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Casting couch of the 'bad guys'...
These characters are gambling, dope-dealing scum...
yet somehow militant enough to agree to kill themselves for Allah!
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Saudi Money Linked To Two 911 Hijackers - Reports
11-24-2 (AFP) -- Saudi money was sent to two college students in southern California who closely aided two of the September 11 airplane hijackers, US media reported.
Newsweek magazine reported that tens of thousands of dollars were sent to the students via the bank account of Princess Haifa Al-Faisal, wife to the Saudi ambassador to the United States, Prince Bandar bin Sultan.
The potentially explosive information comes as Washington is seeking cooperation from Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil producer, in stabilizing oil prices and cooperating in a possible war with Iraq.
The money was transferred to the bank account of Omar Al Bayoumi, a student in San Diego, in early 2000, just before alleged hijackers Khalid Almidhar and Nawaf Alhazmi arrived in Los Angeles, FBI sources told Newsweek.
The FBI said Almidhar and Alhazmi later participated in the hijacking of American Flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.
Al Bayoumi befriended the two men, hosted a welcome party in San Diego and helped secure an apartment for them, according to Newsweek.
When Al Bayoumi left the United States in July 2001, monthly payments of 3,500 dollars were sent to the account of another student, Osama Basnan, who the magazine describes as a close associate of Al Bayoumi and a known al-Qaeda sympathizer.
Five of the 19 alleged September 11 hijackers were Saudi citizens and most were believed to have been used as unskilled "muscle" to protect the kamikaze pilots.
Meanwhile a draft report by a joint US Congressional committee looking into the events of September 11 blamed both the FBI and the CIA for not aggressively pursuing leads linking the hijackers to Saudi Arabia -- including the money sent to the two San Diego students, the New York Times reported Saturday.
The draft report complained of a lack of cooperation from Saudi officials in the investigation but did not reveal the source of the money sent to San Diego or the amount of the payments.
The preliminary findings "caused a bitter behind-the-scenes dispute between the panel's staff and officials at the FBI and the CIA," with officials at each agency disagreeing with the draft findings, the Times reported.
The Washington Post reported that FBI agents found the phone number of a Saudi embassy employee in Bayoumi's San Diego apartment.
FBI agents questioned two employees of the embassy's Islamic affairs section about the calls, Saudi embassy officials told the Post. But they insisted there was no link between any Saudi government employee and Bayoumi.
The Post also reported that money had been sent to the Saudi students in San Diego, stating that it came from a "wealthy Saudi source." - AFP via Rense
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Alleged Pearl killer met Bin Laden twice, says report
Web posted at: 4/20/2005 9:16:8
ISLAMABAD: An Islamic militant sentenced to death for the murder of US reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan said in a rare interview published yesterday that he met Osama bin Laden twice in Afghanistan.
British-born Sheikh Omar also admitted he was "involved" in kidnapping Pearl in 2002 but said he did not take part in his brutal murder, according to the latest edition of the English-language magazine Newsline.
The magazine said it had obtained written answers from Sheikh to questions smuggled into his cell while he was at Adiala Jail in the northern town of Rawalpindi, near Islamabad. He has since been moved to another prison.
"Yes, I met him twice in Afghanistan," Sheikh said when asked if he had met the Al Qaeda chief, the first time the 31-year-old has admitted encountering bin Laden. He did not say when the meetings took place.
But he added that he did not agree with all bin Laden's methods and was now committed to Mullah Mohammed Omar, the fugitive head of Afghanistan's Taliban regime.
Sheikh expressed no regret for his actions, saying only that he had "some causes of anxiety, such as the fact that my son is growing up without me - he's three years old now".
His lawyer, Mohsin Imam, said he was not aware of the interview and could not verify its contents. Sheikh's appeal against his conviction for plotting the abduction and murder of Wall Street Journal journalist Pearl is pending in a court. Source ::: AFP
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If Pakistan ISI & Saudi Arabia enebled Bin Laden & Al Queda to perpetrate 9-11...
why would they need to bankroll ATTA 100,000 bucks
er...which he won't be able to spend because 9-11 was a suicide Mission...
