AP: FBI Illegally Seized Ramzi Yousef Documents From OKC Reporter's Mail

Associated Press ^ | 3/13/2003 | Associated Press

[JohnBerger]

The FBI illegally seized a package sent between two Associated Press reporters working on an investigative series about the Oklahoma City bombing. The package contained documents related to Ramzi Yousef's al Qaeda cell in Manila, according to the Associated Press.

The package contained a laboratory report on items seized from a Manila apartment where Yousef and his conspirators, including Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, plotted a September 11-style attack on America. The package was part of reporter John Solomon's investigative series on possible warnings given to the U.S. about a terrorist attack sponsored by Islamic militants just prior to the Oklahoma City bombing. The FBI told AP the package "contained sensitive information that should not be made public."

According to research published on this site and elsewhere, and extensive courtroom documentation, Terry Nichols traveled to the Cebu, the Philippines, in November 1994, on a 60-day visa that expired on Jan. 21, 1995, the exact date Yousef was planning to launch Project Bojinka, a series of attacks on U.S. bound aircraft. According to "The New Jackals" by Simon Reeve and other verified information revealed during various criminal trials, Ramzi Yousef made at least one and possibly several trips to Cebu during Nichols' visit.

One phase of Bojinka involved the simultaneous detonation of a series of bombs over the Pacific, while a second phase would have had suicide pilot(s) crash commercial aircraft into U.S. landmark(s) such as the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and CIA headquarters. The plot was foiled after an accidental fire exposed the conspiracy.

[_Jim]

With screaming website headlines "WHO IS JOHN DOE 2" which was easily taken care of via a *documented* case of mistaken identity you proceed to state: "there is no claim on my site which is not verifiable." is, well, laughable! I'm off to lunch now!

[_Jim]

I kinda get the impression you *didn't* read his 'book', but, as I say, that's *my* impression ...

LOL!

Il *only* posted a *scanned* excerpt in post #24 of this thread from the book!

You're a riot man - and disingeuous to boot ...

[JohnBerger]

"Who is John Doe 2?" is a question, not a statement. Duh.

[kcvl]

Much of Mohammed’s family heard the call. His eldest brother, Zahid, was regional manager for a Kuwaiti charity, the Committee for Islamic Appeal, based in Peshawar. Two other brothers, Abed and Aref, volunteered to fight the Soviets and both would die. His sister’s son, Ramzi Yousef, visited in 1988 from college in Britain, and returned permanently in 1991. Mohammed was inevitably drawn to the struggle and took a job teaching at a school founded by an Afghan warlord called the University of Dawa al Jihad, translated as Convert and Struggle.

[kcvl]

Posted on Mon, Sep. 09, 2002

Terrorists' Sept. 11 plot a many-tentacled creature

By DANIEL RUBIN and MICHAEL DORGAN
Knight Ridder Newspapers

MANILA, The Philippines - When Col. Rodolfo Mendoza, the former intelligence chief of the Philippine National Police, watched two airliners strike the World Trade Center last Sept. 11, he knew immediately who was responsible.

"They've done it," Mendoza said to himself.

"They" were a small group of Islamic extremists who hated America and Jews, had tried to blow up New York's World Trade Center in 1993 and two years later had come up with the idea of using hijacked airplanes as bombs.

Philippine police had foiled a plan by the terrorists, called "Project Bojinka," to blow up 12 U.S.-bound airliners over the Pacific. They caught one of the plotters, a hapless Pakistani pilot and bomb maker named Abdul Hakim Murad, trying to sneak into a Manila apartment to retrieve a Toshiba laptop computer loaded with incriminating plans.





http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/4020169.htm

[JohnBerger]

[[I misplaced my copy of The New Jackals before finishing it; could you give me a quick summary of what it said about the links?]]

Very briefly, Yousef was apparently in Kuwait when the Iraqis invaded and probably joined his fellow working-class Kuwaitis in supporting the invaders. There's also a fairly convoluted court case involving an Iraqi named Ihsan Barbouti in which Yousef is tangentially mentioned as working for an Iraqi national oil company, but this is considered a little dicey. Reeve is noncommittal on the subject of an Iraqi connection overall.

