Major Nidal Hassan

RADICAL SHEIK

A HISTORY OF THE BLIND SHEIK OMAR RAHMAN & HIS MUREED, IMAM ANWAR AL-AWLAKI JEWISH DEFENSE ORGANIZATION RESEARCH TEAM

To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up Ecclesiastes 3

The Obama Administration tried to whack Anwar Al-Alwlaki on December 24, 2009. This attempt failed as it should have been instituted immediately after Anwar‘s connection to Fort Hood murderer Nidal Hasan was unearthed. This researcher was the first to do so on November 7, 2009. The story appeared instantly on Scribd then in the Sunday Telegraph in London. Hasan had used Scribd to express some of his pathological ideas and journalists were searching it for more of his writings. This is only one example of the Obama Administration‘s floundering around. There are many more. It floundered around when it took months to decide to send more troops to Afghanistan. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano floundered when she said ―the system worked‖ after two hundred and seventy eight people plus the crew was almost killed by an inept terrorist on a December 25, 2010 flight to Detroit then retracted the statement. CIA Director Leon Panetta floundered around when days before the December 25, 2010 airliner bombing plot the pinhead Panetta was planning to cut the national counterterrorism center workforce up to twenty percent, including terrorism analysts and watch list personnel. Attorney General Eric Holder floundered around when he first said the terror trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammad would be held in New York City then backed down. The Obama Administration floundered around before the December 25 terrorist attempt that originated in Yemen: It was planning to repatriate Yemeni jihadi locked up in Gitmo so they could enter a rehabilitation program then be set free to make jihad once again. But the Administration had to put this program on hold due to the Christmas event. The Administration should not have waffled and immediately realized that Imam Anwar Al-Awlaki was the successor to Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, who is now serving a life sentence in a federal prison medical facility. The two men were in the country at the same time and the FBI reported that Islamists very close to Sheik Rahman visited Al-Awlaki.

Before we looked at the younger dirt bag, let‘s take a look at the older one. His Eminence Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, also known as The Blind Sheik, is the Sunni undisputed Emir1 of Al-Qaeda. He is the Elder of the Elder‘s, master of all sheikhs, the Imam of Imams and the greatest Islamist thinker of our time. Omar Abdel Rahman’s PhD. thesis, now a classic of Islamist literature, was an exegesis of the Qu‘ran in which put forth the thesis that Jihad, like Hajj, Faith, Prayer, Fast and Charity is a pillar of the Islamic faith incumbent on every Muslim capable of it. This is the basis of the Islam of the Jihadi. The life of the Sheikh, may he never be free from his prolonged nightmare in solitary confinement in an American maximum security prison medical facility, is so intertwined with the history of modern Islamism, that it is impossible to tell one story without telling the other! The name ―Rahman‖ means ―Servant of God‖ in Arabic. Islamism‘s spiritual leader was born into poverty in the small village of Al-Mansoura, in the Nile Delta of Egypt, on May 3, 1938.2 When he was ten months old he became blind and, like many Egyptian youngsters who lost their sight because of parasites or disease. In the Sheik‘s case it was congenital diabetes; extensive in-breeding played a part in causing the Sheik to become blind as evidenced in this transcript of a conversation between Yousry, the Sheik‘s translator-operative and Lynne Stewart the Sheik‘s attorney-operative in regard to whether the daughter of the Sheik should marry someone already related to her: ABDEL RAHMAN: [Laughing] I saw the Hadith, ―Marry a stranger, don‘t get weak,‖ marry a stranger.... Yousry: [As he writes] Marry a strangerABDEL RAHMAN: Don‘t get weak. Yousry: - don‘t get weak. ABDEL RAHMAN: Meaning, the Prophet advises that we marry strangers,

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1 The FBI still could not fathom this. Agent Samit, one of the FBI‘s best, was asked in Spring 2006, Q. Al-Gama‘a al-Islamiyya, what was the relationship between that group and al- Qaeda? A. Like EIJ, or Egyptian Islamic Jihad, el Gamaa also fell under the al-Qaeda umbrella. Q. And Abdel Rahman was a spiritual leader of that group? A. That's correct. Q. What was his relationship with Bin Laden, and did he have a position within al Qaeda? A. Well, I'm not sure if he personally had a position within al-Qaeda, but the group did.

2 . Other reports have him born in the village of al-Jamaliyah, in the province of al-Daqhaliyah, 120 miles from Cairo.

don‘t marry the daughter of your paternal uncle or aunt, your maternal uncle or aunt or the daughter of eh, hah.... Yousry: Right, Sir. ABDEL RAHMAN: So, you marry a stranger, don‘t get weak, in order not weak. Stewart: Ask the Sheikh, how old is his daughter? Yousry: She is asking, Sir, how old is your daughter? ABDEL RAHMAN: She is about eh, about twenty-five. Yousry: About twenty-five. Stewart: Mmm hmm. ABDEL RAHMAN: You see? Yousry: Yes, Sir. ABDEL RAHMAN: The word means, ―so you don‘t get weak.‖ Yousry: [Repeating] In order not to get weak. ABDEL RAHMAN: Yeah, because of the heredity factor. If the sense of hearing in a family is fifty per cent... Yousry: Yeah. ABDEL RAHMAN: ...the hearing of the son they will have will be twenty-five cent. Yousry: Exactly, Sir. ABDEL RAHMAN: If the sight is seventy-five percent, the son will be twenty-per cent and so on. Sugar can also be passed through heredity, the son will be diabetic. The Hadith says, ―Marry strangers, don‘t get weak.‖ Yousry: [Repeating] Marry strangers, don‘t get weak. It was eventually determined that the marriage should take place as one the Sheik‘s sons who had been given this responsibility had previously arranged and approved it. Dr. Ayman Zawahiri, second in command of Al Qaeda claimed it was the West that was spreading incest, not Islam: ―You are a nation that permits acts of immorality, and you consider them to be pillars of personal freedom. You have continued to sink down this abyss from level to level until incest has spread amongst you, in the face of which neither your sense of honor nor your laws object.‖ A young Abdel Rahman was taken to the mosque so that he could become a preacher like so many other blind Egyptians. His uncle, a devout Muslim, raised him and forced him to rise before the morning prayers at 4:00 a.m., in order that he memorize the Qu‘ran in Braille. By age eleven

he was a hafiz.3 He did his elementary, preparatory, and secondary education in the nearby town of Damietta at schools associated with the Al-Azar University. The Sheik had this to say about his humble origins: ―And here is Omar Abdel Rahman, who was sleeping on a pile of rice straw, on top of a bakery that belonged to one of his relatives, whereas he had no home and no parents, and had nothing on him except the clothing he was wearing. And during his studying he used to take half a dollar from his brother as his weekly expenses and now the United States is spending millions of dollars to imprison him.‖ Despite the fact he could neither read nor write in Arabic or English Sheik Rahman studied at Al-Azar University School of Religious Studies4 in Cairo, Egypt‘s most prestigious Islamic university and the oldest university in the world. He graduated in 1965. During his university education, he became exposed to the ideology of the Muslim Brothers, but he did not join them. The Sheik was sent to preach in the Egyptian town of Fayoum, a small village of about twenty thousand people, on the Nile. In 1967, at age 21, radicalized by the disastrous June 1967 Six Day War with Israel, he returned to Al-Azar to study for an advanced degree. Sheik Rahman was arrested in 1968 and dismissed from Al-Azar in 1969 for his Islamically correct ideas. His Eminence protested, ―The State organizes nightclubs and prepares special police to protect adulterers and prostitutes. Liquor factories are built by the State. Doesn‘t this deny God‘s laws?‖ Within weeks of making this statement he was arrested, banned from preaching, his pay cut in half and placed under military house arrest by Gamal Abdel Nasser‘s Interior Ministry. On October 15, 1970 Sheik Rahman advised his followers not to pray for Gamal Abdul Nasser because Nasser was a ―pharaoh‖ and ―a kafir and unbeliever.‖ This strict, by-the-Qu‘ran line of thought culminated with a fatwa5 the Sheik issued that it was a sin to perform prayers for the dead on the corpse of Gamal Abdel Nasser, since Nasser was headed straight for a Siberian Gulag-style hell. As punishment for his anti-Communist, anti-Nasserite remarks, beginning on October 17, 1970 3. Someone who has memorized the entire Qur‘an. 4. The Oldest Islamic University that concerns itself with the religious syllabus, which pays special attention to the Quranic sciences and traditions of the prophet, on the one hand, while on the other, the university teaches all the modern scientific fields of science. 5. Binding religious edict often formulated in response to a question.

Rahman spent eight months in Cairo‘s vast 12th Century Citadel Prison, now a museum, where he was detained without charges. The Sheik stated: ―The secret security police in Egypt arrested me in my apartment in Fayoum after the house was searched and some books and money was taken from the house, they dragged me by force to the fortress prison. In the fortress prison, I stayed for eight months. The security officials of the state - the state security officials were asking me all the day about my activities, about the books I read, and things like that. Which books I read, yes, yes. I would stay in my cell, the door of which was closed for 24 hours a day. I had only two containers, one for drinking and the other for urinating. And I didn‘t have access to the proper food or medicine you see, with my health situation. I was tortured and beaten by beating in the middle of the night. I was not accused of any crime and I was not brought before the justice.‖ Upon his release an even more determined Sheik Rahman returned to school, to earn his doctorate by writing a dissertation on the Qur‘an‘s teachings about political violence and whether the scriptures banned Jihad during the holy month of Ramadan. Verse 9:5 commands Muslims not to slay pagans until the sacred months have passed and verse 9:36 tells Muslims to fight pagans during those same months. At the core of his beliefs was the teaching of Ibn Taymiyyah a fourteenth-century scholar who ruled that Muslims have the duty to kill leaders who fail to rule by Islamic law. The Sheik became a teacher in the Al-Minya Academy and later in Asyut University. In 1972 Sheik Rahman settled in Menya, the southern Egyptian town where he was assigned to preach. On June 22, 1972 Sheik Rahman married his first wife – Aisha. They had ten children: Abdullah, Fatima, Abdul Rahman, Osama, Hassan, Ammar, Khaled, Ibrahim, Khadija, Asmaa, and Sumaya. It was at this point in time Rahman started Al-Gama’a alIslamiyya, or the Islamic Group. Gama‘a al-Islamiyya in the 1970s was the name of the Islamic fundamentalist intellectual current in Egyptian universities that was not attached to any jihadi organization. Its name was first al-Jama‘a al-Diniyya (The Religious Group) and it was active among university faculties. The religious young people of the time changed the name to Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya. The current began to grow in universities in al-Sa‘id, particularly in al-Minya and Asyut, calling for change by force. However, a majority opposed such a call, until a number

of important figures of the independent Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya became linked in the 1970s to the more radical elements of the Muslim Brotherhood, specifically in 1979. This took place in covert fashion and when some of the Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya leaders in al-Sa‘id learned of this development, they began to form a special organization for themselves, calling for change through force. They sought to form an organization, prepare cadres for it and train them in weapons. This began to emerge clearly at the beginning of 1981 and during this period the first armed robbery took place, of a gold store belonging to a Copt in Naja‘ Hammadi, to fund the organization. This operation was only revealed during judicial investigations of al-Jihad at the end of 1981, after President Anwar Sadat‘s assassination and the Asyut insurrections.6 During Rahman’s American deportation hearing he was asked: Q. Okay. Did you ever hear of an organization Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya in Egypt? A. No such thing. The Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya is the al-Azar - University of al-Azar. Q. Were you ever a member or a founder of this group, Al-Gama’a alIslamiyya? Were you ever associated with the organization, sir? A. No. Under Sheik Rahman’s guidance Al-Gama‘a would gain the reputation as the Islamic group that focused primarily on tourists visiting Egypt. The idea was to cripple Egypt‘s biggest industry, cause economic collapse and replace the Egyptian Government with Islamist rulers. The AlGama’a al-Islamiyya advocated the closing of Pharaonic tourist sites, places that glorified pagan gods. Dr. Rahman repeatedly warned that foreigners who visited sites like the pyramids may be harmed by the group's militants. The Al-Gama‘a eventually merged with Egyptian Al-Jihad or Holy War Group.

6. http://www.alwasatparty.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=313

After receiving his PhD. in Qur‘anic exegesis and Islamic theology in 1977 the Blind Sheikh Rahman was appointed as an instructor in the school of religious studies of the al-Azhar University branch in the province of al-Fayyum, despite his Islamist views. He was also appointed as the Imam of the mosque in the nearby village of Fidmin. He used the mosque pulpit to continue to instigate against the ruling regime. In 1977 sensing that another prison term was imminent Sheikh Rahman went to Saudi Arabia where he taught at a girls‘ school (he was allowed to do so because he was blind). In Saudi Arabia he made contact with other Islamists, as well as wealthy Saudis who later provided the Islamist movement with money. He traveled throughout the Middle East, and met with other leading Islamist scholars and politicians including the Sorbonne-educated scholar Dr. Hassan Abdullah al-Turabi (left), leader of Sudan‘s National Islamic Front (NIF). During his annual leave, he was always invited to lecture at the camps and panel discussions of the Islamists. These discussion groups were organized under the guise of "student unions" that were under the control of Islamists. The Sheik subsequently returned to Egypt in 1980 where he became a professor at the faculty of Osoul al-Deen (Fundamentals of Islam) at the Asyut branch of Al-Azhar University. After his return, he met with members of the Shura Council7 of the Islamic Group in the town of al-Fayyum who asked him to be their leader because they were determined to have a legitimate point of reference. He declined the offer at first, but then accepted it and submitted to their viewpoint. When the Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya entered into an alliance with an al-Jihad organization (that was then led by engineer Muhammad Abdel Salam Faraj) the two sides accepted Abdel Rahman as leader, emir, and mufti of the alliance that engineered the assassination of Anwar al-Sadat. Anwar Sadat, against the wishes of his internal security service, thought he could use Sheikh Rahman to enlist Islamic support in his contest against the Egyptian left. Sadat had invited Hassan al-Banna, who founded the Muslim Brotherhood in 1928, to speak at the army camp where he was stationed. Sadat hated the Reds and had been a member of the Green Shirts, a group of young Egyptian Nazis, during World War II. When 7. Consultive Council. The Shura Counsel at Al-Gama‘a al-Islamiyya is not a Board of Directors or a war operations room. It is an advisory board for Sheik Rahman unlike what you have in the West. For you ruling of votes at is by the majority. However, if the Shurah council at Al-Gama‘a al-Islamiyya, the highest authority in the organization, had a majority of 98 percent on a resolution and it is opposed by Rahman, he has the right to cancel the resolution, because it is only consultative to him and not binding.‖

he was a lieutenant in the Egyptian Army he was tried and imprisoned as an Axis spy.8 Sadat continued to express his admiration for Hitler after the war ended.9 Once in power Sadat encouraged King Faisal of Saudi Arabia to finance a crusade against communism and atheism in Egypt. Faisal sent more than $100 million to the Sheik Abdel Halim Mahmoud, the director of Al-Azar University. Mahmoud ordered Sheik Rahman to head the campaign in Upper Egypt and at the University of Asyut. Islamists ties to Allah [subhanahu wa ta‘ala] eclipse both wealth and power and in 1981, The Blind Sheik Rahman issued a fatwa sanctioning the assassination of his benefactor Sadat. The fatwa ordered those chosen to carry out the deed ―not to try to commit suicide after the incident because then they would die as kuffar. Instead they should try to escape and if gunned down by soldiers would die as martyrs.‖10 The Sheikh had this to say about Sadat: ―The Islamic laws say that those - that any person who rules against the word of God is an oppressor, a corrupt person. This justifies the rise of the people against such a ruler. Sadat, who didn‘t rule by what God has sent, is an atheist, according to the text of the Qu‘ran. He is unjust and a sinner and we must revolt against him, and he should be eliminated. And if he should not be eliminated, except by killing, then he should be killed. God has ordered us to eliminate this oppressor by saying do not depend on those who are unjust. And so you will be touched by fire. He made it our duty, unless you [wish to] see a flagrant atheism. It is our duty to eliminate him from his position, even if this has to be done by killing him. But regarding that someone who is worse will succeed him; are you listening? We are not charged with knowing the future.‖ Rahman’s crew cased Sadat's palatial home in Cairo, the home of Coptic leader Pope Shenouda, along with the residences of the National Guard and Security Police commanders, and the Ministry of the Interior. They were all heavily guarded so an alternative assassination plan was put in place: Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya member Khalid al-Islambouli (right) was assigned to participate in the October 6, 1981 military parade in commemoration of the 1973 ―victory‖ against Israel. He allowed the squad he commanded to go on leave and brought in three Egyptian Islamic Jihad11 members 8. Arie Stav Nativ November 1995. 9. Letter to Egyptian Daily Al Mussawar September 18, 1953. 10. William E. Farrell ―Egypt Reports Plot to Kill Aides at Sadat‘s Funeral.‖ New York Times October 31, 1981 page 3, 1 11. At this time Egyptian Islamic Jihad was a faction of Al-Gama‘a al-Islamiyya.

willing to die for Allah. As the truck carrying his crew approached the reviewing stand, it stopped and the terrorists dismounted then ―jihadi justice‖ was meted out. ―My name is Khalid Islambouli, I have slain Pharaoh, and I do not fear death!‖ declared Islambouli. And so, on that historic day, two years after Sadat went to Camp David and signed the peace treaty with Israel, members of Islamic Jihad within the Egyptian military along with Brothers from Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya had executed Anwar Sadat. Al Qaeda member Mohammed Yousry described the rest of the plan, ―It was devised to emulate the plan that the Egyptian officers carried out in 1952 to topple the king. So they tried to do something similar, even though they claim that the 1952 revolution was a product of a conspiracy with the United States government. They tried to do the same. They basically tried to assassinate the president in charge, take over the media centers, take over some parts of the country basically in the south where the government is not able to represent it, and they failed. They did as part of that attempt, control for a period of time, the province of Asyout. And the government had to bring in heavy artilleries and I think the fight took about four or five days in order for the government to go in, if memory serves me right. Something in excess of a hundred police officers were killed in the fighting that followed I think…‖ After this coup attempt failed AlGama’a al-Islamiyya planned to kill senior government officials at Sadat‘s funeral by detonating a large explosive device after which Sheik Rahman would be installed as the interim leader of the Egyptian Islamic Republic.12 Twenty-four soldiers were accused of carrying out the assassination plot, and four were hanged. Five of Rahman’s mureeds were charged with having assassinated Sadat, so in October 1981 Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman faced a murder charge and execution for inciting what he believed to be a God-sanctioned act because the organizers of the assassination confessed to the military tribunal that their leader had issued a fatwa legalizing the murder of al-Sadat stating that Sadat was "kafir." Sheikh Omar's coy response was, "I did not issue a fatwa permitting the killing of al-Sadat. Does al-Sadat need such a fatwa?" In 1982 Sheik Rahman was put on trial for having met with many of the suspects in the months before the execution. Abud Zurnor testified Rahman had given his approval in principle, but had never known about the actual plan to murder the president. ―Rahman said it was right to shed 12. William E. Farrell ―Egypt Reports Plot to Kill Aides at Sadat‘s Funeral.‖ New York Times October 31, 1981 page 3, 1

Sadat's blood, unless he obeys God's law, but as regards the assassination at the October 6th parade, the Sheik's advice was not asked. We had lost touch with him.‖ When the Sheik testified he sermonized: ―Man-made laws are complete infidelity. It‘s either Islam or the state of ignorance. It‘s either faith or infidelity. Those who don't rule according to God‘s orders are kuffar, oppressors, wrong doers.‖ Sheikh Omar defended himself before the court for eight hours and he and a second defendant, Sayyid al-Salamuni, a professor at the Faculty of Education, Ein Shams University, out of 24 defendants, were acquitted for lack of evidence. Dr. Ayman Al-Zawahiri recalled this trial, ―The prosecutor sent 302 defendants to court. The proceedings of the trial started approximately two years after the assassination of Al-Mujahideen [Sadat]. The trial was unique and full of surprises. But the most important events in the trial were 1) the delivery by Dr. Omar Abdel Rahman of his famous testimony for three days, and 2) the historic testimony by Shaykh Salah Abu-Isma'il13 (may God have mercy on him). Shaykh Omar Abdel Rahman later on published his testimony in a book entitled A Word of Truth. Dr. Rahman reviewed the issues of Shari'ah and Jihad (holy war) in detail, citing the Koran and the Sunnah (sayings and doings of Prophet Muhammad) and the consensus of the nation's religious scholars. He responded to the prosecutor's indictment and the AI-Azhar report that the prosecutor has used. This testimony jeopardized Dr. Rahman’s legal position because it contained evidence of his support for Jihad and establishing the Shari'ah. The judge warned him that his words were very dangerous because the words of his lawyers could be retracted but his words could not. However, Dr. Rahman insisted on defending the cause of Islam during the trial even if this led to his conviction. Not only that, he put the judge in the dock, holding him responsible for the injustice which he might mete out on Muslims, warning him of God's wrath and punishment, and urging him to judge in accordance with the Shari'ah. Dr. Rahman’s opinion was that this was an opportunity that should not be missed to inform the regime of God's teachings. His testimony was the best defense he could offer to his brothers (co-defendants) - especially as the verdict

13. The late Shaykh Salah Abu Ismail was elected to the Egyptian parliament circa 1976

was expected to be the death sentence -- by showing the justness of their cause and their noble intention. Indeed, the judge did not issue any death sentence in that case. He cited extenuating circumstances, such as the defendants' just cause and noble intention. I cannot conclude the talk on Rahman’s statements at the trial without mentioning some of them that were strong in their justness and straightforwardness. This put him in a very difficult position because the prosecutor could have used these statements against him and demanded the death sentence for him. But he was the scholar of the mujahideen and the mujahid of the scholars.‖ Rahman said this during the trial: ―The prosecutor's office has defended the sulh (conciliation) treaty between Egypt and Israel. I will not reply to the prosecutor's office. My reply to the committee formed by the Shaykh of Al-Azhar is enough. I will reply to the great scholar (sarcastically) -- the prosecutor who testified that the treaty is valid on the basis of God's words: ‗As long as these stand true to you, stand ye to them, but if the enemy incline towards peace, do thou (also) incline towards peace.‘ (Qur‘anic verses) Did the Jews stand true to us? Did they incline towards peace? Is it not we who inclined and stood true? My crime is that I have criticized the state and shown the corruption of the society and its hostility to God's religion. I have stood up everywhere saying the words of truth, which are the very basics of my religion and belief. My religion and conscience prompt me to fight injustice and tyranny, refute misconceptions and doubts, and expose the tyrants, even if this costs me my life and possessions. I am not afraid of prison or execution. I am not happy if I am pardoned or acquitted. I am not sad if I am sentenced to death -- it will be martyrdom for the sake of God. Then I will say: I have won, Oh God of the Kaaba. I am a Muslim who lives and dies for his religion. I cannot remain silent while Islam is being attacked everywhere. Oh President of the Higher State Security Court: I have made my argument and said the truth. You must judge in accordance with the Shari'ah and you must apply the rules of God. If you do not do this, you are an unbeliever, a wrongdoer, and a rebel." After he was acquitted he became a folk hero in Egypt and he became more active moving from one Egyptian province to another sermonizing and instigating. The authorities barred him from leaving his place of residence in al-Fayyum and prevented him from delivering sermons and meeting with his followers. This is because article 201 of the penal code says: ―No one in a house of worship--even if he is a man of

religion and is delivering a religious sermon--can say something that opposes an administrative decision or an existing law or regulation. Anyone who does this faces imprisonment and is fined 500 pounds. If he resists, the fine and imprisonment are doubled. Further, the only people who are not allowed to form trade unions--a right that is guaranteed even to belly dancers in Egypt--are the religious preachers and scholars.‖ When another three hundred and two civilians were accused in a separate case of fomenting ensuing riots in the city of Asyut after the Sadat execution, during which more than 100 policemen were killed, the Sheik was put on trial for a second time. Beginning October 1981 Sheik Rahman was imprisoned and tortured for three years as a result of opinions he expressed in a fatwa: ―Police surrounded the house and the people from the state security approached me. They took me from the house of my sister in Jiza to the prison known as Lemantourra. When they arrested me, they didn't inform me [of the charges against me]. In Lemantourra Prison, the receiving prison, I stayed for 15 days. And the war prison after that, five months. I was charged with two cases during my imprisonment. The first case is the fatwa, which means in Arabic, a religious opinion, regarding the murder of Anwar Sadat. The second case was participating in the overthrowing of the existing rule. I was severely tortured. Various torture techniques were used. Whipping on and around the genitals; electric shocks to the genitals until I would faint; hanging me upside down from the ceiling for several hours and simultaneous beatings; releasing starved dogs into the cell so they could bite at me; dipping my unclothed body alternatively in boiling and freezing water till I would faint; tying me unclothed under an extremely bright light that would attract certain kinds of mosquitoes; denying me medicine for my diabetes condition; and burning me with cigarette butts and hot iron bars. The court vindicated me of these charges in both charges in both cases. The charges were dismissed against me.‖ Dr. Rahman later sued the Egyptian Government for having tortured him during the period he was in prison while awaiting trial, and he was paid about $10,000 in compensation. In October 1984 Sheik Rahman was freed and preached in Embaba. On October 22, 1984 he took a second wife – Faten. He had three children with her including Mohammed Omar Abdel Rahman. It would not be long until the Blind Sheik, born into poverty, would meet with his Islamist military counterpart, Usama Bin Laden, born into great wealth – both men united by Islam!

In July 1985 Sheik Rahman was arrested for a third time. The Sheik commented: ―The secret police arrested me. I was held three months. I was never accused officially of any crime. I do not know why I was released.‖ Sheik Rahman was discharged from field prison on October 5, 1985. It was on that very day Soliman Khater, an Egyptian army conscript, shot dead seven Israeli tourists in Ras Burka, Sinai, to commemorate the Sheik‘s release. Khater was a sleeper agent and had no apparent connection to Islamism. A few years later Khater, who the Egyptian government said suffered from mental illness,14 was found hanged in his jail cell.15 Sheik Rahman was imprisoned for one month in Awan prison in August or September 1986 for a lecture regarding the question of how the Christian Coptic minority in Egypt should be treated as second class citizens, or Dhimmis: ―I was prevented from delivering my lecture. I was arrested and so were about seventy of the people who came to attend my lecture. The authorities also threw tear gas bombs in the masjid. I was taken to and detained in Quina town prison. During my detention I was questioned like before, deprived of necessary medication and given very little food. After one month I was released.‖ After the Sheik was freed from detention the CIA sponsored a twoweek trip he made to the United States to attend a 1986 Islamist conference. He returned to the United States in 1987 for an additional two weeks. Between 1986 and 1990 Sheik Rahman made seven applications to enter the United States, all over which were reviewed by CIA Officers under diplomatic cover. The Blind Sheik Rahman was turned-down only once for security reasons, although on two other occasions he was refused entry because he failed to purchase a round-trip ticket or refused to list the name of his sponsor. Two of his visa applications were approved despite the fact he was on the Watch List of 2.7 million foreigners. CIA officers granted the Sheik a visa in Cairo in 1986 and 1987 and in the Sudan in 1990. In 1987 another visa application was approved in Cairo, but the State

14. The Egyptian Government often casts Islamists as insane - Copts who were present at the churches attacked in Alexandria, Egypt on April 14, 2006 quickly poked holes in the version of events presented by the Interior Ministry and state media, which had the perpetrator, Abd al-Raziq -- described as the ―mentally ill‖ and diagnosed with schizophrenia -- following his grim itinerary unaided, using public transportation in Alexandria‘s dense traffic to reach churches miles apart within a span of two hours. Angry Copts protested what they saw as a cover-up, casting doubt on the security services‘ assertion that the attacks had been the work of a lone madman. 15. Esmat Salaheddin ―Militants reconsider truce‖ Middle East Times (Reuters). http://www.metimes.com/2K/issue2000-25/eg/militants_reconsider_truce.htm

Department claimed it could not determine if the visa was actually issued. In July 1987 he was turned down for one visa.16 The year 1987 was a slow one for the Sheik, ―We have found no one who will listen or pay attention to us,‖ he said. One rival group in Fayoum, led by Shawki al-Sheikh declared Sheik Rahman a kafir. Shawki was killed in 1988. In September 1988 Rahman was placed under house arrest until April 1988. After his release the Sheik was rearrested while he was preaching at Masjid al-Rahman in the southern city of Aswan, when security forces encircled the masjid, attacked and entered with automatic rifles drawn and their boots on: ―The police in Aswan arrested me, because I made a speech in the mosque. It was a religious speech. They arrested about seventy persons. The police take me to Kina Prison. It's a district near Aswan. I was brought before the justice in charge of aggrieved persons, aggrieved because of the detention, and he decided that I should be released. And the Minister of Interior objected to this decision. And the judge again decided to release me. I was detained more than a month.‖ THE BROOKLYN / JERSEY CITY ISLAMIST CELL While the Sheik was being prosecuted in Egypt things were going smoothly in the United States for the Gama‘a alIslamiyya‘s United States cell with little interference from law enforcement. The Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya‘s Brooklyn / Jersey City cell was comprised of the Recruitment / Refugee Center and the Al-Farooq Mosque in Brooklyn and the Masjid al-Salaam, the "mosque of peace," in Jersey City. Despite the fact that there was ample basis for an FBI investigation of the first Islamist cell to operate in New York and New Jersey area in 1988, it took the February 26, 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center before the FBI took terrorism seriously. True, they took some photos of the terrorist training, but that was about it. Even after the 1990 assassination of Rabbi Meir Kahane by ElSayyid Nosair there was very little ―heat‖ on Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya‘s Brooklyn / Jersey City cell.

16. Classified Report from the Office of the Inspector General Sherman Funk, USDOS cited by Douglas Jehl, New York Times ―CIA Officers Played Role in Sheik Visas‖ July 22, 1993 Funk would eventually determine that there was no CIA involvement, just disorganization – Doug Jehl, ―Inspector Doubts CIA Role in Sheik‘s US Entry‖ New York Times April 28, 1993.

The Justice Department reported: ―Mahmud Abouhalima and other men in the New York City area were then involved in military training activities and were covertly involved in domestic terrorist activity including several conspiracies to murder and attempted murders and bombings which took place in the New York City area from 1988 to 1990. These activities included the attempted murder of Mikhail Gorbachev in New York in December 1988 which was frustrated by a grenade which failed to explode, several surveillances of Rabbi Meyer Kahane in 1988 and 1989, a failed effort to murder President Mubarak of Egypt during a visit to the Waldorf Astoria hotel in 1989, and the planting of pipe bombs at a gay bar in Greenwich Village on April 28, 1990, the Sheraton Hotel where Vice President Dan Qualye was speaking on May 20, 1990 and the Hilton Hotel where then-U.N. Ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick was speaking on May 23, 1990.‖17 GORBACHEV AND MUBARAK PLOTS The attempted murder of foreign leaders is usually a front-page story in the American media, however the attempted assassination of Mikhail Gorbachev in December 1988 and the attempted assassination of Hosni Mubarak in 1989, (from April 1, 1989 to April 4, 1989 Mubarak made an official visit to Washington and a private visit to New York City on April 5, 1989) did not merit even one line or news report anywhere in the media. The FBI covered up the existence of these activities at the request of the CIA since the Agency was supporting the Islamists efforts to expel the Soviets from Afghanistan and put an end to the expansion of Communism. While Gama‘a al-Islamiyya almost ―got away with murder‖ in the U.S., the story was much different in Egypt. In April 1989, Sheik Rahman was placed under arrest then put on trial along with 59 other defendants after a rebellion at El Shohada Mosque in Fayoum, where he was preaching during regular Friday prayers. Sheik Rahman was accused of inciting the

17. Affidavit of FBI SA Daniel Coleman September 1998 Daniel J. Coleman changed his mind about his plan to work for the New York Police Department's Intelligence Division after a meeting in December 2005 with several officials, including a Police Department deputy commissioner, David Cohen. At the meeting, the F.B.I. and more particularly, one of its officials, a former boss of Mr. Coleman's was criticized in ways that Mr. Coleman found offensive.

worshippers to commit sabotage and to demonstrate and attack the police. This so-called riot involved 1,500 men.18 The Sheik: ―The police attacked the house in Fayoum, raided the house in Fayoum. They then raided the mosque after I delivered the Friday prayer speech and they threatened to fire if I don't surrender. As I refused to go out they came in, shot some people and arrested me. I was thrown on the ground and dragged quite some distance to their truck. They took me to Alazab Prison in Fayoum where I was kept locked in a cell that had no light or air. I was held four months. I was charged with arranging a demonstration in the street. And the court also ordered that the charges against me be dismissed. I left Egypt before the judge ordered my release, my dismissal, sorry. Before the judge ordered my dismissal.‖ The city where Sheikh Rahman preached, Fayoum, located southwest of Cairo, has one of Egypt‘s largest Coptic Christian communities, and Rahman issued a fatwa that justified the killing of Christians, especially Coptic jewelers and goldsmith‘s whose wealth was to be used to finance Jihad. After this there were several Muslim attacks in Fayoum during which Christian shops were burned down by Sheik Rahman’s followers. At this time the Egyptian Government, frightened by the rise of Islamists, began a crackdown, and Sheik Rahman was one of its targets. In August 1989 the al-Noor newspaper reported: ―State Emergency Supreme Court announces tomorrow its decision regarding the demand of defense lawyers to set Omar Abdul Rahman and 59 people free. The trial revealed a surprise: One of the defendants is mentally retarded and was passing by El Shohada Mosque at the time of police arrests. One of the most prominent communist lawyers, Ahmed Nabil Al Hilaly, and Nasserist Lawyer, Farid Abdul Kareem shared defense for Dr. Omar. Both lawyers described Dr. Rahman as revered Sheik and honorable scholar. The lawyers asked the court to release Dr. Rahman and the other defendants immediately. The defense lawyers expressed their astonishment about calling those who perform their Friday prayer as unlawful overcrowding demonstrators.‖ This was not the last time the Sheikh would have communists representing him – his Eminence knew that their hatred of the Egyptian Government eclipsed their hatred of Islamists and though they

18. Alan Cowell ―Egypt Seizes 1,500 In Crackdown on Fundamentalists‖ New York Times April 27, 1989 Page A3, 1

thought they were using the Sheikh, ultimately the opposite would prove true. The court ruled: ―Dr. Rahman confirmed that he gave the sermon of Jumma prayer at Majid El Shohada on the day of the incident, and that he followed it with a religious lecture, which is a legal act, and in accordance with the nature of the religion Islam. That does not show any proof as to the accusations against him. Defendants two to six did not confirm that the others crowded and started throwing stones at the police so this doesn‘t necessarily make them perpetrators…for it is possible that the stone throwing was an act of self defense to deter the aggression that befell them from the part of the police force. In addition none of these defendants mentioned that Sheik Rahman was their organizer.‖19 He was acquitted again but the military governor refused to ratify the court verdict of acquittal based on the powers vested in him by the emergency law. This case was then referred to another court. Sheik Rahman was released on August 10, 1989 but re-arrested shortly thereafter. The authorities had found some books inciting people to hate the current Egyptian regime and it was claimed that these books carried Dr. Rahman’s signature along with words of support. Among these books was one about the religious legality of allowing ordinary Muslims to use force to change munkkar,20 which would allegedly lead to disorder. In less than a month the Sheik was placed under house arrest. ―The house arrest in this case started August or September 1988, until April 1989 and from August 1989, until April 1990. I cannot leave the house or get out of the house and no relatives or friends can visit me. If a friend tried to come to my house, he would be arrested and detained. Even those who repair furniture or electricity cannot have access to me. Not even my doctor. It must be by order of the Minister of Interior. Such matters do not go according to written orders. But when I tried to leave the house, then the police would prevent me from doing that by force. My lawyer tried to end it. He submitted, he started a case, a lawsuit at the administrative court, and an order was issued by the Minister of the Interior that nobody should do me any harm, whether inside the country or outside the country. The court issued its verdict, but this verdict was not carried out. The court

19. Translated by Sidig Ali Sidig Quick International Translators 2823 Kennedy Boulevard. Jersey City, NJ 20. lslamically deniable acts.

issued an order by the Minister of Interior that I should be allowed to move freely inside Egypt and outside and during my travel. The Minister of Interior acted against the court order and did not carry the court‘s order. The court said I should not be placed under arrest. They said that about the beginning of 1989, I presented to my lawyer a copy of that document. As far as I remember, it was in February or March 1989.‖ Later, the Egyptian government, finding the verdict unacceptable, because many provincial judges were afraid of reprisals from the followers of the Sheik, would retry and convict him in absentia after his departure to the United States; on April 28, 1994, he was sentenced in absentia to a seven year prison term. The FBI was aware of Gama‘a al-Islamiyya activities in America around this time. A document author by the United States Department of Justice stated, ―From at least the early 1990s until the date of the filing of this Indictment, Gama‘a al-Islamiyya has operated in the United particularly in the New York City metropolitan area. As Gama‘a al-Islamiyya developed, it pursued various objectives in the United States, including the following: the establishment of the United States as a staging ground for violent actions against targets (both persons and structures) located in the United States and abroad; the recruitment and training, including paramilitary training, of new members; and fund-raising for Jihad events in the United States and abroad. A principal objective of Gama‘a al-Islamiyya was to carry out, and conspire to carry out, acts of terrorism including bombings, murders and the taking of hostages against various governments and government officials, including the United States government and its officials.‖21 In July 1989, on three successive weekends, FBI agents observed and photographed members of our Gama‘a al-Islamiyya Brooklyn / Jersey City cell, including (at different times), El-Sayyid Nosair, Hampton-El, Mahmud Abouhalima, Mohammad Salameh, and Nidal Ayyad, the latter three of whom carried out the World Trade Center bombing,22 shooting weapons, including AK-47's, at a public rifle range on Long Island. At the trial of Rahman the government told the jury: ―Why don‘t we start at the 21. USA v Sattar 02cr395 Indictment April 8, 2002 22. USA v. Rahman Docket Nos. 96-1044L, -1045, -1060, -1061, -1062, -1063, - 1064, -1065, -1079, -1080 Salameh, 152 F.3d at 161 http://csmail.law.pace.edu/lawlib/legal/us-legal/judiciary/second-circuit/test3/96-1044.opn.html

very beginning which is the training, in late 1989 and 1990. There the photographs show the story. If you look at 261B you see Mahmud Abouhalima looking on as Clement Hampton-El fires a rifle at the training range. Looking at 218B you see the people at the training include Mohammad Salameh…Sayyid Nosair…Mikhail Abdur Rahim, the person Hampton-El spoke about in May 1983 when he said he was going to look for someone in Baldwin, Long Island, to get detonators.‖23 In February 1990 Rahman’s followers were responsible for the death of nine Jews and one Egyptian when masked Religious Holy Warriors, firing semi-automatic weapons and hurling hand grenades attacked a bus carrying 31 Jewish tourists 25 miles east of Cairo. Nearly all of the 31 passengers who were not killed were wounded.24 Sheik Rahman has stated: ―There is no greater shame seeing the Israelis roaming freely around Egypt, while the Palestinians are prohibited and their visits restricted.‖ In April 1990 the public prosecutor and the Attorney General of Al-Fayoum Providence courts decided to release Dr. Rahman from house arrest. Rahman had negated his advocation of the books he had been charged with possessing and refuted shown signatures on them as not his. The Egyptian Ministry of the Interior overturned his decision.25 In 1990 Ala Mohieddin, the official spokesman of Al-Gama’a alIslamiyya was gunned down with a silence-equipped pistol in al-Haram. Afterward, Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya released a statement in which it accused the security agencies of killing him, especially after they threatened him to force him to leave Cairo and return to his home town of Suhaj. The statement mentioned that the time for talk had ended and now it was the turn of bullets to do the talking. On October 12, 1990 the Islamic Group arranged the assassination of the Interior Minister Abdel-Halim Moussa, during which the former head of the Egyptian Parliament, Dr. Rifaat El-Mahgoub, was killed, due to a mix-up over motorcades. Moussa had succeeded Zaki Badr26, who had ordered that Ala Mohieddin be assassinated. Badr had a famous saying ―strike in the heart‖ which meant the police have the power to open fire and assassinate some of the

23. USA v Rahman TT p18559 24. Jewish Press February 9, 1990. 25. Al-Wafd February 18, 1990 or March 18, 1990 as translated by Siddig Ali Sidig. 26. Zaki Badar was sacked from his post because he was too harsh and inhumane in this torture methods, and many people died under his custody. The Saudi Interior Ministry duly hired him and he helped to organize the various torture methods on the brothers. He was Prince Naif's personal advisor on how to deal with Islamists. Praise be to Allah that he died whilst on a visit to the USA. http://mailgate.supereva.com/soc/soc.culture.pakistan.religion/msg02260.html

organizational leaders during the day and in the middle of the street when it is convenient. Ayman Zawahiri explained, ―The Islamic Group responded to the killing of Alaa Ala Mohieddin by ambushing Interior Minister Abdel Halim Moussa, but God willed that People's Assembly Speaker Rifaat al Mahjoub's motorcade happened to pass by the ambush, and he was killed. Thus, the Islamic Group shifted its policy from long-term call activity to violence by fighting and resisting the government's aggression. In the early 1990‘s another important development took place. A large number of our brothers in the Al Jihad Group were arrested. More than 800 of them were put on trial in what came to be known as the Tala'i Al-Fath cases. The court sentenced to death four of the defendants. The government newspapers were elated about the arrest of 800 members of the Al Jihad Group without a single shot being fired. We decided to enter the battle of confrontation with the government, although our policy has always been to spread out and recruit elements in preparation for the battle of change. Our response to this was to attack the convoy of Interior Minister Hasan al Alfi with a boobytrapped motorcycle. The Minister escaped death, but his arm was broken. A pile of files that he kept next to him saved his life from the shrapnel. This was followed by an attack carried out by the Islamic Group against Information Minister Safwat al Sharif, who survived the ambush. This coincided with the Islamic Group's attack on the Commander of the Central Military Zone in his capacity as the commander who sanctioned all the verdicts issued by military courts. The attack failed because his car was bulletproof.‖ This was followed by a period when Islamists and security personnel engaged in tit-for-tat killings on the roads. The most famous of those killed were al-‗Utayfi in Jala‘ Street, Tal'at Yasin Hammam in the Qibba Gardens, and some escapees at the wall of the Engineering Faculty at the University of Cairo, and others. Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya killed many police officers, the most famous of them being Major General Ra‘uf Khairat, responsible for ―religious extremists‖ at State Security, and Major General Ghabara and Major General al-Shimi and many other State Security officers in alFayyum, Asyut, Suhaj and Aswan, as well as policemen, informers, those who worked with the police, and Copts. While the al-Jihad Group was characterized by using explosives and car bombs, the Al-Gama’a alIslamiyya‘s jihadi faction used direct confrontations with automatic weapons. RAHMAN’S KAHANE FATWA

Before these events, in the year 1989, Sheik Rahman had issued a fatwa to kill Rabbi Meir Kahane and El-Sayyid Nosair, of course, was obligated to obey his Imam. It was reported, ―In an uncorroborated postcapture claim that may be mere bravado, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed has stated that he considered assassinating Rabbi Meir Kahane when Kahane lectured in Greensboro, North Carolina at some point between 1984 and 1986.‖27 At the Abu Bakr Mosque Rahman had taught his followers: ―There is an individual Jihad when the Prince orders him, then he goes and does it. This is a single work. As for the assassinations, the assassinations for the sake of rendering Islam triumphant is a legitimate matter.‖ Cell member Mohammed Saleh learned this well and was overheard by the FBI saying, ―I was with the guys once and I was saying, sometimes my Brother, this matter of assassination needs to be thought out. Us as Muslims, if you do not have the willingness to do these deeds, hiring some people is very easy. I mean the best one, one can give him $200 or $300 and he can get the biggest one and without knowing who you are.‖28 Although the Blind Sheik Omar Rahman resided in Egypt when the Brooklyn / Jersey City Jersey cell was established, El-Sayyid Nosair and Mahmud Abouhalima telephoned him there to discuss various issues including the progress of their military training, tape-recording these conversations for distribution among the Brothers in the United States. El-Sayyid Nosair told Rahman, ―We have organized an encampment, we are concentrating here.‖29 They talked about a newspaper that El-Sayyid Nosair was publishing in the United States, among other things. The United States Government showed a passive interest in the Brooklyn-Jersey City cell and recorded this conversation: Nosair: In New Jersey, the mosque board of Directors election is due. It will be held on March 16, [1989]. We tried to talk to the Brothers to nominate some of the Brothers who are in charge of the office, God willing. Yes, that is necessary, God willing. God willing. ABDEL RAHMAN: They are the most worthy to be elected. 27. Intelligence report, interrogation of KSM, July 12, 2003 28. FBI transcript of conversation between Salah, Siddig and Emad Salem June 4, 1993 found in USDC SDNY USA v. Hampton-El et. al. 93 Cr569. 29. Cited at footnote USA v. Rahman Govt. Ex. 851 at 2-3.

