4. FBI INVESTIGATIONS THAT COULD HAVE PREVENTED SEPTEMBER 11 WERE
DELIBERATELY SABOTAGED BY FBI HEADQUARTERS
I pointed out earlier that Atta and the other hijackers operated quite
openly in the United States, as if they enjoyed guaranteed protection.
It appears that this was in fact the case. We now have several
detailed reports of crucial investigations of the September 11
hijackers, both before and after the fact, being sabotaged by high
ranking government officials.{4} Possibly the most vivid example of
this is the way in which the investigation of the "twentieth
hijacker," Zacarias Moussaoui, was sabotaged by FBI Headquarters.
In August 2001 Moussaoui enrolled in Pan American's International
Flight School in Minneapolis. He aroused suspicions on his very first
day. He paid a deposit for the course in cash in the amount of $6,800
(the full price of the course is $19,000). He had a heavy Middle
Eastern accent, and waved off concerns about his lack of preparation
for such a course, saying that he was not interested in professional
certification. However, he showed great interest in learning how to
work the airplane's doors and control panel.
"A Nation Challenged: The Conspiracy Cherge; E-Mail Sent to Flight
School Gave Terror Suspect's 'Goal'," Jim Yardly, The New York Times,
Late Edition--Final, Section A, Page 1, Column 5, February 8, 2002
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/08/national/08HIJA.html?pagewanted=1"Threats and Responses: The 9/11 Defendant; Early Warnings on
Moussaoui Are Detailed," Philip Shenon, The New York Times, Late
Edition--Final, Section A, Page 13, Column 1, October 18, 2002
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/18/politics/18SUSP.htmlIt soon became clear the Moussaoui had lied about his personal
background, and that he had no qualifications at all as a pilot. The
potentially frightening implications of training this particular
student were not lost on Pan Am's flying instructors, according to
John Rosengren, director of operations at the school. In a faculty
meeting the next day,
*
"There was discussion about how much fuel was on board a 747-400 and
how much damage that could cause if it hit anything."
{"A Nation Challenged: The Conspiracy Cherge; E-Mail Sent to Flight
School Gave Terror Suspect's 'Goal'," Jim Yardly, The New York Times,
Late Edition--Final, Section A, Page 1, Column 5, February 8, 2002
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/08/national/08HIJA.html?pagewanted=1 }
*
Soon one of the flight instructors was on the phone to the FBI:
*
"Do you realize how serious this is?" the instructor asked an FBI
agent. "This man wants training on a 747. A 747 fully loaded with fuel
could be used as a weapon!"
{"Eagan flight trainer wouldn't let unease about Moussaoui rest," Greg
Gordon, Star Tribune, December 21, 2001
http://www.totalobscurity.com/mind/wtc/flight-instructor.htm }
*
The local FBI agents concurred. They checked out Moussaoui, and found
out that he had overstayed his visa. They persuaded the INS to take
him into custody and keep him there. If not for this good luck and
prompt action Moussaoui would surely have participated in the attacks
of September 11, because from that point on the investigation met
determined opposition from high level FBI officials who did their best
to completely shut it down.
The sickening story is spelled out in a long, agonized letter written
after the events of September 11 by Coleen Rowley, one of the Field
Agents in Minneapolis on the case. The letter was promptly declared to
be classified by the Bureau, but portions have been leaked to the
press:
"Coleen Rowley's Memo to FBI Director Robert Mueller--An edited
version of the agent's 13-page letter," TIME, May 21, 2002
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,249997,00.htmlImmediately after Moussaoui's arrest, the Field Agents in Minneapolis
wanted to apply for a warrant to search his apartment and the hard
drive of his computer. FBI Headquarters, however, denied that they had
probable cause for such a search. Then within just a few days the
Field Agents received information from the French Intelligence Service
that "confirmed {Moussaoui's} affiliations with radical fundamentalist
Islamic groups and activities connected to Osama Bin Laden." At this
point the Field Agents "became desperate," but incredibly Headquarters
continued to stonewall and deny the existence of probable cause for a
search. Rowley, who has been an FBI division legal advisor for 12
years, and an FBI agent for 21 years, was at the time and remains
today completely baffled by Headquarters' determination to stop the
investigation. She flatly states that probable cause "was certainly
established."