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"While researching various sections of a related story surrounding growing evidence that the FBI and other government entities are more closely linked to pre-9/11 insider trading than previously was thought, it was found that the Secretary of State and two other State Department officials, the Central Intelligence Administration (CIA) Director, three senators, and a congressman actually met with Pakistan's Inter-Services Security Agency (ISI) chief, who had wired $100,000 to fund the operations of terrorist hijacker leader Mohammed Atta just prior to the attacks. '
Secret Hearings Conceal 9/11 Terrorist Links to Congress & White House
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The Wall Street Journal
reported (on Oct. 10, 2001),
"American authorities confirm the fact that
$100,000 was transferred to Mohammad Atta
by Ahmad Umar Sheikh
at the request of General Ahmad Mahmood."
[Pakistan ISI]source
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"the head of Pakistani intelligence, who happened to wire head hijacker Mohammad Atta $100,000, was in Washington on Sept. 11 having breakfast with the head of the House Intelligence Oversight Committee."
Actually, Pakistani ISI's Lt. General Mahmoud Ahmad arrived in the US on the 4th of September, a full week before the attacks.
He had meetings at the State Department "after" the attacks on the WTC. But he also had "a regular visit of consultations" with his US counterparts at the CIA and the Pentagon during the week prior to September 11.
He also had breakfast with the heads of both the Senate and House Intelligence Oversight Committee on the morning of September 11th.(currently in charge of the only official 9-11 investigation which is extremely limited, being held in secret, and reeks of a gross whitewash).
Lt. General Mahmoud Ahmad also was sent by Bush to Afghanistan to demand that the Taliban hand over Bin Laden, when the Administration was far more interested in a war, that they had been planning for years, than in "getting Bin Laden."
Lt. General Mahmoud Ahmad ordered Ahmad Umar Sheikh to wire the $100,000 to WTC hijacker Mohammed Atta. When this information was revealed publicly, General Mahmoud Ahmad was quietly urged to resign by the U.S. government, which made no effort to "question or apprehend him" for his key role in the attacks. SF Indymedia
Politics.118 - Deep Politics: what is purposely kept behind the scenes?
The Pakistan Connection Micheal Meacher
On the morning of September 11, the three lawmakers Bob Graham, Porter Goss and Jon Kyl (who were part of the Congressional delegation to Pakistan) were having breakfast on Capitol Hill with General Ahmad, the alleged "money-man" (to use the FBI expression) behind the 9/11 hijackers. Also present at this meeting were Pakistan's ambassador to the U.S. Maleeha Lodhi and several members of the Senate and House Intelligence committees. This meeting was described by one press report as a "follow-up meeting" to that held in Pakistan in late August.
When the twin towers were attacked, General Mahmoud Ahmad, head of Pakistan's intelligence service, was, in Senator Graham's own words, "very empathetic, sympathetic to the people of the United States," (Stuart News Company Press Journal (Vero Beach, FL), September 12, 2001).
Bob Graham's description of the General Ahmad, contrasts with that of the Washington Post:
"On the morning of Sept. 11, Goss and Graham were having breakfast with a Pakistani general named Mahmud Ahmed the soon-to-be-sacked head of Pakistan's intelligence service. Ahmed ran a spy agency notoriously close to Osama bin Laden and the Taliban." (Washington Post, 18 May 2002).
While the Joint inquiry has collected mountains of intelligence material, through careful omission, the numerous press and intelligence reports in the public domain (mainstream media, alternative media, etc), which confirm that key members of the Bush Administration were involved in acts of political camouflage, have been carefully removed from the Joint inquiry's hearings. - PORTER GOSS THE NEW CIA HEAD LINKED TO FUNDING 911 TERROR ATTACKS
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as the old saying goes...
"you can't take it with you"
Why would 'Suicide' bombers need a $100,000 paycheck?
why would they be seen gambling?
... the whole 'Hijacker' angle is a front story
We have leaked evidence of Pakistani funding of Atta - from the mainstream media?
These angles tie in the 9-11 attacks as a Let it Happen on purpose exercise
as an operation which is about the funding of terror, which lets it happen so that governments can benefit from them...this is the 9-11 script as dictated to us...
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Agents of terror leave their mark on Sin City
Las Vegas workers recall the men they can't forget
Kevin Fagan, Chronicle Staff Writer - Thursday, October 4, 2001
Las Vegas -- Samantha remembers the killer settling into the crushed red velvet chair, staring blankly up at her while she undulated her hips inches from his face. He didn't look evil, she said. Not even interesting. Certainly not like a man who would, just three months later, hijack a jet and smash it into the World Trade Center to slaughter thousands of people in a suicidal fireball. To the 29-year-old stripper, Marwan Al-Shehhi simply looked "cheap."