Nosair: Do you have any instructions to the Brothers of the Al-Salaam Mosque here? ABDEL RAHMAN: Yes, tell them to fear God and seek his help…the goal of the election and the nomination should be God. So you select the most qualified and the most useful for the Islamic Call. Of course, you have to support the Jihad people, and those who are in charge of it. They are the most deserving. No work will succeed without Jihad in God‘s ways. Jihad should be implemented in its essence as well as in purpose towards this subject. Therefore, the Jihad people are the most worthy of this.30 The mosque must function to further the work of the Islamist cell or Islamist call. The leaders of the mosque must be militants. This was Sheik Rahman’s message to El-Sayyid Nosair, who would become head of the Jihad Organization of the Islamic Group at the Al-Salaam Mosque in Jersey City, New Jersey. In early 1990 El-Sayyid Nosair called up Sheik Rahman in Peshawar, Pakistan, and again asked if he had any instructions for the Brothers of Al-Salaam Mosque? He reported they had organized a weekly jihadi training camp, and he asked ―Are there any orders for us, Sheik?‖ ElSayyid Nosair said that he would call back in a week. When he did he said that the camp went from Friday to Monday and he said there would be very good results. Sheik Rahman, who had returned to Egypt, said he should call more often, at least once a week. The Brothers also discussed the fate of Hosni Mubarak. Speaking in code, Sheik Rahman told Mustafa Shalabi that Rabbi Kahane must be assassinated. The first step was to test Kahane‘s security. El-Sayyid Nosair spoke of these surveillances to a New York Post reporter as if they were friendly meetings: ―I asked for a meeting with Kahane to tell him that Islam is not a threat to Judaism. I wanted him to understand that we could be friends. One meeting took place after the rabbi spoke in a Brooklyn synagogue in November 1989. I approached his security guards and when they were sure I had no weapons they let me talk with him. We spoke in his car on a little used road between Brooklyn and Nassau County

30. USA v Rahman TT 19095

for about an hour. He was happy with a religious discussion. I learned he could put scripture above racism. I did not wish to see the rabbi dead. Mine was a mission of peace, of understanding, not violence, not murder. Mustafa Shalabi had ordered me to meet with Kahane. The second meeting took place in September 1990 at a Nassau County, Long Island synagogue. Before the rabbi spoke I went to his security people, reintroduced myself and said I wished to speak to him. I was told to follow Kahane after the left the synagogue. There were four cars, mine, the rabbis; his security guards followed in two others, one on each side. We drove for a little while then pulled over on a dark abandoned road. The guards helped me out of my car and made sure I had no weapons then brought me to the rabbi. I did most of the talking. Sheik Rahman believes in fighting more than anyone else [but] I do not know if he would have wanted Kahane murdered.‖31 El-Sayyid Nosair commented on this interview, ―I did not give any of the statements they wrote. It is impossible that the newspaper came out with such lies statements unless it came from the U.S. Attorney‘s office with the intention of causing harm and danger to me by my own Muslim Community. The U.S. Attorney‘s office also had put lies about me in the media connecting me in terrorism activities in New York. The U.S. Attorney has tried to force other inmates to testify against me, so they can indict me on new charges.‖32 RAHMAN’S CREW BOMBS GAY BAR Returning to the activities of the Brooklyn / Jersey City cell: On April 28, 1990 a homemade pipe bomb exploded in Uncle Charlie‘s, a popular nightclub for gays located in Manhattan. This event prompted a demonstration by several hundred other gays. The bomb exploded 2:10 a.m. in a garbage can situated by the back wall of this bar. Rahman‘s crew fashioned the bomb by stuffing M-80 firecrackers in a six-inch pipe and capping both ends. The bomb had no timing device and was placed in a garbage can moments before the blast. Two men standing near the can received minor cuts on their faces from flying broken glass. Three people suffered minor injuries. Although the police said the blast was not bias related Mayor David Dinkins said it was anti-homosexual attack and probably believed that Christian Fundamentalists carried it out.

31. Colin Miner New York Post August 3, 1993 page 1 ―Sheik Blessed Plot.‖ Also ―Nosair, I Secretly Met with Kahane.‖ 32. USDC SDNY 92 Civil 8274 (JSM) Letter August 11, 1993.

DAN QUALYE & JEANNE KIRKPATRICK On May 20, 1990 smoke bombs and firecrackers were set off in lobby of Sheraton Hotel two hours before Vice President Dan Qualye was to address a Jewish group there. Quayle had not arrived when the incident occurred. A New York City Fire Department spokesman said there was no evidence linking the explosions to Quayle‘s visit. On May 23, 1990 a small crudely made explosive device went off in an empty ballroom of the hotel Hilton while Yeshiva University and the Jewish Reclamation Project were holding dinners there. U.N. Ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick addressed the Yeshiva University fund-raiser. One device exploded in an empty ballroom at 9:25 p.m. and a second device exploded near 2nd floor escalator. Police Department spokesman Fred Weiner said devices were made of cardboard tubes holding M-80 firecrackers and b.b.‘s. There were no injuries or damage and no group claimed responsibility, none-the-less, the attack was classified as bias incident. No one was arrested for any of these activities, yet the FBI reported: ―Confidential Source Three (CS-3) is a person who was intimately familiar with various persons involved in Jihad in the New York area in the period from 1988 to 1990 and participated in criminal activity.‖33 The Intelligence Community knew exactly what Gama‘a al-Islamiyya‘s Brooklyn / Jersey City cell was up to but intentionally did nothing. The explanation for the grant of immunity from criminal prosecution can be summed up in one word - COMMUNISM. From its inception the CIA‘s main goal was to destroy the Soviet Union. Sixty-percent of its budget was utilized for this purpose. This was precisely what Gama‘a al-Islamiyya and al-Qaeda were doing at this time with the hot war in Afghanistan. The CIA instructed the FBI not to interfere with Islamist terrorists, and the FBI passed this information to the New York City Police Department though the Joint Terrorism Task Force. News of the assassination attempts were not made public by the law enforcement community, who felt Islamist efforts would never amount to more than a hill of hummus. Another reason al-Qaeda had immunity was because the American government had men like Sergeant Ali-Mohamed

33. Affidavit of FBI SA Dan Coleman September 1998.

working for it training jihadi to fight the Communists in Afghanistan. These same jihadi used their training to carry out actions such as the Rashid Khalifa and JDL Rabbi Meir Kahane assassinations and this blowback would not have looked good on the agents‘ resumes. RAHMAN LEAVES EGYPT In April 1990 his Eminence made a legendary escape from house arrest when the Sheik was smuggled past his guards in a washing machine that was being taken out of his home. Had this plan failed there was an alternative one that involved stun guns that had been supplied to the Islamic terrorist Brothers by Egyptian intelligence agent Abdo Haggag. The Sheik wisely never mentioned his escape nor the fact that he was a fugitive and the Egyptians were pressing for his extradition to the INS: ―The applicant testified that he last departed from Egypt in April 1990, by obtaining a visa to travel to Saudi Arabia for pilgrimage. Although he stated that he was under house arrest at this time, the police allowed him to leave for Saudi Arabia and he was escorted by four cars from his house to the airport.‖ The Blind Sheikh Rahman was in Great Britain on May 1, 1990 because on that date he was granted a B-2 Tourist Visa to visit the United States.34 JULY 18, 1990: RAHMAN ESCALATES JIHAD IN AMERICA In May 1990 the Sheik fled Egypt for the Sudan where he stayed for one month. From there he went to Pakistan for one month and then to Afghanistan where he preached the word of God, raised money for the war against the Soviets and enthusiastically endorsed the merger of Gama‘a alIslamiyya with the International Alliance Against Christian and Jews which came to be known as al-Qaeda. It was on to Saudi Arabia for ten days then back to the Sudan and on to America! Judge Daniel Meisner, who presided over the Sheik‘s immigration hearing, wrote: ―In addition to his testimony regarding his six arrests, the applicant testified regarding his travel outside of Egypt between 1970 and 1991. It appears that since 1970, applicant traveled to Saudi Arabia, the United States, Denmark, London, Sudan and Pakistan for ‗pilgrimage‘ and to attend conferences. The specific facts

34. USDC White Plains Rahman v. Reno 93-Civ-4683-CLB page 407.

regarding applicant's travel outside of Egypt are not clear from testimony or the documents of record. The applicant testified that he last left Egypt in April 1990, by obtaining a visa to enter Saudi Arabia. The applicant's states: ‗I intended to leave for Saudi Arabia on an omra35 but was not permitted to leave within the time provided for in the visa. Therefore, I went to Sudan and remained there for about one month. From there I went to Pakistan for one month, then to Saudi Arabia for ten days pilgrimiage (sic) and then came to the United States on July 18, 1990.‘‖ Judge Meisner asked the Sheik why he did not file a request for asylum in Saudi Arabia rather than returning to Egypt, the applicant stated, ‗Saudi Arabia is more oppressive than Egypt.‘‖ The Sheik had omitted his visit to Afghanistan. On July 18, 1990 His Eminence Sheik Rahman immigrated to the United States ―at the invitation of a conference‖ then went to London and returned in or about November 1990, then left for a short trip to Denmark in December 1990 after which he returned to the U.S. ―I came to the United States in the summer of 1990 on a valid visa, to escape my unjustified persecution by the Mubarak government. Having been identified by the government earlier as an Islamic scholar and Sheik who spoke fearlessly about the injustices and corruption in Egypt and who proposed the installation of a government by Islamic law, I was placed on trial for the assassination of Sadat (twice) and also for inciting to riot etc. In all cases I was acquitted completely. Nonetheless, I was subjected to house arrest and vigorous, rigorous disruptions of my daily life, in the name of State, Mubarak‘s Security.36 I came to the United States because I believed that here it was guaranteed that one could speak freely and preach and follow Islam without government interference.‖ How did Sheik Rahman go in and out of America like it was a revolving door when his acquittal in a case of attempting to kill two policemen and inciting violence during a protest outside a mosque in Fayoum, southwest of Cairo had been overturned by the Mubarak regime? How did he enter a Christian country after issuing a fatwa calling for the death of Christians? With the help of Allah [subhanahu wa ta‘ala], he used America‘s hatred for Soviet Communism as a means of manipulating the CIA and FBI into allowing Islamists to gather in mosques and safehouses to plan anti35. Pilgrimage. 36. Military officers and members of the police forces have been appointed to governorships in the troubled regions, execution of Islamists sentenced by special courts was commonplace and in March 2003 the state of emergency was extended for three more years. This despite the fact that the Constitution approved by president Anwar Sadat in 1971 claimed Egypt is an Islamic state.

Communist activities, and drive the Reds from Afghanistan. There came a point where those activities were also aimed at another enemy of Islam, the United States. Once Islamists reached this stage we felt confident enough to bring the Prince of Jihad into the heart of the beast. The CIA believed it was in America‘s long-term interest to protect the Sheik. It knew that al-Qaeda had the dedication and capability to defeat the Soviets, but it did not foresee that the Islamist, largely Pashtun Taliban would replace the Communists by virtue of the fact that they were the single most powerful militia amidst a power vacuum created by years of warfare and were powerful enough to overthrow President Baharuddin Rabbani in 1996. Terrorist Siddig Ibrahim Ali Siddig spoke of how the leaders of the Taliban were once honored by America: ―They used to go to the United Nations. Sheik Rahman was present of course so there were special sessions between them and these people, okay? I am telling you they let the Sheik attend but when these people come here and they go to the United Nations, Sheik Burhan Al-Din Rabbani went to Reagan and invited him to convert to Islam, he told him, convert to Islam. If you don‘t become a Muslim you will die like a dog, what did you do? Nothing, I mean they are good people. America used to do for the Brothers. Yes, it is known, normal, ask anybody, why? Because there were certain reasons, America was fighting the Russians. Who messed up Russia and its economy? Who finished Russia? Because the Red Army lost hundreds of thousands in Afghanistan, thousands of fighter planes, all of it was done by the Brothers, they use to send them Stinger missiles, the Brothers use to take Stingers Brother. And the most modern weapons, they use to receive them, by the Brothers, got training on them, it is not a secret, it is known.‖ To the CIA, which pumped more than $2 billion into the fourteen-year Afghani resistance effort, Sheik Rahman was invaluable37 for Rahman was one of the main operatives the CIA utilized in its proxy war against the Soviets, although Rahman now must deny any such association. The Sheik had established himself as an important U.S. ally by helping the CIA channel money, weapons, and men to mujahedeen training centers in the U.S. supported countries of Egypt and Pakistan. Peshawar, Pakistan, nearby Afghanistan, became the staging area for tens of thousands of

37. Mary Ann Weaver ―Blowback‖ The Atlantic Monthly - May 1996.

radicals, many of whom went on to form smaller cells around the world, including inside the U.S. and England. The Egyptian security and intelligence services made a major mistake from 1985 to 1987 when, at the behest of the CIA, it allowed several Al-Gama‘a Islamists leaders who had taken part in the 1981 assassination of Sadat, and the attempted coup that followed it, to leave the country. The most prominent were Mustafa Hamza (left) and Muhammad Shawqi Islambouli, whose brother, Khaled, shot President Anwar Sadat dead. Muhammad Shawqi Islambouli, a leader of the Islamic Association at Asyut University had been arrested in an anti-Islamist sweep on September 3, 1981.38 Around the end of 1984 to early 1986 al-Gama'a leaders decided to send some of their leaders who were not fugitives there to gain military experience to help train and organize a military wing in Egypt. Rifa'i Ahmad Taha Musa played a major part in organizing training camps for the movement in Afghanistan and for rebuilding its military wing in Egypt. The following leaders were able to go to Afghanistan between 1987 to 1989: Tala't Fu'ad Qasim, Abdel Akher Hamad, Usama Rushdie and Yaseem Hama. The other leaders divided on a mental and physical level, Tala't and Rushdie to produce al-Mourabeton, Rifa'i Taha, Mustafa Hamza, Adli Yousef and Talaat Hamam military training. Sheik Rahman‘s words also had become an inspiration for thousands of rank-and-file Muslim heroes in the crusade for the Holy Afghani Jihad. These men received top-notch para-military training Afghanistan and a chance at eternal bliss. This was why the CIA brought Sheik Rahman into the U.S. via Saudi Arabia, Peshawar, and the Sudan on a tourist visa issued by an undercover CIA agent using diplomatic cover.39 His followers were playing a major role in defeating the Communists. The Sheik received his visa at the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, even though his name appeared on the State Department‘s official ―terrorist‖ list. The State Department said the CIA officer approved the visa application after being assured incorrectly by a Sudanese employee that Rahman was not on the ―undesirable‖ list. However, three days after granting him the visa, the embassy informed the State Department that it had made a grave error. The State Department, however, at the request of the CIA refused to alert the INS, so the INS did

38. Caryle Murphy Passion for Islam Page 62 Scribner October 1, 2002. 39. Douglas Jehl ―CIA Officer Signed Visa For Sheik U.S. Says ‖New York Times July 14, 1993 Page B6, 1.

not place him on its Watch List of people to be turned back if they attempted to enter the United States. During Sheik Rahman‘s Bridge and Tunnel trial in early 1995 the Sheik‘s attorney sent this letter to the State Department of the United States: ―Dr. Abdel Rahman received a visa to enter the United States in 1990 from the United States consular office in Khartoum, Sudan. Upon information and belief there may have been correspondence surrounding the issuance of this visa. One or more of the aforementioned agencies [the CIA, the State Department] may have contacted the consulate in that regard. To the extent that this correspondence, including but not limited to written, telephonic, cybernating, is exculpatory, it must be produced…[as] media reports have alleged that one of the defendants, Omar Ahmad Ali Abdel Rahman, has close ties to the Central Intelligence Agency, may have assisted the United States during the war in Afghanistan, and may have been permitted to enter the United States with the assistance of State Department employees…‖ The Assistant United States Attorney, knowing that the CIA would never admit to aiding Dr. Rahman agreed to this request: ―Dr. Rahman received a visa to enter the United States in July 1990 from the United States consular office in Khartoum Sudan. Upon information and belief there might have been correspondence surrounding the issuance of this visa between one or more of the aforementioned agencies and intelligence agencies referred to above. In light of this we would ask that you provide any such foreign intelligence information to us, so that we may determine if we are obligated to disclose any of it pursuant to Brady v. Maryland.‖ During this trial the question whether Rahman possessed classified material originating with the CIA arose. Rahman‘s lawyer stated: Moore: At a previous conference, I originally indicated to your Honor Dr. Rahman did not have any classified information to raise…Dr. Rahman has now said to me today, and I think he should put it on the record, that he does not intend to raise any classified information. THE COURT: I should point out to him and to you, so that both of you can take some comfort in this, that whatever knowledge he may have of his own activities I don‘t think he can be barred from introducing based on its being classified. Do you [Assistant U.S. Attorney] McCarthy?

McCarthy: I do your Honor. Well I think that at the very least if he is the source of the classified information, I don‘t think we can prevent him from testifying at trial… I think the public authority statute has a specific provision in it saying that nothing in the statute should be construed as barring the defendant from testifying at trial. The Classified Information Procedure Act doesn‘t have a similar provision, so I don‘t want to be deemed at this point to have waived any claim he can be barred from testifying as to classified information. During this trial Sheik Rahman pointedly asked: ―When I entered the United States of America in July 1990, how come you did not arrest me while I am the Prince of Jihad Organization in United States of America from the beginning of the year 1989 and a principal leader in that international Jihad Organization, from the beginning of the year 1980? Yassir Arafat was forbidden from entering America at a time when he was the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization. What do you think of me, then? And I am being a principal leader, and I am the Prince of the Jihad Organization in America. Why was it not forbidden? Why was I not forbidden? How did I get the entry visa at a time when I am principal leader in this international organization of Jihad, and I am the Emir of Jihad in America? How did I come to possess the Green Card within two or three months‘ time, and the interview for possessing the green card was done within two or three minutes? And even after the Green Card has been taken away, the FBI agent did not tell me at the airport that the green card is being taken away from you because you are the Emir of the Jihad Organization in America. And the immigration judge even did not tell me that, and he is one of the meanest judges on the surface of this earth. Then how did I enter America? Isn‘t that a weakness in the system? Is it a weakness in the computer system? Or is it a weakness in the minds, or the brains? How could the Prince of the Jihad Organization in America come to enter America and then exit America a number of times without somebody stopping him? Then to Denmark, then to Saudi Arabia, and in every time I return to America. How come I was not stopped from exiting so that I may run away? And how come I was not arrested when I re-entered, so that I may be right at a time when I am a principal leader in an international Jihad Organization? Were the systems in America asleep? Or were they awake? If they were asleep, then they should be fined, and if they were awake and I have committed the crimes and they have not arrested me, they must be

stupid, they have no brains. Since nothing like that happened, therefore I am innocent.‖ FBI snitch Emad Salem‘s FBI handler John Michael Anticev tried to dissuade Salem from his belief that Sheik Rahman was a CIA asset: Salem: Dr. Omar Rahman comes to Abu Bakr mosque and, you know, gets his way. The new Imam is a balanced person he is not fundamental. So he said, ―I am the Imam here. My word should be the first and the last. And I want have the authority to say who will come to my mosque and who shouldn't come.‖ So, of course, Omar Rahman's people heard that they said ―No.‖ Because they know that the minute they will give him this authority, and he wanted [it] on his contract. They heard that, they said no. Because they know that the minute they will sign this contract with him, he will refuse to let Omar Rahman to come. So, they fought each other, and you know the Imam is going to Egypt on April 30th and from there he is going to Hajj in Saudi Arabia. And the people in the mosque were just waiting to see what the final decision would be. But he is not happy about Dr. Rahman's thing. Dr. Rahman's lately getting [giving] the impression that he is cooperating with the CIA. Anticev: Hmm. Salem: Do you think it's true that he have something to do with the CIA? Anticev: No, I am telling you the truth, I have no information regarding that and I really don't think so. Salem: Yeah. Anticev: I really don't think so. I think that was put, on uh, put together by reporters. Salem: No, that's his words. I mean, he said ―We'll how do you think I came with Sudan?‖ Anticev: Yeah, but I thought, uh, we said, uh, in the beginning, when he saw that article about the CIA connection, he rejected that. Salem: He rejected that but it seems to be now he's trying to...

Anticev: And he wanted to... Salem: ...confront. Anticev: He wanted to show that he had connections to the FBI and the CIA... Salem: The CIA, not the FBI. Anticev: The C, uh, the CIA to confuse the, uh, Mubarak... Salem: Right. Anticev: It's just that he's playing a trick. To show that, uh, he's going along with what the paper's saying. Salem: Right. Could be. Could be.40 But perhaps the most compelling testimony of Sheik Rahman‘s CIA connection came from Sayyid Nosair who told the New York Post, ―Months before Abdel-Rahman ever set foot in the United States the Brothers were bragging that he would face no immigration obstacles because the Sheik was working with the CIA and the CIA was even financing his activities. It was a CIA officer who approved his visa in the Sudan.‖41 After the Sheik was arrested in the United States Al Gomhuriya, a semi-official Egyptian newspaper published a story saying that the Sheik's CIA links had allowed him to repeatedly enter and exit the U.S. unquestioned. By the following day, most major U.S. media had picked up the story for publication. A few days later, Al Gomhuriya editor Mahfouz alAnsari, in a front-page article, retracted the story.42 The State Department conducted its own investigation into possible CIA assistance to Dr. Rahman in obtaining his visa. On July 2, 1993 the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on international security said, in a closed hearing, that the results of the investigation, which had begun in April, were that Dr. Rahman

40. FBI Transcription Source 31-14 [1205-1653 E] 41. Colin Miner ―Sheik Blessed Plot‖ New York Post August 3, 1993. 42. New York Times, ―Egyptian Paper Says It Misquoted Mubarak on Sheik and the CIA,‖ May 31, 1993 Page 2, 1.

had received no such assistance from the CIA.43 The Sheik, questioned about the allegations, replied, ―I would not be sitting here in the MCC [Metropolitan Corrections Center, Manhattan] if I worked for the CIA.‖ In January 1991 Dr. Rahman was granted a Green Card as an Islamic clergyman, allowing him to live in the United States permanently, even though technically he was in the United States illegally. He began to teach in Jersey City, New Jersey, at the Al-Salaam Mosque. Dr. Rahman‘s primary purpose in coming to America was to set up a U.S. infrastructure, a funding mechanism, and an organizational base for Gama‘a, an undertaking that he had largely accomplished by the time of his arrest in 1993.44 At his appellate immigration hearing Sheik Rahman was asked about his funding mechanism mission: Q. Okay. Now let me ask you this, do you collect money to send back to Egypt for any particular cause or organization? A. This didn't happen. Q. All right. Let me ask you this, sir, did you recently send a total of $140,000 in two checks to your wife in Egypt? A. I tried to defend myself about these charges and the judge said no. JUDGE TO MR. RAHMAN Q. Mr. Rahman, is the answer yes or no? A. No. No, I did not send. Can I explain a little more. Q. You just said no. That's enough. Did your wife tell you that she received two checks were confiscated by the Egyptian government? Yes or no, sir? A. No, she didn't inform me because I didn't send anything.

43. Douglas Jehl ―Flaws in the U.S. Visa System‖ New York Times, July 3, 1993 Page 1, 2. 44. Mary Ann Weaver ―Blowback‖ The Atlantic Online May 1996 http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/96may/blowback.htm

Despite the Sheik‘s absence from Egypt out activities were moving right along - in 1991 thirty Coptic kuffar were killed there! RAHMAN AND BIN LADEN Sheik Rahman used a fax machine to command anti-Communist Muslim rebels, moving forces from Pakistan to Afghanistan and dealing with a code-named agent. FBI informant Emad Salem (left) reported this to FBI Special Agent John Anticev: ―There is an order came from Dr. Rahman to his troops in Pakistan to move them from Pakistan to Afghanistan. I was there when he was given these orders. So I got notes of it and I informed John [FBI Special Agent John Crouthhamel]. I said John please check Dr. Rahman‘s phone numbers bill and see at 9:00 a.m., the date so and so, which is yesterday, there is a phone call, he dialed number to Pakistan. Get this number. There is somebody with an undercover name, what you call it? A code name or something…it has a specific term…whatever. His code name is Abdullah. Anyways he ordered him to move his people from Pakistan to Afghanistan. So he don‘t know the number, I give him the number and of course, he will go and then I told him and afterwards he contacted somebody from Hamas, his name is Agnan (Adnan), Dr. Rahman dialed this number so look at the bills, look at the New Jersey phone bill and get these two numbers and then you can get the address of them – Agnan – cause this guy‘s Hamas and these guys in charge of Rahman now. And I made this guy…so I give him that‘s serious information. And Rahman never received his communication through the phone he received it through the fax. He said ‗What‘s the fax number?‘ I give to him the fax number. They even don‘t know before that his guy even have a fax number.‖45 Faxes played an important part in the communication network of Gama‘a Al Islamiyya. Gamal Fahmy, who was the deputy editor of the nowbanned weekly al-Dustour, was sent to prison for criminal libel after AlDustour published a fax from Al Gama‘a Al Islamiyya, reprinted with fullpage coverage, including a commentary by Egyptian intellectuals and legal and security experts that carried a death threat against three leading Coptic

45. USA v Rahman Misc Files Transcript of Salem - Anticev page 3 and 4. Document in Authors possession.

businessmen in Egypt. According to Fahmy, the Gama‘a accused the Coptic businessmen of ―sabotaging the Egyptian economy and fronting for the CIA.‖46 Blessed must be Allah who caused the FBI to ignore this most important information that was supplied by Salem. ―Abu Abdullah‖ was the code name of Usama bin Laden47 and had the FBI and the CIA tracked him down and put an agent close to him, the United States Government might have been able to later arrest him or assassinate him after they concluded, with good reason, that he was a grave threat to their National Security. It was not until 1997 that the Americans appreciated that Usama bin Laden was a planner not just a financier of Islamist terrorist activities.48 In the U.S. Congress‘ September 11th Failure Report it was revealed: ―The CIA never had anyone in position to tell us what was going to happen in advance, or even where bin Laden was going to be in advance [deleted] we never knew where he was going to be in advance, And usually we were only informed about his – where he was after the fact…And [deleted] where they were able to tell us where they thought he was at the moment, [deleted] the CIA itself recommended against action, because they said their sources were not very good, or not good enough to recommend military action.‖ Even the American intelligence failed to appreciate the importance of this Muslim military leader and his followers, in fact it was not until October 8, 1999, by publication in the Federal Register, that the Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright designated al-Qaeda as a foreign terrorist organization pursuant the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996. It was in 1996 that the FBI recognized the increased threat to the United States posed by Usama bin Laden and created the Usama bin Laden Unit to handle alQaeda-related matters. Michael Sheuer headed the Unit. Sheuer attended Canisius College. U.S. News and World Report ranked Canisius as 22nd among regional schools in its "North Region." He went on to earn an M.A. from Niagara University in 1976 and another M.A. from Carleton University in 1982. He also received a Ph.D. in British Empire-U.S.-Canada-U.K. relations from the University of Manitoba in 1986. He was never the

46. http://www.ibnkhaldun.org/newsletter/1998/sep/civil.html

47. USAMA BIN LADEN, INDICTMENT a/k/a "Usamah Bin-Muhammad Bin-Ladin," a/k/a "Shaykh Usamah Bin-Ladin," a/k/a "Mujahid Shaykh," a/k/a "Abu Abdullah" a/k/a "Qa Qa," 48. http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/911rpt/32404intel.pdf

brightest light on the Christmas tree. Sheuer or ―Mohammed Al-Sheuer,‖ as I prefer to call him, was, in my opinion, an Islamist ideological mole within the CIA and a truly dangerous enemy of the United States. It is this authors‘ conclusion that Sheuer only pretended to go after Osama Bin Laden but was in reality was protecting him. In order to hide this Sheuer blamed the Clinton Administration for CIA‘s failure to kill Bin Laden, claiming that he had the chance to do it numerous times but was prevented from doing so by his superiors. He offers no evidence to back up these claims other than his self serving statements based on his apparent bona fides while in the CIA: Sheuer was in charge of the rendition program and was responsible for numerous kidnappings, imprisonment and torture of 30 lower level Islamists. I believe he carried out these operations successfully in order to maintain his credibility so he could protect the big enchilada, Osama Bin Laden, who he knew that if he remained on the loose, would soon carry out an operation against the United States that would make the other jihadis shenanigans look like greasy kids stuff. Sheuer never made clandestine contact with Al-Qaeda so the CIA CI or Office of Security had no reason to suspect him. In retrospect if Sheuer held the same views while he headed the Bin Laden Desk that he expressed after he left it, then there is no other explanation other than that he was an enemy ideological mole. In his book Imperial Hubris Sheuer called Bin Laden a ―great man‖ and Bin Laden spoke highly of al-Sheuer in a video Al Qaeda released and said, ―"If you want to understand what's going on and if you would like to get to know some of the reasons for your losing the war against us, then read the book of Michael Scheuer in this regard." Additionally Al-Sheuer claimed that repressive governments like Algeria, Egypt and especially Saudi Arabia are responsible for the resurgence of Islamic jihadist fundamentalism in the Moslem world and he wants to see these governments overthrown. AlSheuer never states that if these governments are overthrown they will be replaced with theocracies and Shar‘ia Law. Even if there was no Israel these theocrats would still be intent on making the entire world Islamic, starting with the Jews, who Mohammed failed to convert. But Sheuer argues that it is not religious or cultural differences that have made Islam regard America as the enemy. It is solely the result of America‘s support for the State of Israel. Sheuer wants the Islamic world to focus its hatred on Israel rather than the United States yet he says in the same breath that Israel has a right to exist and possess nuclear weapons. I believe Sheuer had a hidden agenda at CIA and secretly wants Israel and neighboring states like Egypt and Saudi Arabia destroyed in a nuclear war in the Middle East. In my opinion other CIA and FBI agents may have screwed up when

it came to 9/11 but their failure was unintentional while Scheuer‘s was deliberate! He was transferred out of the UBL Unit in 1999 and he resigned from the CIA in 2004. According to CIA, nine Counter Terrorism Center analysts and eight analysts in the Directorate of Intelligence were assigned to Usama bin Laden in 1999.49 After he left the Agency he became an Adjunct Professor of Security Studies at Georgetown University, and was a regular contributor to the Jamestown Foundations Terrorism Focus until he was fired in 2009. Scheuer published two books blaming others for his failure to kidnap or murder Usama bin Laden. Al-Sheuer lashed out at the panel that investigated the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. He called the panel and the CIA ―bureaucratic cowards‖ for not holding an agency or individuals accountable for the tragedy. His invective was particularly critical of former CIA director George Tenet, saying he ―starved and is starving the [Osama] bin Laden unit of officers while finding plenty of officers to staff his personal public relations office, as well as the staffs that handled diversity, multiculturalism, and employee newsletters.‖ In May 2000 His Eminence Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman had this to say about Usama bin Laden: ―General Usama bin Laden went through hundreds, even thousands of battles. Hah? He was an essential element in the collapse of the Soviet Union...and his reward from America is what you see. My friendship reward was a life sentence. And the reward of the General Usama bin Laden - [Laughs] - hah, it is asking... it is going to pay millions to whoever will get him dead or alive.‖50 Usama bin Laden stated: ―Rahman is a Muslim scholar well-known all over the Muslim world. He represents the kind of injustice that is adopted by the U.S. A baseless case was fabricated against him even though he is a blind old man. We ask Allah, The Almighty, to relieve him. The U.S. sentenced him to hundreds of years just to please its caprice and the whims of the Egyptian regime. He is now very badly treated and in no way fit for an old man like him or any Muslim scholar.‖ RAHMAN AND HAMAS

49. Report of the Joint Inquiry into the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001 – by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. 50. http://www.lynnestewart.org/5201.pdf

Sheik Rahman‘s organization was not the only Islamist network operating in America. Hamas had been doing so for many years. Of course the Sheik had a very close association with this Palestinian Islamist group and when the FBI searched the home of Mohamed Nabeel El-Masry, who had been entrusted with Sheik Rahman‘s possessions after the Sheik‘s arrest it found a tape of the Sheik speaking at a Hamas conference. Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew McCarthy, who prosecuted the Sheik, threatened to introduce evidence that linked Rahman to Hamas.51 THE KAHANE EVENT Some have said that Sheik Rahman is nothing more than an Islamist Nazi preaching racial and religious hatred. To counter this his followers have stated that the Sheik has never been censured or reprimanded by any bona fide Islamic group for his sermons. Rabbi Meir Kahane was expelled from the Israel‘s parliament for racism. Kahane, the founder of the Jewish Defense League, was asked: ―Do you consider yourself a racist?‖ He answered: ―I am a man of Halacha.52 If you want to call that racism, then I am a racist. But labels are the last refuge of non-thinkers. To me, a racist is someone that says, ‗I‘m better than you and you can never be as good as me.‘ But an Arab, a goy, can become a Jew and become as good as Meir Kahane. Are we better than the goyim? Yes, we are. Are we sanctified above the Goyim? Yes we are. But Goyim can become Jews.‖ On November 5, 1990 Kahane gave a speech at the Marriott East Side Hotel in New York City. The content of his speech on the night of his elimination was a plea to American Jews to emigrate and settle in Israel. That evening members of Gama‘a al-Islamiyya‘s Brooklyn / Jersey City cell assassinated Kahane. Brother Nosair, Brother Bilal Alkaisi, and Brother Mohammad Salameh attended the speech. After the speech, as Kahane stood talking with the crowd, Nosair fired two shots and, Alhumdul-allah53 Kahane was hit in the neck. Mahmud Abouhalima waited outside the hotel in a taxicab that was to serve as the getaway car. After shooting Kahane Nosair, whom witnesses observed with a gun in hand, then ran toward the rear door of the room, trailed by one of the onlookers.

51. William Kleinknecht ―Bomb Suspect‘s Hamas Link Eyed‖ New York Daily News November 22, 1994. 52. Jewish law. 53. Praise Be to Allah

At the door, a 70-year-old Jew named Irving Franklin sought to impede Nosair‘s flight. Nosair shot Franklin in the leg, and fled the room. Mahmud Abouhalima was supposed to have driven the getaway car, a taxicab, but parked it in the wrong spot, so the overexcited Nosair jumped in the wrong cab, and when he became aware of what he had done, he put a gun to the driver‘s head then got out. Rahman crew member Hampton-El told Egyptian intelligence agent Abdo Haggag that Abouhalima was to be killed for this mistake, until it was found out that it was an honest one. During the trial of Sheik Rahman Hampton-El was asked about his role in the Kahane assassination: Q. Let me direct you attention ahead from 1989 to the day of November 5, 1990, the day Rabbi Meyer Kahane was killed. Do you recall that day? A. The date no, but the day he was killed, yes, I recall. Q. Did you have a discussion whereby you agreed that Muhmud Abouhalima rather than yourself would drive a taxi outside the hotel the night Rabbi Kahane was murdered? Did you ever tell anyone that Muhmud Abouhalima rather than yourself would drive a taxi outside the hotel the night Rabbi Kahane was murdered? A. Absolutely not. Q. You told us the other day that on May 30, 1993, you were discussing with Siddig Ali and Emad Salem how it was that you were supposed to be there the night that Kahane was killed. Do you recall that? A. Yes I do. Q. You are telling us that the only time in your life that you that you ever told anyone you were supposed to be outside the scene of the Kahane homicide was May 30, 1993 when that tape was running? A. To the best of my recollection, yes. Q. You told Siddig Ali and Emad Salem on that occasion that after Kahane was killed Sheik Omar Abdul Rahman told you not to visit Nosair. You told us that?