At that point Rowley tried another route. The FBI can apply for
so-called FISA warrants if their aim is to gather intelligence rather
than evidence for a criminal proceeding. The granting of a FISA
warrant is practically guaranteed; the FBI only has to ask for them.
To her amazement, FBI Headquarters "continued to, almost inexplicably,
throw up roadblocks and undermine Minneapolis' by-now desperate
efforts to obtain a FISA search warrant."
By this time the Field Agents were "in a frenzy ... absolutely
convinced {Moussouai} was planning to do something with a plane." One
agent speculated in a memo that that Moussouai had been planning with
unidentified confederates to "fly something into the World Trade
Center."
"Unheeded Warnings," Michael Isikoff, NEWSWEEK, May 20, 2002 Issue
http://www.bulatlat.com/news/2-16/2-16-readerNEWSWEEK.htmlThen came September 11.
Coleen Rowley agonizes in her letter, searching for an explanation for
the betrayal by FBI Headquarters. Were they simply too busy? Was it
normal bureaucratic inertia? Ultimately, she is unable to accept these
convenient but implausible explanations: "The issues are fundamentally
ones of INTEGRITY." (Her emphasis.)
An almost identical story is coming out of the Phoenix FBI office
which was similarly thwarted by FBI Headquarters in their attempt to
investigate Hani Hanjour, who is believed to have crashed an airliner
into the Pentagon on September 11:
"The Man Behind the Hot Memo," James Poniewozik, TIME, May 19, 2002
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,238574,00.html"FBI Was Warned of Sept. 11 Hijacker--Informant Says He Provided Facts
About Phoenix Hijacker," John McWethy, ABCNEWS, May 23, 2002
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/DailyNews/FBI_informant020523.htmlSome of the Field Agents involved in these and still other similar
cases have applied for whistleblower status, and are taking legal
action to try to force the Bureau to declassify the relevant documents
and come clean about their role in September 11. These agents are
being represented by David Schippers, former Chief Investigative
Counsel for the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, and head prosecutor
responsible for conducting the impeachment against former President
Bill Clinton.
"Did Bush Know?--Warning Signs of 9-11 and Intelligence Failures,"
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, May 18, 2002
http://www.mediamonitors.net/mosaddeq36.html (This is a long file. A
string search on "Schippers" will get you to the right paragraph.)
In the meantime Coleen Rowley notes in her letter that in the
aftermath of September 11 the official most responsible for blocking
her investigation of Moussaoui has received a promotion. That's not
all. The FBI Department responsible for repeatedly blocking Rowley's
desperate attempts to obtain authorization to search Moussouai's
apartment and computer is the National Security Law Unit (NSLU). In
the month of December 2002, the head of the NSLU, Marion Bowman,
received the most prestigious and generous award the Bureau could
confer on him:
*
At a quiet little ceremony earlier this month, Marion (Spike) Bowman
was one of nine people in the bureau to receive an award for
"exceptional performance." The reward carries with it a cash bonus of
20 to 35 percent of the recipient's salary and a framed certificate
signed by the president.
{"FBI performs a nasty little sequel to whistle-blower saga," Doug
Grow, Star Tribune, December 22, 2002
http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/3772006.html}
*
The President of the United States is showering praise and bonuses and
promotions on those responsible for thwarting the investigations that
could have prevented the horrific events of September 11.