"Some big-man terrorist, huh?" Samantha said this week as she took a breather from the two-dozen lap dances she bestows daily upon the lonely at the Olympic Garden Topless Cabaret. "He spent about $20 for a quick dance and didn't tip more."
She stopped and bit her lip, throbbing rock music rattling the dimly lit crystal ball overhead while other "girls" in G-strings gyrated for grinning tourists.
"I'm glad he's dead with the rest of them, and I don't like feeling something like that," Samantha finally said. "But he wasn't just a bad tipper - - he killed people."
Samantha would have never given Al-Shehhi another thought if she hadn't seen his photo in a news article naming him as one of five Sept. 11 hijackers who stayed in Las Vegas not long before they pulled off the deadliest terrorist attack in U.S. history. Just why the five chose Vegas is still somewhat of a mystery, and FBI agents are knocking on doors up and down The Strip -- the casino-studded road cutting north to south -- to try to solve it.
But one thing seems clear. The self-styled warriors for Allah -- who believed their hijackings would earn them eager virgins in heaven -- engaged in some decidedly un-Islamic sampling of prohibited pleasures in America's reputed capital of moral corrosion. The fact that she played a role in that sampling was disturbing enough to Samantha, but after recognizing 23-year-old Al-Shehhi's bearded face, she had another shock coming. It turned out one of his accomplices, Mohamed Atta -- thought to be the ringleader of the entire four-jet attack that demolished the twin towers and part of the Pentagon -- stayed in the cheap Econo Lodge just a couple of blocks from the Olympic along The Strip.
Now, she can think of little else.
"Some of the girls here remember a couple of those guys coming in here in August, too," said Samantha, who like three other Olympic "Samanthas" preferred that her family not read her real name in a newspaper. "It's freaking us all out. "For me, what I remembered most was the guy with the beard. You don't forget a face in this business."
All of the women, she said, recall the men the same way: quiet, well- groomed, polite, light drinkers -- and the opposite of big spenders.
AT LEAST SIX TRIPS MADE
In addition to Atta, 33, and Al-Shehhi, investigators are telling business owners that Nawaq Alhamzi, age unknown, Ziad Jarrahi, 26, and Hani Hanjour, 29, stayed in Las Vegas off and on between May and August. They say the group -- which chillingly included a hijacker from each of the four flights -- made at least six trips here.
So far, according to sources familiar with the investigation, the supposition is that this was just a convenient central meeting spot to hatch their plots because tourists of all ethnicities blend easily here, and flights are frequent and cheap. As for hanging out at the Olympic Club, the sprightliest strip joint on a dreary stretch of the old downtown known mainly for $10 street hookers and easy heroin: "It makes sense they would come here, because we're a nice place for everyone, every ethnicity," said Manager Joe Algere.
The meeting-spot theory was reinforced last week by the discovery that Lotfi Raissi, a pilot arrested in London on suspicion of flight-training four of the hijackers, also stayed in Vegas in June when some of them were here. Sources familiar with the investigation believe Raissi trained at least one hijacker at a flight school in Arizona. None of the flight schools in Vegas has so far unearthed records of any of the suspects training here.
However, locals and investigators are still exploring two main theories for why the radical Islamic killers gathered in a city they undoubtedly saw as a den of infidels wallowing in Western wretchedness.
One, which is generating plenty of fear but seems to have no factual underpinning, is that they planned to crash planes into something big like the fake Statue of Liberty, or the 109-story Stratosphere Casino tower near the Econo Lodge. The other is that the five reckoned as long as they had to meet, they might as well do it where they could gamble and indulge in the same forbidden frolics some of them reportedly found at the Pink Pony strip joint in Florida over the summer. The portrait of their time here gets a little fuller with every new sighting report that pops up -- though it's anyone's guess how well the stories will hold up over time.
McCarran Airport Payless Car Rental Manager Suzanne Gerfy told The Chronicle this week that her staff had found receipts showing Jarrahi "and a few of the others" had rented cars over the summer, and they turned the receipts over to the FBI. Jarrahi -- who investigators believe piloted United Airlines Flight 93 on its fatal dive into a Pennsylvania field -- wrote he was staying at the high-rolling Circus Circus casino resort, which is on the gaudier end of The Strip than the Econo Lodge.
