Peter Dale Scott: The 9/11 Report and Ali Mohamed

[reprehensor]

http://www.911blogger.com/node/3219

Peter Dale Scott Talk September 24, 2006, Berkeley, “9/11 and American Empire: Intellectuals Speak Out”

I want to talk tonight about using the 9/11 Report as evidence – evidence of what is being suppressed. We can use it in this way because some parts of the Report are accurate and reliable. This base line of reliability helps define other parts of the Report which are misleading, and in a few places I believe dead wrong. These relevant omissions and deceptions should be taken as clues as to what is being suppressed, and where the hidden truth lies.

I shall talk of the Report’s occasional resistance to the truth. Let me give an easy and incontrovertible analogy from the Warren Report. The Warren Report got many things right; but it also minimized the links between Jack Ruby and organized crime.<1> This resistance was a clue that Ruby in fact was crime-related and that this was important. The House Select Committee on Assassinations, even though they got many things wrong, amply confirmed the importance of Ruby’s crime links.

We find similar symptomatic resistance in the 9/11 Report.

1) Here is an easy example: the identity of the hijackers. The FBI had distributed a list naming 18 of the 19 alleged hijackers by 10 AM on 9/11.<2> Within two weeks the identities of at least six of the hijackers were unclear; as men in Arab countries with the same names and histories, and in some cases the same photographs, were protesting that they were alive and innocent.<3> In response to these protests, FBI Director Robert Mueller soon acknowledged that the identity of several of the suicide hijackers was in doubt.<4> But there is no discussion of this problem in the detailed treatment of the alleged hijackers in the 9/11 Commission Report.<5>

2) WTC-7. This is obviously a big area of doubt, as you have just heard. The Report’s solution was not to mention WTC-7 at all. And yet Kean and Hamilton, the 9/11 Commission Co-Chairs, have the nerve to claim in their new book that after the Report “those believing conspiracy theories now had to rely solely on imagination, their theories having been disproved by facts.”<6> In other words, they are still covering up that there was a cover up.

3) The U.S. government’s intimate on-going connection to al-Qaeda and a chief 9/11 plotter.

In our book, 9/11 and Empire: Intellectuals Speak Out, I write of Ali Mohamed, the close ally of Osama bin Laden and his mentor Ayman al-Zawahiri.<7> It is now generally admitted that Ali Mohamed worked for the FBI, the CIA, and U.S. Special Forces. The 9/11 Report mentioned him, and said that the plotters against the U.S. Embassy in Kenya were “led” (their word) by Ali Mohamed.<8> That’s the Report’s only reference to him, though it’s not all they heard.

Patrick Fitzgerald, U.S. Attorney who negotiated a plea bargain and confession from Ali Mohamed, said this in testimony to the Commission:

“Ali Mohamed. ... trained most of al Qaeda’s top leadership—including Bin Laden and Zawahiri—and most of al Qaeda’s top trainers. He gave some training to persons who would later carry out the 1993 World Trade Center bombing….. From 1994 until his arrest in 1998, he lived as an American citizen in California, applying for jobs as an FBI translator.”<9>

Patrick Fitzgerald knew Ali Mohamed well. In 1994 he had named him as an unindicted co-conspirator in the New York landmarks case, yet allowed him to remain free. This was because, as Fitzgerald knew, Ali Mohamed was an FBI informant, from at least 1993 and maybe 1989.<10> Thus, from 1994 “until his arrest in 1998 , Mohamed shuttled between California, Afghanistan, Kenya, Somalia and at least a dozen other countries.”<11> Shortly after 9/11, Larry C. Johnson, a former State Department and CIA official, faulted the FBI publicly for using Mohamed as an informant, when it should have recognized that the man was a high-ranking terrorist plotting against the United States.<12>

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http://www.911blogger.com/node/3219

My review of "9/11 and American Empire - Vol.I"
http://reprehensor.gnn.tv/blogs/18712/9_11_and_American_Empire_Vol_I_a_review

[wildbilln864]

1. kicking...

4 exposure!
:hi:

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. I'm sure

in a few more weeks, we'll know once and for all, what Fitzgerald is going to do about BushCo. If anyone's got the goods on these guys, it's Fitzgerald.

[petgoat]

4. When I was a young man I went along with things I didn't agree

with, figuring I was a young man and I should learn from the older guys.

Either Fitzgerald was disgusted by what he saw on his way up, and now he'll
try to set it straight, or he's been polluted by what he's been associated
with, and he won't.

[reprehensor]

3. Scott expands on this talk a bit here;

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=125&topic_id=129792

[wildbilln864]

5. thanks rep!

:hi:

[wildbilln864]

6. Peter dale Scott is

doing very important work! Kick!