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The Special Operations Command established the ABLE DANGER Program in

1999 under a classified directive issued by General Hugh Shelton, then the chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to assemble information about our al-Qaeda networks around
the world in order to gain ³information dominance.´ What was created at great cost by
the private vendor Orion Inc. was a more comprehensive unindicted co-conspirators list
complete with graphics. Orion is a company with close CIA-ties that provides analytic
support and Information Technology services to the Defense Intelligence Agency and
Counterintelligence Field Activity and also provides counterterrorism and
counterintelligence analytic solutions to clients across the Department of Defense and
the intelligence community.

From October 1999 to August 2000 Orion Inc. employed James D. Smith. Smith
was never read-on to the ABLE DANGER program and testified he "didn't even know
about ABLE DANGER« did not know about the name, ABLE DANGER." Smith said
that he delivered a chart that included 9/ll Shaheed Mohammed Atta's photograph to
LIWA (Land Information Warfare Activity) in January or February 2000.

The Land Information Warfare Activity was established to integrate OPSEC

(Operational Security), military deception, PSYOP, Electronic Warfare, and physical
destruction to support Intelligence Operations and C2W (Command and Control
Warfare)«Integral to LIWA is the Army Reprogramming Analysis Team-Threat Analysis
(ARAT-TA) collocated with the US Air Force at the Air Warfare Center. ARAT-TA
provides the technical expertise to ensure target-sensing weapons systems are
correctly programmed to meet the specific conditions of a designated AO.1

Smith recalled that the chart was produced in response to a request from LIWA
in which Orion was tasked to perform a study related to the 1993 attack on the World
Trade Center. He characterized the tasking as "a study of Omar Abdul Rahman«and
what other personnel may be associated with his particular cell or groups up in New
York City." While Mr. Smith could not recall the precise request from LIWA, he provided,
"The way I remember it, it was 'give us ties and associates of the New York City, what
happened in New York City, the people known to cause the New York City issue
[referring to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing].'"

Smith stated, ³The starting points, as was said, 1993 World Trade Center attack,
1998 bombings, the New York City plots, Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman. They took those
names, they plugged them into the systems, and they created associational links like
you see on charts. They looked for who was the Sheik associated with? Person A. Who
was Person A associated with? Person B, and so on and so on. Think of µµSix Degrees
of Kevin Bacon.¶¶ This was the µµSix Degrees of Sheik Rahman,¶¶ essentially. Those links
could have been nefarious. They could have been innocuous. Atta¶s image was listed
under Brooklyn, New York, or something to that effect.
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 According to ABLE DANGER staffer Tony Shaffer's February 15, 2006 testimony,
Army Intelligence had linked 9/11 Shaheed Mohammad Atta to the El Farouq mosque in
Brooklyn, New York, by February 2000. Sheik Rahman frequented the mosque, a
hotbed of jihadi sentiment, at that time, á
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analyst J.D. Smith found Atta by linkages not to immigration issues but to the mosque
system. Basically Atta was associating with known radical clerics." Able Danger was
receiving raw data and photographs collected by private investigators whose
surveillance activities included photographing men entering and leaving Los Angeles
mosques. Regarding how Mohammed Atta's photograph had come to be on the chart,
Smith stated it was provided by a woman whose name he could not recall during the
interview but later confirmed, through his attorney, as Ms. (deleted). He stated that Ms.
(deleted) "was going through Los Angeles or going through Web sites in the Los
Angeles area for us and she gathered a lot of the raw data for us." It was reported that a
California researcher was later able to purchase Atta's photograph from an Islamic Web
site. Our intelligence points to the Jew Rita Katz as Ms. (deleted) although Smith has
denied this.3

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The Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Defense was intent on
covering up the fact that our Shaheeds had come across ABLE DANGER¶S radar. Like
Schaffer, Captain Mark Phillpott who served as the Operations Officer for the ABLE
DANGER team from its inception in October 1999 through October 2000 and was
closely involved in all ABLE DANGER activities had seen Atta¶s name and photograph
so Phillpott was interviewed on three occasions; December 13, 2005, February 17,
2006, and May 24, 2006. During each interview he discussed a chart that allegedly
contained a photograph of Mohammed Atta. At the first interview Phillpott was "100
percent [certain] Mohammed Atta's image was on the chart." Phillpott testified that he
was certain that Mohammed Atta's photograph was on one of the three charts delivered
to him in January or February 2000 that portrayed a Brooklyn cell. While he believed
that photographs of other 9/11 Shaheeds were on the chart, he was not as certain as he
was about Mohammed Atta's photograph. He testified,

I know 100 percent Mohammed Atta's image was on the chart. I

pretty well recollect that there were three [terrorists], at least three others,
but I have not gone into any depth in trying to recreate the memory of who
any of them were. All I know is what I originally saw on the days shortly
after 9/11 and that was him.´ Phillpott also stated that in addition to the
Brooklyn cell there were four other cells depicted on the chart. He recalled
the cells were "Dar es Salaam, Kenya, Tanzania, [and] Nairobi.

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 At the second interview he acknowledged there was "a compelling amount of
evidence that would make it appear that I did not see Mohammed Atta." Phillpott had
realized that his military career was at stake and in the third interview stated,

I'm convinced that Atta was not on that chart, the chart that we
had." However, he then recalled that, in June 2000 at USSOCOM (United
States Special Operations Command) headquarters, he "saw Atta's face"
on a document that an intelligence analyst on the ABLE DANGER team
was holding. Phillpott claimed he was sitting next to the intelligence
analyst who was "sifting through a bunch of paperwork" and said, "Hey,
look at this guy . . . This is one mean [son of a bitch]." Phillpott testified, "I
turned, I looked at it and I concurred with him." Phillpott explained the
incident caused him to believe that the photograph of Mohammed Atta
was on a chart because, "I thought he [the intelligence officer] was
working on the chart and that's how it kind of played out in my head."

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Michael A. Westphal, Assistant for Strategic Initiative, Special Operations and

Combating Terrorism, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special
Operations and Low Intensity Conflict, testified he met with Phillpott and Shaffer during
April 2003 to discuss their desire to develop an antiterrorism project applying the
technology that was used by the ABLE DANGER team. Westphal testified that he
discussed with Phillpott that they would need to prepare briefing materials that showed
examples of the capabilities that were achieved with the ABLE DANGER mission. Mr.
Westphal recalled: both [LTC] Tony Shaffer and Phillpott alluded to the fact that prior to
9/11, there were linkages to some of the 9/11 participants that came back to the United
States at a time when, for example, Mohammed Atta might have been in the United
States«I recall is that they alluded to the fact that three of the 9/11 hijackers had
showed up in the ABLE DANGER data base.´ Khalid al-Midhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi
were also alleged to have been detected as having a connection to Sheikh Rahman,
however, the Department of Defense¶s Inspector General¶s report made no direct
mention of these jihadi. These two Brothers did appear in NSA transcripts at this time
due to their affiliation with a safehouse in Yemen, and it has been said that ABLE
DANGER had access to this information.4




Eileen Preisser, a civilian intelligence analyst then-working for LIWA described

the chart as depicting events in a time line fashion and containing Mohammed Atta's
picture in the upper left corner. She stated that the chart depicted terrorist attacks on the
World Trade Center in 1993 and the embassy bombings in Africa as well as possibly
some activity in Europe. She stated, "My memory fades on what that connection to the
European group is." Dr. Preisser explained, ³In my recollection the timeline on this chart
was all associated around the events of the African bombings and the World Trade

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Center bombings and how the personnel from the different groups were related to the
Bin Laden network.´ Dr. Preisser was consistent in her testimony that she recalled the
name "Atta" (did not recall "Mohammed Atta") related to a Brooklyn cell depicted on the
parentage chart. She stated, "I remember the name Atta either directly under, next to, or
associated with one of these dots."

Preisser testified that on September 25, 2001, United States Representative Curt
Weldon possessed a copy of the Orion chart, which included a picture of Mohammed
Atta that she had provided to Phillpot in January 2000. She stated she was in
Representative Weldon's office and they were preparing to go to the White House to
meet with I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, then Chief of Staff and Assistant for National
Security Affairs to Vice President Richard B. Cheney. Before they left the office,
Preisser asserted Weldon retrieved the chart from a closet where he had kept other
charts. In response to our question, "Do you recall [Weldon] having a chart with
Mohammed Atta's picture or name on it?" Dr. Preisser responded, "And Atta's picture, I
believe, to the best of my memory, I saw it in the upper left-hand corner in that chart."
Dr. Preisser testified the chart was brought to Libby's office and there were other people
in the room. She remembered the people included Representatives Christopher H.
Shays and Dan Burton; Mr. Thomas J. Ridge, then-Assistant to the President for
Homeland Security, Office of Homeland Security, and future-Secretary, U.S.
Department of Homeland Security; and "some of Ridge's kind of deputies in this new
department they were setting up." There were other people in the office that she did not
recognize. Preisser testified, "I'm going through my mind, and what I have when I
walked into Scooter Libby's front reception area, and I unwrapped a lot of charts," but
she could not recall whether she presented the chart depicting Mohammed Atta while in
Mr. Libby's office.

Weldon and Shays and went to the office of Mr. Stephen J. Hadley, Assistant to
the President for National Security Affairs and then Assistant to the President and
Deputy National Security Advisor. Preisser testified that she had a "60 percent"
confidence level that the chart with Mohammed Atta's photograph was shown to Hadley.
Regarding whether the chart contained a photograph of Mohammed Atta, Preisser told
the American DOD IG, ³And the reason I have a higher confidence level is I saw the
picture of the World Trade Center and what I thought was the World Trade Center and
what I thought were the two embassy bombings on it, which to me was the trigger that
reminded me of this chart."

Dr. Eileen M. Preisser, a professor at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and
Technology, is one of the key players in IT Warfare. A congressional fellow on science
and technology applicable to national security, she was appointed in 2006 as director of
the Air Force Homeland Defense Technology Center. Her role, as she describes it, is ³to
help prepare American cities for possible terrorist attacks and give them the tools and
education required to perform consequence management before any national agency
arrives on the scene.´ Preisser had no ax to grind against the Bush Administration. She
had worked with the Jew neo-con Michael Maloof Chief of the Technology Security
Operations Division in the Technology Security Directorate of the Defense Threat
Reduction Agency, in the Department of Defense. They co-authored a report on
Chinese corporations that were proprietaries for Chinese intelligence.

Shaffer testified that on September 18, 2001, he met with Dr. Preisser at a
Starbucks coffee shop after she called him and said, "You'll never believe what, what I
found." He testified that at Starbucks, Dr. Preisser showed him the chart that included a
photograph of Mohammed Atta. Shaffer stated,
Late September 2001. Eileen Preisser calls me for coffee and tells me she
has something she needs to show me. At coffee she shows me a chart
she had brought with her ± a large desktop size chart. On it she has me
look at the µBrooklyn Cell¶ ± I was confused at first ± but she kept telling
me to look ± and in the ³cluster´ I eventually found the picture of Atta. She
pointed out (and I recognized) that this was one of the charts LIWA had
produced in January 2000, and had a sinking feeling at the pit of my
stomach ± I felt that we had been on the right track ± and that because of
the bureaucracy we had been stopped ± and that we might well have been
able to have done something to stop the 9/11 attack. I ask Eileen what she
plans to do with the information/chart ± she tells me that she does not
know but she plans to do something«5

Erik Kleinsmith who did not recall seeing Atta's picture on any chart, but what he
did remember was "The more important point is that our team was tracking hundreds of
names and creating dozens of charts for (Special Operations Command) And while
most of these charts contained information and intelligence that needed further
analytical vetting, we were still able to identify a significant worldwide (al-Qaeda)
footprint with a surprisingly large presence within the United States."6

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Brooklyn had been mentioned, and those within the Army, either in the legal level
or some of the policy levels, were apparently showing apprehension and concern that
somehow that was then linking to data compilation of U.S. persons, whether that is U.S.
citizens or individuals, foreigners here legally. ABLE DANGER recommended to the
military's Special Operations Command that the information be shared with the Federal
Bureau of Investigation. Phillpott reported that after his March 2000 discussion with his
superior, Major General Lambert, he talked with Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Shaffer
about the United States persons issue and that he (Phillpott) believed the chart with the
Brooklyn cell should be provided to the FBI. While Phillpott did not ask Shaffer to
contact the FBI, he was under the impression that Shaffer made such contact. Phillpott
believed that Shaffer had contacted the FBI and arranged for a meeting between

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revocation. He was formally served in or around June 2004 with of a Notice to Revoke his security clearance. The allegations
included offenses of a potential criminal nature. United States Court for the District of Columbia Civil Action No. 06-271 (GK)
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Colonel Worthington and members of the FBI. In order to set up the meetings, Shaffer
said that he contacted Unit Chief (UC) Xanthie Mangum, FBI, "and asked her for the
point of contact I needed to have to set up this meeting. He recalled that the point of
contact was the Usama Bin Laden Unit, Washington Field Office, FBI.´ Shaffer testified
the information that Colonel Worthington was going to provide to the FBI related to the
Brooklyn cell. Phillpott testified, "[Shaffer told me] 'I've brokered a meeting with Colonel
Worthington and the agency [FBI] and, you know, it's set for such and such a date.'"
Phillpott stated Shaffer subsequently told him that Colonel Worthington did not attend
the scheduled meeting.7

Shaffer testified he later heard from Captain Phillpott that the "USSOCOM
lawyers" had prohibited Colonel Worthington from meeting with the FBI. Shaffer also
recalled that Xanthie Mangum called him to ask why Worthington failed to show up for
the scheduled meeting. He testified Mangum said, "Why didn't your guy show up to the
meeting?" Shaffer added that Xanthie Mangum was the only person at the FBI he
recalled speaking with on this issue. Shaffer added that he told Colonel Gerry York his
second-level supervisor at DIA, about the Brooklyn cell and that he was "having
problems passing [the] information over to the FBI." According to U.S. Representative
Curt Weldon, ABLE DANGER members were told by the FBI, "You cannot pursue
contact with the FBI against that cell. Mohamed Atta is in the U.S. on a green card and
we are fearful of the fallout from the Waco incident," a reference to the FBI's raid on the
David Koresh-led Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, in April 1993.8

The Crusader information technologists did not suffer from psychotic or drug-
induced hallucinations. Some of their colleagues were charged with making sure target-
sensing weapons systems are correctly programmed ± serious business for the
Americans. By using Islam¶s greatest living scholar as the nexus for its search ABLE
DANGER uncovered a name, a face, but nothing else. ABLE DANGER wished to inform
the FBI of the magnitude of our infrastructure, not that they stumbled across a potential
³terrorist´ in Brother Atta and that Atta was in the U.S. and had to be watched or
arrested.

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The Rahman conspiracy defendants first appealed their convictions on the basis
that the defense did not have all of Salem¶s tapes and the missing tapes might have
contained evidence of entrapment. At the trial the defense stated: ³I have asked in my
proffer ± I want to show that there are tapes of my client missing. I want to show that the
FBI did not maintain proper custody of the tapes. They have thrown away tapes that are
relevant. We have our missing tape from the car that we believe is another fabricated
issue. These aren¶t lengthy examinations. The FBI kept no logs of tapes, retrieved the
tapes in a haphazard manner, didn¶t follow their normal procedures, and think that there
are tapes of my client missing is something I have a right to show.´ Assistant United
States Attorney McCarthy had to admit: ³There is no dispute that the tapes that Salem

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made there were no records kept of them, there is no question that they didn¶t end up in
the right little white envelopes sometimes.´9

Of course, the United States Court of Appeals refused to over turn the
convictions on this basis:

Before the spring of 1993, Salem had agreed only to serve as a

confidential informant, not as a trial witness. FBI agents repeatedly told
Salem not to make recordings. Nonetheless, Salem surreptitiously
recorded many of his conversations, using an automatic device that
recorded anyone who called, including family members and others as well
as members of the conspiracy. When Salem intimated to FBI agents that
he was keeping his own tapes, they first told him to stop, then later told
him that taping was permissible, fearing that any stronger response (telling
him to stop or turn them over) would infuriate him. This worry proved
correct: in July 1992, when agents asked Salem to record official tapes as
evidence, he quit the investigation.

Although Salem did record over some of his personal tapes, these
erasures are not chargeable to the Government. The tapes in question
were not recorded at the Government¶s request or instruction. There is no
indication that Government agents made any request or instruction to
destroy any of the tapes.

Defendants¶ other claims of lost evidence are merit less. After the
investigation, when Salem clearly alerted investigators that he had
personal tapes, the Government collected them. Although the U.S.
Attorney¶s Office improvidently returned some tapes to Salem for a short
period, there is no evidence that he altered or destroyed any of those
tapes at that time. The record also shows that the Government recovered
all of the tapes that Salem made under formal FBI supervision during the
last weeks of the investigation. Once again, although we share Judge
Mukasey¶s misgivings about the Government¶s method of tracking those
tapes--and, in particular, about its failure to track tapes based on serial
numbers--there is no evidence that any of these tapes were lost. We also
agree with Judge Mukasey that there is no reason to believe any lost
tapes would have been exculpatory. Defendants¶ post-trial claims as to the
contents of the µmissing tapes¶ simply are not credible. For example, both
defendants have said that µmissing tapes¶ would show that they were told
that the Jihad sought to aid Bosnia. However, existing tapes establish that
both men heard and approved when other members of the Jihad detailed
the plans to bomb targets in New York City.10

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1999 Docket Nos. 96-1044L, -1045, -1060, -1061, -1062 - 1063, - 1064, -1065, -1079, -1080
 In 1998 another appeal was filed based on the fact that the United States
Constitution requires at least a hearing where evidence is presented that the United
States, or its agents, had direct or indirect involvement, or acquiesced in, the torture of a
defendant in another country. It was pointed out to the Court of Appeals that Egyptian
agent Emad Salem tape-recorded his conversations with FBI agents, in which they
discussed the ongoing torture of appellant Mahmud Abouhalima in Egypt, as it was
happening. Salem told the FBI that the information he was giving them had come from
³the source´, directly from his ³C.O.´, his Commanding Officer in Egypt. The FBI
indicated that the State Department was already aware of Abouhalima¶s situation. The
FBI had also been surveilling Abouhalima for years prior to the explosion. The
government conceded that it was receiving reports about Abouhalima and his
interrogators in Egypt from the Egyptian government. The evidence was presented in
post-trial motions and argued in the context of trial counsel¶s ineffectiveness for failure
to move for dismissal or suppression prior to trial. Of course the appeal was denied.

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Here is a message from this holy man, may Allah bless him and cure him or his
heart condition, diabetes, hepatitis C and blindness, before his life is slowly robbed from
him by the conditions under which he is kept:

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Allah, the Lord of the worlds, and peace and blessing be upon the Master
of the Messengers, Prophet Muhammad [PBUH]. Have you heard of the
strip searches and exposure of the private parts, and stripping people of
all their outer and inner garments so that they are naked as the day they
were born? By Allah, this occurs to me every time a friend or family
member visits me (although I have no relative in America, all Muslims are
my family). Every visit means I have to strip twice. They order me to
remove all my clothes, and I wish this was the end of it. Instead, the chief
prison guard, named Curling, with another man named Day and several
other guards, order me to open my thighs and bend forward. And then,
like beasts - I cannot really say it out of shyness and shame, but I will say
it to relieve the pressure on myself and to let the Muslim Umm live up to
its duties and responsibilities towards its religion - they search my private
parts intimately while they stand around watching and laughing. Groups of
guards race around to take turns in looking inside my private parts while I
am in this bent position. The one who spends the longest time looking and
inspecting is considered to have done the best job. They humiliate and
degrade me in this manner because I am Muslim. Allah expressly forbids
what they do. And why should they not do this? They have found their
prey and achieved their goal. What are they looking for in my private
parts? Are they looking for weapons, explosives or drugs that I have taken
from the prison cell to my visitor or from my visitor to my cell? They do this
 twice to me on each visit so that I melt from shame and embarrassment
and wish that the earth would open up and swallow me rather than they do
this to me. Does this please those who protect their religion and honor?
The Sheik is calling on you, morning and evening. Oh Muslims! Oh
Muslims! And he finds no respondents. It is a duty upon all the Muslims
around the world to come to free the Sheik, and to rescue him from his jail.
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The Sheik¶s inhumane treatment was discussed during a prison visit from his
supporters Sister Lynne and Brother Yousry:

ABDEL RAHMAN: Is it well treatment that I¶m denied having someone

read the newspapers, books and write a letter for me, read me a letter or
write for me? Is it well, or better than well, treatment to deny me the group
prayer [pause] and even the Friday prayer? Is it well or better than well
treatment that eh, they don¶t tell me about the beginning and the end of
Ramadan or the date of the date of Eid? Hah? Is it well treatment that I am
kept in solitary confinement, I don¶t talk to anyone, and no one talks to me,
and to serve myself? Is it well treatment to be classified among mentally
disturbed patients, and my stay be close to them while I am the scholar of
Al-Azhar who studied and taught Islam for almost 40 years? Is it well
treatment, when they throw odors on me?

Yousry: And harmful gases-

ABDEL RAHMAN: And harmful gases.

Yousry: - and poisonous-

ABDEL RAHMAN: [Dictating] - harmful gases [pause] hah?

Yousry: Yes, Sir.

ABDEL RAHMAN: - and disturb my thinking?

Yousry: Yes, Sir.

The prison doctor or butcher, was questioned about these odors:

h By the way, Doctor, when you were in Mr. Abdel Rahman's cell at the
facility, did he ever complain to you about an odor in the cell?

c Yes, he did.

h Did you detect any odor in that cell?

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The blind and sickly Sheikh Rahman wanted revenge and gave this document to
Ahmed Sattar. The SAM¶s (Special Administrative Measures cutting off almost all
access to the outside world) had been slapped on the Sheikh in 1997 but Sattar was
adept at getting messages out. When Montassar Zayyat called for a peace initiative he
said he was ³pleasantly surprised when he sent me a private message expressing his
support for my initiative.´12
Thanks to be God, prayer and peace be upon the messenger of God.
Dear brethren, peace, mercy and blessings of God be upon you. Now
then, your duty to aid is an obligation and to come to the assistance of any
Muslim who has been taken prisoner by the , the enemies of Islam,
the duty of such assistance has been necessitated by religion. Isn't it so
that an Islamic army of 70,000 Muslims had moved from Baghdad towards
the land of the Turks in Ammouriah, for the simple reason that they had
heard the scream of a woman thousands of miles away? Didn't that army
go to the assistance of that woman? Didn't they move by [al-Mu'tassem,
Islamic warrior of old] to rescue that woman? And his answer to her
scream was not in talking or in writing, but with an army which destroyed
the fortresses of the enemies?

Isn't the legitimate rule, that if a Muslim has been captured, then Jihad
becomes an individual duty upon the whole Islamic nation to save him?
Isn't it precisely what the scholars taught in their sermons, if a Muslim has
been captured at one end of the earth, doesn't it become the duty of the
Muslims at the other end of the interrogate to co-operate to free him?
Subsequently, his rescue becomes the duty of all Muslims. The Sheikh is
calling on you, morning and evening, Oh, Islamists, Oh, Muslims. And he
finds no reply or acknowledgement. It is a duty upon all Muslims around
the world to free the Sheikh, and to rescue him from his jail, and that
matter is an obligation and a responsibility. Therefore, you have to pay the
debt, and to fulfill the trust, otherwise, the whole Islamic nation is a sinner.
What about the Sheikh's situation? An Islamic scholar, and his case
should carry more weight and momentum, and the obligation becomes a
necessity, and the sin becomes greater.

In the name of Allah, the merciful, the compassionate. Dear Brethren and
Muslims around the world, the American government has seen in my
imprisonment and my being in its grip, the opportunity that it has fully
seized in order to smear the Muslim's pride into the ground, and to tarnish
the Muslim's dignity and pride. Consequently, they are besieging me, not
only economically, but they are also besieging me morally for they deny
me the interpreter and the reader, the radio and the recorder. I do not

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listen to any foreign or domestic news. They have confined me to a
solitary prison. It is not permitted to anyone who speaks Arabic to come to
me. I then remain the whole day, month, and year without talking to
anyone, or anyone talking to me. And if it wasn't for the reading of the
Qu¶ran, I would have been afflicted with several mental and psychological
maladies. Also, as a way of besieging me is the fact that I am day and
night under camera surveillance, including the exposure of the genitals
during washing and during restroom times. Moreover, they have assigned
officers to constantly watch me, and they take advantage of my blindness
to accomplish their despicable purposes. They strip search me. I take off
my clothes until I become totally naked, like the day I was born, and then
they look at my genitals and my rear end. And what are they looking for?
For drugs, for explosives, or something like that. And all that takes place
before and after each visit. This offends me a great deal, and makes me
extremely embarrassed. But, as I said, it is the opportunity upon which
they seize, to smear the dignity and the pride of the Muslim in the ground.

They prevent me from the Friday prayer, the group prayer, and the
holidays, and from any contact with the Muslims. I am deprived of all that.
They submit false justifications and they invent baseless excuses. They
intensely mistreat me. They do not respond to my requests, and they do
not bring -- they do not supply me with my needs. And I keep pounding the
door for long periods of time, such as six hours, and no one responds to
me. Whereas they listen quickly to the knocks of other prisoners and their
demands are swiftly fulfilled. They neglect my personal needs for months,
such as shaving and the cutting of the fingernails. Also, they make me
wash my underwear. I wash it with soap, I rub and scrub them and I hang
them to dry and I find great difficulty in doing that. Moreover, I fear the
danger of the situation, for they are definitely killing me. They will
eventually kill me, particularly because I am in isolation from the whole
world. No one observes what they are doing to me in eating or drinking.
They could employ on me a slow way of killing. They could surreptitiously
put poison in the food, the drink, or the injections, or they could give me a
dangerous or expired drug, or they would give me a deadly dose of drugs,
which could lead to insanity, especially that I do smell ugly odors
emanating from the floor which is above me, accompanied by a
continuous whispering sound, like the sound of an old air conditioner, also
the sounds of knocks and pounds, like the sounds of explosives and
bombs, continuously, for hours, day and night.

Then they would invent groundless excuses

and the baseless reasons for the cause of my
death. Do not accept what they claim. They
excel in lies. They could also create a moral
harm. They can create it. They can make it up
and fabricate pictures, moral harm. It is
 expected of them and you must be alert to that. America is working on the
liquidation of the scholars who are saying the truth everywhere. They have
suggested to their myrmidons in Saudi Arabia, and they imprisoned
Sheikh Sifr al-Hawali13 and Sheikh Salman al-Oudah14 (left) and all the
speakers of the truth, and similarly, Egypt has done all the same thing.
God the exalted said: "Nor what they cease fighting you until they turn you
back from your faith if they can.

Moreover, all the Qur¶anic readings about those, the Jews and the Christians,
yet, we forget or we claim to forget what was said:

Never will the Jews or Christians be satisfied with thee unless thou follow
their form of religion«Nor will they cease fighting you until they turn you
back from your faith if they can« Quite a number of the People of the
Book wish they could turn you (people) back to infidelity after ye have
believed. From selfish envy, after the truth hath become manifest unto
them«It is never the wish of those without faith among the People of the
Book, nor the Pagans, that anything good should come down to you from
your Lord. Those are the ones who are fighting any Islamic awakening in
the whole world. They work on spreading in the whole earth the unlawful
gains, the adultery, and other various kinds of corruption.

Oh You Muslims everywhere, sever the ties of their nation, tear them
apart, ruin their economy, instigate against their corporations, destroy their
embassies, attack their interests, sink their ships, and shoot down their
airplanes. Kill them in land, at sea, and in the air. Kill them wherever you
find them; take them, surround them and lie in ambush for them
everywhere. Fight those , treat them with brutality, fight them. "Fight
them, and Allah will punish them by your hands, and cover them with
shame, help you (to victory) over them, heal the spirits of the believers,
and still the indignation of their hearts." And whoever could do anything,
let him cast a stone on them, as do the awakened children of Hamas. I
have searched for peace, and I could not find it. Therefore, bloodshed
guarantees peace. The podiums have exhausted their roles, and it is time
for the role of weapons, and it was said: "Whoever is seeking the rights
would not find better than the sword to reveal such rights." Dear Brethren,
if they kill me, and they are certainly going to, arrange my funeral, and

13
. Sheikh Safar al-Hawali was, with Salman al-µAuda, one of the two best-known imprisoned m in Saudi Arabia. Born in 1950
south of al-Ta¶if, he studied at the Islamic University in Medina and at Umm al-Qurra¶ University in Mecca, eventually rising to be
head of a department at that university. His academic work has focused primarily on a critique of secularism and Westernism;
Mamoun Fandy has characterized him as speaking of something like Samuel P. Huntington¶s ³clash of civilizations´, from the
Muslim side. His books have focused less on criticism of the Saudi government as such (the focus of much of µAuda¶s preaching),
but rather on portraying the West as the enemy of Islam. The phrase ³clash of civilizations is itself an invention of neocon Bernard
Lewis.
14
. In 1993, a group of clerics led a march through Buraydah Saudi Arabia protesting official government corruption and loose morals
that they felt were destroying Arabian society. The central authorities arrested a number of the clerics during what has popularly
become known as the "Buraydah Uprising." Among those arrested was Sheikh Salman Al-Oudah, a man whose following had
grown so numerous and threatening to the royal family that he was imprisoned for five years. Al-Oudah knew Osama bin Laden, a
man to who bin Laden looked for guidance and support in the past.
 send my body to my people, but, do not let my blood go in vain, instead,
avenge my death, in the most vicious and rigorous way. Remember a
Brother of yours, who said the world of truth, and who was killed for the
sake of God. With these few words I leave you my will. May God bless
every step you make, bless your work, protect you, guide you, facilitate
matters for you, and may God's peace, mercy and blessings be with you.
Signed: Your Brother Omar Abdel Rahman from the American prison.15

Lynne Stewart reported,

He is regularly described as chanting to himself. The chanting is actually

the recitation of the Qu¶ran. But he had -- there was no book he could pick
up to read. There was no television set to turn on. There was no telephone
to pick up to make a phone call to someone. He was alone. And as
described by the prison personnel that testified here, he was alone to the
extent that even the nearby guards were on the other side of what they
called a Sallyport. They were not close to him. The windows had been
sealed shut in his prison. He could not hear the birds. He could not hear
anything from the outside. This is a person who is very dependent upon
sound because of not having sight. So the conditions of his isolation,
which we thought were leading to almost hallucinations; to the smell, the
pervasive complaints about the smell. And the smell, was it pumped in by
the prison, started in Springfield at the point at which he's isolated and
then continue when he's shipped to Minneapolis -- Minnesota. So all of
these were concerns. The fact that he was -- he had attempted to attend
religious services, that we had finally gotten a concession that he could
attend religious services. And then we found out, and he confirmed for me,
that they had actually built a little cage for him to sit in.´ Despite this cage
the Sheik had to be forcibly removed from at least one prayer session.