A. I also said that was not true. Q. But you said it on that tape? A. I did say it.54 Q. You told us on direct examination that the reason you told Emad Salem and Siddig Ali that you were supposed to be outside the scene of the Kahane homicide was that you were trying to impress them; was that your testimony? A. I said Siddig Ali thought the situation was good and he spoke about it many times. So I said, at that time I said it, thinking it would impress them, yes… Q. You told this jury that you jumped out a window breaking a leg to save a suicide victim? You told this jury that you stepped on a land mine in Afghanistan in 1988? And you told this jury that you were invited down to meet the prince in the Saudi Embassy, correct? A. Yes. Q. And the person you were trying to impress on May 30, 1993, Siddig Ali, is a person you told us was screaming and crying in the room, ‗I can‘t take it anymore‘ on a prior occasion, is that correct? A. That is what I told you.55 After jumping from the wrong taxi, Nosair encountered uniformed postal police officer Carlos Acosta. Acosta tried to draw his weapon and identify himself, but before he could fire, Nosair fired two shots at him. The first of these shots hit Acosta in the chest but was deflected into his shoulder by a bulletproof vest he was wearing, and the second shot just missed Acosta‘s head. Despite being wounded, Acosta returned fire, hitting Nosair in the neck. Nosair would later say that Acosta ―had an evil smiling face and had a bad problem with his nerves and should not have been

54. USA v Rahman TT15915 55. USA v Rahman TT 5924

given a gun. Acosta himself was the one who put the bullets in my pocket. Acosta had the same type of gun. [Much was done] to protect Acosta because of the political interest against Arabs and Muslims in America making us look to the people as ‗outsiders‘ with a ‗terrorist‘ title on our foreheads.‖56 Nosair fell to the ground, dropping his weapon, a .357 caliber magnum revolver, at his side. Acosta recovered the weapon and detained Nosair. The sight on this weapon had been filed down so that when Nosair pulled it out it would not become entangled in this jacket. It looked like there was a very strong case against El-Sayyid Nosair who remarked, ―God the Almighty facilitated his believers to penetrate the lines no matter how strong they are, and the greatest proof of that [is] what happened in New York. God the Almighty enabled His extremely brave people, with His great power, to destroy one of the top infidels. They were preparing him to dominate, to be the Prime Minister some day. They were preparing him despite their assertion that they reject his agenda and that he is a racist.‖57 While Nosair was at the prison ward of Bellevue Hospital following the shooting, he stated in response to a question from a treating physician that he had no choice but to kill Kahane, and that it was his ―duty.‖58 Nosair then made this written statement to the contrary: ―I didn‘t shot anybody. Someone else was beside me. He had a Yarmulke on his head. When he shot I ran from the room trying to escape because I am only Arab there. I came two times to lecture last year. When I went out of the hotel I took a cab. I asked the driver after that to take me to a police station because they will think I shoot, shooted a gun but I didn‘t have any gun with me. After that they found me then I tried to run. The man with the yarmulke was right behind me. I saw a police officer was hiding in a front door of a building so I run towards him to ask him to help me. The other man was right behind me with a silver gun. When I reached to the policeman the man behind me shot many shots so the policeman started to shoot towards us. When I got shot the man with the yarmulke stood behind me. When I was laying on the ground he put the gun beside me. Before that I was unconscious and he put something in my pocket. The skin grafting on my left hand because of electric shock few years ago. When I was laying down on the ground I saw everybody shouting to me, as I am the killer. I take a chance about why I came to lecture.‖

56. USDC SDNY 94 Civ 0003 57. Govt. Ex. 163R2 at 1 58. USA v Rahman TT 9244-46

During the trial of Sheik Rahman in early 1995, in which Nosair was a defendant, Brother Ehteshamul Haque, who immigrated to the United States from Bangladesh, attempted to alter the events of that fateful night, to match El-Sayyid Nosair‘s story. Haque had been in the United States fifteen years, had a Green Card and a bachelor‘s degree with honors in statistics. He possessed a Top Secret clearance because he participated in the development of the Patriot missile. He once taught at St. John‘s University but was employed as a yellow cab driver when Kahane was assassinated. ―A gentleman flagged down the cab over here‖ he testified, pointing to a chart of the area in question on the night of the assassination, ―So I pulled over right near the car. Then I observed one gentleman running straight across diagonally, empty handed, nothing on his hand, another gentleman right behind this man number one, another gentleman chasing him with a gun in his hand [the man with the yarmulke], and there approximately three to five feet there are three other people right behind man number two. Man number one was running toward the post office. He was running particularly for his life, trying to get away from the gunman.‖ Q. Was anybody by the post office? A. The postal police officer, a gun in his hand. Q. Did man number one ever get to the sidewalk? A. Yes he did. Then the man number one got shot by the postal police officer. I saw a flash of light going out, and directly hitting man number one which was the unarmed person. Q. Who fired the shot first? A. The postal police officer. Man number two [the man with the yarmulke] fired back. Man number one [Nosair] fell on the ground. The postal police officer, he was also falling to the ground. Q. Is man number one in the courtroom here today? A. He is. [Haque pointed to El-Sayyid Nosair].

The Assistant United States Attorney reminded Brother Haque that this contradicted his earlier statement that he gave to the New York City Police Department. Was this the ―potential obstruction of the indicted case of United States v. Rahman, et al.‖ also referred to as ―the potential obstruction of the Rahman case‖ in a 1996 Jamie Gorelick Memo? The Clinton Justice Department was not focused on Islamism and the Gorelick Memo stated, ―No pro-active investigative efforts or technical coverages are presently contemplated in any of the ongoing criminal investigations, which primarily focus on past criminal conduct.‖ But the DOJ was not happy about the Islamists tampering with the American judicial system by getting Haque to perjure himself so this sentence of the Gorelick Memo ended with the words ―with the exception of the obstruction investigation.‖ Haque was placed on the Rahman Unindicted Co-Conspirator List and nothing ever came of the obstruction investigation. Haque was unable to instill reasonable doubt in the jury, but the filthy terrorists will always be grateful to him for trying. Had Haque expressed his sympathy to the Islamist terrorist cause before this the United States Government would have still foolishly issued him a security clearance! A SEARCH OF NOSAIR’S HOME LINKS HIM TO AL-QAEDA In early 1990 the FBI had a phone intercept of Sheik Abdel Omar Rahman speaking to Brother Sayyid Nosair about ―attacking big buildings, attack[ing] skyscrapers.‖ On November 5, 1990 the Bureau found these words, amid photos of New York landmarks, including the World Trade Center, written by Brother Sayyid A. Nosair while executing a search warrant for his home: ―We must destroy tourist places that they are proud about and their statues and their tall buildings that bring them pride, and the buildings that their leaders meet at. We are as Muslims not to declare any responsibility for these acts. By this the enemies of Allah will be busy in rebuilding their civilization from the start and renewing their morals and we will have the opportunity as Muslims to regain our holy lands from the hands of Allah‘s enemies and traitors who will at that point be very weak mentally after they see what is going on around them (the power they depended on collapsed and suppressed).‖ The FBI also found a book that day entitled, ―Method For Forcing An Entry Into An Airplane,‖ the World Trade Center‘s Twin Towers would still be standing?59 Additionally, when

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the FBI searched the home of Brother Nidal Ayyad on April 6, 1993, after he had helped in the first bombing of the World Trade Center, this was found on his computer: ―Dear…We are, the Liberation Army, fifth battalion, again. Unfortunately our calculations were not very accurate this time. However we promise you that next time it will be very precise and the World Trade Center will continue to be one of our targets in the U.S. unless our demands have been met.‖ It was as if none of this information was taken seriously at the time. More than a decade after these items were discovered, United States Congressional searches of intelligence community databases for information that might have presaged the September 11th attacks did not produce a single reference to any of these pregnant early warning signals. After the Kahane assassination Nosair‘s car and work lockers were also searched. Among the items seized, other than what was previously mentioned, was a handwritten notebook, in which Nosair stated that to establish a Muslim state in the Muslim holy lands it would be necessary ―to break and destroy the morale of the enemies of Allah… And therefore the chance will be available for the Muslims to repossess their sacred lands from the hands of the enemies of God, the traitors and hypocrites who will be in this moment in a very psychological weakness from what they see around them and this is because the forces on which they were depending were crushed into pieces and are in tragic collapse.‖60 There was a document, ―listing the entry and departure of ships in various harbors in the Middle East and other miscellaneous military training material including Airborne Corp, Academy and Land Navigation, Map Reading, Compass Course, Patrolling Diagrams, Diagrams on Bomb Making in Arabic and other assorted writings in Arabic.‖ There was a fatwa entitled, Assistance from Allah in Afghanistan however the agents spelled fatwa ―fatiha.‖ There was a booklet entitled Mirror of Afghan Jihad and Jihad Magazine. The FBI commented: ―This folder contains what appears to be Islamic religious teachings and some information news reports from Jihad.‖ The FBI agents believed Jihad was a city! Al-Banyan Al-Marsous, an operation of Usama bin Laden, published Jihad Magazine. There was a booklet entitled Arms in Afghanistan.

60. Cited at footnote USA v. Rahman Tr. 3962-63. Also Trial Transcript 19152

There was one typed document that read at the top ―In the name of Allah the most Gracious, the most Merciful. It read ‗A communiqué regarding the attempted assassination of Zaki Badr (left), the Interior Minister of Egypt.‘ The document is signed at the bottom ‗The Brigade of Martyrs and Muslim Egypt.‘‖ It read in part: ―The martyrs‘ battalion in Muslim Egypt made an attempt at executing God‘s will, Egypt‘s arrogant tribunal. Zaki Bada, who by exercising his inhumanity turned Egypt into a prison and a big concentration camp. The man has killed and tortured and left homeless. He made many mothers grieve when their children died, many women widows, he caused many women to abort, turned many children to orphans. Many peaceful villages were attacked an abused by him. He humiliated many people. Even the unions, establishment judges and the orders were not spared from his arm. Why not when he never heeds any of God‘s laws? He went on spreading his corruption on earth without accountability to conscious or law. Therefore, the martyr‘s battalion declares that this attempt came as an answer after it was legitimatised by religious jurors who cry from all the walks of Egyptian people and its political powers. Take your hand off the Egyptian Muslims. This is an apology and a warning. Unless you listen what happened will happen again.‖61 Badr was the most hated man in President Hosni Mubarak‘s government because of his hard line against Islamists. He came to power in 1986 immediately after the Interior Ministry‘s own security police had rioted. He had a personal animus against Islamist movements and some 8,000 Egyptian Islamic Jihad activists were imprisoned and tortured under his rule. In December 1989 an attempt was made to assassinate Badr. Gama‘a al-Islamiyya member Gamal Abu Rawash carried out this operation. Rawash was later to be held responsible for the November 1997 massacre of foreign tourists at Luxor, Egypt, and was sentenced to death by a military court in Egypt. Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri was similarly accused in the case of the attempt on the life of Badr. In 1991 Badr ordered the assassination of Ala Mohieddin a young physician who Sheik Rahman had made a Gama‘a spokesman in 1990. This was what

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triggered the Rifaat Mahgoub assassination and the long spiral of violence that followed.62 The FBI also found ―One booklet written in part Arabic with some diagrams of engineering sketches, some of the English in the booklet pertaining to bases of fuels in organic substances, essential ingredients of steel, rare earth metals, poisonous reactive gases in the degasification of light allodes. Its cover has writings in Arabic.‖ There were several issues of the Pittsburgh Press pertaining to the Sadat assassination along with the address of the Egyptian Embassy in Washington and the U.N. Mission in New York City. The FBI also found a piece of paper which read: ―Al-Kifah Refugee Center Inc. 2824 Kennedy Boulevard, Suite Number 4, Jersey City, New Jersey.‖ A typed letter addressed to the Ad Center North American Islamic Trust, 10900 W. Washington Street, Indianapolis, Indiana dated September 22, 1983 and signed by Nosair was found. The Islamic Trust is closely connected with the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) perhaps the most respectable Muslim Islamist support group in North America. One book, a hardcover copy entitled By Way of Deception by Israeli traitor Victor Ostrovsky was found as was ―One hypodermic (sic) needle and syringe, no trade mark, clear plastic in color, one white nylon yarmulke, and one two and a half inch knife marked ‗U Ontario Knife.‘‖ New York City Assistant District Attorney William Greenbaum told El-Sayyid Nosair‘s trial judge, ―Your Honor, the people's theory is that the defendant was stalking Meir Kahane, and that use of firearms was not his only possible means of murdering his victim. Another possibility was to, under guise of being a follower of Kahane, by virtue of wearing a yarmulke, he could use a syringe to get or get close to his, and use a syringe to inoculate him with something, perhaps even cyanide.‖63 There was a handwritten ―hit list‖ that included a ―photograph from a newspaper clipping of Representative Gary Ackerman Queens, New York, taken by Newsday.‖ Why was Ackerman, a rather obscure Congressman, on the ―hit list?‖ Ackerman had attempted to throw a monkey wrench (an appropriate idiomatic expression as according to the Qur‘an he descended from apes) into Islamist operations by pressuring the American Government to

62. John L. Esposito Islam and Democracy Oxford University Press May 1966. 63. 100 Center Street, Criminal Court docket 90N-099-424-‖Nosir,‖ TT, Pages 2910 and 2911

extradite Sheik Abul Karim Obeid from Israel to the United States. Sheik Obeid, a leader of the Hizb‘allah, had been kidnapped from his home in Lebanon in retaliation for the death of Colonel Richard Higgins. Higgins, United States Marine Corps, disappeared on February 17, 1988, while serving as the Chief, Observer Group Lebanon and Senior Military Observer, United States Military Observer Group, United Nations Truce Supervision Organization. A newspaper article was found in Nosair‘s home that attributed Obeid‘s attempted extradition to Congressman Ackerman. Assistant United States Attorney Jacques Semmelman (once the probono attorney for Jonathan Pollard), Chief of Extradition in the United States Department of Justice Murray R. Stein, and Federal Judges Edward Korman, Jack B. Weinstein and another name that was not identified appeared on the ―hit list.‖ All of the Jews that were identified were instrumental in extraditing Mahmoud Atta, who was a member of Black September64 to Israel. Sabri Khalil al-Banna or as he is better known, Abu Nidal65 was the leader of Black September. On April 12, 1986 Mahmoud Atta ambushed a passenger bus in the West Bank. Atta (working with another Brother) stopped the bus with a firebomb then opened fire on it with an Uzi, killing the driver and seriously wounding three passengers. Atta was arrested in Venezuela a year later, but because Venezuela had no extradition treaty with Israel, Venezuelan officials deported him for immigration violations to his country of origin, the United States. Atta was arrested by FBI agents upon arrival at Kennedy International Airport and held in prison in the U.S. for more than three years before being extradited to Israel for trial in October 1990. His extradition was controversial because the nature of the extradition treaty in effect required that the accused offense must be of a ―non-political nature,‖ and Atta maintained that he had committed political rather than criminal offenses. Magistrate Judge John L. Caden agreed with Atta‘s attorney. Nonetheless, Jack B. Weinstein and the U.S. Appellate courts, despite arguments by Attorney Ramsey Clark, upheld Israel's extradition request on the grounds that Atta had attacked civilian rather than military targets and had therefore committed regular criminal acts, not political acts aimed at the overthrow of a government. The Judge Korman also ruled that Atta‘s 64. In September 1970 the Jordanian Government killed thousands of Palestinians who threatened to overthrow the monarchy of King Hussein. Black September‘s emergence was a direct result of this as the PLO wished to distance itself from so-called terrorism. 65. The Father of Struggle

extradition from Venezuela was kosher. In October 1991, an Israeli court found Atta guilty and sentenced him to life imprisonment. Professor Howard Adelson who wrote a column for the Jewish Press was on El-Sayyid Nosair‘s ―hit list.‖ Nosair‘s attorney explained his clients‘ interest in The Jewish Press: ―He was an avid reader of the Jewish Press before he went to Attica.‖ In an intercepted telephone conversation with Sheik Rahman he said: ―Talking about the Jewish migration, Sheik Omar, according to a weekly newspaper called the Jewish Press, a minimum of 1,000 Russian Jews migrate daily from Russia to Israel…Meanwhile the heads of our states are like sitting ducks…‖66 Adelson was targeted for favorably covering the activities of the Jewish Defense Organization, a group of dangerous Judaists that had organized demonstrations against Sheik Rahman, when his eminence first arrived in America. Dr. Adelson stated: ―All I know about Nosair is that he had my name in his book. The FBI came to me and asked for a meeting with me. They called me while I was lecturing. It was a Friday. Kahane was killed on a Thursday night. They said they had to meet with me immediately. I told them I couldn‘t meet with them immediately as I had a luncheon appointment at Ratner‘s Restaurant. They told me they would meet me there. I said ‗Okay‘ but I was suspicious. They only gave me a telephone number for them to call me back, and that wasn‘t enough for me to know it was the FBI. The FBI came to Ratner‘s and opened up a notebook and asked: ‗Is this your name?‘ I looked at the handwritten entry and told them it was. And they said ‗You are in great trouble, they want to shoot you.‘ And I said, ‗I don‘t think they want to shoot me, I don‘t think they would announce it if they were going to execute me.‘ There were four other names in the book, including U.S. Representative Gary Ackerman. All of these men were all given federal protection, because they still worked for the federal government. I was not given any protection because while I was a reserve officer I was not on active duty. They told me I should wear a bulletproof vest. They said, ‗If I were you when I go to the university I would wear one. You ought to wear a bulletproof vest if people know where you are.‘ I said ‗I lecture and my lectures are posted and I have office hours. If people want to find me they can find me easily enough.‘ I asked if they could provide me with bulletproof vest? They said they would not because I

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was a civilian and I should go out a get my own bulletproof vest. The result was that I wore a bulletproof vest for about a year. Then they called me up and said I didn‘t have to wear it any more. Then, after the World Trade center was bombed, they called me up again and said you better put on your bulletproof vest. About a year later they called me up and said I could take it off. Then I never got another call from them. This was after Rahman was locked up. ―Former Brooklyn District Attorney Liz Holtzman came over to me and said, ‗My, isn‘t Gary Ackerman brave, he was on the list to be shot by Nosair?‘ I said, ‗No he isn‘t particularly brave I was on the list.‘ She said nobody ever heard about you being on the list. There was federal judge in the Midwest who had something to do with locking them up on the list. I was the only one who was not in government on that list aside from Kahane. They were all given federal protection.‖67 NYPD AND FBI BLIND THEMSELVES TO A CIA OPERATION The Kahane killing was treated as an everyday homicide rather than a ―terrorist‖ political assassination. In retrospect this was so unbelievable that the Islamists believed it had to be the work of Allah [subhanahu wa ta‘ala] as no one could have been that willfully stupid. The FBI cited newspaper reports that quoted Chief of Detectives Joseph Borrelli as saying: ―Every indication is that Nosair was a loner. The murder was treated as a homicide at the precinct level. The higher-ups didn't want to take it further. The police department stated that they got the gunman and that was it. We're not equipped to investigate international terrorism.‖68 Unnamed police sources pointed out that Sheik Rahman had denounced the Kahane assassination and so, of course, it was obvious he hadn‘t ordered it. On another occasion, however, Sheik Rahman refused to say if he condemned the Kahane killing, ―This is irrelevant, this is police interrogation.‖69 The New York City Police Department also cited Islamic leaders who came to Sheik Rahman‘s defense: ―He speaks of nothing but religious matters‖ said Puerto Rican convert to Islam Khadijah Abdelmoty, who focused on converting Hispanics to Islam. The NYPD released this statement to the press, ―The FBI, Social Services and the CIA have all 67. Tape Recorded conversation with author May 22, 2003. Doctor Adelson died in December 2003, may he rest in peace. 68. Newsday November 9, 1990 also Robert I. Friedman The Village Voice March 30, 1993 ―The CIA and the Sheik -The Agency Coddled Omar Abdel Rahman, Allowing Him to Operate in the U.S. Now This Unholy Alliance Has Blown Up in Our Faces.‖ 69. Alison Mitchell ―Islamic Sheik Says Mubarak Lie and Spies on Americans,‖ New York Times April 7, 1993 B5, 1

been checking to see if Nosair had any links to any anti-Jewish organizations but haven‘t come up with anything yet.‖ Edward T. Norris, now the Police Commissioner of Baltimore, Maryland, and then the former New York City Police Department Deputy Commissioner of Operations, was in charge of the Kahane investigation. He said that the detective who searched Nosair‘s home found four file cabinets (47 boxes) of Arabic documents then locked them up in the 17th Precinct at 4:00 a.m. When he returned four hours later the FBI had taken possession of them.70 The Bureau did not immediately translate papers found in Nosair‘s home.71 Later it would claim this was because the New York Field Office had no Arabic translator available. When the FBI finally got around to translating them, the name of al-Qaeda, which had been founded in 1989, was mangled and mistranslated. When the case came to trial Assistant District Attorney Greenberg was denied access to much of the evidence seized by the FBI. Since neither Nosair‘s attorneys, nor the Manhattan District Attorney‘s office wanted to make this into a political trial, there were no motions filed to force the FBI to disclose this evidence. Oliver ―Buck‖ Revell72 accused the New York City Police Department of having blundered: ―The New York City Police Department carried out its investigation of the assassination of Meir Kahane with the FBI looking over their shoulder to see if there was anything of interest for the Bureau. I was in charge of Bureau operations at the time and I never received any information that El-Sayyid Nosair, the assassin of Meir Kahane, was connected with any sort of organization that might have a terrorist agenda.‖ But the FBI should have developed this information on its on – FBI – Famous But Incompetent. The FBI withheld information from NYPD - when Norris‘ detectives located a shooting range in Naugatuck Connecticut where Nosair had trained they found out the FBI had been there three weeks ago and had not told them about it.73 On August 29, 1989, two months before the Kahane assassination, the FBI had learned that the Brooklyn / Jersey City cell had been using this range for training when several Brothers were stopped by a Connecticut state trooper and were

70. http://www.homelandsecurity.org/journal/articles/displayArticle.asp?article=26 71. Now the FBI has instituted a rule where every suspected ―terrorist‖ communication must be translated within 12 hours. 72. Hart G. W. Lidov, M.D. and PhD. a medical researcher on the faculty of the Harvard School of Medicine whose girlfriend was killed in the Lockerbie airline bombing made the absurd charge that Revell, then the FBI's counter-terrorism chief, failed to share a prior warning of the bombing with the American public, but heeded it personally to get his son off the doomed flight. http://www.dallasobserver.com/issues/2000-07-06/news.html 73. Ariel Cohen National Review September 24, 2001 ―Bureaucratic Failure How things went as wrong as they did.‖ http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-cohen092401.shtml

discovered to be in possession of a small arsenal supplied to them by a former Waterbury, Connecticut police officer named Raymond J. Murteza.74 Murteza, an Albanian Muslim whose brother Daniel had fought in the war in Afghanistan, had been training dozens of men from the Sheik Rahman‘s mosque in police combat tactics. During training, Siddig Ali reported to Rahman, and Rahman offered his insights into the training. The FBI knew Nosair was no loner! Nosair helped to plan an armed robbery – on the night of Meir Kahane‘s assassination a diagram of a planned armored car robbery bearing the fingerprints of Bilal Alkaisi and Mohammed Salameh was entrusted to El-Sayyid Nosair‘s possession. The FBI and NYPD did not want to interfere with a CIA-sponsored operation – the covert support of Islamists in order to defeat the Communists, the nuclear-equipped enemy who America had been fighting since 1946. The CIA knew precisely what Sheik Rahman and his crew were about but left them alone as it had a higher purpose in mind which Rahman, the Prince of Jihad, could help bring about. ROBERT I. FRIEDMAN Journalist Robert I. Friedman who in the past had attacked Kahane, Settlers, Judaists etc. disagreed with this official analysis and reported that El-Sayyid Nosair was part of Gama‘a al-Islamiyya‘s Brooklyn / Jersey City cell. Dr. Mohammad T. Mehdi, a terrorist pig, had this to say: ―Those of us who have known Robert Friedman‘s work expect from him more meaningful and objective reporting. Regretfully, his personal feelings (prejudices?) got the better of him. Friedman‘s ‗discovery‘ that El-Sayyid Nosair had ‗links to Arab terror groups‘ is based on assertions by so-called, and naturally unnamed, Israeli intelligence sources. Other parts of Friedman‘s investigation are based on whimsical connections or remote theoretical possibilities or impossibilities. For example: Friedman relates the story of a preacher in a mosque Nosair attended occasionally, who was convicted of arms smuggling. Conclusion: Nosair is connected to Arab terror groups! How illogical!‖75 Dr. Mehdi was an Iraqi immigrant who studied at the University

74. Steven Emerson American Jihad Free Press Page 24 February 2003. 75 . Mehdi Letter to Village Voice.

of California at Berkeley in 1948 on a full Iraqi government scholarship. There he received a B.A. in 1952 and stayed on to earn an M.A. and a Ph.D., all in political science, with a specialization in American Constitutional law. Dr. Mehdi was the father of American Arab political activism, and the first to print a newsletter in English condemning the Zionist entity. Dr. Mehdi reported, ―I was under deportation for eight years from 1964 to 1972. Under the pressure of intolerant politicians, including the senators from New York, I was charged with having ‗engaged in activities contrary to the best interests of the United States.‘‖76 It is more than conceivable that al-Qaeda would have been unable to carry out the February 26, 1993 World Trade Center bombing and many other strikes, possibly even the September 11th Events, if the Kahane assassination had been treated as what the Americans, the greatest terrorists in the world hypocritically term ―an act of international terrorism,‖ and not as an isolated case by a lone gunman. Now the FBI has decided to take ―loners‖ more seriously and a classified FBI intelligence bulletin issued in February 2003 read: ―Lone extremists represent an ongoing terrorist threat in the United States and may operate independently or on the fringes of established extremist groups, either alone or with one or two accomplices.‖ What was amusing was the FBI‘s admission that even lone extremists may have had co-conspirators – accomplices. Does not that disqualify them from being ―loners?‖ Oliver ―Buck‖ Revell had to admit Friedman was correct: ―As it turns out later, as we see after the World Trade Center, there was substantial information available that if it had been properly translated, processed, authenticated and analyzed, would have led to a direct association between the assassin of Meir Kahane and the group that conspired and eventually did bomb the World Trade Center, and was conspiring to carry out a number of other heinous acts of terrorism. A proper analysis of the Kahane assassination was not conducted. By-and-large the reason it didn‘t get done was because of the political climate and the fact that FBI agents were loathe to undertake anything that had any appearance of being involved in the political process. That includes religious activity, free

76. Letter to Editor M.T. Mehdi ―Egypt of the West?‖ New York Times July 18, 1993.

speech, etc., that are obviously protected under our Constitution. It had become very difficult to assess how to deal with those issues.‖77 After the Kahane assassination there was some attention focused on Islamist activities, but not much, for Kahane was universally hated, even by his fellow Jews, and only Jewish groups tried to pressure the Justice Department to expand its investigation. The terrorist guerillas of the al-Fatah Revolutionary Council announced that they had taken a decision to bear the defense expenses of the heroic Arab struggler El-Sayyid Nosair.78 Al-Fatah group offered to post bail for Nosair. On November 26, 1990 Egypt‘s President Hosni Mubarak expressed admiration for him, ―I hope that...Israel will meet the same fate,‖ and further ordered Egyptian police to provide special security for Nosair‘s family. When Caren Nosair and her three children traveled to Egypt a year after the Kahane assassination, they were met at the airport by government officials and driven through Cairo in a motorcade. Caren's chaperone was Ibrahim El-Gabrowny. The November 11, 1990 the Jordan Times reported that the Jordanian Bar Association had set up a committee to defend Nosair. ―Members of the Jordanian Bar Association,‖ said the organization‘s president, Walid Abd-al-Hadi, ―will be honored to defend Nosair in court and consider him as a national hero.‖ A November broadcast on Saudi Arabia‘s al-Riyad contended that Kahane‘s murder was ―a profound act,‖ but the ―more important issue‖ was that the same fate ―extends to major Israeli leaders.‖79 Nosair was charged with Second Degree Murder, Attempted Second Degree Murder, Second Degree Assault, Unlawful Imprisonment and Criminal Possession of a Weapon – one count in the Second Degree and two counts in the Third Degree.80 Nosair was freed on $300,000, but it was revoked after demonstrations by the Jewish Defense League in front of Judge Alvin Schlesinger‘s Upper East Side apartment.

77. Statement of Oliver ―Buck‖ Revell Former Associate Deputy Director for Investigations Federal Bureau of Investigation To the Committee on International Relations, U. S. House of Representatives Washington, D.C. October 3, 2001. 78. Newsday October 8, 1990. 79. Jewish Press March 1, 1991 ―Mubarak Praises Killer of Kahane.‖

MONEY FOR JIHAD: NOSAIR’S DEFENSE FUND A defense fund was set up for El-Sayyid Nosair, and three hundred thousand dollars poured in from Islamist sources, such as Usama bin Laden, who had been in communication with Ibrahim A. El-Gabrowny for quite some time.81 Nosair would claim that he was indigent when he filed his Notice of Appeal, so that the remainder of the defense fund money could be used by his family and by the Islamist cell for jihadi purposes. In late 1992 Nosair was recorded in Attica speaking angrily about the handling of finances and complaining that his attorney, William Kunstler was attempting to drain the funds. WILLIAM KUNSTLER William Moses Kunstler was born in New York City, the son of a proctologist, Monroe Bradford Kunstler, and Frances Mandelbaum Kunstler. He grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Kunstler moved to Gay Street in Greenwich Village and defended Yippies Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin. He lived a hippie lifestyle ingesting LSD with Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead and smoked marijuana, but often followed the Communist Party line. Nonetheless he was one of the first Jews to conclude that the Islamists of the 1990‘s were the most potent enemy of the United States, an imperialist country Kunstler hated with a passion, having witnessed numerous instances of racism during his career as an attorney. Many of his clients were legally lynched by the justice system, such as those involved in the case of the rape of the Central Park jogger, whose convictions were vacated after a prisoner came forward and confessed to the crime, coaxed to do so by Islamic Sister Lynne Stewart. Kunstler shared Islamic hatred for Jews, despite the fact he himself was a Jew. Kunstler claimed he knew nothing of the fund or the fund raising activities of El-Gabrowny, despite the fact he was its chief beneficiary. At the Rahman trial, at which Kunstler testified as defense witness, El-Gabrowny‘s attorney almost accused Kunstler of false testimony. After discussing the elaborate records El-Gabrowny was keeping for Nosair, El-Gabrowny‘s counsel,

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Anthony Ricco, stated in summation: ―Mr. Kunstler took the stand and he had amnesia about whether or not he knew there was a fund or not. I submit to you everybody else knew. He said he was the lawyer, he didn‘t know, that‘s between him and whatever.‖82 Anthony Ricco, an Afro-American despite his Italian-sounding name, represented U.S. embassy bomber Mohamed Sadeek Odeh, Al-Qaeda financier Uzair Paracha and others with connections to Usama bin Laden. He also represented Cory Arthur who killed Jonathan Levin, whose father was chairman and CEO of Time Warner. Kunstler was not averse to taking part of the blame for the unaccounted for money as long it was used against America. The Assistant United States Attorney commented: ―The Nosair defense fund was a trove which ultimately raised almost $300,000. As proof at trial will show, it was used in furtherance of Jihad activities, it was administered by El-Gabrowny largely at Nosair‘s direction, no accounting has ever been made of it, and Nosair lied to the judge about it in a state court proceeding. The Kunstler firm has contributed in no small part to the shadiness that surrounds a fund which was intended to be murky because it was available for criminal purposes, and therefore people like the firm‘s clients El-Gabrowny and Nosair had good reason to want its existence, locations and size hidden. The Kunstler firm‘s response was to joke that if the money was raised for bombs but used to pay lawyers, ‗this in fact represents the triumph of capitalism in American life and demonstrates the validity of the bedrock conservative belief that the market, rather than the government, is the best source of regulation.‘‖ There was one major problem for Kunstler during the trial. Usama bin Laden had visited Sudan in 1984 when Dr. Hassan al-Turabi was adviser to former President Ja'far Numayri. Since then, he came to know all the leadership of the Islamist movement especially that this period witnessed the rise of many Islamic financial and economic institutions in Sudan. In December 1991, at the request of bin Laden, Sudan sent an emissary to New York to monitor the Nosair trial. After a report was relayed to him Usama bin Laden was so pleased with the work of Kunstler that he had this man give him a cash bonus. A court officer saw him hand him this money

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and told the judge about it. Since newspaper articles had appeared in the New York Times about how the Sudan was a staging ground for Islamist operations, Kunstler was afraid this might affect Nosair‘s sentence. Kunstler was also afraid the report might trigger an Internal Revenue Service investigation. On January 9, 1992 he wrote this letter to Judge Schlesinger: ―I have just been informed by Ms. Gilbert that, in a conversation with her, you stated that I had been seen receiving a wad of cash from someone from the Sudan in the courtroom. I was aghast at such a false and slanderous statement coming for you as I have never received any cash in this case from any source whatsoever and no funds from anyone but the clients wife. I would like to know how you obtained this information, as I would like to track it down. If you claim that you saw such a transaction, I would like to know when and where you claim that it took place. If the information was given to you by someone else, I would like to know that person‘s name and the details furnished thereby to you.‖ On January 20, 1992 he continued along the same vein in another letter.

Eleanor Hill, the former Pentagon Inspector General and director of the Senate Intelligence Committee that investigated the failure of the American intelligence community to detect the planning for the September 11thEvents reported in October 2002 the FBI learned that one of El-Sayyid Nosair‘s relatives ―traveled to Saudi Arabia to obtain money to pay for Nosair‘s defense. He received funds from a wealthy Saudi - Usama bin Ladin [sic].‖ Jailhouse snitch Gregory Scarpa Jr. advised the FBI that 1993 World Trade Center bomber Eyad Ismail‘s father ―met an attorney who asked him if he is involved in the World Trade Center case. The attorney stated that he wanted to take the World Trade Center case with funding

from an unnamed organization. The attorney advised Ismail‘s father that the Feds visited him after his conversation with him and advised him not to get involved with the case.‖83 In January 1991 one of Nosair‘s attorneys, Michael Warren, offered an insanity defense for Nosair. In July 1991 William Kunstler, withdrew the motion. Kunstler, a Jew, knew that Jewish law forbids autopsy and as a result, Kahane never underwent one. Kunstler tried to get the charges against Nosair dismissed because of this, by suggesting that the court order Kahane‘s body, buried in ―the Zionist settler state,‖ be exhumed but Judge Alvin Schlesinger refused, citing the fact that Kahane was hit in the neck and the bullet, now just a deformed piece of lead, passed through his body. If anybody could get Nosair off the hook, it was Kunstler. In 1988 Kunstler and Attorney Lynne Stewart convinced a Bronx jury comprised of ten blacks and two Hispanics to acquit Larry Davis of 17 counts of assault and attempted murder on New York City Police officers, however, Davis was convicted of lesser weapons charges.84 Kunstler commented, ―Any black guy that shoots six cops and puts the fear of God in police officers, I think is great.‖ The judge in the Larry Davis trial ruled that Kunstler and Stewart had systematically excluded whites from the jury but his ruling was overturned on appeal.85 As a result of this, during another proceeding, court officers beat and kicked Kunstler during a courtroom melee. ―I got a broken rib and all the cartilage in my knee had to be removed. One of the court officers told me, ‗This is for Larry Davis.‘‖86 Co-incidentally, Larry Davis would attest to the fact that El-Sayyid Nosair should have been granted bail because there was a contract out on his life. Davis wrote: ―On the evening of December 14, after coming back from Muslim services, I said to Officer Pitts shield #4468 that I say to the officer that the man who is allegedly accused of shooting to death of the man who founded the Jewish Defense League was at the services too. The Officer Pitts stated to me that if I knew anyone who would kill the accused, he knows who can get me the money, moments later I go to thapist of N.I.C. and I say to the thapist, Dr. Secks, the man who accused of killing 83. FBI 302 265A NY 258172 November 26, 1996 84. Pete Moses ―Larry Davis Cleared‖ New York Post November 21, 1988. 85. Associated Press, Gannet Westchester Newspapers May 4, 1988 ―Bronx Judge Finds Bias in Davis Jury Selection.‖ 86. Ron Rosenbaum ―The Most Hated Lawyer in America‖ Vanity Fair March 1992.

the founder of the J.D.L. was at the services I attended he also stated to me that if I know anybody who would kill the accused gunman he personal guarenty they would get the two million from his people. I give this statement to turn over to the Muslim attorney. Larry Davis, Adam Abdul Hakeem.‖87 After having his rival Mustafa Shalabi wacked, Sheik Rahman‘s vision prevailed in Islamist circles in Brooklyn and Jersey City. The Egyptian writer Faraj Fodha (also spelled Fuda) was assassinated by order of the Sheik in June 1992. His assassin told the Cairo publication Al Mussawar that he took orders from Omar Abdel Rahman, the Prince of the Islamic 88 Group. When he was free, Sheik Rahman‘s directives and fatwas were sent to Egypt on audiotapes that were recorded in the U.S. After Rahman was imprisoned they were sent through his attorney and a translator. In 1992 another 93 Coptics would die. By 1997 the forces of Islam had slaughtered 1,200 ―disbelievers‖ including many Coptics. The Sheik‘s ideology had begun to ―purify‖ Egypt. During his immigration hearing Sheik Rahman was asked: Q. Do you believe that people who do not follow Islamic law may be allowed to live and work in Egypt? A. Yes, this is the freedom. Q. Well, the question is suppose that a man is born in Egypt and he is of the Coptic Christian faith, may he live in Egypt and follow his own faith, or must he follow the Sunni Islamic law? A. He must be allowed to practice his Coptic religious laws. And the Qu‘ran says no people, no person, should be forced against his religion. Q. Suppose an individual in Egypt's Coptic Christian beliefs are at odds with the Sunni Islamic law of the land. What should be the result? What happens at that point?

