THE LONESOME DEATH OF MUSTAFA SHALABI

Despite the fact Mahmud Abouhalima’s had passed Sheik Rahman’s warning to
Mustafa Shalabi, Shalabi and a Syrian friend, Abd al-Qader Kallash, sponsored Sheik
Rahman upon his arrival in New York in July 1990, providing him with an apartment, a
telephone and a car and driver. Not long afterward, the Sheik had another problem with
Shalabi that was more serious than alleged embezzlement. The Sheik and his followers
wanted to transform the Jihad office into a conduit for Gama’a al-Islamiyya, while
Shalabi wanted the organization to remain as it was. Rahman moved to Jersey City and
denounced Shalabi as “dishonest” and a “bad Muslim.” He also attacked Muslim
grocery store owners in Brooklyn who were selling pork and pornographic magazines.
The area mosques had letters signed by the Sheik posted in them pronouncing a ban
on any dealings with Shalabi. Fearing for the safety of himself and his family, Shalabi
sent his wife to Egypt and made preparations for himself to go to Afghanistan. Several
days after seeing his wife off, and on the same day Brother Wadih el-Hage arrived in
Brooklyn and met with Sheik Rahman (March 1, 1991), Shalabi disappeared. A Grand
Jury investigating al-Qaeda questioned Wadih el-Hage about a meeting he had with
Mahmud Abouhalima on the day of Shalabi’s disappearance, but no charges were
brought against either of them. Shalabi’s mutilated body was found in the Seagate
section of Brooklyn. He had been knifed first, in the back and neck, then shot and his
apartment ransacked in a search for the missing funds. 1 One hundred thousand dollars
was recovered.2 The story was circulated that the CIA or FBI 3 murdered him, however,
when Abouhalima was captured in Egypt and tortured by the authorities, he implicated
himself and Sheik Rahman in the death of Shalabi the Corrupted. El-Sayyid Nosair
commented, “My gut says a Muslim would not have done this but if the Sheik had
decided to act against Shalabi this way, it would have been done.” When the Wall
Street Journal questioned the Sheik about this he responded, “These aren’t press
1
. Newsday December 16, 1993; The Nizkor Project – The Brooklyn Jihad Office.
http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/orgs/american/adl/hamas/brooklyn-office.html
2
. Mary B.W. Taylor “Slaying in Brooklyn Linked to Militants,” New York Times April 11, 1993 Page 28, 1.
3
. Although all the evidence points to Sheik Rahman ordering the Shalabi murder I came across this conversation between FBI
Agent Veyera and Emad Salem:
Veyera: ... and then we have a little internal problem we have to deal with, Shalabi.
Salem: Yah, yah.
Veyera: That's internal though. That doesn't, that's not a show.
Salem: No.
Veyera: But that's business that has to be cleaned up.
Salem: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Veyera: And they clean that up.
Salem: Yeah.
Veyera: ... and they clean that up.
Salem: Yah.
Veyera: ... and they cover that very nice, and they say, we covered, we protected everybody.
Salem: Yeah.
Veyera: Brother Nosair did what he knew what would happen to him.
Salem: Um hum.
Veyera: That was acceptable.
Salem: Yeah.
Veyera: But everybody else was protected. No one (UI).
Salem: Yeah.
Veyera: And then we took care of Shalabi, because he was a problem, and noone was gotten. So…
Salem: Yeah.
Veyera: We are, we are, they, they're getting the point, they're getting confidence that they are good at what they are doing. Am I
right?
Salem: Absolutely. Absolutely right!
[Source 11-331 -5- 10972-1405 E]
questions. This sounds like the FBI. I never knew the man.” The New York City Police
Department believed that Brothers Bilal Alkaisi and Mohammed Salameh carried out the
murder.4

In March 1991 after the NYPD had found a single red hair in Shalabi’s stiffened
hand FBI agents dressed as Con Edison employees searched Mahmud Abouhalima’s
home in Brooklyn, but still no arrest was made, although listening devices were planted.
This illegal entry also involved an elaborate FBI ruse to replace any explosives found in
his apartment with false ones supplied by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
A neighbor tipped off Abouhalima to the search and nothing was stored there again.
Just prior to the first World Trade Center Event our Brothers were summoned to FBI
headquarters in New York and New Jersey, but that was about it. Could this have been
American intelligence community incompetence or had or activities in Afghanistan
afforded Gama’a al-Islamiyya’s Brooklyn / Jersey City cell immunity from prosecution?
Jamal Ahmed al-Fadl was also involved in the Shalabi termination, but due to his role as
an informer he, nor anyone else, was ever charged.

JAMAL Al-FADL: TRAITOR TO ISLAM

In the early 1980’s Jamal Ahmed al-Fadl a native of the Sudan,

moved to Saudi Arabia, where he was arrested for possession of
hashish5 and deported. Fadl wasn’t particularly religious. For Fadl, Jihad
was less a spiritual quest than a socially acceptable form of bad
behavior. Fadl was an ordinary criminal, and could be manipulated in
ways familiar to law-enforcement officials. Al-Fadl first met bin Laden
between 1988-1989 when al-Fadl went to Afghanistan to make Jihad.
He was the third man to swear bayat6 to him. Al-Fadl came to the United States where
he became Shalabi’s assistant. The FBI reported: “The [assistant] picked up el-Hage at
the airport. [Al-Fadl] told el-Hage that Shalabi was not a good Muslim and that he was
using funds collected for the Afghan war for his own benefit. El-Hage said he knew

4
. John Miller in The Cell Hyperion Press 2002.
5
. A former bodyguard for Usama Bin Laden, Shadi Mohammed Mustafa Abdellah was put on trial in Germany for amassing arms
and chemicals in order to launch attacks against Jewish or Israeli mechanisms there. Abdellah confessed to being part of the
Jordanian wing of al-Qaeda, and said Syria had facilitated his entry into Germany, however Abdellah admitted he was a frequent
binge drinker, marijuana smoker and regular in gay bars. He attributed this to a head injury he received while training in Pakistan.
Die Tageszeitung May 17, 2003 “Al-Tawhid plante Attentate.”
6
. Absolute allegiance. Our members began formally swearing bayat to Bin Laden when al Qaeda was founded in the late 1980s.
Over time, the idea spread throughout the jihad movement and is now used by many different goups. Bayat is a solenm, spiritually
binding commitment to obey the cornmands of a single leader, or emir. However, Sheikh Mohammed noted that the individual
making the oath is in effect pledging allegiance to the emir's organization as well, since he implicitly commits himself to obey the
emir's lieutenants, follow the rules of the emir's organization, and transfer his alligance to the emir's successor if the emir dies. Thus,
if Bin Laden were killed, all sworn al Qaeda members would automatically owe allegiance to Ayman al-Zawahiri, his designated
successor. Although bayat was an entirely voluntary act, KSM said that sometimes, subtle peer pressure was used to persuade
trainees to swear allegiance to Bin Laden and pressure to take the oath was especially acute at more senior levels of the
organizailon. KSM said he attempted to postpone swearing bayat as long as possible to ensure that he remained free to plan
operations however he chose, but he eventually took the oath after the 9/11 attacks, when he was told that the refusal of such a
senior and accomplished al Qaeda leader to swear bayat set a bad example for the group's rank and file. Once an individual swore
the oath, however, there were no institutional penalties for disobedience, as such matters were considered to be between the
individual and God. KSM said that there is no ceremony associated with swearing bayat to al Qaeda. The individual simply met with
Bin Laden, spoke the oath, and shook Bin Laden's hand: "I swear allegiance to you, to listen and obey, in good times and bad, and
to accept the consequences myself, I swear allegiance to you, for jihad and hijrah, and to listen and obey; I swear allegiance to you,
to listen and obey, and to die in the cause of God." KSM said that bayat is normally a private matter between an individual, his emir,
and God, and there was no list or registry of individuals who had sworn bayat to Bin Laden.
nothing of this and was surprised as Shalabi had arranged for [al-Fadl] to pick him up at
the airport. El-Hage arrived at the MaK office to find Shalabi had disappeared.” 7 When it
was revealed that Shalabi was dead al-Fadl and Abouhalima took over the MaK office.

A few years later al-Fadl was transferred to the Sudan, where he established ties
with the National Islamic Front, the ruling Islamist party of Sudan. Al-Fadl embezzled
$110,000 from al-Qaeda and, unable to pay back the money, fled from the Sudan to
Kuwait where he approached the American Embassy there with information on al-
Qaeda’s alleged plans. When al-Fadl testified against the Brothers who carried out our
action against the American Embassies in Nairobi and Tanzania, he was asked:

Q. You told us that you left the Sudan because you were worried because
you stole money and couldn’t pay it back, right?

A. Correct.

Q. You began your journeys trying to start an opposition party to the

National Islamic Front, is that right?

A. Not exactly what you say. I am mad with them, but, you know, I don’t
have money to start making group -- I don’t have enough money, I make.

Q. You didn’t have enough money to start an opposition party?

A. I don’t have thinking about that. It never come in my mind like that. But
they make me mad and I left Sudan and I really hate them.

Q. You had many, many conversations at the end of 1996 with agents of
the United States government, is that right? You spent about 30 days or
so from September and October and November talking to agents of the
United States? In one of the conversations with these agents, didn’t you
tell them that you hoped that the U.S. government would help you
establish an intellectual opposition party against the National Islamic Front
of Sudan [NIF]?

A. Yes.

Q. You did not have any money when you started your travels in February,
so you were trying to raise money.

A. The first thing I did in Syria, I went to United Nations, and I tell them I
have problems with my government, and they give me every two weeks
some money from United Nations in Syria.

7
. FBI FD-302 October 1, 1997.
 Q. The money was just enough to live on and not to start an opposition
party, right?

A. Yes, just for food and living.

Q. You were looking to raise money to support yourself and to form an

opposition party in the Sudan, isn’t that right?

A. Yes, just like anybody, you know, he try to make his country best.

Q. You went to Damascus and from there you went to Jordan, and in
Jordan you actually tried to go to Israel to see if you could convince the
Israelis to give you money, isn’t that right?

A. Correct.

Q. That’s how much you hated the NIF that you would go to the Israelis?

A. Yes.

Al-Fadl had no intention of forming an opposition group. He was a conman who

intended to keep any money he raised for himself. While on the money trail he
journeyed to Saudi Arabia where he believed petrol-dollars awaited him. He was asked:

Q. In Saudi Arabia, you talked more now about Mr. Bin Laden because
you knew that the Saudis were trying to stop Mr. Bin Laden, is that right?

A. They was asking me so many questions and I am very happy at that

time to answer the questions, and one of the questions about bin Laden.

Q. Not only was one of the questions bin Laden, you gave the Saudis a
proposal to assassinate Mr. Bin Laden, didn’t you?

A. Well, any questions they ask me, I give them answer.

Q. So when they asked you how the best way to murder or assassinate
Mr. Bin Laden, you came up with a plan and gave it to the Saudi
government, is that right?

A. I don’t have plan but when they ask me that question, I give them what
I know.

Despite his having collaborated with our kafir enemies, and having repeatedly
warned them of our intentions, in 2001 al-Fadl was secretly indicted. The American
State Department reported he was under U.S. protection for five years after pleading
guilty to a charge of “terrorist” conspiracy and weapon transportation in a confidential
proceeding.8 Jamal Ahmed Mohammed al-Fadl testified against us in open court, and it
seemed like he was headed for prison prison:

Q. Mr. al-Fadl, you have been working with the United States Government
since 1996, and you have given them a lot of information that you
gathered through your years of working as a high-ranking member of al-
Qaeda, right?

A. Yes.

Q. And the agreement you reached with them ensures you won’t be
executed, right?

A. What means “execute”?

Q. You won’t be killed.

(Witness consults with interpreter)

A. Yes.

Q. It ensures you won’t spend the rest of your life in jail, right?

A. They say up to 15 years.

Q. That’s not the rest of your life. You don’t expect it to be, do you?

A. This is what agreement, is up to 15 years.

Q. But with Allah’s help, you don’t expect that to be the rest of your life, do
you?

A. No.

Many pages of transcriptions of Jamal Ahmed Mohammed al-Fadl’s

interviews with American agents were withheld from the Brother’s defense
attorneys during the trial titled USA vs. Usama bin Laden et. al. El-Hage’s
attorney, Joshua Dratel, asked for a new trial because of this but of course
this motion was denied by Judge Kevin Duffy of United States District
Court in Manhattan. None-the-less in a 109-page ruling Duffy wrote, “Through a mixture
of inaction, incompetence and stonewalling to cover up their mistakes, the United States
Marshals Service and the Department of Justice’s Office of Enforcement Operations
have seriously jeopardized the convictions of Al-Qaeda terrorist Wadih El-Hage.” Dratel
pointed to numerous instances where the defense could have used information that was
withheld from them including the alleged relationship between Egyptian Islamic Jihad
8
. Judy Aita Office of International Information Programs USDOS “U.S. Completes Presentation of Evidence in Embassy Bombing
Trial.” http://usinfo.state.gov/regional/af/security/a1040558.htm
and Al-Qaeda, which could have injected reasonable doubt into the proceedings. Al-
Fadl also believed he was part of the “prosecution team” and not a witness. In these
passages al-Fadl discusses his co-operation and states, “I don’t want to prove myself, I
prove already. But now I feel like, I love to do this…I’m like addicted now”…“we work
three years. You are my friends, be very honest with me” and “I love to help you, to help
the case.” El-Hage’s attorney also cited two similar statements where al-Fadl states, “I
love my job. I--I love what I do now. It’s--what I do now is like my prayer,” and “any time
I ask about money, I feel bad because when I work with you I feel I do this like trial. I
feel like this is something great my life, something correct my history.” Notably, the four
latter statements are snippets of a conversation between Jamal Ahmed Mohammed al-
Fadl, prosecutors and agents regarding medical expenses the Government provided for
al-Fadl’s father in the Sudan. Dratel also cited a three-page portion of the transcript
containing a discussion between al-Fadl and Government agents. El-Hage claimed that
this excerpt “reveal[s] that at least a brother of Mr. al-Fadl assisted Mr. bin Laden” and
that “[a] brother or brothers appear to be spending time with Mr. al-Nalfi and there are
discussions of how to keep al-Fadl’s brothers from being arrested by the government”
however Duffy could not find the revelation to which Dratel refers.

Dratel cited a videotaped statement in which Jamal Ahmed Mohammed al-Fadl

described sentiments voiced within Al-Qaeda around the time the United States
arrested Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman. In that statement Al-Fadl recounted, “[W]hen the
people in the United States arrest Omar [Abdel Rahman], some people they say, ‘Why
bin Laden’s group they don’t do something against the United States.’” On direct
examination, Jamal Ahmed Mohammed al-Fadl gave substantially identical testimony:

Q. What discussion was there within Al-Qaeda as to what to do in

response to the arrest of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman?

A. They talk about what we have to do against America because they

arrest Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman.

Q. Did they end up doing, carrying anything out, as far as you know?

A. No.

Q. Did anyone express any dissatisfaction with the fact that nothing was
done?

A. I remember some of the members in Al-Qaeda, they left the group, and
they say no, we not going to stay in the group because the group, they
don’t want to do anything to help Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman. 9

Although he was “in custody,” Jamal Ahmed Mohammed al-Fadl was apparently
not placed in a jail, but rather was kept in an apartment or hotel under the protection of
FBI agents. Judge Duffy noted that as of 2005 Jamal Ahmed Mohammed al-Fadl had

9
. http://www.nysd.uscourts.gov/courtweb/pdf/D02NYSC/05-06625.PDF also US v el-Hage et al T.Tr. 296.50
yet to be sentenced. The cost to the government of protecting and housing al-Fadl since
he began to co-operate with the Americans was $945,000. In 2006 it was revealed that
al-Fadl had been placed in the witness protection program and given a new identity.
The FBI had even gone as far as locating his wife, Nadia, and their four children, in
Khartoum, and bringing them to the United States where they were able to entice Nadia
into violating the tenets of Islam: “At the urging of several female agents, Nadia even
consented, despite her strict Muslim background, to remove her veil and get her hair
done at a salon, along with a manicure and pedicure. When she showed off her new
look, several agents applauded while FBI Agent Jack Cloonan announced on the P.A.
system of his FBI car, “Now, for the first time in public, Mrs. Nadia al-Fadl!” This was
despicable. In the late 1990’s, the FBI imported eight more relatives. Soon they began
to complain that it was haram to inform on other Muslims, subjecting them to arrest,
torture and death. They returned to the Sudan with their honor intact. 10

With Shalabi the Corrupted dead, Sheik Rahman’s vision prevailed.

The Egyptian writer Faraj Fodha (also spelled Fuda) was assassinated by
order of the Sheik in June 1992. His assassin told the Cairo publication Al
Mussawar that he took orders from Omar Abdel Rahman, the Prince of the
Islamic Group.11 When he was free, Sheik Rahman’s directives and fatwas
were sent to Egypt on audiotapes that were recorded in the U.S. After
Rahman was imprisoned they were sent through his “attorney” and a
“translator.” In 1992 another 93 Coptics would die. By 1997 the forces of Islam had
slaughtered 1,200 disbelievers including many Coptics. The Sheik’s ideology had begun
to purify Egypt. During his immigration hearing Sheik Rahman was asked:

Q. Do you believe that people who do not follow Islamic law may be
allowed to live and work in Egypt?

A. Yes, this is the freedom.

Q. Well, the question is suppose that a man is born in Egypt and he is of

the Coptic Christian faith, may he live in Egypt and follow his own faith, or
must he follow the Sunni Islamic law?

A. He must be allowed to practice his Coptic religious laws. And the

Qu’ran says no people, no person, should be forced against his religion.

Q. Suppose an individual in Egypt's Coptic Christian beliefs are at odds

with the Sunni Islamic law of the land. What should be the result? What
happens at that point?

A. This feud can be solved by a meeting between the priest and the Sheik
and the dispute should be solved between them.

10
. http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060911fa_fact
11
. Allison Mitchell - “U.S. Accused Sheik Last Year of Inciting Violence in Egypt” - New York Times July 27, 1993 Page b3, 1
 Q. Then tell me, for example, what would happen if an unmarried Coptic
Christian man in Egypt committed adultery, what do you believe his
penalty should be?

A. He must be punished according to the Coptic traditions.

Q. Well, suppose the Christian Coptic tradition says that that is a civil
matter and there is no punishment. Do you accept that?

A. No. No, he must be punished so that such a crime will not become
widespread. They must punish him or refer him to the Old Testament. The
Old Testament also provides for punishment for adulterers. He should be
lashed, beaten, and imprisoned, or something like that.

Q. The United States State Department says on June 20, 1992, Coptic
Christians were killed in Egypt by Islamic fundamentalists. Are you aware
of this?

A. No.

Q. Do you know of any, instances in which Islamic fundamentalists use

violence against other people?

A. I hear this from the newspapers. The media usually does not reflect the
facts.

Q. So, to your knowledge, Islamic fundamentalists have never used

violence against other people?

A. According to my knowledge, there is a confrontation between the

government and the fundamentalists. This is what I know.

While Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya was actively pursuing the kaffir officials at the
United States Embassy in Cairo were meeting with representatives of Al-Gama’a al-
Islamiyya to discuss human rights abuses committed by the Egyptian Government.
These meetings began in 1991 and ended shortly before the first World Trade Center
Event in February 1993.12 It was not long before Mubarak retaliated - Egyptian jails soon
held 12,000 political detainees who had not been charged or tried. The Interior Ministry
would claim that about 5,000 detainees had been released since 1994, though human
rights activists and Islamists said the number was much lower. Military courts sentenced
about 95 militants to death between 1992 and 1994, of whom 72 were executed.
Sentences by military courts cannot be appealed under Egypt's emergency laws in force
since militants assassinated President Anwar Sadat in 1981.

THE MIRACLE OF THE NOSAIR TRIAL

12
. Chris Hedges “U.S. Aides in Egypt Said to Have Met With Group Tied to New York Blast” New York Times April 12, 1993 Page
A3, 1.
 Sheik Nosair went to trial in late 1991. As a Communist, his attorney William
Kunstler knew that much animosity against the rich, stingy and disproportionately
powerful Jews of New York City existed on part of many blacks and Hispanics.
Evidence of this had erupted in an August 1991 riot against them in the Crown Heights
section of Brooklyn that resulted in the death of the Zionist rabbinical student Yankel
Rosenbaum. Kunstler was able to keep all white Americans off the Nosair jury and it
was comprised only of Hispanics and Blacks. The Jewish Assistant District Attorney
who handled the case, William Greenberg, objected to this:

Based on the law and the facts it is clear that the defense councils have
exercised their preemptory in a racially discriminatory manner. Indeed
they have used nine of ten preemptory challenges to completely bar
whites from serving on this jury. In his capacity as representative of the
community the District Attorney has a direct interest in protecting the
citizens and therefore a substantial relationship with the excluded jurors
and should vindicate their rights since the harmed jurors are unable to
assert their own rights. Accordingly the people move for a mistrial on the
grounds that the defense counsel has discriminated on the basis of race.

Judge Schlesinger did not want to make it seem as if he believed that non-
white jurors could not be impartial, and denied the motion for a mistrial. The
Brothers provided security for Kunstler at this trial. Kunstler explained: “We were
attacked in the courtroom itself by the rabbi’s son’s followers and the rabbi’s son
to such an extent that the judge had to put a cord up in the middle of the center
aisle to prevent that from happening again. I remember going under the table
when that happened, and they were stopped by court officers and that
heightened our need, our feeling that we needed plenty of security in the case.
Everyday on the left side were Islamic people, who were quiet and dignified. On
the right hand side was the Jewish Defense Organization and the Jewish
Defense League, who were pretty obstreperous during the trial, many of them
were thrown out. Those are two organizations. They hate each other for some
reason, and they have had a lot of problems that way. But they are, I would say,
very orthodox, very aggressive young Jewish organizations. They believe a lot in
the use of weapons, self-defense, offense and so on.”

Sheik Rahman was never called to testify at the trial of Nosair for the
assassination of Kahane nor did he attend the trial. Praise God, evidence of El-Sayyid
Nosair’s connection to Gama’a al-Islamiyya’s Brooklyn / Jersey City cell was never
presented to the jury. Kunstler made a motion to have it excluded on the grounds that
both the defense and the prosecution contended that there was no conspiracy involved
in the assassination and that is was the work of a lone gunman. Kunstler, however, did
suggest to the jury that other JDL members killed Kahane over money missing from a
fund to support a Yeshiva:
 No one said, in spite of the tremendous conflicts in their testimony, no one
said that they ever saw Mr. Nosair shoot Meir Kahane. We know that Izzy
Katz was in charge of a yeshiva fund for the yeshiva institution in Israel
and we know that for whatever reasons, Izzy Katz lost control of one of
those bank accounts, was removed from being an authorized signatory on
that bank account in May 1991, approximately six or seven months after
Mr. Kahane’s death. We also know that Izzy Katz had a video camera and
Izzy Katz was actively taking pictures of everything [going on the night
Kahane was killed but stopped just before shots were fired]. 13

Dr. Abel Halim Mandour was a defense witness for Nosair. Mandour, 70, has
been defending Egyptian Islamists for 25 years and is the Sheik of Islamist lawyers:
I did not start out defending the Islamic trend or specializing in defending
Islamists. In 1964, I defended the Muslim Brotherhood. The [Islamic
groups] want to apply Shari'ah law, but the government says that Shari'ah
law cannot be applied because of the international environment in which
we live and which is controlled by America. America does not want to
apply religious law, or specifically Christian law, even though most of
America’s citizens are Christian. [That is why] it opposes others from
applying religious law. My position is that Shari'ah law must be applied. If
we apply Islamic rule, we would have a rule from God and everyone
knows that God is just. The benefits would be great for all the world. 14

In April 1993 Mandour was part of the defense team for Egyptian Islamic Jihad when
seven of its members were sentenced to die for attacks designed to discourage tourism
in Egypt. Mandour cited several articles of Egypt’s constitution that limited military
court’s authority over civilians, but this was useless, as the Brothers fate had been
sealed.15

Mandour blamed U.S. support for occupied Palestine for inspiring the September
th
11 attack. “I hope the U.S. would stop trying to gain control of the world and spare itself
the many enemies it has acquired in the past years,” he said. Mandour has sent
requests to improve the conditions of Abdel Rahman to American human rights groups
and the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, and claimed to have informed the United Nations. “The
Gama’a al-Islamiyya called me from America and said that they were organizing a big
lobby in Washington to release Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman,” he said.

In November 2001 Mandour defended 94 Islamists who were charged by a

military tribunal with forming an underground “terrorist” group, named “Al-Waad” 16 that
targeted the lives of public figures and security officers. They were also accused of
illegal possession of arms and propagating anti-government literature. Two Egyptians,
Hussam Sami and Mohamed Hisham Seif Eddin, who had received flight training in
Texas, were among these brave men.
13
. USDC SDNY 94 Civ 0003 page 3066
14
. Richard Engel “The Lawyers Who Plead for Islamic Militants” Middle East Times
http://www.metimes.com/issue45/eg/03lawyers.htm
15
. Caryle Murphy “Egypt Convicts 32 In Attacks on Tourists.”The Washington Post April 23, 1993.
16
. The Promise.
 In December 1991, the jury returned a bizarre verdict, acquitting Nosair of the
Kahane assassination and possession of a weapon and finding him guilty on lesser
charges of shooting Franklin and Acosta and illegally detaining Garcia. Although no
witness saw El-Sayyid Nosair shoot the racist Rabbi, two of them saw the Brother with a
gun in his hand. At Nosair re-trial for the Kahane assassination in Federal District Court,
Ari Gottesman testified: “I saw a man – I saw a gun, a chrome-colored silver-colored
gun in front of me highlighted by the white of Rabbi Kahane’s shirt. I saw and heard the
gun go off.” Gottesman said it was Nosair who fired the gun. Stephan Hoffman testified:
“He had a silver gun in his hand, and held it up and pointed it at myself and the elderly
man, and I saw him fire it. The man is here in the courtroom today [points at Nosair].” 17

There were many blacks on the jury who had been oppressed by the Jews as we
have been, and they sympathized with El-Sayyid Nosair. Kunstler had a winning hand
when he played the race card. An outraged Jewish Judge Schlesinger gave Nosair the
maximum sentence of twenty-two years on those lesser charges, and sent him to Attica,
where, after time served he would have been eligible for parole in six years. Schlesinger
ranted: “In my judgment the verdict was against the overwhelming evidence and defied
logic and common sense.” The Justice Department never reviewed the case for a Civil
Rights prosecution. Kunstler protested this verdict:

The evidence clearly showed that the defendant was being chased by a
bloodthirsty mob seeking to harm him. Like Mr. Franklin, someone stood
in the way of his escape, namely officer Acosta, who according to the
juries acquittal of murder in the first degree was not believed by him to be
a New York City Police Officer. If he was found to be innocent of shooting
both Rabbi Kahane and Postal Officer Acosta then how can he be found
to have possessed said weapon? Moreover, if he did not possess the
weapon in question, then as a legal matter the assault verdicts cannot
possibly stand.

The Judge responded:

The jury could have concluded that the evidence at the trial established
that no witness saw Nosair shoot Rabbi Kahane. That the bullet that killed
Rabbi Kahane exited his body. That there was one piece of ballistics
evidence, a lead core recovered from the Morgan B room that could not
be matched to defendant’s gun and that another person in addition to the
defendant [must have] had a gun in Morgan B room on the night Rabbi
Kahane was killed. Based on this contrasting evidence the jury could have
reasonably concluded there was reasonable doubt that the defendant shot
Rabbi Kahane but there was no reasonable doubt that the defendant shot
Irving Franklin and Officer Acosta and detained Franklin Garcia.

17
. USA v Rahman TT 2529 and 2756
 The judges’ logic was as convoluted as that of Kunstler for ballistics testing
showed that the weapon recovered from Nosair was the weapon that fired projectiles
found in the room in which Kahane and Franklin had been shot, as well as in the area
Acosta had been shot.

Nosair, with the help of the Almighty, had shot three people without a gun! But
where did the gun come from? We do not know. What we do know is that the New York
Police Department found a federal firearms license issued to a former Raymond J.
Murteza.18

Sheik Rahman had this to say about the assassination of Anwar Sadat and Meir
Kahane:

The West considers anyone who defends his homeland, or his faith, to be
a terrorist. The one who defends Islam in Egypt against a dictatorial and
oppressive Government is considered a terrorist – this is an injustice. Who
is a terrorist? He is one we must be forewarned against. They say we are
killers of Sadat and Kahane – what is the connection between these two?
(laughs) In any case, this is a source of honor and pride to be connected
to these killings. We are honored to put out religious opinions to kill
oppressors, tyrants, kuffar and despots.

SALEM INFILTRATES OUR CELL

During Nosair’s state trial in December 1991, FBI informant Emad Salem began
to befriend the Brothers in Nosair’s support group in order to infiltrate Gama’a al-
Islamiyya’s Brooklyn / Jersey City cell. He became a regular attendee at El-Sayyid
Nosair’s trial where he met Ibrahim A. El-Gabrowny, who was raising money to aid in
Nosair’s defense. Salem also met other regular attendees such as Siddig Ali, Mahmud
Abouhalima, Ali Shinawy, Hamdi Moussa, and Ahmed Sattar the Elder.

SATTAR THE ELDER

Ahmed Sattar was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1959, where several of his immediate
family members currently reside. Sattar:

The Egyptian security forces in Egypt raided my home. I mean, thank God
my mother, my 70-years-old mother, was not home, my sister was not
home, my brother was not home. So they could not find anybody except
my neighbor, that poor man. And he was the only man in the house. He
lives upstairs from me and they grabbed him, even though that he is not
even a Muslim. He is a Christian man and they just grabbed him. It was
regular procedures for them.