To counter this treatment the Sheik refused to take insulin for his diabetes. The
Sheik told Ahmed Sattar to issue a public statement saying that the Bureau of Prisons
was denying him his medication. Stewart said this was safe to do because no one on
the outside would know the truth. A statement was issued. During Sister Stewart¶s trial,
David Edwardy, a physician who has treated Sheik Rahman for more than two years at
the Federal Medical Center in Rochester, Minnesota told how he repeatedly urged a
reluctant Sheik Rahman, who suffers from diabetes, hepatitis, gall stones, artery
disease and high blood pressure (plus, he had a heart attack in 1985), to take his
medicine and eat properly. But Sheik Rahman preferred the high-fat, high-salt, high-
calorie food from the commissary, which threatened his life, to specially prepared foods
made for him. "He would buy things from the commissary which were the worst choices
that a diabetic could make," Edwardy observed. In addition, Sheikh Rahman went on
fasts and refused his medications "seemingly for no good reason that we could figure
out." Things got so bad, the medical center staff asked Sheik Rahman's wife to

15
. USA v Sattar - Government Exhibit 2070TA
convince him to "please take his medicine." Was the Sheik trying to kill himself in a way
that might be acceptable to Allah?

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In an interview on October 3, 2005 with the  (witnesses) website run by

Montassar Zayyat, Aisha Abdel Rahman said her husband was held in solitary
confinement after being moved from the Medical Center in Rochester, Minnesota, to a
high-security ADMAX prison in Florence, Colorado and later to Springfield, Missouri
where was not allowed to receive any visits. Speaking to the newspaper 
 

, Montassar Zayyat confirmed that the Blind Sheikh Rahman¶s wife was Egyptian,
adding that Abdul Rahman had never married a US citizen, ³as was alleged by Egyptian
security and media circles alleged.´ The family, he added, currently lives in al Umraniya
in Egypt. The cleric¶s son Hassan, aged 24 and a computer engineer, confirmed age
was taking its toll on his father as his health continued to deteriorate. Despite the
difficult psychological conditions in the prison, Hassan denied his father was suffering
from memory loss. Since the attacks on September 11, 2001, Sheikh Abdul Rahman
has been living in total seclusion and suffering from diabetes, which has caused him to
lose all feeling in his limbs, especially his hands, making reading by Braille impossible.
He was also very frail as a result of high blood pressure and chronic respiratory
problems. Recalling her sole visit to her husband in his US jail, Aisha, said, ³Conditions
inside the jail are very bad. She complained that her husband lacked ³someone to
organize his belongings. He has no one to speak to, day or night, and no Muslim or
Arabic-speaking prisoner to relate to. He is always on his own.´ Claiming the cleric was
a victim of racial discrimination, Aisha added,

If an other prisoner called the guards, they immediately attend to his

needs. My husband, however, knocks on his cell door for hours and to
no avail.´ Sheikh Omar, Aisha continued, had not been allowed to pray
on Fridays, despite the claims by the US authorities that they believed in
one¶s ³freedom of ideology and religion.´

The Al Azar scholar has been reduced to a ³crazy person´ as guards believed he
suffered from mental illnesses. Aisha said prison guards had informed her ³You will not
be able to shake his hand and the meeting will be recorded.´ She remembers entering
³the room from one door while Abdul Rahman entered from another. We sat on either
side of a large table, with about 2 meters separating us. Every time I spoke to my
husband, I had to raise my voice so the guards and everyone else present in the room
could hear me.´ In the last letter she received from Sheikh Omar, Aisha said he
complained of feeling under siege as no information from the outside reached him in
solitary confinement. As no Arabic speakers were ever present at his side Aisha feared
he would break down mentally were it not for reading the Qu¶ran. In his letter, Abdul
Rahman wrote, ³I am cut off from the outside world. No one knows what [the guards and
prison authority] are putting in my food or drink; they might want me to die a slow death.
They might be adding poison to the food or medicine. I might be given some bad
outdated medicine or drugs that kill me or kill my sanity.´ Lately, he added, ³I have
noticed strange odors from the floor above my cell as well as a continuous ³Woosh´
sound, similar to that of an outdated air-conditioning unit, as well as knocking and
thumping noises, similar to that of explosives, day and night«´ He expressed his fears
that the prison authorities would ³make up lies and excuses and no one would believe
my fears. They are experts at lying.´ His wife did not win the sympathy of the pro-Jewish
evangelical President Bush when she stated, ³After traveling to the US to continue
preaching and settling at the al-Farouq mosque in Brooklyn in New York City, my
husband attracted the attention of the Jewish lobby in the city which did not agree with
his activities. My husband was framed and falsely accused of bombing the World trade
Center and other activities and sentenced to life behind bars´16 but the truth had to be
told.


c cc   

Dear Brothers, prison has many advantages. It is part of the path. It is a

tax that we are paying for those who came before us. How many blessings
are in prison, how many lessons we learned in it, how many blessings and
how many good things. Pray God not to deprive us of them (the blessings)
the lesson is all in the mercy and the blessings that God gives us in
abundance. My case is not a case of a particular person. It is the cause of
Islam. It is a cause of the nation. Oh men of the nation, wherever you are,
be the callers for reform and change what is wrong and be the ones who
bring triumph to Islam. Stand out firmly for Allah as witnesses to fair
dealing. Tell the truth no matter how hard it is. When you are sure of my
murder, avenge me on whoever killed me. Don't let my blood go in vain.
Oh Islam, dear Brothers, if they kill me, and I do not have any doubt they
will, have my funeral and send my body to my family. But do not let my
blood go in vain. Avenge me the most violent revenge and remember a
Brother of yours who said a word of truth and was killed in the sake of
God. Sheikh Mujahid Omar Abdel Rahman.



 

After September 11th all the prisoners who were involved with the first World
Trade Center Event and the Rahman Bridge and Tunnel aborted operation were sent to
the ³hole´ and then were subsequently transferred Florence Colorado¶s Super Max
despite the fact that they had nothing to do with the September 11th attack and had
exemplary prison records. In the past, when America took military action against us,
many of these Brothers had been thrown into the ³hole´ only to be released shortly
thereafter. Brother Nidal Ayyad explained, ³In the month of August 1998 the United
States striked Afghanistan and Sudan after bombing of U.S. Embassy in Kenia and
Tanzania. I was taken to Special Housing Unit (SHU) to that incident. However, after
approximately 28 days was released back into general population free from any
wrongdoing. In December 1998 the U.S. military attacked Iraq µOperation Desert Fox.¶ I

16
. http://aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=1988
was sent to SHU for several days only. In April 2000, I again was sent to SHU for a
week or so. These investigations led to no involvement and I remained in general
population, even when the U.S.S. Cole was attacked.´17

cc c  

In March 2005, news media reports revealed that three imprisoned jihadi, Nidal
Ayyad, Mahmud Abouhalima, and Mohammed Salameh, incarcerated at the Federal
Bureau of Prisons¶ (BOP) Administrative Maximum facility (ADX) in Florence, Colorado,
wrote over 90 letters to Islamists outside the prison between 2002 and 2004. These
Brothers included inmates who are members of a Spanish Islamist cell with links to
others suspected in the March 11, 2004, attacks on Madrid commuter trains. One of the
letters from Salameh was found in the possession of Mohamed Achraf, the leader of a
radical Muslim cell, who was charged in October 2004 in Spain for plotting to blow up
the National Justice Building in Madrid, which is Spain¶s ³nerve center´ for investigating
Islamism. He was awaiting trial. Salameh praised Osama bin Laden as a hero in a letter
sent to Arabic newspapers. According to confidential Spanish court documents at least
14 letters were exchanged between the three Brothers in ADX Florence and the
Spanish cell. In addition, 1 of the 17 people arrested in Spain for recruiting shaheeds
used these letters in his recruitment efforts. Here is a copy of the envelope containing a
letter sent in February 2003 from Salameh to Achraf. In February 2003, bomber
Mohammed Salameh wrote: "Oh God! Make us live with happiness, make us die as
martyrs, may we be united on the Day of Judgment." In July 2002, a letter Salameh sent
from prison is published in the Al-Quds newspaper proclaiming, "Osama Bin Laden is
my hero of this generation." The letters to the bombers spoke of the need to "terminate
the infidels" and said, "The Muslims don't have any option other than jihad.´

The FBI agent assigned to ADX Florence did not closely monitor jihadist inmates
housed at that facility until August 2004 ± when Spanish authorities confirmed this news
story to FBI. The ADX Florence SIS (Special Investigative Supervisor) staff told us that
the FBI showed little to no interest in the ³international terrorist´ inmates prior to that
time. When the SIS staff at ADX Florence learned that jihadi inmates had been
corresponding with jihadi inmates in Spanish prisons, the SIS staff never notified the
FBI because the staff did not understand the implications of the correspondence for
furthering jihadist activity.

A BOP employee who translated some high-profile communications warned in

2003 that many ³Arabic letters and phone calls are unmonitored due to a lack of Arabic-
speaking staff.´ The BOP established the Language Translation Services Project in
2003 to have jihadi inmates¶ foreign language communications translated by General
Services Administration-approved contract translators. The Brothers were able to get
their message out from 2002 to 2004. In 2005, the BOP hired its first staff members
dedicated to translating foreign language inmate communications ± three full-time
Arabic Language Specialists at ADX Florence and officials said they planned to hire four
more Arabic Language Specialists for the BOP¶s new Counterterrorism Unit. In late

17
. PAMDC 2002cv01198
2005, the BOP began providing intelligence training to these Language Specialists to
enable them to provide analyses of what they translate. The BOP did not provide
counterterrorism intelligence training to the full-time Language Specialists at ADX
Florence in their first year that would assist them in analyzing what they were reading.
One of these translators had translated all communications for Arabic-speaking jihadist
inmates at ADX Florence since 2001 without any intelligence training, first as a
collateral duty and then full-time beginning in June 2005. A former Special Investigative
Agent at ADX Florence tried to get the Arabic translator intelligence training when he
was a volunteer translator, but the BOP¶s response was ³unless you were in the SIS
shop, do not even bother nominating someone.´ The BOP is responsible for translating
inmate foreign language communications, except for the 34 inmates under SAMs who
are the responsibility of the FBI.

The BOP is developing a new policy that would permit it to limit the
communications of inmates detained or charged with any jihadist-related activity upon
request from the FBI or other law enforcement agency, or if BOP identifies a need to
impose such restrictions. Under this policy, the BOP could limit an inmate to
communicating only with immediate family members, courts, the inmate¶s attorney,
members of Congress, law enforcement agencies, and other specified entities. In
addition, the BOP is considering other limits on such inmates¶ communications. As of
July 2006, the BOP was still formulating ways to stop religious doctrine from being
spread a direct violation of the Free Exercise of Religion Protected Law, which states
that Government may not restrict Freedom of Religion with the exception: ³Government
may substantially burden a person¶s exercise of religion only if it demonstrates that
application of the burden to the person² (1) is in furtherance of a compelling
governmental interest; and (2) is the least restrictive means of furthering that compelling
governmental interest. Censorship of communication is the least restrictive way.

The BOP is also planning to consolidate all jihadist inmates in approximately six
institutions for enhanced management and monitoring. The approximately 146 jihadist
inmates will be re-classified under a new classification system as to their security
designations and the resulting information will be used to determine where to house the
inmates. The BOP believes that this consolidation will allow it to achieve ³better
counterterrorism coverage with its limited intelligence, counterterrorism, and translation
resources, while allowing the remaining institutions to concentrate on gang related
activity and other prison-based issues.´ Putting us closer to one another is in our
interests but the BOP is more interested in saving money than lives. In May 2006, BOP
officials said the re-classifications were about half completed.18

The BOP is also in the midst of creating a database that does not create links but
rather extracts and organizes the inmate data in a manner that enables the analyst to
identify relationships or links in phone numbers, addresses, names, financial
transactions, etc. The BOP believes that this consolidation will allow it to achieve better
counter-terrorism coverage with its limited intelligence, counter-terrorism, and

18
. http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/reports/BOP/e0609/index.htm
translation resources, while allowing the remaining institutions to concentrate on gang
related activity and other prison-based issues.

 
  

The Sheik and the Brothers were locked up but others took up where they left off.
During the period December 1996 to January 1997, sixteen letter bombs disguised as
holiday greeting cards were delivered through the mail to recipients in the United States
and the United Kingdom.

Each of this normal appearing letters contained Semtex plastic explosive,

needles, wiring and electrical contacts, a very professionally assembled weapon.19
Thirteen of the letter bombs were received at the offices of the  newspaper in
New York City, Washington, D.C., and London, England. One bomb exploded in
London, seriously injuring two  employees.  was bought in 1990 by the
Saudi prince Khaled ibn-Sultan the running dog of America who commanded the Saudi
troops during the Gulf War. Three other letter bombs were discovered in the United
States at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas. All of the letter bombs bore a
December 21, 1996 Alexandria, Egypt postmark and contained no return address.
These bombs were in plain white envelopes, with computer-generated addresses.
There were other markings on the envelopes.20

Because of this activity Brother Mohammad Salameh¶s life became endangered

and he wrote this to Judge Kevin T. Duffy:

On January 2, 1997, several letter bombs arrived at the prison in which I

am currently incarcerated. Because the letter bombs appeared to have
been sent from Egypt, and I am of Arabic descent, I was placed in solitary
19
. Samuel Katz Anywhere, Anytime On Patrol with NYPD¶s Emergency Service Unit Pocket Books, December 1997.
20. http://www.dssrewards.net/english/letbomb2.html
 confinement by prison officials without explanation. All my legal work was
confiscated. My personal and religious property including photos of my
family, have been seized, as well. I am unable to have access to my
lawyer, to the telephone. I have not even been accused of any such
infractions, nor have I received any hearing in the matter«However, even
though I am in no way responsible for the letter bombs and have no ties to
Egypt, recent actions against me by the prison officials have given rise
here at Leavenworth to suspicion by the correctional officers that I am in
fact responsible for the attempted bombing. This in turn has created a
dangerous, if not life threatening, situation for me. The guards have taken
the recent incident as a personal attack on their comrades! Some
correction officer said to another they want to hammer Salameh¶s fucking
head in. Therefore either in population or in solitary in this prison I am now
menaced and subject to ill-directed retaliation. The most possibility of
someone inciting others against me is in the least, disturbing. Such
actions in prison have some very grave consequences. Thank you for your
concern in this matter ± Mohammad Salameh.21

On January 13, 1997 three greeting card letter bombs were discovered at the
United Nations. We never give up once al-Qaeda targets something or someone. We
may have failed to topple the World Trade Center during our first attempt but eventually
we succeeded, with the help of Allah and his last prophet, [PBUH]. During the trial of the
³returnees from Albania´ investigators presented documents to the prosecution that
Egyptian Islamic Jihad members were responsible for constructing and mailing these
letter bombs.22

     

 c 


Emad Salem¶s statement regarding the Empire State Building being a target
proved prophetic, as did that of Mamdouh Zaki Zakhary who said ³They were talking all
the time about targeting American symbols, the Empire State Building, the Statue of
Liberty.´23 Just as Islamists in the United States found the displaced victim of Zionism,
Sirhan Sirhan, and trained him and pointed him in the right direction Islamists in Gaza
found Ali Abu Kamal another angry Palestinian who would fulfill the desire of Al-Qaeda
to strike a tourist site within the United States as Egyptian Islamic Jihad
and Al-Gama¶a al-Islamiyya had done in Egypt. This action would teach
America a lesson and serve as a muted protest against Sheikh Rahman¶s
imprisonment. Ali Abu Kamal was a teacher whose family had owned
property that is now Ben Gurion Airport in Israel. Ali Abu Kamal grew up in
Jaffa and fought in the 1948 War Against The Jews before being forced to
move to the Gaza strip. Why call it the Gaza Strip? Because everyone
there had been stripped of his or her wealth! Ali Hassan Abu Kamal

21. Letter to Judge Duffy March 30, 1997.

22
. New York Times November 21, 2001 Author: Susan Sachs
23
. Robert Friedman ³The 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´ The Village Voice March 30, 1993.
despised US policy on the Palestinian issue and considered Washington the real cause
of Palestinian suffering. In January 1996 Ali Abu Kamal (left) composed a declaration
swearing to exact revenge on America and displayed it to Brothers at his Mosque. The
note made it clear that if anyone snitched him out they would die: ³It is to be made clear
that any act of provocation or offense against me, or any attempts to impede my course
of action shall be vigorously combated whatever the consequences might be. Ali Abu
Kamal apologized for procrastinating, but he said he had some loose family ends to tie
up and ³Now American people must understand this message which runs deep in the
blood of every Palestinian«Either a life of Dignity and Glory or utter death. Gaza,
January 1, 1996 ± this is the original date of meditation.´ Ali Abu Kamal obtained a visa
to enter the United States from the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv in early September 1996
and he entered the United States on Christmas Day, December 24, 1996. A Brother in
Mosque told Ali Hassan Abu Kamal whom to contact in America who might help him kill
as many tourists as possible in the observation tower of the Empire State Building. On
December 31, 1996 Ali Abu Kamal showed up at the Saudi Mission to the United
Nations and said he was looking for Taysir H. Badanoro a financial official there. Kamal
had been previously married to Badanoro¶s sister.


c  


On January 11, 1997 Ali Hassan Abu Kamal flew to Florida and checked in at the
River Oaks Motel, Melbourne. He told the Gregorys, who owned the motel, that he was
in town to visit friends. As the weeks passed, he kept telling them he did not know how
much longer he would stay. Mrs. Gregory said that he was polite and stayed in his room
a lot, occasionally going for a walk down the street, except when a young foreigner
periodically came and picked him up. Kamal had been told to avoid fitting the profile of
an Islamist. The owners said that he would sometimes lie on his bed or stand around
nude with the door open, even though the room faced U.S. 1 and was in a high-
trafficked area. Mr. Gregory would tell him, ³Papa, you've got to close the door.´ He
would respond with a dismissive laugh. One day, the owners said, Ali Hassan Abu
Kamal propositioned a maid, and he also brought prostitutes to his room. The staff
recalled a pleasant man with strange habits, including standing naked outside his room,
hiring prostitutes and smoking and drinking heavily.24 Kamal also gambled and 50
lottery tickets stuffed in a cigarette pack were found in his pocket. At night, he
sometimes went to pray at a nearby religious center, the Islamic Society of Brevard.




  h

In 1985 Dr. Malik Sardar Khan co-founded the Islamic Society of Brevard
County25 where Kamal prayed. Malik Sardar Khan, a m Muslim and the author

24
. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1997/02/26/wemp26.html;
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A07E6D71F3EF936A15751C0A961958260&sec=health&pagewanted=2
25
. PO Box 1167 Melbourne, FL 32901 Phone: 305-984-4129
of the lavishly illustrated book, má , published 2006 is also head of the Motamar
Al-Alam Al-Islamia / World Muslim Congress which maintains its US headquarters in
Coral Gables, Florida - in a $155,000 private residence owned by Dr. Khan and his wife,
Marjory. The Motamar Al-Alam Al-Islamia website describes Mr. Khan as "the person in
charge" while another26 lists his background as ³Motamar Al-Alam Al-Islami,
Incorporated: founder (1995); Secretary-General 1995 - present.´ The director of the
Motamar Al-Alam Al-Islami Florida office is Abdullah Omar Al Nasseef (right). Nasseef
is also the president of Motamar Al-Alam Al-Islamia main office. Nasseef is a Saudi
national who resides in Jeddah, and is a key figure in understanding the interlocking
nature of the organizations which comprise and surround Motamar Al-Alam Al-Islamia /
World Muslim Congress. Naseef is also the deputy speaker of the Majlis Al Sur [the
Saudi parliament] and formerly, the Vice-Chancellor of King Abdul Aziz University. The
Motamar Al-Alam Al-Islamia / World Muslim Congress website makes it clear that it and
Rabita Al-Alam Al-Islami - located in Mecca, Saudi Arabia are one in the same - the
Motamar / Muslim World Congress Middle East Liaison Office and Rabita even have the
same address. Rabita Al-Alam Al-Islami also calls itself the Muslim World League.
Rabita's former directors include the co-founder of al-Qaeda - Wael Julaidan - as well as
Naseef. Rabita Al Islami is "a Saudi based pan-Islamic organization" affiliated with the
Rabita Trust, or the Muslim World League which is known in different countries under
different names but is basically an al-Qaeda front group."27 Although not publicly
revealed, law enforcement officials found out that Abu Kamal had received assistance in
Florida from members of mosque who helped him get his gun, accompanied him on
target practice and escorted him on planned but aborted shooting in Miami.28

 c 

With help from a local mosque, Ali Hassan Abu Kamal bought a .380-caliber
Beretta on February 4, 1998 at the Oaks Trading Post, which was a one-story weapons
outlet in Melbourne Florida. Ali Hassan Abu Kamal used a hotel address on a temporary
state identification card and waited three days until he passed a background check that
was suppose to indicate if he was a state resident and if he had a criminal record. There
was also a federal law prohibiting sales to aliens lawfully admitted in non-immigrant
status (i.e. aliens without permanent residence status).29 Ali Hassan Abu Kamal also
somehow sidestepped a U.S law that potential gun buyers be a U.S. resident for at least
90 days. The Oak Trading Post also came under fire in the late 1980¶s, when a crazed
gunman shot 10 at a Palm Beach shopping center. The gunman had bought the gun at
the Oak Trading Post.30 Ali Abu Kamal¶s associates at the Mosque helped him obtain
the ID and told him that the Oak Trading Post had notoriously lax procedures.

26
. http://www.ngocongo.org/index.php?what=pag&id=10225
27
. http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/countries/pakistan/terroristoutfits/Rabita_Trust.htm
28
. Copyright 1998 Federal Information Systems Corporation Federal News Service FEBRUARY 24, 1998, SECTION: IN THE
NEWS HEADLINE: PREPARED STATEMENT OF STEVEN EMERSON BEFORE THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
SUBCOMMITTEE ON TERRORISM, TECHNOLOGY AND GOVERNMENT INFORMATION SUBJECT - FOREIGN TERRORISTS
IN AMERICA: FIVE YEARS AFTER THE WORLD TRADE CENTER BOMBING
29
. Possession Or Receipt Of A Firearm Or Ammunition By A Prohibited Person18 U.S.C. § 922(g) & (n)
30
. http://ondix.com/add/essay_service_proces65189.html http://www.ttb.gov/regulations/tdatd389.htm

c 

On November 2, 1997 Shaheed Hani Hanjour was issued a visa so that he could
attend the ELS Language Center, 105 West University Boulevard in Melbourne, Florida.
Not only would he be studying at that address he wrote that he would be living there
too.31 Brother Hanjour also prayed at the Islamic Society of Brevard County Mosque.
Even as Hanjour remained a sleeper, there was plenty of activity in this geographical
area.

Imran Mandhai was a 19-year-old community college student from

Hollywood, Florida who prayed at the Darul Uloom Mosque, (made famous
by the would be ³dirty bomber´ Jose Padilla) and who, at 18, became a
Hafiz. In May 2002 Imran Mandhai was arrested on federal charges of
plotting to blow up electrical power stations in South Florida. The case was
turned over to INS after Justice Department lawyers declined to prosecute
Mandhai because of problems with their snitch, Howard Gilbert, a 33-year-old Canadian
Jewish FBI operative, who was working Mosques in the Melbourne, Florida area.
Mandhai had developed his plan at the instigation of Howard Gilbert, who infiltrated the
Darul Uloom Mosque using the name Sayif Ullah.32 Gilbert claimed to be an armed
security expert and CEO of Risk Management International. He gave speeches
denouncing the Zionists and offered Imram Mahdhai weapons training. Gilbert alienated
the FBI with his greed, demanding $3,000 a month, but the FBI refused. Like Emad
Salem, he refused to wear a wire.33

Gilbert was taken off the case and replaced with a cooperating witness identified
only as ³Mohammed.´ The Justice Department reinstated its case and Imran Mandhai
pleaded guilty to a single count of conspiracy to use arson or explosives to destroy
property used in interstate commerce -- the Florida Power & Light plant at Port
Everglades and other substations in Broward. The cell also wished to destroy the Israeli
consulate in Miami, Jewish-owned businesses in Weston, and Jewish Community
Centers in Aventura and Broward County, where many Jewish children would have
perished. Mandhai was sentenced to nearly 12 years in prison. When 19-year-old Imran
Mandhai appealed his 11-year sentence, the appeals court noted that an informant
³challenged´ Mandhai when he seemed to get cold feet. The court said a sentence
below the guidelines was not inappropriate for Imram Mandhai in part because of how
the informants behaved yet Mandhai¶s release date is in December 2014.34

Gilbert said he was fired after he complained to Department of Defense officials

about FBI supervisors. He said they declined his request for back-up on a trip to
Melbourne, where he said Mandhai had invited him to meet with "brothers from all over

31
.http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,53344,00.html http://www.nationalreview.com/document/document100902a.asp
32
. Sword of Allah
33
. Associated Press - June 12, 2002.
34
. http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/14897299.htm Two weeks before this, Shueyb Mossa Jokhan, 24, of Hollywood, pleaded
guilty to being part of this cell.
Florida." Gilbert said he was alarmed because Mandhai asked him to bring his weapons
and military equipment to Melbourne, within an hour of Cape Canaveral.35

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Ali Hassan Abu Kamal returned to New York City and on February 23, 1997 shot
seven tourists atop the Empire State building, killing one, and severely wounding
another. Witnesses said Ali Abu Kamal, muttered threats against Egypt before and
during the shooting. This is the Charter that was found on his person:

Out of revenge for prestige, patriotism and regarding tyranny and

suppression I consider those mentioned below as my bitter enemies and
they must be annihilated and exterminated. The First Enemy ± Americans
± Britons and French (though the French now seem friendly after Chirac¶s
first visit to Palestine) and the Zionists. These three big powers are the
first enemy to the Palestinians ever since their Three Partite Declaration in
the early 1950¶s and they are responsible for turning our people, the
Palestinians, homeless. The Zionists are the paw that carried out this
savage aggression. My restless aspiration is to murder as many of them
as possible, and I have decided to strike at their own den in New York,
and at the very Empire State Building in particular. The Zionists have
usurped my father¶s land at Abbassiya near Lyyda Airport and which is
now worth tens of millions U.S. dollars at least. Abu Kamal next enemy
was a gang of kids who attacked him in Gaza City because he would not
allow them to cheat on final examinations. The third one: ³A ranking officer
in the Egyptian Police Force, who had insulted and beaten me savagely
for some passport formalities when I was in Cairo in the early 1980¶s and
without any justification. I didn¶t know his name but I located his residence
at Sobki Street at Dekki in Cairo, near Egypt Farm Company and he must
be killed with his brother who helped him.

The fourth target was Muslim students from the Ukraine who cheated his son. On
February 18, 2007 Ali Abu Kamal's relatives said they were tired of lying about why he
opened fire. Kamal's had widow insisted after the shooting spree that the attack was not
politically motivated. She said that her husband had become suicidal after losing
$300,000 in a business venture. Kamal's 48-year-old daughter Linda told the  
 
á
that her dad wanted to punish the U.S. for supporting Israel - and revealed
her mom's 1997 account was a cover story crafted by the Palestinian Authority in order
to preserve the peace agreement with Israel. Kamal¶s diary revealed that he wrote that
after he raised his children and made sure that his family was all right he decided to
avenge in the highest building in America to make sure they get his message.36

We can still easily obtain weapons in America. Under revised procedures

effective February 3, 2004, all National Instant Criminal Background Check System

35
. http://www.blythe.org/nytransfer-subs/Justice/FBI_Needed_No_Extra_Power_to_Infiltrate_Mosques_in_2000
36
. http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/498674p-420269c.html
transactions with potential or valid matches to terrorist watch list records are
automatically delayed to give NICS personnel the chance to further research the
transaction for prohibiting information before a response (e.g., proceed or denied) is
given to the initiator of the background check. If no prohibiting information is found, the
transaction may proceed and ³   

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 can legally purchase
firearms. For example, of 44 transactions with valid ³terrorist´ matches, 35 were allowed
to proceed because the background checks found no prohibiting information, such as
felony convictions or illegal immigrant status; 6 were denied based on prohibiting
information; and 3 were either pending a final resolution or the final resolution was not
available.37

The latest attempt to free the Sheikh was undertaken by the Holy Jihad Brigades
[Kutab al-Jihad al-Muqadis] in August 2006. The Brothers kidnapped two Fox News
American journalists in Gaza and released this communiqué:

Palestine was sold by those who owned it then to those who did not
deserve it. The self-proclaimed Arabs were satisfied with a small price that
would not be accepted by a prostitute. They went further by bringing with
them Godless regimes they falsely called 'Democratic' claiming justice and
freedom. Many behaved like dogs and ran around excitedly and appointed
themselves as council for executing western policies under the word
'legislative (council),' but God is the only legislature. Like parrots, they
spoke about words like democracy, freedom, freedom of expression,
elections, and referendum, but they did not, or chose not to, know as if to
say: 'Is not mine the dominion of Egypt!' What they are talking about is
nothing but symptoms of a disease experienced by the West during a time
when there was an intellectual conflict to reach God's justice, but they left
the causes of their backwardness to advance forward«We address the
non-believers in general without any geographical or ethnic distinctions
with this speech and call to convert to the religion of God before a day
comes when nothing can save the person but his faith«Oh masters of
infidelity, injustice, and transgression, convert to Islam and be safe or
enjoy it (life) for a while. We will bring you death and no single soul can
avail the other souls. You have angered us and we are not the type that
calms down once angered. This only strengthens Islam and faith in us. We
will begin first by saying: 'It is not for a prophet that he should have
prisoners of war (and free them with ransom) until he had made a great
slaughter (among his enemies) in the land. You desire the good of this
world (i.e. the money of ransom for freeing the captives), but Allah desires
(for you) the Hereafter. And Allah is All-Mighty, All-Wise'. We will also add:
'Thereafter (is the time) either for generosity (i.e. free them without
ransom), or ransom (according to what benefits Islam), until the war lays
down its burden'. We will give you this only chance: We will release the
prisoners we have upon the condition of releasing all male and female
Muslim prisoners in the American prisons. You reap what you sow. We will

37
. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05127.pdf
 exchange the prisoners we have with the prisoners you have without any
exception. A Muslim's shoe is worth more than a thousand Bush(s).38

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In 1989 several Pakistani generals offered Iran nuclear

weapons technology in return for cash but Ali Akbar Hashemi
Rafsanjani who was president of Iran in 1989, mistakenly
attempted to clear the deal with Benazir Bhutto, then prime
minister of Pakistan. Bhutto had appeared before the Jewish
controlled U.S. Congress and had sworn Pakistan would not
export nuclear technology. Bhutto blocked the transfer until
she was ousted in 1996.39 If not for this evil woman Iran would have become a nuclear
power.