87. New York State Supreme Court Civil Case 1477-1991 88. Allison Mitchell - ―U.S. Accused Sheik Last Year of Inciting Violence in Egypt‖ - New York Times July 27, 1993 Page b3, 1

A. This feud can be solved by a meeting between the priest and the Sheik and the dispute should be solved between them. Q. Then tell me, for example, what would happen if an unmarried Coptic Christian man in Egypt committed adultery, what do you believe his penalty should be? A. He must be punished according to the Coptic traditions. Q. Well, suppose the Christian Coptic tradition says that that is a civil matter and there is no punishment. Do you accept that? A. No. No, he must be punished so that such a crime will not become widespread. They must punish him or refer him to the Old Testament. The Old Testament also provides for punishment for adulterers. He should be lashed, beaten, and imprisoned, or something like that. Q. The United States State Department says on June 20, 1992, Coptic Christians were killed in Egypt by Islamic fundamentalists. Are you aware of this? A. No. Q. Do you know of any, instances in which Islamic fundamentalists use violence against other people? A. I hear this from the newspapers. The media usually does not reflect the facts. Q. So, to your knowledge, Islamic fundamentalists have never used violence against other people? A. According to my knowledge, there is a confrontation between the government and the fundamentalists. This is what I know. While Al-Gama‘a al-Islamiyya was actively pursuing the officials at the United States Embassy in Cairo were meeting with representatives of Al-Gama‘a al-Islamiyya to discuss human rights abuses committed by the

Egyptian Government. These meetings began in 1991 and ended shortly before the first World Trade Center Event in February 1993.89 It was not long before Mubarak retaliated - Egyptian jails soon held 12,000 political detainees who had not been charged or tried. The Interior Ministry would claim that about 5,000 detainees had been released since 1994, though human rights activists and Islamists said the number was much lower. Military courts sentenced about 95 militants to death between 1992 and 1994, of whom 72 were executed. Sentences by military courts cannot be appealed under Egypt's emergency laws in force since militants assassinated President Anwar Sadat in 1981. THE NOSAIR TRIAL Sheik Nosair went to trial in late 1991. As a Communist, his attorney William Kunstler knew that much animosity against the Jews of New York City existed on part of many blacks and Hispanics. Evidence of this had erupted in an August 1991 riot against them in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn that resulted in the death of rabbinical student Yankel Rosenbaum. Kunstler was able to keep all white Americans off the Nosair jury and it was comprised only of Hispanics and Blacks. The Jewish Assistant District Attorney who handled the case, William Greenberg, objected to this: ―Based on the law and the facts it is clear that the defense councils have exercised their preemptory in a racially discriminatory manner. Indeed they have used nine of ten preemptory challenges to completely bar whites from serving on this jury. In his capacity as representative of the community the District Attorney has a direct interest in protecting the citizens and therefore a substantial relationship with the excluded jurors and should vindicate their rights since the harmed jurors are unable to assert their own rights. Accordingly the people move for a mistrial on the grounds that the defense counsel has discriminated on the basis of race.‖ Judge Schlesinger did not want to make it seem as if he believed that non-white jurors could not be impartial, and denied the motion for a mistrial. Rahman‘s crew provided security for Kunstler at this trial. Kunstler explained: ―We were attacked in the courtroom itself by the rabbi‘s son‘s 89. Chris Hedges ―U.S. Aides in Egypt Said to Have Met With Group Tied to New York Blast‖ New York Times April 12, 1993 Page A3, 1.

followers and the rabbi‘s son to such an extent that the judge had to put a cord up in the middle of the center aisle to prevent that from happening again. I remember going under the table when that happened, and they were stopped by court officers and that heightened our need, our feeling that we needed plenty of security in the case. Everyday on the left side were Islamic people, who were quiet and dignified. On the right hand side was the Jewish Defense Organization and the Jewish Defense League, who were pretty obstreperous during the trial, many of them were thrown out. Those are two organizations. They hate each other for some reason, and they have had a lot of problems that way. But they are, I would say, very orthodox, very aggressive young Jewish organizations. They believe a lot in the use of weapons, self-defense, offense and so on.‖ Sheik Rahman was never called to testify at the trial of Nosair for the assassination of Kahane nor did he attend the trial. Evidence of El-Sayyid Nosair‘s connection to Gama‘a al-Islamiyya‘s Brooklyn / Jersey City cell was never presented to the jury. Kunstler made a motion to have it excluded on the grounds that both the defense and the prosecution contended that there was no conspiracy involved in the assassination and that is was the work of a lone gunman. Kunstler, however, did suggest to the jury that other JDL members killed Kahane over money missing from a fund to support a Yeshiva: ―No one said, in spite of the tremendous conflicts in their testimony, no one said that they ever saw Mr. Nosair shoot Meir Kahane. We know that Izzy Katz was in charge of a yeshiva fund for the yeshiva institution in Israel and we know that for whatever reasons, Izzy Katz lost control of one of those bank accounts, was removed from being an authorized signatory on that bank account in May 1991, approximately six or seven months after Mr. Kahane‘s death. We also know that Izzy Katz had a video camera and Izzy Katz was actively taking pictures of everything [going on the night Kahane was killed but stopped just before shots were fired].‖90 Dr. Abel Halim Mandour was a defense witness for Nosair. Mandour, 70, has been defending Egyptian Islamists for 25 years and is the Sheik of Islamist lawyers: ―I did not start out defending the Islamic trend or specializing in defending Islamists. In 1964, I defended the Muslim Brotherhood. The [Islamic groups] want to apply Shari'ah law, but the

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government says that Shari'ah law cannot be applied because of the international environment in which we live and which is controlled by America. America does not want to apply religious law, or specifically Christian law, even though most of America‘s citizens are Christian. [That is why] it opposes others from applying religious law. My position is that Shari'ah law must be applied. If we apply Islamic rule, we would have a rule from God and everyone knows that God is just. The benefits would be great for all the world.‖91 In April 1993 Mandour was part of the defense team for Egyptian Islamic Jihad when seven of its members were sentenced to die for attacks designed to discourage tourism in Egypt. Mandour cited several articles of Egypt‘s constitution that limited military court‘s authority over civilians, but this was useless, as the terrorist‘s fate had been sealed.92 Mandour blamed U.S. support for ―occupied Palestine‖ for inspiring the September 11th attack. ―I hope the U.S. would stop trying to gain control of the world and spare itself the many enemies it has acquired in the past years,‖ he said. Mandour has sent requests to improve the conditions of Abdel Rahman to American human rights groups and the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, and informed the United Nations: ―The Gama‘a al-Islamiyya called me from America and said that they were organizing a big lobby in Washington to release Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman.‖ In November 2001 Mandour defended 94 Islamists who were charged by a military tribunal with forming an underground terrorist group, named ―Al-Waad‖93 that targeted the lives of public figures and security officers. They were also accused of illegal possession of arms and propagating anti-government literature. Two Egyptians, Hussam Sami and Mohamed Hisham Seif Eddin, who had received flight training in Texas, were among these brave men. In December 1991, the jury returned a bizarre verdict, acquitting Nosair of the Kahane assassination and possession of a weapon and finding him guilty on lesser charges of shooting Franklin and Acosta and illegally detaining Garcia. Although no witness saw El-Sayyid Nosair shoot the racist Rabbi, two of them saw the Brother with a gun in his hand. At 91. Richard Engel ―The Lawyers Who Plead for Islamic Militants‖ Middle East Times http://www.metimes.com/issue45/eg/03lawyers.htm 92. Caryle Murphy ―Egypt Convicts 32 In Attacks on Tourists.‖The Washington Post April 23, 1993. 93. The Promise.

Nosair re-trial for the Kahane assassination in Federal District Court, Ari Gottesman testified: ―I saw a man – I saw a gun, a chrome-colored silvercolored gun in front of me highlighted by the white of Rabbi Kahane‘s shirt. I saw and heard the gun go off.‖ Gottesman said it was Nosair who fired the gun. Stephan Hoffman testified: ―He had a silver gun in his hand, and held it up and pointed it at myself and the elderly man, and I saw him fire it. The man is here in the courtroom today [points at Nosair].‖94 There were many racist blacks on the jury and they sympathized with El-Sayyid Nosair. Kunstler had a winning hand when he played the race card. An outraged Jewish Judge Schlesinger gave Nosair the maximum sentence of twenty-two years on those lesser charges, and sent him to Attica, where, after time served he would have been eligible for parole in six years. Schlesinger: ―In my judgment the verdict was against the overwhelming evidence and defied logic and common sense.‖ The Justice Department never reviewed the case for a Civil Rights prosecution. Kunstler protested this verdict: ―The evidence clearly showed that the defendant was being chased by a bloodthirsty mob seeking to harm him. Like Mr. Franklin, someone stood in the way of his escape, namely officer Acosta, who according to the juries acquittal of murder in the first degree was not believed by him to be a New York City Police Officer. If he was found to be innocent of shooting both Rabbi Kahane and Postal Officer Acosta then how can he be found to have possessed said weapon? Moreover, if he did not possess the weapon in question, then as a legal matter the assault verdicts cannot possibly stand.‖ The Judge responded: ―The jury could have concluded that the evidence at the trial established that no witness saw Nosair shoot Rabbi Kahane. That the bullet that killed Rabbi Kahane exited his body. That there was one piece of ballistics evidence, a lead core recovered from the Morgan B room that could not be matched to defendant‘s gun and that another person in addition to the defendant [must have] had a gun in Morgan B room on the night Rabbi Kahane was killed. Based on this contrasting evidence the jury could have reasonably concluded there was reasonable doubt that the defendant shot Rabbi Kahane but there was no

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reasonable doubt that the defendant shot Irving Franklin and Officer Acosta and detained Franklin Garcia.‖ The judges‘ logic was as convoluted as that of Kunstler for ballistics testing showed that the weapon recovered from Nosair was the weapon that fired projectiles found in the room in which Kahane and Franklin had been shot, as well as in the area Acosta had been shot. Nosair had shot three people without a gun! But where did the gun come from? We do not know. What we do know is that the New York Police Department found a federal firearms license issued to a former Raymond J. Murteza.95 Sheik Rahman had this to say about the assassination of Anwar Sadat and Meir Kahane: ―The West considers anyone who defends his homeland, or his faith, to be a terrorist. The one who defends Islam in Egypt against a dictatorial and oppressive Government is considered a terrorist – this is an injustice. Who is a terrorist? He is one we must be forewarned against. They say we are killers of Sadat and Kahane – what is the connection between these two? (laughs) In any case, this is a source of honor and pride to be connected to these killings. We are honored to put out religious opinions to kill oppressors, tyrants, kuffar and despots.‖ EMAD SALEM INFILTRATES THE CELL During Nosair‘s state trial in December 1991, FBI informant Emad Salem began to befriend the Brothers in Nosair‘s support group in order to infiltrate Gama‘a alIslamiyya‘s Brooklyn / Jersey City cell. He became a regular attendee at El-Sayyid Nosair‘s trial where he met Ibrahim A. El-Gabrowny, who was raising money to aid in Nosair‘s defense. Salem also met other regular attendees such as Siddig Ali, Mahmud Abouhalima, Ali Shinawy, Hamdi Moussa, and Ahmed Sattar. Ahmed Sattar was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1959, where several of his immediate family members currently reside. Sattar: ―The Egyptian security forces in Egypt raided my home. I mean, thank God my mother, my 70-years-old mother was not home, my sister was not home,

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my brother was not home. So they could not find anybody except my neighbor, that poor man. And he was the only man in the house. He lives upstairs from me and they grabbed him, even though that he is not even a Muslim. He is a Christian man and they just grabbed him. It was regular procedures for them.‖ In 1979 to 1981, Sattar served in the Egyptian army. He lived in Egypt until he came to New York on a tourist visa and settled in Brooklyn in 1982. He thereafter met and married his wife Lisa, an American citizen who was born and raised in the country she would help Gama‘a alIslamiyya to destroy. She grew up in a Catholic home. In 1993, she converted to the Muslim faith. Sattar and his wife have four children who live in Staten Island. In 1985, he received his U.S. residence card and in 1989 he became a United States citizen. Salem, accompanied by El-Gabrowny, also met with Nosair. ElGabrowny introduced Salem as ―a new member in the family.‖96 After Nosair was moved from Bellevue to Rikers Island, he began to receive visitors, most regularly Ibrahim A. El-Gabrowny, and also Mahmud Abouhalima and Emad Salem, Mohammed Salameh, and Nidal Ayyad. Salem passed himself off to the Brothers as a private investigator who supported himself as a jewelry designer. He showed those loyal to Sheik Rahman photographs of his sandbagged bunker in the 1973 war, the reviewing stand where Sadat was assassinated in 1981 and his grave site, pictures of a woman with cigarette burns and a man confined in a cage because he wished to practice the real Islam. Salem worshiped at the Abu Bakr Mosque in Brooklyn and the Al-Salaam Mosque in Jersey City where he collected money for the defense of El Sayyid A. Nosair, and freely gave interviews to news reporters to bolster his credibility. The Jewish Press reported on an aborted demonstration staged by the Defense Committee for El-Sayyid Nosair: ―Ibrahim El-Gabrowny, a Nosair relative, waited for nearly an hour before canceling the event. With him were Mr. Salem, chief of training and security for a Muslim watch group called The National Islamic Affairs Organization,97 and two unidentified men who removed placards from a bag. The organizers expected between twenty and fifty people, judging from a previous demonstration they held at the same location at Two World Trade Center ten days ago. Salem said they

96. Tr. 4633-34. 97. Dr. Mehdi‘s organization was the Nation Council on Islamic Affairs.

would reschedule the demonstration and continue to protest until the Governor agreed to meet with them because ‗He needs the Jewish vote. When the Jews want to meet with him he‘s there on the spot.‘ Dressed in a black turtleneck sweater, a black leather jacket, black jeans, black sunglasses, black combat boots and a green beret, Salem was eager to represent his group‘s interpretation of Nosair‘s plight in Attica State Prison. ‗They are denying him Halal food which is specially slaughtered and blessed meat, similar to the Jews‘ kosher food.‘ He claimed that Jewish prisoners are allowed to receive kosher food and that denying Nosair his Halal is a grave offense, particularly during the Ramadan fasting period when Muslims eat only once a day. Salem also said that Nosair‘s isolation was harsh and unjust and included no television or telephone rights and limited visitation rights under maximum security.‖98 As a result of these contacts, Salem traveled to Detroit with Rahman, and others, to attend a conference on the Islamic economy. Actually, the conference was about Jihad. Sheik Rahman delivered the keynote address: ―The gracious Lord says, ‗Don‘t humble yourself and ask for peace when you have the upper hand.‘ My dear Brothers, God has imposed the Jihad upon us. It‘s one of the pillars of Islam that we must always perform and it is the pinnacle of our lives. We must defend and purify our land and conquer the land of the kuffar to purify it. We should declare Jihad if they try to stop us…Any call to leave the Jihad for negotiation or to sit at the same table with the enemy, who occupied and pillaged the land and raped our honor and dignity, is away from Islam. Look at Nasser. He was the one who allowed Israel to expand its borders and to gain large territorial gains from Egypt. Sadat surrendered whatever Israel wanted through the Camp David Accord. Any negotiation, any peace treaty with the enemy, is treason to Islam. And now we have the third coward traitor Hosni Mubarak who became the loyal lapdog of America and surrendered everything while leading the convoy of treachery. He wants to surrender everything to Israel and, behind the scenes, to America. So now Egypt is humbled and humiliated, politically, economically and socially. And now there are deadly diseases. There‘s a conspiracy to destroy the Egyptian economy by prohibiting the growing of certain important staples for Muslims there while asking the farmers to grow unimportant crops.‖

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During this trip, Salem, seeking to ingratiate himself to Sheik Rahman, informed Sheikh Rahman of his prior service in the Egyptian military during the 1973 war. Rahman told Salem that this was not Jihad because he had been paid to fight by an apostate government. Sheikh Rahman also told Salem that he could make up for this, however, by assassinating Mubarak.99 Sheikh Rahman said: ―The puppet Egyptian regime, the rotten Egyptian regime of which the president of this regime has wallowed his face in the dust of America and to be the loyal dog of America in the Orient. We must uproot this regime from its roots and we must endeavor to terminate and exterminate it because it is the source of danger in the Muslim world and it is the center of corruption. Those must be eliminated and terminated. There must be revolution against those oppressing tyrants…You must revolt everywhere against the rotten puppet regimes…‖ Before the Nosair trial ended, Salem was invited for dinner at ElGabrowny‘s home. During dinner, El-Gabrowny indicated he was concerned about being bugged by the FBI, turned up the television, and then discussed construction of high-powered explosives with Salem. Salem testified that after this dinner at El-Gabrowny‘s house, bombing became a frequent topic of conversation between them. By early 1992, Rahman had also welcomed Salem into the group. Sheik Rahman specifically praised Salem for attempting to restart paramilitary training with the group, noting that there would come a day when the training would be needed. Salem was soon able to become a bodyguard for Sheik Rahman. During visits at Rikers Island jail, as well as subsequent visits once he was at Attica State Prison, Nosair suggested the manufacture of twelve bombs to be used in the assassinations of Judge Schlesinger who sentenced him. He also suggested: ―Kidnap the judge and bargain with him to release me. He was not merciful with me and we should have no mercy. These people do not have 24-hour security, and if you surveil him by the weekend you can even shoot him.‖ The Brothers knew where Schlesinger lived as they already had demonstrated outside this judge‘s home. New York City Assemblyman Dov Hikind were also targets, as was Senator Alphonse D‘Amato, (Dr. Mohammad T. Mehdi had already demonstrated against him) terrorist Rabbi Avi Weiss and United Nations Secretary

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General Boutros-Boutros Gali. The Brothers also targeted Jewish prayer houses and the like. Jewish Defense League member Leon Kryzhonovsky who loudly disrupted the trial of ElSayyid Nosair was to be executed. Emad Salem explained: ―In the middle of the drive Mohammed Saad, [the cousin of Sheik Rahman‘s aide-de-camp Ahmed Abdel Sattar and a member of Gama‘a alIslamiyya‘s Brooklyn / Jersey City cell], was talking about Mr. Leon, and that he and Mr. Ahmed Abdel Sattar did surveillance on Mr. Leon and they got his address. And they discovered that he lives close to Mr. Mohammed Saad‘s house. And he directed me to be, to drive over there. He showed me Mr. Leon‘s house, and he said, ‗If you will get us a nice bomb to put it underneath his car, we can get rid of him.‘ I said, ‗Yes, it is a good idea. We will see what can we do.‘‖100 The plan was cancelled after Nosair dismissed this ―Zionist thug‖ as inconsequential. In June 1992 El-Gabrowny again visited Nosair in Attica prison. Upon his return, he instructed Salem and Shinawy that Nosair wanted to see them. Salem testified that, when they made the visit, Nosair berated them for not proceeding with bombing plans and directed Shinawy to seek a fatwa from Rahman approving the bombings. On the way home from the visit, Shinawy told Salem that the planned operation would involve twelve bombs and guns, indicating that his source for firearms was Hampton-El. Two days later Salem went to El-Gabrowny‘s house and found Shinawy already there. The three agreed that they would try to secure a ―safehouse‖ for constructing bombs, and El-Gabrowny would attempt to obtain detonators from Afghanistan. A few days later, Shinawy summoned Salem to the Abu Bakr Mosque where he introduced Salem to Hampton-El. Salem and Shinawy explained to Hampton-El that they were making bombs but that they were having trouble getting detonators. Hampton-El said that he had access to ―ready-made bombs‖ for $900 to $1,000 apiece. He also offered to obtain a handgun for Salem. A few days later Shinawy gave Salem a handgun from Hampton-El.101 Islam allowed Shinawy to marry up to four wives at one time, so he married Samia Abou-Mousa in Egypt in June 1980, when he was already married to Karima Shinawy in

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the United States.102 Nosair continually chided his visitors for doing nothing to further the Jihad against the oppressors. Salem was asked if he reported these meetings to his FBI handlers: Q. And all the things you reported from that first meeting with the beepers and timers and the killing of Dov Hikind, you told it to FBI New York Office Foreign Counter-intelligence Assistant Chief Carson Dunbar, when you came back from Attica? A. Yes. Q. And he didn‘t believe you, did he? A. He did say that I felt that. Q. He did something that made you believe he didn‘t believe you – the angry meeting? A. Yes. Q. He said, you are giving us very serious information about killing a judge, killing one of the civilians, and we should like to verify this information? A. They told me that if you take a tape and go to Sayyid Nosair in jail and you record him, and you bring an admission that he killed Kahane that will be entrapment. And then later they told me go take a wire and go tape him in jail. That was a lot of confusion to me which I didn‘t understand. Mohammad Saad developed a plan to get Nosair out of jail and confided the plan to Salem: ―We started talking about Sheik Sayyid Nosair and Mohammed Saad suggested to get a plan to break him out of jail. He told me that he wants to rent apartment close to Attica jail so he can get a job with either the garbage company who is doing garbage with jail or the bakery company who is delivering or something in that effect. And then we tell Mr. Nosair to work inside jail in these areas, and then when Saad drive the car or the van -- that will facilitate us to pick him up from jail and smuggle him out and put him in the apartment close to the jail. That is the

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last place anybody would look for him close to jail.‖ The problem with Saad‘s plan was that it was entirely unrealistic. No one had broken out of Attica since it was built in 1930. In the event that the plan succeeded Saad would have come under suspicion because he had attended the Nosair trial, numerous meetings with Brothers at the Islamic Center in Jersey City and was known to the FBI as an associate of Nosair. Salem repeated the plan to El-Gabrowny, who cautioned them to slow down and await the outcome of Nosair‘s appeal. Little did ElGabrowny know that although Kunstler had filed a Notice of Appeal, he never followed this up with any subsequent motions or briefs.103 After being badgered by Nosair to take action, El-Gabrowny met with Salem and told him that he was in touch with underground people who could help them construct the twelve bombs that Nosair wanted them to build. ElGabrowny instructed Salem on the superiority of remote detonators rather than timers, describing to Salem how a remote detonator could assist in bombing the Jew State Assemblyman, Dov Hikind.104 THE JEWISH DEFENSE ORGANIZATION (JDO) The cell was also planning to attack the Jewish Defense Organization training camp named after the Jewish hero, Zev Jabotinsky: Siddig: [The operation] needs people who are well trained. Salem: What is it? Siddig: The second operation, the Jewish Defense Association. Salem: Where is it? Siddig: In Upstate. Salem: Does it have a lot of Jews? Siddig: There, they go there always, the information is not yet available to me in the amount that I require. You see how, there are people who have

103. Conversation with Clerk NY State Court of Appeals 104. USA v Rahman TT 4730-31

information on the subject. The thing that I know is that they go to the Jews there to receive training, there, on various weapons with live ammunition and everything. What else, they go there on weekends. We can possibly off them. Salem: Sons of bitches. Yes, but that would be an armed battle. Siddig: Yes of course. Salem: Weapon to weapon. Siddig: No it‘s not necessary. Sting like a bee and run away like a butterfly. And possibly hand held or we‘ll see what we can, we‘ll see. And if it is not possible that we attack the compound (UI)105 it is possible that we can ―Treck Treck.‖ Salem: Sniper? Siddig: Yes, but not there, no. In Manhattan, their head is Dov Hikind. This is the desire of Sheik El-Sayyid, Dov Hikind. Brother Hampton-El tried to blame this planned attack on Emad Salem: ―Emad started talking a lot of foolishness, such as he wanted to kill people. First he said he did a lot of things and he killed people. He said the Jewish Defense League, the Jewish Defense Organization, Congressman Dov Hikind and Charles Schumer. He said he wanted to do something to these people, like kill them. Salem saw me after making prayer he was introduced to me, he said he wanted a weapon because he desires was to go ahead and harm people such as Charles Schumer, Dov Hikind, Jewish Defense League, Jewish Defense Organization, and he said in fact he had did things to people before.‖106 Salem was asked: Q. Do you recall having a conversation with Siddig Ali Siddig where Siddig talked about moving the training camp upstate to the Catskills, up to the mountains, the Catskills? 105

. Unintelligible. 106. USA v Rahman TT 15625 and 15754

A. I recall that he want to go up north to shoot – or to do something with the Jewish training camps there. But I don‘t know moving the training camp there, I don‘t recall. Q. Moving the safe house up to the Catskills? A. Yes, he want to make the safe house away of the city, yes, that‘s true, ma‘m. Q. And he says: There are houses up there for rent, where there are hill and rivers and lakes and full of trees. Do you remember that? A. Yes, ma‘am. Q. Isn‘t it a fact that he says: There is nobody besides you. The third thing that we can bring dogs, dogs. You can put all your cameras and you can have fun yourself. Do you recall that? A. Yes. Cameras to monitor the FBI if they coming to the house, and bring dogs to attack the FBI if they come to the house. Not to have fun by playing; have fun to build bombs.107 MEHDI AND THE KAHANE ASSASSINATION Before El-Sayyid Nosair assassinated Rabbi Meyer Kahane, Nosair‘s cousin, Ibrahim A. El-Gabrowny, met with Doctor Mehdi, who having debated Kahane on numerous occasions, filled him in on Kahane‘s security precautions. Dr. Mehdi gave Kahane a taste of Islamist jurisprudence: When the offices of Dr. Mehdi and Gazi Khankan (a Director of Mohammad T. Mehdi‘s National Council on Islamic Affairs) were invaded by at least half a dozen Jewish Defense League members armed with weighted baseball bats who beat the two Brothers mercilessly Kahane lauded the attacks. Mehdi and Khankan held a news conference at which they vowed to arm themselves and shoot to kill in the event of another attack.108 Four years later, in May 1974 Dr. Mehdi was again attacked by

107. USA v Rahman TT p6845 108. Robert D. McFadden ―Police Are Posted Outside Arab National and Business Offices Here Following Beating of 3 Activists. Arafat Warns of Retaliation‖ New York Times May 24, 1970.

Jewish Defense League members with a lead pipe and sent to the hospital with a broken back. Shortly thereafter, Dr. Mehdi‘s offices at 4 East 43rd Street in Manhattan were set afire and almost totally gutted. The doors to the office were locked, but had a broken key in one of them, a fire-escape window was opened and fires had been started in four separate and distinct locations. He had moved to these offices after his previous landlord at 441 Lexington Avenue refused to renew his lease due to picketing and threats from the JDL.109 It took nearly a year for the police to make an arrest in the assault case, although a perpetrator appeared on television to boast of the deed. The JDL member was later acquitted. No arrest was ever made in the arson case. When Dr. Mehdi tried to move the National Council on Islamic Affairs to a new office the landlord Sol Goldman refused to rent to him. Mehdi filed a lawsuit against Goldman that stated there had been no threat or danger to the tenants in any of his previous locations. Mehdi argued that he was indigent and had lost $100,000 a year since the Arab millionaires who supported him had no address to send their funds to. In February 2000 the National Council on Islamic Affairs merged with the American Muslim Alliance, directed by Eric Irfan Vickers.110 Vickers was the incorporator and long-time officer of the Islamic African Relief Agency, which has been linked to attacks against U.S. interests in Africa. As a result of this link, the organization lost its State Department accreditation in 2000 and had $4.5 million in government grants revoked.111 Mohammad T. Mehdi pretended to be the voice of moderation and condemned ―fundamentalist Jews and fundamentalist Christians.‖112 He stated: ―We are opposed to violence, any violence and wars including wars of national liberation. Accordingly, we have condemned violent acts by the Palestinians against the Israelis and violence by the Israelis against the people of Palestine.‖113 He condemned the Achille Lauro Operation and the attack on a Turkish Synagogue. He traveled to Lebanon to negotiate and plead for release of American hostages held by Islamists. When he returned he was subpoenaed before a New York City Grand Jury that was

109. ―A Suspicious Blaze Burns Arab Office‖ New York Times June 4, 1974 110. http://www.amaweb.org/national/default.htm 111. Frank Gaffney, Jr. Fox News June 28, 2002 ―The Truth About the AMC.‖ http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,56543,00.html 112. The Final Call January 13, 1998. 113. NY State Supreme Court Civil Division Case 1996-406023

investigating this trip and another journey he had taken to Libya. Dr. Mehdi‘s passport was confiscated and was only returned after he made a personal visit to American Secretary of State George Shultz. Mehdi was the author of a book entitled Islam and Intolerance and although he said that his scorn for the Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie, a book that blasphemed Islam, was axiomatic, he claimed censorship and the death penalty were incompatible with Muslim tradition and that Rushdie‘s work was best ignored. When a Brother from Egypt seized a Royal Dutch KLM plane in August 1993 in a vain attempt to secure Sheik Rahman‘s freedom Medhi, who was identified as President of the Islamic Council, reached the Brother and told him Sheik Rahman ―would not approve of any violence that might result from this hijacking.‖114 Doctor Mehdi attended the trial of El-Sayyid Nosair, which did not sit well with Kahane‘s son, Binyamin, who wrote this in a letter to the judge: ―I protest the fact that Dr. Mehdi and other Arab-Muslim agitators are accorded privileged seating in your courtroom!‖115 After the Nosair trial a note was sent by the JDL to a local New York City television station vowing retaliation against Dr. Mehdi and Professor Rashid Khalid, who was a Nosair supporter who later became a leader in the effort to stop America from going to war with Iraq.116 In July 1995 Dr. Mehdi was a defense witness at the trial of Sheik Rahman, El-Sayyid Nosair and many other jihadi. Dr. Mehdi was questioned about his relationship with Kahane: Q. Dr. Mehdi, you were a colleague and friend of Dr. Rabbi Meir Kahane? A. I was. I don‘t know that the colleague is the word, but I knew Rabbi Kahane very well and we were good friends of a kind. Q. Did you ever have occasion to support Rabbi Kahane? A. I sure did on –

114. ―Hijacker Seized After Demanding Release of Jailed Muslim Preacher.‖ Washington Post August 16, 1993 page A 13 115. 100 Center Street Criminal Court docket 90N-099-424-‖Nosir‖ 116. Newsday December 4, 1990.

Q. Did you have an occasion to meet the man known as Ibrahim ElGabrowny? Did you have diner with Mr. El-Gabrowny and Emad Salem at Mr. El-Gabrowny‘s apartment in Brooklyn? A. Yes sir. Q. Can you tell the jury the circumstances in which you knew Rabbi Kahane? A. I believe the first time was a television station contacted me and the rabbi to appear on the show, discussing, yes, Channel 7 ABC here, and thereafter this was an historical occasion, the first time the Rabbi and myself meeting. Then the news media contacted us many a time and we appeared and we discussed the issues of the Middle East. I eulogized him on television, because the Rabbi, even though we disagreed only 100%, nevertheless, we had developed a feeling of comradeship, of, there was a rapport between him and myself. I knew his jokes after twenty times appearing on television, he knew my cracks. So we had developed a bit of rapport, yes. Q. By the way, do you know Sheik Rahman? A. Yes, I have had the privilege. I did have his telephone number. Q. What did you use the telephone number for? A. Occasionally to discuss with him certain questions of law, because the Sheik is really a great authority on Islamic law, and Islamic law is so very important, at least as important for the Muslims as to me the American Constitutional law is, and he and I met many a time comparing notes concerning American Constitutional law – which, your honor, has been my concern… Q. Are you aware that there was a fund established for the purposes of raising money for the Nosair defense? A. Yes. Actually I think I suggested that to Ibrahim, because when the tragedy took place I knew that Nosair needed the best of legal defense and the best of legal defense needs money…

Q. Did you have discussions with Mr. El-Gabrowny during and after the trial of Nosair? A. We must have, on many issues. Q. By the way, did you attend the trial of Nosair? A. I attended it once, then I was introduced to the judge, and then I attended it when the judgment was rendered. Q. Were you the author of a letter to Judge Schlesinger, the judge in the state court trial? A. Yes, I wrote the judge a letter. Q. Can you explain to the jury what it is you expressed to Judge Schlesinger? Assistant United States Attorney McCarthy: Objection. Relevance. The COURT: Sustained. (SIDEBAR) Mr. Ricco: Basically what he said to the judge was that both sides are putting a lot of pressure on you to make a decision that is free of political pressure. That‘s it. Q. Did you ever discuss Rahman with Emad Salem?117 A. He had called me and asked me to call the Sheik and tell him that Dov Hikind, the assemblyman, is a threat to the Muslim world and that the Sheik should be aware of how bad Dov Hikind is. Q. Did you do that? A. No. I know Dov Hikind. He and I have appeared on television many times, discussing, arguing, disagreeing, and he is a politician. Whatever he 117. Dr. Mehdi had numerous meetings with Emad Salem and Salem had attended many of Mehdi‘s meetings. USA v Rahman TT p5904

says to make votes, appeal to his constituency, he is no threat to the Muslim world. Dr. Mehdi was a character witness for Ibrahim A. El-Gabrowny: Q. Since you have known Mr. El-Gabrowny, have you had the occasion to discuss his reputation for law abidingness and peaceful conduct with other people in the community? A. Yes, of course? Q. What is his reputation? A. As wholesome as my own impression of him. He is a family man; he is a hard working person. He tries to take care of his many children, and the experience at that dinner, he was torn between taking care of children and taking care of the big guest he had. CROSS EXAMINATION BY LYNNE STEWART Q. We have been acquainted for over 30 years, have we not? A. In defense of freedom. Q. We met at a demonstration in front of the Waldorf-Astoria those many years ago? A. In defense of freedom. Q. I was a little thinner in those days, I think. A. And I was younger. Q. Do you remember an occasion when you were running for the Senate and you appeared at the Abu Bakr Mosque? Do you remember what the Sheik said when he introduced you at the mosque? A. As I recall, I was surprised to notice the Sheik supporting my candidacy, and encouraging others to vote for me or help me or contribute financially as they can. I was surprised because in the traditional Arab ways, voting is

not part of our experience, but the Sheik was a modernist, urging people to support my candidacy. MEHDI AND GAMA’A ISLAMIYYA Q. Mr. Mehdi, did you send a fax to Emad Salem on or around March 6, 1993? A. I don‘t remember the date. If you give me something about the context – Q. Did you send him a fax, a press release of a fax that was sent to you by Al Gama‘a Islamiyya? A. Yes, yes, during one of those conversations that he had taped, I told him that I had received a fax from Cairo. Q. Without telling us what was in the fax, did you send a copy of that to Mr. Salem? A. Yes, I told him that I have it and I will send it to him and I did… Emad Salem suspected that Dr. Mehdi was a secret member of Al Gama‘a Islamiyya and he lied to Dr. Mehdi in order to induce him to reveal this. Salem was asked about this and responded: A. Some of it is truth, and some of them I want to get closer to Dr. Mehdi by telling him what he like to hear so he can tell me what‘s his connection with the Al Gama‘a al-Islamiyya in Egypt, sir. Q. OK. So you were telling Dr. Mehdi what you thought Dr. Mehdi wanted to hear so you could get next to Dr. Mehdi? A. Which I did, sir. Q. Do you remember you were called by Dr. Mehdi of New York, New York, and told about a big meeting that was about to take place on the evening of January 17,1992? A. Yes, ma‘am.

Q. It was to involve the young Islamists, young Muslims, young men in this city and it was a big meeting to decide about the Islamic future in America, is that right? The Resistance Against American Interference, a front group of Usama bin Laden, sponsored this meeting. The fact that Dr. Mehdi was a member of the Brooklyn / Jersey City cell became apparent when the FBI seized Ibrahim El-Gabrowny‘s address book that contained the telephone number of Brothers Ahmed Abu Sattar, Ali Al Shinawy, the Attica Correctional Facility, Imam Nagy Allah, Emad Salem, the Egyptian consulate, the Jihad Office, Hussein Safan, John [Anticev] at the FBI, Mohammed El-Gabrowny, Mohammed Moussa, Dr. Mohammed Mehdi, Nidal, Sheik Omar Rahman, Dr. Rahman’s fax number and Dr. Ahmed Badawi. Shortly after the September 11th Islamist Victory, Dr. Ahmed Badawi, a business man from Egypt who became an American citizen many years ago, was arrested as a material witness after fully cooperating with the FBI. Without asking for a warrant, Badawi gave agents his business records and three computers, and spoke with them for hours. He was allowed to contact an attorney the morning after his arrest and as a result, only spent three fear-filled nights in jail. AIMAL KASI AND THE CIA’S DOUBLECROSS OF SHEIK RAHMAN The Sheik arrived in the U.S. in July 1990. Shortly thereafter the Egyptian Government began putting pressure on the United States to extradite him back to the hell of an Egyptian prison, however, as demonstarted, for several years the authorities encountered resistance in prosecuting or deporting the Sheik because of his ties to the Mujahadeen, and his ties to the CIA. On December 16, 1990 the Sheik returned from a trip abroad and arrived in New York City on KLM airlines using the visa issued in Great Britain in May 1990. On April 8, 1991 Sheik Rahman was issued a visa that allowed him to become a permanent resident of the United States on the basis of his status as an Islamic Minister. Rahman was classified as a ―Special Immigrant.‖ In June 1991, while the Sheik was on a pilgrimage to Mecca

the CIA began to have second thoughts about the Sheik. After returning from a trip Denmark on July 31, 1991, the Sheik was readmitted to the United States and paroled until July 2, 1993. While he was in Denmark he gave this sermon to his followers: ―How ingenious (audience laughs). I have never imagined such minds could exist in Denmark. Jihad is Jihad, my Brothers, there is no such thing as commerce, industry and science in Jihad. This is calling things with other than by its own names. If God, glory be to him, says do Jihad, it means do Jihad with the sword, with the cannon, with the grenades and with the missile; this is Jihad. Jihad against God's enemies means for God's cause and his word. We can't say that commerce, industry and science are Jihad, not at all. Every party that does not employ the Islamic law as its method is what? Is definitely the party of the devil. Are you familiar with that? Thus, we are in a weak, humiliating and subservient position. Indeed, we need to understand our faith. Jihad is the foundation and an obligation for spreading Islam. Indeed, indeed, without hesitation or shame. Without hesitation, shame or mentality failure, this faith was spread by the sword. Indeed, indeed we endorse assassinations. We have to assassinate. Indeed, we are terrorists. Our faith obligates us to be terrorists." In early 1991 Gorbachev's popularity in the West had reached an all time high, and the Cold War had virtually come to an end. The first indications that the CIA that trained al-Qaeda had decided to abandon alQaeda as part of an agreement with Moscow came on September 16, 1991, when the Sheik was summoned for an immigration hearing. The Sheik was no longer useful to the United States. On January 16, 1992 the Sheik received a notice that the INS was considering rescinding his resident status. In March 1992, Sheik Rahman was stripped of his green card; nonetheless he traveled to Canada and preached at an Islamic School and Mosque in Ottawa, the returned to the United States.118 On October 27, 1992 the State Department‘s Bureau of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, in a secret document, accused the Sheik of being a threat to National Security. Immigration Judge Meisner did not want to base his determination on classified material unavailable to the Sheik‘s defenses team:

118. ―Sheik Dodged U.S. Immigration Check‖ New York Post April 24, 1993.

AUSA Bond: All right. Now at this point, the Government is going to give back to you documents that were sent to your office pursuant to a request of an asylum application by the alien. Said documents were received by your office, were referred back to our office to handle for security purposes because your office did not have any place to keep these documents. Pursuant to the regulations and the statute, I'm now handing back to you non-record matter... THE COURT: I'm not taking that, Mr. Bond. On January 6, 1993 the Wall Street Journal119 ran a story that would ensure Sheik Rahman would be deported. The piece claimed ―the FBI has investigated him in connection with three murders‖ and quoted Sheik Rahman as saying that a fatwa approving the assassination of Mubarak was ―on the way.‖ During the Sheik‘s immigration proceedings, he described a fatwa by stating: ―A person comes and asks questions on religion and I answer...A certain person in a certain condition would approach me and ask me about a certain subject... [For example], a person would say, ‗I swore by divorce must I carry it out?‘...A fatwa concerns a private or personal thing that happens to a person... it is not possible [for a fatwa to be issued to the public at large].‖ The article also quoted Montassar al-Zayyat who was busy defending some of the thousands of terrorists arrested in Egypt in December 1993 for violence against tourists, as saying ―Sheik Rahman is the emir, the leader [of Jihad].‖ In December 1992 His Eminence Sheikh Rahman visited the Islamic Society of Orange County and Brothers Hisham Diab and Khalil Deek, according to Saraah Olson, Diab's former wife who he married in order to obtain citizenship. That year, a Gama'a al-Islamiyya cell operating a nonprofit group called Charity Without Borders ―recycled motor oil‖ and received funding from the state of California. The cell's leaders including Hisham Diab and Khalil Deek were members of Gama'a al-Islamiyya. Diab, an Egyptian, owned an accounting business, and Deek, a Palestinian, repaired computers. The cell planned to bomb a Masonic temple in Los Angeles. Diab and Deek had hosted Abdel Rahman in their apartments during his lecture tours of Orange County mosques in 1992 and 1993. Saraah 119. ―Egyptian Jihad Leader Preaches Holy War to Brooklyn Muslims‖ Wall Street Journal, January 6, 1993.

Olson, who divorced Diab in 1996, said she cooked dinner for the Egyptian sheikh. A relative of Deek said Abdel Rahman stayed in Deek's apartment for two days during one visit. According to Olson, Abdel Rahman would call Diab and others in Orange County from prison on Sunday afternoon to deliver fiery sermons that were recorded.120 Diab and Deek, who have since left the U.S. were involved in a part of the Millennium Action that entailed an attack on a Jordanian hotel and other sites frequented by American tourists. Deek worked with Abu Zubaydah on this Operation.121 Deek was extradited from Peshawar, Pakistan to Jordan then released for lack of evidence. FBI CI Agent Arthur M. Cummings II was in charge of the Islamic Group case. He said that Sheikh Rahman ―had two main guys, one is Los Angeles and one in San Diego. I was the case agent for the guy in Los Angeles or in West Covina.‖ On January 20, 1993 Sheik Rahman appeared at a federal hearing in Newark to respond to charges that he ―lied on his visa application, that he is a polygamist and that he has committed unspecified crimes of moral turpitude.‖ At his own request, the hearing was closed to the public.122 At the hearing counsel for the Petitioner requested Meisner either have the classified document with the sources of the derogatory information on Sheik Rahman ‗reclassified, if possible, or to get a summary either from the agency or from the Immigration Judge as to its contents if the Immigration Judge is going to accept it into evidence.‘‖ Judge Meisner did not rule on the request but stated: ‗What I am going to do is place this document in the record of the proceeding file without opening it or considering it. I do not have a government classification, which would allow me to look at secret or classified information, and therefore I am not in a position to open this envelope or look at it. If you wish, I will put it in the file in case the case goes up on appeal and then anyone who does have that type of classification may be able to review the document. But while I‘ll put it in the record of the proceeding file, it will not be considered by me and will not be part of the evidence I consider in this case.‘‖ No decision was reached at that time.

