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| USA Secretly Held Bin Laden's Brother-in-Law for Four Months |
| 2004-09-08 |
| From IntelWire, an article by J. M. Berger The U.S. government secretly detained Osama bin Laden's brother-in-law for four months in 1995, after the INS announced he had already been deported to Jordan, according to documents obtained by INTELWIRE using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The Jordan deportation was authorized by then-Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick, at the request of Secretary of State Warren Christopher. A member of the independent commission investigating the September 11 attacks, Gorelick came under fire earlier in 2004 for possible conflicts arising from her role in the Clinton administration's war on terrorism. |
| Posted by:Mike Sylwester |
| #8 Perfect example of why we can't let Kerry and his rolodex near to the white house EVER. |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-09-08 11:23:29 AM |
| #7 Capt America - interesting - thanks. |
| Posted by: B 2004-09-08 9:35:45 AM |
| #6 heh, heh...just feeds my suspicion that we've been holding bin Laden since Tora Bora. who knows...who cares...and what difference does the second guessing make? |
| Posted by: B 2004-09-08 2:28:41 AM |
| #5 Bayazid was a Syrian-American who lived for several years in Kansas City. He had also spent time with bin Laden's operations in the Sudan. In 1993, he had tried to purchase uranium for al Qaeda, apparently without success. Bayazid moved to Chicago shortly before Khalifa arrived. The two were arrested in Mountain View, California, in December 1994, just one month before another top bin Laden lieutenant, Ayman Al-Zawahiri arrived in Santa Clara, Calif., for a fundraising trip that may also be connected to Benevolence. (This connection is still theoretical, but Zawahiri stayed with Ali Mohammed, a triple-agent al Qaeda informer based in Northern California who was closely tied to Wadih El-Hage, a Texas-based al Qaeda operative who was directly tied to Benevolence.) Even though his connections to bin Laden and to Khalid Shaikh Mohammed's operation in Manila were well-known to U.S. intelligence sources, Khalifa was extradited to Jordan in 1995 to face charges relating to a terrorist bombing. Khalifa was acquitted and is currently living freely in Saudi Arabia. Bayazid was subsequently released and is also at large, location unknown. |
| Posted by: Capt America 2004-09-08 1:55:22 AM |
| #4 Padilla's interest in obtaining material to use in a dirty bomb was not new to Al Qaeda. A top BIF official, Mohamed Loay Bayazid, allegedly attempted to obtain uranium to help bin Laden develop a radiological weapon in 1993. Bayazid was a Syrian-American who lived for for a time in Kansas City. He also spent time with bin Laden's operations in the Sudan. Bayazid moved to Chicago shortly before Khalifa arrived in the US in 1994. Khalifa and Bayazid were arrested in Mountain View, California, in December 1994, just one month before Al-Zawahiri arrived in Santa Clara, Calif. (Al-Zawahiri was accompanied by Ali Mohammed, who had close ties with someone involved in Benevolence.) Bayazid's uncle in Kansas City, who thinks the jews and the CIA were behind 9/11, confirms that his nephew, Mohamed Bayazid,was associated with Osama bin Laden in the late 1980s and early 1990s, working with groups associated with bin Laden in Peshawar, Pakistan, and Khartoum. In Pakistan, the uncle reports, his nephew was "helping and teaching the kids." When he allegedly attempted to buy the uranium for Bin Laden, his drivers license used the headquarters of Benevolence International as his address. |
| Posted by: Capt America 2004-09-08 1:46:32 AM |
| #3 Where the hell did this guy go? Mohamed Loay Bayazid allegedly tried to purchase uranium for al Qaeda in the early 1990s, according to the affadavit and other court records. |
| Posted by: Capt America 2004-09-08 1:42:13 AM |
| #2 Cover Up sounds like an fascinating book read. Gorelick should never have been on the Commission, unless, of course, she was involved with yet another cover up. |
| Posted by: Anonymous6339 2004-09-08 1:38:30 AM |
| #1 Gee, Jamie, you didn't think this was relevant to the commission's work? This is the kind of blunderers we'll get if we elect John Kerry in November. |
| Posted by: Douglas De Bono 2004-09-08 12:14:03 AM |