After the first World Trade Center bombing Ramzi Yousef fled to Pakistan, where
he and his lifelong friend, Abdul Hakim Murad and Abdul Shakoor planned Prime
Minister Benazir Bhutto¶s assassination. Bhutto would later say that Usama bin Laden
had tried to kill her.40 The money for this activity was provided to Ramzi Yousef by a
Middle Eastern businessman known as ³Khalid´ (Khalid Shaikh Mohammed) and was
picked up in a refugee camp run by a by Afghan leader Abd al-Rasul Sayyaf. The
American Department of State reported, ³Indeed, one regime backer, Abd al-Rasul
Sayyaf, continues to harbor and train potential terrorists in his camps in Afghanistan and
Pakistan; the Government of Pakistan raided his facilities near Peshawar in November
after the bombing of the Egyptian Embassy in Islamabad.41 Abd al-Rasul Sayyaf is now
commander and leader of the Ittihad-e Islami faction, and advises President Karzai and
exercises major political power over the Afghan judiciary and has numerous proxies
within the Afghan government.
The îáá crew had placed a bomb in a storm drain outside Prime Minister
Benazir Bhutto¶s home when the police came upon them. Yousef pretended that he had
lost his keys and the police drove away. When Yousef tried to retrieve the bomb the
Soviet detonator was activated and he was injured. The Filipino police reported ³In mid
1993, Yousef had an accident while he was making detonators from lead azide. Murad
did not know exactly why Yousef was making said detonators, however, he has a
feeling then that the Yousef is planning to attack Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto since it
was during said period that they were discussing the idea of attacking the Prime
Minister. Said accident was the first one that Yousef had experienced. The second was
when he provided explosive training to Murad. It almost came to explosion when he
carelessly mixed several kinds of chemicals inside a container. The third was when he
drunk the sulfuric acid that he had poured into a medicine bottle which he had mistaken
as the soft drink that he poured into the same kind of bottle. His face was burned during
the said accident.´ While interrogated on another occasion he stated, ³Yousef lost his
38
. http://blog.lauramansfield.com/2006/08/25/holy-jihad-brigade-gives-72-hours-to-release-muslims-held-in-us-prisons-in-journalist-
exchange.aspx
39
. Douglas Frantz ³Iran Closes In on Ability to Build a Nuclear Bomb³ Los Angeles Times - August 4, 2003 Page A1.
40
. Jason Burke - Al-Qaeda- Casting A Shadow of Terror Pages 100 and 104 - I.B. Tauris September 2003
41
. http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/ERC/arms/PGT_report/1995PGT.html
right eyesight and deformed his fingers in that accident. He stayed in the hospital for 15
days. When Ramzi Yousef was kidnapped the authorities discovered a hospital
outpatient discharge card in the name of Adam Khan Balauch from the Jinnah
Postgraduate Medical Center Karachi, Pakistan Department of Ophthalmology signed
by Dr. Idrees Adhi, associate professor. Murad continued, ³Yousef then went to Iran to
have eye surgery. Yousef stayed in the hospital for six months due to his religious
beliefs.´

On another occasion Ramzi Yousef tried to obtain a rifle to be used to shoot

Bhutto at a political rally. Bhutto commented: ³In one of those assassination attempts
the plan was to blame my brother and his supporters for the attack on me.´42 Yousef
told Pakistani investigators before his extradition to the United States that, ³it was his
duty to assassinate Bhutto, because she was a woman in charge of the government.´
Later he would deny this:

h You are accused of an attempt to assassinate the Prime Minister of

Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto. Have you tried to assassinate her?

c This is absolutely incorrect, for a simple reason that if this was correct I
wouldn¶t be alive up to this day.

On March 24, 1993 Benazir Bhutto¶s home was destroyed, along with her
personal papers and records.43 If Ramzi Yousef could not kill her, at least he was able
to destroy her property.44

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In early 1993, following the World Trade Center Event, Yousef was given shelter
in an al-Qaeda safehouse in Karachi. Yousef and Brother Abdul Shakoor plotted to
assassinate the non-Wahhabi moderate Sunni leader Salim Qadri in Karachi because
Qadri was opposed to Jihad in Kashmir. When Abdul Shakoor was arrested he
disclosed that Salim Qadri was on the hit list of Ramzi Yousef during his stay in Karachi
but the plot was aborted after the FBI arrested Ramzi Yousef.

On March 11, 1994 led by Ramzi Yousef, a group Brothers from Jemaah
Islamiah hijacked a delivery truck in downtown Bangkok, strangled the driver and
loaded a one-ton bomb on board. Their target: the Israeli embassy. But the truck had an

42. Dawn November 27, 2001 ³Benazir demands assurance of safety on return.´
http://www.dawn.com/2001/11/27/top11.htm
43. Executive Intelligence Review October 13, 1995 ³Afgansi (sic) Terrorism Around the World.´ LaRouche Publication
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/1995/2241_terror_around_world.html
44
. God had put a curse on the Bhutto family: Benazir Bhutto¶s brother, Mir Murtuza Bhutto was assassinated on September 20,
1996. On May 18, 1999 Bhutto¶s husband Asif Ali Zardari attempted to commit suicide by cutting his throat with a piece of glass
while in Pakistani police custody, after months of torture. (Ô áá  ³Zardari Attempts Suicide: Police´ 

á

May 18,
1999) Zardari was convicted of corruption and was sentenced to seven years in prison. The court found him guilty of accepting more
than $500,000 in bribes in 1993 and 1995, while his wife was prime minister. On September 13, 2002 a Pakistani court rejected an
appeal by Bhutto, who sought permission to run in Parliamentary elections in October 2002. On December 21, 2004 Zardari, while
out on bail, was arrested for addressing a political rally. By March 2006 Zardari and Benazir had been declared proclaimed
offenders in another corruption case and the Pakistan government reportedly asked Interpol to issue Red Corner Notices for the
duo. In Zardari and Benazir absence our coalition of religious parties becomes the main opposition to Busharraf.
accident and driver got nervous and abandoned it, leading to the discovery of the bomb
and driver¶s body. Several of the plotters were arrested, but Yousef escaped again.45

In May 2001 Salim Qadri was killed along with his son (left) on a
busy Karachi street. Karachi police officials have suspected that Qadri
was assassinated by an organization with deep links in Afghanistan and
said that Asif Ramzi (who took this surname in honor of Ramzi Yousef),
a member of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi planned the
murder. Asif Ramzi had been Chief of the Khalid bin
Walid Unit of the Afghan Mujahideen in
Afghanistan. Asif Ramzi was wanted for his
involvement in the murder of dozens of Shi¶ites in
46
Karachi as well as for the execution of Daniel Pearl. Asif Ramzi was
killed in accidental explosion at his bomb factory in Karachi in June
2002. The same Pakistani and Afghanistan based Wahhabist Arab
nexus47 was responsible for the still unresolved assassination of four U.S. nationals in
Karachi in November 1997 as retribution for the arrest of Mir Aimal Kasi.

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There is little doubt that sectarian warfare has weakened theUmm. Instead of
fighting the  who do not believe that Allah is the only God and Mohammed his last
prophet we fight each other instead. The Shi¶ite branch, the brand of Islam predominant
in Iran, with substantial numbers of followers in Lebanon, Iraq, has been at odds for
centuries, often in violent conflict with the Sunnis. There are 1.2 billion Muslims in the
world and roughly 15% are Shi¶ia. Killing them would mean killing 160 million people.
But many Sunni militants belong to the Salafiya branch of Islam, which regards Shiites
as little better than non-Muslims. Osama bin Laden is a Salafist, as was Abu Musab al-
Zarqawi, so if they continue to embrace what Salafist-Wahhabists consider to be a
perversion of Islam we have no choice, as their existence is an affront to God. Being a
Christian or a Jew, people of the book, is far preferable to being Shiite ± a rejectionist,
for rejecting the true faith. Sunnis consider the Shiite practice of takiya or sanctioned
lying about beliefs, an insurance policy developed during repeated Sunni inquisitions to
be symptomatic of this heresy. Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri wrote the following:

The unhurried observer and inquiring onlooker will realize that Shi`ism is
the looming danger and the true challenge. µThey are the enemy. Beware
of them. Fight them. By God, they lie.¶ History¶s message is validated by

45
. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4677978/ (only source of this information)
46
. http://www.karachipage.com/news/Nov_01/113001.html
47
. Islamism traces it origins back to the sect of Wahhabism that arose in Saudi Arabia at the time that the Crusader armies of
America were fighting the colonialist British for independence. Abdul Wahhab the Elder longed for the days when Islam ruled the
world and believed that the reason for this was because his religion had become corrupted by Western influences. He ordered his
followers to worship no other object than Allah, to dispense with prayer beads, tobacco, curse words and ornamentation in the
mosques. Wahhab converted the Bedouin leader Ibn Saud, and with his help unsuccessfully challenged the Ottoman Empire for the
domination of all Arabia. In 1949 the Wahhabists formed Fedayeen (Suicide Squads) to drive the Jews out of Palestine. While a
watered down form of Wahhabism has dominated Saudi Arabia there now has arisen an ultraconservative Wahhabist revival that
supports the holy war against the United States declared by Usama the Elder. Like the Taliban, these Saudis are pure Muslims, not
puppets of the United States.
 the testimony of the current situation, which informs most clearly that
Shi`ism is a religion that has nothing in common with Islam except in the
way that Jews have something in common with Christians under the
banner of the People of the Book. From patent polytheism, worshipping at
graves, and circumambulating shrines, to calling the Companions [of the
Prophet] infidels and insulting the mothers of the believers and the elite of
this [Islamic] nation, [they] arrive at distorting the Qur¶an as a product of
logic to defame those who know it well, in addition to speaking of the
infallibility of the [Islamic] nation, the centrality of believing in them,
affirming that revelation came down to them, and other forms of infidelity
and manifestations of atheism with which their authorized books and
original sources -- which they continue to print, distribute, and publish --
overflow. The dreamers who think that a Shi`i can forget [his] historical
legacy and [his] old black hatred of the Nawasib [those who hate the
Prophet¶s lineage], as they fancifully call them, are like someone who calls
on the Christians to renounce the idea of the crucifixion of the Messiah.
Would a sensible person do this? These are a people who added to their
infidelity and augmented their atheism with political cunning and a feverish
effort to seize upon the crisis of governance and the balance of power in
the state, whose features they are trying to draw and whose new lines
they are trying to establish through their political banners and
organizations in cooperation with their hidden allies the Americans.48

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The way Al-Qaeda will win the war in Iraq is by killing so many Shi¶ia that the
Iraqi government will be forced to unleash the Shi¶ite militias on the Sunni population.
The Umma, predominately Sunni, will come to the aid of their Brothers and overwhelm
this sect whose religious leaders are nothing more than procurers who allow their
followers to take ³temporary wives´ and whose power structure is little different than that
of the Catholic Church with Tehran as its Vatican and the Ayatollah as its Pope. Shiites
treat dead religious figures as saints, and this is blasphemy. John Dimitri Negroponte,
Director of National Intelligence released a letter in its entirety from Abu Zubaydah to
Ayman al-Zawahiri dated July 9, 2005. The US Office of the Director of National
Intelligence claimed to have verified the document's authenticity.

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The letter states,

This subject is complicated and detailed. I have brought it up here so as

not to address the general public on something they do not know. But
please permit me to present it logically:

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. http://www.cpa-iraq.org/transcripts/20040212_zarqawi_full.html
(A) I repeat that I see the picture from afar, and I repeat that you see what
we do not see. No doubt you have the right to defend yourself, the
mujahedeen, and Muslims in general and in particular against any
aggression or threat of aggression.

(B) I assert here that any rational person understands with ease that the
Shia cooperated with the Americans in the invasion of Afghanistan,
Rafsanjani himself confessed to it, and they cooperated with them in the
overthrow of Saddam and the occupation of Iraq in exchange for the
Shia's assumption of power and their turning a blind eye to the American
military presence in Iraq. This is clear to everybody who has two eyes.

(C) People of discernment and knowledge among Muslims know the

extent of danger to Islam of the Twelve'er school of Shi¶ism. It is a
religious school based on excess and falsehood whose function is to
accuse the companions of Muhammad of heresy in a campaign against
Islam, in order to free the way for a group of those who call for a dialogue
in the name of the hidden mahdi who is in control of existence and
infallible in what he does. Their prior history in cooperating with the
enemies of Islam is consistent with their current reality of connivance with
the Crusaders.

(D) The collision between any state based on the model of prophecy with
the Shia is a matter that will happen sooner or later. This is the judgment
of history, and these are the fruits to be expected from the rejectionist Shia
sect and their opinion of the Sunnis. These are clear, well-known matters
to anyone with a knowledge of history, the ideologies, and the politics of
states.

(E) We must repeat what we mentioned previously, that  mîá 

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and possibly could not even imagine it. For
that reason, many of your Muslim admirers amongst the common folk are
wondering about your attacks on the Shia. The sharpness of this
questioning increases when the attacks are on one of their mosques, and
it increases more when the attacks are on the mausoleum of Imam Ali Bin
Abi Talib, may God honor him. My opinion is that this matter won't be
acceptable to the Muslim populace however much you have tried to
explain it, and aversion to this will continue. Indeed, questions will
circulate among mujahedeen circles and their opinion makers about the
correctness of this conflict with the Shia at this time. Is it something that is
unavoidable? Or, is it something can be put off until the force of the
mujahed movement in Iraq gets stronger? And if some of the operations
were necessary for self-defense, were all of the operations necessary? Or,
were there some operations that weren't called for? And is the opening of
another front now in addition to the front against the Americans and the
government a wise decision? Or, does this conflict with the Shia lift the
 burden from the Americans by diverting the mujahedeen to the Shia, while
the Americans continue to control matters from afar? And if the attacks on
Shia leaders were necessary to put a stop to their plans, then why were
there attacks on ordinary Shia? Won't this lead to reinforcing false ideas in
their minds, even as it is incumbent on us to preach the call of Islam to
them and explain and communicate to guide them to the truth? And can
the mujahedeen kill all of the Shia in Iraq? Has any Islamic state in history
ever tried that? And why kill ordinary Shia considering that they are
forgiven because of their ignorance? And what loss will befall us if we did
not attack the Shia? And do the brothers forget that we have more than
one hundred prisoners - many of whom are from the leadership who are
wanted in their countries - in the custody of the Iranians? And even if we
attack the Shia out of necessity, then why do you announce this matter
and make it public, which compels the Iranians to take counter measures?
And do the brothers forget that both we and the Iranians need to refrain
from harming each other at this time in which the Americans are targeting
us?49

On August 3, 2005 Dr. al-Zawahiri maintained that an offer was extended to the
nations ³allied with the Crusaders´ to become Muslims, and reiterated Usama bin
Laden¶s truce of ceasing aggression against Muslims, promising: ³For all who
collaborated with the Americans in Afghanistan and Iraq I will collect the price of the
betrayers very soon.´ In November 2005 al-Zawahiri stated that its battlefield of Jihad is
the most difficult and its mujahideen and people are to be supported. He urged support
for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Emir of al-Qaeda in Iraq, stating: ³The Nation of Islam, I
ask you to support your brothers, the mujahideen in Iraq, and our brother, Abu Musab
al-Zarqawi, whom I didn't see anything about but good things the whole period I knew
him.´

There was no split in our ranks, no policy shift for the

letter was a forgery and the attacks continued on the holy
shrines of Imam Hadi (AS) and Imam Hassan Al-Askari (AS) in
Samarra, as Brother al-Zarqawi was determined to bring
sectarian war to Iraq. In May 2006 Brother al-Zarqawi released
a video of himself firing an automatic weapon. He was dead a
few weeks later and was quickly
replaced by Abu Ayyub al-Masri, an Afghani-training camp
graduate, class of 1999 who has been a member of Egyptian
Islamic Jihad since 1982. In October 2006 al-Masri implored, ³I
appeal to every holy warrior in the land of Iraq to exert all efforts in this
holy month so that God may enable us to capture some of the
Western dogs to swap them with our sheik and get him out of his
dark prison.´

In July 2006 Usama composed this Ode to Brother al-Zarqawi:

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. http://ensign.senate.gov/static_media/101105_zarkawi_letter.pdf
 To those who accuse Abu Musab al-Zarqawi of killing some
segments of the Iraqi people, I say«The enemy attacked Iraq, oppressed
its people, and destroyed its villages. The deafening roar of its planes was
heard everywhere. The explosion of gunpowder spread death and
obnoxious odor, and the mountains were shaken by the heavy
bombardment. So people were greatly panicked, and both powerful and
prudent men sought refuge in their own homes. They said nothing to
provoke people to fight. Horrified, their feet could hardly carry them. Thus,
falsehood became more visible, and the hypocrites disowned the
covenants and joined the ranks of the Christians and the Jews.
Meanwhile, the Muslims became like cold sheep in a rainy night in a wet
land. Under those terrible and gloomy circumstances, where you see
pseudo-leaders, pseudo-scholars, and pseudo men, except for few
individuals spared by God, under those grave and critical circumstances,
appeared the Knight of Islam, Abu-Mus'ab al-Zarqawi. Abu-Mus'ab, may
God have mercy upon his soul, had clear instructions to focus his fighting
on the occupying invaders, led by the Americans, and not to target
whoever wanted to be neutral, but whoever insisted on fighting along with
the Crusaders against Muslims should be killed, regardless of their sect or
tribe. Supporting the infidels against Muslims is one of the ten things that
nullify Islam, as stipulated by scholars.50 Usama bin Laden went on to say
that he and other Sunnis²foreign and Iraqi²ultimately would protect "the
defenseless people of Islam in the land of the two rivers [who] are facing
genocide by the [Shiite] gangs or rancor and treachery«spread in all
sensitive areas in al-Jaafari's previous government. They exist today also
in the present government of al-Maliki."

Bin Laden warned,

Southern Iraqis cannot participate with the United States and its allies in
invading al-Fallujah, al-Ramadi, Baqubah, Mosul, Samarra, al-Qaim and
other towns and villages while their areas remain safe from reprisal and
harm.

Bin Laden then urged Abu Hamza al-Muhajir aka Abu Ayyub al-Masri, "to
concentrate his fight against the Americans and their supporters in their war on
Muslims in Iraq" but to still go after the Shi¶ites.

On July 27, 2006 Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri made his thoughts on the war against
the Shi¶ites perfectly clear:

The martyr Imam - as we consider him - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has said
µIn Iraq we are very close to al-Aqsa Mosque of the Messenger of Allah, so
we fight in Iraq and our eyes are on Jerusalem which can only be restored

50
. http://fdd.typepad.com/fdd/2006/06/complete_fbis_t.html
 by the guiding Qur¶an and sword of victory.¶ Perhaps the events of the
Zionist-Crusaders¶ attack on the Muslims may push the traitors in Iraq to
swallow their shame and their disloyalty, and stop justifying and
supporting the American Crusaders presence in Iraq. I also say to the
people of Iraq: Whoever ponders the great calamities that befell the land
of the two rivers will find that the main cause is the Crusaders' entry and
occupation of the country in connivance with the leaders of the parties that
encouraged them to invade Iraq and that called on their followers to join
the services of the renegade governments, which were installed by
America, such as the governments of Allawi, Al-Ja'fari, and Al-Maliki so as
to fight their cousins in Baghdad, Mosul, Diyala, and Al-Anbar who refused
to succumb to the Crusader occupier. They also named the freedom
fighters as terrorists. They fought them and bombed their houses--hence
the reaction to the tribes and the parties that preferred treason and
became allies for Crusader America«The defenseless people of Islam in
the land of the two rivers are facing genocide by the gangs of rancor and
treachery, which were spread in all sensitive areas in Al-Ja'fari's previous
government. They exist today also in the present government of Al-Maliki.
Therefore, the leaders of the Association of Muslim Scholars have warned
and appealed for help from the people of Islam due to the grievous
genocide to which they are exposed. Foremost among these leaders is
Shaykh Bashar al-Faydi,51 Shaykh Abd-al-Salam al-Kubaysi,52 and
Shaykh Harith al-Dari,53 who stated clearly a while ago that they are being
exposed to annihilation and that over 40,000 were kidnapped, tortured,
and killed by the crusader forces and the renegade Al-Ja'fari's forces.

To the grandchildren of Al-Alqami we say: say to those who have let you
down from the Sunnis, who sold their souls to the Crusaders and put their
hands in the hands of the hateful rejectionists, for unfounded claims, and
false interpretations: You shall witness, God willing, what we have in store
for you as a result of your betrayal and apostasy. Our swords are aimed at
your necks, and they will not distinguish between one apostate and
another. Oh, you polytheists, who insulted the honor of the best of
Messengers, cursed the venerated companions, and devoted yourselves
to serve the Crusaders. We shall implement on you the verdict of Abu
Bakr al-Siddiq in his fight with the apostates, and we shall continue what
our Shaykh Abu Mus'ab, may God have mercy on him, has started with

51
. On 2 February 2005 a leading Association of Muslim Scholars member, Dr Muhammad Bashar al-Faydi, declared: "We are
opposed to all forms of violence. We condemn it in the most absolute terms and we have nothing to do with the terrorist Al-Zarqawi.
He is a foreigner and an enemy of Iraq. Our liberation struggle against the occupation is a completely different matter from his
barbarous terrorism."
52
. Sunni hardline Shaykh Abd-al-Salam al-Kubaysi, a member within the Association of Muslim Scholars, said that Operation
Lightning is targeting those who are against "the occupation" rather than terrorists.
53
. Sunni Shaykh Harith al-Dari, secretary general of the Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq, has denied that the Association is
the "spokesman" of the so-called "resistance". (Sunni) Shaykh Harith al-Dari, secretary general of the Association of Muslim
Scholars in Iraq, has denied that the Association is the "spokesman" of the so-called "resistance". On March 14, 2005 American
forces searched the Shaykh¶s house. Shaykh Harith al-Dari, secretary general of the Muslim Ulema Council, reportedly said: "The
Jihad against the occupation does not require a fatwa or call by religious leaders or the patriotic people loving their country," adding
that "all Iraqis, Sunnis, and Shi'is are fighting the occupation and the traitors and Mosad elements standing behind them."
 you. We shall fight you until the word of monotheism is supreme and the
word of your idols becomes worthless.

The words, ³Perhaps the events of the Zio-Crusaders¶ attack on the

Muslims may push the traitors in Iraq to swallow their shame and their
disloyalty, and stop justifying and supporting the American Crusaders
presence in Iraq´ were interpreted by the American media to mean
³Following bin Laden's lead, Zawahiri broke with slain al-Qaeda in Iraq
leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi by urging "traitor" Shiites to join Sunnis to
fight the West - even praising several Shiite religious figures by name.54

Going by the figures of the Baghdad Morgue, after Brother al-Zarqawi¶s death
sectarian violence actually increased. In February 2006 the Golden Mosque, a Shiite
Shrine in Sammarra was hit and in August 2006 an attack was carried out on the Imam
Ali Shrine. This is really nothing new. In the past other Brothers have considered
conducting operations against the Shi¶ites. In 1988 the Shias of Gilgit in the Northern
Areas of Pakistan, who constituted the largest sectarian group there, revolted and
demanded the creation of a separate province for the Shias to be called the Karakoram
province. Pervez Musharraf, who was asked by General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq to put
down this revolt, inducted bin Laden and his tribal militias into Gilgit
and they carried out a large-scale massacre of the Shias.55
Representatives of the United States Government questioned the co-
operator L'Houssaine Kherchtou (left) about his anti-Iranian activities
carried out on behalf of al-Qaeda:

h During the time that you and your group participated in the exercises to
do the surveillances of the Iranian consulate and the Iranian cultural
center, did you have an understanding whether or not those surveillances
were for a real operation or for practice, or were you not sure?

c No, we weren¶t sure.

h What was your, what was the relationship between the al-Qaeda and
Iranians?

c Iranians? They don¶t like Iranians.

h Why is that?

c Because we are Sunni and they are Shi¶ites, and you know I mean we
had many points; that¶s why we don¶t like them.

These age-old differences were temporarily forgotten as we

united against the paganist United States. Mullah Muhammad Omar of

54
. http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/438829p-369631c.html
55
. http://www.saag.org/papers5/paper484.html
the Taliban, a Sunni, preached hatred against the Shi¶ites, did his best to repress them,
and carried out atrocities against them. He also prevented Shi¶ites from commemorating
one of their most important holy days, the Tenth of Moharram, or Ashura, which marks
the killing of Hussein,56 a man Shi¶ites venerate as a martyr. This was because the
Qu¶ran prohibited lamenting, wailing and the like when affliction befalls and the Shi¶ites
practiced self-flagellation on that day. But even Mullah Muhammad Omar pledged no
longer to engage in this divisive activity as we, the Learned Elders of Islam, have come
to realize that self-flagellation, while forbidden by the Qu¶ran must be overlooked so that
we may form a united front with countries like Iran that share our desire to wipe Israel
off the face of the map. Brother Nosair had a close relationship with Iranian intelligence:

h Mr. Salem, did the topic of Iran, that is, the country Iran, come up?
What was said about Iran?

c Mr. El-Sayyid Nosair told Mr. Ali Shinawy that he had learned lately that
Iran had an agreement with United States to switch hostages, and he
asked him to contact Sheik Abou El Kasem from the Refugee Al-Kifah
Center office in Brooklyn.

h Is that the Al-Kifah Refugee Center?

c Yes, sir, and they arrange to contact the proper authorities in the
Iranian government, to make arrangements to switch hostages with
Sayyid Nosair.

h Are you saying that is what they did do or what he said to do, Mr.
Sayyid Nosair?

c Mr. Nosair told Mr. Shinawy to contact through Mr. Abou El Kasem the
proper authorities in Iran to make arrangements to switch hostages with
him, American hostage with Mr. Sayyid Nosair.

Sheik Rahman stated:

No, we will never take orders from the United States, the one that
claims that Iran and Sudan sponsor terrorism. No! We will never be an
instrument in the hands of the Zionist enemies who promote the Satanic
lie that the real danger is coming from the fundamentalists.

Shi¶ite Iran supports the Shi¶ite Hizb¶allah, which works with Sunni al-Qaeda.
Sunni Hamas also works with the Shi¶ite Hizb¶allah. For the West an alliance between
Hamas and Hizb¶allah is surprising, however, the branches¶ common hatred of the West
has muted social and doctrinal differences. The Central Committee of Hamas runs the
movement¶s foreign ties, including those with Iran, PLO/Fatah, Palestinian organizations
and Islamist organizations (Hizb¶allah, al-Qaeda). Brother Abu Marzook, leader of the

56 th
. A descendant of the Prophet Mohammad [PBUH] who lived in the 7 century
political wing of Hamas, represents Hamas in international fundamentalist events, such
as the ³Convention In Support of Palestine´ that was held in Tehran, a city he has
visited often. During the first of these conferences (October 14, 1991), a fatwa was
issued that decreed any discontinuation of Jihad for the liberation of Palestine was
forbidden and unlawful. This is the way it should be but often it is not.57

c c   cc

On June 20, 1994, a very serious attack was perpetrated

in Mashhad, Iran, when a bomb packed with five kilograms of
explosives was set off in the prayer halls of the tomb of Imam
Reza, one of the holiest Shi¶ite sanctuaries and pilgrimage sites,
leaving 26 people dead and 170 wounded. The attack occurred
when thousands of pilgrims from all parts of the country had
gathered to commemorate the martyrdom of Imam Hussein.

Ramzi Yousef, his brother and father58 bombed the Shrine of Iman Reza. Ramzi
Yousef:

The accusations of the Pakistani authorities against me of my participation

in activities and actions against the Iranian Government are absolutely not
true. They want to exploit the case for their own interest. Then through
proving that I am financed by the Iraqi side, they inspire the Iranian
Government that the actions which are related to me inside Iran are from
the planning of Iraq, and this is in order to worsen the Iranian-Iraqi
relations.