18
. http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/studentwork/investigative2002/fancher-trials.asp
 In 1979 to 1981, Sattar served in the Egyptian army. He lived in Egypt until he
came to New York on a tourist visa and settled in Brooklyn in 1982. He thereafter met
and married his wife Lisa, an American citizen who was born and
raised in the country she would help Gama’a al-Islamiyya to
destroy. She grew up in a Catholic home, worshipping idols that
desecrated the memory of Jesus. In 1993, she converted to the
Muslim faith. Sattar and his wife have four children who live in
Staten Island. In 1985, he received his U.S. residence card and in
1989 he became a United States citizen. Salem, accompanied by
El-Gabrowny, also met with Nosair. El-Gabrowny introduced
Salem as “a new member in the family.” 19 After Nosair was moved from Bellevue to
Rikers Island, he began to receive visitors, most regularly Ibrahim A. El-Gabrowny, and
also Mahmud Abouhalima and Emad Salem, Mohammed Salameh, and Nidal Ayyad.

Salem passed himself off to the Brothers as a private investigator

who supported himself as a jewelry designer. He showed those loyal to
Sheik Rahman photographs of his sandbagged bunker in the 1973 war,
the reviewing stand where Sadat was assassinated in 1981 and his grave
site, pictures of a woman with cigarette burns and a man confined in a
cage because he wished to practice the real Islam. Salem worshiped at
the Abu Bakr Mosque in Brooklyn and the Al-Salaam Mosque in Jersey
City where he collected money for the defense of El Sayyid A. Nosair, and freely gave
interviews to news reporters to bolster his credibility. The Jewish Press reported on an
aborted demonstration staged by the Defense Committee for El-Sayyid Nosair:

Ibrahim El-Gabrowny, a Nosair relative, waited for nearly an hour before

canceling the event. With him were Mr. Salem, chief of training and
security for a Muslim watch group called The National Islamic Affairs
Organization20, and two unidentified men who removed placards from a
bag. The organizers expected between twenty and fifty people, judging
from a previous demonstration they held at the same location at Two
World Trade Center ten days ago. Salem said they would reschedule the
demonstration and continue to protest until the Governor agreed to meet
with them because ‘He needs the Jewish vote. When the Jews want to
meet with him he’s there on the spot.’ Dressed in a black turtleneck
sweater, a black leather jacket, black jeans, black sunglasses, black
combat boots and a green beret, Salem was eager to represent his
group’s interpretation of Nosair’s plight in Attica State Prison. ‘They are
denying him Halal food which is specially slaughtered and blessed meat,
similar to the Jews’ kosher food.’ He claimed that Jewish prisoners are
allowed to receive kosher food and that denying Nosair his Halal is a
grave offense, particularly during the Ramadan fasting period when
Muslims eat only once a day. Salem also said that Nosair’s isolation was

19
. Tr. 4633-34.
20
. Dr. Mehdi’s organization was the Nation Council on Islamic Affairs.
 harsh and unjust and included no television or telephone rights and limited
visitation rights under maximum security. 21

As a result of these contacts, Salem traveled to Detroit with Rahman, and others,
to attend a conference on the Islamic economy. Actually, the conference was about
Jihad. Sheik Rahman delivered the keynote address:

The gracious Lord says, ‘Don’t humble yourself and ask for peace when
you have the upper hand.’ My dear Brothers, God has imposed the Jihad
upon us. It’s one of the pillars of Islam that we must always perform and it
is the pinnacle of our lives. We must defend and purify our land and
conquer the land of the kuffar to purify it. We should declare Jihad if they
try to stop us…Any call to leave the Jihad for negotiation or to sit at the
same table with the enemy, who occupied and pillaged the land and raped
our honor and dignity, is away from Islam. Look at Nasser. He was the
one who allowed Israel to expand its borders and to gain large territorial
gains from Egypt. Sadat surrendered whatever Israel wanted through the
Camp David Accord. Any negotiation, any peace treaty with the enemy, is
treason to Islam. And now we have the third coward traitor Hosni Mubarak
who became the loyal lapdog of America and surrendered everything
while leading the convoy of treachery. He wants to surrender everything to
Israel and, behind the scenes, to America. So now Egypt is humbled and
humiliated, politically, economically and socially. And now there are deadly
diseases. There’s a conspiracy to destroy the Egyptian economy by
prohibiting the growing of certain important staples for Muslims there while
asking the farmers to grow unimportant crops.

During this trip, Salem, seeking to ingratiate himself to Sheik Rahman, informed
Sheikh Rahman of his prior service in the Egyptian military during the 1973 war.
Rahman told Salem that this was not Jihad because he had been paid to fight by an
apostate government. Sheikh Rahman also told Salem that he could make up for this,
however, by assassinating Mubarak.22 Sheikh Rahman said:
The puppet Egyptian regime, the rotten Egyptian regime of which the
president of this regime has wallowed his face in the dust of America and
to be the loyal dog of America in the Orient. We must uproot this regime
from its roots and we must endeavor to terminate and exterminate it
because it is the source of danger in the Muslim world and it is the center
of corruption. Those must be eliminated and terminated. There must be
revolution against those oppressing tyrants…You must revolt everywhere
against the rotten puppet regimes…

Before the Nosair trial ended, Salem was invited for dinner at El-Gabrowny’s
home. During dinner, El-Gabrowny indicated he was concerned about being bugged by
the FBI, turned up the television, and then discussed construction of high-powered
explosives with Salem. Salem testified that after this dinner at El-Gabrowny’s house,
21
. Jewish Press March 20, 1992.
22
. USA v Rahman TT 4713-15
bombing became a frequent topic of conversation between them. By early 1992,
Rahman had also welcomed Salem into the group. Sheik Rahman specifically praised
Salem for attempting to restart paramilitary training with the group, noting that there
would come a day when the training would be needed. Salem was soon able to become
a bodyguard for Sheik Rahman.

WHO WAS EMAD SALEM?

The traitor Salem (born February 22, 1950 in Kaliopia, Egypt) entered the
Egyptian Army as a private and, during an 18-year career, fought in the 1973 war with
the Zionist settler state. He was “pensioned out” at age 37 as a senior officer while
continuing a relationship with Egyptian military intelligence. Salem claimed that this
relationship merely consisted of the fact that before he left Egypt he had been asked to
find five members of the Egyptian military who had gone to the U.S. for training and had
disappeared. During the trial of Sheik Rahman and his followers he was asked why he
had retired:

Salem: It’s various reasons. My marriage [to his cousin] was falling apart
and some of them I was just depressed. I wasn’t happy in my personal life,
and that reflected on my career, so I decided to resign and just leave.

Stewart: Isn’t it a fact that you really didn’t retire but just transferred to
military intelligence, is it, Mr. Salem?

Salem: No, ma’am, it’s not true.23

Salem worked as a security officer for Bergdorf Goodman in 1987

and 1988. He became an American citizen on April 26, 1991 then got a
job as manager and security man at a Best Western hotel in midtown
Manhattan and in early 1991 was contacted by Special Agent Nancy
Floyd of the FBI’s Foreign Counter-Intelligence Division to work on an
investigation involving the Soviets. In November 1991, Salem, who had
changed jobs, fell off a ladder at the Woodward Hotel in Manhattan and
claimed to have landed on his head. After this he started acting nasty. He pressured co-
workers to buy cheap jewelry from his girlfriend, and told them they would be shot if
they did not. He got hold of a credit card in another security guard's name and used it,
without his co-workers knowledge. Salem was fired. He approached the Immigration
and Naturalization Service and in July 1992, he returned with a squad of immigration
agents to arrest illegals working there. 24 He received a bounty for every alien he turned
in. Salem made tapes of the conversations he had with the FBI and INS in regard to
these two investigations.25 Salem applied for a job with the CIA as a translator but was
turned down because he was not an American citizen.

BARBARA ROGERS
23
. USA v Rahman TT p5809
24
. Study of Revenge, Mylroie
25
. Letter to Judge Mukasey from USA’s office November 9, 1993
 Two weeks after Salem moved to America he took an American Christian wife,
Barbara Rogers. Their marriage would end in divorce. Rogers first met Salem on
September 26, 1987 on a blind date set up by Salem’s cousin in New York. Rogers had
a degree in chemistry and had attended nursing school for two years. She had green
eyes and red hair down to her ankles. She held many jobs, many with Jewish
institutions such as the United Jewish Appeal and Mount Sinai Hospital. She was a
martial arts expert and taught a class in Taekwondo. She testified as a defense witness
during the trial of Sheik Rahman focusing on Salem’s connection to the Egyptian
security apparatus:

We stayed in my studio apartment. It was at West 81st Street. About four

weeks after we were married, very strange things started happening. It
wasn’t long when he started having, started getting telephone calls in the
middle of the night. Emad started going out meeting people in the middle
of the night. He’d say he’d be back in an hour or two. Our mailbox was
broken into a couple of times. Our apartment, strange notes appeared in
our apartment. The notes were in Arabic. Inside the apartment, left on a
coffee table. One time in the middle of the night I got up after he left and I
went out and I wanted to see exactly where he was going. So I followed
him and he stood on a street corner on East 83rd and Second speaking to
an Arabic looking gentleman for about an hour, and it was freezing cold.

He had two handguns that I did see. One was a very small German
made gun that he brought in from Egypt. He used to carry that in a leg
holster, an ankle holster. Another one he carried in a shoulder holster
here, it was a large gun. I don’t know. It may have been a 9-millimeter.

[We traveled to Egypt together.] Well it was the first time I have ever been
treated like royalty. We took EgyptAir, and everyone else got off the plane
and we were told to sit. Emad said, ‘Wait here. We don’t have to get off
with everyone else. They sent a special car out for us and we did not have
to go through regular lines. I stood there and waited with a friend of his,
and Emad said, ‘Don’t say very much to him, he’s a friend of mine. He’s
one of my friends in the intelligence. His name is Mohammed.’ Very well
dressed cultured articulate gentleman in a very expensive brown suit. I
talked to him for about 15 minutes and he said they were going through
our luggage and that was – when we first got there we stayed at officers
quarters. Emad told me I was the first American that stayed in a lot of
these officers’ quarters because he said Americans were not allowed to
stay there because if someone had ulterior motives you could knock out a
whole lot –

We visited his apartment at 132 Tiran in Cairo, and he wanted to show me

where he lived. He wanted to introduce me to some friends of his who
were also Egyptian Army officers. I saw pictures of Emad with Sadat. I
 saw many pictures of him in both summer and winter military uniforms with
Sadat…

We went for a drive, and we stopped at a place. It was near his apartment,
about 20 minutes away, I would say. And it was brick wall, high, high brick
walls, maybe ten to twelve feet high with barbed wire around. And we
stopped like at a guard gate, and I can’t say what he said right? Anyway it
was a political prison. And he went inside and he said ‘Don’t get out, I’m
sorry’ I stayed in the car until he came back out. I guess that is all I can
say…

In July 1990 I was in the kitchen doing dishes, and he came out and said
he was going to the airport to meet someone and I wasn’t expecting
anyone, and he hadn’t told me of anyone, so I said, ‘Well, who are you
going to meet?” He said ‘It’s no one you know. Just someone by the name
of Rahman.’ I said, ‘Rotman?’ I said, ‘It’s a Jewish name. You don’t have
any Jewish friends.’ He said, ‘No, no not Rotman.’ He said, ‘He’s a blind
Afghani prince. I am going to meet him.’ And he said, ‘Do you remember
what I told you in Egypt? This is the beginning of my final mission. It starts
today.’

We separated in October 1990…over the next three or four years there

was a point where I did not speak to him for a year. I had an order of
protection against him. We divorced in January 1993.

He said in November 1991, he told me the FBI sent him in for Nosair – to
be part of the outside group for Nosair. That’s when the FBI sent him in to
infiltrate and to take pictures of who was there, and he was to stir up the
anti-Jewish sentiment…He never stopped working for Egyptian
intelligence. That was a given. He told me that he would not – that he was
Egyptian. That was his first love, his first country, he was a highly trained
agent, 17 years worth of experience, and he was – he wanted to do what
he was doing, he was glad to do it. One night he said we had to go
someplace, and he had to change tapes, and would I help him. And we
went over to West 72nd Street in a little park area and he opened up the
trunk and changed tapes. There were little silver reels. He put the little
silver reels in white envelopes. At one point he asked me to take pictures
of him doing this. He brought the camera. He said, ‘There is a lot of
problems’ he was talking to himself more – he said, ‘Problems, they’re
causing me problems. That God-fucking FBI - problems. You’ve got to
help me, you’ve got to protect me.’

Barbara Rogers was a good woman and a loyal one. When she helped Salem
get citizenship she was willing to lie for her man and characterized herself as having
earned a PhD. in genetics from Mount Sinai hospital. When she became aware of how
evil Salem was she authored another letter, this time saying that Salem was a liar,
cheat, thief, and he had bragged about killing someone in Egyptian intelligence found to
be working against the United States. The United States Attorney lied when he claimed
that she “unsuccessfully attempted to extort ‘hush money’ from the United States
Government following the June 1993 arrests” of our Brothers by saying she had a friend
at the New York Times and would go public with her information on Salem. Rogers
worked closely with William Kunstler, at one point bartering information about Salem for
legal services.26 Thanks to Rogers, the defense obtained, and promptly leaked to the
press, medical records about Salem that included a May 1992 neuropsychological and
clinical psychological evaluation of Salem in connection with litigation related to his
March 22, 1992 automobile accident. Salem was then asked about this accident case:

It was a criminal case, somebody hit me with a car. I was driving my car; I
stopped at a red light. He hit me from the back. I get out of the car to take
the information, he hit me with the car, he carried me on the hood and
kept driving with me on the hood and I was hanging on there until the cops
saw him. They stopped him, and with the weapons, and they arrested him
there and they took me off the hood.27

The U.S. Attorney did not want the clinical psychologists conclusions introduced
as evidence in the Rahman case. Salem had a tape he claimed documented the
allegation that Rogers had threatened him and his children with a gun. He obtained an
order of protection against Rogers. Roger’s said the Salem sent her a “torture fax” and
threatened to kill her cat.28

Kunstler, who represented Ibrahim El-Gabrowny at the beginning of the Rahman

trial, said that at the civil trial that came about as a result of the car accident Salem told
the jury, under oath, that he had been one of Anwar Sadat’s guards when Sadat was
assassinated, and that he had five bullets in his body from that experience. Kunstler
attacked Salem’s credibility:

You know, the Egyptian Government – and I believe this is the only
truthful thing they’ve told yet – said that Salem had nothing to do with
Sadat, that he was not his guard, at all. Secondly, Salem divulged that he
had had amnesia since January 1992, and that he had been going to a
psychiatrist by the name of Dr. Stein to help him with this situation. Thirdly,
he committed bigamy here in New York, for which he is not being
prosecuted. He married a woman here while he had a wife living in Egypt
who was still his wife. Fourthly, they got rid of his Federal tax lien. The
Government had a tax lien on him, and they got rid of that. And they also
got rid … he was marked as a persistent scofflaw by the parking bureau
here. He was issued twenty-two tickets in a very short period of time. They
got rid of those tickets. And on the sheet of paper, which quashes the
tickets, it says: ‘On Federal Business.’29

26
. USDC-SDNY 93CR181 Document #662
27
. USA v Rahman TT p4591
28
. USA v. Rahman TT 14503
29
. Paul DiRenzo interview. http://pdr.autono.net/kunstler_wtc.html
 Salem was a confirmed liar when it came to his importance. This came out at the
trial of Sheik Rahman:

Q. Did you tell FBI Special Agent Nancy Rene Floyd that you had been a
part of President Sadat’s detail when he was assassinated? Did you tell
Floyd that you knew Colonel Muammar Qaddafi of Libya from having met
him on several occasions?

A. Yes.

Q. Do you remember telling Mr. Floyd about Colonel Qaddafi that

everyone considered him in the Middle East to be crazy?

A. That’s true.

Q. Do you remember telling her that in the Arab world, when a child is
bad, mean and crazy acting, the Arabs believe then that the child has
black blood, is that right and that in order to alleviate that the Arabs cut
slits in the child’s forehead to let out the black blood.

A. That’s right.

Q. You said that’s where you can see where Qaddafi had scars on his
temple, is that right from the black blood being let out?

A. That’s right.

Q. How about Saddam Hussein of Iraq or King Hussein of Jordan? Did

you tell her that you knew these people? Did you tell Floyd you had
knowledge of the military and atomic capabilities of Middle East countries?

Salem answered in the affirmative to all of these questions but claimed that he
eventually told her these things were not true. Rogers told Robert Friedman that her ex-
husband was once the warden of an Egyptian prison, where he supervised the torture of
political prisoners. He finally quit, says Rogers, after he witnessed a German shepherd
being used to sodomize a prisoner.30

NOSAIR WANTS ACTIONS

During visits at Rikers Island jail, as well as subsequent visits once he was at
Attica State Prison, Nosair suggested the manufacture of twelve bombs to be used in
the assassinations of Judge Schlesinger who sentenced him. He also suggested:
“Kidnap the judge and bargain with him to release me. He was not merciful with me and
we should have no mercy. These people do not have 24-hour security, and if you surveil

30
. Robert I. Friedman “America’s Scariest Home Video” New York Magazine November 21, 1994.
him by the weekend you can even shoot him.” The Brothers knew where Schlesinger
lived as they already had demonstrated outside this evil judge’s home. New York City
Assemblyman and Jewish terrorist Dov Hikind were also targets, as was Senator
Alphonse D’Amato, (Dr. Mohammad T. Mehdi had already demonstrated against him)
terrorist Rabbi Avi Weiss and United Nations Secretary General Boutros-Boutros Gali.
The Brothers also targeted Jewish prayer houses and the like.

Jewish Defense League member Leon Kryzhonovsky

who loudly disrupted the trial of El-Sayyid Nosair was to be
executed. Emad Salem explained: “In the middle of the drive
Mohammed Saad, [the cousin of Sheik Rahman’s aide-de-
camp Ahmed Abdel Sattar and a member of Gama’a al-
Islamiyya’s Brooklyn / Jersey City cell], was talking about Mr.
Leon, and that he and Mr. Ahmed Abdel Sattar did surveillance
on Mr. Leon and they got his address. And they discovered that he lives close to Mr.
Mohammed Saad’s house. And he directed me to be, to drive over there. He showed
me Mr. Leon’s house, and he said, ‘If you will get us a nice bomb to put it underneath
his car, we can get rid of him.’ I said, ‘Yes, it is a good idea. We will see what can we
do.’”31 The plan was cancelled after Nosair dismissed this Zionist thug as
inconsequential.

In June 1992 El-Gabrowny again visited Nosair in Attica prison. Upon his return,
he instructed Salem and Shinawy that Nosair wanted to see them. Salem testified that,
when they made the visit, Nosair berated them for not proceeding with bombing plans
and directed Shinawy to seek a fatwa from Rahman approving the bombings. On the
way home from the visit, Shinawy told Salem that the planned operation would involve
twelve bombs and guns, indicating that his source for firearms was Hampton-El. Two
days later Salem went to El-Gabrowny’s house and found Shinawy already there. The
three agreed that they would try to secure a “safehouse” for constructing bombs, and El-
Gabrowny would attempt to obtain detonators from Afghanistan. A few days later,
Shinawy summoned Salem to the Abu Bakr Mosque where he introduced Salem to
Hampton-El. Salem and Shinawy explained to Hampton-El that they were making
bombs but that they were having trouble getting detonators. Hampton-El said that he
had access to “ready-made bombs” for $900 to $1,000 apiece. He also offered to obtain
a handgun for Salem. A few days later Shinawy gave Salem a handgun from Hampton-
El.32 Islam allowed Shinawy to marry up to four wives at one time, so he married Samia
Abou-Mousa in Egypt in June 1980, when he was already married to Karima Shinawy in
the United States.33 Nosair continually chided his visitors for doing nothing to further the
Jihad against the oppressors. Salem was asked if he reported these meetings to his FBI
handlers:

Q. And all the things you reported from that first meeting with the beepers
and timers and the killing of Dov Hikind, you told it to FBI New York Office

31
. USA v Rahman TT p13833
32
. USA v Rahman TT 4932-33, 6485-86
33
. USA v Rahman TT13963
 Foreign Counter-intelligence Assistant Chief Carson Dunbar, when you
came back from Attica?

A. Yes.

Q. And he didn’t believe you, did he?

A. He did say that I felt that.

Q. He did something that made you believe he didn’t believe you – the
angry meeting?

A. Yes.

Q. He said, you are giving us very serious information about killing a

judge, killing one of the civilians, and we should like to verify this
information?

A. They told me that if you take a tape and go to Sayyid Nosair in jail and
you record him, and you bring an admission that he killed Kahane that will
be entrapment. And then later they told me go take a wire and go tape him
in jail. That was a lot of confusion to me which I didn’t understand.

Mohammad Saad developed a plan to get Nosair out of jail and confided the plan
to Salem:

We started talking about Sheik Sayyid Nosair and Mohammed Saad

suggested to get a plan to break him out of jail. He told me that he wants
to rent apartment close to Attica jail so he can get a job with either the
garbage company who is doing garbage with jail or the bakery company
who is delivering or something in that effect. And then we tell Mr. Nosair to
work inside jail in these areas, and then when Saad drive the car or the
van -- that will facilitate us to pick him up from jail and smuggle him out
and put him in the apartment close to the jail. That is the last place
anybody would look for him close to jail.

The problem with Saad’s plan was that it was entirely unrealistic. No one had
broken out of Attica since it was built in 1930. In the event that the plan succeeded
Saad would have come under suspicion because he had attended the Nosair trial,
numerous meetings with Brothers at the Islamic Center in Jersey City and was known to
the FBI as an associate of Nosair.

Salem repeated the plan to El-Gabrowny, who cautioned them to slow down and
await the outcome of Nosair’s appeal. Little did El-Gabrowny know that although
Kunstler had filed a Notice of Appeal, he never followed this up with any subsequent
motions or briefs.34 After being badgered by Nosair to take action, El-Gabrowny met
with Salem and told him that he was in touch with underground people who could help
them construct the twelve bombs that Nosair wanted them to build. El-Gabrowny
instructed Salem on the superiority of remote detonators rather than timers, describing
to Salem how a remote detonator could assist in bombing the Jew State Assemblyman,
Dov Hikind.35

THE JEWISH DEFENSE ORGANIZATION (JDO)

The cell was also planning to attack the Jewish Defense Organization training
camp named after the Jewish fascist, Zev Jabotinsky:

Siddig: [The operation] needs people who are well trained.

Salem: What is it?

Siddig: The second operation, the Jewish Defense Association.

Salem: Where is it?

Siddig: In Upstate.

Salem: Does it have a lot of Jews?

Siddig: There, they go there always, the information is not yet available to
me in the amount that I require. You see how, there are people who have
information on the subject. The thing that I know is that they go to the
Jews there to receive training, there, on various weapons with live
ammunition and everything. What else, they go there on weekends. We
can possibly off them.

Salem: Sons of bitches. Yes, but that would be an armed battle.

Siddig: Yes of course.

Salem: Weapon to weapon.

Siddig: No it’s not necessary. Sting like a bee and run away like a
butterfly. And possibly hand held or we’ll see what we can, we’ll see. And
if it is not possible that we attack the compound (UI) 36 it is possible that we
can “Treck Treck.”

Salem: Sniper?

34
. Conversation with Clerk NY State Court of Appeals
35
. USA v Rahman TT 4730-31
36
. Unintelligible.
 Siddig: Yes, but not there, no. In Manhattan, their head is Dov Hikind. This
is the desire of Sheik El-Sayyid, Dov Hikind.

Brother Hampton-El tried to blame this planned attack on Emad Salem:

Emad started talking a lot of foolishness, such as he wanted to kill people.

First he said he did a lot of things and he killed people. He said the Jewish
Defense League, the Jewish Defense Organization, Congressman Dov
Hikind and Charles Schumer. He said he wanted to do something to these
people, like kill them. Salem saw me after making prayer he was
introduced to me, he said he wanted a weapon because he desires was to
go ahead and harm people such as Charles Schumer, Dov Hikind, Jewish
Defense League, Jewish Defense Organization, and he said in fact he had
did things to people before.37

Salem was asked:

Q. Do you recall having a conversation with Siddig Ali Siddig where Siddig
talked about moving the training camp upstate to the Catskills, up to the
mountains, the Catskills?

A. I recall that he want to go up north to shoot – or to do something with

the Jewish training camps there. But I don’t know moving the training
camp there, I don’t recall.

Q. Moving the safe house up to the Catskills?

A. Yes, he want to make the safe house away of the city, yes, that’s true,
ma’m.

Q. And he says: There are houses up there for rent, where there are hill
and rivers and lakes and full of trees. Do you remember that?

A. Yes, ma’am.

Q. Isn’t it a fact that he says: There is nobody besides you. The third thing
that we can bring dogs, dogs. You can put all your cameras and you can
have fun yourself. Do you recall that?

A. Yes. Cameras to monitor the FBI if they coming to the house, and bring
dogs to attack the FBI if they come to the house. Not to have fun by
playing; have fun to build bombs.38

MEHDI AND THE KAHANE ASSASSINATION

37
. USA v Rahman TT 15625 and 15754
38
. USA v Rahman TT p6845
 Before El-Sayyid Nosair assassinated Rabbi Meyer Kahane, Nosair’s cousin,
Ibrahim A. El-Gabrowny, met with Doctor Mehdi, who having debated Kahane on
numerous occasions, filled him in on Kahane’s security precautions. Dr. Mehdi gave
Kahane a taste of Islamist jurisprudence: When the offices of Dr. Mehdi and Gazi
Khankan (a Director of Mohammad T. Mehdi’s National Council on Islamic Affairs) were
invaded by at least half a dozen Zionist thugs armed with weighted baseball bats who
beat the two Brothers mercilessly Kahane lauded the attacks. Mehdi and Khankan held
a news conference at which they vowed to arm themselves and shoot to kill in the event
of another attack.39 Four years later, in May 1974 Dr. Mehdi was again attacked by
Jewish Defense League members with a lead pipe and sent to the hospital with a
broken back. Shortly thereafter, Dr. Mehdi’s offices at 4 East 43 rd Street in Manhattan
were set afire and almost totally gutted. The doors to the office were locked, but had a
broken key in one of them, a fire-escape window was opened and fires had been
started in four separate and distinct locations. He had moved to these offices after his
previous landlord at 441 Lexington Avenue refused to renew his lease due to picketing
and threats from the JDL.40 It took nearly a year for the police to make an arrest in the
assault case, although a perpetrator appeared on television to boast of the deed. The
Zionist thug was later acquitted. No arrest was ever made in the arson case.

When Dr. Mehdi tried to move the National Council on Islamic Affairs to a new
office the Jewish oligarch Sol Goldman refused to rent to him. Mehdi filed a lawsuit
against Goldman that stated there had been no threat or danger to the tenants in any of
his previous locations. Mehdi argued that he was indigent and had lost $100,000 a year
since the Arab millionaires who supported him had no address to send their funds to. In
February 2000 the National Council on Islamic Affairs merged with the American Muslim
Alliance, directed by Eric Irfan Vickers.41 Vickers was the incorporator and long-time
officer of the Islamic African Relief Agency, which has been linked to attacks against
U.S. interests in Africa. As a result of this link, the organization lost its State Department
accreditation in 2000 and had $4.5 million in government grants revoked. 42

Mohammad T. Mehdi pretended to be the voice of moderation and condemned

“fundamentalist Jews and fundamentalist Christians.” 43 He stated: “We are opposed to
violence, any violence and wars including wars of national liberation. Accordingly, we
have condemned violent acts by the Palestinians against the Israelis and violence by
the Israelis against the people of Palestine.” 44 He condemned the Achille Lauro
Operation and our attack on a Turkish Synagogue. He traveled to Lebanon to negotiate
and plead for release of American hostages held by Islamists. When he returned he
was subpoenaed before a New York City Grand Jury that was investigating this trip and
another journey he had taken to Libya. Dr. Mehdi’s passport was confiscated and was
only returned after he made a personal visit to American Secretary of State George
Shultz. Mehdi was the author of a book entitled Islam and Intolerance and although he
39
. Robert D. McFadden “Police Are Posted Outside Arab National and Business Offices Here Following Beating of 3 Activists.
Arafat Warns of Retaliation” New York Times May 24, 1970.
40
. “A Suspicious Blaze Burns Arab Office” New York Times June 4, 1974
41
. http://www.amaweb.org/national/default.htm
42
. Frank Gaffney, Jr. Fox News June 28, 2002 “The Truth About the AMC.”
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,56543,00.html
43
. The Final Call January 13, 1998.
44
. NY State Supreme Court Civil Division Case 1996-406023
said that his scorn for the Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie, a book that blasphemed
Islam, was axiomatic, he claimed censorship and the death penalty were incompatible
with Muslim tradition and that Rushdie’s work was best ignored. When a Brother from
Egypt seized a Royal Dutch KLM plane in August 1993 in a vain attempt to secure
Sheik Rahman’s freedom Medhi, who was identified as President of the Islamic Council,
reached the Brother and told him Sheik Rahman “would not approve of any violence
that might result from this hijacking.”45

Doctor Mehdi attended the trial of El-Sayyid Nosair, which did not sit well with
Kahane’s son, Binyamin, who wrote this in a letter to the judge: “I protest the fact that
Dr. Mehdi and other Arab-Muslim agitators are accorded privileged seating in your
courtroom!”46 After the Nosair trial a note was sent by the JDL to a local New York City
television station vowing retaliation against Dr. Mehdi and Professor Rashid Khalid, who
was a Nosair supporter who later became a leader in the effort to stop America from
going to war with Iraq.47

In July 1995 Dr. Mehdi was a defense witness at the trial of Sheik Rahman, El-
Sayyid Nosair and many other jihadi. Dr. Mehdi was questioned about his relationship
with Kahane:

Q. Dr. Mehdi, you were a colleague and friend of Dr. Rabbi Meir Kahane?

A. I was. I don’t know that the colleague is the word, but I knew Rabbi
Kahane very well and we were good friends of a kind.