"They all listed Florida driver's licenses and very much fit in, pretty clean-cut guys," said Gerfy. "It's a shame. It would have been better if they were more criminal looking and easier to spot for something wrong."
Circus Circus staff referred calls to management, who did not return messages.
SOME SAY THEY SERVED HIJACKERS
Clerks at a Starbucks near the University of Nevada at Las Vegas also say they served high-octane java to at least one of the killers, and a pizza joint reportedly served them slices -- with ham left off by request. Some folks at the Chapel of Love quickie-marriage emporium even swear they saw Atta driving a cab.
FBI agents aren't talking about what they're finding -- "for obvious reasons," said Las Vegas office Special Agent Gayle Jacobs. But area Muslims have heard enough. They are tired of association with mass murderers. "True Muslims don't drink, don't gamble, don't go to strip clubs," said Dr. Osama Haikal, president of the board of directors of the Islamic Foundation of Nevada. "These things are a sin, just like what they did in New York and Washington is a sin."
If the hijackers copped a lap dance or even a watery scotch in most strict Islamic countries, they would be flogged, Haikal said -- and they would be executed for the horror they wrought. Dying doesn't mean they won't be held accountable. "Wherever they are now, I'm sure they are getting punished," he said.
- sfgate.com
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TIA now verifies flight of Saudis
The government has long denied that two days after the 9/11 attacks, the three were allowed to fly.
By JEAN HELLER, Times Staff Writer
Published June 9, 2004
TAMPA - Two days after the Sept. 11 attacks, with most of the nation's air traffic still grounded, a small jet landed at Tampa International Airport, picked up three young Saudi men and left. The men, one of them thought to be a member of the Saudi royal family, were accompanied by a former FBI agent and a former Tampa police officer on the flight to Lexington, Ky.
The Saudis then took another flight out of the country. The two ex-officers returned to TIA a few hours later on the same plane.
For nearly three years, White House, aviation and law enforcement officials have insisted the flight never took place and have denied published reports and widespread Internet speculation about its purpose. But now, at the request of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks, TIA officials have confirmed that the flight did take place and have supplied details.
The odyssey of the small LearJet 35 is part of a larger controversy over the hasty exodus from the United States in the days immediately after 9/11 of members of the Saudi royal family and relatives of Osama bin Laden. The terrorism panel, better known as the 9/11 Commission, said in April that it knew of six chartered flights with 142 people aboard, mostly Saudis, that left the United States between Sept. 14 and 24, 2001. But it has said nothing about the Tampa flight. The commission's general counsel, Daniel Marcus, asked TIA in a letter dated May 25 for any information about "a chartered flight with six people, including a Saudi prince, that flew from Tampa, Florida on or about Sept. 13, 2001." He asked for the information no later than June 8.
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TIA officials said they sent their reply on Monday.
The airport used aircraft tracking equipment normally assigned to a noise abatement program to determine the identity of all aircraft entering TIA airspace on Sept. 13, and found four records for the LearJet 35. The plane first entered the airspace from the south, possibly from the Fort Lauderdale area, sometime after 3 p.m. and landed for the first time at 3:34 p.m. It took off at 4:37 p.m., headed north. It returned to Tampa at 8:23 p.m. and took off again at 8:48 p.m., headed south.
Author Craig Unger, who first disclosed the possibility of a post-9/11 Saudi airlift in his book House of Bush, House of Saud, said in an interview that he believes the jet came to Tampa a second time to drop off two former law enforcement agents from Tampa who accompanied three young Saudis to Lexington for security purposes. The Saudis asked the Tampa Police Department to escort the flight, but the department handed off the assignment to Dan Grossi, a former member of the force, Unger said. Grossi recruited Manuel Perez, a retired FBI agent, to accompany him. Both described the flight to Unger as somewhat surreal.
"They got the approval somewhere," Perez is quoted as telling Unger. "It must have come from the highest levels of government."
While there is no manifest for those aboard the Lear flight to Kentucky, Unger says the foreign nationals left Lexington for London aboard a Boeing 727. That manifest lists eight Saudis, two Sudan nationals, one Tunisian, one Philippine citizen, one Egyptian and two British subjects. Of those, three listed residences on Normandy Trace Drive in Tampa, and all of them held Florida drivers' licenses. They are Ahmad Al Hazmi, then 19, Fahad Al Zeid, then 20, and Talal M. Al Mejrad, then 18, all male Saudis.