120. http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/004428.php 121. http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report_Ch6.htm 122. New York Daily News, March 18, 1993.

The interrogatories prepared by the Sheik‘s lawyers revealed part of the contents of the unclassified version of the document: State, with particularity, upon what basis and/or evidence, it was concluded that applicant is the founder and spiritual guide of Gama‘a alIslamiyya. State, with particularity, upon what basis and/or evidence, it was established that applicant issued a fatwa or theological ruling to Anwar Sadat's assassins that the killing of Sadat was justified in the name of God. Whose testimony revealed that applicant told Sadat's assassins that it was Islamic law to eliminate a leader who does not rule according to God's ordinances? State whether Department of State has any basis and/or evidence connecting applicant to the incident of July 20, 1992. In July 1992 police arrested 16 Gama‟a al-Islamiyya members in Asyut province where clashes with between militants and police occurred almost daily in the preceding three weeks and had resulted in 12 deaths and 24 injured. State whether Department Of State has any basis and/or evidence for connecting applicant to the Gama‘a al-Islamiyya statement of June 23, 1992. In June 1992 Farag Foda a well-known writer and translator of western literature was assassinated by Gama‟a al-Islamiyya after the Sheik issued a fatwa declaring him kafir. Two masked men on a motorcycle killed him in a hail of bullets. Police captured one of the assassins. He said he was following a fatwa, a religious ruling by Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman." After the execution Sheik Rahman commented, “This twice apostate does not deserve to be slain only once. Rather, he should be slain, then slain and then slain as punishment for what since he committed."

State whether Department Of State has any basis for believing or any evidence other than Abdul Shafi‘i Ahmed Ramadan's123 alleged statement to Al-Mussawar (Egyptian Government Weekly) referred to in the advisory opinion of October 23, 1992, that Abdul Shafi‘i Ahmed Ramadan had any contact, connection or acquaintance with applicant. State whether Department Of State has any basis and/or evidence connecting applicant to any of these incidents: a) The killing of a young Christian by five Gama‘a al-Islamiyya activists in March 1991. b) The burning of Coptic businesses in Minya in April 1991. c) A riot in the Palinya city jail. State whether Department Of State has any basis and/or evidence connecting applicant to the incident of May 31, 1991. State whether Department Of State has any basis and/or evidence connecting applicant to the burning of a pharmacy in spring 1990. State whether Department of State has any basis and/or evidence connecting applicant to the events of February 15-16, 1990. Egyptian Islamic Jihad members remained active in Egypt, attacking a tour bus in Egypt on February 4, 1990 that killed 11 people, including nine Israelis. The Egyptian government expelled the PIJ to the Gaza Strip after learning of their close relations with Gama‟a al-Islamiyya and Egyptian Islamic Jihad.124 State whether Department of State has any basis and/or evidence connecting applicant to the events of Easter, 1990 On April 19, 1990 Islamists aiming to destroy the country's tourist industry gunned down eighteen Greek tourists near the Pyramids in Egypt. 123. On September 3, 1997, Mohammed Ahmed Shafi'i, was arrested by intelligence officials in Hamad town and was held incommunicado at the al-Qal'a compound in Manama. 124. http://www.middleeastfacts.com/middle-east/palestinian-islamic-jihad-islami.php

State whether Department of State has any basis and/or evidence connecting applicant to the riot of March 3, 1990. On March 3, 1990 roving bands of fundamentalists attacked, robbed and killed Coptic Christians. A few days later, in Tema, 90 miles south of Minya, Muslims killed four Christians by beheading them with axes. An Iman aligned with the Sheik ruled that the shedding of Christian blood was “Halal.”125 On March 12, 1990 a Brother was killed and eleven others arrested in Minya Province for inciting these riots. The Brother who was killed was thrown from a window onto power lines on the order of Interior Minister Abdel-Halim Moussa.126 State whether Department of State has any basis and/or evidence connecting applicant to the firebombing incident of March, 1989 in Fayoum, State, with particularity, on what basis and/or evidence the conclusion was reached that applicant has incited people to attack police, security authorities and Christians. MIR AIMAL KASI The Sheik was being double-crossed by the CIA and the CIA had to pay a price for this duplicity: Islamist sleeper agent Mir Aimal Kasi (or Kansi), who was born in the alQaeda stronghold of Quetta, Pakistan, was activated. When he attended Balochistan University Mir Aimal Kasi associated with the Pashtun Student Organization, a leftwing secular group. In late 1990, after the death of his father the year before, Mir Aimal Kasi discovered Islam was the path to walk in life and associated himself with Iranian Brothers in Peshawar.127 He visited Afghanistan and admitted having friends among the Taliban and having met Usama bin Laden once. ―I saw Usama bin Laden once in Kandahar. I was standing there. People were shaking his hands - I, too, shook hands with him.‖ He was directed to make a trip to Germany where he contacted

125. The literal meaning of ―halal‖ is ―fair game.‖ Youssef M. Ibrahim ―Muslim‘s Fury Falls on Egypt‘s Christians‖ New York Times March 15, 1993. 126. ―Muslim Militants are Seized in Egyptian Religious Strife‖ New York Times Associated Press Story March 13, 1990 Page A16, 1. 127. Mark Reibling Wedge – How the Secret War Between the CIA and FBI has Endangered National Security Touchstone Books, November 2002.

other Islamists and then came to the United States in March 1991. As a result of this and his travel, his name appeared on a Watch List but he circumvented this by identifying himself as ―Kansi.‖ He asked for political asylum and then settled in Virginia where another Watch List check missed him when he applied for a driver‘s license.128 Mir Aimal Kasi was instructed to seek employment as a driver for a local messenger service that delivered to the CIA so that he might familiarize himself with the area surrounding the CIA entrance, or might even enter one of the buildings, and have a valid excuse for being there. He chose Excel Courier, which was owned and managed by the sons of former CIA official Victor Marchetti. MARCHETTI AND LANE Marchetti, who left the CIA and author a book exposing this agency, edited the New American View newsletter, which was designed to ―document for patriotic Americans the excess of pro-Israelism, which warps the news we see and hear from our media, cows our Congress into submission, and has already cost us hundreds of innocent, young Americans in Lebanon and elsewhere.‖ Marchetti described himself as a person whose ―intelligence expertise and well-placed contacts have provided me with a unique insight into the subversion of our democratic process and foreign policy by those who would put the interests of Israel above those of America and Americans.‖ Marchetti and the attorney Mark Lane edited Zionist Watch. Despite his being born a Jew, Mark Lane was the legal representative of the Islamic Education Center, owned by the Mostazafen Foundation of New York that was also known as The Foundation for the Oppressed, an agency or instrumentality of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Liberty Lobby published Zionist Watch. Willis Carto, who Mark Lane represented in several civil actions, headed Liberty Lobby. At this time Willis Carto (above left) ran the Institute for Historical Review. The Institute for Historical Review helps al-Qaeda to propagate the fabrication that the holocaust was exaggerated or never took place.129 Mark Lane was

128. Michael Fickes ―What‘s In a Name?‖ Access Control and Security Systems November 1, 2003. 129. The Institute is comprised of crypto-neo-Nazis pretending to be objective scholars dedicated to ―debunking the myth of the holocaust.‖ In the early 1980‘s the Institute offered a $50,000 reward to anyone who could prove the existence of gas chambers. Mel Mermelstein sued the Institute for refusing to pay the reward. Two weeks before the trial the Institute agreed to a settlement as the judge had ruled that the existence of gas chambers was an indisputable fact. The Institute agreed to apologize in writing to

recruited into the Carto network through the late Haviv Schieber. Schieber was an early supporter of the Jabotinsky Zionist movement. Schieber, who had problems with mental illness, broke with Zionism believing that the communists had seized it. Schreiber wrote for Willis Carto's Spotlight newspaper, which referred to Schieber as ―an outspoken anti-communist and critic of Israel.‖130 Writing in his book Plausible Denial, Lane contended that ―I have never heard an anti-Semitic expression‖ from Carto.131 I questioned Jeffery Marchetti about how Mir Aimal Kasi gained employment with Excel Courier: ―We had picked up a pizza delivery guy named Shazad who now owns his own courier company. He introduced us to ten other people as a well as Mir Aimal Kasi. And we knew nothing about these guys other than they all go to the Mosque together. They were all friends at the Mosque. Shazad would tell the guys at the Mosque what a great job this is. Maybe these other guys did tell him they would be driving by all D.C. landmarks like the FBI building. They were all single. This guy would show up, do a job and go to the Mosque. He was extremely religious. Mir Aimal Kasi used to bring gifts to the women in the office, food, gifts, bagels he was cordial. Most guys‘ tenure here is very short, they are independent contractors and they come from pizza delivery backgrounds, cab driver backgrounds. I think he wanted a job that allowed him the ability – this guy had an ax to grind from the day he showed up. He went to the local gun store and bought a gun to go kill people. I don‘t know how he was able to buy one – he filled out the form. He had a student visa I believe, not a green card. The next thing you know Chris is getting a phone call at 4:00 am from the FBI who is telling him we need to come to your office and see all the paperwork on this guy. From that point forward we learned about this guy. He didn‘t even know who we were. [Former CIA Director] Richard Helms claimed my dad was behind all this. My dad had Mark Lane write a cease and desist order on that.‖132 On January 15, 1993 Mir Aimal Kasi bought an assault rifle despite federal law prohibiting sales to aliens lawfully admitted in non-immigrant

Mermelstein and other Auschwitz survivors for saying the Holocaust was a myth. The statement was signed and is part of the court records. The Institute agreed to the judge‘s finding that the fact that Jews were gassed at Auschwitz was indisputable. After a defeat of this nature most organizations would have folded, however, the membership of the Institute already knew that they were propagating a lie, so the Institute remained in existence and prospered. 130. Spotlight, January 25, 1988, p. 9. 131. Mark Lane Plausible Denial, Thunder's Mouth Press, 1991, p. 124. 132. Tape Recorded telephone conversation with Jeff Marchetti January 20 2003.

status (i.e. aliens without permanent residence status)133 and despite the fact he was on a BATF Watch List134 trading it in a week later for the AK-47 he would use in this mission for Al-Qaeda. It was at this time that he told his roommate, Zahed Mir, that he was going to do something at the CIA or Israeli Embassy.135 On January 25, 1993 Mir Aimal Kasi murdered two CIA agents and permanently injured three others. He attacked without warning, shooting his AK-47 assault rifle into cars waiting at a stoplight in front of CIA headquarters, in Langley, Virginia. The attack occurred during morning rush hour traffic. This researcher spoke with Victor Marchetti about Kasi: ―We don‘t know if he took the job to have access to the CIA. He came in out of the blue. As I recall he came here and met somebody and said he was looking for a job, very casual and vague and he ended up going to work there. He was a very nice guy, very quiet around the office. Nobody ever had any trouble with him; he was very friendly. One of the Pakistani drivers I got to know fairly well, I kind of liked him, he got to know Kasi and he told me a lot about him after this all happened. He would tell me things like, Kasi was different - he had money. He wasn‘t a poor guy like most of the other Pakistani drivers who were trying to keep body and soul together. There was a place in Herndon, near my son‘s business, and there was one of these storefront mosques, Muslim hangout, food store, and things like that, where all these guys would meet and Kasi was there. He said he had some money and he had some influence back home.‖ The most prominent Herndon Mosque was the 25,000 square foot All Dulles Area Muslim Society located at 500 Grove Street not far from the North American Islamic Trust at 555 Grove Street, the same institution ElSayyid Nosair had corresponded with. Mir Aimal Kasi fled the United States for Pakistan immediately after the attack. Zahed Mir reported to the police that Mir Aimal Kasi was a ―missing person.‖ On February 8, 1993, the police searched Mir's apartment and discovered the AK-47. Mir Aimal Kasi traveled to Afghanistan where members of al-Qaeda hid him. Had not Kasi had a previous connection to the Islamist movement al-Qaeda would not have

133. Possession Or Receipt Of A Firearm Or Ammunition By A Prohibited Person18 U.S.C. § 922(g) & (n) 134. Michael Fickes ―What‘s In a Name?‖ Access Control and Security Systems November 1, 2003. 135. Ronald Kessler The CIA at War St. Martin‘s Press 2003.

helped him. Mir Aimal Kasi, however, steadfastly insisted that the shooting was spontaneous and stated that ―several days before the shooting I decided to do the shooting at the CIA or the Israeli Embassy but decided to shoot at the CIA because it was easier because CIA officials are not armed. I was upset because U.S. aircraft had attacked parts of Iraq, and was upset with the CIA because of their involvement in Muslim countries, and was concerned with killing of Pakistanians by U.S. components. I stopped shooting because there wasn‘t anybody else left to shoot. I only shot males because it would be against my religion to shoot females. The attack on CIA was my idea alone.‖ At the end of March 1995, the FBI reclassified Mir Aimal Kasi as a suspected international terrorist. This move allowed the use of the State Department‘s Counter-Terrorism Rewards Program to raise the reward offered for Kasi to $2 million. In late May 1997, an ethnic Baluchi man entered the U.S. Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan with information on Kasi. He was taken to a female CIA officer and he gave her Kasi‘s application for a Pakistani driver's license filled out by Mir Aimal Kasi under an alias with a photo and thumbprint.136 In June 1997 Kasi‘s bodyguards, who had been hired by his family to protect him, gave Kasi‘s location to the FBI and Kasi was kidnapped from the Shalimar hotel in Dera Ghazi Khan and brought to the United States.137 The United States Government has a term for this: ―Rendition.‖ A ―rendition‖ takes place when ―escort agents‖ apprehend and obtain custody of suspected terrorists without the formalities of an extradition treaty. This occurs when the asylum nation agrees to render the individual to the United States for trial or deports the individual out of the country. The informant was paid his $2 million. Virginia County prosecutor Robert Horan said that he was sure that there were people in Pakistan who would turn in their own mother for only twenty thousand dollars. Thousands of believers rioted in Pakistan because of these words. On November 10, 1997 Mir Aimal Kasi was convicted of the murder of two agents of ―the black house‖ whose organization had double-crossed Sheik Rahman. Two days later Islamists killed four American auditors and their Pakistani driver in Karachi. The Islamist group focused on killing Shi‘ia 136. Steve Coll ―Secret Mission Unravels In Afghanistan‖ Washington Post February 22, 2004; Page A01 137. Ronald Kessler The CIA at War St. Martin‘s Press 2003. Kasi said that a close friend of his was responsible for his capture.

Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) of which most of the Baluchi Clan, including Ramzi Ahmed Yousef were members of, claimed responsibility for the killings, as did a group called the Aimal Secret Committee. The group threatened, ―If Aimal Kasi is martyred (given the death penalty), then we will not spare any American Jews on Pakistani soil and we will destroy the American Embassy in Pakistan. Allahu Akbar!‖138 During the penalty phase of Kasi‘s trial, he advised the court there had been press reports that morning of the killing of four Americans in Karachi, Pakistan the preceding evening. Mir Aimal Kasi was sentenced to death. From his cell on death row Mir Aimal Kasi said: ―I‘m against attacks on civilian Americans. They are not responsible for my execution. I‘m not encouraging attacks against anybody. What I did was in retaliation against the U.S. government. It had nothing to do with terrorism. The September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center were totally wrong. They were attacks against civilian people. But the attack on the Pentagon was right since the Pentagon is an agency involved in attacks against Muslim countries. I‘m not sorry for attacking the CIA.‖ Mir Aimal Kasi was executed by electric chair at the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarrat, Virginia, at 9:00 p.m. November 14, 2002. His last statement was: ―There is no God but Allah.‖ On February 26, 1993 the World Trade Center was attacked. This was the culmination of a plan that had been in place for months, and not as a retribution for the CIA‘s abandonment of Sheik Rahman. On March 16, 1993 Judge Meisner ruled that Sheik Rahman should be deported from the United States since he had not told INS officials that he was a polygamist and that he had been convicted of falsifying a check while he was still living in Egypt in 1987. INS records contained exculpatory evidence regarding the polygamy charge: an Egyptian divorce decree dated September 5, 1990. An appellate court would later dismiss this charge. The polygamy charge was parlayed into an accusation that the Sheik had declared he had four children instead of ten. The appellate court would also throw this charge out as the six ―children‖ were ―adults‖ and the fraud had no basis in fact. As for the bounced check charge: The charge had been dismissed after it was pointed out the Sheik was legally blind and therefore it was impossible for him to forge any document, however another charge was

138. Star Tribune, November 16, 1997.

lodged against the Sheik insinuating that he collaborated with a anonymous person to forge a public document. After the court took into account the Sheik‘s reputation in the Egyptian community, this charge was also dismissed. The full text of Judge Meisner‘s decision was not made public at the request of Rahman‘s lawyer, Barbara Nelson, who stated, ―He has no intention of leaving. He intends to stay and pursue his claim for permanent residency‖139 however the JDO was able to obtain a copy: ―The court finds that the applicant failed to establish persecution as defined by the Act. The applicant has failed to establish a fear of past persecution or that his fear is well founded. For example, the applicant fails to show that the Government has the inclination to punish him. Under the Emergency Law that has been in effect continuously since the assassination of president Anwar Sadat in 1981, a person may be held indefinitely without charge or due process while an investigation is conducted…The applicant has also failed to establish a fear of persecution. The applicant has not shown, through his testimony or the documentary evidence of record, that a reasonable person in his circumstances would fear persecution on the basis of one of the five grounds found in the Act. Furthermore, the applicant does not establish that circumstances have changed in Egypt since 1990 to justify a fear of future persecution.‖ The Sheik‘s attorney responded: ―The Immigration Judge has erroneously concluded that applicant has established only that he was prosecuted, but not persecuted because one of applicant's arrests may appear to have been for bona fide governmental interests in investigating and bringing the assassins of Anwar Sadat to justice. The arrest referred to occurred in 1981. Applicant was initially not told why the police broke down the door to his sister's home at midnight and arrested him. However, he was eventually advised of the charges (inspiring others to assassinate Anwar Sadat) against him and stood trial. The case against him was dismissed and applicant released in 1984. It should be noted that the Egyptian Government admits he was tortured while in custody. The fact that the Egyptian Government has managed in some way to legitimize its repressive actions under an Emergency Law, does not necessarily mean that any action taken under that law is prosecution as opposed to

139. Fredric Dicker ―Radical Sheik Ordered Deported‖ New York Post, March 18, 1993.

persecution. Even assuming the arrest and imprisonment were a legitimate exercise of sovereignty, the use of torture is not.‖ The Emergency Law was first passed in 1981 in response to the assassination of Anwar el-Sadat, and at its height was used to detain more than 30,000 prisoners indefinitely without charge. In April 2006 Hosni Mubarak pushed through Parliament a two-year extension of the Emergency Law despite opposition from 88 members (out of 454) of the Muslim Brotherhood who were elected as independent members of the Egyptian Parliament in 2005. Sheik Rahman then filed appeal, as the decision was based on secret information his defense attorney could not see nor respond to. The Sheik‘s attorney also found it hard to believe that the judge had read, but had not taken into consideration, this classified information, when making his decision denying the Sheik political asylum. As a result of the Sheik‘s delaying tactics, unhappy FBI agents confessed to journalist Robert I. Friedman that the Bureau had been forced to turn a blind eye to the Blind Sheikh Rahman, and asked Friedman to turn up the heat on this holy man. In early July 1993 the Egyptian Judge Ahmed Ashmawi ordered Sheik Rahman‘s arrest and extradition. Abdel Mandour, the Sheik‘s attorney said that Ashmawi should have been disqualified because of his prejudice against Islamists.140 On July 22, 1993 Dr. Fawzi Mikhail, a Christian gynecologist in his sixties, was shot dead in Manfalout, Egypt by Al-Gama‘a al-Islamiyya. Sheik Rahman was behind this attack and was heard discussing it with ―Mohammed‖ from Pakistan. On November 25, 1993 the Al-Gama‘a al-Islamiyya in conjunction with Egyptian Islamic Jihad tried to assassinate Egypt‘s Prime Minister Atef Sedki. The communiqué concerning this action stated, ―We demand no harm come to our Muslim scholars including Omar Abdel Rahman.‖141 Clearly the cell was engaged in violence in Egypt, why not in the United States? Emad Salem had been taken off the case by African-American FBI Special Agent in Charge Carson Dunbar. Salem had convinced the Rahman gang that he was an accomplished bomb maker and Sheik Rahman was determined to replace him. He contacted bin Laden who in turn ordered Khalid Shaikh Mohammed to contact his nephew Ramzi Ahmed Yousef (real name Abd-al-Basit Balushi) who was an expert bomb

140. Washington Post July 6, 1993 pg.A.16 141. Caryle Murphy ―Radicals Attempt to Kill Egyptian Prime Minister‖ The Washington Post November 26, 1993 page A.01.

maker. Ramzi Yousef told the FBI that he was responsible for a bombing which, ―cost tens of lives and hundreds of injuries.‖ He noted that this bombing had been widely covered on CNN television news network, but could not discuss any details, as he stated that it could implicate friends or relatives of his who were involved.‖ Yousef‘s Pakistani father was an engineer with Kuwaiti Airlines for many years and Yousef was fascinated by aeroplanes. Yousef is Palestinian on his mother‘s side; his grandmother is Palestinian. He considers himself Palestinian. He was born either on May 20, 1967, or April 27, 1968, in Kuwait, where he grew up and completed high school with a concentration in science, then studied in Great Britain attending a school in Oxford in 1986. In 1987 he began a two-year technical course in computer-aided electronic engineering at Wales West Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education. He completed a Higher National Degree in June 1989 and graduated from Britain‘s Swansea University with a major in engineering and returned to Kuwait, where he worked at the National Computer Center in Kuwait's Planning Ministry. Yousef trained and fought in the Afghan War. He and bin Laden reportedly were linked at least as long ago as 1989. It was there that he received specialized training in Improvised Explosive Devices, (IED) while fighting the Russians. In 1989 Yousef went to the Philippines as an emissary of Osama bin Laden, sent to support that country's radical Islamic movement, specifically the fundamentalist Abu Sayyaf group. The Muslims of the South in the Abu Sayyaf are totally dedicated to Islam and breaking away from the Catholic government of the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf, which means father of the sword in Arabic, was founded by Ustadz Abdurajack (also spelled Abubakar) Janjalani who was recruited to the guerilla unit of Dr. Abdul Rasul Abu Sayyaf, a classmate of Sheik Rahman at Al-Azar who organized his group in 1986 to fight the Russians in Afghanistan and who met with Rahman during the ―class reunion‖ of 1985. Ramzi Yousef returned to the Philippines in 1991 to train Abu Sayyaf.142 Abu Sayyaf pursued Jihad rather than Dawa.143 In September 2002 they beheaded two Christian Jehovah‘s Witnesses and left their heads hanging on local fruit stalls. Janjalani met with him to discuss using the Philippines as "a launching pad" for a worldwide jihadi campaign. Yousef presented himself as a member of the executive committee of the International Islamic Brigade, an organization that had recruited volunteers for the Afghan resistance. Yousef said that he

142. Steven Emerson American Jihad Free Press Page 53 February 2003. 143. Nonviolent mobilization achieved through charitable work.

came on behalf of Sheik Abdel Rahman, who was offering financial and logistical support for Janjalani's movement.144 Yousef was in Afghanistan during the period when the CIA was funding Islamists. Yousef‘s lawyer discussed this matter with Yousef‘s trial judge: MR. JACOBS: I believe the CIA subpoena generally provides for almost all the same things, except for numbers 12 and 13, employment payment for services -- we have some information that Yousef may have had some contact with this government in some official capacity, or unofficial capacity. After Yousef was arrested it was reported that he had previous CIA contacts, that he was trained to work in Afghanistan, things like that. THE COURT: What is the theory? MR. JACOBS: I think it would be relevant and admissible to show that he was operating independently of the Sheik. THE COURT: I don't get it. MR. JACOBS: The fact that he is operating, perhaps is trained, had contacts and is sent overseas by the CIA to deal with Iraq, we have him reported in Kuwait right before the Gulf War, we need all this information to establish his movements. Was he ever in the United States before 1992? I would like to know that. The irony should not be lost upon America; it is likely that Ramzi Yousef acquired his mastery of explosives indirectly at the hands of the CIA. American support for the Mujahadeen was an integral element of the last days of the Cold War under President Reagan, and the CIA was key in effectuating this support, arming and training. Brother Ramzi Yousef‘s lawyers inquired of the CIA as to whether Ramzi Yousef was known to them, and the Agency, not surprisingly, denied any knowledge of Ramzi Yousef, or any of his other aliases.

144. http://www.tkb.org/KeyLeader.jsp?memID=5632

When Iraqi President Saddam Hussein‘s army invaded Kuwait in August 1990, Yousef was known as a collaborator. After disappearing in Kuwait in 1991, he is next known to have reappeared in the Philippines in December 1991 accompanied by a Libyan missionary named Abd alMushin Al-Libi (a.k.a. Ibrahim Ali Muhammad Abu Bakr), who ran the Pakistan office of the Revival of Islamic Heritage Society and managed the Afghan Support Committee's office in Peshawar. He was also credited at being the leader of ―the Mullah Forces in Libya‖ although this researcher cannot locate any Mullah Force outside of Iran. Yousef stayed for three months providing training to Abu Sayyaf guerrillas in the southern Philippines. During the time Ramzi Yousef was in Afghanistan he became acquainted with al-Fatah member Brother Ahmad Ajaj who had joined alQaeda / Gama‘a al-Islamiyya / Islamic Jihad – whatever name you feel most comfortable with. When the FBI questioned Ramzi Yousef, he pretended he hooked up Gama‘a al-Islamiyya Brothers Mohammad Salameh and Mahmud Abouhalima accidentally: ―I only had one dollar in my pocket when I arrived but I was fortunate enough to run into a Pakistani taxi driver who let me stay with him for a couple of days. The taxi driver then brought me to a mosque in Manhattan. We met completely by chance at this mosque. I had not known either man before entering the United States. Abouhalima told me he would take me to some friends that would help me, because I did not know anyone in New York. While I was in Abouhalima‘s car, a call came in from Mohammad Salameh and it was arranged that I stay with him. I told Mohammad Salameh that I had been in Afghanistan and I knew how to build explosives. Mohammad Salameh said that we could work together. That is all I have to say about this.‖ Mujahadeen veteran Mahmud Abouhalima became acquainted Yousef in Afghanistan in 1988. Federal prosecutors would give the CIA a copy of a financial wire transaction for $660 between Qatar and the U.S., dated several days before the first WTC blast, from ―Khaled Shaykh‖ (Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Yousef‘s uncle) in Doha to Mohammad Salameh. RAMZI YOUSEF AND RAHMAN The FBI reported: ―At one point in the interview, Ramzi Yousef was asked whether he knew Sheik Rahman. He replied he became interested in Rahman from hearing people speak about him. While residing with Mohammad Salameh, Ramzi Yousef requested that Mohammad Salameh

introduce him to Rahman, as he was aware that Mohammad Salameh was acquainted with Rahman. Salameh, thereafter, took Ramzi Yousef to Rahman‘s residence in Jersey City, where they had dinner and visited for about one hour. Ramzi Yousef claimed that he had no other contact with Rahman, and also indicated that he never discussed with Rahman his intentions to target U.S. interests.‖145 Judge Mukasey would not allow Sheik Rahman to submit this portion of Ramzi Yousef‘s FBI interview in his defense, holding that it was inherently unreliable.146 The intelligence community knew it was a fabrication. ―The Fifth Liberation Army‖ the imaginary group Yousef invented to take credit for the actions of his cell was a combination of al-Gama‘a and al-Qaeda that looked to Sheik Rahman as its Emir.147 Sheik Rahman had telephoned Ramzi Yousef in 1992 and 1993. Both men had called the same telephone number in Pakistan many times, a number that was written on one of Ajaj‘s bomb manuals.148 I n 1 9 9 2 S t a t e D e p a r t m e n t s o u r c e s s a w s u s p i c i o u s l i n k s w i t h Sheik Rahman i n t h e N e w Y o r k a r e a , c o m m e n t i n g t h a t b i n L a d i n s e e m e d " c o m m i t t e d t o f i n a n c i n g J i h a d s a g a i n s t a n t i - I s l a m i c r e g i m e s w o r l d w i d e . " I n 1 9 9 3 , t h e C I A n o t e d t h a t h e h a d p a i d f o r t h e t r a i n i n g o f s o m e E g y p t i a n 149 B r o t h e r s i n S u d a n . Usama bin Laden was asked by the news media if he knew Ramzi Yousef: ―I do not know Ramzi Yousef. He did not stay in a house I funded in Peshawar, Pakistan after the Trade Center attack. But I say that if the American government is serious about avoiding the explosions inside the U.S., then let it stop provoking the feelings of 1,250 million Muslims. Those hundreds of thousands who have been killed or displaced in Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon, do have brothers and relatives. They would make of Ramzi Yousef a symbol and teacher. The U.S. will drive them to transfer the battle into the United States. But I have no connection or relation with 145. Ramzi FD-302 2/7-2/8/95 p8 146. USA v Rahman TT 12,432, 12,469 147. USA v Rahman TT 12465 148. Steven Emerson American Jihad Free Press Page 51 February 2003. 149. http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report_Ch4.htm

this explosion…Ramzi Yousef, after the World Trade Center bombing, became a well-known Muslim personality, and all Muslims know him. Unfortunately, I did not know him before the incident. I remember him as a Muslim who defended Islam from American aggression on Muslim lands. He took this effort to let the Americans know that their government assaults Muslims to insure Israeli interests, to insure Jews. America will see many youths that will follow Ramzi Yousef.‖150 Usama bin Laden had helped finance the first World Trade Center Event. Ramzi Yousef hinted at this: ―Yousef stated the World Trade Center bombing cost less than $20,000. Yousef declined to state who provided the money but he stated the money partly came from friends in Pakistan. He advised that the friends did not necessarily know the real use of the money but was considered a loan.‖151 For many years Mohammed Jamal Khalifah was Usama bin Laden‘s best friend and is now his brother-in-law. Khalifah‘s business card was found in the dwelling of Ramzi Yousef.152 On August 31, 1992, Brothers Yousef and Ajaj (left) flew to New York, each sitting apart from each other in the first class section of the aircraft. Yousef, who was dressed casually, left Pakistan using a British passport under the assumed name of Mohammad Azan. Ajaj, who was dressed conservatively, carried a valid Swedish passport, altered by affixing Ajaj‘s photograph on top of the original photograph. Khurran Kahn had given the passport to him on August 27, 1992. If the materials that Ajaj carried had been examined thoroughly upon his entry it would have been discovered that he was traveling with Ramzi Yousef for he had receipts for two different airline tickets for his flight from Pakistan to JFK on September 1, 1992 (he was arrested on September 2, 1992), one in the name of ―Khurram Khan‖ and the other in the name of ―Azan Mohammad.‖ Ajaj also had Yousef‘s British passport with the name Mohammad Azan. Yousef told the FBI that he was acquainted with the real Mohammad Azan, but the passport had been obtained from a black marketeer. When INS Inspector Robert Malafronte asked Ajaj about the 150. http://cryptome.quintessenz.at/mirror/usa-v-zm-030606-02.htm 151. FBI FD-302 of Yousef February 7, 1995 p2

152. http://csmonitor.com January 21, 2003 edition.

second passport and the matching ticket Ajaj simply said he had no idea whose they were. Someone happened to give them to him, he said.153 Ajaj carried a book titled Celebrating Islamic Jihad, Fedayeen Operations, by Abd Allah Aish. The Palestinian refugees displaced by the Israelis in the Palestinian war organized themselves into a group of guerrilla fighters, the Fedayeen. This group continually raided Israel from across the Lebanese border throughout the 1950‘s. There was a book titled (in English) RPG 7. The RPG-7 anti-tank grenade launcher is one of the most common and most effective infantry weapons in contemporary conflicts. There was a book titled Explosive Engineering and another entitled, Explosives, with a green cover and a notebook with pink flowers on its cover containing hand-written formulas for explosives. There was a brown covered notebook with hand-written title ―Military Notebook‖ and a book titled The Mossad, the Secret Israeli Intelligence Apparatus. There were aquamarine color covered books on improvised weapons, on handling explosives, on mixing explosives, on poisons, Molotov cocktails on intelligence and security services today, wiring, booby traps, mines and improvised munitions. There were brown color covered books on pistols, revolvers, ammunition and shooting techniques – how to shoot with a gun concealed in one‘s pocket. There were also photocopied pages containing references to Israeli settlements, combat tactics, explosives, sabotage of rail lines, ships, vehicles and aircraft, firearms training and maintenance, shooting techniques, escape plans from a detention facility in Gaza and instructions and diagrams on how to manufacture silencers. There were several identical copies of training manuals on how to kill soldiers and police officers that should have told the FBI Ajaj was an instructor who intended to teach others the ways of the Jihad. There were numerous videotapes that contained religious references. One video depicted a man who drives a van into an American installation by first shooting the guards from the driver-side window and then detonates a bomb inside the van, exploding himself, the van and the building while verses of the Qu‘ran are chanted in the background. Another video tape was titled The International Islamic Resistance Presents: An Explosives Manufacturing Course that began with ―In God‘s name, hurrah to Jihad, in God‘s name hurrah to the battle against our enemies: the Jews, the

153. USA v Ajaj et al TT 9069

Christians, the Americans and the Arab rulers and their advisors who legitimatize and strengthen the ruling of these oppressors.‖ Aside from books and videos on bomb-making and Jihad, Ajaj had numerous pieces of false identification including a passport in the name of Ayedh Alqahtani with a photograph of someone other than Ajaj, an altered British passport in the name of Mohammad Azan with a photograph of Ramzi Yousef, various identification cards in the names of Khurram Khan and Mohammad Azan, each bearing photographs of Ajaj, along with two prepared scripts, both in English, listing probable questions that Ajaj would be asked by Customs or Immigration officials and specifying the answers that should be given to those questions. He also had two ink stamps in a foreign script, which appeared similar to those found on a Saudi passport that was found among his possessions. There was a copy of Iraqi passport #MO389922. There was a Jordanian passport in the name of Ahmad Mohammed Ahmad Ajaj, which bore the photograph of Ajaj and did not appear to be altered. There was a travel permit issued to Ajaj for travel to America on August 17, 1992, although Ajaj told the immigration inspector that he had attempted to obtain a transportation letter from the United States Embassy in Pakistan but was refused. Ajaj also had a Moroccan document in French issued to Said Ghazali and a handwritten paper that contained Ghazali‘s address. Said Ghazali is a senior reporter for The Jerusalem Times, and a stringer for the Associated Press, the Boston Globe, a journalist dedicated to Islam for nearly 20 years, enough to spend 18 months in jail in 1974 for joining alFatah. On the afternoon of Sunday, March 31, 2002 Boston Globe reporter Anthony Shadid was wounded by a single gunshot in Ramallah. Shadid said that he and his colleague, Said Ghazali, were walking away from Palestinian National Authority chairman Yassir Arafat‘s compound in Ramallah when a bullet entered Shadid‘s left shoulder. The area was completely quiet at the time, and both journalists were wearing flak jackets marked ―TV‖ in red tape. Said Ghazali is the author of an article titled, ―Why bin Laden is Hailed as the Hero of Palestine.‖ Ajaj also possessed an Al-Bunyan al-Mahrous Islamic Information Center, Tucson, Arizona identification card in the name of Azam Mohammad. Al-Bunyan al-Mahrous has served repeatedly as a cover for our movement. Ramzi Yousef also had a similar identification card, bearing his photograph with the name Khurram Khan on it. This card was found

among Ajaj‘s possessions. Yousef explained that because the card bore the name Khurram Khan, INS officials at JFK had mistakenly placed the card, seized from him, in with Ajaj‘s possessions, as Ajaj was then using the name Khurram Khan. Wali Khan Amin Shah, an Uzbekian who was convicted of participation with Yousef in a conspiracy in the Philippines to bomb 12 American-flag airliners, was also found at the time of his arrest to be in possession of an Al-Bunyan al-Mahrous identification card identifying him as an investigative reporter. At his bail hearing for perjury in regard to the Nairobi, Kenya Embassy Event, Wadih el-Hage raised his association with the magazine Al-Bunyah al-Mahrsous, to legitimatize his employment in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Ajaj expected to easily enter the U.S with his Swedish passport. The first INS Inspector that Ajaj encountered determined that Ajaj‘s passport was suspicious, and directed him to the secondary inspection area. The Inspector examined the passport and, upon discovering that it had been altered, opened Ajaj‘s luggage and found the terrorist kit. After being asked why he was carrying terrorist literature, Ajaj stated in substance, ―They destroy our homes and kill our people.‖ In reference to a bullet wound on his arm, Ajaj explained that the Zionist police had shot him. He said had gone to Pakistan and lost all of his papers. Ajaj was detained as a danger to the United States, and was later charged in the Eastern District of New York with knowingly using a false passport, (Count One), and using the passport of another person (Count Two). On October 6, 1992, Ajaj, with the assistance of his then-counsel, Douglas Morris, a staff attorney in the Federal Defender Division, executed a written plea agreement with the Eastern District prosecutor‘s office. Ajaj agreed to plead guilty to Count Two in return for the Eastern District prosecutor‘s promise to move to dismiss Count One at sentencing and not oppose a two-level reduction under the Sentencing Guidelines for Ajaj‘s acceptance of responsibility. Ajaj pled guilty in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York to one count of passport fraud and was sentenced to six months imprisonment by United States District Judge Reena Raggi, a former United States Attorney who once headed the Narcotics Division, and seemed to be more interested in drugs than our activities. At an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force meeting Raggi referred to drug defendants as

―punks‖ and offered prosecutors tips on how to deal with informers as well as how to impress a jury. Raggi claimed her speech had not violated the judicial code of conduct and she refused to recuse herself in a drug case that was then being tried before her.154 Eric Bernstein, the prosecutor who handled the Ajaj case told her: ―There is literature. The defendant had a significant amount of literature concerning how — it was really manuals — concerning how to make explosives and how to blow things up.‖ Judge Raggi responded: ―We‘re not talking about contraband in the traditional sense of drugs or weapons or anything like that?‖ Bernstein answered: ―We‘re only talking about literature.‖ The Islamist scum long for the pre-September 11th days of American justice, where the constitutional rights of jihadi, even though they were not American citizens, superceded the rights of Americans to protect themselves against the actions of jihadists. Bernstein attempted to persuade Judge Raggi to give Ajaj a harsh sentence, but she refused. This is what transpired in her courtroom: THE COURT: I would think that the most serious question presented on sentencing is whether the Court would upwardly depart based on the government‘s view that this case would come within guideline section 5K2.15, a guideline that talks about upward departure in cases where there‘s reason to think that the violation, the crime of conviction, was committed for a terrorist purpose. That‘s the real dispute between the parties. Now, let me ask the Government a question with respect to its position. Without finding anything at this point, let me assume I were persuaded from the government‘s proffer that it could show that Mr. Ajaj was associated with terrorist organizations and that the materials he was carrying into the United States would indeed be useful to someone who planned to engage in terrorist activities. Given that the crime of conviction is use of a false passport to gain entry into the United States, and given what I understand to be the immigration status of Mr. Ajaj, whereby he would not be eligible for entry into the United States under any lawful means because of his prior immigration status, why should I assume that his unlawful entry into this country, where he had lived for some period of time, was for the purpose of

154. Village Voice March 31, 1992.

engaging in terroristic activities as opposed to simply entering the United States for any of a number of various reasons that he might have? That‘s the difficulty I really have here. MR. BERNSTEIN: Your Honor, there are a couple of answers to that question. One, the government would be prepared to offer expert testimony to the effect that the methods the defendant used to enter the country, including the false passport he used and the other false documentation he was carrying, is the type of methods normally used by terrorists for particular reasons. THE COURT: But that would prove, at most, that he is a terrorist. But what makes you think that the crime was committed for a terrorist purpose? MR. BERNSTEIN: We have reviewed and made a summary of some of the materials in the defendant‘s possession. We‘ve made a somewhat lengthy list of the materials associated with terrorist activities or terrorist training purposes that were in the defendant‘s possession. One of those materials that was discovered yesterday by our translator is some loose-leaf documents which she said were entitled, How to Falsify Documents, and which in fact includes something about passports. She has not had a chance to translate. It‘s three pieces of paper on both sides, so it is six pieces of papers, but our Arabic translator hasn‘t had a chance to fully translate it. But it is documents that were with all the other defendant‘s literature on how to commit various acts of terrorism that were in fact -- how to falsify documents and how to and presumably how to falsify passports. THE COURT: The reality, though, is that everything he had in his possession that gives rise to your claim is documentary, right? This is not a case in which he was in possession or found in possession of anything that would be, for instance, the materials out of which one could make a bomb or construct any kind of destructive device. He had literature in his possession, isn‘t that right? MR. BERNSTEIN: Yes. THE COURT: Doesn‘t that present serious problems as to whether I can enhance his sentence based on someone‘s possession of literature?