And keep in mind Atta's bizarre behaviour when he applied for a
Department of Agriculture loan to purchase crop-dusting equipment in
May of 2000. Atta used his real name, and he made sure the interviewer
(Johnelle Bryant) spelled it correctly. He told her that he wanted to
buy a crop-duster and to "build a chemical tank that would fit inside
the aircraft and take up every available square inch of the aircraft
except for where the pilot would be sitting." Atta then fixated on an
aerial photo of Washington, D.C. hanging on the office wall, and
wanted to purchase it:
*
"He pulled out a wad of cash," she said, "and started throwing money
on my desk. He wanted that picture really bad." Bryant indicated that
the picture was not for sale, and he threw more money down.
"His look on his face became very bitter at that point," Bryant
remembers. "I believe he said, 'How would America like it if another
country destroyed that city and some of the monuments in it,' like the
cities in his country had been destroyed?" ...
Atta also talked about life in his country. "He mentioned al Qaeda, he
mentioned Osama bin Laden," ... He boasted about the role that they
would one day play. "He said this man would someday be known as the
world's greatest leader," she said.
{"Face to Face With a Terrorist--Government Worker Recalls Mohamed
Atta Seeking Funds Before Sept. 11," Brian Ross, ABCNEWS, June 6, 2002
http://billstclair.com/911timeline/2002/abcnews060602.html }
*
Bryant, perhaps to provide us with some much needed comic relief,
finishes her story by asking, "How could I have known {that this man
was a terrorist}?"
The point is that Atta was operating completely openly, and even seems
to be DELIBERATELY drawing attention to himself as a terrorist
suspect. This makes sense if, as I believe, Atta was laying a false
trail of evidence which he WANTED to be discovered after the attacks
(more on this later). The attacks of September 11 were planned and
carried out with impressive military discipline and efficiency. Atta
is not exposing himself out of stupidity or carelessness. He must have
expected that Bryant would immediately notify the FBI (although she
did not). We now know that this would not have mattered--that any
attempt to investigate would have been killed by FBI Headquarters.
Clearly, at the time, Atta must have known this as well. The question
of exactly why Atta would have wanted to incriminate himself in this
way will be addressed in section 8.
5. THE ANTHRAX ATTACKS
So ... whoever perpetrated September 11 obviously has tons of money
and a tight military organization. You would expect that this would
not be an isolated event, but the start of a coordinated campaign. If
this was the work of Islamic fundamentalists, then where is the Jihad?
Where are the Holy Warriors who should have been positioned and ready
to follow up on the opening shot of the war?
There was a second wave of attacks--the dissemination of anthrax
letters to both random and carefully selected targets. However,
everyone now acknowledges that this was an inside job--that the
weapons grade anthrax used would only be available to a very limited
number of scientists and military/intelligence officers working in the
United States on highly classified projects.
In fact, according to the leading expert on the anthrax attacks,
Professor Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, the FBI has long known exactly who
was behind these attacks--attacks that have so far have killed at
least five American citizens--but the Bureau has decided to let the
perpetrator off the hook, just as the sponsor of the September 11
hijackings has been let off the hook. Professor Rosenberg is a
microbiologist and an expert on biological warfare who has served as a
Presidential Advisor and testified before congress on this subject.
She was selected by the Federation of American Scientists to
investigate the anthrax attacks. Over one year ago, in January 2002,
Professor Rosenberg stated:
*
The FBI has surely known for several months that the anthrax attack
was an inside job. A government estimate for the number of scientists
involved in the US anthrax program over the last five years is 200
people. According to a former defense scientist the number of defense
scientists with hands-on anthrax experience and the necessary access
is smaller, under 50. The FBI has received short lists of specific
suspects with credible motives from a number of knowledgeable inside
sources, and has found or been given clues ... that could lead to
incriminating evidence. By now the FBI must have a good idea of who
the perpetrator is.