It is not known which, if any, is a Saudi prince.
Perez, the former FBI agent on the flight, could not be located this week, and Grossi declined to talk about the experience. "I'm over it," he said in a telephone interview. "The White House, the FAA and the FBI all said the flight didn't happen. Those are three agencies that are way over my head, and that's why I'm done talking about it."
Grossi did say that Unger's account of his participation in the flight is accurate. The FAA is still not talking about the flights, referring all questions to the FBI, which isn't answering anything, either. Nor is the 9/11 Commission. Unger's book criticizes the Bush administration for allowing so many Saudis, including the relatives of bin Laden, to leave the country without being questioned thoroughly about the terrorist attacks.
Fifteen of the 19 men who hijacked four airlines on Sept. 11 were Saudi, as is bin Laden.
The 9/11 Commission, which has said the flights out of the United States were handled appropriately by the FBI, appears concerned with the handling of the Tampa flight. "What information, if any, do you have about the screening by law enforcement personnel - including law enforcement personnel affiliated with the airport facility - of individuals on this flight?" the commission asked TIA. The TIA Police Department said a check of its records indicated no member of its force screened the Lear's passengers. Despite evidence that the flight occurred, several new questions have arisen.
Raytheon Aircraft is the only facility at TIA that services general aviation, which includes charter flights. When appropriate, Raytheon collects landing fees from those aircraft for TIA and reports to TIA on the flights. According to airport records, Raytheon collected landing fees from only two aircraft on Sept. 13, one of them a Lear 35. But according to the record, the registration on the Lear is 505RP, a tail number which, according to the latest federal records, is assigned to a Cessna Citation based in Kalamazoo, Mich., and Oskar Rene Poch.
Poch confirmed Tuesday that he owns a Citation with that tail number and did before the terrorist attacks. "Somebody must have gotten the registration number wrong in Tampa," he said.
TIA spokeswoman Brenda Geoghagan said it is believed the Lear's Sept. 13 journey began in Fort Lauderdale, possibly at a charter company called Hop-a-Jet Inc. The fact that the four trips in and out of Tampa all carried the flight designation "HPJ32" lends support to that idea.
But an official of Hop-a-Jet who wouldn't identify himself said the company does not own an aircraft with the registration number 505RP. Furthermore, he said, if that tail number is assigned to a Cessna Citation, the company doesn't own any Citations, either. Most of the aircraft allowed to fly in U.S. airspace on Sept. 13 were empty airliners being ferried from the airports where they made quick landings on Sept. 11. The reopening of the airspace included paid charter flights, but not private, nonrevenue flights.
"Whether such a (LearJet) flight would have been legal hinges on whether somebody paid for it," said FAA spokesman William Shumann. "That's the key."
- Times researcher Kitty Bennett contributed to this report. - St Petersberg Times
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911 hijackers - No Iraqis & No Afghanis
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Question: if all these hijackers were fake Saudi wahabbists...how would you convince them to die for god?
The U.S government & it's corporate Industrial bedfellows
actually MADE IT HAPPEN,
as a military operation against their own people...while using front companies & their lobbyist Bush cronys to distract and invent a cast of characters within the 911 'movie' plotline
it was a premeditated attack
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why?
because the PNAC document
'Rebuilding Americas Defences'
cited that a new Pearl Harbour
would be the only thing
that would allow the USA to
extend and build its strategy for
a global 'full spectrum dominance'
that would ensure gazillions in launderable assets
and set a precedent for other Global Players [The G8] to join the fake war on Terror
- build a platform of fear based economics, and gain complete control over the planet
so 'hey! with all that on the line:
why 'leave it all to chance'
that eventually a few terrorists we once trained...might strike the USA?
Are these 'Arab terrorists' plain dumb or really clever? The operation involves huge logistic planning...knowlegdge of the aircraft & the destinations...and many other scenarios
Just leaving your defences down doesn't cut it
If the defences are just left open any terrorist who is serious would guess a sting is in place...
"...hey wait a minute...they are letting us do this... what gives?"
as a government greedy for the prize, you could be waiting a while
and spending all that time and money
steering false terror units
and doing dodgy deals and hanging
around US air force bases
...and this leaves way too much to chance
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