[kcvl]

Saturday, March 8, 2003 6:07AM EST

Linked by little but N.C., Islam


By CRAIG JARVIS AND CHRISTINA HEADRICK, Staff Writers

The capture of a high-ranking al-Qaeda strategist and the indictment of a university professor accused of running a terrorist organization have intensified attention on the Muslim community in North Carolina, where both attended college in the 1980s.
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, identified as the man who planned the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks for al-Qaeda, was picked up last week in Rawalpindi, Pakistan; he had attended Chowan College and N.C. A&T State University in the 1980s. Last month, Sami Al-Arian, who had studied at N.C. State University in the 1980s, was indicted in Florida on charges of being the U.S. leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Even before the arrests, more than two dozen people with North Carolina connections had been detained for immigration violations or arrested in terrorism investigations. Many of those detained since Sept. 11, 2001, came from the Triad.



http://newsobserver.com/news/story/2297375p-2159482c.html


These are excerpts from a transcript of an interrogation of terrorist Abdul Hakim Murad. The Q&A was conducted by Philippine investigators after Murad was arrested in that country on U.S. charges. Murad and alleged World Trade Center bombing mastermind Ramzi Ahmed Yousef were later convicted of plotting to bomb various airplanes. We have also included, on page nine of this document, a copy of one of Yousef's phony ID cards. Next time, Ramzi, we suggest you try a shop in Times Square. They do much better work.



http://216.239.57.100/search?q=cache:H501AaZ-pWUC:www.thesmokinggun.com/fall/murad1.html+Ramzi+Yousef,+Abdul+Hakim+Murad&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

[MizSterious]

And then there's this one from 2/13/03:

FBI Destroyed Possible McVeigh Evidence

(just to stir the pot a little...)

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

...GWB and this administration, is not protecting Clinton, he is protecting the Office...

To expose the truth and hang the treasonous curs would protect the office. To cover up for Klinton is to be a traitor as well, to the office, to the Constitution, to the country.

[Cicero]

McVeigh took the fall for his friends. He is not a credible witness.

[ravingnutter]

Have you seen the FR Research page on the subject?

Freeper Resource: What Team Saddam Doesn’t Want You To Know!

[Triple]

So what is your point, ADL boy?

That it is ok for the FBI to seize documents without a warrant?

That 9-11 and OKC bombing are in no way connected? (even though Nichols and Kahid S Mohammad are both linked to Yousef through Abu Sayyef in the Phillipines)

Or just to distract and attempt to dscredit?

PS - I call you ADL boy because you post ADL materials on this site without attribution.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Anyone in our government helping to cover this up is even more of an enemy than all of Islam.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

No more than _Jim is a credible shill.

[Uri’el-2012]

bump for later

[ravingnutter]

The Customs Service said its agents opened the package from Manila after selecting it for routine inspection when it arrived at a Federal Express hub in Indianapolis. Agents did not open an identical package addressed to the AP's United Nations office.

This sentence just reached out and slapped me, I wonder if the contents were identical. Did they confiscate this second package as well? Could this package be the smoking gun for war against Iraq?

[Destro]

The Bosnian cover up and the reason Clinton would have hushed up evidence. Project (Oplan) Bojinka Bojinka is a Bosnian word meaning big explosion.

According to research published on this site and elsewhere, and extensive courtroom documentation, Terry Nichols traveled to the Cebu, the Philippines, in November 1994, on a 60-day visa that expired on Jan. 21, 1995, the exact date Yousef was planning to launch Project Bojinka, a series of attacks on U.S. bound aircraft. According to "The New Jackals" by Simon Reeve and other verified information revealed during various criminal trials, Ramzi Yousef made at least one and possibly several trips to Cebu during Nichols' visit.

OKLAHOMA BOMBING LINKED TO BIN LADEN (Captured Chemical Notes Say in Bosnian ‘Was used in Oklahoma’)

[Destro]

see mine above.

[Destro]

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