MR. BERNSTEIN: Your Honor, the government isn‘t arguing that -- by any means that the Court should upwardly depart because of the contents of literature contained in the material the defendant was carrying. What the government would argue is that that literature demonstrates by a preponderance of the evidence, which is the standard we have to meet here, that the defendant is engaged in terrorist activities, and that these materials constituted virtually the majority of what the defendant was carrying other than clothing when he came into the United States. He was also carrying duplicate copies of some of that material. He was also carrying an airline ticket indicating that he was traveling with somebody else. THE COURT: Does the government have any information about where the defendant was scheduled to go in the United States or what his plans were here in this country? MR. BERNSTEIN: No, other than that the defendant indicated that he was headed to Houston. But what the government would argue is that concealing one‘s identity and falsifying identification documents, including passports and other things one must carry to cross international borders is part and parcel of one‘s activities as a terrorist. It is an integral part of what a terrorist must do in order to carry out his activities; that is, to travel and meet with other terrorists and to conceal one‘s identify for the purpose of avoiding detection. We had sent all the names on the various pieces of identification that the defendant had in his possession and the dates of birth, and we had gotten back a negative response from the Israeli National Police. There was not enough information for them to say exactly who the defendant was. We have finally received the results of the Israeli National Police‘s fingerprint check of the defendant‘s fingerprints, which were sent to them by our agents. That report indicates that the defendant was in Israel in 1990, he left Israel for Jordan and there joined the al-Fatah terrorist organization, that he returned to Israel in 1991 and was arrested in 1991, and at that time confessed that he was a member of the al-Fatah organization, and also confessed that he had established contacts for purchasing weapons and ammunitions, and that he was requested and was granted permission to leave Israel after that arrest apparently on the condition that he not return for five years.

So that there is now finally confirmation of who the defendant is, and I think that this points up very substantially the fact that concealing one‘s identity is an integral part of one‘s activities as a terrorist. The point is we didn‘t know the defendant had in fact successfully concealed who he was and successfully thwarted any efforts by law enforcement to positively and with specificity identify who he was because -- for the precise reason that he used these false names and this false documentation. Now, only by this coincidence of timing have we received the fingerprint identification, do we know whom the defendant is. But you put that together with the fact that the defendant was traveling with multiple false pieces of identification and the fact that we now have in our possession instructions in Arabic that were right in there with all the other instructions on how to carry out terrorist activities, that are instructions on how to falsify documents. And so the very logical and fair inference bears that falsifying documents and traveling under false names and assumed names and concealing one‘s identity is absolutely a part of what is necessary for a terrorist to do in order to continue his activities, to avoid being detected. The defendant was very nearly successful in avoiding being identified in this case. Had he been sentenced on Friday he in effect would have, and I think that only highlights the significant nature of falsifying documents here. I mean, the real question is can the defense credibly argue, or would the Court find that it is a mere coincidence that the defendant is who he is and was carrying the materials he was carrying and the fact that he was traveling with these false documents? Or is the inference available and logical that the defendant was traveling on these false documents for the very reason that he is a terrorist and that he wanted to conceal that fact and that that is -- and concealing that fact and using those documents is part of one‘s operation of as a terrorist? THE COURT: What‘s the terrorist activity that was being furthered by this conduct, by this crime? What is the terrorist activity being furthered? MR. BERNSTEIN: Well, Your Honor, the guideline talks about in furtherance of a terrorist activity, and in fact the commentary -- I think it‘s

Amendment 292 -- says that if the underlying offense is committed for a terrorist purpose – THE COURT: So what‘s a terrorist purpose? MR. BERNSTEIN: The terrorist purpose is to facilitate the defendant‘s ability to cross international boundaries with all these materials, which are obviously useful and necessary to his activities as a terrorist. THE COURT: That involves travel and possession of literature. You know, Mr. Morris, in his papers on the Constitutionality challenge, suggests that perhaps the only legitimate definition that can be given to this is conduct akin to the case that sparked, the amendment, in which defendant was basically found in possession of those items that could be used to engage in bombings. It‘s the Kikumura case, United States versus Kikumura. And there was specific findings made there based on the defendant‘s possession of three homemade bombs. That‘s very different from what is going on here. What you‘re telling me is basically that if someone is traveling and he‘s in possession of materials that relate to how to make a bomb or how to kill people, none of which I am suggesting the Court finds either enlightening or particularly appropriate types of material, but nevertheless, that is not the issue before me, that anybody who travels with chose kind of materials in his possession can possibly be seen as -- and then enters falsely into the United States can be seen as entering falsely for the purpose of engaging in terrorist activities. And I find that troubling. MR. BERNSTEIN: Your Honor, the issue is whether the defendant‘s underlying offense, which is the use of the false passport to gain entry, is in furtherance of his goals, of his terrorist goals. THE COURT: But you have no idea what he was going to do in the United States. I will assume for purposes of this proceeding that you‘ll prove everything you‘ve said, that if there were a hearing you will prove everything you have said. You have no idea whether the defendant ever planned to discuss those documents with anyone in the United States or whether his plans related to visits he would make to other countries or whether they related to the activities he was engaged in Pakistan and had completed that. You have no idea. You‘re asking me to speculate.

MR. BERNSTEIN: No, but the government doesn‘t see why it‘s necessary to show that the defendant had a specific plan in the United States. What the defendant was doing was bringing a lot of terrorist materials, and I might add duplicate copies of some of those, duplicate Photostat copies of some of those materials, into the United States. THE COURT: Which is not the crime that brings him before the Court. That is not the crime, correct? MR. BERNSTEIN: That is right. You put that together with what we know about the defendant‘s criminal record. Certainly the inference there is that the defendant is a terrorist and that he is carrying these materials, and the only purpose of these materials, Your Honor, and I don‘t know if it would be necessary, but we could certainly put on testimony that the only purpose of these materials is to train people to carry out terrorist activities – THE COURT: You are, I assume, familiar with that body of case law that does not permit it to be found to be a crime to be in possession, for instance, of literature that tells you how to make an atomic bomb. MR. BERNSTEIN: Yes. I – THE COURT: That‘s the part of the problem I have here. MR. BERNSTEIN: But if the evidence shows that the defendant is in fact engaged in terrorist activities, was bringing these materials in, and was concealing his identity, and especially in view of the materials the defendant himself was carrying about the necessity for falsifying one‘s identity and falsifying one‘s documents -- and again, I ask the Court to at least let us, let us get those -- that document translated. That may shed some light. That may shed some light on this proceeding, on some of the issues that concern the Court. THE COURT: This defendant pleaded guilty in October and these documents have been in the government‘s possession since September. I see no reason why this has been delayed. I would accept that the government at hearing could prove everything that it‘s proffered -- its letter submission and in its oral proffer today -- I would not find it grounds for a departure.

Whatever terrorism constitutes, it constitutes a very serious allegation, and in this case I would have to be persuaded by a preponderance of the evidence in order to consider this guideline departure that the defendant, when he entered the United States, entered using the false passport in an attempt to further terrorist action. Now, I do know that he was coming from a location that is at least linked in some way to various terrorist groups. I know that he was in possession of documents that could be useful to people engaged in what is generally referred to as terrorist activities, documents relating to making bombs, to killing individuals. I know that he used the false documents to enter the United States, but I am not persuaded from all these facts and circumstances that the government has proved that the crime of conviction was committed in furtherance of a terroristic action. What the government‘s proved, perhaps by a preponderance [of evidence] is that the defendant is linked to terrorist organizations. By that logic virtually everything he does is in furtherance of his terroristic actions, but I don‘t think that‘s what this guideline is talking about. Indeed, it would make a mockery almost of those very serious types of conduct that were involved in the Kikumura case to say that the mere fact that someone traveled in possession of this kind of literature provides the same basis for an upward departure as possession of homemade bombs such as were at issue in Kikumura. I‘m not persuaded that this is a case for upward departure. Seriously as I view the defendant‘s possession of this material, as I said, there‘s a lot of case law that talks about the fact that possession of material as disturbing, if not more disturbing, as this is not a crime, not in this country, anyway. Mr. Morris, having so ruled, is your client prepared for sentencing today? Assistant United States Attorney Bernstein argued that there were other factors that indicated Ajaj was an ―international terrorist‖ – Ajaj‘s airline tickets had originated from Peshawar, Pakistan, which is a known training camp for terrorists. ―Agents further informed that Peshawar is on the border of Afghanistan and although this region is officially governed by Pakistan it is not policed by Pakistan or Afghanistan. In order to go to the training camp in Peshawar, an individual must be sponsored and funded by an organization.‖ During the course of the proceedings, Judge Raggi asked the parties whether they had agreed to any additional terms to supplement the written plea agreement. Attorney Morris responded: ―There‘s also an agreement that the Government will not bring any charges arising out of

Mr. Ajaj‘s entry into the United States on September 1st, including any false statement charge, and it will not bring any charges arising from any thing or document that Mr. Ajaj was carrying with him on that date.‖ Although he had no bombs with him Ajaj had an early edition of the al-Qaeda training manual. If the pen is mightier than the sword, a book can be mightier than a bomb. Ajaj was determined to kill as many Americans as he could. Had he brought with him a book on the manufacture of heroin, which might kill only a few, Judge Raggi would not have let him off so easily. After the guilty plea, Judge Raggi ordered the government to return Ajaj‟s belongings, including the bomb-making instructions, or to come forward with a reason for failing to do so. On December 22, 1992, an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York served a Grand Jury subpoena on Ajaj calling for production of many of the materials seized at Kennedy Airport. Although the subpoena was a subpoena ad testificandum, a duces tecum rider that specified the materials Ajaj was ordered to produce accompanied it. When Douglas Morris inquired whether the subpoena sought Ajaj‘s testimony as well as the evidence listed in the rider, the government explained that the subpoena sought only the specified evidence. Ajaj did not move to quash the subpoena.155 On December 29, 1992, a call from Ajaj was transferred to Ramzi Yousef, permitting the two to speak directly. In the conversation, Ajaj immediately brought up the terrorist kit informing Yousef that the Court had ordered the Government to return Ajaj‘s belongings. When Yousef asked if he could take possession of Ajaj‘s things, Ajaj readily agreed at first. He then said that it was not a good idea for Ramzi Yousef personally to obtain the materials from the Government because it might jeopardize Yousef‘s ―business,‖ which, Ajaj said, would be ―a pity!‖ As Ajaj well knew, Yousef‘s only ―business‖ in the United States was to pursue Sheik Rahman‘s bomb plot. Ajaj then suggested that Ramzi Yousef send someone else to pick up the materials. Yousef‘s messenger discovered the materials were in the hands of the Joint Terrorism Task Force, where they remained until after the World Trade Center bombing.

155. U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals USA v Salameh United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit August Term, 1997 (Argued: December 18 & 19, 1997 Decided: August 4, 1998) Docket Nos. 94-1312, -1313, -1314, -1315

Although federal prison phone calls are taped, no one monitored Ajaj‘s twenty calls to Yousef and other Islamists - or tried to translate them from Arabic - until long after the blast. Had the American authorities done so after Ajaj was first arrested they would have discovered Ajaj‘s links to Dr. Mehdi, Nosair and Sheik Rahman after they reviewed the translation of the phone call: U.M. (Unidentified Male) If you can give me anybody to bail you? Ajaj: I want. Do you know what? There is a big personality in New York. The chairman of the Arab community [Dr. Mehdi] will collect bail for you, help you. There is someone. God will bring us goodness if he is willing… In one thing that I be able to find a telephone number of the Arab community the chairman who defended Nosair. U.M. What? The? Ajaj: The one who defended Nosair. Those would provide us, would provide me with an attorney. I do have an attorney and the [Magistrate] Judge is Jewish. And they might go back to my past history and you know that my history, thank God, is honorable…So God willing, most importantly I want to tell you something. Me up till now they haven‘t taken any statement from me, in other words they‘re saying they haven‘t found anyone who speaks Arabic well. U.M. God willing. Ajaj: And you the very important thing it‘s necessary that you put together and be able to send some papers [bomb making manuals] to complete your studies over there. U.M. If, Insha'allah,156 in any case what is good. Ajaj: God sends what is good. God disposes and we are consenting, we‘re consenting to the rule of God no matter what and no matter what was destined by God, I‘m not angry about anything but one thing…One, in other words, every time he lucks out in a study, [is successful in an attack] in

156. God Willing, if God permits.

other words, God writes, thank God, praise be to God, whenever one gets lucky and pursues some studies, in other words God disposes, [disposes of someone] thanks be to God…So I want you to proceed. I will give you, if Insha'allah, tomorrow, I might call you during the day in the morning? If, Insha'allah, I will give you the address of the prison, the number of the prison, and everything that pertains to me. U.M. Yes, because I want to give also to the Iman in New Jersey [Sheik Rahman?] to help, he is an Iman a member of the committee responsible for the holy land associations [Hamas]. And he is the chairman, and he (U/I) he‘s an important chairman…To study God, (U/I) willing Sulaman I must try to help study. Ajaj: Yes, look I prefer that you let him enter with a major [attack]. I wish you listen to me…What I am telling you is make him pursue a study as a lathe operator, [as a bomb maker] look out for my major here in the field of lathing. U.M. Uh, huh, lathing. Ajaj: You would have accomplished, you know what in other words, secured his future? And you would have done him a great favor, in other words, and from there I shall send him I mean to study in Pakistan the specialization. The major of lathing in the hands of people I mean you have lathe shops, and in other words? So I recommend one of the two studies, either a major in printing [propaganda] or in lathe operating? Forget about engineering [shooting] and all the empty talk. This specialization, this is the finest specialization one has to take up. Additionally, no one traced Ajaj‘s plane ticket until after the World Trade Center blast to determine that he and Yousef had sat together on the first leg of their journey to New York. Ajaj was released from prison three days after the World Trade Center explosion and was free from March 1, 1993 to March 9, 1993 when he was rearrested and sentenced to more than 100 years in prison for his role – from behind bars – in the attack. RAMZI YOUSEF SEEKS ASYLYUM The FBI and INS handled Ramzi Yousef even more ineptly than they did Ajaj. Yousef disposed of his British passport upon entering America by

giving it to Ajaj, and used an Iraqi one to claim political asylum. He would tell the FBI that he had attempted to obtain legitimate visas to enter the U.S. from the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad on two occasions, but was unsuccessful. Yousef denied to the American Secret Service Agent Brian Parr that the Iraqi intelligence agency had issued the passport to him. ―He told us when he arrived in the U.S. he was using a genuine Iraqi passport in the name of Ramzi Yousef. He came into immigration, presented his Iraqi passport and requested political asylum. He said he had purchased it for $100 in Peshawar, Pakistan, and that they were easily accessible. He described to us how Iraqi rebels living in Northern Iraq would raid Iraqi passport offices and steal these genuine documents, and then they would be sold on the black market in Peshawar.‖157 Yousef, who lacked an American visa, was sent directly to the secondary inspection area where he was arrested for entering the United States without a visa. Yousef asserted, in a sworn statement to INS officials, that he was traveling alone and boarded the flight to New York by bribing a Pakistani official. During his trial a customs official was questioned about this: ―He was being questioned by one of the representatives for Pakistani International Airlines as to how he got on the aircraft without a visa. He stated to the Pakistani International Airlines representative he had a brother in the Iraqi consulate that helped him get aboard.‖158 Another customs official testified: ―He only stated he paid a Pakistani official $2,700 U.S. dollars for arranging his trip to the United States.‖159 Ramzi Yousef applied for political asylum. He stated that he was persecuted in Iraq, because the Iraqi government had labeled him a Kuwaiti sympathizer during the Persian Gulf War. Pending a January 26, 1992 hearing, he was released on his own recognizance, because of a lack of detention space. He soon disappeared from the FBI‘s view. Abdul Hakim Murad (left) recalled, ―he proceeded to New York City and spent the night at the Sheikh Church located there. One the next day he went to a Mosque somewhere in Jersey City, New Jersey, wherein some Muslim brothers provided him with assistance.‖160 Customs Agent Cozine admitted that there was no 157. USA v Ramzi Yousef TT 4709 158. USA v Ramzi Yousef Cozine Direct TT 457 159. USA v Ramzi Yousef Morales Cross TT 561 160. Philippine National Police Report January 17, 1995

official record of the events that transpired on the night of September 2, 1992, even though it was standard operating procedure to record all requests for political asylum.161 After Emad Salem was withdrawn from infiltrating the Islamist cell the FBI failed to send in another informer or recruit one of the members as such, despite the fact that Salem had betrayed the cell‘s plans to place bombs at various locations in New York City. Shortly after Yousef‘s arrival, and five months before the first World Trade Center Event, the FBI subpoenaed twenty of Sheik Rahman‘s followers. FBI Agent Anticev questioned them about their activities and leaders. Mahmud Abouhalima was asked if he knew El-Sayyid Nosair and he denied that he did. The FBI possessed information to the contrary however, no arrests were made for giving false information to a Federal Government employee, no Grand Jury investigation was launched, and the FBI chose to downgrade its scrutiny of Gama‘a al-Islamiyya‘s Brooklyn / Jersey City cell just as plans were being finalized for the World Trade Center bombing.162 Emad Salem explained: ―It was decided to interview all of the people or most of the people who visited Mr. Sayyid Nosair in jail, and interview me among them, or subpoena me among them. I contacted Mr. Ali Shinawy, Mr. Ahmed Abdel Sattar, Mr. Ibrahim ElGabrowny and everybody. We held a meeting in Abu Bakr Mosque [concerning the fact] that the FBI has started to monitor Gama‘a alIslamiyya‘s Brooklyn / Jersey City cell closely, and we should go to the meeting next morning at the 26 Federal Plaza. Where the subpoena want us to go. Mr. Ibrahim El-Gabrowny, Mr. Ahmed Abdel Sattar, Mr. Emad Abdou. It was around 20 individuals. We met in front of the Warren Street Mosque in Manhattan. We walked to the federal building, and Mr. Ahmed Abdel Sattar had a federal identification, since he is a postman, he get into the building, called the agents, the agents came downstairs, they came and they accompanied us to upstairs. The FBI agents started interviewing us. They did not interview me, because we just sit and talk, and I did not get interviewed. I told them, ‗Please take me through the steps among them exactly, so they see me being treated the same way so they don‘t suspect

161. USA v Ramzi Yousef, Cozine: TT 463, 480 162. William Norman Grigg New American February 19, 1997 also Allison Mitchell ―Before Bombing Inquiry Sought Inroads Into Enclave of Suspects‖ New York Times April 1, 1993.

me.‘ They took some shots, mug shots for us. They fingerprinted us, and that‘s about it.‖ Aside from this tepid passive investigation, the FBI just left Gama‘a al-Islamiyya Brooklyn / Jersey City cell to its own devices, and those devices included detonators, timers, chemicals and the like. Assistant United States Attorney Andrew McCarthy commented: ―These disagreements culminated in September 1992, when the FBI and Salem went their separate ways and the FBI obtained subpoenas for members of the Nosair group in an effort to force them to abandon any ideas they had of committing violent acts in this country. Tragically, Abouhalima and his associates were not deterred and went on to murder six people in the attack on the World Trade Center.‖163 It wasn‘t until 1996 that a special federal grand jury convened in the Southern District of New York to investigate what prosecutors called ―the structure, goals and operational status of al-Qaeda worldwide; whether al-Qaeda was involved in planning crimes against American interests and, if so, which ones.‖164 Meanwhile Sheik Rahman was making numerous calls to overseas numbers, including a Pakistan number that Yousef had inscribed in a bomb-making pamphlet. Rahman, Mohammad Salameh, and Yousef also made several calls to the same number in Pakistan in November. Nosair, speaking with his wife from prison, said, ―And what will happen in New York, God willing, it will be because of my prayers.‖165 On February 26, 1993 the Rahman gang was able to bomb the World Trade Center. On that day Eyad Ismoil and Mohammed Salemeh drove to the Trade Center and parked in its basement. Salemeh drove even though he had three accidents recently, one of which landed Ramzi Yousef a hospital. They had planned to arrive there early in the morning, at about 9:30 a.m. but one of the Brothers had forgotten to give them a wake-up call, and they overslept. Because of their tardiness, Mohammed Salemeh was unable to park the truck next to a key column, which might have resulted in toppling the Trade Center and killing at least 250,000 ―kuffar!”

163. USA v Rahman Stern Ex. 16 at 42; TT 4989-5010 164. Stephen Braun, Bob Drogin, Mark Fineman, Lisa Getter, Greg Krikorian and Robert J. Lopez ―Haunted By Years of Missing Warnings‖ Los Angeles Times October 14, 2001. http://ktla.trb.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-101401warn.story 165. USA v Rahman - Government Exhibit 128T at 7

None-the-less, the first attack on the Trade Center caused six deaths and more hospital casualties than any event in American history since the Civil War! The Brothers were almost killed by their own bomb – they had ignited a seven-minute fuse, gotten in an escape vehicle and were about to leave the Trade Center when a truck blocked their egress. A few minutes later the truck pulled out and they followed it. Egyptian Islamic Jihad was not about to be outdone by Al-Gama‘a alIslamiyya. On the same day as the World Trade Center bombing operative Egyptian Islamic Jihad operative Adel Abu Bakr was arrested for the explosion of a TNT device that was wrapped with tape and imbedded with rusty nails at the Wadi El Nil coffee shop in downtown Cairo. Two people were killed, and another eighteen people, most European and American tourists, were wounded. No one claimed responsibility for the attack. Ayman al-Zawahiri was aware of the date of the World Trade Center bombing and ordered his operative in Egypt to strike on that day.166 DR. MEHDI AND RAHMAN Dr. Mehdi went to the west coast after the World Trade Center explosion ostensibly to translate for Sheik Omar Rahman, who had gone there to distance himself from the action. Before he left New York, Dr. Mehdi was visited by one of the Abouhalima family. They said to him: Give the Sheik a message. Tell him not to talk about knowing Mahmud Abouhalima. Mahmud is in jail in Egypt. If the Egyptians found out about this connection Mahmud Abouhalima would have been taken out to the desert and left at the mercy of the scorpions and desert rats. Dr. Mehdi was asked: Q. Following the bombing of the World Trade Center did you issue a verbatim quote from the Sheik? A. Do you remember the exact words of that particular press release? McCarthy: Objection.

166. http://www.milnet.com/state/chrono93.htm

A. I do. THE COURT: Sustained. ABOUHALIMA FLEES TO EGYPT Before his return to Egypt Abouhalima went to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and obtained an Egyptian visa because he had German documents.167 During a conversation with Siddig Ali, Sheik Rahman, who had his doubts about Siddig, said that Muhmud Abouhalima fled to Sudan, not to Egypt. After their discussion, Siddig Ali told Salem that Rahman had ordered that they be circumspect when discussing their plans with him so that he would not be incriminated in any criminal conspiracy. Salem would betray Abouhalima‘s whereabouts to the Americans and Abdo Haggag would betray his whereabouts to the Egyptians. At the same time he turned him in to the Egyptian government Haggag established a fund for Muhmud Abouhalima‘s family. When Abouhalima was extradited to the United States he was covered with cigarette burns. This is what Muhmud told the FBI on his way back to the United States: ―Abouhalima appeared awake, and spoke briefly of having received some injuries at the hands of the Egyptian authorities. He made reference to a finger having been inserted into his anus, and to his genital area having been burned by lighted cigarettes. He requested that he be given medical treatment on his return to New York.‖168 Abouhalima‘s attorneys argued that U.S. complicity in his torture was evidenced by the fact that [Abouhalima‘s] torturers interrogated him about the murder of Meir Kahane and the explosion at the World Trade Center, crimes on American soil with only American consequences. They accused him of things about his life in America that they must have heard from Emad Salem or other American law enforcement sources. They asked him about Mousab Yassin, an Iraqi doctor, and Ramzi Yousef. The Egyptians theorized that these men were operatives of Iraqi intelligence involved in the World Trade Center bombing, the same theory put forth by FBI agent John Anticev in conversation with Emad Salem on one of Salem‘s recorded phone conversations. The torturers told Abouhalima that the FBI allowed

167. Elaine Sciolino New York Times April 5, 1993 ―Egypt Warned U.S. of Terror.‖ 168. FD-302 on 3.24.93 Doc Number #736 USA v. Ramzi et. al.

him to come to Egypt in order to capitalize on what would happen after his capture there. Abouhalima overheard his torturers talking about his saying the things the Americans wanted him to say, and he heard them getting information in English from someone and then using that information to question him during the torture. FUNDING: HAMAS Siddig Ali explained to Emad Salem that Mohammed Saleh, ―supports, gives things to Hamas…The Sudanese Brothers introduced me to him who are in the Sudanese Islamic Movement and I learned that he is an important figure in Hamas faction, the Islamic struggle movement.‖ When Salem was asked to testify about Mohammed Saleh‘s membership in Hamas, Mohammed Saleh‘s attorney John Jacobs stated: ―Let‘s talk about Hamas. It‘s interesting, as you just heard the tape CM 31 in English, where Emad Salem announces to the FBI that Mohammed Saleh is a member of Hamas. You want to see how Salem lied? Let‘s talk about what he and Siddig talked about minutes after that occurred, what he tells the Bureau on one hand because he needs the money, and what he tells Siddig. He tells the Bureau Mohammed Saleh is a member of Hamas and of course Emad Salem is very interested to find out if anybody has affiliations with overseas organizations because that‘s what my client is charged with in the indictment, and he asks Siddig right up front, is Mohammed Saleh a follower – not even a member, now we are down to followers. But Siddig Ali says I don‘t know nine times. But our boy he‘s looking for money so he tells the FBI he‘s a member of Hamas.‖169 Later in this proceeding Jacobs reacted to the fact that a bus bombing by Hamas had just killed an American from Connecticut: ―I take the following position which is the word Hamas is mentioned by my client in CM 32 in evidence and he refers to some night vision goggles. [Mohammed Saleh had shipped night vision goggles to terrorists in the West Bank. He told Siddig, ―Some Palestinian Brothers from Hamas called me and asked me for night vision equipment; I told them I was ready to buy it for them.] I think the government should not be allowed to ask my client – I assume not Salem or anybody else – what is Hamas.‖170

169. USA v Rahman TT 19905 170. USA v Rahman TT 17336

Hamas definitely helped finance the first World Trade Center Event. AUSA Fitzgerald stated: ―In the indictment we have charged that Mohammed Saleh had links to an overseas organization. That is Hamas. The government‘s theory is the reason that the defendants turned to Mohammed Saleh at a time when they needed financing for terrorist activities is because of the link to Hamas. Hamas was part of what formed a voucher of trust, if you will, that they could rely upon in order to turn to Mohammed Saleh as opposed to, you know, turning to somebody else who had money.‖ FINANCING: IRAN Siddig believed he could obtain money from Iran for his plan to blow up the FBI Building or the United Nations: Salem: You don‘t have the rest of the money. Siddig: No, we will get it, no problem. I know few sources. I‘ll ask to give the amounts to me in cash. Salem: I am generally speaking. Siddig: I thought strange thoughts. I thought to get an airplane ticket to Tehran. Tehran. I don‘t have the ticket. But I tell them to give visa there. The most important thing is the passport. It is not necessary to use my passport. You know Ahmed (LNU) the white man did you see him? Anyway, I fly and talk with one there. He is interested to do that. I receive him in New York. He doesn‘t have any contact or connection. This is the Iranian intelligence. They have the capabilities. All what I need is some technical things to go inside and get out. Salem: Where? Siddig: In the Big House. (The United Nations) Salem: I thought there.

Siddig: No, they can‘t do that there. I believe they can‘t because it is a government [building]. But the BIG HOUSE, they have ID‘s and they can go in and get out…IA171 I thought of Iraq, no, it is just thoughts. (A noise of a hammer) Siddig: You will need money (IA). The weapons will cost about $1,500: Three pistols and two machine guns. The powder is expensive. We need 3,000 pounds and each pound costs four or five dollars. Unidentified Male: How you reach (IA) to Iran. Siddig: It is possible you must use another passport. Get another passport if you lost your passport. Unidentified Male: (IA) Siddig: No, as a Sudanese you need them to help you in issuing a new passport under another name. Even if the CIA have a list of all the Sudanese who entered Tehran, they will not find out who you are. Salem: Do the Sudanese help? Siddig: (IA) I obtained four or five passports in my lifetime. There was no problem in any country which I visited. The officer signs on the passport. It is public relations. Are you asking whether the big officials help us or not? Salem: Yeah. Siddig: I don‘t guarantee them.172 Abouhalima told his Egyptian interogators that Iranian intelligence had aided his cell in its pursuit with financial backing and that the cell was responsible for many other crimes.173 Abouhalima said that two Persian speakers, who said they were Iranian intelligence agents, met with cell members in Peshawar to approve the plan. He added that the Brothers

171. Inaudible. 172. USA v Rahman Misc. Papers Cassette SN 38734 = 4 173. Uri Dan ―Kahane Killer Named by WTC Suspect‖ New York Post May 6, 1993.

were able to draw on funds collected by the Al-Gama‘a al-Islamiyya, which received money from various sources, Islamic institutions in Saudi Arabia and the German offices of the Muslim Brotherhood then added Iranian businessmen and expatriates in Europe to the list of financiers. Abouhalima told Egyptian interogators that the bombing plan was hatched in Afghanistan among Arab veterans of the war, and that it was approved by men describing themselves as Iranian intelligence agents and by Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman. Two Iranians had appeared in the days before the first World Trade Center bombing to help the cell with final details, then disappeared shortly before the explosion. Sheik Rahman‘s followers in Jersey City confirmed this.174 Another report in the Washington Post titled ―Egypt told US of ‗Iranian‘ Terrorist Link‖ seemingly based on the same source quoted Abouhalima as saying that two Iraqis, one of them an IraqiAmerican, had arranged the money for the operation and recruited the Brothers who carried it out from Mosques in the New York area.175 Harvard educated Dr. Osama al-Baz, the director of President Mubarak‘s Office of Political Affairs revealed this during a press conference with foreign journalists. He told them that much of the confession had been verified by Egyptian intelligence.176 Dr. Osama al-Baz stated that Egyptian authorities had informed the United States in January 1993 that Egyptian intelligence had received information from several reliable sources that ―certain terrorist groups‖ assisted by ―Iranian elements‖ were plotting an action against the United States. The Egyptians could not determine for certain if the Iranians were intelligence agents but knew they were plotting and training with Islamist groups in Peshawar.177 In April 1993 a dispatch originating in Paris alleged that Sheik Rahman received money from Iran‘s United Nations Mission. The source of this information was the Arabic daily Asharq Al Awsat, which claimed the FBI was looking for Mohammad Chalagian, the mission‘s financial controller.178 During an interview with Reuters New Service on March 30, 1993 the Sheik stated, ―I am challenging the media that accuses me of receiving money from Iran to prove it. They said that I received $50,000 from Iran. I am challenging them to prove it. I'm challenging the martial court in Egypt that is saying that the Iranians are sending money to

174. Chris Hedges ―Egyptian Says Confession Links Iran to Bombing of Trade Center‖ New York Times July 16, 1993 Page A1, 2. 175. Caryle Murphy ―Egypt told US of Iranian Terrorist Link‖ Washington Post July 16, 1993 Pg A.14. 176. Chris Hedges ―Egyptian Says Confession Links Iran to Bombing of Trade Center‖ New York Times July 16, 1993 A1, 2. 177. Caryle Murphy ―Egypt told US of Iranian Terrorist Link‖ Washington Post July 16, 1993 Pg A.14. 178. ―Iran is Said to Give Money to Abdel Rahman‖ New York Times April 11, 1993.

my family in Egypt and then my family transfers the money here to me. I'm challenging them to prove it. I'm also challenging that former CIA agent or director who came on ABC and said he had proof that the sheik was receiving money from Iran. I am challenging the media that is trying to link me to the World Trade Center bombing to get proof or any evidence whatsoever linking me to the World Trade Center bombing.‖ One of the Sheik‘s sons, Abdullah Rahman, also denied that his father received money from Iran that was laundered through one of the Sheik‘s wives, ―This is not true, we don‘t receive money from Iran.‖179 In mid October 1992 Mohammad Salameh opened a joint bank account with Nidal Ayyad, who worked as a chemical engineer at Allied Signal, a large New Jersey chemical company. Over the next four months, more than $100,000 in cash transfers would be deposited in these accounts, in multiple deposits. The source of at least $5,600 of this money was Usama bin Laden, funneled through Abouhalima's old associates in Munich. According to the FBI relatives of Mohammad Salameh and Ayyad sent $2,400 from Iran and ―another country‖ (probably Saudi Arabia) money that they could not account for. Of the $100,000 the FBI and CIA traced tens of thousands of dollars in wire transfers originating from Iran; other funds originated from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and other countries. These funds were placed in the joint account in amounts less than $10,000, so that they would not trigger any paperwork.180 Usama bin Laden maintained associations with other Iranian sponsored mujahedeen. In 1995 and 1996, Usama bin Laden approached Iran‘s Ministry Of Intelligence And Security in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, and offered to join forces with them against America.181 This was followed by a number of meetings between bin Laden, Iranian operatives and leaders of the Iranian government. Usama bin Laden‘s son Saad has found refuge in Iran, as has Saif Al-Adel, an Egyptian national who is now a military chief of al-Qaeda. An elite unit known as the Jerusalem Force protects them.

179. ―Iran Is Not Aiding Rahman, Son Says‖ New York Times March 15, 1993. 180. Ralph Blumenthal - New York Times April 25, 1993 Page 45, 1 - ―$100,000 From Abroad Linked to Trade Center Suspects‖ as cited in Jim Dwyer Two Seconds Under the World : Terror Comes to America: The Conspiracy Behind the World Trade Center Bombing - Crown Publishers1992. 181. CIA Report cited by William Gertz in Breakdown: How America‘s Intelligence Failures Led to September 11th. Regnery Publishing 2002.

Sheik Rahman tried to determine the identity of the informant who turned in Abouhalima and also made a number of media appearances, including some broadcast on national television, in which he staunchly denied knowing both Nosair and Abouhalima who had been his chauffeur and had shared a bank account with him. THE FIRST WORLD TRADE CENTER TRIAL Mohammed Salameh refused to go to court because he did not want to be put in a cold holding cell for hours on end: ―I hit the lock on the door. The lock was already not in very good condition even before I came. The door is old and every inmate who comes in starts hitting the lock; especially black Americans who are in good health and they hit the door hard. I like them…On Saturday, what happened, I will not lie, when the officer refused to give me the social call, I had some garbage that they would not take from me, so I dumped it in the tier. And lots of other inmates who do the same thing, and this is wrong, this is bad, I know that. Officer Lopez took the garbage from another inmate and the window to my cell was open and I was sitting there reading some legal papers so he threw the garbage at me. And I lost my mind. And I started cussing and cursing, and I started threatening the cell. I was afraid to hurt myself. I even inflicted some wounds in my hands. I don‘t know what to do other than this. So I hit the lamp and I felt the electricity. The officer wrote a report saying that I wrecked the cell without saying why did this occur. So anybody looking at that report would say that this is a crazy man who is doing things like that for no reason. I am not crazy!‖182 Mohammed Salameh was sentenced to 116 years in prison. Ahmad Ajaj‘s whose left lung was removed during a cancer operation in prison was sentenced to 114 years. In November 1993 Ajaj went on a hunger strike and then attempted suicide. He was placed on suicide watch with bright lights and observation at all times. On November 12, 1993 he was moved to the prison hospital. Eyad Ismoil, who was extradited from Jordan, got life. Mahmud Abouhalima got 108 years and Nidal Ayyad 117 years. Ayyad‘s punishment began even before he was convicted. He was eating his lunch and found that someone had inserted a sharp object, a broken piece of glass, in his sandwich: ―No doctor saw me since then. The only thing I saw is the nurse that came, and they start asking me where is it, or 182. Conference with Judge Duffy dw 9 20 5 p254

whatever? I said I could really see it. Once it happened I just went and spit and all the defendants were with me and they saw what happened, and I had a roll full of tissue full of blood, it was really bleeding, it wasn‘t a small cut. But you know, like any normal person once this happened to me I was hesitant even to eat my lunch. I was like very careful going through the meat.‖ Ayyad‘s attorney added: ―My client Ayyad pointed out the scar to me and it seems to be in the middle of the tongue, and the location that he was pointing out essentially, it cannot be a self-inflicted type wound, because of that location.‖183 In March 1993 there was much unrest in Egypt. Three bombings took place that month, at Assiut 2,500 Islamists demonstrated - at Manflout, 3000! Sheik Rahman had a premonition of doom and stated, ―I feel that my meeting with God is nearing.‖184 He was right: Emad Salem asked to be put back on the case in March 1993 and told Agent Anticev: ―I don‘t know, I mean I didn‘t hear anything from the Bureau, John. I mean the only person contacting me from the Bureau is you now. I mean even Nancy [S.A. Nancy Floyd] stepped away. I feel that she‘s not calling me now for almost a week or something. And I understand her position. But you are the only one who is contacting me from the Bureau and you are not giving me any definite answers…so that‘s why I said well I gotta better ease up my mind and stay away, that‘s why I didn‘t go to the rally yesterday…I mean we, you, you‘re not participating our things anymore…it takes forever for the, it takes about another bomb until the Bureau will decide something. So wait until the judge will be kidnapped, or one of the Jewish leaders with be bombed, or another building like the World Trade Center will be bombed. I mean what will the Bureau say. ‗Oh God that these people is really serious.‘ I mean the Empire State or somebody else will be what ever and then the Bureau will say, Oh God! That these people is really serious. But they didn‘t wake up that way, they didn‘t feel that these people is serious yet. I spoke to Dunbar. He was suspicious in me, and he put me on a polygraph exam, and he didn't believe me and, uh, he waited until the bomb went off. It takes a bomb to go off for him to believe that I was saying the truth.‖

183. Conference with Judge Duffy, Ayyad and Ahmed, page 506 184. Caryle Murphy ―Bomb Kills an Officer in Cairo‖ Washington Post March 28, 1993.