Q. Did you ever have occasion to support Rabbi Kahane?

A. I sure did on –

Q. Did you have an occasion to meet the man known as Ibrahim El-
Gabrowny? Did you have diner with Mr. El-Gabrowny and Emad Salem at
Mr. El-Gabrowny’s apartment in Brooklyn?

A. Yes sir.

Q. Can you tell the jury the circumstances in which you knew Rabbi
Kahane?

A. I believe the first time was a television station contacted me and the
rabbi to appear on the show, discussing, yes, Channel 7 ABC here, and
thereafter this was an historical occasion, the first time the Rabbi and
myself meeting. Then the news media contacted us many a time and we
appeared and we discussed the issues of the Middle East. I eulogized him
on television, because the Rabbi, even though we disagreed only 100%,
45
. “Hijacker Seized After Demanding Release of Jailed Muslim Preacher.”Washington Post August 16, 1993 page A 13
46
. 100 Center Street Criminal Court docket 90N-099-424-”Nosir”
47
. Newsday December 4, 1990.
nevertheless, we had developed a feeling of comradeship, of, there was a
rapport between him and myself. I knew his jokes after twenty times
appearing on television, he knew my cracks. So we had developed a bit of
rapport, yes.

Q. By the way, do you know Sheik Rahman?

A. Yes, I have had the privilege. I did have his telephone number.

Q. What did you use the telephone number for?

A. Occasionally to discuss with him certain questions of law, because the

Sheik is really a great authority on Islamic law, and Islamic law is so very
important, at least as important for the Muslims as to me the American
Constitutional law is, and he and I met many a time comparing notes
concerning American Constitutional law – which, your honor, has been my
concern…

Q. Are you aware that there was a fund established for the purposes of
raising money for the Nosair defense?

A. Yes. Actually I think I suggested that to Ibrahim, because when the

tragedy took place I knew that Nosair needed the best of legal defense
and the best of legal defense needs money…

Q. Did you have discussions with Mr. El-Gabrowny during and after the
trial of Nosair?

A. We must have, on many issues.

Q. By the way, did you attend the trial of Nosair?

A. I attended it once, then I was introduced to the judge, and then I

attended it when the judgment was rendered.

Q. Were you the author of a letter to Judge Schlesinger, the judge in the
state court trial?

A. Yes, I wrote the judge a letter.

Q. Can you explain to the jury what it is you expressed to Judge

Schlesinger?

Assistant United States Attorney McCarthy: Objection. Relevance.

The COURT: Sustained.

 (SIDEBAR)

Mr. Ricco: Basically what he said to the judge was that both sides are
putting a lot of pressure on you to make a decision that is free of political
pressure. That’s it.

Q. Did you ever discuss Rahman with Emad Salem?48

A. He had called me and asked me to call the Sheik and tell him that Dov
Hikind, the assemblyman, is a threat to the Muslim world and that the
Sheik should be aware of how bad Dov Hikind is.

Q. Did you do that?

A. No. I know Dov Hikind. He and I have appeared on television many

times, discussing, arguing, disagreeing, and he is a politician. Whatever
he says to make votes, appeal to his constituency, he is no threat to the
Muslim world.

Dr. Mehdi was a character witness for Ibrahim A. El-Gabrowny:

Q. Since you have known Mr. El-Gabrowny, have you had the occasion to
discuss his reputation for law abidingness and peaceful conduct with other
people in the community?

A. Yes, of course?

Q. What is his reputation?

A. As wholesome as my own impression of him. He is a family man; he is

a hard working person. He tries to take care of his many children, and the
experience at that dinner, he was torn between taking care of children and
taking care of the big guest he had.

CROSS EXAMINATION BY LYNNE STEWART

Q. We have been acquainted for over 30 years, have we not?

A. In defense of freedom.

Q. We met at a demonstration in front of the Waldorf-Astoria those many

years ago?

A. In defense of freedom.

48
. Dr. Mehdi had numerous meetings with Emad Salem and Salem had attended many of Mehdi’s meetings. USA v Rahman TT
p5904
 Q. I was a little thinner in those days, I think.

A. And I was younger.

Q. Do you remember an occasion when you were running for the Senate
and you appeared at the Abu Bakr Mosque? Do you remember what the
Sheik said when he introduced you at the mosque?

A. As I recall, I was surprised to notice the Sheik supporting my

candidacy, and encouraging others to vote for me or help me or contribute
financially as they can. I was surprised because in the traditional Arab
ways, voting is not part of our experience, but the Sheik was a modernist,
urging people to support my candidacy.

MEHDI AND GAMA’A ISLAMIYYA

Q. Mr. Mehdi, did you send a fax to Emad Salem on or around March 6,
1993?

A. I don’t remember the date. If you give me something about the context
–

Q. Did you send him a fax, a press release of a fax that was sent to you by
Al Gama’a Islamiyya?

A. Yes, yes, during one of those conversations that he had taped, I told
him that I had received a fax from Cairo.

Q. Without telling us what was in the fax, did you send a copy of that to
Mr. Salem?

A. Yes, I told him that I have it and I will send it to him and I did…

Emad Salem suspected that Dr. Mehdi was a secret member of Al

Gama’a Islamiyya and he lied to Dr. Mehdi in order to induce him to reveal
this. Salem was asked about this and responded:

A. Some of it is truth, and some of them I want to get closer to Dr. Mehdi
by telling him what he like to hear so he can tell me what’s his connection
with the Al Gama’a al-Islamiyya in Egypt, sir.

Q. OK. So you were telling Dr. Mehdi what you thought Dr. Mehdi wanted
to hear so you could get next to Dr. Mehdi?

A. Which I did, sir.

 Q. Do you remember you were called by Dr. Mehdi of New York, New
York, and told about a big meeting that was about to take place on the
evening of January 17,1992?

A. Yes, ma’am.

Q. It was to involve the young Islamists, young Muslims, young men in this
city and it was a big meeting to decide about the Islamic future in America,
is that right?

The Resistance Against American Interference, a front group of Usama bin

Laden, sponsored this meeting. The fact that Dr. Mehdi was a member of our Brooklyn /
Jersey City cell became apparent when the FBI seized Ibrahim El-Gabrowny’s address
book that contained the telephone number of Brothers Ahmed Abu Sattar, Ali Al
Shinawy, the Attica Correctional Facility, Imam Nagy Allah, Emad Salem, the Egyptian
consulate, the Jihad Office, Hussein Safan, John [Anticev] at the FBI, Mohammed El-
Gabrowny, Mohammed Moussa, Dr. Mohammed Mehdi, Nidal, Sheik Omar Rahman,
Dr. Rahman’s fax number and Dr. Ahmed Badawi.

Shortly after our September 11 th Victory, Dr. Ahmed Badawi, a business man
from Egypt who became an American citizen many years ago, was arrested as a
material witness after fully cooperating with the FBI. Without asking for a warrant,
Badawi gave agents his business records and three computers, and spoke with them
for hours. He was allowed to contact an attorney the morning after his arrest and as a
result, only spent three fear-filled nights in jail.

BINYAMIN ZEV KAHANE

Not only did we assassinate Meir Kahane, Islamists also killed his son. On
November 12, 2000 the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Washington-
based Islamic advocacy group, asked the FBI to detain Rabbi Binyamin Zev Kahane,
founder of Kahane Chai, which was designated by the United States Department of
State as a foreign terrorist organization and was banned even by the Zionist entity in
1994. CAIR has consistently defended our leaders. CAIR termed the conviction of the
operatives of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing as “a travesty of justice.” The
conviction of Sheik Rahman was called a “hate crime.” CAIR
chairman, Omar Ahmed, said in 1998: “Islam isn’t in America to
be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The
Qu’ran... should be the highest authority in America, and Islam
the only accepted religion on earth.”49 CAIR spokesman Ibrahim
Hooper (left) made this clear: “I wouldn’t want to create the
impression that I wouldn’t want the Government of the United
States to be Islamic sometime in the future.” 50 The FBI’s former
chief of counter-terrorism, Steven Pomerantz, bestowed this compliment on CAIR:

49
. Editorial Jerusalem Post May 7, 2003.
50
. Daniel Pipes “Fixing Islam’s Image Problem” New York Post July 29, 2003.
“CAIR, its leaders and its activities effectively give aid to
international terrorist groups.”51 CAIR-New York’s Executive
Director Ghazi Khankan (right) solicited contributions for the
families of September 11th detainees and said that American
Taliban John Walker Lindh was a “misguided young
American Muslim” who should not have gone overseas to “get
involved in local politics.” Ghazi Khankan was an Islamic Center of Long Island officer
until 2004, director of both interfaith affairs and communications. Shortly after 9/11, he
told The New York Times that the U.S. government hadn't proven Osama bin Laden's
role in the attacks: “We need to have proof. We need to have facts. If there is something
wrong, let’s get together through the United Nations, not act as a lynch mob.” His
speech at a fund-raiser in Virginia that October 2001 was recorded: “Why is it assumed
that Muslims were behind the attack? We know at least three people assumed to be
hijackers who are still alive in the Middle East. The question is, who is impersonating
these Muslim names? Who benefits from assuming Muslims are behind this tragedy
and who benefits from this tragedy?” That same month, Khankan gave Newsday his
view on who had really perpetrated the atrocities: “What about the world Zionist
network? Why are you in the media not looking at them?” 52

In 1999 CAIR received $250,000 loan from the Saudi-run Wahhabist Islamic
Development Bank to buy land in Washington, D.C., construct a headquarters facility. 53
On September 9, 2001, at a rally to support Jamil Al-Amin 54, Sheik Hamza Yusuf
Hanson, a convert to Islam and a member of CAIR who is known as a moderate Muslim
stated that “America faced a terrible fate” and that Sheik Rahman was unjustly tried and
condemned against any standards of justice in any legal system. The FBI went to
interview Yusuf to determine whether this statement meant that he had prior knowledge
of the September 11thEvent, which of course he did not. When agents came to his San
Francisco home on September 20, 2001, they learned he was meeting with Bush the
Younger. Later the website of Yusuf’s organization vowed to send part of any money it
collected the to Benevolence International Foundation, a front for jihadi.55 CAIR
reportedly received $500,000 from Saudi prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, reputed to be one
of the world's richest men. 56 So as you can see CAIR is not an uncle-tom-Arab
organization, but the real thing!

51
. Daniel Pipes “CAIR: 'Moderate' Friends of Terror.” New York Post April 22, 2002.
52
. http://www.nypost.com/php/pfriendly/print.php?
url=http://www.nypost.com/seven/10042006/postopinion/opedcolumnists/the_jihad_on_king_opedcolumnists_steven_emerson.htm
53
. http://saudiembassy.net cited by http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-schwartz063003.asp
54
. Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (once known as H. Rap Brown) was another American Muslim Council leader. In 1968 Brown joined the
Black Panther Party. Associated with the rallying cry, “Burn, Baby, Burn”, Brown was arrested and charged with inciting people to
riot and committing arson. The law in America against crossing state lines to incite a riot is informally known as “the H. Rap Brown
law.” He was also accused of importation of a weapon into Louisiana. Imprisoned several times between 1967 and 1970, Brown was
eventually shot and captured by New York City police during an armed robbery. Sentenced to a term of from five to fifteen years in
Attica Prison, Brown was paroled in 1976. Converting to Islam, he changed his name to Jamil Abdullah al-Amin. After his release in
March 2000, he was arrested and charged with killing a sheriff’s deputy in Atlanta, Georgia. As he was taken from the courthouse he
told reporters: “It’s a government conspiracy, man,” however he was convicted and is now serving a life sentence. Daniel Pipes -
”Mainstream Muslims?”- New York Post June 18, 2002.
55
. Hanna Rosin and John Mintz, "Muslim Leaders Struggle With Mixed Messages” Washington Post, October 2, 2001 also Frank J.
Gafney, “A Troubling Influence ”Frontpage Magazine December 9, 2003.
56
. http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/021119/2002111910.html
 The assassination of Binyamin Zev Kahane must be partially credited to Nasser
Abu-Hamid, a Palestinian activist and a member of the Tanzim group. In mid-December
2000 Nasser Abu-Hamid gave Palestinian nationalist Ahmad Ghandour permission to
carry out an operation against the Israelis in the occupied West Bank and equipped him
with a Kalashnikov rifle. On December 21, 2000, Ghandour, together with several
activists, fired at the car of settler Eliyahu Cohen and killed him. On December 31,
2000, on a road adjacent to the settlement of Ofra, together with three others, Ghandour
fired using the weapon received from Abu-Hamid at the vehicle in which Binyamin
Kahane and Talia Kahane were traveling with their five daughters, all of whom were
seriously injured. Zionist soldiers murdered Ahmad Ghandour, 27, on January 25, 2001
in Ramallah.

Binyamin Kahane was not killed purely by chance: the Almighty had deliberately
put this Zionist fanatic within the sights of this Palestinian partisan. Binyamin Kahane
had been suspected of aiding the murderer of two defenseless elderly Palestinians, a
murder that took place November 6, 1990, shortly after his father was assassinated.
According to one theory put forward by Israeli police, Kahane left Tekoah, an illegal
settlement close to where the men were killed, for his parents’ home in Jerusalem with
some friends after hearing of his father’s assassination. During the drive to Jerusalem,
someone in the car allegedly shot the two Palestinians who were passing by. Police
held two other suspects in the case, David Axelrod and Ben-Zion Guffstein, both known
activists of the anti-Arab Kach movement, headed by Rabbi Meir Kahane. Axelrod is
now the head of Kach.57

AIMAL KASI AND THE CIA’S DOUBLECROSS OF SHEIK RAHMAN

The Sheik arrived in the U.S. in July 1990. Shortly thereafter the Egyptian
Government began putting pressure on the United States to extradite him back to the
hell of an Egyptian prison, however, as we have heard, for several years the authorities
encountered resistance in prosecuting or deporting the Sheik because of his ties to the
Mujahadeen, and his ties to the CIA. On December 16, 1990 the Sheik returned from a
trip abroad and arrived in New York City on KLM airlines using the visa issued in Great
Britain in May 1990.

On April 8, 1991 Sheik Rahman was issued a visa that allowed him to become a
permanent resident of the United States on the basis of his status as an Islamic
Minister. Rahman was classified as a “Special Immigrant.” In June 1991, while the
Sheik was on a pilgrimage to Mecca the CIA began to have second thoughts about the
Sheik. After returning from a trip Denmark on July 31, 1991, the Sheik was readmitted
to the United States and paroled until July 2, 1993. While he was in Denmark he gave
this sermon to his followers:

How ingenious (audience laughs). I have never imagined such minds

could exist in Denmark. Jihad is Jihad, my Brothers, there is no such thing
as commerce, industry and science in Jihad. This is calling things with

57
. “Kahane followers arrested in reprisal slayings of Arabs”Jewish Week November 16, 1990.
 other than by its own names. If God, glory be to him, says do Jihad, it
means do Jihad with the sword, with the cannon, with the grenades and
with the missile; this is Jihad. Jihad against God's enemies means for
God's cause and his word. We can't say that commerce, industry and
science are Jihad, not at all. Every party that does not employ the Islamic
law as its method is what? Is definitely the party of the devil. Are you
familiar with that? Thus, we are in a weak, humiliating and subservient
position. Indeed, we need to understand our faith. Jihad is the foundation
and an obligation for spreading Islam. Indeed, indeed, without hesitation
or shame. Without hesitation, shame or mentality failure, this faith was
spread by the sword. Indeed, indeed we endorse assassinations. We have
to assassinate. Indeed, we are terrorists. Our faith obligates us to be
terrorists.

In early 1991 Gorbachev's popularity in the West had reached an all time high,
and the Cold War had virtually come to an end. The first indications that the CIA that
trained al-Qaeda had decided to abandon al-Qaeda as part of an agreement with
Moscow came on September 16, 1991, when the Sheik was summoned for an
immigration hearing. The Sheik was no longer useful to the United States. On January
16, 1992 the Sheik received a notice that the INS was considering rescinding his
resident status. In March 1992, Sheik Rahman was stripped of his green card;
nonetheless he traveled to Canada and preached at an Islamic School and Mosque in
Ottawa, the returned to the United States.58

On October 27, 1992 the State Department’s Bureau of Human Rights and
Humanitarian Affairs, in a secret document, accused the Sheik of being a threat to
National Security. Immigration Judge Meisner did not want to base his determination on
classified material unavailable to the Sheik’s defenses team.

AUSA Bond: All right. Now at this point, the Government is going to give
back to you documents that were sent to your office pursuant to a request
of an asylum application by the alien. Said documents were received by
your office, were referred back to our office to handle for security purposes
because your office did not have any place to keep these documents.
Pursuant to the regulations and the statute, I'm now handing back to you
non-record matter...

THE COURT: I'm not taking that, Mr. Bond.

AUSA Bond: Well, I just want to get on the record. Whether you take it or
not whether you're doing it right, that's up to you. But I'm, for the record,
telling you that I'm attempting now to give you back, pursuant to the
regulations, classified material, non-record material, which is for your
office, going to hand it to you. Now if you don't want it, you put in the
record why you don't want it.

58
. “Sheik Dodged U.S. Immigration Check” New York Post April 24, 1993.
THE COURT: I don't want it. I don't want it. I'm not taking it

AUSA Bond: But what's your legal reason for not taking it?

THE COURT: Mr. Bond, have a seat and don't cross-examine me.

AUSA Bond: Well, I want a…what do you...I'm not cross-examining I'm

giving you documents that you're required to take. And if you don't want to
take them, I'd like an answer why you don't want to take them.

THE COURT: Mr. Bond, you want to submit a legal brief?

AUSA Bond: No, I don't.

THE COURT: Write the legal brief and submit it in writing.

AUSA Bond: I have classified documents for you to take. You're refusing
to take them?

THE COURT: I'm refusing to take them.

AUSA Bond: Fine. I'm not submitting a brief. You have to take these by
regulation. (Off the record. On the record.)

THE COURT for the Record: All right. How about January 20th at 1:00
p.m.

THE COURT to Ms. Nelson: Ms. Nelson, are you available then?

Ms. Nelson: Your Honor, some of the documentation we're going to rebut
the Department of State reply may be coming from Egypt. I think three
months would be better.

AUSA Bond to AUSA Minichiello: Meisner refused to accept them.

To Ms. Nelson: That's not the question.

Bond to Ms. Minichiello: He doesn't know what the hell he's doing. (On
record).

THE COURT to Ms. Nelson: If you need more time, you can indicate to
me you need more time. Are you available then?

Bond to Ms. Minichiello: Meisner he refused...

 On January 6, 1993 the Wall Street Journal59 ran a story that would ensure Sheik
Rahman would be deported. The piece claimed “the FBI has investigated him in
connection with three murders” and quoted Sheik Rahman as saying that a fatwa
approving the assassination of Mubarak was “on the way.” During the Sheik’s
immigration proceedings, he described a fatwa by stating: “A person comes and asks
questions on religion and I answer...A certain person in a certain condition would
approach me and ask me about a certain subject... [For example], a person would say,
‘I swore by divorce must I carry it out?’...A fatwa concerns a private or personal thing
that happens to a person... it is not possible [for a fatwa to be issued to the public at
large].” The article also quoted Montassar al-Zayyat who was busy defending some of
the thousands of Brothers arrested in Egypt in December 1993 for violence against
tourists, as saying “Sheik Rahman is the emir, the leader [of Jihad].”

MONTASSAR AL-ZAYYAT

Montassar al-Zayyat was born in the Aswan Governorate in

1956 to an aristocratic family that believed in the 1952 anti-monarchist
Revolution and moderate Al-Wafd Party. In 1973 his elder brother
asked him to be a true Muslim and quit his previous life. The young
man replied that he was a Muslim who prayed and followed the Islamic
rules, but his brother explained that the society had lost the Muslim
identity, and people had returned to jahiliya (the pre-Islamic period).
He read many books including that of jihadi theoretician Sayyid Qutb’s Milestones on
the Road that called for a holy war against the kafir society and the establishment of an
Islamic state. Qutb was the voice of his generation and hanged on August 29, 1966 by
the Pharaoh Gamal Abdul Nasser. Al-Zayyat recalled, "I belonged to a generation that
wanted to know the true meaning of piety, so I joined Gama’a al-Islamiyya and became
an active member." A few years later in the early 1980s, Al-Zayyat spent three years in
the Citadel dungeon with Ayman al-Zawahiri on charges related to President Anwar
Sadat's 1981 assassination. During his imprisonment and after failing to find a lawyer
who could understand his cause, Al-Zayyat decided to become a lawyer for himself,
sending appeals and petitions to the state. "When I was later released, I decided to quit
Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya and pursue a law career defending other Islamists because I felt
that they needed someone to understand them," said Al-Zayyat, Egypt's first lawyer for
Islamists. "They needed someone who they can trust, not someone who defends them
according to his own ideology and interests. Shortly after that, I formed the Islamist
Lawyers Group in 1985 that became very significant." In March 1989 Zayyet was
detained by the Egyptian Government but was taken to an Islamic Studies Center for a
meeting rather than to court. At this conference al-Zayyat spoke of a fatwa issued by
three prominent Sheikhs, all of who were present at this meeting that gave Islamic
legitimacy to torture. He also pointed out that some of the detainees who had been
arrested in the Ein Shams incidents of December 1988 were less than ten years old.
These children were crying at night because the cells were dark. This is when Sheikh
Ghazdli jumped to his feet to condemn torture, reciting God's words,

59
. “Egyptian Jihad Leader Preaches Holy War to Brooklyn Muslims” Wall Street Journal, January 6, 1993.
 Verily, those who put into trial the believing men and believing women [by
torturing them and burning them], and then do not turn in repentance [to
God], then they will have the torment of Hell, and they will have the
punishment of the burning Fire." He then said that he never issued the
fatwa, in question. Sheikh Sha'rawy also denied that he issued the fatwa
saying that God will reward us for that. Zayyet then talked about the
statement the three Sheikhs issued, and other accusations made against
jihadists. Namely, that we consider some people disbelievers. Zayyet
pointed out that he did not consider anyone a disbeliever because he is
sinful, unless they believe that the sin they commit is halal [acceptable
according to Islamic law]. Sheikh Sha'rawy answered, "Then we did not
mean you.

Zayyet replied, "But who else is in prison?" Following this

meeting, Zaki Badr ordered that we should be kept away from similar
dialogue seminars, after he noticed that they in fact serve our cause.
He also made his famous announcement that he welcomes dialogue
provided that it convinces us we are wrong.” Al-Zayyat was an
authority on Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri. Al-Zayyat halted plans to expand
the printing of his book, Ayman al-Zawahiri, As I Knew Him after
receiving death threats from the Egyptian Islamic Jihad underground. In July 2003 al-
Zayyat confirmed the identity of al-Zawahiri as the man who sent a taped message to
the media that warned: “Muslim Brothers everywhere. America has announced it will
start putting Muslim prisoners in Guantanamo on trial before military courts that could
sentence them to death. I swear by the almighty God...that Crusader America will pay
dearly for any harm done to any of the Muslim prisoners it is holding.”

SHEIKH RAHMAN 1992:

SEWING THE SEEDS IN ORANGE COUNTY CALIFORNIA

In December 1992 His Eminence Sheikh Rahman visited the Islamic Society of
Orange County where he planted the seeds that would sprout into one of the few
formerly Jewish leaders of al-Qaeda, Adam Pearlman who spelled it out for Americans:
“After decades of American tyranny and oppression, now it's your turn to die. Allah
willing, the streets of America will run red with blood, matching drop for drop the blood
of America's victims.”

Adam Pearlman (aka Adam Gadahn) grandfather, Dr. Carl

Pearlman served as the first local chairman of the Bonds for Israel
campaign and then as chairman of the United Jewish Welfare Fund. He
was on the board of the Anti-Defamation League and in 1985 was
honored with a humanitarian award by the Orange County chapter of the
National Conference of Christians and Jews. Pearlman’s son, Seth Philip Pearlman,
was a hippy convert to Christianity who composed songs about, and ingested, LSD-25.
Adam converted to Islam as a 17 year old in 1997. Then walked into the Islamic Society
of Orange County and asked for permission to worship there. His pure devotion to Allah
would lead to his arrest as he was later expelled from the mosque after attacking an
employee who wished only to assimilate into American society. Records show he
pleaded guilty to assault and battery charges on June 11, 1997 and was sentenced to
two days in Orange County jail and 40 hours of community service. But according to
court records, Adam failed to perform the community service, so a warrant is still
outstanding for his arrest, which worries him more than his having been indicted for
treason in October 2005.60 In May 1997, when he was 18, Adam was arrested for
attacking Haitham "Danny" Bundakji, a well-known leader of the Islamic Society of
Orange County. Muzammil Siddiqi, the society's religious director said mosque officials
finally had to ask him to leave because of a separate fight with one of the staff. The
police were not involved in this altercation and it was unrelated to the other criminal
charges. Police said that he then continued to hang around the mosque and that when
Bundakji confronted him Adam punched him in the face and the right shoulder.
Bundakji, who was 56 at the time, was not seriously injured. "He was becoming very
extreme in his ideas and views," Siddiqi said. "He must have disliked something." It was
the level of militancy at the Mosque at angered Adam, especially after the Sheikh had
preached there in the early 1990’s. He later pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of
assault and battery. By then Adam had become close to Brothers Hisham Diab and
Khalil Deek, according to Saraah Olson, Diab's fat ugly former wife who he married in
order to obtain citizenship. That year, a Gama'a al-Islamiyya cell operating a nonprofit
group called Charity Without Borders recruited Adam. Charity Without Borders recycled
motor oil and received funding from the state of California. The cell's leaders including
Hisham Diab and Khalil Deek were members of Gama'a al-Islamiyya. Diab, an
Egyptian, owned an accounting business, and Deek, a Palestinian, repaired computers.
The cell planned to bomb a Masonic temple in Los Angeles.

Diab and Deek had hosted Abdel Rahman in their apartments during his lecture
tours of Orange County mosques in 1992 and 1993. Saraah Olson, who divorced Diab
in 1996, said she cooked dinner for the Egyptian sheikh. A relative of Deek said Abdel
Rahman stayed in Deek's apartment for two days during one visit. Olson said Adam
Pearlman never met the radical cleric, but she said he too was a follower. According to
Olson, Abdel Rahman would call Diab and others in Orange County from prison on
Sunday afternoon to deliver fiery sermons that were recorded. 61 Diab and Deek, who
have since left the U.S. were involved in a part of the Millennium Action that entailed an
attack on a Jordanian hotel and other sites frequented by American tourists. Deek
worked with Abu Zubaydah on this Operation. 62 Brother Deek was extradited from
Peshawar, Pakistan to Jordan then released for lack of evidence. FBI CI Agent Arthur
M. Cummings II was in charge of the Islamic Group case. He said that Sheikh Rahman
“had two main guys, one is Los Angeles and one in San Diego. I was the case agent for
the guy in Los Angeles or in West Covina.”
60
. http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/usgadahn1006ind.html
61
. http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/004428.php
62
. http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report_Ch6.htm
 Adam Pearlman became a leading exponent of conversion, since if a Jew could
do it so can ANYONE! Adam stated,

Al Islam - the surrender or the submission - is the religion chosen

by God for all of mankind, the religion of all the prophets and messengers
from Adam to Abraham to Moses to Jesus to Mohamed and all in
between. The Qu’ran states firmly that they and their followers were
neither Jews nor Christians, but were in fact Muslims – those who
surrender themselves to God. And indeed, one does not find the words
Judaism and Jew in the extant Torah, nor the word Christianity and
Christian in the four Gospels. Islam is the only religion acceptable to God
and came with the revealed book The Qu’ran, which abrogates all
previous revelations, like the Torah and Evangel. The Qu’ran is the
inimitable speech of God and has been preserved by God as he sent it
down over 1400 years ago by way of the angel Gabriel through his final
prophet and Messenger, Mohamed, the unlettered Prophet, whose advent
was prophesized in both the Torah and the Evangel, prophecies which
can even today can be found in the Old and New Testaments, despite the
alterations and enrichments which those once Holy scriptures have
undergone. If the Zionist Crusader missionaries of hate and counter-Islam
consultants like Daniel Pipes, Robert Spencer 63 (a servant of the Jew neo-
con David Horowitz), Michael Scheuer (former head of the CIA Bin Ladin
assassination squad), Steven Emerson (a Jew who produced the movie
Jihad In America in 1994), and yes, even the Crusader-in-Chief, George
W. Bush, were to abandon their unbelief, and repent, and enter into the
light of Islam, and turn their swords against the enemies of God, it would
be accepted of them and they would be our brothers in Islam. And in this
regard, I can’t tell you how delighted I was to receive good news of the
embracing of Islam by a number of US soldiers at the hands of the Muslim
mujahideen in prison in some of the American concentration camps which
blacken the globe.64

On January 20, 1993 Sheik Rahman appeared at a federal hearing in Newark to

respond to charges that he “lied on his visa application, that he is a polygamist and that
he has committed unspecified crimes of moral turpitude.” At his own request, the
hearing was closed to the public. 65 At the hearing counsel for the Petitioner requested
Meisner either have the classified document with the sources of the derogatory
information on Sheik Rahman ‘reclassified, if possible, or to get a summary either from
the agency or from the Immigration Judge as to its contents if the Immigration Judge is
going to accept it into evidence.’”

Judge Meisner did not rule on the request but stated: ‘What I am going to do is
place this document in the record of the proceeding file without opening it or considering
63
. http://www.jihadwatch.org/spencer/
64
. http://www.lauramansfield.com/j/zawahiri090106.asp
65
. New York Daily News, March 18, 1993.
it. I do not have a government classification, which would allow me to look at secret or
classified information, and therefore I am not in a position to open this envelope or look
at it. If you wish, I will put it in the file in case the case goes up on appeal and then
anyone who does have that type of classification may be able to review the document.
But while I’ll put it in the record of the proceeding file, it will not be considered by me
and will not be part of the evidence I consider in this case.’” No decision was reached at
that time.