Ramzi Yousef did it on behalf of LeJ. Although many Brothers disapprove of its
sectarian nature since al-Qaeda has received so much help over the years from Shi¶a
Iran, the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi or Guardians of the Friends of the Prophet also is part of
the Islamic Front. The Lashkar-e-Jhangvi is a small and extremely violent Sunni group,
which has approximately 300 members, and is known for an attempted assassination
on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on January 3, 1999. LeJ regularly gunned down
worshippers at Shi¶a mosques since its goal is to transform Pakistan into a Sunni state,
primarily through violent means. Musharraf banned LeJ in August 2001, labeling it µa
domestic terrorist group.¶ It is believed that the Iranians later arrested Ramzi Yousef¶s
father. Jailhouse snitch Gregory Scarpa Jr. reported that, ³in the note written by Yousef
to Scarpa on July 6, 1996 Yousef advised Gregory Scarpa Jr. that he had spoken with
his sister and she stated that she needs money because her husband is in prison in Iran
because he is against the Islamic regime in Iran and she wants to visit him with her kids.
She also needs money because her daughter needs an operation«Yousef stated that
he did not have a chance to talk to his sister about sending letters through DHL. Yousef
then told Scarpa that Iran does not have a DHL service.´59

57
. http://wwwa.house.gov/international_relations/109/98810.PDF
58
. Simon Reeves The New Jackals Northeastern University Press 2001.
59
. FBI 302 265A-NY-258172 July 19, 1996
 The Iranian Ministry of Intelligence Services (MOIS) used this bombing to its
advantage by blaming it on the Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO). Originally formed
in the 1960s as an armed Islamic opposition movement against Shah Mohammad Reza
Pahlavi, the MKO fought in the guerrilla operations that forced his overthrow. However
due to its radical socialist ideology the organization was cut out of the power structure
built by the Ayatollahs60 in the wake of the revolution, and it became Iraqi-based.
Ayatollah Khamenei said the MKO members, like bacteria that thrive on and reproduce
in a trash bin, have grown up under the care of big governments. MKO leader Massoud
Rajav ordered the detonation of a bomb that killed more than 70 Shi¶ite Brothers long
before the explosion at Iman Reza61 so the Iranians had good reason to suspect them.
In any event, the bombing galvanized public support for the eradication of multiple
Sunni communities accused of helping the Mujahadeen.62

The authorities arrested at least two suspects in the Mashhad massacre. One of
them, MKO member Mehdi Nahvi, confronted the security forces in Tehran and was
seriously wounded. He died in a hospital on August 2, 1994 from the wounds he
received at a telephone exchange in East Tehran where he went to call his controllers in
Germany. Iranian television showed Nahvi on his hospital bed. When asked why he
planted the bomb he said: ³I did it because Mujahideen Khalq...ordered me to do so.´
Another bombing suspect, Bahram Abbaszadeh, who was arrested on June 24, 1994
when trying to plant a bomb at a Sunni Muslim mosque during mass prayers in the
southeastern city of Zahedan, appeared standing next to Nahvi¶s bed. Abbaszadeh said
he met Nahvi at a MKO camp in Iraq and that he got the bomb he had planned to plant
from Nahvi. Bahram Abbaszadeh was publicly hanged in August 1994.63

The MKO blamed the Islamic Republic of Iran for bombing of the holy shrine of
Imam Reza:

The mullahs¶ regime admitted on November 18, 1999 that the criminal
bomb blast in the northeastern city of Mashad on September 17, 1999,
was carried out by its own Ministry of Intelligence agents. The Armed
Forces Judicial Organization said in a statement today that the
perpetrators of the recent bomb blast in the holy city of Mashad, who are
among the agents in the gang led by Saeed Emami and Mostafa Kazemi,
have been arrested. These shocking admissions disclose the role of the
Intelligence Ministry in scores of similar bombings in public places in
different cities across the country. These include the heinous bomb

60
. God¶s Deputies on Earth
61
. After America invaded Iraq it recognized the value of these atheistic communists and on April 28, 2003 American forces in Iraq
signed a cease-fire with the MKO that allowed the MKO to retain its lighter weaponry and operate freely in the U.S., however in
August 2003 the State Department shut down the MKO¶s Washington, D.C. office and froze a major part of its assets. In September
2003 the Americans arrested thousands of MKO members and in December 2003 the puppet government of Iraq ordered that these
communists be returned to Iran. Patrick E. Tyler ³Iraqi Faction Seek to Take Over Security Duties.´  
 ám
September 19,
2003 Section A Page 1 Column 5. Louise Knowles ³Western Citizens Among those Held in Iraq´ Reuters January 15, 2004.
62
. http://fletcher.tufts.edu/jebsencenter/pdfs/obrien.pdf
63
. Research Directorate Documentation, Information And Research Branch Immigration And Refugee Board Ottawa, Canada April
1995 http://www.asylumlaw.org/docs/iran/irb_chronology95.pdf
 explosion at the holy shrine of Imam Reza in Mashad on June 20, 1994,
which killed scores of innocent pilgrims.64

Hamid Reza Zakeri confirmed these reports. Zakeri is a former Iranian

intelligence agent who defected and came under the influence of a faction
within the American Enterprise Institute, the most powerful Jewish neo-con
propaganda organ in America, who wished to see America attack the Islamic
Republic of Iran.65 Indian intelligence in conjunction with the Mossad
reported, ³On June 20, 1994 Ramzi Yousef and al-Zarqawi, at the instigation
of the Iraqi intelligence, caused an explosion at Mashad in the Iranian territory adjoining
Pakistan which killed a large number of Shias.´66 After al-Zarqawi was killed by the
Americans Usama bin Laden stated, ³So they joined the war and began their strikes,
using a small number of Kalashnikovs, a small number of anti-tank mines, and a small
number of bazookas. Abu-Mus'ab al-Zarqawi and some of his brothers had joined the
Jihad against the Russians.´67

On May 22, 2003 Iran's intelligence minister Ali Younesi demanded the United
States extradite a suspect in a 1994 bombing of a Shi¶ite Muslim shrine in the
northeastern city of Mashad: ³We have demanded the U.S. hand over the terrorist
responsible for the bomb attack on the holy shrine of Imam Reza. We are well informed
the US has the bomb attacker, but they are not willing to hand him over,´ he added in

64
. Iran Zamin News Agency November 18, 1999 ³Representative Office of The National Council of Resistance of Iran Mullahs'
Regime Acknowledges Intelligence Ministry's Role in Criminal Bombing in Iran.´
65
. Zakeri said that the government of Iran accused Sunni oppositionists and some other opposition forces of involvement in the
Imam Reza bombing. But it later emerged that former Intelligence Minister Ali Fallahian was the operation's mastermind together
with Deputy Intelligence Minister Saeed Emami. (Ali Nurizadeh, ³Report on an interview with Hamid Reza; Date and Place not
Given´ 
 London, England February 18, 2003 p7) When elements of the reformist press accused Emami of masterminding
the killings of four of these political figures and several dissident writers it was determined that he must be sacrificed. Emami was
also implicated in the case of the murder of the three Christian priests, an operation that could have damaged relations with France.
The leaders of the Islamist regime, pressured by the threat of student unrest, described him as a key element in these
assassinations and imprisoned him with the intention of eventually killing him and making it look like a suicide. After his death this
statement was released: ³Since May 3, 1999, Emami had attempted to commit suicide on six different occasions, but each time he
was saved by officials in charge of watching him. Emami said in an interrogation that he had learnt methods of suicide from a spy,
who had already killed himself after his arrest. Measures were adopted to prevent Emami from committing suicide, and he was
under round-the-clock surveillance at the prison. Installing a camera in the cell, and keeping another culprit there monitored his
behavior. On June 16, 1999 the watch officer led Emami to the bathroom but due to ethical reasons the officer neglected his mission
for a few minutes and turned his eyes away which gave Emami the chance to swallow a depilatory substance. The officer took
Emami out of the bathroom and informed the guard officer and prison officials. Emami was immediately transferred to prison¶s clinic
and then to a specialized hospital but died 72 hours later of severe injuries caused by the poisonous substance.´ Because he died
as a sacrifice for the Islamic Republic, many holy men attended his funeral. Our newspapers in Iran accused Emami of having had
links to the Zionist entity and the U.S.A. and claimed that agents of foreign powers had aided him in the commission of the murders
he was accused of, in order to make the Islamist regime of Iran look evil in the eyes of the world. Ironically, before Emami had to be
sacrificed, the ³pro-reform´ daily, m, was closed down, for publishing a sensitive classified document that was a letter in which
Saeed Emami had advocated that the Islamists be given more control over the press. Our fabrication was confirmed by the results
of the interrogation of Emami¶s wife. She was asked to explain her ³visits to Israel,´ but she kept saying she has never gone to Israel
and repeated this a number of times. The interrogator told her, what if we do something that forces you to admit that you have gone
there, what will you say? Then she heard the sound of someone screaming from pain in an adjacent cell. The interrogator reminded
her that they could cause her a lot of pain, as she heard the screams next door. She then confessed that her husband worked for
the CIA while she worked for Israel. The interrogator asked her whom, between Israel and the U.S., did Emami favor? She replied,
the U.S. They asked her, how about you? She first said she preferred the U.S., but I worked with the CIA, and then corrected herself
and said, no I mean I preferred the U.S., but I worked for Israel. ³They are the same after all.´ On at least three occasions the
interrogator made her confess how she showed disrespect to the Qur`an. She refused to admit anything more. But finally, the
interrogator step by step got her to say that she tore papers from the Qur`an. She confessed, with help from the interrogator, that
she and her husband touched each other¶s bodies with pages of the Qur`an during sexual intercourse.
66
. http://www.saag.org/papers10/paper941.html
67
. http://fdd.typepad.com/fdd/2006/06/complete_fbis_t.html
the surprise outburst, but did not elaborate or name the suspect.68 On May 23, 2003
Iran asked for the extradition of MKO members from U.S.

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Ramzi Yousef¶s trial judge noted at sentencing: ³We don¶t even know what your
real name is.´ James Fox (the FBI¶s chief investigator into the 1993 bombing until his
replacement in 1994 and his death on May 17, 1997) believed that Yousef was not
Abdul Basit Karim but rather an unnamed Iraqi intelligence agent who had assumed the
latter¶s identity when police files and fingerprints in Kuwait (where the real Abdul Basit
Karim lived in 1990) were doctored by Iraqi intelligence during the occupation of Kuwait.
In late 2000, the má  ! á
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&$á
má arguing in support of the theory that Ramzi
Yousef was actually an Iraqi agent and Iraq was behind the first World Trade Center
Event. The book, written by AEI war propagandist Laurie Mylroie, says that Abdul Basit
Karim was living with his parents in Kuwait in 1990 when Iraq invaded the country.
Again the ³theory´ was that during the occupation, Iraqis presumably murdered him and
his family and then altered police files so Iraqi intelligence could use his identity.69

Laurie Mylroie played upon the confusion about Ramzi Yousef¶s identity. Abd-al-
Basit Balushi used the name Mohammad Azan to enter the United States then he
changed it to Ramzi Yousef as his m$ for American Ops. It was thought that
his real name was Abdul Basit Mahmud Abdul Karim. This was because Yousef went to
the Pakistani Consulate in New York City and submitted a copy of a report recorded by
the Jersey City Police about the loss of his passport along with Xerox copies of his lost
passport to show that he was a Pakistani national with the name Abdul Basit Mahmud
Abdul Karim. He then applied for a new passport. The Consulate issued him a
temporary passport under this name with which he escaped from the U.S.A. after the
first World Trade Center Event. This was the false name he used in Kuwait and the
Kuwaiti authorities had paperwork and fingerprints on Yousef under the name Abdul
Basit Karim, which said he was a Pakistani national who was born in Kuwait who had
left from Balochistan via Iraq on August 26, 1990. Others said real name was Abd-al-
Basit Balushi [or Baluchi].70

Laurie Mylroie used his use of pseudonyms and the confusion that ensued to
help convince the Jew Paul Wolfowitz,71 American Deputy Director of Defense that Iraq
was the major force behind the first World Trade Center attack and that American
should occupy it. Laurie Mylroie, the descendant of holocaust survivors who admits that
Eleanor Wolfowitz, the former wife of Paul Wolfowitz, who lost most of his extended
family in the holocaust, fundamentally shaped the   "# $, also pointed to
height and signature problems regarding Yousef¶s identity. Deputy Secretary of Defense

68
. RFE/RL Newswire May 23, 2003 http://www.rferl.org/newsline/2003/05/6-SWA/swa-230503.asp
69
. New Republic, 10/13/2001; London Times, 10/22/2001
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Agreement by the Federal Research Division, Library of Congress September 1999
http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/frd.html
71
. Christopher Marquis - ³In Besieged Iraq Reality Pokes Ideology in the Eye.´  
 ám
Magazine - August 31, 2003.
Paul Wolfowitz asked Bush the Younger to declare Ramzi Yousef an enemy combatant
and transfer him to a U.S. military installation to force him to confess that he was
actually an Iraqi intelligence agent. This caused a top Bureau of Prisons official to make
an unauthorized entry to Yousef's cell at Florence to see if he would go along with this
sham in order to lessen the harshness of his prison conditions.72 By 2003 this theory
had been dismissed as one that was concocted to link Saddam Hussein with our
mission of Jihad, since, as a result of the arrest of Ramzi Yousef¶s uncle, Khalid Shaikh
Muhammed his family tree was revealed, and his real name was in fact, as Abd-al-Basit
Baluchi. Other members of this family surfaced as îáá.

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Ammar al-Baluchi was a member of al-Qaeda who was a key travel and financial
facilitator for the September 11 Shaheeds, and who provided money and support to
them in the U.S. and the United Arab Emirates. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who was al-
Baluchi¶s uncle, said he assigned Baluchi to this role, because he and bin Laden
considered him an ³unsophisticated Bedouin´ unable to function with ease in Western
society. Specifically, Baluchi became involved with the September 11th operation as
early as January 2000, when, at Sheikh Mohammed's request, he purchased a Boeing
747-400 flight simulator using Shaheed Marwan al-Shehhi's credit card. Thereafter,
when he was living in Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed contacted him to say that several al-
Qaeda operatives would be transiting Dubai in March or April 2001. Sheikh Mohammed
tasked Baluchi with helping the operatives with hotel reservations, onward travel
arrangements, and local shopping needs. Baluchi assisted at least nine of the hijackers
as they came through Dubai en route to the U.S; he also taught them about everyday
aspects of life in the West, such as purchasing clothes and ordering food. Baluchi was
captured in April 2003. The last piece of evidence in the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui was
a document in which the government officially identified the six top al-Qaeda figures
captured in the September 11th Events. The captives were listed in order of importance,
and Baluchi came in at No. 4. The September 11th commission said Baluchi asked his
uncle if he could participate in whatever the shaheed mission was. In May 2001 he
contacted Mohamed Atta, "to join the operation.´ Baluchi did apply in Dubai for a U.S.
visa on August 27, 2001, listing his intended arrival date as September 4, 2001 ² one
week before the hijackings. But his entry was denied because the U.S. viewed him as
an economic immigrant coming here to stay.73

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Musaad Aruchi (aka Musab al-Baluchi, al-Balochi, al-Baloshi) was arrested in

Pakistan on June 12, 2004 by Pakistani paramilitary forces in an operation supervised
by the CIA. Aruchi co-operated and gave up Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan, a al-
Qaeda computer specialist. Aruchi was a nephew of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. Like
Mohammad, Aruchi was born in Pakistan's Balochistan province, but his parents later

72
. http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4799686/
73
. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-baluchi21may21,0,7279386.story?coll=la-home-nation
moved to Kuwait and subsequently to other Persian Gulf states. Aruchi is a cousin of
Ramzi Ahmed Yousef.74

Every bloodthirsty publication, from the &  )  to the á 
"#á ran the Mylroie story. Even after the press revealed Khalid Shaikh Mohammed¶s
family tree she steadfastly stuck to her theory: ³U.S. authorities may unravel the story
very quickly if they pursue the question of Mohammed's identity, instead of assuming
they know who their captive really is´ she wrote.75 No matter how much evidence was
amassed Laurie Mylroie still claimed she doubted Yousef¶s identity, ³Two more of
Mohammed's nephews Yousef's older brothers, Abdul Karim and Abdul Monem, are
considered Al-Qaeda masterminds, capable of replacing Mohammed, as the
&
á $ 
 reported last year, shortly after Mohammed's capture. They remain at
large. Last week, Pakistani authorities announced the arrest of yet another nephew. The
State Department confirmed the man's significance, but expressed doubts the
Pakistanis had the right person. Yet there is substantial reason to doubt these
individuals really do constitute a family. No other major terrorist organization has a
family at its core. It is without precedent. Indeed, there is no other such family within Al-
Qaeda.´76 Mylroie continued her lies even after the Senate Intelligence Committee
"Report of the Select Committee on Intelligence on Postwar Findings About Iraq's WMD
Programs and Links to Terrorism and How They Compare with Prewar Assessments"
totally contradicted her. Ah, Elders of Islam, this woman knew better than those she
considered to be learned men, ³The committee chose largely to ignore or discount
information showing that Saddam Hussein's regime was actively involved in terrorism
from 1991 to the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom for some years before Operation Iraqi
Freedom began. Journalist Stephen Hayes reported in the (neo-con) Weekly Standard
on January 16, that captured documents and photographs reveal that between 1999
and 2002, Saddam's regime trained over 8,000 "radical Islamic terrorists" at three
camps in Iraq, including Salman Pak«The Senate report, however, accepts the claim of
former Iraqi officials, including Hijazi, that it was bin Laden who sought out the Iraqis,
and Saddam would have virtually nothing to do with him or with any other Islamic
radicals, because he "did not trust" them. The documents cited here would suggest that
is simply not true. Indeed, were it not for their extreme partisanship and the upcoming
elections, even most Democrats probably would acknowledge this.´77

The má  ! á
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á has close relations with the Likud Party and
publishes the work of Charles Murray,78 author of  ' *#, a book that in our
opinion touts the superiority of the Jews over American blacks. Richard Clarke a
counter-terrorism expert who has served a number of American administrations stated
in his book $á
  ! má
, that all this ³Iraqi intelligence bombed the Trade
Center´ war propaganda was regarded as "the totally discredited Laurie Mylroie theory.´

74
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3, 2004; Page A01
75
. Laurie Mylroie ³The Baluch Connection´ Wall Street Journal March 18, 2003.
76
. New York Sun June 24, 2004
77
. http://www.nysun.com/article/39873
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. American Enterprise Institute Scholars and Fellows. http://www.aei.org/scholars/filter./scholar_byname.asp
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Bojinga, which means ³big bang´ in Serbo-Croatian, was the code name Usama
bin Laden gave to a plan to bomb eleven U.S. airliners almost simultaneously. Bojinga
was not planned in Pakistan. The Brothers were too busy with other actions during this
period. Khalid Shaikh Muhammed, who was the third in command of al-Qaeda but was
always too modest to admit it, planned Bojinga¶s details in Qatar. When the Filipino
police seized a list of names and telephone numbers from the Dona Josefa safehouse
the Bojinga crew utilized in Manila they found a notation for ³Khalid Doha´ (Khalid
Shaikh Muhammed) with telephone and facsimile numbers in Qatar.

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Brother Yazid Sufaat, a microbiologist, was Bojinga

operative Khan Amin Shah¶s contact in Kuala Lumpur.
Sufaat obtained a bachelors degree in biological sciences,
with a clinical laboratory concentration from California State
University in Sacramento in 1987. He was a laboratory
technician in the Malaysian military and in 1993 set up the
Green Laboratory Medicine Company in order to ostensibly
³test the blood and urine of foreign workers and state
employees for drug use.´ He set up this company to acquire anthrax, affect financial
transfers and purchase ammonium nitrate for producing explosives on behalf of units
affiliated with al-Qaeda operating in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines.79 Sufaat
was under the command of Afghan Jihad veteran Riduan Isalmuddin better known as
³Hambali,´ who had given him money that was passed to Khan Amin Shah for the
Bojinga Operation through a shell company Hambali had set up with him known as
³Konsojaya.´ After his capture, ³Hambali claimed he was asked to serve on the
company's board of directors as a formality and insisted that he did not recognize the
"Arabs" who were to run the company or play any role in its operations.´80 The Gama¶a
al-Islamiyya¶s Brooklyn / Jersey City cell had previously been in contact with Jemaah
Islamiah: At the trials of Brothers Yousef and El-Gabrowny, phone records were
submitted of calls placed to Australia from the New York and New Jersey homes of both
men.81 These calls were to the Brothers of Jemaah Islamiah. Because of Hambali¶s
association with Sufaat, and Sufaat¶s association with Zacarias Moussaoui, Hambali
was asked by his CIA interrogators if Moussaoui had ever mentioned any operations
involving bio-weapons?82

A good question because Yazid Sufaat was in charge of developing biological

weapons for al-Qaeda until his arrest in December 2001 when Malaysian police
developed information that he had procured four tons of ammonium nitrate for an

79
. Biological weapons and bioterrorism in the first years of the twenty-first century Milton Leitenberg Senior Research Scholar
Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland School of Public Affairs University of Maryland College Park, MD.
80
. Intelligence report, interrogation of Hambali, Nov. 19, 2003
81. Townsville Bulletin November 2, 2002.
82
. http://www.rcfp.org/moussaoui/pdf/DX-0946.pdf Exhibit from USA v. Moussaoui
Indonesian Jemaah Islamiah (JI) cell plotting to destroy á diplomatic outposts in
Singapore. Sufaat had purchased the fertilizer at the request of Zacarias Moussaoui.

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Many Westerners believe that our members come from the masses of poor,
uneducated Arabs. This is not the case. Among Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad
members only 20 percent were poor - fewer than the 32% who qualified as poor among
a similar slice of the general Palestinian population between ages 18 and 41. But
among shaheeds, just 13% were from poor families.83 Ramzi Yousef was a British-
trained electronics engineer who was the son of an aeronautical engineer who worked
for Kuwaiti Airlines. Yousef¶s bombs were highly sophisticated and undetectable by the
most sophisticated airport screening, which Yousef had learned about by watching a
special on CNN. A number of Brothers would board several American airliners with all
the components necessary to assemble (during a brief trip to the washroom) a powerful
bomb about the size of a bottle of contact lens solution. The components would all be
brought into the airport separately, in separate bags and consisted of a contact lens
solution bottle filled with a liquid detonator and cotton to act as a stabilizer (an X-ray
machine would not detect it as it would be a low density substance which can be
smuggled, as opposed to high density substance which is difficult to smuggle), a Casio
wrist watch modified to act as a timer, two nine-volt batteries, a flashlight bulb and a few
inches of wire. The primary explosives would be stuffed in gelatin pill capsules that
would be emptied and the medicine taken out. Without these capsules undergoing
chemical analysis or being ingested, they would be identical to an over-the-counter
medication. After primary charge was added and the timer set, the bomb would be
placed under a seat. In February 2004 the    +
# reported that îáá had
made several dry runs using this tactic of onboard assembly. Ramzi Yousef was far
ahead of his time.84

When the planes with the bombs on board landed at their next stop, the fighters
for Allah were to disembark. The planes would never reach the next leg of their journey!
Thousands of infidels would die! The hard drive of Yousef¶s computer revealed the
targeted flights: United 808, Delta 59, Northwest 6, and others, and calculations to
determine the correct time to set the bomb¶s timer for each flight.

The timer was a Casio calculator digital databank model DBC61. In a small
space underneath that calculator Yousef had inserted an SCR, attached to the alarm.
An SCR (Silicone Controlled Rectifier) is a three-terminal device used to control large
currents to a load. An SCR acts like a switch. When it is turned ON there is a low
resistance to current flow from the anode to the cathode, it acts like an open switch.
When it is turned OFF no current can flow from the anode to the cathode, it acts like a
closed switch. The switching action of an SCR is very fast. Only a tiny plug sticking out
of the side of the watch was visible to indicate that that watch had been tampered with.

83
. Mark Clayton ³Probing the Roots of Terror´ Christian Science Monitor September 2, 2003.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0902/p18s01-lehl.html
84
. ³Terrorist Building Bombs In Mid Flight´ WordNet February 8, 2004.
This was connected to two small, 9-volt batteries then to the filament from a flashlight
bulb. The filament would become red hot when the timer completed the circuit, and
would be embedded in the mixture of detonating material (cotton soaked with mercury
fulminate) and primary explosive. Hakim Murad commented, ³Nobody in the world rigs
this thing except us ± the timer. Nobody in the world can make this timer except us.´85

Brother Yousef wrote:

For capsule you may use a drug container cover or anything preferably of
plastic. It should be large, diameter of two centimeters. Detonating
material, it is preferable to have lead azide or mercury fulminate in
relatively substantial quantities, 15 grams. Finally, the main charge should
be composed of powerful material like gelatin or other types of dynamite.´
The explosive to be detonated was an enhanced form of liquid
nitroglycerin known as Mark II. This gelatin dynamite contains
nitroglycerine, nitrocellulose, sodium nitrate and a small percentage of fine
sawdust. The sawdust, since it is an organic material, will function as a
fuel source. The other use that sawdust will actually have is an absorbent.

It was not until October 2003 that American intelligence had picked up bits of
intelligence that indicated we were attempting to re-create Ramzi Yousef¶s nitrocellulose
to fashion explosive devices that could be smuggled aboard jetliners, disguised as
stuffed toys and that to detect this explosive the airports screeners must take a cotton
swabbing from the suspect luggage.86

 

For practice Ramzi Yousef detonated a bomb underneath a seat in the Greenbelt
movie theater in the Makati section of Manila on December 1, 1994. The theatre was
empty and no one was injured. Ten days later, he planted another in the life jacket
pouch beneath a seat that would be occupied by a Japanese businessman on a
Philippines Airlines flight out of Manila en route to Tokyo. Yousef got off the plane after
it landed in Cebu; the bomb detonated on the second leg of the flight, killing the
businessman and injuring 10 others. The bomb had not been strategically placed close
enough to the fuel tank and only contained 10% of the explosive to be used against
American airliners, none-the-less the canisters that contained CO2 which inflates the life
vest were ruptured from the external forces inflicted upon them from the outside
explosive element.

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Why was the explosion of this magnitude? Yousef used Mark II, the brand new
explosive he had invented. The FBI found Specimen Q2781 among the possessions of
the first World Trade Center crew, a ³blue covered hardbound manual describing the

85
. Murad Interrogation ± Philippine National Police document ± January 7, 1995.
86
. John Mintz and Sara Kehaulani Goo Washington Post October 14, 2003; Page A05
methods to manufacture, store and transport explosives such as C-4, TNT, urea nitrate,
nitromethane, and nitroglycerine,´87 all nitrogen based explosives similar to Mark II but it
never discovered the formula for Mark II.

During the Bojinga trial that began in late May 1996 the prosecution subpoenaed
the stewardess on this flight to testify that Ramzi Yousef was aboard. Under cross
examination she admitted that the United States Government had relocated her in
America, agreed to help her find a job and issued visas to her relatives so that they
could visit her. The next witness was a steward who was aboard the airplane when the
explosion occurred:

h And could you describe for us the noise that you heard at that time?

c It was a loud bang. And the aircraft tilted to the right.

h And from where you were standing, could you see the area you thought
the noise came from?

c Yes. It¶s because I saw the ceiling that fell on the forward section of the
economy. [I saw smoke]. It was bluish in color. I ran immediately to the
portion of the aircraft and took the ± there¶s a trolley duty-free there. I had
to take it out, put it in the economy galley, and run to the section where the
injured passengers are.

h Mr. Bayot, were you the first member of the flight to arrive at that
section of the plane after the explosion? And could you tell us, how were
the other passengers reacting at this time?

c They were starting to panic at the time. Almost everybody was starting
to stand up. And I shouted to them at the tip of my voice to stay calm and
remain seated. Probably I did that for so many times. And that's the time
they took their seats again.

h How many injured passengers did you remove from that section?

c The one on 27K, 26H, and 26J. [I removed them] to the vacant seats
[located] at the last section of the forward economy. The one on 26K was
badly injured in the legs. He was bleeding so hard, and the one also 26J
and 26H. The one on 26J would be his hands and some portions of his
leg, also.

h After those injured passengers were moved, what did you do?

c At the time I was helping the passenger at 26K,which was -- which fell
in the hole, almost half his body in the hole already, so I have to pull him

87. USA v Ramzi Yousef Doc. #740

 up, which at the time I -- it was so hard. And I asked one of my colleagues
again to help me pull the passenger, and we did, and by that time we
realized that he was almost cut in two. We seated him on the floor of 26J
and lay ± rest his head on the seat of 26J. And we did apply oxygen to
him. We place an oxygen mask on him.

h When you placed the oxygen mask on him, could you tell if he was
breathing at that time?

c Yes, he was still breathing at that time.

h And did there come a time when you believed that that passenger
stopped breathing?

c Yes, he did. It¶s because I took his pulse. There was no pulse. And so I
went up to the flight deck and told the captain that one of the passengers
is dead already. I just left the oxygen mask in his face so as not to cause
any commotion or panic, because some of the passengers are still there
at that time, so as to pretend that still alive. These are all blood all over.
There was also scattered flesh on this section. Even at the back of these
there are flesh and blood all over.

Then the pilot was called to testify about what happened when the loud bang of
Islam echoed through his aircraft:

Our hearing were affected one way or the other. And it was a very loud
explosion. There is no other way to describe it but it was a bomb
explosion. Well, I -- since it was still flying on automatic pilot, I have no
idea yet the extent of the damage, but I said to the two that, once I
disengage the autopilot, then we will know what¶s going to happen. Then
something might happen or not, I told them, but I said really there¶s
something wrong with the flight controls. I said I¶m going to turn ± I¶m
going to use the autopilot. Let¶s see if it returns. So when the aircraft is on
automatic pilot, we use knobs to turn the aircraft, to make it go down, so I
tried using the heading selector, but the aircraft will not follow, and I tried
to use the vertical selector of the aircraft on descent and it will not also go
up. There was no action with the autopilot. And again I said, okay get
ready now. Put the seat belt sign on -- let it remain on, the seat belt sign,
because we¶re going to disengage the autopilot. If we disengage the
autopilot, we might die, we might control. Anything may happen, so be
ready. At the count of three I¶m going to disengage the autopilot. So that¶s
what I did. At the count of three I disengaged it. Nothing happen. I says,
fine, nothing happens, but let¶s see if it will descend. So I made a push of
the control wheel. The aircraft descended. And I pull it back. It climbs. I
said now I¶m going to put the autopilot on again, and let¶s see if it will turn.
So again I said at the count of three I¶m going to disengage the autopilot.
 Let¶s see. So nothing happen when we disengage the autopilot. Now I
tried to turn. It will not turn. I said the autopilot on, let¶s put it on again and
let¶s analyze the situation. I said, okay, I¶m going to disengage the
autopilot. I am going to force the control wheel and find out if it will react,
and if it will not, then let¶s discuss again what¶s going to -- what will be the
next course of action we¶re going to take. I have idea what was wrong with
the flight controls since the control cables that controls the hydraulic
hydrators to control the ailerons, this cable is run on the right side through
the ceiling, then down again below the floors, and that passes through a
series of, what shall I say, a path for the cables only. These are sections
that only cables pass through there. These cables actuate the hydraulic
systems that control the ailerons. Ailerons are those control surfaces on
the wings. This is used for the movement of the aircraft. Okay, I said,
okay, be ready. As soon as I disengage the autopilot, then I¶m going to
force it. Then [I thought to myself] let¶s see if it¶s going to turn? So again I
disengage autopilot. I tried exerting force more than normal on the control
wheel. At this time the aircraft responded, but very slowly, so we had a
very shallow bank, but the aircraft did turn. So it took us a long time to
head towards Naha.

Ramzi Yousef commented: ³The explosive device in that case did more
than it was intended to do.´

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Abdul Hakim Ali Hashim Murad was born in Kuwait on April 1, 1968. While he
was in middle school he met Ramzi Yousef and became close friends with him. A year
after he graduated from High School Murad began to study Ground School training in
the Philippines then he traveled to Dubai where he earned a private pilot license.

