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| Kuwaiti Thug Is Suspected As 9/11 Mastermind |
| 2002-06-05 |
| Investigators believe they have identified a Kuwaiti lieutenant of Osama bin Laden as the likely mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, designated as one of the FBI's most-wanted terrorists, is at large in Afghanistan or nearby, the law enforcement official said. "Nearby" means a cute little cottage outside Quetta or Peshawar, or maybe the cool confines of a madrassah in the same area... "There's lots of links that tie him to 9/11," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. "He's the most significant operational player out there right now." Other bin Laden lieutenants are also believed to have helped put together the attacks, the official said. But evidence is mounting that Mohammed was at the center of the operational planning. "Mohammed is known to wear either a full beard or a trimmed beard, or he may be clean shaven. He has been known to wear glasses." Not very helpful. Catch him and there's $25m in it for ya... A second U.S. official, also speaking on condition of anonymity, acknowledged that Mohammed played a critical role in planning the attacks but said questions remain about the extent of his leadership. The official said other bin Laden lieutenants, including Abu Zubaydah, now in U.S. custody, are also believed to have played top organizational roles. According to the counterterrorism official, within three months of Sept. 11, the FBI learned that Mohammed had moved money that was used to pay for the attacks and that since then the United States has gathered other significant evidence pointing to him as the key planner. The official declined to go into detail, citing a need to protect intelligence information. That's pretty interesting. The Indians claimed back in October that the money came from Pakland, via Ahmed Omar Shiekh, which would be Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, on trial now for killing Daniel Pearl. Mohammed is accused of working with Ramzi Yousef in the first bombing of the World Trade Center, which left six dead in 1993. He and Yousef are also accused of plotting in 1995, while hiding in the Philippines, to bomb several trans-Pacific airliners heading for the United States. Yousef, now serving a life sentence in the United States, is believed to have planned to crash a plane into CIA headquarters. In late September, Newsweek ran a story saying the 9-11 killers had wired their spare changed to Mustafa Ahmed, believed to be Binny's paymaster, in the UAE. The Mirror carried a parallel story, without naming the "money man:" "On September 9 the man, who has not been named by the UAE authorities, received three separate wire transfers from America totalling $15,000. UAE officials said the cash was left over from planning the US atrocities and was returned to finance new attacks." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 Re funding sources of 911 terror: there is foundation supporting an Iranian connection. Last October a Saudi - Sheik al-Hawali - was named as an al-Qaeda financier. As I write, his extremist works are being distributed freely in Saudi Arabia, even though the Saudis jailed him - with another extremist - Sheik al-Awdah - from 1994-1999. Hawali and Awdah had appeared jointly at Iran's annual "Jihad" conference, just before the arrests. The Afghan' Hizb-e-Islami also were represented at that meeting, which focused on the "destruction of America". In fact, the "Khurasaan Prophecy" (see: www.khurasaan.com) calls for said destruction, after the unification of Islamist armies of Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, etc. Hawali's recent book - "The Wrath" - goes beyond the America's impending demise, and forsees Israel's annihilation in the year "2012". Recently, khurasaan.com has been posting nominal "signs" of the end of "tribulation". They have described "angels" fighting in direct armed combat with American troop, and "trees" speaking to Muslims in Palestine, informing their co-religists of the presence of IDF units. On May 31, the Iman Sahib - Sh. Abd-al-Rahman al-Sudays -of the Holy Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, proclaimed the impending end of "tribulations", praying that "allah" would turn "Jews" into "pigs and monkeys". He proclaimed a state of war against "advocates of credit and worshippers of the Cross". And that alleged human said all of the above, on the "house of saud's" TV1 channel.Where do the Iranian' Shias fit in? During the Taleban regime, they directed their Hizb puppet, Gulodin Hekmatyar, to reconcile with the government. When the second most powerful person in Pakistan - Qazi Hussain Ahmad (Jamaat-i-Islami)-was released from luxurious custody, last Feb 27, his first visitor was: the Ambassador of Iran to Pakistan. And one of Qazi's his first free acts was to form an anti-secularist alliance - the MMA - with the Jamaat-Ulama-Islami movement. The JUL is a signatory member of al-Qaeda's "jihad against Jews and Crusaders". According to the JI website - jamaat.org - Qazi was given American diplomatic privileges in 2001, and attended consultation sessions at the State Department. Qazi also conducted propaganda ("Dawah") sessions with Muzammil Siddiqi, the President of Qazi's American forward base movements, the Islamic Society ("Jamaat") of North America, and the Muslim Students Assn. The JI leadership also once invited bin Laden to attend a convention in Pakistan. There is at least foundation for believing that Mullah Omar's much ridiculed predictions of the "destruction of America", are at least part of a plan to site and use weapons of mass destruction, on American soil, using Islamist elements for infiltration and placement purposes. It is certainly a fact, that somebody with high tech weapons wants Hekmatyar dead in the worst way, and President Bush openly hinted at West Point that Americans can expect proportionate "pre-emptive" strikes, where warranted. Iran's clerics have been commanding "Death to America" chants at Teheran U, for over two decades. If Pakistan's Inter-Service-Intelligence agency handed nuclear technology to Iran, and that terror entity is funding al-Qaeda ul-Jihad, then they would have the means to attempt to take that end to effect. By the way, al-Awdah is currently writing extensive apocalyptic on the "signs of the end of days", while al-Hawali (last seen last October,in the Netherlands) is posting jihad instructions on the Wahabi websites: al-neda and islamicawakening.com. I forsee the toppling of the House of Saud, by August, and that this will be achieved with Jordanian and Yemeni assistance.As for Iran, the Imans are about to enter hell. |
| Posted by: RG Fulton 2002-06-05 18:01:41 |