The interrogatories prepared by the Sheik’s lawyers revealed part of the contents
of the unclassified version of the document:

State, with particularity, upon what basis and/or evidence, it was concluded that
applicant is the founder and spiritual guide of Gama’a al-Islamiyya.

State, with particularity, upon what basis and/or evidence, it was established that
applicant issued a fatwa or theological ruling to Anwar Sadat's assassins that the killing
of Sadat was justified in the name of God.

Whose testimony revealed that applicant told Sadat's assassins that it was
Islamic law to eliminate a leader who does not rule according to God's ordinances?

State whether Department of State has any basis and/or evidence connecting
applicant to the incident of July 20, 1992.

In July 1992 police arrested 16 Gama’a al-Islamiyya members in Asyut province

where clashes with between militants and police occurred almost daily in the preceding
three weeks and had resulted in 12 deaths and 24 injured.

State whether Department Of State has any basis and/or evidence for connecting
applicant to the Gama’a al-Islamiyya statement of June 23, 1992.

In June 1992 Farag Foda a well-known writer and translator of western literature
was assassinated by Gama’a al-Islamiyya after the Sheik issued a fatwa declaring him
kafir. Two masked men on a motorcycle killed him in a hail of bullets. Police captured
one of the assassins. He said he was following a fatwa, a religious ruling by Sheikh
Omar Abdel Rahman." After the execution Sheik Rahman commented, “This twice
apostate does not deserve to be slain only once. Rather, he should be slain, then slain
and then slain as punishment for what since he committed."

State whether Department Of State has any basis for believing or any evidence
other than Abdul Shafi’i Ahmed Ramadan's 66 alleged statement to Al-Mussawar
(Egyptian Government Weekly) referred to in the advisory opinion of October 23, 1992,
that Abdul Shafi’i Ahmed Ramadan had any contact, connection or acquaintance with
applicant.

66
. On September 3, 1997, Mohammed Ahmed Shafi'i, was arrested by intelligence officials in Hamad town and was held
incommunicado at the al-Qal'a compound in Manama.
 State whether Department Of State has any basis and/or evidence connecting
applicant to any of these incidents:

a) The killing of a young Christian by five Gama’a al-Islamiyya

activists in March 1991.

b) The burning of Coptic businesses in Minya in April 1991.

c) A riot in the Palinya city jail.

State whether Department Of State has any basis and/or evidence

connecting applicant to the incident of May 31, 1991.

State whether Department Of State has any basis and/or evidence

connecting applicant to the burning of a pharmacy in spring 1990.

State whether Department of State has any basis and/or evidence

connecting applicant to the events of February 15-16, 1990.

Egyptian Islamic Jihad members remained active in Egypt,

attacking a tour bus in Egypt on February 4, 1990 that killed 11 people,
including nine Israelis. The Egyptian government expelled the PIJ to the
Gaza Strip after learning of their close relations with Gama’a al-Islamiyya
and Egyptian Islamic Jihad.67

State whether Department of State has any basis and/or evidence

connecting applicant to the events of Easter, 1990

On April 19, 1990 Islamists aiming to destroy the country's tourist

industry gunned down eighteen Greek tourists near the Pyramids in
Egypt.

State whether Department of State has any basis and/or evidence

connecting applicant to the riot of March 3, 1990.

On March 3, 1990 roving bands of fundamentalists attacked,

robbed and killed Coptic Christians. A few days later, in Tema, 90 miles
south of Minya, Muslims killed four Christians by beheading them with
axes. An Iman aligned with the Sheik ruled that the shedding of Christian
blood was “Halal.”68 On March 12, 1990 a Brother was killed and eleven
others arrested in Minya Province for inciting these riots. The Brother who

67
. http://www.middleeastfacts.com/middle-east/palestinian-islamic-jihad-islami.php
68
. The literal meaning of “halal” is “fair game.” Youssef M. Ibrahim “Muslim’s Fury Falls on Egypt’s Christians” New York Times
March 15, 1993.
 was killed was thrown from a window onto power lines on the order of
Interior Minister Abdel-Halim Moussa.69

State whether Department of State has any basis and/or evidence

connecting applicant to the firebombing incident of March, 1989 in
Fayoum, State, with particularity, on what basis and/or evidence the
conclusion was reached that applicant has incited people to attack police,
security authorities and Christians.

MIR AIMAL KASI

The Sheik was being double-crossed by the CIA and the CIA had to pay a price
for this duplicity: Islamist sleeper agent Mir Aimal Kasi (or Kansi), who was born in the
al-Qaeda stronghold of Quetta, Pakistan, was activated. When he
attended Balochistan University Mir Aimal Kasi associated with the
Pashtun Student Organization, a leftwing secular group. In late 1990,
after the death of his father the year before, Mir Aimal Kasi came to his
senses and discovered Islam was the path to walk in life and
associated himself with Iranian Brothers in Peshawar. 70 He visited
Afghanistan and admitted having friends among the Taliban and having
met Usama bin Laden once. “I saw Usama bin Laden once in
Kandahar. I was standing there. People were shaking his hands - I, too, shook hands
with him.” He was directed to make a trip to Germany where he contacted other
Islamists and then came to the United States in March 1991. As a result of this and his
travel, his name appeared on a Watch List but he circumvented this by identifying
himself as “Kansi.” He asked for political asylum and then settled in Virginia where
another Watch List check missed him when he applied for a driver’s license. 71 Mir Aimal
Kasi was instructed to seek employment as a driver for a local messenger service that
delivered to the CIA so that he might familiarize himself with the area surrounding the
CIA entrance, or might even enter one of the buildings, and have a valid excuse for
being there. He chose Excel Courier, which was owned and managed by the sons of
former CIA official Victor Marchetti.

MARCHETTI AND LANE

Marchetti, who left the CIA and author a book exposing this agency, edited the
New American View newsletter, which was designed to “document for patriotic

69
. “Muslim Militants are Seized in Egyptian Religious Strife” New York Times Associated Press Story March 13, 1990 Page A16, 1.
70
. Mark Reibling Wedge – How the Secret War Between the CIA and FBI has Endangered National Security Touchstone Books,
November 2002.
71
. Michael Fickes “What’s In a Name?” Access Control and Security Systems November 1, 2003.
Americans the excess of pro-Israelism, which warps the news we see and hear from our
media, cows our Congress into submission, and has already cost us hundreds of
innocent, young Americans in Lebanon and elsewhere.” Marchetti described himself as
a person whose “intelligence expertise and well-placed contacts have provided me with
a unique insight into the subversion of our democratic process and foreign policy by
those who would put the interests of Israel above those of America and Americans.”

Marchetti and the attorney Mark Lane edited Zionist Watch, a publication that
kept track of the machinations of the Zionist entity. Despite his being born a Jew, Mark
Lane was the legal representative of the Islamic Education Center, owned by the
Mostazafen Foundation of New York that was also known as The Foundation for the
Oppressed, an agency or instrumentality of the Government of the
Islamic Republic of Iran. Liberty Lobby published Zionist Watch.
Willis Carto, who Mark Lane represented in several civil actions,
headed Liberty Lobby. At this time Willis Carto (left)
ran the Institute for Historical Review. The
Institute for Historical Review helps al-Qaeda to
propagate the fabrication that the holocaust was
exaggerated or never took place. 72 Mark Lane was recruited into the
Carto network through the late Haviv Schieber. Schieber was an early
supporter of the ultra-right Jabotinsky Zionist movement. Schieber, who had problems
with mental illness, broke with Zionism believing that the communists had seized it.
Schreiber wrote for Willis Carto's Spotlight newspaper, which referred to Schieber as
“an outspoken anti-communist and critic of Israel.” 73 Writing in his book Plausible Denial,
Lane contended that “I have never heard an anti-Semitic expression” from Carto. 74

Abu Jihad questioned Jeffery Marchetti about how Mir Aimal Kasi gained
employment with Excel Courier:

We had picked up a pizza delivery guy named Shazad who now owns his
own courier company. He introduced us to ten other people as a well as
Mir Aimal Kasi. And we knew nothing about these guys other than they all
go to the Mosque together. They were all friends at the Mosque. Shazad
would tell the guys at the Mosque what a great job this is. Maybe these
other guys did tell him they would be driving by all D.C. landmarks like the
FBI building. They were all single. This guy would show up, do a job and
go to the Mosque. He was extremely religious. Mir Aimal Kasi used to
bring gifts to the women in the office, food, gifts, bagels he was cordial.
Most guys’ tenure here is very short, they are independent contractors and
72
. The Institute is comprised of crypto-neo-Nazis pretending to be objective scholars dedicated to “debunking the myth of the
holocaust.” In the early 1980’s the Institute offered a $50,000 reward to anyone who could prove the existence of gas chambers. A
Jew named Mel Mermelstein sued the Institute for refusing to pay the reward. Two weeks before the trial the Institute agreed to a
settlement as the judge had ruled that the existence of gas chambers was an indisputable fact. The Institute agreed to apologize in
writing to Mermelstein and other Auschwitz survivors for saying the Holocaust was a myth. The statement was signed and is part of
the court records. The Institute agreed to the judge’s finding that the fact that Jews were gassed at Auschwitz was indisputable.
After a defeat of this nature most organizations would have folded, however, the membership of the Institute already knew that they
were propagating a lie, so the Institute remained in existence and prospered.
73
. Spotlight, January 25, 1988, p. 9.
74
. Mark Lane Plausible Denial, Thunder's Mouth Press, 1991, p. 124.
 they come from pizza delivery backgrounds, cab driver backgrounds. I
think he wanted a job that allowed him the ability – this guy had an ax to
grind from the day he showed up. He went to the local gun store and
bought a gun to go kill people. I don’t know how he was able to buy one –
he filled out the form. He had a student visa I believe, not a green card.
The next thing you know Chris is getting a phone call at 4:00 am from the
FBI who is telling him we need to come to your office and see all the
paperwork on this guy. From that point forward we learned about this guy.
He didn’t even know who we were. [Former CIA Director] Richard Helms
claimed my dad was behind all this. My dad had Mark Lane write a cease
and desist order on that.75

On January 15, 1993 Mir Aimal Kasi bought an assault rifle despite federal law
prohibiting sales to aliens lawfully admitted in non-immigrant status (i.e. aliens without
permanent residence status)76 and despite the fact he was on an BATF Watch List 77
trading it in a week later for the AK-47 he would use in this mission for us. It was at this
time that he told his roommate, Zahed Mir, that he was going to do something at the
CIA or Israeli Embassy.78 On January 25, 1993 Mir Aimal Kasi murdered two CIA
double-crossers and permanently injured three others. He attacked without warning,
shooting his AK-47 assault rifle into cars waiting at a stoplight in front of CIA
headquarters, in Langley, Virginia. The attack occurred during morning rush hour traffic.

Abu Jihad spoke with Victor Marchetti about Brother Kasi:

We don’t know if he took the job to have access to the CIA. He

came in out of the blue. As I recall he came here and met somebody and
said he was looking for a job, very casual and vague and he ended up
going to work there. He was a very nice guy, very quiet around the office.
Nobody ever had any trouble with him; he was very friendly. One of the
Pakistani drivers I got to know fairly well, I kind of liked him, he got to
know Kasi and he told me a lot about him after this all happened. He
would tell me things like, Kasi was different - he had money. He wasn’t a
poor guy like most of the other Pakistani drivers who were trying to keep
body and soul together. There was a place in Herndon, near my son’s
business, and there was one of these storefront mosques, Muslim
hangout, food store, and things like that, where all these guys would meet
and Kasi was there. He said he had some money and he had some
influence back home.

The most prominent Herndon Mosque was the 25,000 square foot All Dulles
Area Muslim Society located at 500 Grove Street not far from the North American
Islamic Trust at 555 Grove Street, the same institution El-Sayyid Nosair had
corresponded with. Mir Aimal Kasi fled the United States for Pakistan immediately after

75
. Tape Recorded telephone conversation with Jeff Marchetti January 20 2003.
76
. Possession Or Receipt Of A Firearm Or Ammunition By A Prohibited Person18 U.S.C. § 922(g) & (n)
77
. Michael Fickes “What’s In a Name?” Access Control and Security Systems November 1, 2003.
78
. Ronald Kessler The CIA at War St. Martin’s Press 2003.
the attack. Zahed Mir reported to the police that Mir Aimal Kasi was a “missing person.”
On February 8, 1993, the police searched Mir's apartment and discovered the AK-47.
Mir Aimal Kasi traveled to Afghanistan where members of al-Qaeda hid him. Had not
Kasi had a previous connection to our movement al-Qaeda would not have helped him.
Mir Aimal Kasi, however, steadfastly insisted that the shooting was spontaneous and
stated that “several days before the shooting I decided to do the shooting at the CIA or
the Israeli Embassy but decided to shoot at the CIA because it was easier because CIA
officials are not armed. I was upset because U.S. aircraft had attacked parts of Iraq, and
was upset with the CIA because of their involvement in Muslim countries, and was
concerned with killing of Pakistanians by U.S. components. I stopped shooting because
there wasn’t anybody else left to shoot. I only shot males because it would be against
my religion to shoot females. The attack on CIA was my idea alone.”

At the end of March 1995, the FBI reclassified Mir Aimal Kasi as a suspected
international terrorist. This move allowed the use of the State Department’s Counter-
Terrorism Rewards Program to raise the reward offered for Kasi to $2 million. In late
May 1997, an ethnic Baluchi man entered the U.S. Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan with
information on Kasi. He was taken to a female CIA officer and he gave her Kasi’s
application for a Pakistani driver's license filled out by Mir Aimal Kasi under an alias with
a photo and thumbprint.79 In June 1997 Kasi’s bodyguards, who had been hired by his
family to protect him, gave Kasi’s location to the FBI and Kasi was kidnapped from the
Shalimar hotel in Dera Ghazi Khan and brought to the United States. 80 The United
States Government has a euphemism for kidnapping: “Rendition.” A “rendition” takes
place when “escort agents” apprehend and obtain custody of suspected “terrorists”
without the formalities of an extradition treaty. This occurs when the asylum nation
agrees to render the individual to the United States for trial or deports the individual out
of the country.

The informant was paid his $2 million of blood money. Virginia County prosecutor
Robert Horan said that he was sure that there were people in Pakistan who would turn
in their own mother for only twenty thousand dollars. Thousands of believers rioted in
Pakistan because of these evil words.

On November 10, 1997 Mir Aimal Kasi was convicted of the murder of two
agents of “the black house” whose organization had double-crossed Sheik Rahman.
Two days later our forces killed four American auditors and their Pakistani driver  in
Karachi. The Islamist group focused on killing Shi’ia Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) of which
most of the Baluchi Clan, including Ramzi Ahmed Yousef were members of, claimed
responsibility for the killings, as did a group called the Aimal Secret Committee. The
group threatened, “If Aimal Kasi is martyred (given the death penalty), then we will not
spare any American Jews on Pakistani soil and we will destroy the American Embassy
in Pakistan. Allahu Akbar!”81 During the penalty phase of Kasi’s trial, he advised the
court there had been press reports that morning of the killing of four Americans in
Karachi, Pakistan the preceding evening. Mir Aimal Kasi was sentenced to death. From
79
. Steve Coll “Secret Mission Unravels In Afghanistan” Washington Post February 22, 2004; Page A01
80
. Ronald Kessler The CIA at War St. Martin’s Press 2003. Kasi said that a close friend of his was responsible for his capture.
81
. Star Tribune, November 16, 1997.
his cell on death row Mir Aimal Kasi said: “I’m against attacks on civilian Americans.
They are not responsible for my execution. I’m not encouraging attacks against
anybody. What I did was in retaliation against the U.S. government. It had nothing to do
with terrorism. The September 11 th attacks on the World Trade Center were totally
wrong. They were attacks against civilian people. But the attack on the Pentagon was
right since the Pentagon is an agency involved in attacks against Muslim countries. I’m
not sorry for attacking the CIA.” Mir Aimal Kasi was executed by electric chair at the
Greensville Correctional Center in Jarrat, Virginia, at 9:00 p.m. November 14, 2002. His
last statement was: “There is no God but Allah.”

On February 26, 1993 the World Trade Center was attacked. This was the
culmination of a plan that had been in place for months, and not as a retribution for the
CIA’s abandonment of Sheik Rahman. On March 16, 1993 Meisner ruled that Sheik
Rahman should be deported from the United States since he had not told INS officials
that he was a polygamist and that he had been convicted of falsifying a check while he
was still living in Egypt in 1987. Both of these charges were bogus. INS records
contained exculpatory evidence regarding the polygamy charge – namely an Egyptian
divorce decree dated September 5, 1990. An appellate court would later dismiss this
charge. The polygamy charge was parlayed into an accusation that the Sheik had
declared he had four children instead of ten. The appellate court would also throw this
charge out as the six “children” were “adults” and the fraud had no basis in fact. As for
the bounced check charge: The charge had been dismissed after it was pointed out the
Sheik was legally blind and therefore it was impossible for him to forge any document,
however another charge was lodged against the Sheik insinuating that he collaborated
with a anonymous person to forge a public document. After the court took into account
the Sheik’s reputation in the Egyptian community, this charge was also dismissed.

The full text of Judge Meisner’s decision was not made public at the request of
Rahman’s lawyer, Barbara Nelson, who stated, “He has no intention of leaving. He
intends to stay and pursue his claim for permanent residency” 82 however the Elder’s
were able to obtain a copy: “The court finds that the applicant failed to establish
persecution as defined by the Act. The applicant has failed to establish a fear of past
persecution or that his fear is well founded. For example, the applicant fails to show that
the Government has the inclination to punish him. Under the Emergency Law that has
been in effect continuously since the assassination of president Anwar Sadat in 1981, a
person may be held indefinitely without charge or due process while an investigation is
conducted…The applicant has also failed to establish a fear of persecution. The
applicant has not shown, through his testimony or the documentary evidence of record,
that a reasonable person in his circumstances would fear persecution on the basis of
one of the five grounds found in the Act. Furthermore, the applicant does not establish
that circumstances have changed in Egypt since 1990 to justify a fear of future
persecution.”

The Sheik’s attorney responded: “The Immigration Judge has erroneously

concluded that applicant has established only that he was prosecuted, but not

82
. Fredric Dicker “Radical Sheik Ordered Deported” New York Post, March 18, 1993.
persecuted because one of applicant's arrests may appear to have been for bona fide
governmental interests in investigating and bringing the assassins of Anwar Sadat to
justice. The arrest referred to occurred in 1981. Applicant was initially not told why the
police broke down the door to his sister's home at midnight and arrested him. However,
he was eventually advised of the charges (inspiring others to assassinate Anwar Sadat)
against him and stood trial. The case against him was dismissed and applicant released
in 1984. It should be noted that the Egyptian Government admits he was tortured while
in custody. The fact that the Egyptian Government has managed in some way to
legitimize its repressive actions under an Emergency Law, does not necessarily mean
that any action taken under that law is prosecution as opposed to persecution. Even
assuming the arrest and imprisonment were a legitimate exercise of sovereignty, the
use of torture is not.” The Emergency Law was first passed in 1981 in response to the
assassination of Anwar el-Sadat, and at its height was used to detain more than 30,000
prisoners indefinitely without charge. In April 2006 Hosni Mubarak pushed through
Parliament a two-year extension of the Emergency Law despite opposition from 88
members (out of 454) of the Muslim Brotherhood who were elected as independent
members of the Egyptian Parliament in 2005.

Sheik Rahman then filed appeal, as the decision was based on secret
information his defense attorney could not see nor respond to. The Sheik’s attorney also
found it hard to believe that the judge had read, but had not taken into consideration,
this classified information, when making his decision denying the Sheik political asylum.
As a result of the Sheik’s delaying tactics, unhappy FBI agents confessed to the Jewish
journalist Robert I. Friedman that the Bureau had been forced to turn a blind eye to the
Blind Sheikh Rahman, and asked Friedman to turn up the heat on this holy man.

THE PLOT TO KILL ROBERT I. FRIEDMAN

Robert Friedman was once considered an unwitting ally of the Learned Elders of
Islam as he wrote many books and exposes about evil Jews such as those in the
Russian Jewish mob, settlers on the West Bank, and best of all a book that exposed
Rabbi Meyer Kahane,.83 During the trial of Brother Nosair for the assassination of
Kahane, Nosair’s attorney, William Kunstler, kept a copy of Friedman’s book about
Kahane, False Prophet, on the edge of the defense table, so that the jury could see it.
Many enemies of the Jews, including the Nazi Noontide Press 84, still sell Friedman’s
books, alongside Henry Ford’s The International Jew and Hitler’s Mein Kampf. Our
propaganda organs, such as Radio Islam, display his articles on the Internet. When
Friedman reported in the influential homosexual organ, The Village Voice, that
according to what he attributed to Israeli intelligence sources, Ahmad Ajaj, a 27-year-old
West Bank Palestinian held in federal custody for conspiring to bomb the World Trade
Center may have been a Mossad mole, Gama’a al-Islamiyya’s Brooklyn / Jersey City
cell used this to blame the first Trade Center bombing on the Jews. 85 In regard to the
first World Trade Center Event, Aysha Salameh, the mother of Mohammad Salameh,

83
. Counterpoint October 1985.
84
. Friedman had his attorney send Noontide Press a letter protesting their marketing of his book.
85
. Robert I. Friedman “Mossad Linked To WTC Bomb Suspect” Village Voice August 3, 1993.
told the New York Times, “The Jews, this is from the Jews, who have done this and
blamed my son.” 86

All of this suited our purposes. Friedman, however, whose parents survived the
Nazis effort to exterminate them, went against our interests in the piece he wrote about
Sheik Rahman’s connection to the Kahane assassination and the first World Trade
Center bombing. Friedman quoted an FBI source in Los Angeles as saying, “He was
here under the banner of…the CIA. It’s hands off. He’s an untouchable.” 87 It was articles
like this that made it seem as if law enforcement was not doing its job and put additional
pressure on the American Government to arrest or deport the Sheik. So, Gama’a al-
Islamiyya’s Brooklyn / Jersey City cell decided to execute Friedman. The FBI found out
about our plan and informed Friedman that two members of the Sheik’s “terror
underground” planned to kill him. Our agents called Friedman several times and tried to
lure him to a meeting with the promise of information. Because of the FBI warning he
became suspicious and refused to meet with us, then went into hiding. We were finally
able to destroy him during a visit he made to India, where he investigated the Hindu
practice of child prostitution. We infected him with a deadly blood disease for which
there was no cure. Friedman believed he contracted the disease accidentally, for this
arrogant Jew could not admit he was defeated by the will of Allah [subhanahu wa
ta’ala]. Friedman finally died in July 2002.

THE CARSON DUNBAR ENIGMA & THE SALEM WITCH HUNT

Only God had the power to put Carson Dunbar in charge of

monitoring our cell, a man whose motivation is a mystery even to the
Learned Elders of Islam. Carson Dunbar served with the New Jersey
State Police from 1973 until 1977. After his service with the New
Jersey State Police in 1977, Dunbar served with the FBI in Pittsburgh,
Washington and New York. In addition, he was assigned to FBI
Headquarters for two years. During the time the Brooklyn – Jersey City
cell was active Dunbar served in the FBI’s New York Field Division as a supervisor of
foreign counterintelligence, terrorism and surveillance operations. From 1996 to 1999
Dunbar, having been “kicked upstairs,” served as a Special Agent In Charge of the
Administrative Division New York.88

For 22 years, Dunbar supervised elite FBI units and was perhaps the top African-
American FBI Supervisor in the United States. In early June 1992, however,
Alhumdulallah, a rift developed between Dunbar and his high level informant Emad
Salem. It was agreed that Salem’s undercover investigation would be terminated,
despite Salem’s reports on our activities that included our plans for bombing and the
86
. Village Voice May 6, 1986. When Friedman quoted Jewish Defense League terrorist Vincent Vancier, in the Village Voice, as
having said that his allies in the Jewish Defense League were “desperate people” who “didn’t care if they live or die” our clever
propagandists later used this to convince unthinking people that the “Middle Eastern” men described by passengers on the airliners
that finally destroyed the World Trade Center were not Arabs, but Israelis.
87
. Robert I. Friedman “The CIA and the Sheik -The Agency Coddled Omar Abdel Rahman, Allowing Him to Operate in the U.S. Now
This Unholy Alliance Has Blown Up in Our Faces” Village Voice March 30, 1993
88
. In January 1981 Oliver “Buck” Revell was censured by William Webster over Abscam leaks and moved out of his post as head of
the Criminal Division to an admistrative job.
Thomas O’Toole “Prosecutors, FBI Agents Punished for News Leaks”Washington Post January 15, 1981.
assassination of public officials and our contacts with Usama bin Laden. Dunbar said
that he made this decision because of Salem’s reluctance to wear a body recorder after
Salem failed a polygraph test and because Salem had refused to testify against his so-
called “terrorist” comrades in open court.

Salem, however, was willing to wear a hidden tape recorder, only he wanted to
keep the tapes. Emad Salem discussed the idea of sneaking a recording device into
Attica to record a conversation with Nosair with a lower level FBI agent:

Salem: Okay. You can go inside and meet me inside and give me a
bugging device, and take this conversation and tape today. And then I
trust you that you are not going to give this tape to anybody. And then
after we leave we’ll take this tape and let them listen to confirm that I’m not
cheating them or lying to them. And then I will take the tape and destroy it
so it won’t be taken against me. Or it’s not right what I am saying.

FBI Special Agent Floyd: Umm. I don’t have any problem with it. 89

At the trial of Sheik Rahman the Assistant United States Attorney Andrew
McCarthy stated: “You will learn that Salem had no problem with tape recording but he
had a big problem with being a witness. He always had drawn a line in the sand that he
didn’t want to be an informant if that meant getting on the stand and testifying in court
and subjecting his family to danger.” 90 What the Assistant United States Attorney had
omitted to tell the jury was that Salem was being paid very little money when he was
hesitant about testifying and he changed his tune when he was offered more than a
million dollars for his testimony. Brothers he deserved much more than a million for the
danger from us was real – after Salem surfaced as an FBI infiltrator Egyptian Islamic
Jihad and Gama’a al-Islamiyya tried to kidnap his sister. 91 Salem had to be relocated
fourteen times. Sheik Rahman called on Salem to “take back the lies that you are
telling” and said Salem was “retracted from Islam” - a fatwa authorizing Rahman’s
followers to murder him. Sheik Rahman also said the informant’s Egyptian-born children
should be taken from him because he could no longer give them a proper Muslim
upbringing: “I’m praying to Allah to make Mr. Salem live for the longest time possible, so
he can commit more sins and be an example for all humankind,” the Sheik said
sarcastically.

On June 23, 1992 Dunbar sent Agent Floyd, FBI Supervisor John Crouthhamel
who worked under Carson Dunbar along with JTTF New York City Police Department
Detective Louis Napoli to meet with Salem at the Rhiga Hotel. Various options were
discussed with Salem. Firstly, he could continue his infiltration and move into the
Witness Protection Program if he testified. Secondly he could pull out immediately in a
way that would not jeopardize his safety or any on going investigations. The third option
was that Mr. Salem could remain undercover if the New York Office could execute a
scenario where any and all bombs and guns made, planted or purchased could be
89
. USA v Rahman Source tape 6-11 p1-2
90
. USA v Rahman TT 1601
91
. USA v. Rahman TT 6055
neutralized without blowing Salem’s cover. 92 This plan to entrap our Al-Gama’a al-
Islamiyya Brooklyn-Jersey City cell entailed having Salem substitute a harmless powder
for the real explosive, in a bomb that he would help Gama’a al-Islamiyya’s Brooklyn /
Jersey City cell build. “He requested to meet me in the hotel,” Mr. Salem said of FBI
Agent Crouthhamel: “He requested to make me to testify and if he didn’t push for that,
we’ll be going building the bomb with a phony powder and grabbing the people who was
involved in it.”

The second option – withdrawal - was chosen for Salem despite the fact that FBI
Agent John Anticev, Salem’s handler, had previously instructed him to find out where
the Brothers were hiding explosives: “We’ll just know where stuff exists and where it is,
and then we’ll make our move. There’s no danger [of you being exposed as the
informant], you know. We can be sneaky and take our time.” Dunbar made the decision
that, despite the fact Salem had reported on assassination plots and bombing against
Jewish targets, and despite the fact that the FBI had no other agent inside the cell at the
time, Salem would be withdrawn from the cell.

There were several alternatives to explain this seemingly irrational behavior:

Dunbar had a personality conflict with Salem. But why let this get in the way of a
professional relationship? Dunbar wished to see Jews killed, even Jewish public
officials. This was ridiculous, as Dunbar was a church-going “Uncle Tom” with no
ideology except that which furthered his career. One of our targets was Christian –
Senator Alphonse D’Amato. Perhaps Dunbar did not think our cell was a great threat to
national security as our bombs in the past had been constructed from firecrackers and
our assassination attempts had all met with failure, save the Kahane action? This did
not make any sense, as Dunbar was aware of the Hosni Mubarak and Mikhail
Gorbachev assassination attempts. Professor Adelson said that after the Kahane
assassination everyone listed in El-Sayyid Nosair’s book that worked for the United
States government was given federal protection. We were again targeting government
officials just as Salem reported to Dunbar, and our threats should have been taken
seriously, as they had been in the past. Dunbar must have known about the bodyguards
assigned to Nosair’s prospective targets and how this information meshed with that
supplied by Salem, yet he fired Salem.