In May 1990 Murad went to Pakistan ± when the Gulf War erupted he went to
Kuwait and Iran then back to Pakistan. In 1991 he studied aviation in Texas, New York
California and Newburn, North Carolina, where he earned a commercial pilots license;
then it was on to Peshawar, Pakistan in May 1993 where he contacted Ramzi Yousef,
who had just arrived from the United States. During the last three months of 1993
Murad was in Dubai where he remained until June 1994. In September 1994 Murad
joined Wali Khan Amin, Shah Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Ramzi Yousef in Karachi,
Pakistan. Khalid Shaikh Mohammed told Murad he had visited Israel and the United
States. In December 1994 Murad flew to the Philippines for his crash course in the
manufacture of IEDs.88

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Yousef told the FBI that if an incident at an apartment in Manila had not occurred,
there would have been several airline bombings in mid-January 1995. The incident he

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. Philippine National Police Report February 18, 1995
referred to took place when Abdul Hakim Murad, whose heart was in the right place but
his brains were not, washed his hands and broke a basic rule of bomb making: Water
mixed with chemical residue in the kitchen sink, and it set off an eruption that would tip
off the Filipino police to the location of the Bojinga safehouse. Ramzi Yousef, ashamed
of his friend¶s stupidity, told the FBI of the mistake that destroyed Bojinga: ³In early
January 1995 I had been demonstrating the burning of a mixture of potassium chlorate,
sodium chlorate and sugar to an associate, when smoke produced by the burning
began to fill the apartment.´ Abdul Hakim Murad told the FBI that: ³He returned to the
room and they were burning off some chemicals that they didn¶t need and it caused
some smoke to occur, more than they had anticipated. They therefore opened up the
window and the door to try to get the smoke out of the apartment.´

Since it is our custom to remove our shoes before entering a dwelling, the
Brothers left their shoes in the hallway outside the safehouse. As a result, on January 6,
1995 after the residue in the sink ignited, the Brothers did not have time to put their
shoes back on as they ran from the apartment. Roman Mariano, a security guard
explained: ³I was surprised at around on or about 10:45 in the evening that night, I saw
Yousef and Murad running outside of the building towards the direction of going outside
into the street. I noticed that as they were running outside of the building that I was
guarding that evening that they were carrying their shoes with them. After a few minutes
they came back and returned upstairs. That particular evening was a bright evening
because the moon was out, and I had happened to be looking out that night into the
sky, and when I looked up towards the direction of room I saw that the window up there,
there was smoke coming out of it similar as in, let¶s say, that there was a fire or
something.´

Brother Yousef related:

The neighbors usually retired early, but on that evening they

apparently had not done so, and had noticed the smoke. They alerted the
building¶s security guard who knocked on our door. I told him the smoke
was the result of some fireworks we had set off but he did not fall for this
story.

The Brothers did not permit the security guard to enter their room, however, the
guard persisted:

When I got up to room I asked them for the permission to please let me
inside room so that I could see what was going in there for myself, and
eventually Yousef and Murad gave in and allowed me. When I got inside
the room I saw that there was smoke around the sink area and the sink
area had some burns and around the sink area I also saw some salt and I
had asked Mr. Murad why is there salt there, and they said, he said that
he had mixed salt and the powder from the firecrackers, and in mixing this
it had caused the smoke, and they said that they were just celebrating for
a late New Years.
Brother Yousef:

The guard told us to remain in the apartment, but we left.´ Mariano, the
security guard, spoke with the receptionist who decided to call the fire
department. When the firemen arrived Murad was ³going down and he
was going through the stairs´ and was spotted by the security guard, who
explained, ³After that I proceeded on to run after Mr. Murad and I was able
to catch up with him on the ground floor. When we got to the ground floor I
had asked him if he could please let us in into room since we, the doors
were closed and we couldn¶t get in and he had permitted us to go to room.
Murad accompanied me back upstairs to the sixth floor and he let me and
the firemen go inside the apartment. After that the firemen went inside into
the building and they looked around and they saw what was happening
there, and they had also tried to investigate, him, and I can hear in the
background that Murad was saying that there was not nothing to be
worried about, that this was just a late celebration for the New Years, and I
heard the fireman reporting that it was negative, negative. The firemen
stayed just for a little while. We went downstairs, me and the firemen. I
went to my original post. After the firemen had left there arrived a
policeman from Precinct No. 9. Police Officer Ariel Fernandez. I had a
conversation with Mr. Fernandez. After that, we first asked permission
from Mina, and then we proceeded to go to room. We got there and Murad
was there and I told him that I was with someone, and that we wanted to
get in to investigate what had happened, and he let us in. I proceeded to
investigate and ask him and I heard him explaining to him that it was just a
celebration for a late New Year and there was nothing.

Officer Ariel Fernandez recalled the conversation:

He said to me that the smoke came from firecrackers. He said that they
had a disassembled several firecrackers and put together the powder and
lit it up. I saw that there was salt spread on the sides of the sink. It was
white grains and there was a lot of them. It smelled like smoke from
burned powder. I did not see any firecrackers or firecracker wrappers in
the sink area and kitchen area. So afterwards I asked, I encouraged all of
us to just go down to the lobby, and that¶s where I continued my interview
with Saeed Murad. I asked him I would like to invite him to the precinct
and asked him also if there were any firecrackers where are the wrapping
of these firecrackers? He said that the reason for the fire was that they
had disassembled firecrackers and then put together all the powder from
the firecrackers, and then lit it up for no apparent reason. And he said,
when I asked him about the wrapping of these firecrackers, he said that
his friend had taken them away with him. So I asked him if we could invite
him and his friend to the precinct, and he said, maybe perhaps 3:00
o¶clock in the morning.´
Mariano continued:

After I heard his explanation Ariel Fernandez and myself went down.
When we got downstairs I went back to my original post. Officer Ariel
Fernandez had been inside the apartment at that time for just a matter of
minutes. I went back to my post and I started to write notations for my
report. Mr. Murad eventually came down and it was at that time that
myself and Ariel Fernandez were still standing and having a talk over
there on my original post. So when Murad passed where myself, and Ariel
Fernandez were standing, having a talk, they proceeded to have another
conversation. I heard that he had asked Mr. Murad to please go to the
police station so they could do a greater investigation. Murad said, yes,
and that he consented to go to the precinct. I received a call from an
operator at the precinct, and then Mr. Murad left. After the operator
received the call it was given to me and then the precinct investigated
what happened. I spoke with Captain Aida Fariscal.

While Mariano was on the phone with Fariscal Murad ran down the block to meet
up with Yousef, who was hiding there. Ramzi Yousef: ³I told Murad to return and get my
laptop computer, which contained many encrypted files.´ Meanwhile, Yousef was
frantically beeping Brother Wali Khan, because Yousef needed help and he needed
help fast. Officer Fernandez continued:

After this conversation with Saeed Murad I went to the precinct. When I
arrived at the precinct I related all this to the night duty officer and said
perhaps we should go back to the Josefa building. The night duty officer
was a woman, Captain Aida Fariscal. So we all returned to the Josefa
building with Lieutenant Tizon, Captain Fariscal and myself. When we
arrived there Mr. Saeed Murad was nowhere to be found, and we asked
Mr. Mariano, the security guard, to procure a master key. When Mr.
Mariano unlocked the door and turned the lights on we saw that there
were boxes stacked on top of each other by the wall, and on the shelf we
saw boxes containing parts of gas stoves, and we also saw, I also saw
unused cotton. On that table at the foot of the bed I saw timers, their
trademark was Casio and I, that could be set to go off, with an alarm to go
off at one minute. I saw Bibles I saw crucifixes, pictures of the Pope, and
garments worn by priests. I saw that on the right table near the head of the
bed there were small wristwatches to which two wires would be attached
and there were several of those, and on the other table I saw more
wristwatches and soldering gun. Captain Fariscal instructed us to all
proceed downstairs and definitely not to touch anything because it was
dangerous.

Security guard Mariano recalled,

After they had arrived I escorted the officers to the room. Before we went
to do that, we stopped at the operations desk and borrowed the keys so
that we could get in. Captain Fariscal instructed us when we went upstairs
and opened the door that we were not to touch anything that we were just
to look at the room. When we went upstairs and we went inside what we
saw was a lot of cottons, cotton that were in a box, different kinds of
cartons, and there were cartons, and there were juices, pineapple and
grapefruit juice. There were a lot of wirings that were contained in the bag
and I saw some fires. We remained there, it was just few minutes, sir, and
then when the telephone rang we got out. I was asked where was Murad
at that time when Captain Fariscal and the other officers arrived? He was
outside and he said that he was going to the precinct. I don¶t know if he
really went to the precinct. I saw him leave, walking. We proceeded on to
go downstairs and when I went downstairs they gave me the instruction
that I should just go to the normal post that I have, and I should just act as
if nothing had really happened. They told me that I should go over to my
original post; that if either one of the two, Mr. Yousef or Mr. Murad arrives
in the building that I should give them a signal so that they will know that
these are the people.

Around past four o¶clock Murad arrived in a taxi. It¶s a Tamaraw FX

taxi. When the taxi pulled up and Murad got out, I had a conversation with
him. I greeted him good morning. In turn he responded to me good
morning as well. And then he proceeded on to ask me if I will please help
him. And I asked him, what kind of help did you need? And he said, that
he needed me to help him bring down his luggages, that he needed to
take to the precinct. I told him, sir, that I would help him, and I said to him
that why doesn¶t he go on ahead, and I will come and follow him. After that
I went ahead and opened the door for him and when he proceeded on to
walk going into the inside of the building I signaled to Mr. Ariel Fernandez
that here he is. The next thing that I saw was he entered the building and
Mr. Ariel Fernandez approached him, and he put his arm around Mr.
Murad and the next thing I remember was Mr. Murad running quickly out
of the building. After that, after I saw Mr. Murad run quickly out of the
building, I saw him followed by Mr. Ariel. At that point I saw Mr. Ariel pull
his gun out and shot it in the direction upwards and a shot was fired. Mr.
Murad was running, but he fell by the coconut tree. I thought that he had
been shot, and he fell on the ground. I came closer to get a better look at
him. I was following Ariel and Ariel also had my gun pointed in his
direction. He was not shot. He had fell to the ground and at some point he
got up. He was kneeling on the ground, and he was trying to get up and
we told him that he should stay in that position and that we would shoot
him if he tried to move. We instructed, me and myself, and Mr. Fernandez
that he should lay flat on the ground and that he should not move, and
then Tizon and Fariscal arrived, and I suggested that we should handcuff
this person. They told me that they did not have any handcuffs with them,
 and so I said, made the suggestion. I told them to wait a minute, that
perhaps we should just go ahead and tie him with something. That
evening I was wearing my jacket and it had a draw string on the bottom
portion of it so that¶s what we pulled out, and that¶s what we used to tie Mr.
Murad with. He was laying flat on the ground and he was on his front, and
we tied his hands. The Captain put his arm around Murad and said: You
know you made a fool out of us. You were actually making bombs up
there. They brought him to the police station. I returned to my original
post. Later on Fariscal, Tizon and other members of the police arrived with
Murad, and Fariscal told me that Murad was willing to show them the
room. The police and myself went upstairs and they inspected the room. I
saw a laptop computer, a large cooking pot that is made out of stainless
steel. I saw some pictures of the Pope and a Bible, and cashews a large
box.

To recapitulate: The incompetent, corrupt and overly accommodating Filipino

police let Murad go simply on his word that he would voluntarily visit with them at the
local police station later that night. Murad had no intention of doing this but went back to
the bomb factory to try to get the laptop computer. The Brothers needed that computer
because on the computer was damning information about the Bojinga plot, what it was
and exactly who was involved. By the time he returned the police were waiting for him
because they had been inside apartment 603 and what they found there made them
very, very nervous: During a second inspection of the apartment, the officers had found
a laptop computer, fake Norwegian, Saudi Arabian, Pakistani and Afghani passports,
photos of the Pope, priest garments, Casio watch timers, wires, cotton, and a live pipe
bomb. Though a pipe bomb was found, neither security nor the police thought to
evacuate or secure the building. The pipe bomb remained in the kitchen while the
apartment was searched. Later, the bomb was defused at a remote location. Murad was
arrested on the spot and taken to the police station. He offered $2,000, for his freedom,
but of course he was turned down. Did Abdul Hakim Murad think these Catholic
policemen would release for $2,000 when it was apparent to them that he was involved
in a plot to kill the Pontiff?

This episode was indicative of the sloppiness and lack of caution that was the
hallmark, not only of the local authorities, not only of the Bojinga Operation, but of the
Dona Josefa staff. When the Dona Josefa apartment was cleaned the room boy had
seen timers, chemicals and numerous passports in plain view. At the Bojinga trial, FBI
agent Dolan was asked:

h Did he [cleaning boy Cruz] tell you that after cleaning the room, the
room boy, Damaso, made the comment to Mr. Cruz [Joseph Cruz, the
manager of the Dona Josefa] that the occupant of room 603 might be
making a bomb? Now, sir, did also Mr. Cruz advise you that on other
occasions he cleaned the room, he saw many I.D.s for both residents and
many passports?
 c Yes.

The cleaning man at the Dona Josefa Apartments was asked:

h And moving along to the right, you mentioned that you saw some
timers on the end of the dresser. Could you describe those for us?

c What I saw was over here on the upper right-hand corner were timing
devices made out of Casio. It was around the second week that Mr.
Haddad [Yousef] had already been living there. They were probably two
and a half inches and they were squares. The timing devices were inside
boxes.

h Sir, isn¶t it a fact that you told the FBI on February 1995 that after you
saw the timing devices room boy Danny Damaso made a comment to you
that the occupants of room number 603 could be making bombs?

c Nothing of that sort.

The cleaning man was confronted with a copy of his FBI interview but still denied
having made the statement.

Later that night the police returned with Murad to the apartment, and he was
allowed to make one telephone call. He called Ramzi Yousef's cellular phone. After that
call Ramzi Yousef began to phone the airport. In between phoning the airport he was
beeping Wali Khan because he needed to get out of town very fast. The next morning
Ramzi Yousef boarded a plane for Pakistan and disappeared.

By 3:00 a.m. on January 7, 1995 the Philippine National Police (PNP) had
arrived, followed by the Presidential Security Group. They found the apartment had
been rented under the names of two Jordanians and put this together with an alert they
had received from the American intelligence community that there was going to be an
assassination attempt against the Pope who was scheduled to visit the Philippines. The
Presidential Security Group was responsible for his security and they did not wish to
create a situation where the Pope¶s trip would be cancelled. Sergeant Fernandez was
asked:

h Sir, was it your testimony earlier that you don¶t write any report
concerning the events which took place on January 6, 1995?

cYes, sir.

h Sir, isn¶t it a fact that you told the FBI agents on March, 1995, that after
you went to the police station you wrote a report?
 c While we didn¶t make the report per se, if we made, we wrote down a
report then this news could leak, because about the 12th of January the
Pope was expected to arrive. I didn¶t make a report because the higher
headquarters authorities took over.

h But, sir, did you tell the FBI during your interview of March 1995, that
you prepared a report?

c I told the FBI that I was unable to make a report.

As a result of what was found in the room, PNP officers removed some of the
evidence, including a pipe bomb, to show a judge in order to obtain an official search
warrant. The officers put the pipe bomb in an attaché case along with some Arabic
coins, condoms, Arabic writing and a Casio watch, and told the judge that it was found
outside the Brother¶s door, so that they would be issued a search warrant immediately.
The officers perjured themselves. While the search warrant was being procured, the
planted items were also included in a list that became part of the official police report.
Ultimately, two inventory lists were created, one real and one false. The 
 report was
included in the official police report that was later provided to the FBI, once they
became involved in this case. The real list of items was never actually used or included
in any official report. Abdul Hakim Murad¶s defense attorney questioned Sergeant
Orlando Ramilo about this:

h Did Lieutenant Cruz give you any instructions as to doing any
paperwork?

c Yes, sir. When I was making the report he handed me a list that should
be inserted in the report. It included items like a watch, tubes for making
pipe bomb. These items were listed. He told me to include this particular
list in the report, and I told him that this is really not originally included, and
he said that he has further instructions from above to do so.

h Did Lt. Cruz give you any instructions with respect to the attaché case
that you referred to earlier in your testimony?

c He said that Captain Fariscal had given us this attaché case, and that
was different. He gave me the instructions that to put another item in the
report that is really different from what had really happened. He said that I
should say that this attaché case was found in the hallway outside
apartment 603, and that Captain Fariscal found this.

h Was that different -- the instructions that you received, that is, with
respect to the attaché case, were they different from what you had
observed?
c Yes, it was different. I couldn¶t really do anything because I was a
sergeant at that time, and he said that the instructions came from above. I
was told to file this report in the office.

h So you understand, sir, that when you¶re asked to prepare a report

which says that there is a suitcase which is left someplace by a foreign
person and that suitcase contains not only pipe bomb, it contains
something in Arabic, and contains Arabic coins, that is done for a purpose
of establishing some type of evidence; is that correct? And you
understand that they asked you to copy that because they were
manufacturing evidence to accuse Arabic people of possessing this bomb;
is that correct?

c My job really doesn¶t cover that, sir.

h Your job doesn¶t cover your writing ± you¶re saying that you saw a
bomb in a suitcase on top of a piece of paper with Arabic on it, and with
coins in there, and your job doesn¶t cover your understanding that this
could be evidence that the person who owned that bomb was of Arabic
descent or from an Arabic country? Was a Casio watch found in that pipe
bomb?

c No, sir.

h Yet on January 7, 1995, Inspector Cruz told you to say that a Casio
DBC-62 watch was found in that pipe bomb? And the same is true for two
Eveready 9 volt batteries?

c Like I said, this list was handed to me so that I could insert it in my

report.

h Did there come a time later that day when you were instructed to return
to the Josefa building?

c Yes, sir. We were instructed to wear our EOD [Explosive Ordinance

Disposal] uniforms and a search warrant was going to be served. We
waited for the officers and we waited for, and eventually they came,
General Ebdane, the counter intelligence, and different chiefs of the
police, and we waited until this search warrant was served to the
management of the Josefa. The instructions to us were that the first
people that should enter apartment 603 were the EOD team. My particular
job at that time was to help Sergeant Voltaire Gomez to perform an
inventory of the things that would be found. When we entered apartment
603 $t seemed like it was in the original condition except that the attaché
case and the laptop computer had been removed.
 Ramilo said he had advised the FBI about the falsification, but that defense
attorneys never knew about his statement. A search warrant was issued on January 7,
1995, at approximately 3:00 p.m., and a search commenced at approximately 5:00 p.m.,
ending at 10:30 p.m. The police videotaped the search with a home camera, because
the police department did not have their own camera. The police gathered evidence and
transported it to Camp Crame, headquarters of the PNP. By now, the PNP determined
that this was a serious matter as they had discovered pictures of the Pope, as well as
bibles and priestly garments. First and foremost, the police were concerned with the
Pope¶s safety. Only later did they discover the airline-bombing plot. While in police
custody Murad was questioned about the disguises that were to be used to assassinate
the Pope:

Murad: What do you mean, ³crucifix´?

Interrogator: I mean did you buy it? Did they sell the crucifix? The cross,
the cross«

Murad: Cross? Ah, that¶s a good question. When they open that«the
bags«we¶ll put the bibles and the cross inside the bags.

Murad: Inside the bags. They will think that we are Christians.

Interrogator: What¶s the purpose of the pictures of the Pope?

Murad: Also to put in bags and briefcase.

Interrogator: You rented a gown, a vestment, a priest¶s vestment?

Murad: The dress of a priest.

Interrogator: Yes, with a white collar?

Murad: No, no, I don¶t know about that. We don¶t have anything with the
Pope. Our enemy is the United States and Israel.

 
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If not for Murad¶s blunder Pope John would have been blown
to bits during his trip to Manila on January 13, 1995. Brother Mehmet
Ali Agca had almost accomplished this long-term Islamist goal in May
1981, when he seriously wounded this idol-worshipper. Agca, who
had received training by various Middle Eastern groups, had already
threatened to kill the Pope in 1979 when the Pope visited Turkey. In
a letter to the magazine áá he said he wished to do so out of a
mixture of ultra nationalist and religious fervor. In that letter he called
the Pope a ³Crusader Commander´ masked as man of religion who was visiting Turkey
because Western imperialist powers were being frightened by the economic and
political forces being created in the Middle East and its brother Muslim countries. At the
time of the takeover of the Grand Mosque in Mecca by Wahhabists that same year,
Agca blamed the United States and Israel for its failure, and threatened to kill their
consulate generals in Istanbul.

After Agca¶s assassination attempt a prepared statement was found among his
papers in his hotel room that contained the words: ³I have decided to kill John Paul II,
Supreme Commander of the Crusades. I shot at the Pontiff because I considered him
responsible for the Western reaction against Islam and the leader of the Crusade that is
being waged against my faith. I am protesting the imperialist crimes of both the United
States and the Soviet Union.´

In an interview with left daily *m Adan Agca, his younger brother, was
quoted as saying,

My brother hoped to win world fame and a place at the head of the Muslim
world. Everyone is calling my brother a murderer but if he is murderer he
is not a common criminal. I hope they give me permission to travel to Italy.
If they torture or spiritually oppress my brother the whole Islamic world will
flock to his side. The Crusaders are against the entire Islamic world.´89 In
1984 Mehmet Ali Agca said, ³If I should be released I would become a
preacher and I would tour all countries in the world preaching the good
and truth of Islam.

Agca was a member of the Grey Wolves, a paramilitary group connected with the
neo-Nazi National Movement Party (MHP), who are not specifically Islamist, but have a
history of collaboration with Islamist parties. An MHP activist called Nejat Atiker started
the Hizb¶allah or Islamic Action Group in Turkey in the first half of the 1980¶s. Islamic
Action and the Grey Wolves organized, financed, armed and protected by the State of
Turkey, in collaboration with U.S. trained and equipped security forces, were
responsible for the death squads that killed thousands of Turkish leftists, communists,
journalists and union organizers. In 1979 Ali Agca and Grey Wolf leader Abdullah Catli
killed a Turkish newspaperman. Catli then helped organize Agca¶s escape from an
Istanbul military prison. When the Italian police arrested Agca they found a false
passport belonging to Catli.

Why would a member of an anti-Communist group attack an anti-Communist

Pope, who was helping to bring down the godless Soviet empire? Agca¶s motives were
religious, not political. Agca was an Islamist. Now there is a growing Islamist dominance
to Turkish pan-nationalism. Agca was ahead of his time.

A year after the attack, Agca implicated the Bulgarian secret service and the
Turkish mafia in a plot to kill the Pope on behalf of the former Soviet Union. Agca now

89
. Nexis search on Agca and a complilation of its results.
denies that he was acting in league with the secret service of Bulgaria and the Bulgarian
trail was a false one. Despite this in March 2006 an Italian Parliamentary Commission
concluded that the Soviets were behind the attempted assassination because a
photograph purportedly showed a Bulgarian diplomat in the crowd at St. Peter¶s Square.
After Agca¶s action the Sergei Ivanov Antonov, once the Rome manager of Bulgaria's
national airline was arrested after Agca falsely accused him in order to implicate the
Communists, another enemy of Islam.

Ugur Mumcu, a Turkish journalist, began an investigation of

Agca¶s ties to Iran and Hizb¶allah. On January 24, 1993 his car was
wired with American-made C-4 explosives. He died a violent death.
Mumcu¶s murder remained a mystery until September 2000 when
Turkey arrested two former ultra-nationalists turned Islamists, who were
known to the police. Yusuf Karaku served 12 years in jail for the murder
of two trade unionists in 1977. He was sentenced again in 1997 for his
involvement in the kidnapping of a dissident Hizb¶allah leader, Fidan
Gungor. The second suspect, Abdulhamit Celik, who was apprehended
in 1996 in connection with the murder of Iranian opponents, had then confessed to
being an Iranian agent. He even named as his contact the same Iranian official, Azad,
whose identity has been revealed in the investigation of the Mumcu assassination.
Despite the extensive details he provided in his testimony, Celik was then acquitted for
³lack of evidence.´90

In July 2000, while standing trial in Turkey for armed robbery of a soda plant,
Agca accused the Vatican of being the enemy of god and humanity and called on the
Pope to resign immediately from the devils center. Ten days before the second World
Trade Center Event Agca wrote a letter to the Turkish intelligence agency, the MIT,
offering to go in Afghanistan to ³capture Usama bin Laden dead or alive.´ ³Beloved
Brother´ Agca wrote, ³I can go in Afghanistan and help to capture Usama bin Laden.
The Americans have given Ocalan to us I can give them a like gift of the psychopath bin
Laden. I can go alone to Afghanistan and can infiltrate myself in its group.´91 Ocalan, a
Maoist Kurdish separatist, said collusion between the Turkish generals, extreme-right
nationalists and Islamic forces in the 1980s led to the release of Mehmet Ali Agca who
was linked to the Grey Wolves. Ocalan said Agca was released to carry out the
assassination of the Pope. If the Turkish authorities had freed Agca, he would have
joined Usama bin Laden¶s struggle against the Zionist/Crusaders, and would not have
tried to assassinate him!

The 1995 plan to kill the Pope involved one îáá hiding a device under his
disguise - a priest¶s robes - then getting close enough to kiss the pontiff as the bomb

90
. Mustafa Bakacak, Nezih Gurol Milliyet On Line Istanbul ³Murder machines of Iran Police revealed that three agents of Iranian
intelligence killed two opponents of Islamic revolution in 1996 and then left Turkey.´
http://www.milliyet.com/2000/05/20/english/cur02.html
91
. Nexis search on Agca.
BBC News Europe December 7, 1998 ³Ocalan offers testimony on Pope assassination.´
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/229281.stm
went off. Both men would die.92 The Brothers gathered priestly vestments and Christian
bibles. The security guard at the Dona Josefa Apartments, in front of which the Pope¶s
motorcade would pass and which was conveniently located 300 yards from Papal
Nunciature, where the Pope was to stay, was asked:

h When you first entered, correct me if I¶m wrong I think you testified that
among the first things you saw are some posters of the Pope?

c They¶re not posters. They¶re blown-up pictures of the Pope.

Brother Ramzi could not openly admit to this controversial plot, due
to the popularity of the Pope:

h You are also accused of the attempt to assassinate the Pope?

c This is absolutely incorrect. First, the Islamic religion prohibits the

attack on the religious men, especially if they do not have any role in the
current fighting. And secondly, there are no proofs that are connected to
this matter.

h They say that they found a computer?

c The evidence on which they rely does not have any relationship with
the matter. And the confessions which they pulled out of the persons who
were arrested either are fabricated confessions or that those persons were
forced to say them.

 

 


Philippine intelligence agents tortured Abdul Hakim Murad. For weeks, agents hit
him with a chair and a long piece of wood, forced water into his mouth, and crushed
lighted cigarettes into his private parts, his ribs were almost totally broken. They
dragged him on the floor from one end of the interrogation room to the other. They let
him sit on ice cubes. A prison psychiatrist recalled what Murad had told her: µThey were
touching my private parts. I can¶t tell you.¶ And then I said: µWell, were they touching
your penis?¶ And he said: µNo.¶ And I said: µWere they squeezing your testicles?¶ And he
said: µNo¶. And I said: µWas he touching your anus?¶ And he nodded with an expression
of extreme pain, sweat pouring out of his face, and there were tears in his eyes. And I
said: µWell, did they have an instrument that they were using, or was it their hands?¶ And
he said: µIt was their hands.¶ And I said: µWas it very painful?¶ And he nodded. And he
said that even though he was blindfolded he had, that for three days later he could
smell«´

92. Doug Struck, Howard Schneider, Karl Vick and Peter Baker ³A Borderless Network of Terror: Bin Laden Directs a Global
Crusade´ &
á $ 
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 His captors were surprised he survived.93 During the Bojinga trial Murad¶s jailers
were asked: ³Did you punch him in the back, in the face and in the stomach? Did you
clap both your hands to his ears while he was handcuffed and blindfolded? Were you
present when that man¶s head was dunked in a toilet full of fouled water?´ They denied
having done any of this. When one of them was asked: ³Did you point [your pistol] at Mr.
Murad? Did you put it at his head and spin the barrel?´ he denied he did this. Murad¶s
other attorney, Clover Barret, then asked:

h Did you ever hear anyone instruct, anyone of your superiors instruct
either you or any of the interrogators to punish Mr. Murad in any way?

c I personally know that for us it is not in fashion to inflict pain on a

person to get information. We employ newer modern ways of
interrogation. I personally know that it¶s better to ask the person
diplomatically for information by convincing the person without the use of
brute force. These ways that you speak of are barbaric ways that pertain
to an older life.

h Are you familiar with those barbaric ways?

c I personally have not had a chance to participate nor to perform such

barbaric ways.

h Sir, do you know if any one of your colleagues or any of the

interrogators that participated in interviewing Mr. Murad employed any of
those barbaric techniques in interrogation?

c No.

h You never saw Mr. Murad vomit? You never saw him being choked?
Did you ever hear Mr. Murad begging for water and then denied the water
by one of the interrogators? You never saw them giving him urine to drink
when he asked for water? You never saw anyone applying electrodes,
electric shock to his genitals?

c No, ma¶am.

Transcripts of Brother Murad¶s interrogation:

Murad: We used to go to shopping, [for] timer, heater.

Interrogator: Where? Here?

Murad: Yeah, because there is timer in Philippines, you'll never find it in

Pakistan or other country. There is one big timer, 24-hour timer.

93. Marites Vitug and Glenda Gloria Under the Crescent Moon.
Interrogator: What do you need that for?

Murad: Well, maybe in the future we will do something. Yes, future use.
There is a lot of planning.

Interrogator: Planning to kill the Pope [unintell]. Who is making the plan?

Murad: Sometimes he makes the plan, sometimes I'll make it.

Interrogator: Who finances, who [Ul] the money for this?

Murad: The money, many people they give us money.

Interrogator: Who?

Murad: Many people around the world.

Interrogator: Who?

Murad: Like, eh, he know, he know a lot of people. Like a guy called, eh,
Amin.

Interrogator: Who? Ben [sic] Laden?

Murad: What? Sorry?

Interrogator: Ben Laden?

Murad: No, no, no. You mean, Usama Ben Laden? From Sudan? No, no,
he's not supporting that. We are not taking anything from him.

Interrogator: Are you sure?

Murad: I-I don't know.

Interrogator: Are you sure?

Murad: I'm sure, yeah.

Interrogator: Why are you planning to kill the Pope?

MURAD: Why? He-he-he said that we should kill him. Because he's the
enemy for Muslims. I came here, I, I wasn't planning for that. He told me
that I should kill him. I told him that in Islam, you should not kill these
 people. He told me, no, we should kill him because there will be a show in
the newspaper that the Liberation Army done one thing, they kill the Pope.

Interrogator: For what purpose?