THE THIRD MUBARAK PLOT In March 1993, President Mubarak was scheduled to visit New York. Certain members of al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya‘s Brooklyn-New Jersey cell saw this visit as an opportunity to assassinate him, in the words of Siddig Ali, ―to execute the desire of the Sheik.‖185 In one plan, Siddig and his assassination team would dress up as room service waiters, sneak into Mubarak‘s hotel room and spray the suite with automatic machine gun fire. In another plan, they would steal a United Parcel Service truck and drill a hole in the side while a sniper pointed his arrival out and murdered him as he walked into the hotel. In seeking financing for this plan, Siddig Ali called Khalid Shaikh Mohammed‘s relative and operative Ammar al-Baluchi (Ali Abdul Aziz Ali) in the United Arab Emirates for funding, stating that Sheik Rahman would vouch for him. Siddig Ali also contacted a source in the Sudanese government to get a copy of Mubarak's itinerary while in New York. Siddig Ali: ―In March 1993, after I learned that Mahmud Abouhalima was arrested in Egypt I and others actively sought to carry out the assassination of Hosni Mubarak. The Sheik had previously given me a fatwa for a killing of Mubarak, and I discussed that assassination with others prior to Mahmud Abouhalima‘s arrest. After his arrest, I discussed this operation with Hampton-El and another individual first, then with Abdo Mohammed Haggag, Amir Abdelgani, Tarig Elhassan and Fadil Abdelgani. Amir and Tarig were very enthusiastic and interested in the plan, but Fadil was not because he wanted to go to the Sudan…Hampton-El agreed to provide the firearms and grenades, but he said he needed a few days to acquire them. Hampton-El told us to prepare or to appear on a specific date to pick up the weapons. It was at this time that Haggag reported that the FBI was aware of the plan, and no weapons were therefore obtained from Hampton-El. Mubarak canceled his trip to New York, and the decision was made to postpone the plot…It was my understanding that the killing of Mubarak would still be pursued in the future even though the prior plan had been foiled.‖ Haggag had secretly given the Egyptian government information about the plot, and the New York part of Mubarak‘s trip to the United States was canceled, instead of arrests being made. In June 1993 Siddig Ali informed Salem about a plot being formulated in Egypt to kill Mubarak and bomb the United States Embassy there. 185. USA v Rahman TT 10087-89, 10295-96

As a result of the failure of the plan to execute Mubarak, there was some speculation by members of al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya Brooklyn-Jersey City cell that Siddig Ali was the FBI informer, thanks to Haggag, who was behind the allegations. Haggag would also blame the arrest of Mahmud Abouhalima in Egypt on Siddig Ali. Siddig Ali and Salem conversed one day with Sheik Rahman about the issue. Sheik Rahman voiced his suspicions that Siddig Ali was the informer. Ironically, Salem secretly taperecorded this conversation for his FBI handlers. In conversations with Siddig, Salem learned that he attributed the leak of the plot on electronic surveillance: Salem: Who leaked the news? Siddig: There was no leak. It appears that Haggag‘s apartment in monitored, and God knows because they asked him. Salem: I made a check of Haggag‘s apartment…The telephone is monitored. Siddig: No one talked on the telephone. The conversation was at his house…there is no leak. I suspect fully there is something in house and in his car…because we didn‘t discuss this subject at all except at Haggag‘s house and his car. Salem: You and only him? Siddig: Only. Of course the man that we were going to obtain the weapons from [Hampton-El]. SIDDIG ALI’S PLOTS Siddig Ali proposed a new round of bombings. In late April 1993, Siddig Ali became very friendly with Emad Salem, who was, by that point, tape recording his conversations for the FBI. The FBI concluded that Salem had told the truth about the intentions of the cell but still could not admit it. An FBI Teletype of April 1993 stated that Mr. Salem‘s affiliation with the FBI was closed ―because polygraphs show[ed] deception regarding his

reporting of violent acts planned and encouraged by Rahman and Nosair‖186 not because the results were inconclusive. Salem agreed to assist Siddig Ali in putting together the bombs but stated that he would have no part in deploying them. After contemplating bombing a U.S. armory, Siddig Ali proposed bombing the United Nations complex. When initially discussing this plan with Salem, Siddig Ali stated that Rahman had approved the attack on the United Nations, and had called it not merely permissible, but a ―must‖ and a ―duty.‖187 After he agreed to co-operate Siddig testified: ―I proposed to Salem that we change our target from armories to the United Nations. I added to the list of targets 26 Federal Plaza.‖ Siddig and Salem discussed these targets in early May 1993. Siddig wished to kill as many FBI agents as possible and then take hostages. But the FBI‘s offices at 26 Federal Plaza could only be approached very early in the morning: Salem: Yes, at 3-4 a.m. it is going to be a symbolic operation more than. Siddig: Materialistic. Salem: Materialistic. Yes, there will be financial loss but you will be the one who blew up the FBI building but you are not going to kill agents because they will be sleeping at home. Siddig: Yes this is a problem. So we just place it, yes, right. Salem: First we shall know that is the benefit. Siddig: Yes, unless we do it in the day time, but how we will get in? Salem: During the daytime means we destroy ourselves. Siddig: Of course not, no, no. Salem: I am not ready to do that.

186. USA v Rahman TT 5754 187. USA v Rahman TT 5527-28

Siddig: There is nothing better than what I have told you, the big house [the United Nations]. Oh God, it is beautiful. Siddig confessed: ―The Holland and Lincoln tunnels and the George Washington Bridge were also targets. In May 1993 Salem and I and another individual visited Nosair in Attica. Salem spoke with Nosair privately, as did I. In our private conversation we discussed…Salem‘s reliability. Nosair advised me he was a good man, but to be careful. I told Nosair about targeting the United Nations by placing a bomb in a car and driving it into the United Nations garage. Nosair said it was not a good plan because of the heightened security of the World Trade Center bombing. He told me that instead I should consider kidnapping Mr. Nixon and Mr. Kissinger…In connection with the plan to attack the United Nations I received assistance from the representatives of a foreign government [the Sudan] in connection with obtaining access to the United Nations garage, surveillance of the garage and the use of diplomatic license plates. One of the representatives introduced me to Mohammed Saleh as being a representative of the Hamas who was raising money through people in the Middle East…Saleh agreed to assist with the financing of the operation.188 In 2001, a Sudanese-born suspect arrested in a foiled plot to bomb the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi told Indian investigators that Sudanese diplomats had given him explosives and detonators.189 Ambassador Sirajuddin Hamid Yousouf served on Khartoum‘s mission at the U.N. and was the Rahman gang‘s contact there. Consul Hamid and his deputy Ahmed Yousef were in a constant contact with Siddig Ali and Emad Salem. In the course of the action, Siddig Ali would always brag to Salem about his high level contacts with officials from Khartoum mission at the U.N. and the National Islamic Front. Ali even took Salem to the mission to see Sirajuddin Hamid. During a phone conversation with Ahmed Yousef, Ali prayed, ―May God grant you the ability to repulse the enemies…the ones who are here.‖ He said he and others are ―ready to die‖ if necessary. Yousef invoked the Qu‘ran during the recorded conversation by saying, ―We are not going to prevail by outnumbering you, but rather God‘s wrath is focused upon you.‖ Ali noted in agreement that, ―we will fight them with this religion.‖

188. USA v Rahman TT 2239-2240 189. Council on Foreign Relations in Co-operation with the Markle Foundation Sudan http://www.terrorismanswers.org/sponsors/sudan_print.html

To fulfill it‘s part in the event, the Khartoum mission granted access of the targeted U.N. facilities for Siddig Ali to survey the sites. The officials from the mission promised to provide diplomatic license plates for 4 stolen cars to gain access to the target areas. Siddig Ali then expected to escape to the Philippines and then Sudan using fake documents provided by the Khartoum. During Mubarak‘s scheduled trip to the U.S., Ali was able to get Mubarak‘s itinerary from Ahmed Yousef. The itinerary included details of Mubarak‘s stay in New York where it enabled Ali to plan diligently for the operation to assassinate the Egyptian leader. The Khartoum mission connected Siddig Ali with Hamas operative Mohammed Saleh who was caught carrying with him personal telephone numbers of Hamid, Yousef, and a phone number of an official from Khartoum embassy in Washington. Sirajuddin Hamid and Ahmed Yousef were declared as persona non grata and expelled from the U.S. They were considered security agents who posed as diplomats.190 Ambassador Sirajuddin Hamid Yousouf is a trained Sudanese lawyer who joined Khartoum government diplomatic service almost immediately after the Islamist regime took power in a coup. He also served as Khartoum‘s ambassador for the mission in Uganda until 2005 and as well as in other parts of the world. Hamid is currently Ambassador at the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs under the Sudan unity government and was also on the commission investigating the helicopter crash that killed Dr. John Garang de Nabior, the chairman of SPLA, the Christian / Animist opposition based in the Southern Sudan. On the way home from a trip to Philadelphia Salem and Siddig Ali had this conversation: Siddig: Where did I get this information [regarding a van with diplomatic plates that could be used to transport a bomb into the United Nations garage] from? I get it from the highest level. Salem: Then who is this high level?

190. http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article18681 Steve Paterno is a Sudanese residing in the U.S.A., and he can be reached at [email protected]

Siddig: I am telling you there are people from inside the embassy, Brother. Salem: The Sudanese Embassy, too? Siddig: I‘m telling you Brother, the Ambassador, Brother. Salem: Good. Siddig: So these people know the details. It is not a game, they know the details. Salem: Is the ambassador going to participate with us in this operation? Siddig: No, no. (laughing) Salem: Man I am kidding, a man in the diplomatic level comes and connects wires. (laughter) The van was to be delivered, along with a United Nations entry pass on June 24, 1993 but our operation was shut down by then.191 Siddig Ali invited Salem to discuss these matters directly with Sheikh Rahman, but reminded him that because of the surveillance due to the World Trade Center bombing, to use caution in so doing. Caution, as defined by Siddig Ali, included phrasing statements in a broad and general manner, and assuring that Rahman was insulated from active involvement in the plot. Salem met with Siddig Ali again on May 12, 1993 pretending that he had surveyed locations for use as a bomb-making safehouse and that he had settled on a garage in Queens that was renting for $1,000 a month. This safehouse was actually rented by the FBI, and the FBI installed video cameras and surveillance equipment in the safehouse before members of the group began using it. Taking Siddig Ali up on his earlier invitation, Salem had a private conversation with Rahman on the night of May 23, 1993. At the bidding of Siddig Ali, Salem began the conversation by pledging allegiance to

191. USA v Rahman TT 6757

Rahman. Salem then told Rahman that he and Siddig Ali were planning to ―do a job.‖192 By this time the FBI knew that Sheik Rahman had foreknowledge of the first World Trade Center attack, but allowed him to remain free so that they could spy on those who visited him. The U.S. issued a statement to the effect that the jailing of the Sheik would be too costly. In a letter written by an acting Attorney General, it was stated, ―In view of Rahman‘s poor health and incidental requirements for medical attention, his confinement, pending disposition of his appeal of the exclusion order would impose a significant burden upon Government resources. In the absence of concrete evidence that Rahman is participating in or involved in planning acts of terrorism, the assumption of that burden is considered unwarranted.‖193 ROBERT KENNEDY: A CASUALTY OF ISLAMISM On May 23, 1993 Sheik Rahman was overheard on a FBI listening device discussing a plan to bomb the United Nations and the New York City Field Office of the FBI. Here is a transcription of that tape: Emad Salem: …I do wish to know in regards to the United Nations, do we consider it the house of the devil…because my strike is a devastating one and not an amateur one like the one that took place at the Trade Center, we are preparing something big, something big if God willing, that will bring its highest and lowest, so is that forbidden or allowed? Rahman: It is not forbidden, however it will be bad for Muslims. Salem: Not forbidden, however, will be bad for Muslims, we do it or… Rahman: No. Salem: Forget it. Rahman: Find a plan to inflict damage on the American Army because the United Nations will damage Muslims.

192. USA v Rahman Government Exhibit #311T at 3 193. Mary Tabor ―U.S. Rejects Sheik‘s Jailing As Too Costly‖ New York Times April 22, 1993 Page B1, 1.

Salem: We keep it in the Army. Rahman: Yes, keep it, let us think, you all think of something else, because basically, the United Nations, this, they will consider it to be a center of peace and that Muslims are against peace, and will create a difficulty, and will disturb the Muslims being. Salem: Yes, but Siddig suggested the second target will be the FBI‘s center, which is 26 Federal Plaza, what do you think of this one? Rahman: By God, I mean, postpone it a little, postpone it a little, this way because, what… Salem: Emh, ok, fine, but we have prepared the thing now, Sheik. Rahman: It‘s ok. Salem: We wait then? Rahman: Wait a little. Salem: Fine, Sheik. Rahman: Slow down, slow down a little bit. The one who killed Kennedy was trained for three years.194 The Sheik whispered this last line to Emad Salem for fear the FBI was bugging his telephone and his apartment – which it was from February 1993 to June 1993, when the FBI ceased to do so after having searched it. Long before the PATRIOT (Providing Appropriate Tools Required To Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism) Act was enacted, the FBI also had a ―roving wiretap‖ on the Sheik and tapped the telephones that he used when he traveled to cities like Seattle and Los Angeles.195 There were other transcriptions of this last part of the tape: ―Salem then asked Rahman what he thought of the plan to bomb the FBI at 26 Federal Plaza.‖ Rahman responded, ―Well, uh, a little bit later. We‘ll talk about this.‖ When Salem

194. USA v Rahman Document 691 pgs. 4 and 5, Peter Waldman ―The Infiltrator: Ali-Mohamed served in the U.S. Army and binLaden's circle‖ The Wall Street Journal Nov. 26, 2001. 195. New York Times April 23, 1993 - Lynne Stewart quoted.

indicated that the plan was currently in motion, Rahman responded, ―It doesn‘t matter. Slow down. Slow down a bit. The one who killed Kennedy was trained for three years.‖ When Sister Lynne Stewart was put on trial for aiding al-Qaeda she remembered it this way, ―By God," the Sheikh answered. "I mean, postpone it a little, slow down a little. May God make things right for you.‖ When the transcript of this electronic surveillance was mentioned during the trial of Sheik Rahman that began in January 1995, Judge Mukasey, the prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy, and all the defense attorneys thought that this was a reference to the assassination of John F. Kennedy and not Robert Kennedy. Listen to the dialogue in Mukasey‘s courtroom when this valuable insight into the secret history of Islamism in America was discussed: Assistant United States Attorney McCarthy: Your Honor, we are going to get CM10, a transcript that has the allusion to the Kennedy assassination in it. THE COURT: Right. I ruled that out didn‘t I? McCarthy: No, you ruled that it wasn‘t to be mentioned in front of the jury until you said one way or the other. It is our position, your Honor, that it is relevant, probative evidence of Dr. Abdel Rahman‘s state of mind…The whole case is about what he had on his mind, and it makes it much more relevant that he‘s mentioned the name of a United States Government official as opposed to another man. THE COURT: No. All it does is call for all kinds of speculation that have not a great deal to do with this case by a good number of years. McCarthy: It‘s not the government‘s position that he actually had anything to do with the Kennedy assassination. But it is extremely relevant, given the fact that what was being proposed were attacks on American installations, that what he is talking about is training for an attack on an American government official in a case where he has contended that he‘s not involved in any kind of Jihad other than Jihad overseas…

THE COURT: ―The person who carried out the Kennedy assassination trained for three years,‖ is a point he could just as easily have been making about a proposed act to take place overseas, as he could about a proposed domestic act. For example, if he had said ―Have your escape plans ready, because John Wilkes Booth has a horse waiting out in the alley…‖ But if he is talking about an attack on American military installations, it will be apparent without his reference to advice based on an earlier act. If he is saying, ―Wait to attack American installations because after all the person who attacked Kennedy trained for three years,‖ then the fact that he alludes to the person who attacked Kennedy doesn‘t add anything. On the other hand if he says wait to train to assassinate Mubarak because the person who assassinated Kennedy trained for three years, that doesn‘t make a proposed assassination of Mubarak somehow a more American act… McCarthy: Perhaps the name Kennedy, – it has a danger of unfair prejudice that an appropriate substitution or to an instruction from the court with the transcript left intact that the government doesn‘t make any contention that any defendant on trial had anything to do with that incident. Defense Attorney Lynne Stewart: Could you read it aloud, Judge? I don‘t have it in front of me, just as it would be without the word Kennedy, that sentence. THE COURT: Rahman: The man who killed X was training for three years. We don‘t want ah – Salem: No, no we will do a good job God willing. Rahman: OK Stewart: The problem is John Wilkes Booth – Defense Attorney Amsterdam: Without being funny, there is the tension. I am extremely concerned with spillover prejudice as to any inference in front of this jury that somebody even remotely connected with this group had something to do with Kennedy. On the other hand if you substitute it with a blank there is some suggestion that a recent assassination was actually committed. So from her [Lynne Stewart‘s] point of view, I think that she will

almost take the Kennedy because it is so far away in time that she couldn‘t possibly have been involved in it. From my point of view I will take anything other than Kennedy. I think from that point of view Lincoln… Stavis: Or President Garfield. THE COURT: Let‘s take another step further. Instead of just blanking out Kennedy, why not blank out kill also, and leave it as the man who was redacted was training for three years.196 This was what the jury heard and read: Rahman: The one who [redacted] [redacted] was training for three years, we don‘t want uh. Salem: No, no we will do a good job, God willing. The Assistant United States Attorney summed up this conversation: ―Those are the words he spoke in the kitchen. Keep it away from the United Nations, put it right at the Army itself. The FBI: Slow down. Do it right. Those words are not words he wanted anyone but Salem to hear. He whispered them. The last people he wanted to hear those words are you. But you will listen to them right now. Cue it up you can listen on your headphones, it will play out loud, but you can hear it much better on your headphones, because it is whispering. (Audiotape played.) When we talk about corroboration that is what corroboration is. Someone tells you he said these words, he whispered them in a kitchen. You have it on tape. That is the side he never wanted people to see.‖197 The Sheik‘s indiscretion was excised from this tape! After the Sheik was sentenced to life imprisonment he glossed over his reference to this event that had far reaching consequences on America‘s history: ―When he then countered with a plan for FBI headquarters at 26 Federal Plaza I told him to slow down, take time – all to dissuade this insistent hot-headed individual, who I know now only had thoughts of money and his master‘s glory. The attack on American military bases here, supposedly suggested by me on tape was nothing more than

196. USA v Rahman TT 4822 197. USA v Rahman TT 18665

an instantaneous reaction to a person I thought to be either unbalanced or an Egyptian spy. It was said to set out an impossibility, and thus relieve myself of his unwelcome presence.‖ SIRHAN SIRHAN

On June 5, 1968 Sirhan Sirhan assassinated presidential candidate Senator Robert F. Kennedy. This conspiracy was written off as the act of a lone gunman, a deranged individual, a 1960‘s version of how Nosair was first perceived, when in reality, like the Kahane assassination, it was our work of carried out in the name of the Ummah. Sirhan Sirhan was born in 1944 in al-Quds198 and in 1948, he and his family moved to Old Jerusalem where they remained until coming to the United States in 1956. Throughout his eight years in Old Jerusalem there were intermittent bombings. Sirhan‘s family resided in a one-room apartment with grossly inadequate toilet facilities. He often said ―the Jews have kicked us out of our home‖ and was also told of the Deir Yassin massacre in which the Jews slaughtered 250 people including women and children. Sirhan elaborated, ―While living in Old Jerusalem I went to a well for some water, and when the bucket came up it contained a hand and this sickened me. On one occasion I saw the exploded remains of a grocer I knew. Another time I came across the body of a neighbor hanging on the barbed wire on the street in front of our home. Once a Zionist truck drove through our street carrying a number of young Arab girls whose breasts had been slashed. I was four years old at the time and I told my mother ‗Look at the blood, mommy!‘‖199 In 1956 he heard about the Arab-Israel war involving the Suez Canal. In the 1960‘s Sirhan asserted that violence was the only means by which the American Negroes would achieve their goals, and that the State of Israel had taken his home, and that the Jewish people were on top and directing the events in America. These experiences made it easy for a small group of Islamists led by Dr. Mehdi to train and groom the Christian Sirhan Sirhan, and lead him back to the Islamic tradition that had run through his blood for ages. In court, during his trial, Sirhan Sirhan burst out that he had killed RFK ―willfully, premeditatively, with twenty years of malice and forethought. I am

198. Jerusalem. 199. Douglas Robinson ―Sirhan Tells Court He Killed Kennedy‖ New York Times March 4, 1969.

willing to fight for the Arab cause. I am willing to die for it.‖ On June 1, 1968 Ben Herrick, the owner of the Lock, Stock and Barrel Gun shop in San Gabriel, California, sold Sirhan the ammunition he used to assassinate Kennedy. Herrick stated that two Arab Brothers accompanied Sirhan.200 Larry K. Arnot, who worked at the store at the time refused to talk about the incident.201 Sirhan repeatedly stated that he carried out this assassination alone, however, a fellow inmate with Sirhan in San Quentin from 1972 to 1973 claimed that Sirhan was involved in the prison murder of inmate Ronald Woods who had gone to the FBI and told agents there that Sirhan had admitted to him that others were involved in the RFK assassination.202 SIRHAN AND MEHDI Sheik Rahman was in Egypt when Robert Kennedy was assassinated and did not know Sirhan Sirhan, however Mehdi was in contact with Sirhan Sirhan. Mehdi, who was in touch with Sheikh Rahman, apparantly received a fatwa from him authorizing the assassination. After the Robert Kennedy assassination the FBI failed to investigate a connection between Sirhan Sirhan and the West Coast office of the Arab Information Center in San Francisco, founded by Dr. Mehdi, despite the fact that Sirhan stated at his trial ―that he read everything about the Arab-Israeli situation that he could lay his hands on, including publications from the Arab Information Center in the United States.‖203 Dr. Mehdi had left San Francisco in 1963 to direct the New York Office of the Center, but the office on the West Coast remained in operation and Mehdi and Sirhan visited it. Sirhan reportedly collected intelligence for the Arab Information Center by reading publications such as the B‟nai B‟rith Messenger, and attending Jewish meetings and parades. After Sirhan Sirhan performed his service to the Ummah, Dr. Mehdi visited Sirhan in prison numerous times204 and issued a statement that Sirhan might have been motivated to attack Robert Kennedy because Robert Kennedy had promised to sell sophisticated bombers to Israel. Mehdi talked of the ―frustration of many Arabs with American politicians who have sold the Arab people of

200. ―Shell Purchase by Sirhan Noted: 2 Were With Accused Killer, Gunshop Owner Says,‖ New York Times June 16, 1968 Page 32, 1. 201. Larry K. Arnot 626-358-8787 202. Philip Melanson ―The RFK Assassination‖ Shapolsky Press 1991 page 117 203. Robert Kennedy FBI Files Part 1 of 9 FBI 77-51387 http://foia.fbi.gov/rfk/rfk1a.pdf 204. Conversation with Ghazi Khanken October 7, 2003.

Palestine to the Zionist Jewish voters.‖ When Sirhan was arrested, a newspaper article that stated Senator Kennedy favored aid to Israel, with arms if necessary, was found in his pocket.205 Dr. Mehdi visited with Sirhan after Sirhan was incarcerated, under the pretext of writing a book on the Robert Kennedy assassination that was printed by the New World Press in 1968 and titled Kennedy and Sirhan, Why? The New World Press was located in Dr. Mehdi‘s apartment. In this book Mehdi justified Sirhan‘s action: ―Kennedy, the dove on Vietnam, who had called for the de-escalation of the war, was a hawk in the Middle East and had proposed sending fifty Phantom jets to Israel; Israel having been created because Palestine was destroyed and its people shattered and Sirhan being a member of that destroyed and shattered nation of Palestine, it was clear why he would consider Kennedy as one of his enemies. As soon as the identity of the assailant was discovered, the Action Committee on American-Arab Relations issued a statement in New York explaining that his act ‗reflects the frustration of many Arabs with American politicians who have sold the Arab people of Palestine to the Zionist Jewish voters.‘ Furthermore, the Action Committee condemned ‗the fact that Senator Kennedy had kowtowed to the Zionist pressure to the detriment of America.‘ President Johnson, who sends American planes to bomb North Vietnam, is a legitimate target for the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese. To say that the Viet Cong should not attack Johnson and should direct their fire only at the GI's would not make sense. If the Viet Cong could get Lyndon Baines Johnson, to them he is a fair game. By the same token, when Robert F. Kennedy supports Israel against the Arabs, he is assuming the role of an Israeli high-ranking official. To say that the Arabs should direct their fire only at Israeli soldiers, but not at those who have supplied the soldier with arms and economic and political strength and thereby created the Israeli war machinery - this too does not make sense…Sirhan has raised some other questions of greater theoretical and philosophical interest. He has raised the question of political assassination and conventional morality; His decision raises the questions of the use of force: whether ‗organized‘ use of force is moral and ‗individual‘ use of force immoral. Whether the American politician, whose policies, statements and actions affect the lives of millions of people the world over, should be accountable only to the American voters, or as he affects the destiny of

205. David Lawrence Pasadena Evening Star News - May 26, 1968.

other people, he should be equally accountable to these others…On the question of prevention of greater evil, if the death of one person has prevented the sending of Phantom jets which might kill and destroy the lives of, say, fifteen thousand human beings, then possibly a greater evil was prevented even though a great tragedy took place.‖ In another book, Terrorism Against America, Why? Mehdi wrote: ―Robert Kennedy, of course, was not interested in killing Arabs. But his action in the course of the elections resulted in the death of thousands of Arabs. Indeed, Robert Kennedy can be considered as the man responsible for the arms race in the Middle East. The Israeli occupation of Sinai, annexation of the Golan Heights and war in Lebanon might be traced to Bobby Kennedy‘s desire to become the President of the United States. ―Was Sirhan able to appeal to Kennedy in any way whatever so that politician Kennedy would not push for giving Phantom jets to Israel? In Sirhan‘s own words, if he had wanted ‗to lick Kennedy‘s boots, pleading with him not to send the phantom jets to Israel, Kennedy would not have even stopped to have his boots licked‘ by Sirhan. Sirhan, of course, committed an act of terrorism. But Robert Kennedy‘s pushing for arms to Israel has led to hundreds of acts committed by Israel terrorists, resulting in the death of tens of thousands of Palestinians, Syrians, Lebanese and other Arabs. Kennedy was responsible for acts of war terrorism and other horrors in the Middle East. Sirhan, of course, could have appealed to the American people to pressure Kennedy not to send arms to Israel. But in the absence of the capability to affect American public opinion peacefully to prevent Kennedy from supporting Israel, an act of terrorism was committed by Sirhan in reaction to Kennedy‘s promotion of war in the Middle East.‖ ISSA NAKHLEH The Arab Higher Committee for Palestine instructed its New York representative Issa Nakhleh to offer all possible assistance to Sirhan, and Nakhleh became a consulting attorney at the Sirhan Sirhan trial.206 Born in Palestine Nakhleh, another Christian by birth, was a graduate of London University, a Barrister-at-Law of the Honorable Society of Lincoln Inn, London, and a Member of

206. ―Arab Agency Orders Aid Offer to Sirhan‖ Associated Press June 23, 1968 published in New York Times.

the Palestine Bar. He represented the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine (also known as the Palestinian Arab Delegation) a pro-PLO group in New York from 1947 to 1948. He then became Representative of the League of Arab States with the rank of Minister Plenipotentiary for Latin America with an office in Buenos Aires, Argentina. For the last 32 years he had represented the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine in New York. He attended more than 15 Sessions of the United Nations General Assembly, and made more than 50 speeches in the Special Political Committee on the Problem of Palestine. The Justice Department reported that Palestinian Arab Delegation is registered with the Foreign Agents Registration Board as a representative of the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine: ―The registrant engaged in meetings at the United Nations for the purpose of winning support of the United Nations Delegations for the cause of the Palestine Arab people.‖ The Delegation received $24,000.00 for the sixmonth period ending June 26, 2001 from the Palestinian Authority.207 The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin el-Husseini, whose spirit guided Brother Nakhleh, had originally formed the Palestinian Arab Delegation. In 1947 Nakhleh wrote a letter to the Washington Post in which he stated, ―The Grand Mufti occupies in Arab hearts the same position General George Washington occupied in American hearts…It is not only untrue but it is willful misrepresentation to say that the Grand Mufti had ‗contacts with the Fascist powers in the early thirties and had arms guidance and funds.‘ The Arab national movement was never financed by any foreign power. His Eminence the Grand Mufti did not go to Germany by his own free will as the British pursued him from one country to the other. When he was in Germany, he refused to act as a Nazi tool as falsely alleged by the Zionists. He never took part directly or indirectly in the alleged extermination of Jews or had anything to do with any of Hitler‘s plans. His eminence is one of the most noble and human leaders of our time.‖208 Nakhleh was a participant in the 1982 conference of the Institute for Historical Review and he gave speech entitled, ―Palestinians and the Israeli Wars of Aggression.209 In 1991 Intercontinental Books210 published Nakhleh‘s The Encyclopedia

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. http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/fara/Fara1st01/COUNTRY/PALESTIN.HTM . Letters to the Editor Washington Post September 14, 1947. . Spotlight November 8, 1982 IHR Advertisement 210 . Simon and Schuster also had a subsidiary known as Intercontinental Books, but it only published children‘s titles. The Chinese had a publishing house known as Intercontinental Press. 208 209

of the Palestine Problem. Nakhleh was a legal adviser of the Saudi Arabian Mission to the United Nations before his death on March 29, 2003.211 SPEAR S. SAYEGH Spear S. Sayegh, a member of Sirhan‘s support group, came to the attention of FBI when a witness overheard him discussing the Sirhan case on the telephone at his place of business. Sayegh was an Arab and in active in the Los Angeles Arabic community. Sirhan was friendly with a student named Anwar John Sayegh. An FBI investigation into the matter revealed that the telephone call to Sayegh was probably a request from John Lawrence in New York for Sayegh to assist in Sirhan‘s defense. John Lawrence worked for Mohammad T. Mehdi. This was how the FBI reported the incident: ―Mrs. Lois Garner entered the GPS Pharmacy in Temple City on approximately June 7, 1968, and observed the pharmacist on the telephone. She stated she overheard him say, ‗But I had to! We will have to call an emergency meeting. We must band together and stand behind him.‘ The pharmacist observed Mrs. Garner and said: ‗I have to go now,‘ and he hung up the phone. Mrs. Garner believed the conversation was related in some way to Sirhan Sirhan and reported the incident to the Temple City Police Department. ―On July 8, 1968, FBI Agent Lloyd Johnson interviewed Spear Sayegh at his place of business. Sayegh stated that he had never met Sirhan Sirhan and knew nothing of him. He stated that he was acquainted with most Arabs in the Los Angeles area and that he had met [Sirhan Sirhan‘s brother] Adel Sirhan when he had seen him as a musician at the Shaker‘s Oasis Bar and The Fez Bar. Sayegh was president of the American Jordanian Society that he formed, for two years. He was presently president of the United States Organization of Medical and Educational Needs. The organizations were both charitable and not political in nature. ―Sayegh stated that he and most Arabs of his acquaintance had warm feelings for both John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy. He said that it was the opinion of many Arabs that Zionists had induced Sirhan to assassinate Robert Kennedy. He personally did not have evidence of this belief. ―Sayegh does not recall the specific conversation Mrs. Garner referred to but stated that it could have been any number of people due to his involvement with different organizations. He did recall several calls from John Lawrence requesting that he (Sayegh) arrange a defense for Sirhan. Sayegh stated that he declined because he thought that Sirhan was guilty and should be executed. Lawrence was identified as the executive secretary of the ‗Organizing Committee for Clemency for Sirhan‘ in New York City. For decades al-Qaeda was able to use non-profit charitable organizations to raise money for Jihad. After September 11th this subterfuge was no longer viable.

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. Letters to the Editor ―Saudi Arabia: America's Friend‖Washington Post February 3, 2002.

Nevertheless, we thank Allah [subhanahu wa ta‘ala] for allowing us to raise funds through organizations such as the United States Organization of Medical and Educational Needs. Alfred Lilienthal, whose articles have appeared in the Revisionist Journal of the Institute of Historical Review, spoke before the Organization of Medical and Educational Needs.212 The Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee listed the Organization of Medical and Educational Needs213 as being identical with the Palestinian Refugee Fund.214 The Mercy Relief of Singapore supported the Palestinian Refugee Fund. The Government of Kenya deregistered Mercy Relief International in September 1998 as they had been found to be working against the interests of Kenyans in terms of security according to the Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) Coordination Board, the government body that oversees the activities of locally registered NGOs. No further details were given, although the Kenyan Police and the FBI raided Mercy Relief International as part of their investigations into the August 7, 1998 bombing of the American spy-nests in Kenya and Tanzania. Documents were taken in that raid, but no arrests were made, however, during the 2001 trial of the Brothers who carried out these activities the traitor Jamal Ahmed Mohammed al-Fadl was asked: Q. And during the time that you were in Nairobi were you familiar with a charity or relief organization known as Mercy International Relief Organization? A. Yes. Q. And were there any al-Qaeda people affiliated with the Mercy International Relief Organization? A. Yes, the people of al-Qaeda they were dealing with the Mercy International. Q. Who were those people? Which al-Qaeda people were dealing with Mercy International? A. Bin Laden, Mohammad Masry. Brother Abu Jihad called Sayegh in February 2003: Abu Jihad: My name is Abu Jihad and I am graduate student doing a PhD. thesis on Sirhan Sirhan. I came across a document about someone having overheard a telephone call you received at your pharmacy. Sayegh: Ray Jollo is in charge of my life history. R-A-Y J-O-L-L-O.

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. Alfred Lilienthal Lecture Brochure 147 W 55 St New York, New York. . United States Organization for Medical Educational Needs Attn. Az Nashashibi Tel. 415-665 0830 Fax. 415-284 3225 2 Plaza Drive P.O. Box 16308 San Francisco, CA 94116 214 . http://groups.google.com/groups?q=United+States+Organization+of+Medical+and+Educational+Needs&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF8&safe=off&selm=8s60fp%241c3r%241%40pencil.math.missouri.edu&rnum=1 213

Abu Jihad: Who was this guy Lawrence you were talking with? Was he connected to Dr. Mehdi? Sayegh: Yes, Dr. Mehdi was his friend too. Abu Jihad: He was a very great man, Dr. Mehdi. Sayegh: Yes he is. I can‘t help you I am sorry sir. Abu Jihad: Did Mr. Lawrence know Mr. Mehdi? Sayegh: Yes he knew him. Abu Jihad: The organization you were talking to regarding Sirhan was connected with Dr. Mehdi? Sayegh: Yes. Abu Jihad: There was a friend of Sirhan who had the same last name as you. Was that any relation? Sayegh: No. Abu Jihad: You were with the United States Organization of Medical and Educational Needs? This foundation, was this similar to the Holy Land Foundation? I know that after the bombings an affiliate in Kenya of the Organization of Medical and Educational Needs was kicked out of that country. Sayegh: I have no idea about it now. It was a long time ago. Abu Jihad: The money you raised wasn‘t going to any militant organizations? Sayegh: No, no, to Palestinian refugees. I have to go. It was Brothers like Nakhleh and Sayegh, who hated the Zionist occupiers and had connections, directly and indirectly, to organizations comprised of Nazi‘s posing as historians, who provided support for Sirhan Sirhan‘s action. Doctor Mehdi was placed on the Rahman Unindicted Co-Conspirator List released to the public by the Department of Injustice. Dr. Mehdi died on February 28, 1998, may God have mercy on his soul for he was a key player in the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Meir Kahane. When Sirhan was asked who killed Robert Kennedy he responded, ―Sirhan Sirhan I suppose, no other person.‖215 To be sure our sponsorship remained a secret Abu Jihad called Ghazi Khankan in October 2003 and

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. ―Sirhan Says No One Helped to Kill Kennedy‖ New York Times June 16, 1983 Page A18, 1.

asked him about Dr. Rahman‘s reference to killing Kennedy. ―What? That‘s very very farfetched. Dr. Mehdi was only a translator for Sheik Rahman in a court situation. 216 Sirhan was a Christian he has nothing to do with any…Dr. Mehdi used to go there to see to visit him in the jail to see…he was calling for his parole. Dr. Mehdi worked for the League of Arab States. The Arab Information Center was not his. He was director for a few years in the 1950‘s.‖217 The League of Arab states funded the Arab Information Center.218 The Sheik was not the only figure in the Arab world to link the RFK assassination to so-called ―organized Arab terrorism.‖ The Saudi Ambassador to the United Nations, Jamil M. Baroody, in a speech to the Security Council hinted, ―When the Palestinians, who have been robbed of their property, of their homeland, chased out of their country, are desperate and try to express their despair by such acts as we hear of, whether it is in the airport at Athens219 or elsewhere, or even in Los Angeles where one of the leaders of this country was assassinated because he supported the Israeli cause for political reasons, these people are called ‗murderers.‘‖220 On March 2, 1973, in Khartoum, Sudan, members of the Black September group captured five diplomats, including the American Ambassador Cleo A. Noel and outgoing Charge d‘Affairs G. Curtis Moore. The Palestinian freedom fighters said they wanted to exchange them for Sirhan Sirhan. When the Americans refused these men were executed! The Brothers who executed this event served 16 months in a Sudan prison and were released to the PLO in June 1974. They were to complete their two-year sentences in a West Bank prison but there is no evidence they ever did so.221 DR. RAHMAN SURRENDERS On July 2, 1993 Sattar and Sheik Rahman barricaded themselves in the Abu Bakr Mosque then surrendered following a tense 20-hour standoff with authorities that suddenly had decided to revoke Rahman‘s parole on immigration charges, however the Sheik was convinced he was being arrested on the same conspiracy that his followers had been charged with the previous week and he told the crowd who formed a human chain across the street from the Mosque, ―I might not stand in front of you again. We are not conspiring against America even though we disagree with American policy.‖ 222 Mohammad T. Mehdi was present and reported that Sheik Rahman asked him, ―Is America becoming another Egypt [complete with administrative detention]?‖ Sheik Rahman, who was suffering from numerous illnesses, including a non-contagious form of tuberculosis, was helicoptered to Otisville Federal Prison in upstate New York. There,

216

. The Washington Post of August 16, 1993 described Mehdi as ―a close advisor of the Sheik.‖ . Tape Recorded conversation with Ghazi Khankan October 14, 2003. . Washingon Post February 20, 1976 ―Arab Center, Leader Named in US Suit.‖ The USDOJ filed suit against the Arab Information Center for failing to file a Foreign Agents Registration Act Statement as the Center worked on behalf of the League of Arab States. 219 . On December 26, 1968 the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine killed on Israeli during an attack on El-Al Airlines at Athens airport. 220 . ―Arab Envoy at UN Cites RFK Murder‖ Washington Post January 1, 1969 page A24 221 . Jim Hoagland ―Sudan Releases Envoy‘s Killers to PLO‖ Washington Post June 25, 1974. 222 . Allison Mitchell ―Sheik to be Held While Fighting Deportation‖ New York Times July 3, 1993 Page 1,2. 217 218

he was hospitalized after he began to suffer from higher than normal blood sugar levels as his medication had been taken away from him for security reasons. 223 The warnings to the Americans began, ―We have issued statements warning the Americans never to touch Dr. Omar Abdel Rahman and now they will see our response.‖ Montassar alZayyat added that the Sheik‘s extradition could ―set off a wave of violence.‖224 On July 3, 1993 State Department official Robert H. Pelletreau, was informed by Amr Moussa who is now head of the Arab League, that the Sheik had been ordered arrested by the Fayoum High Security Court. In a television interview July 4, 1993 Secretary of State Warren Christopher said he knew that Egypt wanted Abdel Rahman returned and that the United States would take ―a sympathetic view‖ if an extradition request was received for the charge of inciting to riot. During his immigration hearing Sheik Rahman was asked: Q. What do you think would happen if you went back to Egypt? A. They will set up various charges against me in order that they may order me, remand me in the prison or to kill me. When I was in the United States in November or December 1991, I tried to return to Egypt, but the Minister of Interior sent me a delegate, threatening me that if I returned then I will face the prison and detention or at least house arrest. I gave my lawyer the name of the witness, if necessary. Q. Who was the delegate that was sent to you? A. A person whom I know that is acquainted with the Minister of Interior. His is Dr. Mustafa Mouman. I prepared myself to return to Egypt and this Mustafa Mouman came to New York and contacted me, and I went to him and he told me what Minister of Interior said. Q. How did-how did the Egyptian government know you were going to return to Egypt? A. I didn't say that they Egyptian government knew that I was going to return. It was my intention to return. Q. Well, but why did the Egyptian government happen to send this delegate to you coincidentally at the same time that you were planning to return? A. I had no intention of returning at that particular date, but I was thinking of returning. Q. Do you know if Dr. Mustafa Mouman he works for the Egyptian government? A. You mean as a spy?

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. Joseph B. Treaster, ―Sheik Hospitalized at Federal Prison‖ New York Times July 7, 1993 Page A1, 3. . Joseph B. Treaster ―Lawyer Says Sheik Plans Fight Against Extradition‖ New York Times July 6, 1993 Page B2, 1.