A former crime reporter believed that Dunbar fired Salem because Dunbar did
not want to aid Egyptian intelligence in its crusade against its political opponents in exile
overseas.93 This went against American foreign policy - Egypt trailed only behind the
Zionist entity as a recipient of American foreign aid, much of which was used to
suppress Islamism. It also went against the security interests of the United States as the
cell was planning activities not just against Egyptian government officials, but also
against Americans.

Perhaps Dunbar, as Assistant Special Agent for Counter Intelligence, was in

close contact with the CIA and he might have received orders from the Agency to quash
92
. USA v Rahman TT 15334
93
. John Miller, Michael Stone and Chris Mitchell, The Cell – Inside the 9/11 Plot and Why the FBI and CIA Failed to Stop It, Hyperion
Books, New York August 2002.
the investigation of the Brooklyn-Jersey City Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya cell. The Russians
had already been driven from Afghanistan but was not until September 27, 1996 that
the Taliban, supporters of al-Qaeda, deposed the Soviet puppet Najibullah, so the CIA
interest in our organization continued. But why start the investigation in the first place if
this was the case? Did the Kahane assassination upset them?

Salem found it difficult to believe that he had been removed from the case:

Who else can cover this information except me? Who else can cover El-
Sayyid Nosair when he asked me to build a bomb? Who else can ask me
to cover the information of [redacted] we discussing twelve bombs to be
blown up at one time in New York and Brooklyn and things like that? Eh, I
played it right and I played it with the proper way, because its my way, its
my talent. But if the agent came to be planted don’t expect these people to
involve him in their depth, when they don’t know his wife, when they don’t
know his children, when they don’t go to his house four or five times, when
they see him praying day and night with him, and he’s, ya know? Then
they will start to even to a, and there is so many people in and out to the
mosque with different outfits and the people they talk about them after
they leave, oh this is Egyptian FBI, oh this is… We saw somebody in the
mosque couple of days ago - he’s an American guy. He doesn’t speak
Arabic. He stepped into the mosque and he started praying in a very funny
way, it wasn’t even praying. You know what I mean? I mean, all of that is
monitored, and nobody talked to him, but we gathered at the back of the
mosque, me and Mohammed El-Gabrowny and look at this son-of-a-bitch,
he’s playing like praying and of course he want so show up his faith – they
monitored him. So, if you are going to bring an Egyptian agent, this
Egyptian agent, you have got to expose him, you gotta expose his wife,
you gotta expose his children, you gotta let him meet these people for
them and he gotta be one of them and eh, its not easy… If that’s in Egypt
that I, I, they would hang me from my balls. I mean these agents should
work. They should cover up these story. They should take these pictures
for these people…honey we got six suspects and this and that and
BOOM. Another BOOM and they oops, sorry.

During the trial of Sheik Rahman and Brooklyn-Jersey City Al-Gama’a al-
Islamiyya cell members beginning in early 1995 Dunbar was called as a witness for the
defense for the narrow inquiry of whether FBI agents told Emad Salem at a July 1992
meeting that they did not believe his information, so that Salem’s credibility would be
destroyed:

Q. What if anything occurred that meeting with regard to contacting Mr.

Salem concerning verifying his information?

A. What information?
 Q. His information in connection with building and planting of bombs in the
Jewish Community in the New York City area and the assassination plan
for New York Assemblyman Dov Hikind?

A. He was asked to – the decision was made at that meeting that we

would like him to wear a wire.

Q. Did you seek permission from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Mr. Salem
to wear a wire following that meeting?

McCarthy: Objection, scope.

THE COURT: Sustained.

Q. Did you meet with Emad Salem on July 6, 1992 at 1:45 p.m?

A. I don’t recall precisely, but I did meet with him and it was in that time
frame. This could have been the first meeting. I am not – I just don’t recall.
I don’t believe anybody else was present. But I could be wrong. I believe I
met with him privately. It was in my office at 26 Federal Plaza…

Q. Now this is in 1992, this meeting?

A. Correct.

Q. And the bombing of the World Trade Center occurred on February 26,
1993, correct?

A. Correct.

Q. Did Mr. Salem advise you that he was opposed to wearing a monitoring
device?

A. Yes.

Q. Did Mr. Salem become angry at that meeting? Did he raise his voice at
that meeting?

A. I don’t believe he did but I’m not positive.

After this meeting a series of FBI memorandums went out regarding Salem: On
July 7, 1992 FBI New York Assistant Special Agent in Charge Carson Dunbar authored
one that stated that on July 6, 1992 Emad said that he was opposed to wearing a
monitoring device; however, he said that he would submit to a polygraph for the
purpose of verifying the information as long as the polygraph was limited to the
information that he was providing the FBI. When Salem underwent his polygraph he had
a shouting match with the examiner, who kept the room the test was administered in
freezing cold – a condition that has been know to interfere will the reliability of lie
detectors.94 This desire of the FBI to want to see Salem fail his polygraph test indicates
that the Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya investigation was being deliberately quashed.

On July 9, 1992 S.A. Floyd generated a memo about Salem and on July 20,
1992 Floyd again wrote one which noted that more than two months before his last
polygraph Salem’s was “no longer being involved in any capacity with the investigation.”
A July 29, 1992 teletype indicated that Salem’s status had been changed “on July 9,
1992 to reflect that he was currently providing information and is no longer operationally
providing or assisting the New York FBI Office in anyway.” Finally on October 19, 1992
a teletype officially closed Salem as an informant, drafted to reflect that “information
provided by asset has proven accurate and reliable” with handwritten annotation that
“however it would be noted that a final polygraph was administered on September 28,
1992 by SA William C. Holloman, Newark Division, which came back deceptive.” 95
Salem had failed a polygraph test given to him in September 1992 which focused on his
connection to Egyptian intelligence, not on his reporting of our Brooklyn / Jersey City
cell. Not only that, but the conclusions of the various other polygraphists were
inconsistent. Salem exaggerated his importance and like most informants was an
unstable character, however, his information about our activities was accurate,
however, the possibility exists that the FBI did not want an agent of Egyptian
Intelligence working for them. But Dunbar would have looked into this before he hired
Salem. This was just another excuse for rolling up the Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya in the
USA investigation. Dunbar’s testimony continued:

CROSS EXAMINATION BY MR. RICCO

Q. Now you said that your contact with Mr. Salem took place after April
1992, but not before then [and] Emad Salem was providing you with
information that caused you concern, isn’t that correct? He was giving you
information about bombings? And an escape plot?

A. Correct.

Q. And the assassination or kidnapping of judges and other public

officials?

A. Incorrect. He was giving us information regarding possible, but there

were no assassinations.

Q. Okay in other words we are talking about the possibility of these things
taking place?

A. Yes.

94
. Peter Lance 1000 Days of Revenge Regan Books 2003
95
. USA v Rahman ltr McCarthy to Mukasey dated March 24, 1995.
Q. And there came a time in your supervisory capacity that you wanted to
talk about the progress of this particular informant, isn’t that correct? Then
ultimately you decided you wanted to speak to him yourself?

A. Yes.

Q. Now after those meetings…

A. I am not positive if there was more than one meeting. I think there was
one or two but if we use the word “meetings” then that’s fine, but I’m not
positive that it’s more than one.

Q. Before testifying here today in these proceedings have you had an

opportunity to review your case file concerning your contacts with Emad
Salem?

A. No, I have not.

Q. So you’re testifying here in the cold?

A. No, that’s not correct.

Q. And after the meetings you had with Emad Salem he was to either
wear a wire or take a polygraph, isn’t that correct?

A. What occurred was that I tried to encourage him to wear a wire. When
he decided that he did not want to do that, then I would – then I asked him
if he would submit to a polygraph.

Q. The polygraph examination took place within ten days to two weeks of
your meeting with Mr. Salem, isn’t that correct?

A. Again I can’t give you the precise time frame, but it’s not unreasonable
that that is the time frame.

Q. And I would say approximately two weeks after that his status was, he
was declassified, isn’t that correct?

A. I don’t recall that.

Q. Do you recall whether or not he was still receiving payments from the
FBI?

A. He received, I believe, one more payment that I authorized. Whether

other people did or not, I do not know.
 Q. So can we say that as of August 1992, you were no longer authorizing
payments for the information that Emad Salem was providing to the FBI?

A. I believe that is correct. But as I said, I have not looked at the file so I
don’t know precisely.

Q. You requested that Emad Salem participate in a polygraph examination

because you wanted to verify the information he was providing, isn’t that
correct?

A. That’s correct.

Q. That’s because at the time you had doubts whether or not what he was
saying to you –

McCarthy – Objection.

THE COURT: Sustained.

Dunbar had given the defense ammunition regarding Salem’s lack

of credibility. Salem had asked Agent Anticev to evaluate the information
he had previously given to the Bureau:

Salem: If Emad Salem falsified any information to the Bureau?

Anticev: No.

Salem: No. Alright. So every single information I supplied it. It’s very
excellent and correct.

Returning to Dunbar’s testimony:

CROSS EXAMINATION BY MR. JACOBS

Q. Am I correct that he had worn a wire previously for Nancy Floyd, to

your knowledge?

McCarthy: Objection, scope, hearsay.

THE COURT: Sustained.

Q. On May 13, 1992 you gave certain admonitions and instructions to

Salem yourself, correct? Would you remember if any other body was
present, if you can recall?
 A. I don’t specifically remember. There may have been one other person
with me.

Q. Did you tell Emad Salem he was not to offer to purchase any material?
Did you tell him that under no circumstances was he to take part in or
allow explosive devices to travel outside the safe house? Did you tell him
he was not to instruct personnel on what should be done? That he was not
to deviate from any planned activity, correct? He was to work closely with
the case agents? Did you tell him that he should not offer to obtain any
items that are illegal and that he was not to take part in any illegal
activities without notifying the case agent? Did he ask that his money be
increased from 1,000 bucks to $3,000 a month?

A. Yes.

CROSS EXAMINATION BY AMSTERDAM

Q. Was it made clear to Mr. Salem that he himself could not go out and
buy destructive devices?

A. I can’t precisely answer that. But in discussing that, the bottom line was
that I did not want him to do anything without getting some kind of
direction from one of the defendants or one of the supervisors or agents…

Q. Did he ever come to your office and show you any kind of fuses? Did
he tell you he had purchased that fuse himself?

A. He showed me what I think was a large firecracker, like an M-80 type

firecracker. I think this was possibly in 1992.

Q. When he showed you that fuse did you take possession of it?

A. No, I did not.

Q. Did you tell him in sum and substance, ‘Mr. Salem, you shouldn’t be
out there buying M-80’s?’

A. Yes I did.

Q. Did Mr. Salem show you or tell you that he had purchased any remote
detonators?

A. I don’t specifically recall but it is quite possible.

Salem’s tapes of his conversations with Anticev backed up Dunbar’s statement

that Dunbar did not take possession of the M-80: “I tell you honestly what I did with that
fuse…Of course I keep it in my drawer for a long time and then after you asked me to
withdraw myself, and this and that, I don’t trust anybody anymore…So I throw it away.” 96
Dunbar was also asked if he had shown Salem how to use an M-80 firecracker to
detonate a propane canister and he said he possessed no such knowledge. Salem told
Anticev: “And I told him this is a quarter of a…This is half of a dynamite stick power
explosion…and ah as a matter of fact he explained to me how you can make it with a
propane tank…”97

CROSS EXAMINATION OF DUNBAR BY STEWART

Q. Was not an area that needed to be verified in your role as supervising

special agent that whether or not Mr. Salem was working at the direction
of the Egyptian intelligence?

McCarthy: Objection.

THE COURT: Sustained.

CROSS EXAMINATION BY MR. RICCO

Q. Mr. McCarthy used the word ‘take down a case,’ isn’t that correct? Now
‘take down a case’ means that there’s something, a criminal act has
happened, and the FBI moves in to make the arrest, isn’t that correct?

A. Yes.

Q. Now one of the areas of concern was an escape plot, a plot to help
Nosair break out of state prison, isn’t that correct?

A. That’s correct.

Q. Was there a case to take down when you met with Emad Salem in July
1992?

A. No.

Q. One of the things he talked about was kidnapping of judges. Was there
a case to be taken down with respect to kidnapping of a judge when you
met with Emad Salem in July 1992?

A. No.

Q. One of the other areas of concern was bombing unspecified targets in

Brooklyn. Was there a case to be taken down in July 1992 concerning
Emad Salem?
96
. USA v Rahman Source 33-6 (0919-1656, 0000-0246E)
97
. ibid. Page 5
A. No.

Q. When you met with Emad Salem you did talk about his future
involvement in the investigation, isn’t that correct?

A. Yes.

Q. But that was provided Emad Salem took a polygraph or wore a wire to
confirm the information he was giving, isn’t that right?

A. No.

(Dunbar is shown a memorandum he prepared)

Q. Now in your memo, didn’t you say, amongst other things, that the asset
was advised that should the polygraph confirm his information, the matter
would be further discussed with the United States Attorney’s Office to
insure the best course of action to avoid the asset’s having to testify in this
case?

A. That’s in the memo, yes.

Q. The predicate, what had to happen first, was that the information had to
be confirmed, isn’t that correct?

A. Yes.

Q. The way the information would be confirmed was either through

wearing a wire of through the polygraph?

A. That’s not exactly correct.

Q. That’s not exactly correct? There are other ways in which the FBI could
confirm information that a confidential informant gives, isn’t that correct?
You could do it through surveillance, photographs?

A. Yes.

Q. But in relation to your meeting with Emad Salem, when you said to him,
‘Wear a wire or take the polygraph,’ it was for the purpose of confirming
the information?

McCarthy: Objection.

THE COURT: Sustained as to form.

Mr. Ricco: In early July 1992, the testimony you have been giving about
wearing of the body wire or the polygraph, was related to the issue about
confirming the information, isn’t that correct?

A. That’s correct.

Q. And what you said to Emad Salem was, if it’s confirmed, then we will
discuss in the future how we will investigate the case so that you won’t
have to testify.

A. That is not correct.

Q. Which part of that isn’t correct?

A. I told Mr. Salem, I gave him a number of scenarios that we could

possibly use should he wear a wire, in which he would not have to testify,
or hopefully not have to testify.

Q. But the first thing that you wanted to do, Agent Dunbar, was to confirm
what he-

McCarthy: Objection.

THE COURT: Sustained.

Redirect Examination By Mr. Stavis

Q. At the meeting in early July 1992 when you asked him to wear a wire
he was to wear a wire when he went to visit my client Nosair at Attica
Prison, is that correct? And you told Mr. Salem that they could arrange
everything in Attica so that they could tape Mr. Nosair’s meeting with Mr.
Salem, isn’t that correct?

A. I believe so.

Q. And you had agents in the Buffalo office which would help you do what
needed to be done so that Mr. Salem, if he went to visit Mr. Nosair at
Attica prison, could tape that meeting, is that correct?

A. That is correct…

Q. Was there anything you told Emad Salem at the July 1992 meeting to
make him believe that you did not believe what he was telling you about
my client Mr. Nosair?
 A. The only discussion was that I told him that we needed to have
corroboration of what he told us.

Q. Did you use the word corroboration?

A. Corroboration, verification, whatever. It’s over three years ago, either

word. It’s the same meaning.

Q. When you wrote a memorandum the day after your July 6, 1992
meeting with Mr. Salem, did you use the word verification?

A. I stand with whatever is written there.98

From his testimony it appeared as if Dunbar did not trust Salem’s veracity and
wanted to verify everything he told the FBI. Dunbar made it seem as if he was being
cautious and going strictly by the book when in reality he was terminating the
penetration of an organization at the request of another government agency, an
“unnamed” government agency.

FBI Special Agent Nancy Floyd commented:

And then we, you know, had a new ASAC. And I said, ‘You know,
they treated Emad very wrongly. They treated him like some cab driver
who wasn’t educated who hadn’t worked this, who didn’t have as much
experience as they did. They were rude to him. My God, Dunbar
interviewed him sitting Indian-style with his shoes off. Emad shows up in a
very expensive suit with Italian leather shoes on, dressed to the nines, and
this is how he’s interviewed? Extremely unprofessional and his life’s on
the line…The only people who are backing him up were me and my
supervisor but like I was saying everybody kept changing and then the
rules were changed. They were more interested in whether or not they
could arrest 12 people, as much as Emad would try to tell them ‘Look, the
bottom line is besides these twelve people there’s a hundred thousand
other ones out there. And if you don’t stay on the inside then what we’re
doing is losing everything.’

He [the new ASAC; James M. Fox - Assistant Special Agent 99 in Charge of

the New York Division of the FBI from 1987 until 1994] said, ‘Well, what do
you think?’ And I said, ‘I think that you need people who are working in
terrorists that know the difference between criminal and intelligence and
realize that the two of them can work hand-in-hand.’ He says that ‘People
who work Organized Crime and work drugs realize that they need to have
people on the inside so they know what’s going on and that you don’t take
down everybody and burn your source so that you still don’t know what’s
going on’…And I said ‘You need somebody that will do this [infiltrate the
98
. USA v Rahman, Dunbar testimony pgs 13347-13414
99
. The ASAC position is unique in the FBI; it is a kind of co-directorship above the usual rank of Special Agent in Charge
 Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya cell].’ And he said, ‘Well, who would you suggest
would do this?’ And I said, ‘Well in my opinion I don’t think there’s anybody
on that squad that Emad would probably feel real comfortable with.’ I said,
‘He knows them, he’s dealt with them, these are the same people that
screwed it up in the beginning.’ And I said, ‘The same thing with John
Crouthhamel, the supervisor and with Carson Dunbar. All they wanted to
do was have him testify [rather than perform an intelligence function].’

Agent Floyd figured out that our Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya cell was planning a
devistating action and attempted to stay in touch with Salem as a result of this, despite
her orders from the FBI higher-ups. The defense wished to recall Dunbar as a witness
“regarding instruction given to Floyd in the summer of 1993 to cease initiating contact
with Salem…Agent Floyd acknowledged at some point she had been directed to avoid
further communication with Salem100 and that she had had further contact with Salem
after June 29, 1993, [when she tried to retrieve any tapes he had made at the
instructions of Dunbar], but did not for several months before the start of this trial. 101

Prior to Agent Floyd’s testimony, the Assistant United States

Attorney told Judge Michael B. Mukasey that the counsels for the
defense “were provided with the pertinent portion of an internal FBI
communication in which it was stated that Agent Floyd had been told at
a certain point not to initiate further contact with Salem and that she
never-the-less had contact with him thereafter. (The internal FBI
document incorrectly stated that the order to halt contacts occurred in July 1992 rather
than July 1993. Counsel, however, were well aware from the abundance of other
discovery material they received that Agent Floyd had frequent contact with Salem well
into 1993. The government would stipulate that Agent Floyd was directed not to initiate
further communication with Salem in July 1993.) Counsel now apparently wishes to call
Dunbar, one of the supervisors who directed Floyd not to initiate further contact with
Salem, to explore when and why that directive was given. We do not believe the FBI’s
limitation on Floyd’s contact with Salem is at all relevant to the issues in this case…
Neither Dunbar nor Floyd should be further questioned about this area.” 102

AL-GAMA’A AL-ISLAMIYYA ACTIVITY DURING THE TIME WHEN SALEM WAS

REMOVED FROM THE CASE

In early July 1993 the Egyptian Judge Ahmed Ashmawi ordered Sheik Rahman’s
arrest and extradition. Abdel Mandour, the Sheik’s attorney said that Ashmawi should
have been disqualified because of his prejudice against Islamists. 103 On July 22, 1993
Dr. Fawzi Mikhail, a Christian gynecologist in his sixties, was shot dead in Manfalout,
Egypt by Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya. Sheik Rahman was behind this attack and was heard
discussing it with “Mohammed” from Pakistan. On November 25, 1993 the Al-Gama’a
al-Islamiyya in conjunction with Egyptian Islamic Jihad tried to assassinate Egypt’s

100
. USA v Rahman TT 15322
101
. USA v Rahman TT 15322
102
. USA v Rahman Ltr. McCarthy to Mukasey August 7, 1995
103
. Washington Post July 6, 1993 pg.A.16
Prime Minister Atef Sedki. The communiqué concerning this action stated, “We demand
no harm come to our Muslim scholars including Omar Abdel Rahman.” 104 Clearly our
cell was engaged in violence in Egypt, why not in the United States? None-the-less, the
FBI was worried more about Salem’s credibility than our activity. Emad Salem was
questioned by the defense about how Dunbar related to him:

Q. What discussion did you have with him about safety?

A. I told him, It’s not an issue of money. Again, it’s my family and my
extended family overseas, and if I will testify, I will be in jeopardy. I need to
secure me, and I don’t want to testify.

Q. What did Dunbar say about securing you?

A. He said he cannot assure me to a hundred percent that I won’t be

exposed as a witness, and he cannot assure me to a hundred percent that
I won’t be testifying, my family to be protected a hundred percent. I did not
agree to testify and Mr. Dunbar said, ‘If you won’t testify then we got to
stop the investigation.’

Q. Was there any discussion about verifying the information you had given
to the FBI?

A. Yes, he said you give us very serious information about killing judge
and killing one of the civilians, and we would like to verify the information.
He said: How about if you visit Sayyid Nosair in jail, and we can get a
judge permission to get the conversation on tape?

Q. Did you agree to do that?

A. Yes, I said I am willing to go. I am willing to get you the tape – I will let
you listen to the tape, but I will keep it with me so you don’t have to
obligate me to testify. For my safety.

Q. Did Mr. Dunbar agree to your condition?

A. No, he did not.

Q. Was any other proposal made how to verify the information you were
giving the FBI?

A. He asked me to take a polygraph. I had already been polygraphed at

the beginning of the investigation.

104
. Caryle Murphy “Radicals Attempt to Kill Egyptian Prime Minister” The Washington Post November 26, 1993 page A.01.
 Q. Was there any conversation in the meeting about whether you should
continue in the investigation in connection with the polygraph?

A. I said: You coming at the beginning of the investigation telling me: You
don’t have to testify. You coming today to tell me: You have to testify. At
the beginning: Don’t tape anybody. At the end: Tape everybody. Go get us
a tape. I Am Out Of Here! I was upset and angry.

Q. Were you in fact polygraphed?

A. Yes, sir.

According to court testimony FBI Agent Nancy Floyd called Dunbar “gutless and
a chicken-shit.” Crouthhamel called Floyd a “bitch” and former FBI Agent James J. Roth
a 25-year FBI veteran and chief counsel to the bureau's New York office from 1986-
2000, was alleged to have later leaked stories about her to the press. Dunbar said that
he did not trust Agent Floyd. 105 This dissention was highly beneficial to our cause. A
twelve page Floyd authored memo about Emad Salem mysteriously was lost. For her
attempts on behalf of Emad the Rat Agent Floyd was suspended for 90 days in the fall
of 1998.

Roger Stavis, El-Sayyid Nosair’s attorney, hoped that Dunbar’s testimony would
instill reasonable doubt in the jury and in his summation he said:

Carson Dunbar saw through Salem. He told you about it on the

witness stand. And he exposed Emad Salem. Why did Emad Salem not
want to tape at Attica? Because if he had taped at Attica, it would prove,
just like if he had agreed to have an undercover FBI agent work with him,
it would have shown that Salem’s, quote, usual topic -- bombing,
explosives, weapons, rifles, pistols, killing, kidnapping and murdering --
was never the topic of discussion at Attica Prison. Tapes would have
unmasked Emad Salem. Attica tapes would have revealed that Emad
Salem was a liar. You can’t have an undercover, and you can’t have
tapes. What tapes you do have, those telephone recorded tapes, I submit
to you would have been the topic of discussion had Emad Salem agreed
to tape at Attica -- things about subpoenas, things about appeals, things
about how are the Brothers, that’s what you would have gotten.

DUNBAR AND RACE

In July 1999 Governor Christie Whitman appointed Dunbar, a former state

trooper, to be the first Black superintendent of the New Jersey State Troopers. Dunbar
was not Whitman’s first choice because of what was widely perceived as his inept
handling of the World Trade Center bombing. But as a result of the racial profiling flap
that plagued the troopers, along with former superintendent Carl Williams’ statement

105
. USA v Rahman TT 15320
linking drug trafficking to minorities, Whitman needed a Black to fill the position, so she
disregarded his seeming ineptitude in the World Trade Center matter despite protests
from the rank and file of the New Jersey State Police. 106 Whitman vehemently denied
Dunbar was appointed to the $125,000-a-year post because of his race, citing his
several years experience as a New Jersey state police trooper.

Dunbar, who had almost three more years to serve with the Federal government
before being eligible for a pension, was temporarily stymied due to his fear of losing his
Federal pension if he left the Federal Government. The Clinton administration then
approved the “detailing” of Dunbar to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms,
clearing the way for Dunbar to accept a gubernatorial appointment and concurrently
serve as New Jersey State Police Superintendent. FBI Director Louis B. Freeh spoke
highly of Dunbar. Dunbar left when James McGreevey was elected governor and was
replaced with Joseph Santiago, a Hispanic. According to The Record of Hackensack, a
mob informant, working with police, told investigators, “Director Santiago associated
with known members of organized crime in the Newark/Essex County area... Director
Santiago owed large sums of money to those individuals.” 107 Although these
accusations were never substantiated, Santiago resigned and was replaced with
another Hispanic.

THE MOSSAD INFORMANT

The experience of Emad Salem seems to have mirrored the experience of

Mamdouh Zaki Zakhary in an uncanny way! The FBI made an additional error. In the
book Two Seconds Under the World108 this was reported:

Three months before the [World Trade Center] bombing, a man who
worshiped at Al-Salaam Mosque in Jersey City telephoned an agent of the
Mossad. He had once worked with the agent, and told him he was
alarmed because some fellow worshipers had asked him to help them buy
explosives. The Mossad agent called the FBI ‘We've got it covered,’ he
was told…Other informants inside the mosque had been developed since
Emad Salem was dropped. Mosque worshipers approached one of them
about getting explosives. Agents met all day, trying to decide what to do.
They decided they had no choice but to pull him out of the mosque. The
FBI couldn't risk allowing an informant to actually provide the explosives.
In both cases, the explosive was dynamite and the amounts small,
apparently to be used in pipe bombs…Six weeks before the World Trade
Center blast, the Justice Department closed the investigation.

ABDO HAGGAG

106
. Trooper John I. Hogan “The Story in the Life of a New Jersey State Trooper.”
http://www.trooperhogan.com/politica.htm
107
. WABC Newark, October 16, 2002 “Informants Claim State Police Superintendent Was ‘Friendly’ With Mobster.”
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/news/WABC_101602_njmobties.html
108 Jim Dwyer Two Seconds Under the World: Terror Comes to America: The Conspiracy Behind the World Trade Center Bombing
. Crown Publishers1992.
 Salem dropped out of the cell and out of FBI Operation STOPTERR
in late June 1992. To explain his disappearance, he told El-Gabrowny that
he needed to go to Spain for a while to take care of a problem in his jewelry
business. Between October 1992 and February 1993 paramilitary training
resumed, led by Siddig Ali and Hampton-El. Amir Abdelgani, Fadil
Abdelgani and Tarig Elhassan participated, as did Abdo Haggag, who co-
operated with the United States during the trial of our Brothers. Haggag had
been involved in kidnapping, arson, automobile insurance fraud, and tax evasion. He
was questioned about his career as an arsonist during the Rahman so-called trial:

Q. You went into the back door of the restaurant, into the kitchen area?
You poured gasoline into the garbage can and you threw in a match and
you saw the fire get started then you ran out the door? Then you went
home?

A. Correct.

Q. Didn’t call the police. Didn’t call the fire department. Didn’t call any of
the businesses that were located in that same building, did you?

A. No.

Q. And the police did eventually come, and they evacuated two residents
of the building, didn’t they?

A. I don’t know anything about that.

Q. And they had to break down the door to get to the fire, right? The inside
of the restaurant was completely destroyed, right and a number of other
stores in the same building had been damaged, right?

A. Yes.

Haggag's kidnapping activities also surfaced:

Q. Going back in time you testified you testified that you were married to
Evaughan Graves in 1983, correct? And she was an American and
petitioned the government to get you a Green Card, correct?

A. Yes.

Q. And there was a child born in December 1984 and you took that child
to Egypt and you had no permission from your wife to do that, did you?

A. No.
 Q. You are aware, Mr. Haggag, that it is a crime to take a child for whom
you don’t have custody and transport him to a foreign country, are you
aware of that?

A. Yes.

EMAD SALEM’S WORK FOR EGYPTIAN INTELLIGENCE

In late 1991 Sheik Rahman had solicited Salem’s co-operation in a plot to

assassinate Hosni Mubarak. Salem told the FBI he wanted to inform Egyptian
intelligence of Rahman’s intentions and was told that he could do so as long as he did
not reveal his connection with the FBI. After Salem conveyed the information an
anonymous Egyptian intelligence agent contacted him. In a recorded telephone
conversation Salem told him: “I did what you told me. I told the people here what I know.
The subject is very big. Now I’m with them here and there is preparation for a lot of
work…[The investigation in which I am involved] is bigger than one imagines. It could
end with the slaying of the Chairman of the Board [Mubarak].”

Referring to Sheik Rahman Salem stated:

The donkey who is here. The son of a bitch is destroying everything in

every place. I already reached a point that I killed the bull, and the blood is
in my hand. Do you think you can get him? Once the shit smells [once the
investigation comes to light] it will be very hard to speak to me or for me to
speak to you.