Murad: Nothing basically, that most Muslim-Muslim will be happy that

Pope has been killed. This is the truth. This is what you are looking for
believe me.

Interrogator: Huh? That is what [UI] for.

Murad: Believe me, this is the truth.

Interrogator: Okay. I don't believe you. What is for the, the Crucifix, the
cross, -the Bible?

Murad: The Bible? Believe me he told me that he will take some, he will
take one and I will take one Bible, and put it in the bag, you know? Maybe
they will be checking«

Interrogator: But you are a Muslim, you have a Muslim name?

MURAD: Yeah, I, actually, he told me if they ask you about your name, tell
them that I'm interested in the Christian. Tell them that I'm interested in the
Christian. I would like to read about Christian. This is the truth, believe me.
Believe me, this is the truth.94

During his closing arguments Abdul Hakim Murad¶s attorney quoted the Pope in
relation to the torture his client had undergone:

Even in exceptional situations that may at times arise one can never justify
any violation of the fundamental dignity of the human person or the basic
rights that safeguard that dignity. Legitimate concern for the security of a
nation as demanded by the common good could lead to the temptation of
subjugating to the State the human being and his or her dignity and
rights.´ Judge Duffy commented: ³It truly is a wonderful country. Only in
the United States could a court-appointed Jewish lawyer acting on behalf
of an alleged Muslim terrorist cite to the words of a Roman Catholic Pope
and have the jury quite respectfully listen to it.

 
 


The Bojinka Crew planned the assassination of Clinton the Degenerate during a
visit to Manila. Phosgene gas was to be used in this operation. Phosgene is
treacherous. No serious effects are evident from its inhalation for a number of hours.

94
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Suddenly its victims sink to the ground with all the symptoms of heart failure. Yousef
explained:

In the fall of 1994 I learned through various press accounts that President
Clinton would be traveling to Manila in November. I traveled to Manila a
few days prior to the President¶s arrival and made contact with an
intermediary, who put me in contact with the Islamic Liberation Front who
would assist me in the assassination attempt. I determined Clinton¶s
planned itinerary though press accounts and traveled to each of the sites
to survey them for opportunities to attempt an assassination. The level of
security was very high, with a large number of U.S. security agent¶s forces
in the areas, and I believed my presence in Manila had been detected and
had raised the level of security there. After completing of my site surveys I
thought of two options for assassinating Clinton. My first was for an attack
on the President¶s aircraft, either during take-off or landing, the times
when aircraft are most vulnerable to attacks. I thought about using an
improvised ground-to-ground missile,95 which I had the knowledge and
ability to construct, or an ordinary machine gun. The improvised missile
could also be used to take out Clinton at a speaking location. The second
option was a bombing attack of the Presidential motorcade while the
motorcade was on route between sites in Manila. An explosive device
would disable the lead car in the motorcade and the entire motorcade
would be brought to a halt, enabling an explosive or poison gas attack on
the Presidential limousine. I was going to use phosgene gas because I
could readily manufacture it. The phosgene, in liquid form, could be placed
in a metal container, which could then be opened with a charge of
explosives, rapidly dispensing the substance as a gas. I never had enough
time to put any of these plans into effect.´ On December 28 1996, MCC
snitch Gregory Scarpa Jr. advised the FBI that Yousef had been bragging
about a gas that he invented that can be used to harm thousands of
people and can be sold for money. Yousef sent Scarpa a kite (a note
passed from cell to cell) explaining the procedure to make the gas. Yousef
explained in the kite that the gas is called phosgene. Yousef explained
that he invented a new method for producing the gas that can be easily
implemented in almost all countries around the world. Yousef advised
Scarpa that the advantage of this method it is inexpensive and easy.
Yousef advised that the people involved in producing the gas should wear
gas masks with oxygen. Further, Yousef explained the process for
producing the gas including chemical equations. Yousef advised that his
method produces phosgene gas and Mustard gas.96

Some more of the details of the Clinton Operation surfaced during the Bojinga
trial:

95
. In his plan to attack the US Consulate office In Karachi, Yousef intended to use an improvised rocket that he learned to assemble
during his training in Afghanistan. It was drawn in the notes of Murad that was among the items confiscated during the raid of
apartment 603 of the Dona Josefa residence.
96
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 MR. GREENFIELD: In view of that tape that was played the other day,
which I objected to, there is something in there about digging ditches and
planting bombs. I think that the Court should find that these implements
here might be read to be possible implements to cause such things to
occur, but it has nothing whatsoever to do with the charge of conspiracy,
and to let it in at this time would only buttress what I¶ve been objecting to
as only being offered for a very limited purpose to explain the Philippine
National Police conduct, would so violate the intent of Rule 40397 of
absolute prejudice totally outweighing the probative nature of what the
government is intending to prove here, that I would object to it. I
respectfully suggest that the Court look at the documentary evidence also
to more clearly see what my objections are. Like that fuse, and, I
understand the mercury, that¶s something that may have to do with a land
device. That has nothing to do with the plan with respect to
airplanes«What do these springs have to do?

MR. GARCIA: Your Honor, in the material that Mr. Greenfield is speaking
about, specifically a translation of a document seized from Mr. Shah, there
is a discussion of the creation of Improvised Explosive Devices which
includes springs and firing pins, and I have a copy of that translation which
also includes mercury fulminate as an initiator detonating material and I
can pass that up to the Court.

MR. GREENFIELD: I think the Court should also look at the Arabic
document that goes along with it, because there are certain diagrams
which I think indicate what they are making is not related to airplanes at
all. I¶m not by this argument acknowledging that this is stuff that my client
had. I¶m just saying it applies to the prejudice that attaches to it.

THE COURT: The photocopy is put together as if it were, I guess

appropriately, a Semitic writing. Thus it runs right to left and so on and so
forth. I assume that Arabic is much the same as Hebrew. I can¶t read
Arabic,  Ô     á  «This word-to-word translation,
where is the word-to-word translation? «We have here a document that
apparently discusses the manufacture of a device described as a B1
pressure mine. The B1 pressure mine discussed here is not something
that would, that I can see, have anything whatsoever to do with air
pressure. It is a spring and needle, and various things connected there. Is
it the government¶s theory that they were going to plant a pressure mine in
a runway or the tarmac someplace so that it could blow the wheel off an
airplane?

97
. Although relevant, evidence may be excluded if its probative value is substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice,
confusion of the issues, or misleading the jury, or by considerations of undue delay, waste of time, or needless presentation of
cumulative evidence.
 From this testimony it can be determined that the plan involved Phosgene Gas
Pressure Mines planted along Clinton¶s motorcade route. But what is more important is
where did Judge Duffy learn to read Hebrew? Did he have Jewish blood in him? During
the first World Trade Center trial Duffy had moved the leftwing lawyers Jesse Berman,
Lynne Stewart and Leonard Weinglass out of the case. He also issued a gag order that
hurt the defense.

During his interrogation by the PNP Brother Murad attempted to convinced his
captors that the pipe bomb the cell was constructing was to be used against the Pope
and not against President Clinton:

Interrogator: What will you do here in the Philippines?

Murad: Yes, just listen to me. He told me that he will do for Pope and I will
do my here for airplane. He was planning to do that pipe for Pope. He told
me that. He will dig a ditch, you know, in the-the road that the Pope cross
from and he will -- Okay?

Interrogator: You are telling lie again.

MURAD: Believe me, I swear.

Interrogator: How can he make a hole there in the road [UI]?

Murad: No, no. It's besides the road. He told me that he will check where
he will cross from, okay, and he will dig a ditch and inside of that, beside
the road, and he will put the bomb there.

Interrogator: Okay. What do you use to detonate the bomb for the Pope?

Murad: He, he -- he try, he planning also to buy some watch for that.

Interrogator: How come you use a timed detonator -- for a bomb for a, eh,
motorcade when the motorcade is not gonna stop?

Murad: Yeah, he told me that he use either he use that remote control or
he will use that watch. I think he was planning to buy something for remote
control. You know that, ah, tel-, eh, walkie-talkie? He told me that he can
make from that, from
that also -- also can he make from that a remote control.

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Ramzi Yousef fled the Philippines in early January 1995. A communiqué written
by him was discovered which read in part: ³And this is (U/I) for use against vital
institutions and residential populations and the sources of drinking water and others.
And if our request is not answered positively, in addition to everything we have
mentioned, we shall train the Muslims in the South to do this.´98 More about him later«
Mujahedeen Wali Khan Amin Shah (³The Lion´) who had fought alongside Usama bin
Laden in the Afghan war was arrested after a list of cell phone numbers on Ramzi
Yousef¶s computer¶s hard drive led authorities to stake out his Singalong Street
apartment in Manila. Shah¶s girlfriend, Carol Santiago, was picked-up carrying a bag
with timers in it but was not arrested. Shah was brought to Camp Crame, a Filipino
political prison. After having undergone torture the Brother escaped on January 15,
1995 and was able to leave the Philippines. In July 2003 Brother Fathur Rohman al-
Ghozi of the Abu Sayyaf group, bribed his way out of Camp Crame, with the help of the
Jakarta-based Ali-Rahman Group, named after his Eminence Sheik Rahman, but was
killed on October 12, 2003.99

When Yousef was kidnapped by the FBI he asked the interviewing agents
³whether the Agents knew how the person who had been arrested in the Philippines,
and who had subsequently escaped, had effected that escape. When the agents replied
that they did not have the details of the escape, Yousef described the individual who
escaped as being strong, intelligent and resourceful, and further stated that he doubted
this individual would have to bribe anyone to effect his escape.´ Ramzi Yousef was
right: After Wali Khan Amin Shah was arrested in December 1996 in Malaysia and jailed
on charges arising out of Operation Bojinga, he broke out of the recreation roof of a
maximum security Manhattan prison despite the fact that in 1988 drug dealers with Uzis
and wire-cutters tried to free their boss by landing a helicopter on the very same roof.
After this 1980 escape attempt the building was strung with anti-helicopter devices.

In a period of five minutes Shah, a five foot-six Muslim was able, in the pitch
dark, to negotiate up a brick wall by using an electrical outlet indented in padding as a
step, a foot hold, then grab the top of the padding and boost himself up to be able to
grab the support for the backboard of a basketball hoop then grab the rim of a
basketball hoop and get up to the roof with a cutting implement (after being stripped
searched), at which time he severed 14 cables, and was able one-handed, to then push
the cables up so he could get to the roof. The Correction Officers were asked about this:

h Just how thin are those metal bars?

c I would say it is about maybe a quarter of an inch thick, if that.

h Do you think a man hanging with one hand can snap that with his
hands? Hanging from the wiring, from a beam, hanging from his feet, I
don¶t know. Can it be snapped by hand?

c I think so, snap it, yes. That wiring on the roof, yes.

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. Filipino Reporter July 18-24, 2003. Associated Press October 12, 2003.
 h The reason that cabling is up there is to prevent any escape, is that
right?

c Yes, it is.

h So you are saying cable that can be snapped by hand, steel cable that
can be snapped by hand was installed on the roof of the MCC.

c Yes.

h When did you become aware that steel cabling that could be snapped
by hand was placed on the roof of the MCC?

c When did I become aware that it was installed? I assume the first time I
went up to the roof.

h Had you ever seen anybody snap that cable before? Did the senior
officers at the MCC inform you to always be careful to look up at the
cables because they could be snapped by hand?

c No.

Shah was discovered missing from the prison¶s rooftop recreation area at 6:15
a.m. on February 7, 1996 but was discovered by guards shortly thereafter in a semi-
comatose state on another roof four stories below the 12-story recreation roof. The tool
he used to cut the cables was disposed of by the Correction Officers, so that no one
would be reprimanded or loose their jobs.

The FBI report continued: ³Yousef acknowledged that this individual was known
as Wali Khan Amin Shah. Yousef was asked if he had been acting under the direction of
Wali Shah? He would not elaborate on that issue.´

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The FBI reported that, ³When questioned regarding a business

card in the name of Mohammad Khalifah, found in Yousef¶s apartment in
Manila, he stated that he did not personally known Khalifa, but that
Khalifah¶s business card had been given to him by Wali Khan Amin
Shah, as a contact in the event Yousef needed aid. Yousef also
acknowledged he was familiar with the name Usama bin Laden, and
knew him to be a relative of Khalifah¶s, but would not elaborate.´
Mohammad Khalifah was the brother-in-law of Usama bin Laden. Wali
Khan Amin Shah's phonebook and cellular phone bills contained five telephone
numbers of Khalifa as well as Khalifa¶s business card, together with diary entries
making it clear that Khan was providing weapons to a faction in Kashmir at the time.
Yousef had a listing for ³Khalifahn´ in both his encrypted computer file and in his
telephone/address book. The encrypted log also contained a Post Office box for
Mohammad Khalifah in Lebanon. Yousef¶s encrypted phone book listed the telephone
number of Khalifa¶s charity.

     

On December 16, 1994, American officials detained

Mohammad Jamal Khalifa in San Francisco for INS violations after
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with Mohamed Bayazid. Bayazid had made effort's to get uranium for al-Qaeda to
develop a nuclear weapon after Mamdouh Salim gave him his approval in 1993 to al-
Qaeda¶s efforts to obtain WMDs.100 Mahmdouh Mahmud Salim is a Sudanese national
and was one of bin Laden's top financial officers. Salim attempted to procure WMD¶s for
al-Qaeda and had been instrumental in the August 1998 bombing of the American
Embassies in East Africa in 1998. He was extradited to the United States from Germany
after his arrest near Munich in late 1998. The American State Department wanted
Khalifa locked up and argued: ³To permit Mohammad Jamal Khalifa to remain at large
in light of his alleged activities and criminal conviction in Jordan«would have potentially
serious adverse foreign policy consequences.´101 At the time, Khalifa had been living for
a substantial period of time in Manila, the Philippines, and was affiliated with a number
of al-Qaeda front groups, including the Benevolence International Corporation and the
International Islamic Relief Organization.

The International Islamic Relief Organization is a fundraising arm of Al-Qaeda. A

CIA report says ³the International Islamic Relief Organization helped fund six militant
training camps in Afghanistan, according to a clandestine source.´ The International
Islamic Relief Organization was banned in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 for suspicion of
its involvement in the American Embassy bombings.102 The same CIA report listed the
International Islamic Relief Organization, founded in 1992, as also having connections
to Hamas, the Algerian Al-Jihad and Al-Gama¶a al-Islamiyya. ³The International Islamic
Relief Organization is affiliated with the Muslim World League, a major international
organization largely financed by the government of Saudi Arabia, and a high-ranking
International Islamic Relief Organization official in the Philippines leads Hamas
meetings. The majority of Hamas members in the Philippines are employed by the
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101
. Fillipino National Police Report August 25, 1996. Also see PNP Investigation of Suspected Islamic Extremists January 6, 1995
and PNP Report on Khalifa March 1, 1995.
102
. USDC Eastern District of Virginia Case No. 03-365-A
 With friends like the Saudis American needs no enemies. Despite all the anti-
Saudi Royal Family emanating from Usama bin Laden, al-Qaeda has a soft spot in its
hearts for the Saudis, as the Government of Saudi Arabia has been funding al-Qaeda
for decades. The Muslim World League was founded by Saudi Arabia in Mecca in 1962.
The Saudi government provided the Muslim World League with generous funding and
charged it with the support and propagation of Wahhabi Islam. The line from
Wahhabism to Jihadism is a very thin one that is easily crossed, both religiously and
intellectually. Brother Arafat El-Asahi, the director of International Islamic Relief
Organization in Canada and a full-time employee of the Muslim World League, testified:
³Let me tell you one thing. The Muslim World League, which is the mother of
International Islamic Relief Organization, is a fully government funded organization. In
other words, I work for the Government of Saudi Arabia. I am an employee of that
government. Second, the International Islamic Relief Organization is the relief branch of
that organization which means that the Government of Saudi Arabia controls us in all
our activities and plans. Keep that in mind, please«I am paid by my organization which
is funded by the [Saudi] government«The [International Islamic Relief Organization]
office, like any other office in the world, here or in the Muslim World League, has to
abide by the policy of the Government of Saudi Arabia. If anybody deviates from that,
he would be fired; he would not work at all with International Islamic Relief Organization
or with the Muslim World League.´

Wael Julaidan was a leader of the Muslim World League before America
pressured the Saudis into freezing a token amount of his assets.103 Wael was not just a
financier, but a fellow Mujahideen. During the Afghani Jihad a letter on Muslim World
League / International Islamic Relief Organization letterhead recounted an operational
meeting - attacks were being launched from Muslim World League offices
against the Russians. The letter advised that passports should not be
kept with the Saudi Red Crescent because Julaidan was returning to
Saudi Arabia and could not guarantee their integrity.104 In a 1989
interview, Sheikh Abdullah Azzam said the Saudi Red Crescent sent
money to the îá . Azzam also identified Wael Julaidan as the
head of the Saudi Red Crescent during the Afghan Jihad. When asked,
³Who donates to the Mujahedeen?´ Azzam replied: ³The Saudi Red
Crescent and the Saudi Relief Agency headed by Salman Abdel µAziz, has a budget of
100 million riyal per year. These two Saudi organizations are under one headed [by]
Wa¶il Julaydan, who happens to be head of the Red Crescent as well. He was a
representative of the University of King Abdel Aziz in Saudi Arabia in the United States,
and left it to become the head of the Red Crescent.´105

One of the most influential members of Muslim World League /International

Islamic Relief Organization¶s board of directors is Tariq bin Laden, a close family
relation of Usama bin Laden. Mohammed al-Zawahiri, leader of the Egyptian Islamic

103
. http://www.state.gov/e/eb/rls/rm/2003/29144.htm
104
. http://fl1.findlaw.com/news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/bif/usarnaout10603prof.pdf
105
. http://www.senate.gov/~govt-aff/073103emerson.pdf
Jihad¶s military wing and the brother of Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri worked and traveled
around the world on behalf of the International Islamic Relief Organization. In 2002
associates of Usama bin Laden had a meeting in Bosnia at the International Islamic
Relief Organization¶s offices there. At this meeting it was discussed whether or not the
Muslim World League¶s offices in Pakistan would be the place from which attacks will be
launched.106 When leaving home, September 11th Shaheed Fayez Ahmed Alshehri told
his father he was going to go work for the International Islamic Relief Organization.107

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At the time of his travel, Mohammad Jamal Khalifa had been convicted in
absentia in Jordan for his involvement in 1993 and 1994 in a series of bombings of
public places in Jordan including movie theaters that displayed pornography and a
supermarket that sold alcohol. We also planned to attack nightclubs and video rental
shops.108 Two of the principal participants in the bombing were Jordanians who had
spent time with Khalifa in the Philippines but who had then returned to Jordan to
conduct these bombings and contemplated assassinations. After his extradition from
San Francisco to Jordan Khalifah was retried and acquitted on July 23, 1995. He could
have been charged in the United States but the United States Attorney at San Francisco
and the Department of Justice declined to authorize filing of a criminal complaint against
Khalifa for ³damaging or destroying property with explosives, visa fraud and furnishing a
false statement.´ At his Jordanian trial, Mohammad Jamal Khalifa admitted to the
Jordanian authorities that he had known the bombers and had sent them money but
claimed that it was for past services. In his San Francisco airport interview, Khalifa
admitted knowing and training the bombers but claimed that he disassociated himself
from the bombers upon learning that they were violent. Items in Khalifa¶s possession
linked him to Ramzi Yousef and Wali Khan Amin Shah. When Khalifa was detained at
the San Francisco airport he had Wali Khan's beeper number in his phonebook as well
as in his electronic organizer. Khalifa also had: (i) an entry for a number in Pakistan
which Yousef had called from Manila; (ii) an entry for the Cellular telephone of an
associate of Wali Khan and Yousef (which Yousef also had in his phonebook), and (iii)
an entry for Usama bin Laden. Mohammad Jamal Khalifa, also had documents referring
to the assassination of bishops and bombings of churches after churches had already
been bombed in the Philippines in the preceding year. Khalifa¶s alias ³Abu Baraa´ was
also found written on a manual seized from Ahmad Ajaj. In June 2002, Mohammad
Jamal Khalifah was identified as one of the masterminds and financiers of the
September 11th Raids.

106
. Glenn R. Simpson³Institutionalized Islam: Saudi Arabia¶s Islamic Policies and The Threat They Pose´
&) , March 18, 2003.
Testimony of Simon Henderson Saudi Strategies London September 10, 2003 Senate Judiciary Committee
Subcommittee on Terrorism United States Senate
http://kyl.senate.gov/legis_center/subdocs/091903_henderson.pdf
107
. Testimony of Steven Emerson with Jonathan Levin Before the United States Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs
³Terrorism Financing: Origination, Organization, and Prevention: Saudi Arabia, Terrorist Financing and the War onTerror´ July 31,
2003
http://www.senate.gov/~govt-aff/_files/073103emerson.pdf
Cited therein: Reasons for Order: The Minister of Citizenship and Immigration and Mahmoud Jaballah. Docket: DES-6-99. Federal
Court of Canada. November 2, 1999.
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In August 1993 a search was conducted of the New Jersey residence of Omar
Abdel Rahman, and a business card for Mohamed Jamal Khalifa, along with a series of
important papers in Abdel Rahman¶s suitcase, which also contained $62,600 in cash,
was found. Brother Khalifa was of course on the Rahman Unindicted Co-Conspirator
List. A Philippine police report stated, ³Investigation disclosed that Khalifa is also directly
linked to the Muwafaq Foundation, a business based in Albania on the basis of a
telephone number he used. On September 29, 1994 his business group made a call to
a certain Amir Abu-Al Khayr of the Muwafaq Foundation. The same number was later
called by a member of Al-Gama¶at Al-Islamiyya«´

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Brother Khalifa moved to Madagascar in 1997 and became involved in the
exploitation of precious stones, primarily sapphire, in the South of the Big Isle. For the
Muslim community of Madagascar, Brother Khalifa had nothing to do with the Jihadi
Movement. In 2000 the Saudi government certified his presence in Madagascar as
having nothing to do with ³terrorism.´ In 2001, agents of the CIA came to the country to
question him and a person known as ³Amine,´ one of his employees, about September
11th but it seemed as if nothing came of it. According to a person in charge of the
French police force, two investigations were opened by Madagascar authorities relating
to attacks in Soameloka and the membership of Khalifa in al-Qaeda. The Saudi Golden
Chain of al-Qaeda financiers funded the African Islamic Courts to the tune of $200
million since the spring of 2006. The investigations followed their course and no arrests
were made. On January 30, 2007 Dahalos killed Jamal Mohammed Khalifa during a
home invasion in his residence in rural Soameloka, Sakaraha (Faritany de Tuléar)
Madagascar. Mortally wounded in the chest, he succumbed to his injuries while his
brother received a bullet in the leg. The assailants seized a trunk, allegedly containing a
lot of money, and a laptop as well as of two mobile telephones.109

The Dahalo are bandits usually found in mountainous regions of Madagascar.

Their preferred target is Zebu cattle but will take almost anything when they raid villages
and ambush people traveling by foot or pirogue. The Dahalo are typically armed with
shotguns and carefully plan their attacks. Like the Kamajors of West Africa, the Dahalo
rely an on elaborate pre-raid ritual which they -- and local people -- believe makes them
invinceable to bullets. Police are said to avoid the outer areas where the Dahalo prey,
either being paid to stay away or fearing for their safety. The Dahalo are an amorphous
group and it is likely that some are often members of the very communities they raid. In
some areas a man is required to steal a neighbor's Zebu before he can take a woman's
hand in marriage.

The Dahalo do not speak Arabic yet one Madagascan newspaper reported, ³The
investigation of his death ran into some difficulties because of a language problem:

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. http://fr.allafrica.com/stories/200702020031.html
Three of the four persons questioned in the murder are of Arabic nationalities«and one
of them is acting as an interpreter«a position that becomes subject to problems for the
investigators since the translator, defending his cause, would be attempted to distort the
statements of its partners. The French police force should have taken the wise decision
to suspend its investigation while recruiting another interpreter.´

Another newspaper reported, ³The French police force asserts to have identified
two suspects, two days after the murder of the Saudi mining operator Jamal Khalifa.
The suspects were held for investigation. Khalifa was among the big operators
exploiting mining in the district of Sakaraha. His operation used heavy equipment and
employed several persons. The mining operator was killed in an attack perpetrated by
about twenty outlaws in his residence of Sakaraha, January 30, 2007 in the night.
Another person was injured. He received a bullet to the ankle. This man is being held in
protective custody at Camp Ratsimandrava for security reasons. The autopsy revealed
Khalifa received two bullets to the torso. One bullet penetrated his back and exited
through his abdomen. The dahalo also threw an ax at him. A delegation came from King
Abdallah of Saudi Arabia on board of a Boeing 747, specially dispatched for the
rapatriement of the body of Khalifa. Three members of the family that came to claim his
body attended his autopsy.

The Director of the Judicial Police, Albert Rakondravao, stated, "I think that this
was a pure one and simple criminal act « an unpremediated murder« it is not a matter
in any case of premeditated murder«for me, not to support this opinion would aim only
to provoke diplomatic incidents.´ If the Madagascan police helped the CIA murder
Khalifa there would be reprisals. "The word reprisals is too strong, the state of
Madagascar was not an active partner in the act, this was rather an assassination of
which the origin was the lust of the dahalo towards the goods of Jamal", the Director of
the Judicial Police pointed out. According to the Controller General Jacky Rahaingo, the
present stage of the investigation revealed that the murder of Khalifa was a crime of
common origin. He ³attracted the covetousness of the Dahalos with his money,
important machines and equipment´ for the invaluable stone extraction. But questioned
on the current evolution of the investigation, he answered that this is not just his
investigation but concerns the National Gendarmerie and thus the Ministry for National
Defense.110

You can bet you bottom Dahalo that Brother Khalifa died at the bloodstained
hands of the Americans. When he was assassinated, the political climate in the United
States was such that rendition was out of the question as was a strike by a Predator
Missile, due to the disillusionment with the Bush the Younger neo-con-controlled
administration. Someone fingered Khalifa to the Dahalo, a CIA asset in the Madagascan
French police, no doubt.

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 Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was secretly indicted by a New York City Grand Jury
in January 1996, as Federal prosecutors believed Khalid Shaikh Mohammed helped
Ramzi Yousef devise and finance Bojinga. In the spring of 1996, the FBI sent a counter
terrorism team to Qatar after receiving information that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was
hiding there along with Muhammad Shawqi Islambouli, as the guest of a member of the
country¶s ruling family. Khalid Shaikh Mohammed had been given a job
at the state-owned waterworks. Khalid Shaikh Mohammed escaped
thanks to Brother Abdullah ibn Khalid al-Thani, who was then the
country¶s Minister of Religious Affairs. The al-Thani family has produced
all the leaders of Qatar. In the fall of that year, the CIA received
information, including visa records that showed Khalid Shaikh
Mohammed was traveling to a South American country. The CIA
arranged through its liaison with that country¶s security service to arrest
him, but officials said the effort failed and he slipped away. In 1996
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed went to the Czech Republic under the alias ³Mustafa
Nasir.´111

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Before the 9/11 Holy Tuesday attacks, Ahmad Hikmat Shakir, a 37-year-old Iraqi
national, devout Muslim and al-Qaeda operative lived in Doha, Qatar working as a civil
servant in the country's Ministry of Religious Affairs. In August 1999 Ahmad Hikmat
Shakir was employed as host at the airport in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Ahmad Hikmat
Shakir allegedly got this job through someone who was a member of the Iraqi
Intelligence Service. In this capacity he accompanied 9/11 Shaheeds Khalid al-Midhar
and Nawaz al-Hamzi to their hotel before the Brothers attended the meeting we held
there at the home of Yazid Sufaat. The CIA assessed that Shakir, "apparently acting in
his capacity as an airport facilitator, met al-Mihdhar at the airport. The two then shared a
taxi to a Kuala Lumpur hotel, although airport facilitators were not responsible for
providing land transportation for passengers." The two were not spotted together again.
The CIA noted that Shakir's departure from Malaysia only one week after helping al-
Mihdhar, "raised suspicion about his connections and intentions." The CIA added that,
"Shakir's travel and past contacts linked him to a worldwide network of Sunni extremist
groups and personalities including suspects in the bombing of the 1993 World Trade
Center and indirectly to senior al-Qa'ida associates.´112

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According to neo-conman publications such as the &    after

September 11th the police in Doha, Qatar, found out about this accompaniment of the
Shaheeds and searched Ahmad Hikmat Shakir¶s home and person. The authorities
reportedly found the name and telephone number of Ibrahim Ahmad Suleiman, whose
fingerprints were found on Ramzi Yousef¶s bomb making manuals.

111
. LA Times October 1, 2002
112
. http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/710goolj.asp?pg=2
 Ahmad Suleiman had been brought before a Grand Jury and
questioned about his association with Ahmad Ajaj, the degree of his
commitment to struggle in Afghanistan and other matters to which he
answered falsely to protect our interests. Attorney Abdeen Jabara
(left) waited outside the door of the Grand Jury during Ahmad
Suleiman¶s testimony. Suleiman was indicted on two counts of
perjury for lying to the grand jury investigating the first World Trade
Center attack and was held without bail for two years prior to his trial. Jailhouse snitch
Muhammad Salami claimed Suleiman told him the reason he perjured himself was that
he would rather not be a traitor to his people and he was concerned about his family in
Jordan. Muhammad Salami testified that Ahmad Suleiman was well acquainted with
Ramzi Yousef and called him ³the great one.´ Suleiman, who swore he knew nothing
about the World Trade Center Event and had been held for 24-months, received a 10-
month sentence and was deported to Jordan in November 1998.

The Ahmad Hikmat Shakir search was said to have yielded links to Zahid Sheikh
Mohammed, brother of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and Musab Yasin, the brother of
Abdul Rahman Yasin.113 (In April 2005 the U.S. State Department offered a five-million-
dollar reward for Abdul Rahman Yasin, dead or alive). The search allegedly unearthed
documents with the name Mahmdouh Mahmud Salim, who was linked to our search for
nuclear material. Documents with the name Ammar al-Baluchi, a nephew of Khalid
Shaikh Mohammed, were allegedly discovered. Ammar al-Baluchi provided $120,000 to
Brother Mohammed Atta. This information seemed to be overwhelming yet it was
entirely fabricated at the request of neo-con elements within the CIA.

