I just re-read 270-276 of the report. KSM was not known to US intelligence at that time to be an associate of OBL or alQ. What am I missing?
Looking at your next cite now.
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The statement, by Gary, to Martin, is contended by Martin. He said - she said isn't going anywhere near to changing my mind.
KSM was known to have helped finance the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center. This was why the FBI had a $2,000,000 reward on his head. The CIA had photographed him at the Kuala Lumpur al Qaeda planning meeting, knew about this reward and then let him walk away to carry out the attacks on 9/11, an attack that was a repeat of the attack in 1993. Abdel-Rahman who was the mastermind of the 1993 attack on the WTC towers was knwon to be the spiritual leader of the al Qaeda terrorist organization.
When this attack took place the FBI and CIA knew shortly after this attack that this huge bomb had been planted by Ramzi Yousef, KSM's uncle and this plot had been financed partly by KSM.
When an apartment in Manila caught fire in 1995, Philippine intelligence quickly found out that Ramzi Yousef and KSM we behind the making of bombs at this apartment. They also found on Abdul Murad’s computer, a plan by KSM to hijack 4 large US airliners and crash these into the WTC towers, the Pentagon and the US Capitol building.
Ramzi Yousef and KSM both fled to Pakistan because the police were looking for them after this apartment fire. Yourself was arrested at a al Qaeda safe house in 1995, clearly connecting him to al Qaeda although it was not until 3 years later in February 1999 that KSM pledged Bayat or obedience to UBL.
When the CIA was told on June 12, 2001 that KSM was directing a huge al Qaeda terrorist attack in the US, they were told that KSM was recruiting al Qaeda terrorists to be sent into the US to meet up with other al Qaeda terrorists already in the US Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, in order to carry out this huge attack the CIA had been told would kill many Americans. At this time they already had his Bojinka plot.
The capture of his nephew, Ramzi Yousef at a al Qaeda safe house, the fact that the CIA knew a huge al Qaeda attack was just about to take place inside of the US and al Qaeda was run by bin Laden and that this attack was being directed by KSM, the fact that two of the people that KSM was sending recruits to meet up with in the US were in fact known to be long time al Qaeda terrorists, Mihdhar and Hazmi, would have been enough to connect KSM to al Qaeda.
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The statement, by Gary, to Martin, is contended by Martin. He said - she said isn't going anywhere near to changing my mind”
This is the statement by Micheal Maltbie to FBI Agent Harry Samit’s boss, after being told that Moussaoui wanted to learn how to fly a B747 in order to crash it into the World Trade Center, was not going to change his mind has never been explained.
FBI criminal agents in Minneapolis had investigated a report by Pan Am Aviation instructors who thought one of their students was terrorist. One student was attempting to learn how to fly a B747 without even having a private pilot’s license. Minneapolis FBI agents investigated and found that Moussaoui had significant amounts money in his bank account which he could not explain, and refused to say how it had been obtained and was spending thousands of dollars per hour on flight lessons on a B747 flight simulator for no apparent reason. He told his simulation flight instructors that he wanted to learn how to fly a B747 from London to New York City. French intelligence connected Moussaoui directly to Khattab, a radical Islamist terrorist closely connected to bin Laden.
Regardless of what FBI Agent Samit or Zebley did they could not obtain a FISA warrant for Moussaoui’s duffle bag. In this duffle bag was a receipt from Western Union from Ramzi bin Al-Shibh in Hamburg for $14,000. Bin al-Sheibh was the room mate of Mohammed Atta, Mawin al-Shiehi, and Ziad Jarrah, three of the pilots on 9/11. Minneapolis FBI was not able to get this search warrant even after two planes hit the World Trade Center Towers. Maltbie and Frasca said this was just a coincidence. It was only after a plane hit the Pentagon that Minneapolis FBI was able to get this search warrant and found the receipt from bin Al-Sheibh, and connected Moussaoui directly to the plot on 9/11. Prior to getting this search warrant Minneapolis FBI was so shocked for not being allowed to even apply to the FISA court for a search warrant that they joked that FBI HQ must have had a person working for bin Laden inside this organization.
One reason for not allowing Minneapolis FBI to apply for a search warrant was it was claimed that Minneapolis FBI had not connected Moussaoui to a recognized terrorist organization, they had connect Moussaoui to Khattab but Khattab was not a recognized terrorist. What is bizarre is that Rod Middleton, Corsi’s boss wrote a report in April 2001 that described threats to the US coming from a terrorist known as Khattab, described as a dangerous terrorist very close to bin Laden. The FISA court said they had no concept of recognized terrorist organization, they stated that any terrorist organization would do just fine for this court. This report went to every manager in this unit of the FBI including Frasca and Maltbie.
But what is even more horrific is that on August 24, 2001, Maltbie was in email contact with Tom Wilshire, the very person who at that time was actively sabotaging Bongardt’s investigation of Mihdhar and Hazmi by keeping secret the fact that these terrorists had just been found inside of the US. It was already known that these terrorists were going to take part in a plan for a huge al Qaeda terrorist attack inside of the US that would kill thousands of Americans. Wilshire is told that the investigation of Moussaoui was going nowhere, the same information given to George Tenet on August 23, 2001.
Wilshire now knows that while he is criminally and illegally blocking the criminal investigation of Midhar and Hazmi, other people were blocking the investigation of Moussaoui. Both Wilshire and CIA Director George Tenet have all of the information that these two investigations are being blocked by FBI HQ, know that a huge al Qaeda terrorist attack is just about to take place inside of the US, and know if these investigations continue to be blocked, thousands of Americans will be shortly be murdered in this upcoming al Qaeda terrorist attack. And yet neither one do anything to alert anyone to stop this attack.
Can anyone explain this?