{"Analysis of the Anthrax Attacks," Professor Barbara Hatch Rosenberg,
Federation of American Scientists, January 17, 2002-September 22, 2002
http://www.inesap.org/bulletin19/bul19art02a.htm }
*
Another leading expert on biological warfare, Professor Francis Boyle
of Indiana University, concurs with Rosenberg's opinion. Professor
Boyle is a renowned expert on international law who has testified
before Congress on legal issues concerning biological warfare. He was
instrumental in drafting the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of
1989. His analysis of the anthrax attacks has led him to the same
conclusion reached by Professor Rosenberg, which he states even more
bluntly:
*
I believe that the FBI knows exactly who was behind these attacks and
that they have concluded that the perpetrator was someone who was or
is involved in illegal and criminal biological warfare research
conducted by the US government (the Pentagon or the CIA) or by one of
the government's civilian contractors. For that reason, the FBI is not
going to apprehend and indict the perpetrator.
{"Bio-Warfare and Terrorism," Francis Boyle, Professor of
International Law, University of Illinois School of Law,
Synthesis/Regeneration 30, Winter 2003
http://web.greens.org/s-r/30/30-12.html }
*
As with the investigation of the funding channel for the September 11
hijackers, the anthrax investigation started off fast and made great
progress only to come to a screeching halt with the perpetrator in
easy reach.
The most obvious pieces of evidence were the notes that accompanied
the anthrax mailings. These contained crude misspellings and praised
Allah while calling for the downfall of the United States. These notes
were quickly recognized as a transparent hoax. As Professor Rosenberg
has stated:
*
Expert analysts for the FBI believe that the letters were written by a
Westerner, not a Middle Easterner or Muslim, although the text was
clearly intended to imply the latter.
{"Analysis of the Anthrax Attacks," Professor Barbara Hatch Rosenberg,
Federation of American Scientists, January 17, 2002-September 22, 2002
http://www.fas.org/bwc/news/anthraxreport }
*
The anthrax strain used was consistent in all letters. A detailed
genetic analysis narrowed the search to a single laboratory: the U.S.
Army's Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID)
at Fort Detrick, Maryland:
"Riddle of the spores--Why has the FBI investigation into the anthrax
attacks stalled? The evidence points one way," George Monbiot, The
Guardian, May 21, 2002
http://www.guardian.co.uk/anthrax/story/0,1520,719367,00.htmlFurther, the sophisticated weaponization process used to treat the
spores, and the highly specialized expertise needed to store and
handle the spores, narrows the search even much further. This leaves
us with just a handful of suspects involved in the Fort Detrick
program:
"Analysis of the Anthrax Attacks," Professor Barbara Hatch Rosenberg,
Federation of American Scientists, January 17, 2002-September 22, 2002
http://www.fas.org/bwc/news/anthraxreportWith the field narrowed down so drastically, Professor Rosenberg
points us to what I believe is the key piece of evidence in
identifying the perpetrator:
*
On Sept. 21, three days after the first anthrax mailing and before any
letters or anthrax cases were in the news, an anonymous typed letter
was mailed to Quantico accusing an Egyptian-American scientist,
formerly of USAMRIID, of plotting biological terrorism. The accused
scientist was quickly exonerated by the FBI. The letter's writer
displayed familiarity with work at USAMRIID and claimed to have
formerly worked with the accused scientist.
{"The Anthrax Case: What the FBI Knows," Barbara Hatch Rosenberg,
Ph.D., June 13, 2002
http://www.anthraxinvestigation.com/fas-01.html }
*
Obviously the anonymous accuser himself fits the profile of the actual
perpetrator. Furthermore he was able to correctly anticipate that
there would be an anthrax attack and that the strain of anthrax used
would lead to Fort Detrick. The conclusion seems inescapable that the
anonymous author of this false accusation was the author of the attack
itself.
The falsely accused was an Egyptian born scientist, Dr. Ayaad Assaad
who worked at USAMRIID during the 1990's. During his employment there
he was the target of racist attacks from a Jewish coworker, Lt. Col.
Philip Zack. In one incident Zack mailed Assaad a rubber camel with a
huge model sexual appendage attached, together with an eight page poem
that described Dr. Assaad among many other things as a "life form
lower than yeast."