In another telephone conversation Salem told Egyptian intelligence that Sheik

Rahman was going to be interviewed on television and he, Salem, was going to act as
his translator. The agent advised Salem: “This man is a very dangerous person --- not
only dangerous concerning Egypt and the Egyptians, but he poses a threat to the whole
world.” He added that if Salem were with Rahman and this interview were aired, it
“would stick in people’s minds and hearts as well and would be very hard to erase.”
Salem then spoke with another officer, who said he would be in communication with

The director of our company [Mubarak].” Salem told him he had spoken
with “the people who are here, and I did. And between you and me there
are talks going on between me and the kids who are here. Within two or
three days, there will be a lot of talks here. These talks have something to
do with the Chairman of the Board of Directors who is at your place. God
helped me and I was able to reach to company which was preparing the
transaction for the Chairman of the Board of Directors at your place. I
notified the people here about that. People here are making arrangements
right now in regard to the subject of the Chairman of the Board of
Directors at your place and for the big act that will happen here. Take his
name Abd Al Rahman Haggag…This guy is the one who was preparing
for the operation against the Chairman of the Board of Directors.
 In a subsequent conversation Salem said: “This man, I have what makes him
enter the cage. Do you want him in the cage where you are or not? If you take him in
the cage you have, I should be there because I’ll point to him. And there is a difference
in laws. For example, the things which put him in the cage there, it might not put him in
the cage here.”

Salem’s loyalty was to the apostate Egyptians, for they had his sister as a
hostage:

Salem: I am afraid you guys over there send a message to the people
over here warning them of what is about to happen, and then they will turn
around and accuse me of telling you behind their backs. I will be in a very
bad situation, and I have no one here except them and God…That is for
sure it will be ruined if a wrong move is done, because they told me now
your passport is blue.

Officer: I understand, of course. And stop being so sensitive. Don’t doubt.

You are now a radical elected member, so you should be on good terms
with the Board of Directors so that all your checks and accounts would be
correct.

Salem: Who gave me a job in this company?

Officer: I know, dear, but it is over now. You are now a radical member.
We are one. It is true, there is no difference between us.

Salem: They appreciate me very much here, especially after they

observed the work I am doing. They said: You are one of a kind, and there
will never be someone like you in history. Be careful (deleted). As soon as
the zero hour comes, you will be faced with a lot of chaos and riots there.
So I fear for my sister.109

Salem denied to the FBI that he had sent tapes from his work for them to Egypt
but did acknowledge that he had gotten Rahman to make incriminating statements on
tape, and had told Egyptian intelligence about this. Later he told the FBI that he could
not recall whether he had told Egyptian intelligence he would send them an
incriminating tape of Abdel Rahman.110

THE WORLD TRADE CENTER MUST FALL

RAMZI YOUSEF REPLACES SALEM

After Salem was off the case, Sheik Rahman was determined to replace him. He
contacted bin Laden who in turn ordered Khalid Shaikh Mohammed to contact his
nephew Ramzi Ahmed Yousef (real name Abd-al-Basit Balushi) who was an expert
109
. USA v Rahman Doc. #756
110
. USA v Rahman Ltr. McCarthy to Mukasey December 22, 1995
bomb maker. Ramzi Yousef told the FBI that he was responsible for a bombing which,
“cost tens of lives and hundreds of injuries.” He noted that this bombing had been
widely covered on CNN television news network, but could not discuss any details, as
he stated that it could implicate friends or relatives of his who were involved.” Yousef’s
Pakistani father was an engineer with Kuwaiti Airlines for many years and Yousef was
fascinated by aeroplanes. Yousef is Palestinian on his mother’s side; his grandmother is
Palestinian. He considers himself Palestinian. He was born either on May 20, 1967, or
April 27, 1968, in Kuwait, where he grew up and completed high school with a
concentration in science, then studied in Great Britain attending a school in Oxford in
1986. In 1987 he began a two-year technical course in computer-aided electronic
engineering at Wales West Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education. He completed a
Higher National Degree in June 1989 and graduated from Britain’s Swansea University
with a major in engineering and returned to Kuwait, where he worked at the National
Computer Center in Kuwait's Planning Ministry. Yousef trained and fought in the Afghan
War. He and bin Laden reportedly were linked at least as long ago as 1989. It was there
that he received specialized training in Improvised Explosive Devices, (IED) while
fighting the Russians.

ABU SAYYAF GROUP

In 1989 Yousef went to the Philippines as an emissary of Osama bin Laden, sent
to support that country's radical Islamic movement, specifically the fundamentalist Abu
Sayyaf group. The Muslims of the South in the Abu Sayyaf are totally dedicated to Islam
and breaking away from the Catholic government of the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf, which
means father of the sword in Arabic, was founded by Ustadz Abdurajack (also spelled
Abubakar) Janjalani who was recruited to the guerilla unit of Dr. Abdul Rasul Abu
Sayyaf, a classmate of Sheik Rahman at Al-Azar who organized his group in 1986 to
fight the Russians in Afghanistan and who met with Rahman during the “class reunion”
of 1985. Ramzi Yousef returned to the Philippines in 1991 to train Abu Sayyaf. 111 Abu
Sayyaf pursued Jihad rather than Dawa.112 In September 2002 they beheaded two
Christian Jehovah’s Witnesses and left their heads hanging on local fruit stalls. Janjalani
met with him to discuss using the Philippines as "a launching pad" for a worldwide jihadi
campaign. Yousef presented himself as a member of the executive committee of the
International Islamic Brigade, an organization that had recruited volunteers for the
Afghan resistance. Yousef said that he came on behalf of Sheik Abdel Rahman, who
was offering financial and logistical support for Janjalani's movement. 113

Yousef was in Afghanistan during the period when the CIA was funding Islamists.
Brother Yousef’s lawyer discussed this matter with Yousef’s trial judge:

MR. JACOBS: I believe the CIA subpoena generally provides for almost
all the same things, except for numbers 12 and 13, employment payment
for services -- we have some information that Yousef may have had some
contact with this government in some official capacity, or unofficial
111
. Steven Emerson American Jihad Free Press Page 53 February 2003.
112
. Nonviolent mobilization achieved through charitable work.
113
. http://www.tkb.org/KeyLeader.jsp?memID=5632
 capacity. After Yousef was arrested it was reported that he had previous
CIA contacts, that he was trained to work in Afghanistan, things like that.

THE COURT: What is the theory?

MR. JACOBS: I think it would be relevant and admissible to show that he

was operating independently of the Sheik.

THE COURT: I don't get it.

MR. JACOBS: The fact that he is operating, perhaps is trained, had

contacts and is sent overseas by the CIA to deal with Iraq, we have him
reported in Kuwait right before the Gulf War, we need all this information
to establish his movements. Was he ever in the United States before
1992? I would like to know that.

The irony should not be lost upon the Learned Elders of Islam; it is likely that
Ramzi Yousef acquired his mastery of explosives indirectly at the hands of the CIA.
American support for the Mujahadeen was an integral element of the last days of the
Cold War under President Reagan, and the CIA was key in effectuating this support,
arming and training. Brother Ramzi Yousef’s lawyers inquired of the CIA as to whether
Ramzi Yousef was known to them, and the Agency, not surprisingly, denied any
knowledge of Ramzi Yousef, or any of his other aliases.

When Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s army invaded Kuwait in August 1990,
Yousef was known as a collaborator. After disappearing in Kuwait in 1991, he is next
known to have reappeared in the Philippines in December 1991 accompanied by a
Libyan missionary named Abd al-Mushin Al-Libi (a.k.a. Ibrahim Ali Muhammad Abu
Bakr), who ran the Pakistan office of the Revival of Islamic Heritage Society and
managed the Afghan Support Committee's office in Peshawar. He was also credited at
being the leader of “the Mullah Forces in Libya” although the Elder’s cannot locate any
Mullah Force outside of Iran. Yousef stayed for three months providing training to Abu
Sayyaf guerrillas in the southern Philippines. During the time Ramzi Yousef was in
Afghanistan he became acquainted with al-Fatah member Brother Ahmad Ajaj who had
joined al-Qaeda / Gama’a al-Islamiyya / Islamic Jihad – whatever name you feel most
comfortable with.

When the FBI questioned Ramzi Yousef, he pretended he hooked up Gama’a al-
Islamiyya Brothers Mohammad Salameh and Mahmud Abouhalima accidentally:

I only had one dollar in my pocket when I arrived but I was fortunate
enough to run into a Pakistani taxi driver who let me stay with him for a
couple of days. The taxi driver then brought me to a mosque in
Manhattan. We met completely by chance at this mosque. I had not
known either man before entering the United States. Abouhalima told me
he would take me to some friends that would help me, because I did not
 know anyone in New York. While I was in Abouhalima’s car, a call came in
from Mohammad Salameh and it was arranged that I stay with him. I told
Mohammad Salameh that I had been in Afghanistan and I knew how to
build explosives. Mohammad Salameh said that we could work together.
That is all I have to say about this.

Mujahadeen veteran Mahmud Abouhalima became acquainted Yousef in

Afghanistan in 1988. Federal prosecutors would give the CIA a copy of a financial wire
transaction for $660 between Qatar and the U.S., dated several days before the first
WTC blast, from “Khaled Shaykh” (Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Yousef’s uncle) in Doha
to Mohammad Salameh.

RAMZI YOUSEF AND RAHMAN THE ELDER

The FBI reported:

At one point in the interview, Ramzi Yousef was asked whether he

knew Sheik Rahman. He replied he became interested in Rahman from
hearing people speak about him. While residing with Mohammad
Salameh, Ramzi Yousef requested that Mohammad Salameh introduce
him to Rahman, as he was aware that Mohammad Salameh was
acquainted with Rahman. Salameh, thereafter, took Ramzi Yousef to
Rahman’s residence in Jersey City, where they had dinner and visited for
about one hour. Ramzi Yousef claimed that he had no other contact with
Rahman, and also indicated that he never discussed with Rahman his
intentions to target U.S. interests.114

Judge Mukasey would not allow Sheik Rahman to submit this portion of Ramzi
Yousef’s FBI interview in his defense, holding that it was inherently unreliable. 115 The
intelligence community knew it was a fabrication. “The Fifth Liberation Army” the
imaginary group Yousef invented to take credit for the actions of his cell was a
combination of al-Gama’a and al-Qaeda that looked to Sheik Rahman as its Emir. 116
Sheik Rahman had telephoned Ramzi Yousef in 1992 and 1993. Both men had called
the same telephone number in Pakistan many times, a number that was written on one
of Ajaj’s bomb manuals.117 I n 1 9 9 2 S t a t e D e p a r t m e n t
s o u r c e s s a w s u s p i c i o u s l i n k s w i t h Sheik
Rahman i n t h e N e w Y o r k a r e a , c o m m e n t i n g
t h a t b i n L a d i n s e e m e d " c o m m i t t e d t o
f i n a n c i n g J i h a d s a g a i n s t a n t i - I s l a m i c
r e g i m e s w o r l d w i d e . " I n 1 9 9 3 , t h e C I A
n o t e d t h a t h e h a d p a i d f o r t h e
t r a i n i n g o f s o m e E g y p t i a n B r o t h e r s i n
118
S u d a n .

114
. Ramzi FD-302 2/7-2/8/95 p8
115
. USA v Rahman TT 12,432, 12,469
116
. USA v Rahman TT 12465
117
. Steven Emerson American Jihad Free Press Page 51 February 2003.
118
. http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report_Ch4.htm
USAMA AND RAMZI YOUSEF

Usama bin Laden was asked by the news media if he knew Ramzi Yousef:

I do not know Ramzi Yousef. He did not stay in a house I funded in

Peshawar, Pakistan after the Trade Center attack. But I say that if the
American government is serious about avoiding the explosions inside the
U.S., then let it stop provoking the feelings of 1,250 million Muslims.
Those hundreds of thousands who have been killed or displaced in Iraq,
Palestine, Lebanon, do have brothers and relatives. They would make of
Ramzi Yousef a symbol and teacher. The U.S. will drive them to transfer
the battle into the United States. But I have no connection or relation with
this explosion…Ramzi Yousef, after the World Trade Center bombing,
became a well-known Muslim personality, and all Muslims know him.
Unfortunately, I did not know him before the incident. I remember him as a
Muslim who defended Islam from American aggression on Muslim lands.
He took this effort to let the Americans know that their government
assaults Muslims to insure Israeli interests, to insure Jews. America will
see many youths that will follow Ramzi Yousef. 119

Usama bin Laden had helped finance the first World Trade Center Event. Ramzi
Yousef hinted at this: “Yousef stated the World Trade Center bombing cost less than
$20,000. Yousef declined to state who provided the money but he stated the money
partly came from friends in Pakistan. He advised that the friends did not necessarily
know the real use of the money but was considered a loan.” 120 For many years
Mohammed Jamal Khalifah was Usama bin Laden’s best friend and is now his brother-
in-law. Khalifah’s business card was found in the dwelling of Ramzi Yousef. 121

AHMAD ALALIA AJAJ: KEEPER OF THE HOLY BOMB MANUALS

The story of Ahmad Ajaj’s life is proof that Zionist oppression creates so-called
terrorism. Ajaj told this to the American Immigration authorities:

My name is Ahmad Mohammed Ajaj. I am a

Palestinian. I was born in Jerusalem on December
22, 1965. At that time my family was living at Saer
Village, a suburb of Hebron City, but by order of the
military Israeli governor, our house was destroyed
and the land taken over to build a Jewish settlement
and we had to move a family composed of 15
persons to Jerusalem. In 1971 I joined the elementary
school that was six miles away. In spite of that young age, I was searched
and stopped every day by military troops. They came through school
buildings, fired in the air, threw tear gas into closed rooms, and
119
. http://cryptome.quintessenz.at/mirror/usa-v-zm-030606-02.htm
120
. FBI FD-302 of Yousef February 7, 1995 p2
121
. http://csmonitor.com January 21, 2003 edition.
occasionally carried students off for no reason. When I was in third grade
a checkpoint guard stopped me and beat me, causing a fracture to my
forearm. The reason given was the drawing of a Palestinian flag on one of
my schoolbooks. In 1982 while I was praying at Al-Aqsa Mosque in
Jerusalem, occupation authorities came in and killed three people inside
the mosque, killed many people outside the mosque, and beat up people
who were praying. This was for no reason other than he did not like
Muslims. A lot of people including me were arrested and put in jail for 48
hours and then released. Israel used to attack houses at night searching
for anything proving resistance to occupation. This happened to my family
in 1987. Our house was searched thoroughly and everyone in the house
was insulted by deeds and words. When I tried to prevent them from
beating my mother I was beaten and arrested, my eyes were blindfolded,
my hands tied, and I was taken to an unknown place. I was beaten
severely again with the back of rifle guns. In the investigation I was
accused of resisting official authorities and of distributing papers against
occupation. I denied these accusations and refused to sign such papers
confessing to this. I was also badly beaten on my body parts and not
provided any food or drink for a long time. Ice water was thrown on my
head alternating with hot water. Later I was put in an open place, hands
tied behind my back and face to the wall with a sack with a bad smell
covering my head. This continued for days and nights during which I was
forbidden from urination or bathing. I got very sick at that time, vomited
blood, and began to develop kidney problems.

I was arrested on October 22, 1987 and the court decided on March 22,
1988 that I was to be imprisoned for 28 months. This all happened without
any proof except what the police said. I was released on November 28,
1989, and ordered to present myself every day to police station for proof
of presence for nine months, which ended on July 18, 1990. A few months
later, the Israelis killed four neighborhood young men. We were deeply
affected and protested against that aggression. One September 13, 1990,
while on my way to the Al-Aqsa Mosque to pray, I was stopped by a
checkpoint guard who knew I was a previous prisoner. I was badly beaten
and transferred to a hospital unconscious with a nose fracture. In April
1991 soldiers attacked our house with automatic weapons. Everyone was
beaten and insulted and I was arrested again because they found a
calendar and a cassette tape calling for peaceful resistance to the
occupation. I was interrogated and badly beaten. I was accused of being
involved in Al-Intifada and resistance to occupation. I was asked for a
lawyer to talk to but was denied that. I was badly tortured. This included
electric shocks in addition to being beaten, extinguishing cigarettes using
my body parts, telling me that we will draw a map of Palestine on my back
with cigarette burns. They also applied a strong acidic chemical on my
sexual parts. I was kept in a small closet that hardly fits me with three
holes in it to breath without any light or movement. I finally fainted. I was
 notified that I most probably would be deported. In the court the Israeli
intelligence officers supplied the judge with secret documents that no one
was allowed to see, even my lawyer could not see them. He was not even
allowed to talk in the court even to me. That night, May 17, 1991, a
decision was made to deport me to Jordan. I was blindfolded and put in a
military car, though I was in very bad health. 122

What in truth happened to Ajaj was that on April 23, 1988, during the period he
claimed to have been incarcerated, Ajaj was arrested in Jordan for document forgery,
and was discharged after posting bail. In 1989, Ajaj was arrested by the Zionist
authorities for forgery of a banknote, possession of a forged banknote, and for
participating in a violent uprising in the West Bank. While in the Zionist entity Ajaj
claimed he helped with the placement of Palestinian students in the best universities
abroad, but in reality he was recruiting them for our Jihad in Afghanistan. Some
Brothers objected to this and Ajaj was listed on a declaration of the Palestinian National
Liberation Movement, dated November 1990, as being an enemy and traitor to the
cause because his actions conflicted with the Intifada:

The owners of emigration offices in the Jerusalem area which emigrate

people outside the country, especially to the U.S.A., and through that
service aid the Zionist which seeks to empty our land of our heroes…
Ahmad Mohammed Ajaj - 25 years old, lives in al-Mukber Mount,
previously owner of student service office, he works to aid the emigration
of numerous men outside our country and cause to them tragedy.123

Ajaj left occupied Palestine during 1990 for Jordan and was inducted into the al-
Fatah Organization. He was responsible for carrying out attacks and was arrested in
Israel on April 22, 1991. He confessed membership in al-Fatah having established
contacts for obtaining weapons and ammunition and purchasing weapons and
ammunition. Ajaj freely requested permission to leave Israel for Jordan and not return
for a period of five years. The authorities approved his request and he subsequently left
Israel on May 17, 1991, for Jordan. Ajaj had first come to the U.S. on September 9,
1991. He settled in Houston, Texas, and filed a petition for political asylum, claiming that
the Zionist occupational government imprisoned and tortured him in retaliation for his
peaceful opposition to their occupation of Palestine. 124

Ajaj never appeared for an INS hearing on his asylum

claim. Since he had applied for political asylum, he would have
been required to obtain a parole letter to leave the United States.
Ajaj left the country illegally without obtaining it. The FBI and INS
were aware of this but Ajaj was not charged with this crime. Ajaj
traveled to Pakistan with Ahmad Suleiman a Kuwaiti native who
entered the United States in the early 1980’s, received an
engineering degree from Prairie View A. & M. University and became a naturalized
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United States citizen in 1992. When Ahmad Suleiman was incarcerated at the
Metropolitan Correction Center in Manhattan Muhammad Salami, a Muslim from Lagos
Nigeria, whose name should have been Muhammad Boloney, spied on him on behalf to
the FBI. Muhammad “Kosher” Salami was trying to work off a heroin distribution charge.
This is what he claimed Ahmad Suleiman told him:

When Ajaj approached [the Brothers] initially at San Antonio, they thought
he was working for the Israeli Government…an Israeli informant that was
pushed in their midst to get information off them. But apparently when
Ahmad Suleiman and Ajaj traveled to Pakistan, on getting to Pakistan Ajaj
presented Ahmad Suleiman and based on the contents Ajaj got in that
pamphlet, he realized Ajaj was not actually working for the Israeli
Government, that Ajaj was one of them, so Suleiman called San Antonio
to arrest the fears of other members…The information on the pamphlets
were the preparations and how to make explosives with the things in the
pamphlets…Ajaj had $75,000 in his possession when they were going to
Pakistan.125

Ahmad Suleiman and Ajaj attended one of our training camps on the border
between Afghanistan and Pakistan. When he returned to the United States Ajaj carried
with him an identification card in the name of Abu Abd Allah, from Jordan, issued May 7,
1992, for Azzam’s Guest House, bearing photograph of Ajaj. Sheik Abdallah Azzam had
training facilities named after him after his assassination. In August 1992 Sheik Rahman
placed a call to Pakistan. 126 This call may have triggered FBI interest in the Sheik
because in August 1992 it questioned Sattar for the first time:

Sattar: I was called by an FBI agent at home, and I was asked if I can
come to their office –

MR. MORVILLO: Objection, your Honor. Hearsay.

THE COURT: Sustained.

Q. When the FBI first questioned you in 1992, did you speak with an FBI
agent? Did you meet with an FBI agent?

A. Yes.

Q. Did anything come as a result of your meeting with the FBI?

A. No.

Q. What was the second time you were questioned by the FBI?

A. It was in September 1992.

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. Dan Benjamin and Steve Simon, Sacred Terror - Random House, New York.
 Q. Again, did you speak with an FBI agent? Were you questioned by an
FBI agent?

A. Yes, I did.

Q. And were you questioned by the FBI about a specific individual topic?

A. Yes.

Q. And did anything result from this interview with the FBI?

A. No.

On August 31, 1992, Brothers Yousef and Ajaj flew to New York, each sitting
apart from each other in the first class section of the aircraft. Yousef, who was dressed
casually, left Pakistan using a British passport under the assumed name of Mohammad
Azan. Ajaj, who was dressed conservatively, carried a valid Swedish passport, altered
by affixing Ajaj’s photograph on top of the original photograph. Khurran Kahn had given
the passport to him on August 27, 1992. If the materials that Ajaj carried had been
examined thoroughly upon his entry it would have been discovered that he was
traveling with Ramzi Yousef for he had receipts for two different airline tickets for his
flight from Pakistan to JFK on September 1, 1992 (he was arrested on September 2,
1992), one in the name of “Khurram Khan” and the other in the name of “Azan
Mohammad.” Ajaj also had Yousef’s British passport with the name Mohammad Azan.
Yousef told the FBI that he was acquainted with the real Mohammad Azan, but the
passport had been obtained from a black marketeer. When INS Inspector Robert
Malafronte asked Ajaj about the second passport and the matching ticket Ajaj simply
said he had no idea whose they were. Someone happened to give them to him, he
said.127

Ajaj carried a book titled Celebrating Islamic Jihad, Fedayeen Operations, by Abd
Allah Aish. The Palestinian refugees displaced by the occupiers in the Palestinian war
organized themselves into a group of guerrilla fighters, the Fedayeen. This group
continually raided Israel from across the Lebanese border throughout the 1950’s. There
was a book titled (in English) RPG 7. The RPG-7 anti-tank grenade launcher is one of
the most common and most effective infantry weapons in contemporary conflicts. There
was a book titled Explosive Engineering and another entitled, Explosives, with a green
cover and a notebook with pink flowers on its cover containing hand-written formulas for
explosives. There was a brown covered notebook with hand-written title “Military
Notebook” and a book titled The Mossad, the Secret Israeli Intelligence Apparatus.
There were aquamarine color covered books on improvised weapons, on handling
explosives, on mixing explosives, on poisons, Molotov cocktails on intelligence and
security services today, wiring, booby traps, mines and improvised munitions. There
were brown color covered books on pistols, revolvers, ammunition and shooting

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techniques – how to shoot with a gun concealed in one’s pocket. There were also
photocopied pages containing references to Israeli settlements, combat tactics,
explosives, sabotage of rail lines, ships, vehicles and aircraft, firearms training and
maintenance, shooting techniques, escape plans from a detention facility in Gaza and
instructions and diagrams on how to manufacture silencers. There were several
identical copies of training manuals on how to kill soldiers and police officers that should
have told the FBI Ajaj was an instructor who intended to teach others the ways of the
Jihad.

There were numerous videotapes that contained religious references. One video
depicted a man who drives a van into an American installation by first shooting the
guards from the driver-side window and then detonates a bomb inside the van,
exploding himself, the van and the building while verses of the Qu’ran are chanted in
the background. Another video tape was titled The International Islamic Resistance
Presents: An Explosives Manufacturing Course that began with “In God’s name, hurrah
to Jihad, in God’s name hurrah to the battle against our enemies: the Jews, the
Christians, the Americans and the Arab rulers and their advisors who legitimatize and
strengthen the ruling of these oppressors.”

Aside from books and videos on bomb-making and Jihad, Ajaj had numerous
pieces of false identification including a passport in the name of Ayedh Alqahtani with a
photograph of someone other than Ajaj, an altered British passport in the name of
Mohammad Azan with a photograph of Ramzi Yousef, various identification cards in the
names of Khurram Khan and Mohammad Azan, each bearing photographs of Ajaj,
along with two prepared scripts, both in English, listing probable questions that Ajaj
would be asked by Customs or Immigration officials and specifying the answers that
should be given to those questions. He also had two ink stamps in a foreign script,
which appeared similar to those found on a Saudi passport that was found among his
possessions. There was a copy of Iraqi passport #MO389922. There was a Jordanian
passport in the name of Ahmad Mohammed Ahmad Ajaj, which bore the photograph of
Ajaj and did not appear to be altered. There was a travel permit issued to Ajaj for travel
to America on August 17, 1992, although Ajaj told the immigration inspector that he had
attempted to obtain a transportation letter from the United States Embassy in Pakistan
but was refused.

Ajaj also had a Moroccan document in French issued to Said Ghazali and a
handwritten paper that contained Ghazali’s address. Said Ghazali is a senior reporter
for The Jerusalem Times, and a stringer for the Associated Press, the Boston Globe, a
journalist dedicated to the freedom of expression for nearly 20 years, enough to spend
18 months in jail in 1974 for joining al-Fatah. On the afternoon of Sunday, March 31,
2002 Boston Globe reporter Anthony Shadid was wounded by a single gunshot in
Ramallah. Shadid said that he and his colleague, Said Ghazali, were walking away from
Palestinian National Authority chairman Yassir Arafat’s compound in Ramallah when a
bullet entered Shadid’s left shoulder. The area was completely quiet at the time, and
both journalists were wearing flak jackets marked “TV” in red tape. Said Ghazali is the
author of an article titled, “Why bin Laden is Hailed as the Hero of Palestine.”
 Ajaj also possessed an Al-Bunyan al-Mahrous Islamic Information Center,
Tucson, Arizona identification card in the name of Azam Mohammad. Al-Bunyan al-
Mahrous has served repeatedly as a cover for our movement. Ramzi Yousef also had a
similar identification card, bearing his photograph with the name Khurram Khan on it.
This card was found among Ajaj’s possessions. Yousef explained that because the card
bore the name Khurram Khan, INS officials at JFK had mistakenly placed the card,
seized from him, in with Ajaj’s possessions, as Ajaj was then using the name Khurram
Khan. Wali Khan Amin Shah, an Uzbekian who was convicted of participation with
Yousef in a conspiracy in the Philippines to bomb 12 American-flag airliners, was also
found at the time of his arrest to be in possession of an Al-Bunyan al-Mahrous
identification card identifying him as an investigative reporter. At his bail hearing for
perjury in regard to the Nairobi, Kenya Embassy Event, Wadih el-Hage raised his
association with the magazine Al-Bunyah al-Mahrsous, to legitimatize his employment
in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Ajaj expected to easily enter the U.S with his Swedish passport. The first INS
Inspector that Ajaj encountered determined that Ajaj’s passport was suspicious, and
directed him to the secondary inspection area. The Inspector examined the passport
and, upon discovering that it had been altered, opened Ajaj’s luggage and found the so-
called terrorist kit. After being asked why he was carrying so-called terrorist literature,
Ajaj stated in substance, “They destroy our homes and kill our people.” In reference to a
bullet wound on his arm, Ajaj explained that the Zionist police had shot him. He said had
gone to Pakistan and lost all of his papers. Ajaj was detained as a danger to the United
States, and was later charged in the Eastern District of New York with knowingly using a
false passport, (Count One), and using the passport of another person (Count Two).

On October 6, 1992, Ajaj, with the assistance of his then-counsel,

Douglas Morris, a staff attorney in the Federal Defender Division, executed
a written plea agreement with the Eastern District prosecutor’s office. Ajaj
agreed to plead guilty to Count Two in return for the Eastern District
prosecutor’s promise to move to dismiss Count One at sentencing and not
oppose a two-level reduction under the Sentencing Guidelines for Ajaj’s acceptance of
responsibility. Ajaj pled guilty in the United States District Court for the Eastern District
of New York to one count of passport fraud and was sentenced to six months
imprisonment by United States District Judge Reena Raggi, a former United States
Attorney who once headed the Narcotics Division, and seemed to be more interested in
drugs than our activities. At an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force meeting
Raggi referred to drug defendants as “punks” and offered prosecutors tips on how to
deal with informers as well as how to impress a jury. Raggi claimed her speech had not
violated the judicial code of conduct and she refused to recuse herself in a drug case
that was then being tried before her. 128 Eric Bernstein, the prosecutor who handled the
Ajaj case told her: “There is literature. The defendant had a significant amount of
literature concerning how — it was really manuals — concerning how to make
explosives and how to blow things up.” Judge Raggi responded: “We’re not talking

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about contraband in the traditional sense of drugs or weapons or anything like that?”
Bernstein answered: “We’re only talking about literature.”

The Learned Elders of Islam long for the pre-September 11 th days of American
justice, where the constitutional rights of jihadi, even though they were not American
citizens, superceded the rights of Americans to protect themselves against our actions.
The Jew Bernstein attempted to persuade Judge Raggi to give Ajaj a harsh sentence,
but she refused. This is what transpired in her courtroom:

THE COURT: I would think that the most serious question presented on
sentencing is whether the Court would upwardly depart based on the
government’s view that this case would come within guideline section
5K2.15, a guideline that talks about upward departure in cases where
there’s reason to think that the violation, the crime of conviction, was
committed for a terrorist purpose. That’s the real dispute between the
parties. Now, let me ask the Government a question with respect to its
position. Without finding anything at this point, let me assume I were
persuaded from the government’s proffer that it could show that Mr. Ajaj
was associated with terrorist organizations and that the materials he was
carrying into the United States would indeed be useful to someone who
planned to engage in terrorist activities.