Qatarian authorities released Shakir but then he was held in a Jordanian prison
for three months, after which he returned to Iraq. The Senate Intelligence Committee
reported, ³After Shakir's capture in 2002, a foreign government service working in
partnership with the CIA reported that Shakir was not affiliated with al-Qaeda and had
no connections to the Iraqi Intelligence Service. The information said there was µno link,
clue or hint to any foreign intelligence service, radical religious group or terrorist
operation.¶ Prewar information indicated that Ahmed Hikmat Shakir al-Azzawi was not
affiliated with al-Qaeda or connected to the Iraqi Intelligence Service. According to the
DIA, the CIA and the FBI, no postwar information about Ahmed Hikmat Shakir al-Azzawi
has emerged.´114 The neo-cons had used Ahmad Hikmat Shakir to link Iraq to the
September 11th Events. Former U.S. Attorney Andrew McCarthy, now employed by a
neo-con think tank115 questioned the Senate Intelligence Committee¶s exoneration of
Shakir and still believes he was a member of Al-Qaeda.116

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113
. USDOS Patterns of Global Terrorism: 1998: The Year in Review http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/terror_98/review.htm
Newsweek Volume 120 #41 Steven Hayes Weekly Standard October 20, 2003 and November 3, 2003. Time Magazine as cited in
Weekly Standard November 3, 2003 for Ammar al Baluchi reference.
114
. http://intelligence.senate.gov/phaseiiaccuracy.pdf CIA, Iraqi Supportfor Terrorism, January 2003, p. 27.
115
. http://www.defenddemocracy.org/biographies/biographies.htm
116
. http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MmIxODIyYjUzY2ZhNjYwYWMyN2Q5YjJlYWU5NzJkYTI=
 With the help of the Almighty, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was seen primarily as
just another freelance terrorist, ³a small time punk´ associated with Ramzi Yousef.
Because the links between Khalid Shaikh Muhammed and bin Ladin or Al-Qaeda were
not recognized at the time, responsibility for Khalid Shaikh Muhammed remained in the
small Islamic Extremist Branch of the Counterterrorist Center, not in the Bin Ladin Unit.
After his capture by the Americans Khalid Shaikh Mohammed lied to his CIA captors
and said that he and bin Ladin knew each other from the anti-Soviet campaign of the
1980s, but did not begin working with al-Qaeda until after the 1998 East Africa embassy
bombings, the answer the CIA and FBI wished to hear to account for their
misjudgment.117

Khalid Shaikh Muhammed became targeted for arrest. In 1997, the CIA
Counterterrorist Center added a Renditions Branch to help find wanted fugitives.
Responsibility for Khalid Shaikh Muhammed was transferred to this branch, which gave
the CIA a "man-to-man" focus but was not an analytical unit. When subsequent
information came, more critical for analysis than for tracking, no unit had the job of
following up on what the information might mean.´118 When federal aviation security
official Robert Cammaroto testified at would-be Shaheed Zacarias Moussaoui¶s
sentencing hearing he said that in 2000 a ³follow-up directive´ ordered U.S. airlines to
keep Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and his baggage off any airliner and call law
enforcement if he showed up.

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Yousef came across Ishtiaque Parker, 25, a South African Muslim enrolled with
the Islamic University in Islamabad, via Yousef¶s brother-in-law, also student at Ô
má.
In December 1994 Yousef told Parker about his connection with Al-Qaeda and asked
Parker to take a bag overseas for him. After Yousef hastily returned from the Philippines
due to the Bojinka Fiasco, he recruited Parker on January 7, 1995 to launch attacks
against U.S. airlines mainly on the basis of his non-Middle eastern looks and the fact
that he possessed a South African passport. The plan was still the same: Place small
bombs in strategic locations aboard Western aircraft then disembark. Later Parker
would claim that he did not want to work with Ramzi Yousef and feared for his life if he
told him so. Parker was married with children and lied to Yousef about security
measures on a flight he was supposed to destroy after both men traveled to Bangkok to
carry out this mission. Parker claimed the authorities were demanding fingerprints from
passengers. This nonsense should have alerted Yousef that Parker was a phony. On
February 3, 1995, Parker betrayed Yousef. Brother Ramzi was arrested on February 6,
1995. Parker had opted for the $2-million reward after being told by Yousef that his
name was on a computer seized in the Philippines, who was on a downward spiral by
this time.119

During the Bojinga trial Ramzi Yousef commented while defending himself:

117
. Intelligence reports, interrogations of KSM, Nov. 21, 2003; Jan. 9, 2004; Feb. 19, 2004.
118
. 9/11 Commission Report p276
119
. Understanding Terror Networks by Mark Sageman University of Pennsylvannia Press
 Now, the vague way in which Mr. Yousef was arrested shows also the
conspiracy which was played by the Pakistani government, and how did
he describe it? He said there was a person who was walking in a backyard
of a house where an employee of the United States Embassy was staying
there, a person was walking circles around himself, and then they went
and they talked to him. Then they continued talking to him for three days,
and after three days they learned from him about the whereabouts of Mr.
Yousef from someone who was just walking circles around himself. So it
just happened that they want to talk to him about why he was walking
circles, and by mere coincidence they found out the whereabouts of Mr.
Yousef. So everything in this case the prosecution or the witnesses said
happened by mere coincidence.

The trap Parker set for Yousef involved leading the FBI to the Su Casa boarding
house in Islamabad where Ramzi Yousef¶s calls would be monitored for two days. One
of the calls was to Saleem Abdel Rahim, the Syrian-born director of the Islamic Relief
Agency in Peshawar.120 In the Sudan the United States focused on the Islamic Relief
Agency as a source of funding for Hamas activities after they were brought to their
senses by the events of September 11th. 121 The Pakistanis later arrested Rahim. The
U.S. Congress¶ Joint Committee on Intelligence reported: ³Ramzi Yousef was arrested
at a bin Laden guesthouse in Pakistan.´ Pakistani investigators said that Ramzi Yousef
resided at the bin Laden-funded Bayt Ashuhada (house of martyrs) guesthouse in
Peshawar during most of the three years before his apprehension in February 1995.

When they had obtained the intelligence information they sought, American and
Pakistani agents stormed Yousef¶s room and abducted Ramzi Yousef, kicking and
screaming. That was what another boarder told a reporter. ³It was like a hurricane, a big
panic,´ he said. ³He was shouting: µWhy are you taking me? I am innocent! Show me
papers if you are going to arrest me! Who are you?¶ They took him without his shoes.
His eyes were blindfolded, his head was covered, his arms and legs were tied.´ The
boarder identified himself as a Karachi businessman. He was registered under the
name ³Khalid Shaikh,´ but his real name was Khalid Shaikh Mohammed!122

When Ramzi Yousef¶s room in the al-Qaeda safehouse was searched, two
communiqués threatening retaliation against the Philippines for failure to release Abdul
Hakim Murad were found. The first communiqué demanded the immediate release of
Murad and threatened ³the strongest actions´ against ³all Filipino interests,´ including
³air targets´ and assassination of the President of the Philippines, if this demand was
not met. The second letter likewise threatened Filipino interests. Headed ³We Demand
His Release,´ the letter claimed that ³We are going to take the harshest of measures in
order that all Philippino interests inside and outside the Philippines will be subject to
120
. John F. Burns  
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March 17, 1995 ³Pakistan Ties 6 To Key Suspect in 1993 Bombing.´
121
. Briefing document prepared for the South African President, Thabo Mbeki.
http://cryptome.org/za-hamas.htm
122
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destruction. Our measures will include assassinating some prominent figures, foremost
among them the Philippino president. They will also include hitting numerous aerial
targets. And we would like to inform you that the Liberation Army« we also have the
ability to make and use chemicals and poisonous gas. And these gases and poisons
are made from the simplest ingredients that are available in the pharmacies and we
could, as well, smuggle them from one country to another if needed.´ 123

In March 8, 1995, two U.S. diplomats were killed and a third wounded in Karachi,
Pakistan, in an assault upon the car they were driving in. Gary C. Durell, 45, a CIA
communications technician was killed instantly when two gunmen opened fire on the
van. Jackie Van Landingham, 33, a consulate secretary died of gunshot wounds after
being taken to a hospital. Mark Brother McCloy, a 31-year-old mailroom worker
underwent surgery for his wounds. The Pakistani police assassinated Nadeem Riaz for
this action.124 Riaz had been affiliated with Punjabi Paktoon Ittehad, a group that was
based in autonomous North West Frontier Territory also known as the Federally
Administered Tribal Areas bordering on Afghanistan. The Taliban were Paktoon and
there is a Paktoon population in Balochistan. The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM)
also claimed credit for the attack stating it was carried out as retaliation for the arrest of
Ramzi Ahmed Yousef.125 The MQM members were tried for the activity but were
acquitted for lack of evidence. Allahu Akbar!!

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On &'()*(+,-," an Egyptian diplomat was shot and killed in the parking

garage of his apartment building in Geneva.126 On &'()*(+,"," the International
Justice Group claimed responsibility for the attack. On &'()*(+,," a shaheed
rammed a pickup truck packed with explosives into the gate of the Egyptian Embassy in
Islamabad killing 15 people and wounding 59 others. The intensity of the mid-morning
explosion shook large parts of the city and caused widespread damage. Police officials
in Islamabad said a suicide bomber in a small van packed in explosives caused the
blast. Eyewitnesses said an explosive device was thrown to blow open the metal doors
to the embassy compound and the van continued towards the front of the building,
where the main bomb was detonated. Five Egyptians, including two diplomats, seven
Pakistanis, an Afghan and the suicide driver of unknown nationality were confirmed to
have died in the blast. Most of the dead were Pakistani security guards and people
applying for visas. Only one Egyptian diplomat was also killed. The attack in the
Pakistani capital occurred at about 9:30 a.m. when the embassy was in full operation.
The explosion ripped off one side of the turreted embassy. Survivors said they had

123
. Our operatives are so resourceful this need not even go to pharmacies for the ingredients for their tools. In December 2002
French anti-Islamist police arrested four suspects in Paris and they found two chemical substances, one of which was iron
perchloride, available in any art store that sells etching materials, or at suppliers for manufacturers of electronic printed circuit
boards. Iron perchloride gives off dangerous fumes when combined with mercury. An NBC suit which protects the wearer against
chemical or bacteriological contamination and two empty gas canisters were also seized.
http://www.expatica.com/france.asp?pad=278,313,&item_id=27696
124. http://www.newstimes.com/archive95/107/ina.txt
http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/mar/pakpash.htm
125
. Al Baker - New York Daily News - April 5, 1995 p7.
126
. On November 13, 1995 a car bomb exploded outside a military installation in Saudi Arabia's capital, Riyadh, killing six, including
five U.S. servicemen.
heard two explosions. Shortly after the blast an unidentified man called a news agency
in Cairo and said, the Al-Gama¶a al-Islamiyya claimed responsibility. Two other groups,
Egyptian Islamic Jihad and the International Justice (Jihad) Group also claimed
responsibility in a fax to an international news agency, demanding the release of the
Islamist leader Sheik Omar Rahman.

In a television appearance Pakistan's foreign minister, Sardar Assef Ali, called

the bombing "a dastardly attack«a terrorist attack perpetrated by a suicide bomber who
may have blasted his way through the gate and exploded his pickup truck." Assef Ali
said in recent months Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan has been cooperating
with Egypt to locate Egyptian militants who Cairo believes live in Pakistan or
neighboring Afghanistan. Since signing an extradition treaty with Egypt about a year
ago, Pakistan has deported several Egyptian nationals from the country, many of who
were believed to be involved with Islamism. After the first explosion today workers from
nearby office buildings, banks and other embassies ran outside. Three minutes later a
second, much greater explosion sent concrete and shrapnel flying, witnesses said. The
blast could be felt several miles away.

I was standing outside the gate and the body of a police officer came
flying over the wall and landed beside me," said Mohammed Iqbal, a
police officer and security guard for the Egyptian embassy. Mr. Iqbal said
he had dropped off ambassador Mohammad Noman Galal at the embassy
several minutes before the explosion. Mr. Galal was not hurt. Mr. Iqbal
said the first explosion appeared to be outside the embassy compound
while the second came from within the walled barrier. The cries of injured
workers, some apparently trapped inside, could be heard outside the
compound. A huge chunk of the embassy wall was blasted away and a
staircase stood exposed. Outside the embassy building was a hole ten
feet deep.127

The press reported, ³The fact that it took place outside Egypt's borders appears
to be part of a change in strategy by frustrated militants. Their campaign to topple the
government by force has suffered badly at home as a result of a campaign by the
Egyptian security forces to wipe them out of the big cities. By calling on its international
network of brothers-in-arms and sympathizers, Gama'a has shifted its attention to
relatively soft targets abroad. The Pakistani bombing is the fourth such attack in the
past five months.´

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The Islamic Movement of Change (a name al-Qaeda uses when it doesn¶t want
to take direct credit for an action) detonated a car bomb very close to a Saudi Arabian
National Guard and a nearby office complex that housed Vinnell Corporation employees
in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on &'()*(+,-,"The car bomb killed seven people, five
of them American military and ³civilian advisers´ working for the Vinnell Corporation,

127
. SUICIDE BOMBER IN PAKISTAN KILLS 15 AT EGYPT'S EMBASSY Islamabad, Pakistan, November 19 1995 (AP)
several foreign national employees of the US government, and more than 40 others.
The attack was the deadliest terrorist attack against US interests in the Middle East
since the 1983 bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut. +á
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.128

We attacked the Vinnell Corporation in Saudi Arabia because it consists of CIA-

vetted mercenaries who train the Saudi Security Forces in military and intelligence
tactics. The Vinnell Corporation first began its operations in Saudi Arabia in 1975 after
the Pentagon awarded it a seventy-seven million dollar contract to train the Saudi
National Guard to protect Saudi oil fields. After it was reported that this contract
³sparked speculation that Vinnell has ties to the CIA´ a spokesman for Vinnell stated,
³We are not mercenaries because we are not pulling the triggers«we are not a spook
outfit.´129 Vinnell, based in Fairfax, Virginia, not far from the CIA, was once controlled
through a web of interlocking ownership by a partnership that included James A. Baker
III and Frank Carlucci, former U.S. secretaries of state and defense under presidents
Bush the Elder and Ronald Reagan respectively.130

In 1979 hundreds of Islamists led by Salafist-Wahabist Juhayman al-Otaibi (also

transliterated as al-Utaybi) a former captain in the Saudi White Guards who declared
himself to be the Mahdi, the redeemer of Islam, occupied the Grand Mosque at Mecca.
Mercenaries employed by the Vinnell Corporation were on the scene, helping to repress
the rebellion after the government¶s troops mutinied. The French and Pakistanis were
soon called in. After an 18-day standoff, the Saudis, with fatwa in hand, routed the
militants for the underground toilets the Brothers controlled. One hundred and twenty
soldiers died. Juhayman al-Otaibi was a direct descendant of the Ikhwan, the Bedouin
warriors who had fought for and then rebelled against King Abdul Aziz. Juhayman and
62 others were beheaded.131 In the late 1960s, Osama's brother Mahrous bin Laden
joined a Salafist-Wahabist opposed to the Saudi regime. With his assistance, the
dissidents who came to Saudi Arabia from southern Yemen smuggled weapons into
Mecca using trucks belonging to the Bin Laden Group. Mahrous bin Laden was
arrested, but thanks to the family's connections with the Saudi king, he was released
after he Saudi Security determined he was an unwitting participant. In retrospect it
seems as if both Usama and Mahrous had radical Salafism-Wahhabism running
through their veins. Bakr bin Laden was given a contract to repair the damage that was
done to Grand Mosque and soon rebuilt it.

Paul Wolfowitz was familiar with the Islamic Movement but did not
want to link it to al-Qaeda as he was concentrating his efforts on
manipulating American into invading Iraq for a second time:
³Congressman, we don't have that kind of precise information about what
groups are there. This group that calls itself the Islamic Movement for

128
. Edward Cody Washington Post August 15, 1996 ³Saudi Islamic Radicals Target U.S. Royal Family.´
129
. ³U.S. Company Will Train Saudi Troops to Guard Oil´  
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February 9, 1975.
Henry Weinstein ³Corporate Profile´  
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February 25, 1975.
130
. Pratap Chatterjee ³Vinnell Corporation: 'We Train People to Pull Triggers¶´ CorpWatch.org March 20, 2003.
http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PID.jsp?articleid=6029
131
. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/saud/etc/script.html
Change that sent a threatening to our embassy in Saudi Arabia in the spring of 1995
and then claimed credit for the attack in Riyadh in the fall of 1995 has never been
identified. We don't know what countries or what groups have sleeper cells buried
around the world now. We know what people have capabilities and we know what
people have declared hostile intentions toward us.´132 Raymond Mabus, the U.S.
ambassador to Saudi Arabia complained that the Islamic Movement for Change
threatened Americans last spring here, saying that if Americans didn't leave by the first
of July that they would take some violent actions.´133

On June 25, 1996 The Islamic Movement of Change and Brothers in the
Hizb¶allah detonated a bomb aboard a fuel truck outside a U.S. air force installation in
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia killing nineteen U.S. military personnel in the Khobar Towers
housing facility, and wounding 515 others, including 240 Americans. Al-Qaeda fighters,
Iranian Intelligence and the Iranian Hizb¶allah134 carried out this operation, but it was not
until June 2001 that indictments were handed down by the U.S. Justice Department,
and these failed to mention the role al-Qaeda played in this event: ³These Hizb¶allah
organizations were inspired, supported, and directed by elements of the Iranian
government. Because Saudi Hizb¶allah was an outlaw organization in the Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia, its members frequently met and trained á    - á-  Ô .´
Hizb¶allah was outlawed in Saudi Arabia, but the widespread organization had strong
support from Iran in the form of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, or IRG.´

The amount of explosives alone indicated a connection to a powerful government

± the Brothers bought a tanker truck in early June 1996. Over a two-week period they
converted it into a truck bomb. The group now had about 5,000 pounds of advanced,
high-grade plastic explosives, enough to produce a shaped charge that detonated with
the force of at least 20,000 pounds of TNT, according to a later assessment of the
American Defense Special Weapons Agency.135 The Bin Laden family construction
company won a $150 million bid to renovate Khobar Towers.136


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How did two conflicting sects of Islam work together? Usama bin
Laden established an unprecedented Shi¶ite-Sunni connection, when
members of al-Qaeda received training from Hizb¶allah. Sergeant Ali-
Mohamed told Judge Leonard Sand: ³I was aware of certain contacts
between al-Qaeda and al-Jihad organization, on one side, and Iran and
Hizb¶allah on the other side. I arranged security for a meeting in the

132
. http://www.defenselink.mil/speeches/2002/s20020919-depsecdef2.html
133
. http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9511/saudi_blast/pm/
134
.
http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:DVbVzSKw77EJ:www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2001/June/khobarindictment.wpd+http%E2%80%9D//
www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2001/June/khobarindictment.wpd&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1
135
. http://www.afa.org/magazine/June2006/0606desert.asp
136
.
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:LMzzzHabsT0J:www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml%3FitemNo%3D86575%26c
ontrassID%3D3%26subContrassID%3D0%26sbSubContrassID%3D0+Mahrous+bin+Laden&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=20
Sudan between Mughniyah [Mughaniyah] Hizb¶allah¶s chief, and bin Laden. Hizb¶allah
provided explosives training for al-Qaeda and al-Jihad. Iran supplied Egyptian Jihad
with weapons. Iran also used Hizb¶allah to supply explosives that were disguised to look
like rocks.´137 This is from the Khobar Towers indictment, ³The military wing of Saudi
Hizb¶allah was headed at all relevant times by Ahmed Al-Mughassil, aka "Abu Omran,"
a native of Qatif, in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. In his role as military
commander, Al-Mughassil was in charge of directing terrorist attacks against American
interests in Saudi Arabia. Al-Mughassil was actively involved in recruiting young Saudi
Shi¶ite men to join the ranks of Hizb¶allah; arranging for those men to undergo military
training at Hizb¶allah camps in Lebanon and Iran; directing those men in surveillance of
potential targets for attack by Hizb¶allah; and planning and supervising terrorist attacks.´
Jamal Ahmed Mohammed al-Fadl was asked:

h Did there ever come a time when a person representing Shi¶ite Muslims
came to Khartoum to meet with al-Qaeda members? Were you present for
that?

c Yes.

h Can you tell us where that meeting occurred?

c I remember that meeting in guesthouse in Riyadh. I remember one guy,

his name Ahmed Abdel Rahman Hamadabi. He is a Sudani guy and he is
big scholar over there. He bring with him other guy, his name Sheikh
Nomani. Sheikh Nomani got office in Khartoum belong to Iran government
for Shi¶ite Muslims to recruit other people to Shia. In front there they sit
down and some of the higher membership, they got meeting and talking
with the Sheikh Nomani and Hamadabi.

h Was bin Laden there?

c Yes. They talk about we have to come together and we have to forget
the problem between each other and each one he should respect the
other because our enemy is one and because there is no reason to fight
each other.

h Who did they describe the enemy as being?

c They say westerns.

h After that meeting, did there come a time when the Sunni and Shi¶ite
Muslims began to work together with al-Qaeda in Sudan?

c Yes.

137. USDC SDNY - USA v Ali Mohamed - S (7) 98 Cr. 1023 (LBS) October 20, 2000
http://web.elastic.org/~fche/mirrors/cryptome.org/usa-v-mohamed.htm
 h Did you ever speak to anyone who received any training from anyone
who was a Shi¶ite Muslim?

c Yes, Abu Talha and Saif al-Islam el Masry. He say they go to south
Lebanon to got training with the Shi¶ites over there.

h Did he indicate what Shi¶ite group in south Lebanon provided the

training?

c I remember he told me it¶s called Hizb¶allah. He tell me the training is

very good, and he bring some tapes with him. I saw one of the tapes, and
he tell me they train about how to explosives big buildings.

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Saudi Shi¶ite Hani al-Sayegh was a prominent member of

Saudi Hizb¶allah who was a prime mover in the Khobar Towers
mission which came about after much footwork: In late 1994, after
extensive surveillance in Eastern Saudi Arabia, Ali Al-Marhoun,
Ramadan, and Mustafa Al-Mu¶alem recognized and confirmed
Khobar Towers as an important American military location and
communicated that fact to Commander Al-Mughassil. Shortly
thereafter, Al-Mughassil gave Ramadan money to find a storage
site in the Eastern Province for explosives. During the course of the cell¶s surveillance,
Al-Mughassil reported to Al-Marhoun that he had received a phone call from a high
Iranian government official inquiring about the progress of their surveillance activity. In
1995, Sa¶ed Al-Bahar and Hani Al-Sayegh conducted surveillance at the direction of an
Iranian military officer...Their goal was to gather information to support future attacks
against Americans. Hani Al-Sayegh took their surveillance reports and passed them to
the Iranian officer.

Hani al-Sayegh spoke fluent Farsi and enjoyed a close association with certain
military elements of the Iranian government.´138 Hani al-Sayegh reached Canada in
August 1996, where he remained until his arrest by Canadian authorities in March 1997.
In May 1997 Al-Sayegh met American investigators allegedly at his own request. But by
1997 Iran had a new, more ³moderate´ government and Clinton the Degenerate was
eager to improve relations. During the planning period before Khobar Towers, Iran was
under the political leadership of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Then in 1997 the more
moderate Mohammad Khatami was elected. Khatami, a reformist, polled 21,656,476
votes or 78.35% of the electorate. The Clinton Administration wanted a chance to
improve relations so it had Hani al-Sayegh falsely describe a purported estrangement
between Saudi Hizb¶allah and elements of the Iranian government. After he was
removed to the United States in June 1997 on his promise to assist the FBI, the Justice
Department said Al-Sayegh reneged on that promise when it was the Department of

138
. USDC ED Virginia CR-01-228-A
Justice that reneged. Al-Sayegh unsuccessfully sought political asylum in the United
States. With the help of the law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld that
represents the interest of the Saudi Royal Family he was deported to Saudi Arabia. Al-
Sayegh was imprisoned in Saudi Arabia and provided much information about the
operations of al-Qaeda, however, only the information on the participants in the Khobar
Towers was given to the United States. The Saudis finally agreed to let the FBI
interview the Khobar Towers suspects in November 1998.139 The Clinton Administration
made one more impotent attempt in the summer of 1999 to arrest the Khobar Tower
îáá. Clinton sent a request for help with the Khobar Towers investigation to President
Khatami. The letter, delivered through a third party, somehow leaked out to the press.
Of course no help came to Clinton from Iran.140

Usama bin Laden was pleased with the Khobar Towers Event, ³We look upon
those heroes, those men who undertook to kill the American occupiers in Riyadh and
Khobar (Dhahran). We describe those as heroes and describe them as men. They have
pulled down the disgrace and submissiveness off the forehead of their nation. We ask
Allah, Praise and Glory be to Him, to accept them as martyrs. We ask about the main
reason that called for this explosion. This explosion was a reaction to a US provocation
of the Muslim peoples, in which the US transgressed in its aggression until it reached
the qibla of the Muslims in the whole world. So, the purpose of the two explosions is to
get the American occupation out (of Arabia). So if the U.S. does not want to kill its sons
who are in the army, then it has to get out.´

When Gregory Scarpa Jr. and Ramzi Yousef were exchanging ³kites´ Scarpa,
³Advised that on June 29, 1996 he asked Yousef how he is sure that Bojinga actually
did the bombing in Saudi Arabia. Yousef responded that he was sure because Yousef
was originally sent on the mission to check out the security measures and that a tanker
truck was discussed at that time. Yousef expressed concern regarding bugs in the cell.
Yousef said if the government hears him talk about the bombing they might introduce
the information at his trial«Scarpa advised that Yousef indicated that he would be able
to identify the bombers when the composite drawings are completed and printed in the
paper. Yousef did not want to talk too much because he believes his present case is
strong.´141


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Most of the îáá who attacked Khobar Towers were Shi¶ite Saudi nationals
others were Sunni members of al-Qaeda. They all had military and intelligence
connections with Iran, and some had ties to the Islamic Movement for Change. The
Shi¶ite Brothers shared with al-Qaeda a desire to cleanse the Saudi kingdom of the
American military presence. The American 9/11 Committee believed al-Qaeda had a
hand in Khobar Towers, ³There were reports in the months preceding the attack that bin
Laden was seeking to facilitate a shipment of explosives to Saudi Arabia. On the day of

139
. Greg Palast The Best Democracy Money http://www.john-loftus.com/palast.asp
140
. http://www.afa.org/magazine/June2006/0606desert.asp
141
. FBI FD-302 265A-NY-258172 July 2, 1996
the attack, bin Laden was congratulated by al Qaeda militants.´ The report recounts
some of the previously alleged contacts between al-Qaeda and Iran or Hizb¶allah and
concludes, "We have seen strong but indirect evidence that [bin Laden's] organization
did in fact play some as yet unknown role in the Khobar attack."142 The report did not
mention the Islamic Movement for Change an organization of which very little is known.

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According to a database compiled by the Rand Corporation the only attack for
which the Islamic Movement for Change was the sole group to claim credit was a
December 31, 1996 attack on a bus in Syria. ³The attack was in reaction to Syria¶s
execution of Jafaar bin al-Hajj Qassim Marzouk al-Shuwaykhat. The December 31,
1996 incident was odd because the group claimed that al-Shuwaykhat was one of its
members. Yet al-Shuwaykhat was in Syrian custody for his role in the June 25, 1996
Khobar Tower attack which was the handiwork of Hizb¶allah. Given that Islamic
Movement for Change was acting in response to the execution of a Hizb¶allah member
as well as the fact that Islamic Movement for Change took responsibility for attacks by
Hizb¶allah and al-Qaeda, it is suspected that the group was little more than a front for
Hizb¶allah or al-Qaeda. The Islamic Movement for Change was in the news briefly in
late 2003 as being one of the many Islamic movements dedicated to overthrowing
Muammar Qaddafi. However, given that this is apparently an al-Qaeda priority as well, it
is highly likely that the group is merely used as a front for al-Qaeda.´143 Jafaar bin al-
Hajj Qassim Marzouk al-Shuwaykhat was convicted for his role the Khobar attack.
Although Islamic Movement for Change claims the Syrian government executed him,
the Syrian government stated that he committed suicide in his cell.

A website linked to the Zionist Lobby AIPAC reported, ³In July 1998 Lebanon's
military intelligence service and military prosecutor charged 18 members of the
Lebanese Forces, an outlawed rightwing Christian militia, with carrying out the
December 31, 1996 bombing of a bus in Damascus, which killed at least 20 persons
and wounded dozens of others. Eleven of the 18 persons charged were in custody.´144
On July 1, 1998 the Lebanese press reported, ³A terrorist network linked to the
disbanded Lebanese Forces and possibly to Israel was cracked down yesterday by
Lebanon's military intelligence service. Investigations into the case led to the arrest of
eleven members of the ring. The car explosion in Dora early on June 19, 1998 gave the
military intelligence the preliminary clues. The two men who were killed in the explosion,
Naameh Ziadeh and George Deeb, had been members of the Lebanese Forces. The 11
arrested, mostly former Lebanese Forces members or activists, admitted detonating
bombs at parking stations for Syrian taxis in Dora, Nabaa, and Jdeiddeh and attacking a
Syrian bus in Tabarja in which the driver was killed. The 11 members also admitted they
were behind the explosion at the Charles Al-Helou station. Security sources are
investigating the possibility of finding links between all these sabotage acts and the
recent RPG blast near the American embassy in Awkar and a bomb thrown at the

142
. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6581-2004Jun25_2.html
143
. http://www.tkb.org/Group.jsp?groupID=4074
144
. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/hrsyria98.html
American University in Beirut.145 They were also accused of plotting to assassinate
Interior Minister Michel al-Murr and the (now former) Electricity and Water Resources
Minister Elias Hobeika. Murr and Hobeika were Christian allies of Syria and opponents
of the Lebanese Forces. Hobeika was a former Lebanese Forces leader who defected
to the pro-Syrian camp.´146 After the bust of the Lebanese Forces network, security
officials announced that charges were also pressed against 75 people accused of
spying for Israel and providing the Jewish state with intelligence information on the
Lebanese and Syrian militias, as well as the activities of the Hizb¶allah resistance
movement. Intelligence rounded up 17 people from the spy network while the rest
remain at large.147

The Lebanese Forces did not take credit for this attack when it enumerated its
activities for 1996 on its website, ³A group of four armed men opened fire
indiscriminately on a bus full of Syrian workers in Tabarja north of Beirut, killing the
driver. The same day, a bomb went off in the northern city of Tripoli targeting Syrian
soldiers. In the previous two months there were four attacks on immigrant workers from
Syria, according to  +á ), a French-language daily published in Beirut.´148

Despite this evidence linking Khobar Towers to Iran the Court Jew Wolfowitz
said: ³It cost us over $30 billion to maintain the so-called containment of Saddam
Hussein for the last 12 years. And it cost us far more than money. It cost us American
lives; lives lost in , 
, on the U.S.S. Cole«´149 On June 30, 2001 the Senior
Executive Intelligence Brief contained an article titled ³Bin Ladin Threats Are Real.´
Wolfowitz questioned the reporting. Perhaps bin Ladin was trying to study U.S.
reactions he opined. Perhaps Wolfowitz was in the midst of manipulating the American
Government to occupy Iraq?