"Arab scientists recount hostility and harassment at military anthrax
lab," Lynne Tuohy and Jack Dolan, The Hartford Courant, December 19,
2001
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=detrick19&date=20011219As a result of this and a string of similar racist attacks by Lt. Col.
Zack, Assaad filed a harrassment suit and Zack was forced to resign
his position at USAMRIID. However, Zack continued to have access to
the lab illegally with the help of a personal friend there:
"Anthrax Easy To Get Out Of Lab--Security Was Based On Trust In
Scientists," Jack Dolan, Dave Altimari and Lynne Tuohy, The Hartford
Courant, December 20, 2001
http://www.anthraxinvestigation.com/hcourant.htmlCertainly Lt. Col. Zack must be considered to be the prime candidate
as the author of the letter falsely accusing Dr. Assad. In my view
this also makes him the prime suspect in the attacks
themselves--especially when you take into account the fact that his
illegal comings and goings at Fort Detrick occurred at the time when
anthrax spores matching the genetic profile of those used in the
attacks went missing there.
"Deadly specimens disappeared from Army research lab in '90s," Jack
Dolan and Dave Altimari, The Hartford Courant, January 21, 2002
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/134393798_anthrax21.htmlIn any event, the suspects in this crucial investigation are certainly
NOT fanatical Islamic fundamentalists. Everyone close to the
investigation agrees that the perpetrator is a highly qualified
bio-warfare expert who has worked on highly classified projects for
the United States government. He has very specific and rare skills
that in themselves narrow the field to a mere handful people, without
even taking into account the evidence surrounding the mailings
themselves. The postmarks provide a series of time stamps associated
with specific locations. An investigation like this can stall when
there are thousands of possible suspects; it cannot stall when there
are a handful of suspects and abundant clues to resolve the
perpetrator's identity. Professors Rosenberg and Boyle are quite
correct: the FBI is deliberately shielding the perpetrator of these
terrible crimes, which have taken the lives of five innocent American
citizens and which attack the foundations of our free and open
society.
But not everyone is going unprotected. With exceptional foresight so
notably absent elsewhere in this case, Vice President Dick Cheney was
able to anticipate that anthrax would become a problem in the Capitol.
He and his staff started taking an anti-anthrax medication (Cipro) on
the night of September 11, before the letters containing anthrax
started to arrive:
"White House mail sorters anthrax-free," Sandra Sobieraj, Associated
Press, October 24, 2001
http://web.archive.org/web/20021021135126/http://www.phillyburbs.com/terror/news/1024beth.htm"Judicial Watch Sues Bush Administration For Anthrax Documents--Group
Says Government Had Braced In Advance For Anthrax Attacks," Associated
Press, June 9, 2002
http://cooperativeresearch.org/completetimeline/2002/ap060902.htmlObtaining and preparing the anthrax will have been a difficult and
lengthy process. The attacks, beginning just seven days after
September 11, must have been prepared well in advance by a highly
sophisticated government insider. Like the hijackers themselves and
their sponsors in the ISI, the perpetrator clearly has powerful
protectors high inside the U.S. government. The two attacks seem to
have been perfectly coordinated to work towards the same objective.
The ever-incisive Professor Rosenberg observes:
*
The perpetrator was probably ready before Sept. 11 and simply took
advantage of the likelihood that Sept. 11 would throw suspicion on
Muslim terrorists. Was the perpetrator trying to push the US toward
some retaliatory military action?
{"Analysis of the Anthrax Attacks," Professor Barbara Hatch Rosenberg,
Federation of American Scientists, January 17, 2002-September 22, 2002
http://www.armscontrolcenter.org/cbw/issues/anthrax_attack.shtml }
*
6. THE ULTRA-RIGHTWING AGENDA ALREADY IN PLACE FOR A WAR AGAINST THE
ARAB STATES
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