Given that the crime of conviction is use of a false passport to gain entry into the
United States, and given what I understand to be the immigration status of Mr. Ajaj,
whereby he would not be eligible for entry into the United States under any lawful
means because of his prior immigration status, why should I assume that his unlawful
entry into this country, where he had lived for some period of time, was for the purpose
of engaging in terroristic activities as opposed to simply entering the United States for
any of a number of various reasons that he might have? That’s the difficulty I really have
here.

MR. BERNSTEIN: Your Honor, there are a couple of answers to that

question. One, the government would be prepared to offer expert
testimony to the effect that the methods the defendant used to enter the
country, including the false passport he used and the other false
documentation he was carrying, is the type of methods normally used by
terrorists for particular reasons.

THE COURT: But that would prove, at most, that he is a terrorist. But what
makes you think that the crime was committed for a terrorist purpose?

MR. BERNSTEIN: We have reviewed and made a summary of some of

the materials in the defendant’s possession. We’ve made a somewhat
lengthy list of the materials associated with terrorist activities or terrorist
training purposes that were in the defendant’s possession. One of those
materials that was discovered yesterday by our translator is some loose-
leaf documents which she said were entitled, How to Falsify Documents,
and which in fact includes something about passports. She has not had a
chance to translate. It’s three pieces of paper on both sides, so it is six
pieces of papers, but our Arabic translator hasn’t had a chance to fully
translate it. But it is documents that were with all the other defendant’s
literature on how to commit various acts of terrorism that were in fact --
how to falsify documents and how to and presumably how to falsify
passports.

THE COURT: The reality, though, is that everything he had in his

possession that gives rise to your claim is documentary, right? This is not
a case in which he was in possession or found in possession of anything
that would be, for instance, the materials out of which one could make a
bomb or construct any kind of destructive device. He had literature in his
possession, isn’t that right?

MR. BERNSTEIN: Yes.

THE COURT: Doesn’t that present serious problems as to whether I can

enhance his sentence based on someone’s possession of literature?

MR. BERNSTEIN: Your Honor, the government isn’t arguing that -- by any
means that the Court should upwardly depart because of the contents of
literature contained in the material the defendant was carrying. What the
government would argue is that that literature demonstrates by a
preponderance of the evidence, which is the standard we have to meet
here, that the defendant is engaged in terrorist activities, and that these
materials constituted virtually the majority of what the defendant was
carrying other than clothing when he came into the United States. He was
also carrying duplicate copies of some of that material. He was also
carrying an airline ticket indicating that he was traveling with somebody
else.

THE COURT: Does the government have any information about where the
defendant was scheduled to go in the United States or what his plans
were here in this country?

MR. BERNSTEIN: No, other than that the defendant indicated that he was
headed to Houston. But what the government would argue is that
concealing one’s identity and falsifying identification documents, including
passports and other things one must carry to cross international borders is
part and parcel of one’s activities as a terrorist. It is an integral part of what
a terrorist must do in order to carry out his activities; that is, to travel and
meet with other terrorists and to conceal one’s identify for the purpose of
avoiding detection. We had sent all the names on the various pieces of
identification that the defendant had in his possession and the dates of
birth, and we had gotten back a negative response from the Israeli
National Police.

There was not enough information for them to say exactly who the
defendant was. We have finally received the results of the Israeli National
Police’s fingerprint check of the defendant’s fingerprints, which were sent
to them by our agents. That report indicates that the defendant was in
Israel in 1990, he left Israel for Jordan and there joined the al-Fatah
terrorist organization, that he returned to Israel in 1991 and was arrested
in 1991, and at that time confessed that he was a member of the al-Fatah
organization, and also confessed that he had established contacts for
purchasing weapons and ammunitions, and that he was requested and
was granted permission to leave Israel after that arrest apparently on the
condition that he not return for five years.

So that there is now finally confirmation of who the defendant is,

and I think that this points up very substantially the fact that concealing
one’s identity is an integral part of one’s activities as a terrorist. The point
is we didn’t know the defendant had in fact successfully concealed who he
was and successfully thwarted any efforts by law enforcement to positively
and with specificity identify who he was because -- for the precise reason
that he used these false names and this false documentation. Now, only
by this coincidence of timing have we received the fingerprint
identification, do we know whom the defendant is.

But you put that together with the fact that the defendant was
traveling with multiple false pieces of identification and the fact that we
now have in our possession instructions in Arabic that were right in there
with all the other instructions on how to carry out terrorist activities, that
are instructions on how to falsify documents. And so the very logical and
fair inference bears that falsifying documents and traveling under false
names and assumed names and concealing one’s identity is absolutely a
part of what is necessary for a terrorist to do in order to continue his
activities, to avoid being detected.

The defendant was very nearly successful in avoiding being

identified in this case. Had he been sentenced on Friday he in effect would
have, and I think that only highlights the significant nature of falsifying
documents here.

I mean, the real question is can the defense credibly argue, or

would the Court find that it is a mere coincidence that the defendant is
who he is and was carrying the materials he was carrying and the fact that
he was traveling with these false documents? Or is the inference available
and logical that the defendant was traveling on these false documents for
the very reason that he is a terrorist and that he wanted to conceal that
fact and that that is -- and concealing that fact and using those documents
is part of one’s operation of as a terrorist?

THE COURT: What’s the terrorist activity that was being furthered by this
conduct, by this crime? What is the terrorist activity being furthered?

MR. BERNSTEIN: Well, Your Honor, the guideline talks about in

furtherance of a terrorist activity, and in fact the commentary -- I think it’s
Amendment 292 -- says that if the underlying offense is committed for a
terrorist purpose –

THE COURT: So what’s a terrorist purpose?

MR. BERNSTEIN: The terrorist purpose is to facilitate the defendant’s

ability to cross international boundaries with all these materials, which are
obviously useful and necessary to his activities as a terrorist.

THE COURT: That involves travel and possession of literature. You know,
Mr. Morris, in his papers on the Constitutionality challenge, suggests that
perhaps the only legitimate definition that can be given to this is conduct
akin to the case that sparked, the amendment, in which defendant was
basically found in possession of those items that could be used to engage
in bombings. It’s the Kikumura case, United States versus Kikumura. And
there was specific findings made there based on the defendant’s
possession of three homemade bombs. That’s very different from what is
going on here. What you’re telling me is basically that if someone is
traveling and he’s in possession of materials that relate to how to make a
bomb or how to kill people, none of which I am suggesting the Court finds
either enlightening or particularly appropriate types of material, but
nevertheless, that is not the issue before me, that anybody who travels
with chose kind of materials in his possession can possibly be seen as --
and then enters falsely into the United States can be seen as entering
falsely for the purpose of engaging in terrorist activities. And I find that
troubling.

MR. BERNSTEIN: Your Honor, the issue is whether the defendant’s

underlying offense, which is the use of the false passport to gain entry, is
in furtherance of his goals, of his terrorist goals.

THE COURT: But you have no idea what he was going to do in the United
States. I will assume for purposes of this proceeding that you’ll prove
everything you’ve said, that if there were a hearing you will prove
everything you have said. You have no idea whether the defendant ever
planned to discuss those documents with anyone in the United States or
whether his plans related to visits he would make to other countries or
 whether they related to the activities he was engaged in Pakistan and had
completed that. You have no idea. You’re asking me to speculate.

MR. BERNSTEIN: No, but the government doesn’t see why it’s necessary
to show that the defendant had a specific plan in the United States. What
the defendant was doing was bringing a lot of terrorist materials, and I
might add duplicate copies of some of those, duplicate Photostat copies of
some of those materials, into the United States.

THE COURT: Which is not the crime that brings him before the Court.
That is not the crime, correct?

MR. BERNSTEIN: That is right. You put that together with what we know
about the defendant’s criminal record. Certainly the inference there is that
the defendant is a terrorist and that he is carrying these materials, and the
only purpose of these materials, Your Honor, and I don’t know if it would
be necessary, but we could certainly put on testimony that the only
purpose of these materials is to train people to carry out terrorist activities
–

THE COURT: You are, I assume, familiar with that body of case law that
does not permit it to be found to be a crime to be in possession, for
instance, of literature that tells you how to make an atomic bomb.

MR. BERNSTEIN: Yes. I –

THE COURT: That’s the part of the problem I have here.

MR. BERNSTEIN: But if the evidence shows that the defendant is in fact
engaged in terrorist activities, was bringing these materials in, and was
concealing his identity, and especially in view of the materials the
defendant himself was carrying about the necessity for falsifying one’s
identity and falsifying one’s documents -- and again, I ask the Court to at
least let us, let us get those -- that document translated. That may shed
some light. That may shed some light on this proceeding, on some of the
issues that concern the Court.

THE COURT: This defendant pleaded guilty in October and these documents have
been in the government’s possession since September. I see no reason why this has
been delayed. I would accept that the government at hearing could prove everything
that it’s proffered -- its letter submission and in its oral proffer today -- I would not find it
grounds for a departure.

Whatever terrorism constitutes, it constitutes a very serious allegation, and in this

case I would have to be persuaded by a preponderance of the evidence in order to
consider this guideline departure that the defendant, when he entered the United
States, entered using the false passport in an attempt to further terrorist action. Now, I
do know that he was coming from a location that is at least linked in some way to
various terrorist groups. I know that he was in possession of documents that could be
useful to people engaged in what is generally referred to as terrorist activities,
documents relating to making bombs, to killing individuals. I know that he used the false
documents to enter the United States, but I am not persuaded from all these facts and
circumstances that the government has proved that the crime of conviction was
committed in furtherance of a terroristic action. What the government’s proved, perhaps
by a preponderance [of evidence] is that the defendant is linked to terrorist
organizations. By that logic virtually everything he does is in furtherance of his terroristic
actions, but I don’t think that’s what this guideline is talking about.

Indeed, it would make a mockery almost of those very serious

types of conduct that were involved in the Kikumura case to say that the
mere fact that someone traveled in possession of this kind of literature
provides the same basis for an upward departure as possession of
homemade bombs such as were at issue in Kikumura. I’m not persuaded
that this is a case for upward departure. Seriously as I view the
defendant’s possession of this material, as I said, there’s a lot of case law
that talks about the fact that possession of material as disturbing, if not
more disturbing, as this is not a crime, not in this country, anyway. Mr.
Morris, having so ruled, is your client prepared for sentencing today?

Assistant United States Attorney Bernstein argued that there were other factors
that indicated Ajaj was an “international terrorist” – Ajaj’s airline tickets had originated
from Peshawar, Pakistan, which is a known training camp for terrorists. “Agents further
informed that Peshawar is on the border of Afghanistan and although this region is
officially governed by Pakistan it is not policed by Pakistan or Afghanistan. In order to
go to the training camp in Peshawar, an individual must be sponsored and funded by an
organization.” During the course of the proceedings, Judge Raggi asked the parties
whether they had agreed to any additional terms to supplement the written plea
agreement. Attorney Morris responded: “There’s also an agreement that the
Government will not bring any charges arising out of Mr. Ajaj’s entry into the United
States on September 1st, including any false statement charge, and it will not bring any
charges arising from any thing or document that Mr. Ajaj was carrying with him on that
date.”

Although he had no bombs with him Ajaj had an early edition of the al-Qaeda
training manual. If the pen is mightier than the sword, a book can be mightier than a
bomb. Ajaj was determined to kill as many Americans as he could. Had he brought with
him a book on the manufacture of heroin, which might kill only a few, Judge Raggi
would not have let him off so easily. After the guilty plea, Judge Raggi ordered the
government to return Ajaj’s belongings, including the bomb-making instructions, or to
come forward with a reason for failing to do so.
 On December 22, 1992, an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern
District of New York served a Grand Jury subpoena on Ajaj calling for production of
many of the materials seized at Kennedy Airport. Although the subpoena was a
subpoena ad testificandum, a duces tecum rider that specified the materials Ajaj was
ordered to produce accompanied it. When Douglas Morris inquired whether the
subpoena sought Ajaj’s testimony as well as the evidence listed in the rider, the
government explained that the subpoena sought only the specified evidence. Ajaj did
not move to quash the subpoena.129

On December 29, 1992, a call from Ajaj was transferred to Ramzi Yousef,
permitting the two to speak directly. In the conversation, Ajaj immediately brought up the
so-called terrorist kit informing Yousef that the Court had ordered the Government to
return Ajaj’s belongings. When Yousef asked if he could take possession of Ajaj’s
things, Ajaj readily agreed at first. He then said that it was not a good idea for Ramzi
Yousef personally to obtain the materials from the Government because it might
jeopardize Yousef’s “business,” which, Ajaj said, would be “a pity!” As Ajaj well knew,
Yousef’s only “business” in the United States was to pursue Sheik Rahman’s bomb plot.
Ajaj then suggested that Ramzi Yousef send someone else to pick up the materials.
Yousef’s messenger discovered the materials were in the hands of the Joint Terrorism
Task Force, where they remained until after the World Trade Center bombing.

Although federal prison phone calls are taped, no one monitored Ajaj’s twenty
calls to Yousef and other Islamists - or tried to translate them from Arabic - until long
after the blast. Had the American authorities done so after Ajaj was first arrested they
would have discovered Ajaj’s links to Dr. Mehdi, Nosair and Sheik Rahman after they
reviewed the translation of the phone call:

U.M. (Unidentified Male) If you can give me anybody to bail you?

Ajaj: I want. Do you know what? There is a big personality in New York.
The chairman of the Arab community [Dr. Mehdi] will collect bail for you,
help you. There is someone. God will bring us goodness if he is willing…
In one thing that I be able to find a telephone number of the Arab
community the chairman who defended Nosair.

U.M. What? The?

Ajaj: The one who defended Nosair. Those would provide us, would
provide me with an attorney. I do have an attorney and the [Magistrate]
Judge is Jewish. And they might go back to my past history and you know
that my history, thank God, is honorable…So God willing, most importantly
I want to tell you something. Me up till now they haven’t taken any
statement from me, in other words they’re saying they haven’t found
anyone who speaks Arabic well.

129
. U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals USA v Salameh United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit August Term, 1997
(Argued: December 18 & 19, 1997 Decided: August 4, 1998) Docket Nos. 94-1312, -1313, -1314, -1315
 U.M. God willing.

Ajaj: And you the very important thing it’s necessary that you put together
and be able to send some papers [bomb making manuals] to complete
your studies over there.

U.M. If, Insha'allah,130 in any case what is good.

Ajaj: God sends what is good. God disposes and we are consenting, we’re
consenting to the rule of God no matter what and no matter what was
destined by God, I’m not angry about anything but one thing…One, in
other words, every time he lucks out in a study, [is successful in an attack]
in other words, God writes, thank God, praise be to God, whenever one
gets lucky and pursues some studies, in other words God disposes,
[disposes of someone] thanks be to God…So I want you to proceed. I will
give you, if Insha'allah, tomorrow, I might call you during the day in the
morning? If, Insha'allah, I will give you the address of the prison, the
number of the prison, and everything that pertains to me.

U.M. Yes, because I want to give also to the Iman in New Jersey [Sheik
Rahman?] to help, he is an Iman a member of the committee responsible
for the holy land associations [Hamas]. And he is the chairman, and he
(U/I) he’s an important chairman…To study God, (U/I) willing Sulaman I
must try to help study.

Ajaj: Yes, look I prefer that you let him enter with a major [attack]. I wish
you listen to me…What I am telling you is make him pursue a study as a
lathe operator, [as shooter – gun barrels can be produced with a lathe]
look out for my major here in the field of lathing.

U.M. Uh, huh, lathing.

Ajaj: You would have accomplished, you know what in other words,
secured his future? And you would have done him a great favor, in other
words, and from there I shall send him I mean to study in Pakistan the
specialization. The major of lathing in the hands of people I mean you
have lathe shops, and in other words? So I recommend one of the two
studies, either a major in printing [propaganda] or in lathe operating?
Forget about engineering [Bomb making – coincidentally Ramzi Yousef
had studied to be an engineer] and all the empty talk. This specialization,
this is the finest specialization one has to take up.

Additionally, no one traced Ajaj’s plane ticket until after the World Trade Center
blast to determine that he and Yousef had sat together on the first leg of their journey to
New York. Ajaj was released from prison three days after the World Trade Center

130
. God Willing, if God permits.
explosion and was free from March 1, 1993 to March 9, 1993 when he was rearrested
and sentenced to more than 100 years in prison for his role – from behind bars – in the
attack.

RAMZI YOUSEF SEEKS ASYLYUM

The FBI and INS handled Ramzi Yousef even more ineptly than they did Ajaj.
Yousef disposed of his British passport upon entering America by giving it to Ajaj, and
used an Iraqi one to claim political asylum. He would tell the FBI that he had attempted
to obtain legitimate visas to enter the U.S. from the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad on two
occasions, but was unsuccessful.

Yousef denied to the American Secret Service Agent Brian Parr that the Iraqi
intelligence agency had issued the passport to him. “He told us when he arrived in the
U.S. he was using a genuine Iraqi passport in the name of Ramzi Yousef. He came into
immigration, presented his Iraqi passport and requested political asylum. He said he
had purchased it for $100 in Peshawar, Pakistan, and that they were easily accessible.
He described to us how Iraqi rebels living in Northern Iraq would raid Iraqi passport
offices and steal these genuine documents, and then they would be sold on the black
market in Peshawar.”131 U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell was anxious to link us to
Iraq: “From the late 1990’s until 2001, the Iraqi Embassy in Pakistan played the role of
liaison to the al-Qaeda organization.” 132 But why would Iraqi Intelligence want to
establish this so obvious a link?

Yousef, who lacked an American visa, was sent directly to the secondary
inspection area where he was arrested for entering the United States without a visa.
Yousef asserted, in a sworn statement to INS officials, that he was traveling alone and
boarded the flight to New York by bribing a Pakistani official. During the Brother’s trial a
customs official was questioned about this: “He was being questioned by one of the
representatives for Pakistani International Airlines as to how he got on the aircraft
without a visa. He stated to the Pakistani International Airlines representative he had a
brother in the Iraqi consulate that helped him get aboard.” 133 Why give up the Iraqis if
they were sponsoring him? Another customs official testified: “He only stated he paid a
Pakistani official $2,700 U.S. dollars for arranging his trip to the United States.” 134 Ramzi
Yousef applied for political asylum. He stated that he was persecuted in Iraq, because
the Iraqi government had labeled him a Kuwaiti sympathizer during the Persian Gulf
War. This was why Yousef made the Iraqi “connection” so overt. Pending a
January 26, 1992 hearing, he was released on his own recognizance,
because of a lack of detention space. He soon disappeared from the FBI’s
view. Abdul Hakim Murad (left) recalled, “he proceeded to New York City
and spent the night at the Sheikh Church located there. One the next day
he went to a Mosque somewhere in Jersey City, New Jersey, wherein
some Muslim brothers provided him with assistance.” 135 Customs Agent
131
. USA v Ramzi Yousef TT 4709
132
. Speech to the United Nations February 5, 2003.
133
. USA v Ramzi Yousef Cozine Direct TT 457
134
. USA v Ramzi Yousef Morales Cross TT 561
135
. Philippine National Police Report January 17, 1995
Cozine admitted that there was no official record of the events that transpired on the
night of September 2, 1992, even though it was standard operating procedure to record
all requests for political asylum.136

FREE AT LAST TO DO GOD’S WORK

After Salem was withdrawn from infiltrating our cell the FBI failed to send in
another informer or recruit one of our members as such, despite the fact that Salem had
betrayed our plans to place bombs at various locations in New York City. Shortly after
Yousef’s arrival, and five months before the first World Trade Center Event, the FBI
subpoenaed twenty of Sheik Rahman’s followers. FBI Agent Anticev questioned them
about our activities and leaders. Mahmud Abouhalima was asked if he knew El-Sayyid
Nosair and of course he denied that he did. The FBI possessed information to the
contrary however, no arrests were made for giving false information to a Federal
Government employee, no Grand Jury investigation was launched, and the FBI chose
to downgrade its scrutiny of Gama’a al-Islamiyya’s Brooklyn / Jersey City cell just as
plans were being finalized for the World Trade Center bombing. 137 Emad Salem
explained:

It was decided to interview all of the people or most

of the people who visited Mr. Sayyid Nosair in jail,
and interview me among them, or subpoena me
among them. I contacted Mr. Ali Shinawy, Mr.
Ahmed Abdel Sattar, Mr. Ibrahim El-Gabrowny and
everybody. We held a meeting in Abu Bakr Mosque
[concerning the fact] that the FBI has started to
monitor Gama’a al-Islamiyya’s Brooklyn / Jersey
City cell closely, and we should go to the meeting
next morning at the 26 Federal Plaza. Where the subpoena want us to go.
Mr. Ibrahim El-Gabrowny, Mr. Ahmed Abdel Sattar, Mr. Emad Abdou. It
was around 20 individuals. We met in front of the Warren Street Mosque
in Manhattan. We walked to the federal building, and Mr. Ahmed Abdel
Sattar had a federal identification, since he is a postman, he get into the
building, called the agents, the agents came downstairs, they came and
they accompanied us to upstairs. The FBI agents started interviewing us.
They did not interview me, because we just sit and talk, and I did not get
interviewed. I told them, ‘Please take me through the steps among them
exactly, so they see me being treated the same way so they don’t suspect
me.’ They took some shots, mug shots for us. They fingerprinted us, and
that’s about it.”

Aside from this tepid passive investigation, the FBI just left Gama’a al-Islamiyya
Brooklyn / Jersey City cell to its own devices, and those devices included detonators,

136
. USA v Ramzi Yousef, Cozine: TT 463, 480
137
. William Norman Grigg New American February 19, 1997 also Allison Mitchell “Before Bombing Inquiry Sought Inroads Into
Enclave of Suspects” New York Times April 1, 1993.
timers, chemicals and the like. Assistant United States Attorney Andrew McCarthy
commented:

These disagreements culminated in September 1992, when the FBI and

Salem went their separate ways and the FBI obtained subpoenas for
members of the Nosair group in an effort to force them to abandon any
ideas they had of committing violent acts in this country. Tragically,
Abouhalima and his associates were not deterred and went on to murder
six people in the attack on the World Trade Center.” 138 With the help of the
Almighty, it wasn’t until 1996 that a special federal grand jury convened in
the Southern District of New York to investigate what prosecutors called
“the structure, goals and operational status of al-Qaeda worldwide;
whether al-Qaeda was involved in planning crimes against American
interests and, if so, which ones.139

Meanwhile Sheik Rahman was making numerous calls to overseas numbers,

including a Pakistan number that Yousef had inscribed in a bomb-making pamphlet.
Rahman, Mohammad Salameh, and Yousef also made several calls to the same
number in Pakistan in November. Nosair, speaking with his wife from prison, said, “And
what will happen in New York, God willing, it will be because of my prayers.” 140

OUR IRANIAN VERSUS IRAQI CONNECTIONS

Ramzi Yousef moved in with Mohammed Salameh who lived

with Abdul Rahman Yasin at 34 Kensington Avenue, Apartment 4 in
Jersey City, New Jersey. Yasin, 40, was an Iraqi, an Indiana
native and a one-time engineering student. On September 4, 1992 at
approximately 10:50 p.m. Ramzi Yousef placed a long distance call to
985-424-3943 in Iran.

In December 1996, Yousef got word from bin Laden on the need for
five or six passports for plane hijackings set for April 1997. "Yousef said
his people are only going to use the passports for one trip, to board the
planes to be hijacked," When Yousef attempted to obtain these fake
passports from jailhouse mafia rat Gregory Scarpa Jr, (left) Scarpa kept
this record of the notes that Yousef passed to him,

Gregory Scarpa Jr. advised that the notes were self written. The first two
pages pertained to the events taking place on December 18, 1996.
Gregory Scarpa Jr. asked Yousef to reveal the address that the passports
were to be sent. Yousef responded that he will not give out the address
until he finds out whether Scarpa’s associates will send them or not.
Gregory Scarpa Jr. questioned Yousef whether the address is located in
138
. USA v Rahman Stern Ex. 16 at 42; TT 4989-5010
139
. Stephen Braun, Bob Drogin, Mark Fineman, Lisa Getter, Greg Krikorian and Robert J. Lopez “Haunted By Years of Missing
Warnings” Los Angeles Times October 14, 2001.
http://ktla.trb.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-101401warn.story
140
. USA v Rahman - Government Exhibit 128T at 7
 the United States. Yousef responded that the address is an Iranian
address. Gregory Scarpa Jr. asked whether Yousef was having the
passports sent to his parents address. Yousef responded "No", and that a
temporary address was set up in Iran for this purpose.” 141

In mid October 1992 Mohammad Salameh opened a joint bank

account with Brother Nidal Ayyad, who worked as a chemical engineer at
Allied Signal, a large New Jersey chemical company. Over the next four
months, more than $100,000 in cash transfers would be deposited in
these accounts, in multiple deposits. The source of at least $5,600 of this
money was Usama bin Laden, funneled through Abouhalima's old
associates in Munich. According to the FBI relatives of Mohammad
Salameh and Ayyad sent $2,400 from Iran and “another country” (probably Saudi
Arabia) money that they could not account for. Of the $100,000 the FBI and CIA traced
tens of thousands of dollars in wire transfers originating from Iran; other funds originated
from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and other countries. These funds were placed in the joint
account in amounts less than $10,000, so that they would not trigger any paperwork. 142

Shortly after the bombing Anticev, suggested to Salem: “Do you ever think that
Iraqi intelligence might have known of these people who were willing to do something
crazy, and that Iraqi intelligence found them out and encouraged them to do this as a
retaliation for the bombing of Iraq? So the people who are left holding the bag here in
America are Egyptian...or Palestinian? I hate to think what's going to happen if this turns
out to be an Iraqi intelligence operation ... and these people were used....” Salem told
another FBI agent, “Is lot of suspicious about Iraqi intelligence involved.” 143 Abdo
Haggag kept a diary when he was incarcerated in the MCC. A defense attorney working
for al-Qaeda questioned the validity of this document:

He goes back to MCC to see what he can get out. He comes back with
some stuff that is kind of interesting. He tells you he finds out that
Mohammad Salemeh had contacts with Iraqi intelligence. And he tells you
this in his diary – which presumably is the real deal because it doesn’t
come out on direct. He just admits that he kept it. 144

THE CAMPAIGN TO LINK IRAQ TO THE WTC-1 BOMBING

Dr. Laurie Mylroie received her Ph.D. in Political Science from

Harvard University and her B.A. from Cornell. She was an Assistant
Professor in Harvard's Political Science Department. In 1990 she
cowrote, with New York Times reporter Judith Miller, “Saddam Hussein
and the Crisis in the Gulf.” Next, she became an Associate Professor
in the Strategy Department at the U.S. Naval War College.
141
. FBI FD-302 265A-NY-258172 December 26, 1996 obtained from Scarpa by Angela Clemente
142
. Ralph Blumenthal - New York Times April 25, 1993 Page 45, 1 - “$100,000 From Abroad Linked to Trade Center Suspects” as
cited in Jim Dwyer Two Seconds Under the World : Terror Comes to America: The Conspiracy Behind the World Trade Center Bombing - Crown Publishers1992.
143
. Laurie Mylroie Study of Revenge, American Enterprise Institute October 2000.
144
. USA v Rahman TT 19408
Subsequently, she was a member of the staff of the Washington Institute for Near East
Policy where she worked under Oslo Peace purveyor the Jew Martin Indyk. Mylroie is a
part of the know-it-all neo-conservative cabal (the neo-cons support Oslo), many of
whom are retreads from the war on communism 145 a war that al-Qaeda won, not the
Americans! They will soon fall from power due to their fixation with Saddam’s Iraq and
their having set off a sectarian war in that land. Meanwhile our Iranian associates
pursue their goal.  The former director of central intelligence, James Woolsey, shared
her views on Iraq’s involvement in terrorism. “Someday the nation will recognize that it
owes her a big debt of gratitude for the diligence with which she has pursued the
terrorism issue,” he said.146 Woolsey is a member of the neo-con Iraq war-mongering
Project for the New American Century.147 Laurie Mylroie, who also helped convince
America to invade Iraq, wrote: “No evidence ever emerged linking Iran to the bombing.
Iran reportedly gave money to Sheik Rahman, according to intelligence sources. But
even if those reports are true, they do not link Iran with the Trade Center bombing.
Sheik Rahman was not the operational director of the terror. He instigated and inflamed,
but he did not order specific bombings. Nor did any evidence ever emerge that the
World Trade Center bombers received money from him. Moreover, despite the
conspirators' many overseas telephone calls, there were none to Tehran or to any area
in Iran, save Balochistan. Thus, the telephone records do not suggest Iranian
sponsorship.”148 Ramzi Yousef had family in the Pakistani area of Balochistan but made
allusions to having a mailing address in Iran when he spoke with jailhouse rat Gregory
Scarpa Jr.

To protect his benefactor nation, Sheik Rahman cleverly distanced himself from
Iran: “There is no country that applies Shari'ah as it is required, as actually as it should
be, especially in Iran where they follow the Shi’ite religion.” Emad Salem recorded this
conversation:

Amir Abdelgani: Sheik Rahman doesn't he have money?

Siddig: Yes, people are giving him money for certain purposes of course.

Amir Abdelgani: Ask him if the green light is on.

Salem: This man is shy (Siddig) he can't ask.

Siddig: What do I tell him give me from this money?

Amir Abdelgani: Tell him I need it for a certain matter.

Salem: Tell him there is an operation that you'll hear of [and that is what it
is for].

