FBI Complicity in '93 WTC Bombing- Debunk needed

[Arkan_Wolfshade]

just tell them that thats an obsurd insinuation.

and throw in a few insults and youre good to go..

Continued use of cherry-picked strawman noted.

 

[kookbreaker]

if i was accused of killing 3000 people i would sue

'Didn't sue, must be true' is one of the dumbest arguements out there.

 

[Killtown]

So the FBI wasn't complicit to blow up the WTC in '93?

 

[njslim]

FBI blow up WTC in 1993?

Hmmm - considering that the terrorists bought the cylinders of compressed
hydrogen just down road at AGL Welding Supply in Clifton NJ - know
some of the people who worked there. Testified at trial. Also friend worked
as paralegal at Allied Signal in Morristown, one of the bombers was Nidal
Ayyad, an engineer there. Was present when FBI showed up and perp
walked him out of the building.

 

[yodaluver28]

Basically, the story was that Salem had infiltrated the blind sheik's group and was asking to be reimbursed for some expenses that he had incurred. The handler refused. The informant then stopped talking to his handler and the bombing went ahead.

That's not quite how it went down. Salem was getting paid $500 a week for his work with the FBI, but he was a private citizen agreeing to work as a pure intelligence asset. This meant that his agreement with the FBI stipulated that he would never have to testify in open court or wear a wire. Salem stopped working for the FBI when his new handler tried to go back on his original agreement and force him to wear a wire and testify in court. Salem, afraid for his family's lives once Rahman's inner circle discovered he was a mole, refused. Salem stopped attending Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman's mosque in Brooklyn, where he's made contact with the cell, in July 1992, seven months before the bombing. Ramzi Yousef was then brought to New York from Pakistan in September 2002 to replace Salem, who Rahman thought would be building the bomb. Without Salem in the inner circle, the FBI had few details about when the bombing would take place or where the bomb was being put together.

After the bombing, Salem contacted the FBI and tells them that Abouhalima has fled to Egypt and he is captured. Soon after, Salem informed that the FBI that another bombing plot was being planned by Rahman. Salem was paid a lump sum of $1.5 million to re-infiltrate the cell. This time, Rahman and his co-conspirators were arrested before the attacks could occur. Salem was the key witness for the prosecution's case and he and his family have been in the Witness Protection Program ever since.

This particular case absolutely infuriates him. He's said on his show that this is, bar none, the worst handling of an informant in FBI history. Incompetent, yes. But it's not criminal.

It definitely was. Not only did the FBI mishandle Salem horribly, but they also lost a fine agent in Nancy Floyd as well. It is infuriating to realize how much could've been prevented if real, accomplished agents like Floyd and John O'Neill had been allowed to follow their instincts.