamists. They don't have the guts or honor to get out in the open, form an army, and fight like real men. They hide in the shadows and use mostly zealots and/or weak-minded proxies to do their killing for them. When they can, they get the fool to commit suicide (gets rid of the direct link back to the attack planner).
(2) The radical Islamist perp usually (but not always) commits suicide. Something — Waco or something before — turned McVeigh from a decorated soldier to a mass killer, but it wasn't something he was originally willing to die for since he ran from OKC. Although that part of the OKC MO is different from the typical Islamist bombing MO, not all Islamist bombers blow themselves up (as in the Pakistan/U.S. embassy bombing a couple of days ago). However, when caught, McVeigh showed every sign of being a zealot. No spilling the beans on other conspirators. No trying to cut a deal to turn over others to save his life. No remorse. And he WANTED the death penalty. Even instructed his lawyers not to appeal. In other words, in every way except going out in the bomb blast or pulling a trigger on himself, he committed suicide.
UNE 15, 14:52 ET
Man Linked to Suspect Group Arrested
By RACHEL LA CORTE
Associated Press Writer
MIAMI (AP) — A man linked to an organization under investigation for terrorist ties was arrested in Florida on an alleged immigration violation, officials said Saturday.
Adham A. Hassoun, 40, was arrested Wednesday and was being held at Krome Detention Center, INS spokesman Rodney Germain said. He declined to provide further details on the investigation.
State records show Hassoun was listed as the Florida registered agent of Chicago-based Benevolence International Foundation, which in April was charged in federal court in Chicago with funding al-Qaida terrorists. The foundation describes itself as an international charity organization benefiting refugees and children.
Hassoun's arrest came the same week the Justice Department announced the May 8 arrest in Chicago of Jose Padilla, also known as Abdullah al Muhajir, an American accused of conspiring to explode a radiological device in the United States.
The Miami Herald and South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported Saturday that Padilla and Hassoun were acquaintances and attended the same Fort Lauderdale mosque, Al-Iman.
A message left at the mosque was not immediately returned Saturday, and no one answered the door at Hassoun's home in Sunrise.
A woman across the street who said she was Hassoun's sister said she was told her brother was arrested on an overdue student visa. ``He has done nothing,'' she said. The woman would not give her name.
In November, Hassoun told The Herald that he briefly served as North American distributor for the Call of Islam magazine published by the Islamic Youth Movement, which advocates jihad and trains youngsters in guerrilla warfare. The magazine has featured exclusive interviews with al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.
Hassoun told The Herald he had no active role in the organization and that the FBI had interviewed him several times after agents spotted his name on the Islamic Youth Movement Web site.
``They know I'm clean,'' he said.
The former iman at the mosque, Raed Awad, was the chief Florida fund-raiser for the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, which the government shut down in December, charging that the group funded the militant Palestinian group Hamas. The organization denies the charges.
Awad left Al-Iman about two years ago and is now living in Alabama. His home number rang unanswered Saturday.
Timothy was only a white supremisist during the day, at night..........
It's a fairly common last name, but in this context it does give one pause...
LOL!!!
They've got my thread linked to their website, lower right on the bottom of the page.
And to think... my 11th grade english teacher said I wouldn't amount to nothing!
TMMT
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