145
. http://www.fightingterror.org/members/index.cfm
146
. http://daily.nysun.com/Repository/getFiles.asp?
Style=OliveXLib:ArticleToMail&Type=text/html&Path=NYS/2003/08/19&ID=Ar00200
147
. http://www.newamericancentury.org/aboutpnac.htm
148
. Laurie Mylroie Study of Revenge, American Enterprise Institute October 2000.
 Rahman, Hekmatyar and Usama had close connections with the Islamic
Republic of Iran, and despite differences in religious doctrine, received covert aid from
this Islamic Republic. But this had to be covered up by people like Laurie Mylroie, as
Iraq was their target. So these facts were ignored:

Usama bin Laden also maintained associations with other Iranian sponsored
mujahedeen. In 1995 and 1996, Usama bin Laden approached Iran’s Ministry Of
Intelligence And Security in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, and offered to join forces with them
against America.149 This was followed by a number of meetings between bin Laden,
Iranian operatives and leaders of the Iranian government. Usama bin Laden’s son Saad
has found refuge in Iran, as has Saif Al-Adel, an Egyptian national who is now a military
chief of al-Qaeda. An elite unit known as the Jerusalem Force protects them.

Ten percent of the calls made from the Compact-M satellite phone used by bin
Laden’s key lieutenants were to Iran. 150 German authorities debriefed Brothers in
custody and learned that Mohammed Sarkawi, an important al-Qaeda combat
commander, lived and worked in Tehran in the months before September 11, 2001.
Around the time of the September 11 th Victory, Sarkawi traveled to Afghanistan but
returned to Iran before the American bombing campaign began in the fall of 2001.
Germany’s interest in Sarkawi was based on its belief that he was involved in a group
called Al Tawhid and that he assisted a hundred or more al-Qaeda fighters who were
fleeing Afghanistan by arranging for funds, passports, escape routes through Iran. 151
Iran made a concerted effort to strengthen relations with al-Qaeda after the October
2000 attack on the USS Cole. Iranian border inspectors were told not to place telltale
stamps in the passports of these travelers. Such arrangements were particularly
beneficial to Saudi members of Al-Qaeda. Eight to 10 of the 14 Saudi Shaheeds who
were non-pilots traveled into or out of Iran between October 2000 and February 2001.

Following the September 11th Victory, Usama bin Laden, Hekmatyar and Iranian
officials formed a new alliance called Lashkar Fedayan-E-Islami (Islamic Martyrs
Brigade) based in Northeastern Afghanistan with the goal of launching suicide attacks
against the American invaders. According to Salauddin Safi, a military commander
under Hekmatyar who now lives in Pakistan, Iran “is helping with money and weapons”
for suicide attacks on Americans in Afghanistan. Safi explained the relationship between
Iran and Hekmatyar saying, “Iran needs Hekmatyar because Iran is an enemy of the
United States and Hekmatyar is too.”152 In May 2006 Hekmatyar verbally attacked Iran,

The truth is that had it not been for Pakistani and Iranian support, the
Americans would not have been able to occupy Afghanistan and Iraq so
rapidly and easily. U.S. forces would not have been able to remain up to
now [if these countries] had not helped the invading U.S. forces gain
control of Kabul and Baghdad. [Iran] ordered pro-Iranian Afghan and Iraqi
149
. CIA Report cited by William Gertz in Breakdown: How America’s Intelligence Failures Led to September 11th. Regnery
Publishing 2002.
150
. http://www.ict.org.il/articles/articledet.cfm?articleid=429
151
. Micheal Ledeen Jewish World Review December 12, 2002.
152
. “Al-Qaeda Suicide Teams Train In Pakistan” Associated Press December 12, 2002 CBS News Bagram, Afghanistan January 28,
2003. http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,,884034,00.html
 Shiite groups to submit to the Americans and to fight under their
command, contrary to [the will] of the people. If they had remained neutral
instead of siding with the Crusader forces, America would not have
reached its colonial goals with such ease. But regrettably they first helped
the Americans gain control of Afghanistan, and then they repeated this
crime with the occupation of Iraq. Even worse than this, they did not try to
hide this heinous crime. They committed it openly and are proud of it.
Khatami and Rafsanjani publicly and repeatedly said that if it had not been
for Iranian support, America would not have been able to control Kabul
and Baghdad with such ease. Rafsanjani added that [Iran] was ready to
cooperate with America in this [manner] in any other [region]. 153

Following the assassination of Sadat, some Egyptians who were involved

approached the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and the Guards' intelligence organ
established ties with them. Member of the Revolutionary Guard then went to Lebanon
where they became acquainted with many non-Shiite revolutionary elements. 154

THE WTC-1 PLOT CONTINUES

Yousef, who said that he was acting on Ayyad’s behalf, went to City Chemical
Corporation, in Jersey City, New Jersey, where, using the name “Kamal” he purchased
1,000 pounds of technical grade urea and 105 gallons of nitric acid to make urea nitrate
for the bomb’s main charge, as prescribed in a bomb-making manual. 155 Yousef also
purchased: 60 gallons of sulfuric acid, packaged in 15-gallon carboys, to make
nitroglycerin for boosters; one gallon of ethyl alcohol to stabilize nitroglycerin so that it
could later be transported; and a 25-pound bag of sodium carbonate to neutralize acids
during the mixing process. Mohammad Salameh rented a storage shed at the Space
Station Storage Company in Jersey City. All of the bomb-making materials were
delivered to this shed.

Peter Wolpert, the owner of City Chemical, remembered specific conversations

with someone by the name of Kamal. Wolpert conceded that he did not know who
Kamal was, nor did he ever ask for any identification or place of employment.
Furthermore, Wolpert testified under a grant of immunity from the government.
Apparently, City Chemical had violated environmental laws, resulting in a loss of their
license to sell chemicals, as well as a fine of more than $225,000, imposed by the
federal government. In addition, the company had additional legal problems, because
they did not keep proper records of sales of controlled substances. Wolpert refused to
testify unless he received a portion of the reward money that was offered for information
leading to the arrest and conviction of Ramzi Yousef. It was only after Wolpert
requested the reward money that his company began to encounter legal problems, and
as a result, Wolpert was compelled to testify by the government. In exchange for his
153
. http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:hd5_52d99H8J:www.tecom.usmc.mil/caocl/OIF/Iraqi_Voices/05-
04_Arabic_Media_Report.v2.doc+Hekmatyar+al-jazeera&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=31
154
. Ali Nurizadeh, “Report on an interview with Hamid Reza - Date and Place Not Given” Al-Awsat London, England February 18,
2003 p7.
155
. Daniel Pipes and Steven Emerson Wall Street Journal May 31, 2001 “Terrorism on Trial.”
http://www.ict.org.il/articles/articledet.cfm?articleid=364
testimony, the government required City Chemical to pay only $23,000 of the $225,000
fine that had been levied, of which only $8,000 was eventually ever paid.

In late December 1992 Mahmud Abouhalima helped Mohammed Salameh and

Ramzi Yousef find a ground floor apartment at 40 Pamrapo Avenue in Jersey City. After
Mohammed and Yousef rented the apartment, they used that apartment in January and
February 1993 to mix the chemicals stored at the shed to create explosives for the
World Trade Center bomb. After Yousef moved into the Pamrapo apartment 32 calls
were made to the number in Iran 985-424-3943 beginning on December 6, 1993.

By the end of January 1993, Yousef had placed two more orders
with City Chemical for delivery to the shed. The purchases included urea
and nitric acid, five pounds of potassium nitrate, which can be converted
easily into gunpowder, two gallons of methyl alcohol for stabilizing
nitroglycerin and 100 pounds of aluminum metal powder, 25 pounds of
magnesium metal powder, and 65 pounds of ferric oxide to be added to
the urea nitrate mixture to enhance the bomb’s destructive impact as
recommended by the manuals. In all, the conspirators ordered and had delivered to the
shed a total of 1,500 pounds of urea and approximately 1,672 pounds of nitric acid.
They used 1,200 pounds of urea and almost all of the nitric acid to make the World
Trade Center bomb. It mattered not that Ajaj’s manuals had been seized since Yousef
cooked up his own recipes. In any event there was an abundance of these manuals in
circulation. On August 7, 1998 Khalid al-Fawwaz’s (left) London al-Qaeda office was
raided and several copies of the instruction book were found. On January 23, 1993, at
1:18 p.m., a call was made from the Jersey City location to Iran. The call lasted for three
minutes, and the cost of the call was $8.07. On January 27, 1993 Yousef’s toll records
revealed there were a total of three calls that were made to that number in Iran.
According to Government’s Exhibit 807, there were a total of 39 calls from the number
of the telephone located at the ground floor apartment at 40 Pamrapo Avenue to the
number in Iran. And according to Government’s Exhibit 811, which is also for that same
address, there were an additional 24 calls to the number in Iran. Government’s Exhibit
819, a Sprint account for that address, revealed there were a total of two calls to the
number in Iran. Clearly, Yousef had some association to Iran.

MOHARAM

Once the Gama’a al-Islamiyya Brooklyn / Jersey City cell had

the bomb all we needed was the means to transport it. We turned for
help to our Brothers from the Al-Salaam Mosque. Wahed Moharam, a
self-described Al-Salaam Mosque leader, had given Mahmud
Abouhalima and his brother Mohammed an off the books job as a
driver with Moharam’s Deanna Limousine Service. Moharam would
testify that he met Abouhalima in November 1991 in the parking lot of
a Woodbridge Garden New Jersey housing complex where both men
lived. Moharam, who became a witness for the American Government, later told a
reporter that Mohammad Salameh and Abouhalima approached him about using a
company van he owned “to move a friend into a new apartment.” Moharam told them it
was a passenger van and could not be used to move furniture. Moharam said he
referred him to the Ryder rental company and through contacts there he arranged for
Mohammad Salameh to rent a van on February 24, 1993. This vehicle was used in the
World Trade Center attack. 156 At the World Trade Center trial Moharam told a different
story when he was asked, “And what happened when he asked you if you could rent
another van for him?” Under oath he said, “I called the company I was renting from and
it was no van available.” Moharam testified that after the first World Trade Center Event
Abouhalima came into his office looking visibly upset. It was reported that Moharam
testified that after putting two and two together he called the FBI, however no such
statement existed in his testimony.

The Learned Elders of Islam must ask themselves, what were the Brothers
thinking when they asked him to lend them one of his vans? If Moharam had removed
the seats from his van and it had been subsequently destroyed in the World Trade
Center Event rather than returned to him the next day would he not have gone to the
authorities after it was determined that a van had transported the bomb? What if the VIN
(Vehicle Identification Number) was not obliterated? Did Wahed Moharam, an FBI
informant, have knowledge of the first World Trade Center plan but failed to report it to
the FBI? Or did he report it and the FBI ignored it? Who was Wahed Moharam?

Wahed Moharam was an Egyptian by birth. We have learned much about him
from Joan Donovan, a woman who gave birth to Moharam’s child and from Moharam’s
second wife, Shannon Tyler. Tyler told investigator Abu Jihad that Moharam, “Told me
his family was rich and his father was assassinated at the same time as Anwar Sadat at
the reviewing stand. He changed his story several times as to what his father did for a
living.” Joan Donovan told Abu Jihad that he said no such thing to her. Emad Salem
claimed to have witnessed Sadat’s assassination from the reviewing stand. Do these
men read from the same script?

Moharam came to the United States in the late 1970’s married Mimi Shlaklova
(phonetic) and obtained American citizenship then left her for Joan Donovan, who left
her husband Michael to be with him. Before their divorce Mimi gave birth to two
children. Joan Donovan and Moharam were never legally married. None-the-less when
he testified at the World Trade Center trial Moharam stated, “I divorce my ex-wife. I’m
divorced from one. I’m married to the other.” 157

Assistant United States Attorney De Pippo reported that,

There have been allegations I know of by his girlfriend’s mother that

he abused one of his girlfriend’s children. I know that was brought to a
prosecutor. It was dismissed. They did not go forward with the case for
weak and insufficient evidence. It was handled in 1989. Apparently that’s a
civil case arising out of that he was found apparently – we don’t have the
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 records – by his own admission he said he was found liable for some type
of, he said simple assault or something to that effect. I know there was an
outburst in the courtroom back in 1989. Moharam was brought into a
hospital for psychiatric care kept overnight and released.” 158 Donovan:
“This is getting to be ugly stuff man. Whatever I give you are not going to
hurt my kids doing this. Sexual abuse. He was accused of sexually
something; he was on probation for it.” The U.S. Attorney continued, “In
addition he has had domestic difficulties with his wife which recently,
involved 1993, her allegation that he beat her. There were no criminal
charges brought.

In 1991 Moharam spied, or pretended to spy, on Sheik Rahman at the Al-Salaam

Mosque on behalf of the FBI. Moharam had owned a Mercedes dealership prior to this
time and the FBI had discovered he was involved in fraudulent counterfeiting activity.
He worked out a deal with the Bureau and he agreed provide information on the Sheik.
As a result, his rap sheet didn't detail any of the information regarding counterfeiting. 159
When Moharam heard the Sheik preach Jihad, he reported it. This was not news to the
FBI. AUSA De Pippo said that Moharam received two payments from the FBI, one for
$300 on January 16, 1992, and one for $250 on August 20, 1992. Before Moharam
testified this colloquy took place between Judge Kevin Duffy and De Pippo regarding
the suppression of this activity:

AUSA DE PIPPO: Both payments covered roughly a six-month time

period, the first between June 1991 to December 1991, the second for
January to July 1992. The payments were given to him for services that he
rendered principally relating to Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman's movements,
an argument that he had, and some meetings that the witness attended
that Sheik Rahman delivered lectures at. We listed him as a coconspirator
in our letter to the defense counsel, as your Honor is aware there is no
proof concerning him. We don't expect that there will be any proof
concerning him. Our view is that it's marginally relevant, at most it would
be cumulative, and it would serve to compromise him as a potential
witness in a pending indictment against Mr. Rahman, and in our view
potentially expose him to a greater threat than he is already exposed to at
this point, and therefore we would request your Honor's permission not to
disclose that.

THE COURT: I don't see how you can do that. The guy was receiving
money as an FBI informant at a time prior to this bombing. I don't see how
you cannot disclose it.

MR. DE PIPPO: Could we disclose the payment information and not get
into the substance of the informant activities, that he was an informant and
that he got $500 for?

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 THE COURT: That’s all that’s of any interest. 160

Moharam told Shannon Tyler that the money he received was used to purchase
a tape of Rahman preaching Jihad and Moharam told Abu Jihad, “This money was to
buy him videotapes of a convention not money to do anything. They ask me if I can buy
up this book because it is lost to me at the library and buy him the book, I mean the
video and I give it to him.” He told Tyler, “I had had conversation with Rahman when
Rahman was talking about committing violence – he didn’t say what acts – and I said,
‘How can you see the world like that, when you are blind?’ Rahman said ‘I have people
who see things for me’ and told me that if I continued to question him he would throw
me out the window.” Joan Donovan: “I don’t believe at all that he was informing on
Rahman but he got a lot more payments than what they were saying. At the pizzeria up
in Maplewood, they were constantly giving him payments. The FBI would meet with him
up there. He got caught doing certain things in Italy, so he made a deal. I think that was
wrong of the FBI. You don’t make deal with devil. If you talk to the Marshall Service now
they are sorry as heck they made a deal with devil. And now he’s on the loose and he’s
going to get someone else. There’s gonna be another lady out there.”

Mahmud Abouhalima’s attorney, Hassen Ibn Abdellah, stated,

AUSA De Pippo gave me 35155-J, which is a document that establishes

that Mr. Moharam was working for the feds as early as January 1991, I
believe that is the date. And Mr. De Pippo told me that he did not want to
disclose what the method of his co-operation was. But, your Honor, for
some reason, I believe I know what that relates to. And that’s something
separate and independent of this allegation of the car. I believe that the
person he may have been working for on behalf of the government is a
person by the name of Sultan Al-Gawiiy. And the reason I have some
knowledge about that is because I represented Mr. Al-Gawiiy around that
time in another incident. And when I saw that date, it popped in my mind
that this is a person who might be familiar with him and those are other
records that we may be entitled to, not only that, your Honor.

Judge Kevin Duffy responded, “They have already disclosed to me what this
particular thing has to do with. It doesn’t have to do with Sultana Al-Gawiiy and it has
really got nothing to do with the case.” 161 Judge Duffy missed the fact that Sultana Al-
Gawiiy led to Ibrahim A. El-Gabrowny, a member of the Brooklyn-Jersey City cell.
Moharam told Tyler that he had contacted the FBI before the 1993 World Trade Center
bombing and told the Bureau that the Brothers were meeting secretly at the Mosque
and planning to assassinate Hosni Mubarak. Joan Donovan stated,

The FBI could have stopped the 1993 one. I made phone calls, I said
listen, [something is going to happen]. We thought the tunnel, Mahmud
told me the tunnel and the mayor, at that time I told these guys, I made an
anonymous call, I am serious these guys are up to something, the
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 warehouse the storage place, I don’t speak Arabic but I know what they
want me to do, I told them something’s gonna happen and they just didn’t
take it serious.

Moharam said he testified against the Brothers for patriotic reasons, “They gave
other guys millions of dollars for testifying. For me, I did it for my country. And I got
nothing,” but the Elder’s believe he did it so that he would be placed in the Witness
Protection Program, given a new identity (Edgar Sanchez) and moved to Arizona,
where the American government would finance a new business for him. (Sofia’s
Pizzeria, also known as the Corner Café went bust; 162 Moharam’s automobile importing
business failed in 1987; his Scotch Plains A-1 Carpet business failed in 1990; and finally
his limousine business had to be abandoned because he went into the Witness
Protection Program).

When Moharam went into the Witness Protection Program he took his first wife
with him along with their two daughters. Donovan:

I hate those people, they threatened me that if I talk they would take my
kid away and she was only an infant. I had three kids. I kept his old
passport. I kept his old Social Security number and his old immigration
papers. Moharam wanted to take my daughter into the program with him.
He made a lot of charges on behalf of my daughter. He kept calling
(unintelligible) and was saying she was being sexually abused and each
allegation was found to be untrue. He was making accusations I was a
dike, sexually abusing her so he could have custody. And they said, ‘Hey
listen this kid is only so many months old.’ He had visitation rights so I had
to allow him to visit my daughter periodically. I did two years worth of trips
for the FBI and I said I wasn’t doing them anymore. I would have to take
three plane rides not knowing where I going under a different identity to an
unknown location with my daughter so he would have visitation. I did it for
two years but I couldn’t do it no more - it was too stressful.

According to Tyler Moharam was soon moved to Seattle as a result of Joan

Donovan having traced him to Arizona. After Donovan located him in Seattle by using
caller ID the Marshall’s threatened to kick him out of the Witness Protection Program,
but gave him one last chance to abide by the rules and moved him to Kansas City,
Missouri. There, Moharam opened a number of As Seen On TV stores and told many
people about his status in the program.

Moharam was only allowed to see his daughter from his liason with Donovan on
rare occasions. During a New Jersey custody hearing Moharam said the FBI told him
they could not have him visit her any longer because the program had run out of money:

They only let you have four hours with your daughter, and then they escort
you out and humiliate you, while you’re crying and the kid is crying and

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 holding on to your leg.” Donovan commented, “That was my daughter.
She would never hold on to his leg. It wasn’t because they ran out of
money it was because he got nasty in the courtroom. F-ing the judge to
death.

As usual Moharam’s As Seen On T.V. business failed and on September 1, 2001

he married Shannon Tyler, an ex-employee who was 23 years younger than him. Joan
Donovan told Abu Jihad:

I will tell you anything you want to know about him, I don’t give a shit about
him he put me through hell with my kid. No one ever listens to me till they
get burned. I told Shannon, congratulations you’re getting married to him
but be careful because you are having a baby. He left me when my baby
was just born even though she had her legs broken at birth, because of
the way she was born, and she had scoliosis. I had terrible financial
problems. He left me homeless. I mean literally homeless. I told her when
you marry him be careful of his past. When she was with him and
everything was fine for the one year she wrote to the judge, not even
knowing me, not knowing my daughter, she told him what a bad mother I
was and that I was sexually abusing my child. Now she found out the hard
way.

Tyler said the first time she ever spoke to Donovan was November 2001 after
Moharam had left her. The letter to the judge, she said, concerned her willingness to
take care of Donovan’s daughter if Donovan could no longer afford to do so and never
accused her of being a lesbian.

The Marshall’s, already sick to death of Moharam found out that he had told
Tyler about his past, and he was dropped from the Witness Protection
Program. Tyler soon became aware of his instability when he wanted her to
broadcast the birth of their daughter, during a live radio feed: “I was on the
radio when I was in labor” Shannon said. When Moharam went back to
New Jersey to visit his daughter, and when Tyler objected, she said he
became violent with her: “We fought over him going because I was scared
that without witness protection anyone could follow him back.” Moharam
visited the Al-Salaam Mosque in Jersey City six months prior to September
11th where he said he heard that our action was imminent. Then his former
accountant “Mustafa” who he told Tyler worked in an office secretly owned
by Usama bin Laden also told him “something big was going to happen.

Tyler related: “When he returned from his trip he told me this. He mentioned bin
Laden. I didn’t know who Usama bin Laden was back then. That was the first time I ever
heard his name.” Khalid Shaikh Mohammed stated, “Many senior and low-level figures
were aware that I was preparing operatives for travel to the U.S., leading some to
conclude that al-Qaeda was planning a near-term attack on U.S. territory, but none
were aware of the precise targets or method of attack.” In July 2001, the CIA’S Counter
Terrorism Committee became aware of a person who had recently been in Afghanistan
who reported, "Everyone is talking about an impending attack." Joan Donovan
confirmed this,

He mentioned bin Laden before September 11 th. ‘They’re planning

something big again.’ and I’m like ‘Oh shit, Wahid, I don’t want to know.’ I
called the Marshall Service. I didn’t know if he was in or out of the
program. I [figured] he was sneaking out of the program. He stayed here
for a few a days. He did get money from the limos [from his accountant], I
think I got about $900, I went up there with him. They were having a
meeting at this place in Jersey City, which he didn’t show me, he just told
me about it. Moharam is very smooth, I don’t know how they trust him, I
don’t know if its his bookkeeper that smoothed things over for him or
what? One’s an Egyptian guy and the other’s an American guy. The
American guy I don’t think he has anything to do with anything. I have his
address at home. He lives up in my area. The one in Jersey City, want to
go there? Lets go there. When they are open they are open! It’s not just
for bookkeeping, they are open for everything - it’s a social club too.
Kennedy Boulevard, by the old Mosque from 1993. I usually just judge its
location when I go over to Jersey City. Last time I was there was after 9/11
with Moharam then he took my damn car and left it in Jersey City when he
went back. 2828 Kennedy Boulevard rings a bell. We’ll stop at the
Mosque. Them guys they are there all the time they are not selling
insurance, they are selling something else. I would go to the Mosque first,
I don’t care who is banging their head on the floor. I went in before. Tell
them to call the cops to get me out, if they don’t let women in. I told them,
‘No wonder you are all friggin’ nuts. You bang your heads too many times.
It didn’t go over very well.’

Moharam claimed he told the FBI that he heard “something was going to happen,
bigger than 1993” but the FBI ignored it. He also told Tyler that he had told the FBI
where to find Mahmud Abouhalima when Abouhalima was a fugitive and the tip had not
originated with Salem or Abdo Haggag.

Moharam began to stalk Shannon Tyler and was charged with carrying a
concealed weapon. Joan Donovan,

If you are willing to take this challenge with Moharam remember he’s a
pretty tough guy. He usually gets what he wants at any cost. Don’t let him
know anything about your family. Be careful or he will terrorize your life.
Best thing to do is get a restraining order. How many times in the last two
years do you think he was busted with weapons? He’s supposed to
surrender them obviously but it didn’t matter to the court he got busted
again. In Missouri, he got busted twice. Tony has no fear. He threatened
to kill me. I firmly believe he would do it. If I didn’t live with my daughter he
would kill me for the sake of Allah. He don’t care if he was gonna die.
 In February 2003 Moharam was sentenced to a year of unsupervised probation.
Now he runs a hotdog stand, and is in contact with Christian Churches such as the
Maranatha Campus Ministries, the Harvest Rock Church in Pasadena, California, the
Pray Capital Region in New York and claims he is Christian. 163 Tyler commented,

I wish the FBI would have informed me about his past before I married him
instead of taking his arrests off his rap sheet. I despise the FBI and the
Witness Protection Program. It’s okay to beat on woman and children as
long as it’s for the greater good. And what really upsets me because they
cover it up they give me the problems I have now. Recently he tried to get
back in the program. The reason they wouldn’t put him back in witness
protection was because they heard him talking to his daughter on the
phone about smoking pot. See, he had his daughter go with him to the FBI
and say that someone was after him and knew where he was they had to
put boxes in front of their windows and they could get whatever
information they wanted from him if they would just put him back in and
relocate him again. They said ‘okay,’ then they called him in and told him
they had put a tap on his phone and didn’t want to be involved with
anyone who takes drugs with their kids. That’s what he told me and is
what his daughter told me. I don’t know for a fact they were telling me
truth.

Under the pretext of authoring a book, Abu Jihad read Moharam the information I
have just revealed. He said Abouhalima’s job was on the books and that none of what
was read to him ever happened.

She [Shannon Tyler] gave you wrong information. Do you have any
proof of any of that? I did not inform on Rahman. My ex-wife live with me,
my children live next to me, [this was true] and none of this happened. If
you want my side of the story 25% of the book and I can give you a lot
more stuff that you never know about and its all truth and fact. I have good
information I can verify. I have information before they attack the World
Trade Center the second time and I have proof of it months before it
happened. I want contract. I won’t give you any information until I know I
will make money. Money talks, bullshit, walks…If you write anything
untruth you will be sued.

Abu Jihad asked Moharam why the Brothers would trust him after he appeared
as a Government witness? “I don’t know you can ask them why? Maybe it doesn’t make
sense to you but it makes sense to me.” Who was this “accountant” who had an office in
a building owned by Usama bin Laden. Abu Jihad asked Shannon Tyler, and the name
“Mustafa” came to mind. There was an Ahmed Moustafa at 2828 John F. Kennedy
Boulevard in Jersey City, the same building that housed the Masjid Al-Salam, however
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he was the owner of Reliable Insurance, not an accountant. Abu Jihad telephoned
Moustafa and asked if he knew Moharam. He said that he did but did not wish to talk
about it on the telephone and that Jihad should stop by his office. John Donovan, who
still remained in close contact with Moharam, judging from telephone records obtained
by the Abu Jihad, said she looked through her records and came up with the name,
“George Arian.” Arian is a spokesperson for the Islamic community of Jersey City and a
newspaper owner there. After a dissident faction of Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya destroyed
EgyptAir Flight 990 Arian acted as a spokesperson for the bereaved families. 164 Arian
was not connected with 2828 John F. Kennedy Boulevard nor was he an accountant.
Moharam probably told his ex-wife to give Abu Jihad this name to throw him off the
track of this security-leak.165

In February 2004 the Learned Elders of Islam sent Abu Jihad to visit Ahmed
Moustafa. When Abu Jihad asked an Irish lady for directions to Kennedy Boulevard she
pointed him in the direction and asked where precisely he wished to go. When he told
her that he wished to visit the Masjid Al-Salam she became incensed, “You people killed
my brother, he was in the World Trade Center” and she began to curse at our operative.
“I am there to spy on those people” he told her, “Look at me I am a Jew!” She did not
believe him but gave him directions anyway. When he reached the Mosque he found a
non-descript door with a piece of cardboard on it to cover a broken piece of glass. He
went up the stairs and was greeted by several Brothers who showed him that Mustafa’s
office was on the same floor as the Mosque, separated only by some plastic sheathing.
Moustafa told him to have a seat while he attended to his clients. Abu Jihad noticed a
calendar from Sphinx Trading Company on the wall along with stickers from websites
that blamed our September 11th Victory on the Jews. In about an hour he spoke with
Mustafa who demanded that he produce some sort of identification. Abu Jihad had
purposely not brought any identification with him and told the Brother, “I have no I.D.”
Mustafa was taken aback, “What do you mean you have no ID? Everyone carries ID.”
Abu Jihad emptied his pockets and there was no ID. Mustafa demanded Abu Jihad
show him a badge. “Do I look like an FBI agent?” he asked. Mustafa said that he had
been visited by the FBI on numerous occasions and had a whole stack of the agents’
cards at home. Abu Jihad told him that Moharam said he visited him just before
September 11th and was told that something big was going to happen soon within the
United States. Mustafa said he did know Moharam since the 1970’s but he hadn’t seen
him much lately.

He did visit me in August 2001” he said, “He stood at the entrance to my

office looking like a cop. He told this same story to the FBI and they came
around and questioned me. These are police questions. I knew Sheik
Rahman. He was asked many police questions too. I handled some
insurance for Moharam, for his car service that is all. I am one of the few
honest Egyptian insurance brokers in Jersey City. I live below the poverty
line. Moharam has a very bad reputation in the Muslim community.

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 Abu Jihad told him that Moharam claimed that Usama bin Laden secretly owned
this building. “That is ridiculous, I have been here since 1980, long before the Mosque
moved in. I have been questioned many times and never indicted or arrested. Who are
you with? What agency?” Abu Jihad began to question him about Moharam’s role as an
informant on Sheik Rahman and his having been a witness in the first World Trade
Center bombing trial. He was asked why he trusted Moharam, why he dealt with him if
he was a co-operator. At this point Mustafa called several mosque members in and told
them to escort Abu Jihad out.

Moharam eventually signed his parental rights away to Shannon Tyler. His rights
were permanently terminated. Shannon got a call from a woman that said she was
engaged to Moharam, and she just broke it off and kicked him out of her house: “She
was telling me things that he had told her and she said one day he was watching CNN
and they were talking about some kind of bombing. Then he told her that was the same
kind they used in a restaurant in New Jersey. I have no idea what that is about but
thought it was strange. She also said he was trying to get a driver's license in his real
name and that she went to the Federal Building with him down town because he wanted
to get off the Terrorist Watch List. And he told her that something is going to happen.
Might all just be smoke out his ass but I thought I would let you know. If you want to talk
to her I am sure she would talk to you. She is upset and said that he threatened to kill
her and blow up her house. So, if you want to let me know and I will ask her if she wants
to talk to you. Hope things are going well in your world.” 166

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