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While incarcerated at MCC Ramzi Yousef became friendly with a fellow prisoner
named Gregory Scarpa, Jr. Scarpa was a member of the Colombo organized crime
family and was awaiting trial on racketeering charges, including murder conspiracy.

Scarpa told the FBI that Ramzi Yousef and others were planning ³terrorist´
activity from within MCC including the assassination of an Assistant United States
Attorney, certain witnesses, the trial judge in his case, and an FBI supervisor. Ramzi
Yousef also told Gregory Scarpa Jr. that his associates were planning to blow up or
hijack airplanes in order to disrupt his trial. The FBI reported, ³Scarpa asked Yousef
what Bojinga will do if the government refuses to release Yousef. Yousef has advised
that he has discussed this with one of Bojinga¶s associates. Yousef called this person

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. Yousef said the discussion took place right after Yousef ran from the
Philippines after Murad was arrested there. Yousef said the underboss asked Yousef to
go to Thailand to blow up two U.S. airliners. Yousef said that it was then that they
discussed the measures that would be taken if Yousef was arrested. The plan was to
hijack one U.S. airline. The plane would be taken to Sudan to an area very far away
from the capital. Bojinga [al-Qaeda] would build a temporary runway for the hijacked
airplane to land. Yousef said that the hijackers would order the pilot to fly the plane at a
very low altitude so radar would not be able to detect where the plane lands. Scarpa
questioned why they picked Sudan. Yousef responded that most of Bojinga¶s [Usama
bin Laden¶s] followers are in Sudan and they have all kinds of weapons and explosives.
Yousef advised that the main reason is in Sudan one can easily find populated areas for
making a runway and a military base without having anyone from the government or
local people know. Scarpa asked Yousef why they did not pick Afghanistan. Yousef
responded that he also thought Afghanistan is better than anywhere else but the
 

told Yousef that it would be very difficult to do in Afghanistan. The  


said that all areas of Afghanistan are under the authority of the Afghan, including
building runways and using existing airports and runways that are held by the
Mujahadeen. The  

said that if one wants to do anything then one must get
permission from the leader who controls the area. Yousef said that Bojinga does not
trust any of the leaders [warlords] for an issue like this. Yousef said that Shah used to
work in shipping weapons for Bojinga from Afghanistan to other countries. Yousef said
that sometimes Bojinga would travel to Afghanistan himself if the amount of weapons
needed was very big to if the deal pertained to a highly confidential operation. Yousef
said that Bojinga and some of his followers use Afghanistan as a refuge from other
countries who are looking for them.´

Scarpa provided ³kites´ (notes exchanged between inmates in the MCC) which
bore Ramzi Yousef¶s handwriting and whose contents were consistent with Scarpa¶s
account of Ramzi Yousef¶s plans. One such note bore the name of an Assistant United
States Attorney; another note sought access to a friend of Scarpa on the outside who
could connect Yousef by telephone from MCC to outside contacts ± a method Yousef
had used earlier to contact Ajaj. Scarpa¶s information meshed with other information the
FBI had received from a confidential source.

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None-the-less the FBI and the Justice Department dismissed Scarpa¶s

information as valueless having been concocted to get Scarpa a downward departure
when he was sentenced. Scarpa sent the FBI interviews with him to a legal researcher
and marked it LEGAL MAIL. It got through and an evaluation of the information
indicated Scarpa¶s information was valid. For example Yousef spoke about his arrest
with jailhouse snitch Gregory Scarpa:

On September 17, 1996 Scarpa asked Yousef how he was arrested.

Yousef told Scarpa about his friend "Parker" from South Africa. Yousef
said Parker gave him up after knowing him for a short time. Yousef
 introduced himself to Parker as an arms dealer who makes deals for
Bosnia. Yousef told Parker that he had plans to carry out attacks against
U.S. targets. Yousef said Parker seemed very interested in participation in
the attacks. Parker asked Yousef to teach him about explosives. Yousef
told Parker that he could not train him immediately because it takes time
but would include him in the next training course. Parker invited Yousef to
South Africa where Parker would be able to help Yousef financially and in
recruiting followers. Parker told Yousef that he had a relationship or
friendship with one of the ex-ministers in the South African government
who can issue a South African passport for $3,000. - Yousef gave Parker
$3,000 and four or more of his pictures and a Jewish name which Yousef
picked out from a program in his computer. Parker then issued Yousef a
South African passport. With this passport Yousef traveled to the
Philippines to blow-up U.S. airplanes. Yousef said after Murad was
arrested, Yousef returned to Pakistan and met with Parker. Yousef told
Parker that he had gone to Thailand to do some business for his uncle for
more than one week. Yousef told Parker that he had some trouble when
he was in the Philippines. Yousef told Parker of his new plan to blow-up
two U.S. airplanes in Thailand. Parker agreed to participate in the plan
and took all of the explosive material with him in a way that was not
detected by X-ray. Yousef paid for Parker Rts ticket to Thailand. After
Parker arrived in Thailand, Parker called Yousef and told him it was all
right to travel. Parker did not know that Yousef was wanted by the U.S.
government for his part in the World Trade Center bombing but did
suspect he was involved. When Yousef phoned Parker in Thailand, Parker
told Yousef that he saw Yousef's picture in either ám $0á  or

 . After Yousef arrived in Thailand, Yousef told Parker that the
U.S. Government had a two million dollar reward for the capture of
Yousef. Yousef believes that it was then that Parker began thinking of
turning Yousef in. Yousef feels that if he had not told Parker of the reward
that they would have carried out the plan of blowing up the airplanes. In
addition, Yousef thinks that Parker fooled him about the $3,000 for the
South African passport.150

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If Scarpa and Yousef cooked up this information, Scarpa would not have had to
worry about being exposed as a jailhouse snitch:

Scarpa transferred one (1) handwritten note to the interviewing

Agent. Scarpa advised that the note was self-written. The note pertained
to the events taking place on October 17 and October 20, 1996. On
Thursday, October 17th, the inmate referred to only by the initial T.T.
became angry at Scarpa because an officer that had had an argument
with T.T. the night previous had smiled at Scarpa. T.T. and Scarpa

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 exchanged words. T.T. then told Murad to be careful of Scarpa. Murad
told Scarpa what T.T. had said. Scarpa and T.T. again exchanged words.
During the argument, T.T. stated that the Lieutenant told T.T. that Scarpa
is working with the Warden. Scarpa threatened to hurt T.T. T.T. continued
talking with Murad and tells Murad that Lieutenant Garvan told T.T. not to
worry about Scarpa because the Government has Scarpa on the tier to
spy on the terrorists. Murad told Yousef in Arabic; and Yousef told Scarpa
what T.T. had said. Scarpa responded that T.T. is a "punk kid" and that
when Scarpa grabs him he is "going to show you what a punk kid he is".
Yousef also told Scarpa that T.T. stated that the two legal visits Scarpa
had gotten on October 17th were from the Government. T.T. said he
knows this for sure because he saw the sign-in names in the book next to
the law library. Yousef told Scarpa that he does not believe T.T. because
the Government would not sign the book that way. Scarpa is upset
because he does not believe that the Lieutenant should know about the
issue and be telling a witness protection inmate. Scarpa believes that T.T.
got in trouble on the third floor, the witness protection floor. T.T. was put in
the hole for third floor violators but then broke a window in the hole. T.T.
was then transported to L-unit, the tier. Scarpa believes that T.T. may
have said that he cannot be put on the tier because he would be in danger
as a cooperator. Scarpa believes that the Lieutenant responded that T.T.
should not worry because the Latin Kings were cooperating and Scarpa is
working for the Government spying on the terrorists. Scarpa is worried
about himself and his family.151

Yousef betrayed his escape plans to Scarpa if in fact the cement had been
removed:

Yousef stated that the staff took photographs inside the calls. Yousef was
concerned that the staff discovered that portions of the cement between
cinder blocks have been removed and replaced with toothpaste in the two
cells located toward the front of the tier to the right (when looking from the
visiting area). CS advised that a map was located in a  

magazine that was not discovered by the staff«.Confidential Source (CS)
Gregory Scarpa, Jr. (Protect Identity) was interviewed at the Metropolitan
Correctional Center (MCC) at 150 Park Row, New York, New York (NY).
He provided the following information: Scarpa transferred three (3)
handwritten notes to the interviewing Agent. Scarpa advised that the first
two handwritten notes were self-written. Scarpa advised that Yousef wrote
the third note. The first note was written on December 2, 1996. Yousef
had been asking Scarpa about Bureau of Prisons (BOP) policies on
transporting inmates to outside hospitals. Scarpa advised that inmates are
only transported outside of MCC in cases of emergencies that MCC
cannot handle themselves. Yousef advised Scarpa that he directed Murad
to perform an act of violence against an officer. Murad confronted an

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 officer the next day. Scarpa advised the Interviewing Agent that Murad
received a piece of paper from Eyad Ismail that was confiscated by the
guard. Murad stepped through his handcuffed arms so that his handcuffs
were now in front of his body. Murad began threatening the officer and
swinging his arms. Other officers calmed Murad. Included on the first note
were the events taking place on December 5, 1996. Scarpa advised that
Shah, Eyad Ismail, and Yousef were speaking to each other in Arabic.
Later, Murad became very sick, claiming he could not breathe. Murad then
began vomiting continuously. Murad seemed to want to be brought to an
outside hospital. Murad even fell to the floor claiming he could not breathe.
Murad's sickness continued for two days. Murad was convinced that MCC
was not going to bring him to an outside hospital. Murad then acted as if
he was going to hang himself. The staff removed Murad to the second
floor hospital. He was returned to his cell the next day. Yousef advised
Scarpa that Murad stated in Arabic that MCC did not take him outside of
the facility. Scarpa asked Yousef why he wants to know how the staff
responds to violent acts and if MCC will remove inmates to outside
hospitals. Yousef responded that, ³he's one to calculate everything before
he acts."152

Yousef trusted Scarpa enough to use him as a false witness:

Scarpa advised that Yousef's locker is kept on L-unit away from Yousef's
cell, This locker contains his cosmetics which are not allowed in his cell in
case he is capable of making a bomb from them. An item, which was not
further identified, was discovered to be missing from the locker. Scarpa
advised the interviewing Agent that this item was placed, by Yousef, on
the ledge of his cell and fell to floor down the stairway to the floor of the
unit below. Yousef advised a guard that the item had fallen and was told
that the item would be retrieved. The item apparently was never retrieved
and the item was detected missing. A search was conducted of Yousef's
call. During the search, a thick, heavy, foot-long slab of glass was found
hidden under Yousef's bed. As a result of the find, Yousef received a shot.
Yousef advised Scarpa that he identified Scarpa as a witness to the fact
that the glass was in his cell prior to Yousef's occupancy. Scarpa advised
the interviewing Agent that the glass was not in the cell previously. Scarpa
questioned Yousef how he obtained the glass. Yousef smiled and stated
that he received it from his connection. Scarpa questioned Yousef as to
how he intended to use the glass. Yousef responded that he had some
ideas but did not elaborate on the ideas. Yousef then stated & Ô
$ 1ám.153

Yousef trusted Scarpa to the point where he confided in him that he had been in
touch with Usama bin Laden: ³The message sent to Yousef read "Bojinga says:

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'Assalam Alaikom' to you Mardon!´ Bojinga stated that he looks forward to meeting with
Scarpa after he wins his case. Bojinga stated that Yousef is to meet with Scarpa after
he is released and arrange for Scarpa to meet with Bojinga in either Pakistan or
Afghanistan. Bojinga, at a later time, would like to meet with Scarpa¶s people to give
them training in guerilla warfare. Bojinga also wants to most with Scarpa people to learn
about robbing banks, selling counterfeit money, drugs, etc.´154

Yousef was not communicating with Usama bin Laden through mental telepathy:

On the night of January 10, 1997 Scarpa advised that, while out on the
tier, Yousef called him to his cell and showed him what appeared to be an
electronic board. Yousef advised he would talk to Scarpa about the board,
later. Yousef was sleeping by the time Scarpa returned to his cell. On the
night of January 12, 1997 Yousef revealed that he constructed a
transmitter out of the radio he was able to purchase on Commissary Night.
Scarpa reported, ³The electronic board was his way of sending and
receiving messages. Yousef informed Scarpa that the board is equipped
with a booster, F.M. mike other things he could not recall. Yousef advised
that he has a ³gas lighter" which he used for soldering. Yousef revealed
that he has received his last message and ³everything is a go.´ Yousef
said he will not transmit another message until two months from now. The
message will be sent to Yousef¶s people and wiII relay that he is ready.
Yousef is in the process of breaking the transmitter down into
components. Yousef will give the components to Scarpa to divide between
Murad, Shah, and Ismail. Yousef told Scarpa to keep the gas lighter
himself but not to get caught with it. Yousef wants the components back in
two months to reassemble the transmitter and relay that he is ready. If
Yousef's people do not receive a message from him, they will tell Bojinga
that Yousef is not ready yet. Yousef told Scarpa to tell Murad, Shah, and
Ismail only to dispose of the components in an emergency. Yousef
revealed that if the components are disposed of, he will have his contact
bring the additional equipment he needs. Scarpa questioned Yousef about
the identity of his contact. Yousef stated that he could not reveal who his
contact is to anyone, including Murad, Shah, or Ismail. Yousef did indicate
that he has not seen his contact in some time and hopes that everything is
all right by him. Yousef then asked Scarpa what radio station he was
tuned to and showed Scarpa how the system worked by transmitting
Yousef's voice across Scarpa¶s radio. Yousef stated that his messages
were sent by a code similar to Morse code« Lastly, CS advised that
Yousef known the addresses of Scarpa¶s mother and his daughter,
Kori«155 Scarpa advised that at the end of the previous week, the guards
on L-unit began to discuss moving Yousef, Murad, Shah, and Ismail to the
secure calls recently constructed. These cells are known to have cameras
in each room monitoring the inmates 24 hours each day. Last Sunday,

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 February 2, 1997 the guards stated that they were getting the keys to the
new cells and were saying their good-byes. Upon hearing of the upcoming
move, Yousef asked Scarpa to get the pieces of the transmitter back to
him. Scarpa advised that the components included wires, a gas lighter, a
little 'mic" with wires, plastic and metal pieces, and a green circuit board.
Scarpa was having difficulty retrieving the pieces as he was under
constant surveillance by the guards. On Tuesday, February 4, 1997
Yousef told Scarpa, Murad, Shah, and Ismail to dispose of any other
components they may still have. Yousef advised that he would get his
message out another way. Scarpa advised that he believes that Yousef
was using his Walkman as a transmitter. Yousef gave Scarpa a "Cup
O'Soup" container through a guard. Yousef told Scarpa to open the
bottom of the container. The container was found to have a raised bottom
and contained the gas lighter. Yousef had disguised the container to look
like it had never been opened.156

Yousef was provided with an alternate means of communication: The

government provided an undercover telephone number for Yousef and Murad to patch
through calls to their associates overseas, which were, unbeknownst to them ± actually
transmitted through the FBI. While this information appeared to be accurate, the
government did not call Scarpa as a witness at Ramzi Yousef¶s trial or otherwise put
this evidence before the jury.

Using his radio frequency transmitter and the FBI patch, Yousef was able, though
code words, to order the attack on TWA Flight 800. The United States Attorney¶s Office
would later report: ³On our about September 11, 1996, I reviewed an FBI teletype which
reflected information from Scarpa«Included in this report were statements from Scarpa
concerning Yousef¶s report to him about Yousef¶s conversation with his counsel,
including«the impact of TWA Flight 800 explosion on Yousef¶s ability to receive a fair
trial.´157 The media reported that when TWA Flight 800 went down Ahmed Sattar¶s
anxiety went up because he feared the FBI would be harassing him. Other Brothers
believed that entire Muslim community would be under scrutiny. Mohammad T. Mehdi
said that compared to other times things were much calmer.

During Scarpa¶s trial, presided over by Judge Reena Raggi, his attorney,
Lawrence Silverman, asked Scarpa about the information he had received from Yousef
and if he discussed his co-operation with his co-defendant, John Napoli, who Scarpa
recruited as a snitch against the Brothers:

h Mr. Scarpa, you can tell us the subject matter of the conversations that
you were having with Mr. Napoli during the period of time from October
1995 until December 1996?

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c Well, just like: How are you? How¶s things over there? You know, he
brought up a few times that I should co-operate with the government. And,
you know, I just said, well, you know, and then I ± I hinted to him that I
was doing something. And he said: Really?

h And what did you tell him at the time -- focusing on the period of 1996 -
- What you were doing with the government?

c Yes. He had said to me that, you know, he¶s very curious of what I was
doing up in Nine South. You know, that I had told him on the telephone
that I was doing something. All right? And says, you know, what are you
are doing? And I told him that I was cooperating with the government,
national security, against four terrorists who are terrorists outside ready to
do terrorism in New York, the United States, and American people abroad.

h And what did he say to you in that regard, sir?

c He said, you know, he went: Wow! Really! B-bop! And he says, could
you, you know, could I help you? So I says, you know, what do you mean
help me? He says, Greg, listen. He says, I¶m, good. All right? He says let
me help you. He says, you know, how long are you doing this? And I says
it was around a year. So he says a year? And, you know, what are you
getting for it? What did they tell you? So I says, well, you know, they aren¶t
telling me anything. I says, you know, they just ±

h Now, did you discuss with him at all the names of the terrorists that you
were you giving the government information about?

c Yes.

h And what were the names of the terrorists?

c Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the World Trade Center bombing.

Murad, I don¶t know the full name. Ishmael. And Shah.

h Okay. Now, did you discuss with Mr. Napoli anything about a camera
that you had used?

c Yes. Well, I had told him that I took some important ± you know, he
wanted to know what I was doing, and stuff. And I told him that I had took
some real important pictures for national security. And he says: Really. He
says, what do you mean, pictures? And I said, well, they supplied me with
a camera, which was, it was this big. It was a spy camera.

h You are saying this big. Could you just tell us how big that was? How
many inches?
c It was, I don¶t know, 2 inches? What is that? An inch?

h Okay. And how did you get this camera, sir?

c I received it from the Warden.

h Now let¶s just back up a second, sir. Do you know anyone named
Susan Schwartz?

c Yes.

h And is that her real name, sir?

c I believe it¶s an alias.

h And what agency does she work for, sir?

c Southern District national security against terrorism.

h And do you know -- did you meet with her, sir?

c Yes. I met with her, for the year, maybe once a week, week and a half.
She would come in every week or week and a half.

h And when she came to the institution, sir, did she identify herself as a
member of the United States government?

c No. She was a paralegal. Oh, to me you mean?

h No. No. To the institution, sir. When she came up there, did she sign in
as a member of the United States government?

c No, sir.

h In what capacity did she pose as, sir?

c Your paralegal.

h And what was the purpose, sir, of this person named Susan Schwartz
posing as my paralegal? What was her purpose?

c Her purpose was to get information that I was gathering on these

terrorists.
h Now let me direct your attention, sir, to the very beginning when you
began cooperating with the government with regard to these terrorists.
What information did you tell the government about these terrorists that
you told Mr. Napoli about? What was happening?

c That the terrorists were planning to assassinate Assistant United States

Attorney Garcia, the Southern District prosecutor. There was a threat on a
federal judge. Government installations. And I think that was about it.
There was something else, too. I don¶t remember what it was.

h Okay. Now directing your attention to the late spring of 1996. Did
anything happen with regard to the Olympics?

c Yes.

h Okay. What if anything did you discuss with Ms. Schwartz and other
people of the government with regard to the Olympics that were going to
take place?

c Yes. I ±

MR. KROGER: Objection.

c I received information from ±

MR. SILVERMAN: You have to stop.

THE COURT: Let me see counsel at side bar.

(Discussion at side bar ensued as follows.)

THE COURT: Mr. Silverman, what is the relevancy of this?

MR. SILVERMAN: He was posing during this time ±

THE COURT: I know what he was doing.

MR. SILVERMAN: -- on behalf of the government. He was posing as an

organized crime boss. And that his crew were the people who were on the
outside, who Mr. Napoli was aware of, that he was using to use the
telephones, get phony passports. The messages all went through the
terrorists. And so this was part of his posture as being a boss, and that
was his posture that the government wanted him to use during this time
period.
Ms. SUH: So what? I don¶t understand why that is relevant to anything the
government has presented in this case.

THE COURT: Just that he is not that, that is the pose, and you can cross-
examine him on whether it is.

Ms. SUH: That he was posing. I see.

(Discussion at side bar was concluded.)

THE COURT: All right, Mr. Silverman. You may proceed.

MR. SILVERMAN: May I ask to have the last question read.

c Yes. I received information from Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind«And

the information that I passed on to Susan Schwartz was that terrorists
were on their way from New England to the Olympics to look at the
security, and if the security was lax, in their way of putting it, that they
were going to bomb it.

h Okay. Now, Mr. Scarpa, when you first met with the representatives of
the United States government to give them this information in or about
March 1996, what role if any did the government ask you to play when you
met with and spoke with Mr. Yousef who was the one who was about
ready to go on trial for the World Trade Center bombing?

c FBI Agent Pat White had told me to, you know, show him that you¶re
boss of a crew and you¶re a tough guy and you know this guy here is a
dangerous, dangerous man. You got to, you know, tell him that you are a
wing of the Cosa Nostra, the mafia, that there¶s a wing for militia. And, he
says, you got to tell him that you¶re willing to go, you know, do things that
he wants to do. You know, go along with him.

h Now, during the time period that you interacted with Mr. Yousef and the
other individuals who were accused and later convicted of the terrorism,
during that time period, sir, did you or did you not gain their confidence?
Now, did you discuss with the government a formula regarding a bomb?

c Yes.

h Where did you obtain the information, sir, regarding that formula?

c From Ramzi Yousef.

h Was it something that was written down, sir?

c Yes.

h And how detailed was it? Was it very uncomplicated or was it a very
complicated formula?

c It was very complicated. I wouldn¶t understand it at all, I know. Well,

there were a few formulas. Could you explain which one we¶re talking
about?

h Well, was there a formula regarding airplanes, sir?

c Okay. This was, I found out, the way that they would smuggle the
equipment, the bomb, itself, through the metal detector and onto the
airplane without being detected«I would take pictures of things like that. I
would take pictures of timing devices that you know, he was ± anything
that I could grab a picture to, a kite, which was important to give the
government I would.

h Why would you take pictures, sir, of the kite that you got from Mr.
Yousef?

c Well, because he wanted his kites back.

h And what would happen to the camera and the film after you had
finished taking the pictures?

c It would be picked up and given back to the government.

h Now, in addition to assisting the government, with regard to the camera

and the other information, did you do anything with regard to a telephone?
Okay. Tell us what was created with regard to a telephone.

c Well, I was able to hook Ramzi Yousef straight up with the FBI without
me involved. I was told to tell Ramzi Yousef that it was my crew outside,
that I¶ll be able to give him a three-way call to overseas, you know, where
his people are. Okay?

h Now, this three-way call, sir, who did you understand were going to be
the technicians who were making the three-way call?

c The national security, FBI.

h And do you know whether or not Mr. Yousef made any telephone calls
overseas using that facility?

c Yes, he did.
h And do you know, sir, the name of the fictitious company that was
created to allow Mr. Yousef to do that?

c Roma.

h And who came up with the name of Roma, sir?

c FBI Agent White did. Or Susan Schwartz did. Either one.

h Now, were you aware, sir, as to whether or not Mr. Yousef had created
any kind of device in the institution?

c Yes.

h What kind of device did Mr. Yousef create while in the institution, that
you became aware of?

MR. KROGER: Your Honor, could we have a basis of his knowledge,

please?

THE COURT: I¶m going to sustain the objection to relevancy of this line at
this point. I don¶t see the link to the issues that are before this jury. Go
ahead.

h Did you at any time obtain something from Mr. Yousef that you then
gave to Miss Schwartz?

c Yes.

h What was that item?

c Well, it was a ±

THE COURT: Sustained to this line. Go ahead.

THE WITNESS: Your Honor ±

(SIDEBAR)

THE COURT: Are we ready to go forward?

MR. KROGER: Your Honor, we have a brief application. I understand from

Mr. Silverman that he is not going to continue his line of questioning on
terrorism. If he does so, the government moves to object, right at the
outset, on the grounds of relevance.
THE COURT: I¶m sorry. He¶s not going to pursue it?

MR. SILVERMAN: I¶m not withdrawing it. They asked me whether or not
I¶m moving to another area, and I said I¶m just about concluding that area
and now I¶m going to another area. If it comes up, they can object all they
want, but let¶s see what context I ask it.

THE COURT: All right. Let me hear the question. Please bring in the jury.
All right, Mr. Silverman. You may continue.

BY MR. SILVERMAN:

h Mr. Scarpa, two things I wanted to just clear up. During the time period
when Mr. Napoli returned to Nine South? Talking about the middle of
December 1996 till February 1997, during that time period you were at
Nine South, correct? Mr. Napoli was also on Nine South. Was he on the
same side of the tier that you were, or was he on the other side?

c Well, in all that time there was movement. Sometimes he was,

sometimes he wasn¶t.

h Okay. The people who you described as the terrorists: where were they
physically located on Nine South?

MR. KROGER: Objection.

THE COURT: Sustained.

MR. SILVERMAN: Your Honor, do you want an offer of proof?

THE COURT: If you want. I don¶t see the relevancy. If you want to be
heard, I will hear you.

MR. SILVERMAN: Let me give a foundation.

h When notes were passed between you and Mr. Napoli, did they go
directly or did they go through other people?

c They went through other people.

h And who were the people who were positioned between yourself and
Mr. Napoli during the time period of December 1996 through February
1997?

MR. KROGER: Objection.

 c Well, Murad ±

THE COURT: Overruled.

c Murad and Ramzi Yousef.

hWhat posture, what role were you presenting to the terrorists?

c I was presenting that I was a big mob guy.

h And at whose direction were you presenting this role?

c From national security, Pat White, FBI.

By late summer of 1996 the United States Attorney¶s Office and the FBI stopped
the investigation of Yousef through the patch-through telephone. They did this even
after Scarpa advised, ³that Jerry Koupakis158 told Scarpa that he told his father not to
travel TWA or American Airlines on the morning of July 18, 1996. Koupakis advised that
Yousef had told him this information prior to July 18, 1996.´159 The United States
Government claimed that no so-called terrorist attacks were prevented and no one was
arrested:

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that the FBI could monitor calls between the jailed terrorists and their
confederates throughout the world. When the line was established, the
FBI was obviously not aware that Scarpa was not cooperating but in-fact
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The government claimed that Scarpa¶s co-operation was a scam in collusion with
Yousef161 but would it do so in retrospect? The Brother¶s lawyers disputed this: ³It was
only through news reports about Scarpa¶s testimony that the defendants first learned of
his actions as a Government informer against them.´162 Despite the Government¶s

158
. Former U.S. Customs agent sentenced to 87months for corruption.
159
. FBI 302 265A-NY-258172 July 18, 1996
160
. Affirmation in Response to Yousef¶s Motion October 12, 1999.
161
. Patrick Fitzgerald Affidavit June 25, 1999
162
. Motion for Reconsideration and Defendant¶s Reply Affirmation Fed Court Bklyn 98-1197, 98-1041(L)
alleged belief that this was all a ³scam´ Special Administrative Measures (SAMs) were
placed on Yousef and his Brothers, limiting their communication with the outside world
and with their attorneys. After the events of September 11th the Brothers were deprived
of radios, televisions and newspapers.

Despite the American Government¶s alleged experience with Scarpa in mid-2001

it placed a listening device in the cell of Scott Lee Martin, convicted bank robber and
White Supremacist to aid him in spying on Wadih el-Hage and other Brothers who were
locked up there. Martin claimed the Brothers were planning to murder a witness who
was going to testify against them.163

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Gregory Scarpa, Jr.¶s attorney asked for a downward departure in his clients
sentencing in return for his co-operation: ³I am writing in connection with the upcoming
sentencing of Gregory Scarpa, Jr. Among the issues at sentence will be whether a
downward departure is appropriate based on Mr. Scarpa¶s co-operation with the
government. As the Court is aware, a significant facet of his co-operation involved the
World Trade Center terrorists.

We believe that Mr. Scarpa¶s co-operation in this regard was substantial,

and that the government ought, in good faith, move for a downward
departure pursuant to U.S.S.G. §5K1.1. The government, however, has
declined to so move. Mr. Scarpa challenges the bona fides of this
decision. He will also move for a departure pursuant to U.S.S.G. §5K1.1.

Both Mr. Orden and I have met with representatives of the government,
and have learned that there is a significant dispute as to the facts of his
co-operation. The existence of such a dispute suggests that a hearing will
be necessary in order to establish the facts and to determine the
appropriateness of a downward departure. In that light, I move for an order
compelling the government to produce any and all documents, recordings,
photographs relating to Mr. Scarpa¶s co-operation. The government
should be directed to produce not only all written and recorded statements
made by the defendant in connection with his efforts at co-operation,
written records containing the substance of Mr. Scarpa¶s oral statements
and conduct in this regard, and reports of any actions taken by
government personnel in response to or as a result of Mr. Scarpa¶s efforts,
but also any reports prepared by experts to explain or decipher any
recorded conversations or materials involving Mr. Scarpa and the
suspected terrorists.

Additionally, we believe that Mr. Scarpa is entitled to any materials

received by the government from Mr. Scarpa, as well as any materials

163
. Benjamin Weiser ³No Model Inmate, but Quite a Source; Once Incorrigible, an Informant Bonds With Terrorists´  
 
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 produced or secured by the government as a result of information
received from Mr. Scarpa. The government should also be required to
produce any recorded conversations made by the terrorists over the
µRoma¶ telephone line, which was secured by the government with the
assistance of Mr. Scarpa. Finally, Mr. Scarpa should be provided with any
reports of action taken as a result of the information that Mr. Scarpa
provided.164

164. Letter Silverman to Raggi dated April 7, 1999.