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On July 4, 1993, Amad Sattar told the media "we haven't decided the time or place, but our Muslim community will definitely demonstrate its outrage at the arrest of the Sheikh and that if anything happens to the Sheikh, we will hold the American administration responsible. Something very bad could happen." On July 10, 1993 the Immigration Board of Appeals upheld Meisner‘s determination and rejected the Sheik‘s application for asylum. Doctor Mehdi commented, ―The Sheik is exceedingly disappointed. I understand that he is improving and taking some of his medication but he is demoralized and this was before the Board rejected his appeal.‖225 Sheik Rahman was offered asylum by the Sudanese. Then Prime Minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar of Afghanistan stated, ―We are willing to give him refuge, it will not cause a problem.‖226 August 27, 1993 was a day that sealed the fate of the United States. The Islamist scholar, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, whose only crime was having correctly interpreted the Qu‘ran, was brought before a federal magistrate and charged with conspiring to wage a holy war against America. During his incarceration the Sheik took his immigration case to the United States Appellate Court which ruled: ―Based on this court‘s review of the administrative record, this court concludes that the Board of Immigration Appeals decision, as well as that of the Immigration Judge, on the application for asylum and withholding of deportation is supported by substantial evidence in the record. Fear of persecution, the basis for asylum, is not to be equated with an expectation of prosecution. The latter is not a ground for asylum. The unclassified summary opinion of the State Department Office of Asylum Affairs, Bureau of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, notes that: ‗We think that his acquittal in Egypt [in the Anwar Sadat assassination trial] reflects the practice of the Egyptian courts whose judges we respect and who enjoy a reputation for independence in their wish to hold government to a high standard in bringing charges against individuals for security breaches and for fomenting sectarian violence.‘ This court also concludes that the Board of Immigration Appeals and the Immigration Judge had reasonable grounds for regarding the Petitioner as a danger to the security of the United States and therefore were required to deny his application for relief. Petitioner next argues that he was deprived of his right to a full and fair hearing on the ground that the Immigration Judge improperly considered ‗classified‘ information despite the Judge‘s

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representation on the record that he would not. Before reaching the merits of this argument this Court notes that it has declined, for policy reasons noted below, to receive the classified documents for in camera review [however] the undersigned received Secret level security clearance and [now] has the authority to read such a document. Although the undersigned has authority to base his decision on the classified information contained in the advisory opinion, the undersigned has not considered the classified information in reaching a decision in this case…The undersigned notes that the information contained in the classified document is relevant to the case and is a more detailed account of applicant‘s alleged activities that are set forth in the unclassified U.S. Department of States advisory opinion, dated October 23, 1992…227 In fact, the Board of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs advisory opinion noted that it was accompanied by a classified letter ‗which summarizes information available to the U.S. concerning the continuing involvement of [the applicant] in terrorist activities which would have detrimental foreign policy and security consequences for the U.S. Government.‘ The regulation specifies that the agency that provides the classified information may provide an unclassified summary. The immigration judge found that the Board of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs opinion did adequately summarize the classified information and provide the applicant an opportunity to offer opposing evidence.‖

This dirt bag of an American traitor and mureed (brainwashed student) of ANWAR AL-AWLAKI was born August 31, 1960 in Arlington County, Virginia the son of immigrant parents from the West Bank town of Ramallah, a hotbed of Palestinian terrorism. The possibility exists that he was named after Abu Nidal, a notorious terrorist. Here is fatso at a Palestinian terror group meeting. Hasan attended Arlington's Wakefield High School for a year in 1986 then graduated from William Fleming High School in Roanoke in 1988. There, instead of dating, Hasan was videotaped telling a profanitylaced tale in Arabic to his Arabic classmates about a young man who commits incest in the process of selling a chicken to earn money for marriage.228 In 1987, his family bought the Capitol Restaurant, a blue-collar beer hall where alcohol was sold to Muslims, despite Qu‘ranic prohibition to do so. In a 1995 interview with The Roanoke Times, Malik Hasan, Nidal's father, acknowledged that it was a sleazy dump. In order to transcend this

227. USA v Rahman Doc 682 228. http://www.roanoke.com/multimedia/video/wb/225383

and live the American dream Hasan joined the Army circa 1988. He studied at Barstow Community College in California satellite campus at Fort Irwin from the spring semester of 1989 to the spring semester of 1990. College records also show that Hasan was an enlisted soldier at an E-3 rank (private first class) or below while attending Barstow Community College. Hasan‘s residential address zip code indicated that he was living on post. He went on to Virginia Western Community College in Roanoke, where he earned an associate degree in science in 1992. Hasan first enrolled at Virginia Tech for Summer Session II in 1992. He completed coursework in Spring Semester 1995 and received a Bachelor of Science degree with honors in biochemistry with a minor in biology and chemistry from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. IMMERSION IN THE VIOLENT CULTURE OF ISLAM Even at this early stage the milieu Hasan existed within was clearly that of Imam jihadi terrorist support groups. While not performing jihad themselves, these Imam‘s preach a brand of Islam that gives terrorist violence a religious imprimatur as the ―neglected duty.‖ The seeds were planted in Hasan’s feeble brain by radical clerics who all played down Hasan‘s fanatical beliefs after the event. Imam Sheik Shaker El-Sayed of the Dar al-Hijrah Mosque in Falls Church, Virginia, where Hasan prayed claimed that Hasan‘s greatest interest seemed to be in finding a wife, not in Islamism. Like most worshipers, he said Hasan ―joined prayers, finished prayers, then left. I didn‘t see him hanging out with people, joining discussion groups or classes. But there has been a lot of blogging about our mosque, a rightwing conspiracy, trying to make a mountain out of cardboard.‖ The phone number for the Dar alHijrah Islamic Center, controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood was found in the Hamburg, Germany, apartment of one of the planners of the 9/11 attacks, Ramzi Binalshibh. Imam Sheik Shaker El-Sayed was an associate of Mohammad Al-Hanooti an unindicted co-conspirator of the Blind Shaykh, Omar Abdel Rahman. It was no fluke that El-

Sayed told reporters the terrorism case against Abu Ali229 was based on a confession to Saudi authorities he termed "laughable." "They didn't have the evidence. They don't have the evidence. The fishing expedition continues," he said. In February 2005 Abu Ali was transferred to United States custody from Saudi Arabia pursuant to a criminal indictment, returned by a grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia on February 3, 2005. The indictment charged Abu Ali with two counts of providing material support to terrorists, two counts of providing material support to a terrorist organization (Al Qaeda), one count of contributing goods and services to Al Qaeda, and one count of receiving services from Al Qaeda. The indictment was later amended to add charges of conspiracy to assassinate the president, conspiracy to hijack aircraft, and conspiracy to destroy aircraft. The indictment alleged that Abu Ali had joined a terrorist cell in Medina, and that among the plots they were developing were a plan to assassinate the President of the United States, and a plan to mount 9/11-style attacks using planes transiting through the United States. El Sayed was a leader at a radical Salafi mosque with ties to convicted terrorists supported by the Muslim Brotherhood. El Sayed has been identified as Secretary-General of the Muslim American Society. Dr. Asif Qadri, head of the medical clinic at the Muslim Community Center in Silver Spring, Maryland said Hasan frequently attended prayer services there. He spoke with pride about being a Muslim serving in the Army, Qadri said, and was known as a ―jovial‖ and ―well balanced‖ person who never talked about politics. Dr. Qadri is from the disputed part of Kashmir, the home of many an Islamist group. Hasan‘s Imam at the Silver Spring Maryland Islamic Center, Faizul Khan also said that Hasan was more interested in finding a wife than in politics. Faizul Khan is a leading member of the Shura (Advisory) Council for the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). The Islamic Society of North America is a terrorist support group masquerading as respectable, responsible patriotic Muslims.

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Imam Sirraj Wahhaj is the Vice president of the ISNA. In 1991 Wahhaj recited an invocation in front of the United States House of Representatives. He was the first Muslim to do so. Wahhaj presides at the Al-Taqwah Mosque in Brooklyn whose members provided security for the Islamist sympathizers of Said Nosair during his trial for the Meyer Kahane assassination. These men, all members of a Gama Al-Islamaya cell, would later take part in the bombing of the WTC in 1994. Respectable Imam Wahhaj had met often with Mayors Dinkins and Bloomberg of New York City, however, he has called for replacing them with a caliphate where Shar‘ia law would prevail. Imam Wahhaj served as a character witness for Sheik Abdel Rahman and his crew member Hampton-El at their trial during which they were accused of plotting to blow up the Bridges and Tunnels leading to New York City. He also testified for the defense at the African Embassy bombing trial.230 Islamic Society of North America president Ingrid Mattson stated, "I don't understand why the MuslimAmerican community has to take responsibility for Major Hasan. The Army has had at least as much time and opportunity to form and shape this person as the Muslim community." ISNA was named as an unindicted coconspirator in the Holy Land Foundation‘s terrorist support trial. ISNA is linked to Leesburg‘s Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences that trains Muslim clerics, including those who will serve in the U.S. military. At least nine of the 14 chaplains in the U.S. military received their religious training from this institution. What version of Islam does this institution teach? The Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences was founded by Taha Jabir Al-Awani and he is its president. Taha Jabir AlAwani is also president of the Fiqh Council of North America. Taha Jabir AlAwani was an unindicted co-conspirator of Prof. Sami Amin Al-Arian a Palestinian terrorist operating out of Florida.231 In Protecting the Force, Lessons from Fort Hood the DOD stated, ―Finding DoD standards for denying requests for recognition as an ecclesiastical endorser of chaplains may be inadequate. Each religious organization that provides military chaplains provides an endorsing agent to serve as its representative to the Department of Defense. These endorsing 230. Daniel Pipes National Review February 21, 2000 ―In Muslim America: A Presence and a Challenge.‖ http://www.danielpipes.org/article/329 231. Washington Post September 25, 2003.

agents issue and withdraw professional credentials in accordance with the practice of their religious organizations. Current policy requires removal of any individual or religious organization from participation in the DoD Chaplain program only if they threaten national or economic security, are indicted or convicted of an offense related to terrorism, or if they appear on the annual State Department list of Foreign Terror Organizations. This limited authority to deny requests for designation as ecclesiastical endorsers could allow undue improper influence by individuals with a propensity toward violence. Recommendation: Review the limitations on denying requests for recognition as ecclesiastical endorsers of chaplains.‖232 The Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences issued this fatwa regarding Muslim service in the American military in conjunction with the Fiqh Council of North America: “We abide by every law of this country except those laws that are contradictory to Islamic law...”233 This means that it is haram (forbidden) to kill another Muslim. Osman Danquah, the cofounder of the Islamic Community of Greater Killeen, Texas, said Hasan asked him for advice on what he should tell soldiers who had concerns about going to fight Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan. Taha Jabir Al-Awani deserves only partial credit for this fatwa: It was co-authored by Mohammad Al-Hanooti,234 one of Sheik Omar Abdul Rahman’s unindicted co-conspirators in the Bridge and Tunnel Trial, and a member of the Fiqh Council of North America. In July 2002 the FBI leaked a document to the press that called Al-Hanooti a supporter of Hamas who raised more than $6 million for the group. The document reported AlHanooti took part in a three-day meeting in 1993 designed to devise ways to defeat the so-called Oslo Accords. The FBI bugged the meeting but didn‘t act. ―It was mentioned that the United States provided them with a secure, legal base from which to operate,‖ the FBI report stated. AlHanooti is now the Imam of the Islamic Center of the Capital District near Albany.235 During Operation Green Quest Federal Agents raided both the Fiqh Council of North America and the Graduate School of Islamic and

232. http://www.defense.gov/pubs/pdfs/DOD-ProtectingTheForce-Web_Security_HR_13Jan10.pdf 233. Phillip Kurata US DOS International Information Program October 16, 2001 ―U.S. Islamic Leaders Issue Fatwa on U.S. Muslim Soldiers Fighting Terrorists.‖ http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/pol/terror/01101611.htm Deanne Stillman ―What's the U.S. military doing about radical Muslim soldiers? Not enough.‖ Slate March 27, 2003, http://slate.msn.com/id/2080770/ 234. Mohammad al Hanooti Director Islamic Center of New Jersey 2780 Kennedy Boulevard New Jersey 07304 235. ―Religious Leader Tied To Terror,‖ Albany Times Union June 30, 2002 page A1.

Social Sciences searching for evidence of money laundering and tax evasion as well as possible ties to a worldwide private financial empire that Western governments have long suspected of funding Islamist activities.236 A PIVOTAL EVENT: HASAN MEETS IMAM ANWAR AL-AWLAKI Hasan‘s brother claimed that as reaction to his mother‘s death in 2001 Hasan began attending a mosque five times a day and prior to that he was not observant. It is more likely that what further radicalized Hassan was when came into contact with two of the 9/11 crew and their cleric handler. As stated Hasan prayed at the Dar al-Hijrah Mosque, a hotbed of Islamist activity, where two of the 9/11 Shaheeds Khalid al-Midhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi prayed and their facilitator Imam Anwar Al-Awlaki preached along with his ―moderate‖ associate, Johari Abdul Malik who advised American Muslims after 9/11: ―You can blow up bridges, but you cannot kill people who are innocent on their way to work.‖ Hasan‘s mother‘s funeral was held there. AL-AWLAKI AND THE 9/11 FACILITATORS WHO GOT AWAY Anwar Nasser al-Awlaki was born in April 22, 1971, in Las Cruces, New Mexico to Yemeni parents. At that time, Anwar's father, Dr Nasser alAwlaki, was studying agriculture at a US university. After completing his studies, he returned to Yemen and assumed a number of administrative and academic posts, until he became the president of Sanaa University, which was then the only university in (North) Yemen. He then became minister of agriculture. When Al-Awlaki's father returned to Yemen, Anwar was 7 years old, and at that time could hardly speak Arabic. In Sanaa, Anwar al-Awlaki attended the prestigious Azal private school, where his peers included the sons of presidents, ministers, senior officials, and businessmen. After that Anwar returned to the United States to study. He graduated in 1994 from Colorado State University with a B.S. in Civil Engineering, and then he obtained a M.A. in Education Leadership from San Diego State University and studied for a PhD in Human Resource

236. Brooke A. Masters Washington Post, May 3, 2002; Page A09 ―Virginia Muslim Groups Want Property Back Evidence Also Sought by Organizations, Individuals Raided in Terror Probe.‖ http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A24729-2002May2

Development at George Washington University, where he served as the Muslim Chaplin237 Al-Awlaki served as Imam of the Denver Islamic Society from 1994-96 then became Imam at the Masjid Ar-Ribat Al-Islami, San Diego, California. Al-Awlaki was the subject of an FBI counterterrorism inquiry for part of the time that the future 9/11 Shaheeds Khalid al-Midhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi were in San Diego, claimed to have served as their ―spiritual advisor‖ there. In reality Al-Awlaki knew they were jihadi and that they were here to commit a terrorist act. AlAwlaki is a U.S. citizen who was born but raised in Yemen. Al-Awlaki obtained from Colorado State University. Al-Awlaki had twice been busted in San Diego for soliciting prostitutes in 1996 and 1997 but had avoided jail time. Al-Awlaki described these charges as "bogus." The FBI opened a counterterrorism inquiry into Imam Anwar Al-Awlaki's activities in June 1999. During the inquiry the FBI discovered that the Imam was in contact with a number of other persons of investigative interest.

It is learned Al-Awlaki had been visited by Ziyad Khaleel. Khaleel had many Al-Qaeda connections. One of them was Yemeni native and geochemist Ashraf Al-Jailani who worked at the Jewish-owned Gojo hand soap company in Akron, Ohio and had indirect access to the chemical labs where flammable ingredients were stored. These chemicals could have been the fuel for a massive attack. The FBI picked up Al-Jailani in October 2002. In 1996 AlJailani had paid a 30-day visit to Yemen after which his wife's diary stated he was completely changed. The diary said Al-Jailani had become an evil man, obsessed with a harsh, violent version of Islam and he began to talk about suicide bombers going to heaven. An FBI memo stated that in 1999 a business card belonging to Al-Jailani was found in the possession of a suspected jihadi in New York City named Abdel Ghani Meskini, who had been arrested on December 31, 1999 in Brooklyn and charged with concealing his material support of

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Ahmed Ressam's efforts to smuggle explosives into the Seattle area. The complaint against Meskini alleged that FBI agents learned from a confidential source that between December 11, 1999 and December 16, 1999 Meskini traveled to and stayed in Seattle where he was to join Ressam. The source said that Meskini had explained that Ahmed Ressam was a member of a well-organized group that had assigned him to deliver his rental car, loaded with explosives, to a parking lot in Seattle where another group member would retrieve it.238 Meskini‘s arrest was a result of FBI agents having found a piece of paper with his name and Brooklyn phone number in Ressam‘s possession. After Ressam's arrest, Meskini returned to his apartment and tried to destroy evidence of his trip to Seattle to rendezvous with Ressam, including an airline ticket and withdrawal slips from ATM machines in Seattle. The withdrawals were from a Brooklyn bank account. An FBI agent called Al-Jailani about this business card and AlJailani invited the agent to his apartment and answered all questions in a one-hour session. Al-Jailani said he distributed hundreds of business cards when he first came to the United States in an attempt to get a job. At a bail hearing for Al-Jailani Akron FBI agent Roger Charnesky testified that after the September 11th Raids Al-Jailani said that he knew a brother of one Shaheeds and approved of the action. Federal Immigration Judge Walt Durling forced the hearing to make the FBI justify why they needed to continue keeping Al-Jailani in a Berks County, Pennsylvania prison after more than a year. Agent Charnesky said that when the FBI searched AlJailani‘s apartment on October 23, 2002 Al-Jailani's Wisconsin ID card had the same address as a ―Suspect B‖ whose address (Briarwood Apartments 1826 Fordem Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin) was found in April 1999, along with Al-Jailani's business card, in the Chicago home of Ziyad

238. Meskini said that each person involved in the scheme would only know the tasks of two others so that in the event of an arrest, no one could expose more than two other Jihadists. This tactic prevented cell member Mokhtar Haouari from being convicted of providing material support to a terrorist group nonetheless; he was sentenced to 288 months for credit card fraud. The United States Attorney was unhappy with this and complained to Haouari‘s judge that the jury could have reasonably inferred that Haouari deliberately closed his eyes to the fact that Ressam intended to destroy property in the United States by explosion or fire. For example, Ressam testified that: Ressam told Haouari that Ressam's training in Afghanistan included explosives training; In October 1999, when Ressam and Haouari discussed a past operation in France in which metro stations were bombed, Ressam said that it would be good to do another such operation and Haouari agreed; At the same time, when Ressam and Haouari discussed the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Africa, Ressam expressed the opinion that the bombings were a good thing but would have been better if they had been done inside the United States, and Haouari agreed; When Haouari first told Ressam that Haouari had a friend in the United States who could help Ressam, Ressam said, ―Mokhtar, I'm not going to America for tourism. I am going on some very important and dangerous business.‖ When Haouari later confirmed to Ressam that Meskini was willing to assist Ressam, Ressam asked if Haouari ―explain[ed] to him well the business,‖ and Haouari replied that he told Meskini that ―it is a business that has shteah,‖ which is an Algerian word used to describe something that involves fear and danger. Reuters January 1, 2000; USDC SDNY USA v. Haouari 1-CR-00015 JFK August 14, 2001 ―Memo of Law in Opposition for Judgement or Acquittal or New Trial.‖

Khaleel. Ziyad Khaleel and Tarik Hamdi delivered a satellite telephone and battery pack to Usama bin Laden in Afghanistan in May 1998.239 Khaleel purchased the phone itself and Hamdi delivered it. Ziyad was a Committee for the Defense of Legitimate Rights associate, an Al-Qaeda front group operating out of England. The credit card used to purchase the phone belonged to Said al-Fagih, also tied with the Committee for the Defense of Legitimate Rights. This phone was used to co-ordinate the attacks on the American Embassies in East Africa. An employee of O'Gara Satellite Networks testified about the sale of an Inmarsat phone to Ziyad Khaleel, who was a resident of Columbia, Missouri at the time. Khaleel purchased additional phone accessories and asked that the equipment be mailed to Tarik Hamdi, 933 Park Avenue, Herndon, Virginia. From 1989 to 1992 Tarik Hamdi, reared in Turkey and Iraq, lived in Tampa, Florida where he worked as office manager for Muslim Brotherhood member Sami Al-Arian‘s Islamic Committee for Palestine. In January 2000 Tarik Hamdi joined the defense team of Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-'Owhali.240 Tarik Hamdi was familiar with bin Laden's senior military commander Mohammed Atef, and a letter to Atef contained a line referring to previous communication through ―Tarik Hamdi in Washington.‖ Tarik Hamdi sent a fax from Pakistan to bin Laden aide Khalid al-Fawwaz. The fax read: ―Brother Khalid: Peace be upon you. We arrived safely and now we are in the Marriott Hotel.‖241 In July 2005 Ahmed Ressam was sentenced to 22 years in prison when he is arrested in December 1999 he reportedly tells the FBI crucial details about al-Qaeda operations in the US. In early 2000, a subject of a Los Angeles investigation closely associated with Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, visited the Imam (probably Firas Jandali,242 part of the Sami Al-Arian Defense Committee). The FBI closed its inquiry into the activities of the Imam in March 2000, approximately two months after Khalid al-Midhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi arrived in San Diego. In the case-closing memorandum, the agent asserted that the Imam had been ―fully identified and does not meet the criterion for

239. John Miller interviewed Usama Bin Laden in 1998. ―Tarik Hamdi took him to Bin Laden when he delivered this equipment.‖ 240. Susan Aschoff ―Ex-Tampa resident's name surfaces in bombing trial.‖ St. Petersburg Times, June 3, 2001. 241. Steven Emerson The Avalon Project. http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/sept_11/emerson_001.htm

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[further] investigation.‖ The investigation was closed despite the Imam‘s contacts with other subjects of counterterrorism investigations and reports concerning the Imam‘s connection to suspect organizations.243 One of these men was Mohammad El-Mezain who was convicted of conspiring to provide material support to Hamas by a Dallas federal jury and is now behind bars. El-Mezain is related to Marzook.244 Anwar Al-Awlaki served as vice president of the Charitable Society for Social Welfare, the US branch of a Yemeni charity founded by Sheikh Abdul Majeed al-Zindani, a Yemeni imam who the US would officially designate a terrorist in 2004. The Charitable Society for Social Welfare also has ties to the Islamic Cultural Institute in Milan, Italy, considered one of the centers of al-Qaeda activity in Europe. The FBI bgan investigating the Charitable Society for Social Welfare in 1999 after a Yemeni politician visits the US to solicit donations for the charity, and then visits Mahmoud Es Sayed, a known al-Qaeda figure at the Islamic Cultural Institute in Milan, on the same trip.245 On November 29, 2001 Italian investigators shut down the Milan-based Islamic Cultural Center that follows the teachings of Omar Abdul Rahman and was al-Qaeda's logistical center for European operations. The Milan‘s Islamic Cultural Center's key financial supporter, Ahmed Idris Nasreddin, is a wealthy businessman and Kuwait's former honorary consul in Milan, who was a Director of Al Taqwa Trust. The United States Treasury Department knew for many years that Al Taqwa has long acted as a financial adviser to Usama bin Laden. But only after the September 11th Victory of Allah, did Bush the Younger publicly say: ―Al Taqwa is an association of offshore banks and financial management firms that have helped al-Qaeda shift money around the world.‖ In 2004, federal prosecutors in New York described the Charitable Society for Social Welfare as a ―front organization‖ that was ―used to support Al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden,‖ but the charity was never officially charged with a crime. When Imam Anwar Al-Awlaki moved to one of the largest Muslim communities in the country at the Dar Al-Hijrah Mosque in Falls Church, Virginia Nawaf al-Hazmi and Hani Hanjour followed and began attending that mosque.246 This was no co-incidence. For instance, on February 4, 243. Washington Post, 2/27/2008 244. Muslim Mafia, Gaubatz and Sperry WND Books 2009 245. Burr and Collins, 2006, pp. 243; Washington Post, 2/27/2008 246. Kelly Thornton ―Chance to Foil 9/11 Plot Lost Here, Report Finds,‖ San Diego Tribune July 25, 2003.

2000 one month before the FBI investigation is closed, Al Awlaki talked on the telephone four times with hijacker associate Omar al-Bayoumi. The 9/11 Commission will later speculate that these calls are related to Khalid al-Midhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, since al-Bayoumi is helping them that day, and that Khalid al-Midhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi may even have been using al-Bayoum‘s phone at the time. Al-Bayoumi had also been the subject of an FBI counterterrorism investigation in 1999 His preachings are on YouTube! These are bold incitements to terror! After the September 11th Raids Anwar Al-Awlaki tried to portray himself as a moderate. In November 2001 Anwar told the Washington Post that he had no sympathy for the perpetrators of 9/11, that Muslims and non-Muslims needed ―more mutual understanding,‖ and that the Taliban had no right to impose the burqa on women:247 ―The imposing of the Burqa on women by a government never happened in the 1400 year history of the Muslim world. the Taliban have no precedence in this. The Prophet along with his companions who ruled over the Muslims after him never did that. According to Prophet Muhammad: Education is mandatory on every Muslim male and female. That is the teaching of Islam and if anyone does otherwise they have disobeyed the Prophet of Islam himself. About killing, the greatest sin in Islam after associating other gods besides Allah is killing an innocent soul.‖ He also said this to National Geographic Magazine: ―First of all, we stated our position clearly, and I even feel that it's unfortunate that we have to state this position because no religion would condone this, so it should be common knowledge. But we were in a position where we had to say that Islam does not approve of this. There is no way that the people who did this could be Muslim, and if they claim to be Muslim, then they have perverted their religion. We encourage people to participate in blood drives, we encourage them to donate, and then we encourage the community to reach out…So actually, fighting is only a part of the jihad, and it's considered to be a defensive force in order to protect the religion. If somebody defends their life, their property or their family, this is considered to be a jihad. I'll tell you the way that [the perpetrators] justify them. That does not mean that scholars of the Muslim world approve, but this is where they are coming from. They say that Muslim land is now

247. Washington Post, November 19, 2001 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/liveonline/01/nation/ramadan_awlaki1119.htm

invaded by the U.S., there are U.S. soldiers stationed in Saudi Arabia and in the Gulf. And then, the state of Israel is an occupying force which is supported by the U.S. Fighting an invading force, they justify attacking the U.S. because the U.S. population are the taxpayers, and are the ones who are financing the war against them. Now the reason why this is not accepted at all by Muslim scholars, is, first of all, that civilian people most of the time have nothing to do with what their governments are doing. Second, many of the scholars don't really see America as a direct enemy, but only as supporting enemies in the area. So why carry the struggle further than it needs to go? For a lot of people in the Muslim world, the first enemy is their governments. It's not really Israel or the United States, it's their own governments, and they see the U.S. as the strengthening power of these governments. Without the U.S., these repressive governments would topple. My worry is that because of this conflict, the views of Osama Bin Laden will become appealing to some of the population of the Muslim world. Never in the past were there any demonstrations raising the picture of Osama Bin Laden it has just happened now. So Osama Bin Laden, who was considered to be an extremist, radical in his views, could end up becoming main stream. Now, to what extent Osama Bin Laden has any coordination or relationship with the Taliban is not known. But I think that the reason the Taliban is defending him is that not only do they think that he didn't do this, but also in their tribal customs—remember that the Taliban are predominantly Pashtun—it is a shame to hand over somebody who sought your protection. So this is how this alliance came about, but it's something that is fairly recent. Plus, I think they're grateful to him for his assistance in the war against the Russians. The Taliban themselves, as a movement, they have come out very strongly in their condemnation of what happened in the U.S. They do not approve of this terrorism. There's a difference of opinion. They're not really in alliance. That's a very frightening thing, so the U.S. needs to be very careful and not have itself perceived as an enemy of Islam.248 But in comments published in English on Sept. 17, 2001, on IslamOnline, Al-Awlaki suggested that Israelis may have been responsible for the 9/11 attacks and that the FBI "went into the roster of the airplanes and whoever has a Muslim or Arab name became the hijacker by default."249

248. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/09/0927_imampart1.html 249. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/26/AR2008022603267_3.html

After 9/11 FBI sources say agents observed the imam allegedly taking Washington-area prostitutes into Virginia and contemplated using the Mann Act against him. Based Al-Awlaki self-serving statements and on information supplied to it by the intelligence community the September 11th Commission wrongly concluded that Al-Awlaki had provided aid to the terrorists but was aware of their intentions when in reality he was part of the September 11th Islamist Conspiracy. The intelligence community believed Khalid Shaikh Mohammed who told the CIA that there were no facilitators in the US to help the two jihadi, ―I asked a great deal of al-Hamzi and alMidhar, whom I had only middling confidence, because of their lack of English and exposure to the West. The only reason they were involved in the 9/11 plot was because they had visas and because bin Laden told me he wanted the two to go on the operation. Because of their deficiencies, I permitted al-Hazmi and al-Midhar, unlike the other 9/11 Shaheeds to go to the local mosque to request assistance and advice on functioning in American society, and I allowed the two, unlike the others, to contact me on urgent matters. It was my idea that Khalid al-Midhar and al-Hazmi should reside in San Diego, California, after arriving in Los Angeles on January 2000. There was no al-Qaeda operative or facilitator in the United States to help al-Midhar and al-Hazmi settle in the United States. Al-Midhar and alHazmi were not engaged in casing activity while in San Diego, given that they barely knew how to function in U.S. society.‖ This statement was contradicted not only by looking at Al-Awlaki’s profile in retrospect but by the fact that many of the Arab-Americans Al-Midhar and al-Hazmi came into contact with had been looked at by the counter-terrorist community and were al-Qaeda facilitators: Mohadar Mohamed Abdoulah who worshipped at the Masjid Ar-Ribat Al-Islam or Base of Support for Jihadi Operations provided help with air reservations and finding a flight training school for alHazmi and Hani Hanjour.250 He was indicted for providing material aid to AlQaeda. In 2002 Colorado prosecutors withdrew a warrant for Anwar AlAwlaki arrest on passport fraud charges In July 2002 U.S. Attorney Dave Gaouette in Colorado received information from Ray Fournier, a federal diplomatic security agent in San Diego who was investigating Al-Awlaki. Fournier's information was that Al-Awlaki listed Yemen as his place of birth on an application for a U.S. Social Security card. Social Security officials

250. James Sterngold ―Muslims in San Diego Waver on Bail Pledge‖ New York Times December 9, 2001 http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/827.pdf

issued a number to Al-Awlaki, and he used that number when he applied for a passport in Colorado in 1993, while he was a Colorado State University student. Fournier's allegation was that Al-Awlaki used false information to obtain the Social Security number and then used that number to obtain a passport, Gaouette said. A federal diplomatic special agent in Colorado began investigating in preparation to take the case to a grand jury in October 2002 and learned that Al-Awlaki corrected the place of birth on his Social Security application to New Mexico. And as a U.S. citizen, Al-Awlaki was entitled to a Social Security number so no charges were filed. "We asked the court to dismiss the complaint and withdraw the warrant in the interest of justice," Gaouette said. "There is no sense putting a person through an indictment when the government knows all along that we don't have evidence or that we can prove the violation beyond a reasonable doubt." In 2002, federal authorities intercepted Awlaki at JFK airport during his layover from Riyadh to Washington, D.C. He was later released because a warrant for his arrest had been rescinded the day before although he was on a terror watch list. The decision to cancel Al-Awlaki's arrest warrant outraged members of a Joint Terrorism Task Force in San Diego. Gaouette who at the time was in charge of terrorism cases in the district - said the case file indicates there was no objection to rescinding the warrant during the meeting attended by Fournier. Also Gaouette said his office never received information about the cleric's ties to terrorists "Even if there was information to us at the time that he associated or communicated with other people, that would not be a basis to get a criminal charge unless those communications were violations of criminal law," Gaouette said. "That has never been done, and that will never be done, and prosecutors make their decisions on the facts at the time.‖ Gaouette was just an Assistant United States Attorney trying to please his boss, Troy Eid, an Egyptian Muslim. Eid had given lectures on the treatment of Muslims in the United States at the Muslim American Society in Denver. He started by telling the audience about his own Arab ancestry, pointing out that his father emigrated from Egypt in 1957. He discussed his background, his job, and immigration issues. He focused on concerns that Muslims are being unfairly targeted for investigation and deportation in the name of homeland security. It was Eid who was

ultimately responsible for rescinding the warrant that had been signed by a federal judge. Immediately following his release, Al-Awlaki was escorted to a flight to Washington, D.C. by a representative of Saudi Arabia. The Saudi embassy booked him to lecture at its Islamic institute in Washington and sponsored him to take American Muslims on pilgrimages to Saudi's two great mosques.251 Al-Awlaki remained briefly in Northern Virginia. In Virginia, Al-Awlaki met with radical cleric Ali al-Timimi about recruiting Muslims for jihad. AlTimimi is a U.S. citizen who frequently gave anti-Semitic, anti-Israel and anti-Western lectures at the Dar al-Arqam mosque in Falls Church, Virginia, and inspired a group of men dubbed the ―Virginia Jihad Network‖ to attend Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist training camps in Pakistan. Al-Timimi is now serving a life sentence for soliciting others to wage war against the U.S. and other related offenses in the Virginia Paintball Jihad Network case. Al-Awlaki reportedly moved to London in 2002 after FBI inquiries about his connection to September 11th shaheeds, and then moved to Yemen in 2004.252 Al-Awlaki worked at Iman University in Sanaa, Yemen. The founder and leader of the school, Shaykh Abd-al-Majid alZindani, was designated by the U.S. Treasury Department in 2004 as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist because of his support to Al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. In January 2003 Al-Awlaki visited England and exhorted the faithful at the Masjid al-Tawhid mosque in London to become shaheeds, and die in the sake of Allah [subhanahu wa ta‘ala].253 Al-Awlaki’s December 2005 sermon titled Constants on the Path of Jihad, was made into a book: ―How can you dare say that you love the religion of Allah and you know well that the enemy has desecrated the book of Allah and you do nothing? When you know that they have flushed the Qur‘an down a toilet and you don‘t pick up your weapon and fight for the sake of Allah? When you know that they have insulted Rasoolullah (sallallahu ‗alayhe wassallam) through

251. The Muslim Mafia pages 60-66 252. Telephone conversation with Dar Al-Hijrah Mosque October 12, 2003 703-536-1030 253. Steven Emerson tape provided to World Net Daily September 11, 2003.

pathetic images of him? When you know that they are torturing Muslim POWs both physically and mentally? When you know that they have embarrassed and humiliated the Ummah by stripping naked the Muslim POWs and capturing filthy images? When you know that they are promoting a very twisted version of Islam over the true Islam? When you know that they are killing innocent Muslim civilians in ‗Iraq, Palestine, and Afghanistan? When you know that they are fighting the Mujahideen in many parts of the world? When you know that they have invaded Muslim lands? When you know that they used the pages of Qur‘an as toilet paper? When you know that their Army General has made clear and unmistakable statements against Allah and His Messenger (sallallahu ‗alayhe wassallam)? How can you claim your love for Islam when you know they are doing this and you do nothing about it? Do you need a bomb to drop on your house to give you a reason to get up and fight? It will be too late by then. This has nothing to do with being ‗emotionally disordered.‘ This has everything to do with believing in what you claim to believe in: Allah and His Messenger (sallallahu ‗alayhe wassallam). The Sahaba have done assassinations, under the command of the Prophet (sallallahu ‗alayhe wassallam), against those who spoke ill of Muhammad (sallallahu ‗alayhe wassallam) 52. Can you say that the Prophet (sallallahu ‗alayhe wassallam) was ‗emotionally disturbed‘ and didn‘t use hikma? No sane and practicing Muslim would dare say such a thing. What to speak of today, when a kafir insults Allah and our Prophet (sallallahu ‗alayhe wassallam), we say that we should have a peaceful talk with that individual. How much have we strayed from the guidance of Islam and replaced that guidance with our useless logic? Some Muslims argue that we need Khilafah to make such assassination attempts. This idea is completely baseless and shows our cowardice.‖ In May 2007 three New Jersey Muslims plotted to attack the Fort Dix Army base. They were inspired by one of Al-Awlaki’s Internet sermons, as were some of the young Somali-American men who left Minneapolis to join al-Qaida's widening jihad in West Africa. Court testimony revealed the Fort Dix terrorists watched his "Constants of Jihad" lecture the day before they finalized their plot, convinced that the cleric had given a fatwah, or blessing, to strike military targets on American soil.254

254. The Muslim Mafia ibid.

AL-AWLAKI GETS ARRESTED THEN RELEASED IN YEMEN Al-Awlaki was put in a Japanese prison sometime between 2006 and 2007 on terrorism related charges.255 AlAwlaki claimed that on August 31, 2006, ostensibly due to a Yemeni Secret Police investigation over Yemeni Tribal issues he was detained for questioning by the Yemeni authorities. According to Al-Awlaki, during the course of his interrogation he was asked specific questions about his Islamic activities, which led him to believe that he was being held and questioned at the behest of the United States government. Actually AlAwlaki was arrested in 2006 with a group of five Yemenis accused of kidnapping a Shiite teenager for ransom. Al-Awlaki was the group‘s spiritual leader and had issued a fatwa, or religious decree, permitting them to kidnap foreigners and rich Yemenis. The group also plotted to kidnap the U.S. military attaché in Yemen and rented a villa near the attaché‘s house using a fake ID. In the early hours of October 17, 2006 a Yemeni secret police raid swept up eight foreigners living in Sana'a, under surveillance by the CIA and British intelligence, and at least 12 other men across Yemen. Yemeni authorities insisted they dismantled an al-Qa'ida cell and disrupted a gun-running ring to neighboring Somalia. It was subsequently reported that the key to the raids was Anwar Al-Awlaki (identified in the media as 'Abu Atiq') who was arrested six weeks before the October 17, 2006 roundup. Media reports allege that 'Abu Atiq' was an associate of Abdul alMajid al-Zindani, who the US wanted arrested on terror charges. They also made mention of his alleged role in a foiled al-Qa'ida plot to bomb oil and gas facilities in Yemen.256 Tribal leaders intervened and pushed for the group‘s release. The group was freed during December 2007 after they signed documents promising to remain in Yemen and to avoid any contacts with militants. Imam Anwar was released from custody on December 12, 2007, having spent a year and a half behind bars. Anwar Al-Awlaki was interviewed by Cageprisoners on December 31, 2007: Moazzam Begg: When were you arrested? On what grounds were you held? Were there any charges made against you?

255. http://aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=3&id=19547 256. http://www.cageprisoners.com/prisoners.php?id=2127

Anwar Al-Awlaki: In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Beneficent. I was arrested in mid-2006. Initially I was held because I entered as an arbitrator in a local issue here, a tribal issue. I was an arbitrator in that issue and I was arrested until that issue… because the government wanted to solve that issue rather than have it solved tribally. Moazzam Begg: Right. Anwar Al-Awlaki: After that, they began asking me questions about my local Islamic activities here, and later on it was becoming clear that I was being held due to the request of the US government. That was what they were telling me here, and that the Americans wanted to meet me. Moazzam Begg: Glory be to Allah! Well, that‘s something that we can share together. I‘ve also been held at the request of the Americans for quite some time. Moazzam Begg: The other question is that the media reported that your incarceration was due to having some knowledge, or some people who were involved in 9/11 at your sermons. Could you clarify any of this at all? Anwar Al-Awlaki: That was one of the issues that the Americans asked about but I don‘t know if I was held because of that, or because of the other issues that they presented. But it was one of the issues that they enquired about. Moazzam Begg: Can you describe a little bit about what your prison conditions were like? What was your individual cell was like? Anwar Al-Awlaki: For the first nine months, I was in solitary confinement in an underground cell. I would say that the cell was about 8 feet by 4. It was about 12 feet high. It was clean. No interaction with any other prisoner was allowed for the entire nine months. After that, they moved me to the upper floor. The same thing, it was solitary confinement, although the restrictions were less, and the room was larger, it was about, maybe three times the size of the initial room, the initial cell. I spent there the remainder of my period, which was one and a half a years. I was allowed for the last month and a half… they moved another person into this room, for the last month and a half. So for a year and a half, minus this month and a half, I was in solitary confinement, with the exception of the last month and a half.

Moazzam Begg: Subhan Allah. Did they place any restrictions on you in terms of what you were allowed to have in your cell, how you were allowed to interact with other prisoners, or in any way, other than you have already stated? Anwar Al-Awlaki: When I was in the underground cell, there were restrictions on family visits, restrictions on any food that my family would send me, there were restrictions on books. I was not allowed pen and paper, and no exercise whatsoever. I hadn‘t seen the sun for the entire period. What else… No interaction at all with any person except with the prison guards. Later on, when I moved to the upper level, even though I was still in solitary confinement, but the restrictions were less. Visits from the family were more frequent. They would allow me food from home twice a week, and I was allowed more books. So things were better during the last period of the time I spent in detention… I don‘t want to say sentence, because there wasn‘t any sentence. Moazzam Begg: That‘s one of the questions I was meant to ask you. You were never charged with a crime, is that correct, and you were never put through any legal system? Anwar Al-Awlaki: I wasn‘t charged with anything. I was held for interrogation. When interrogation was over, I was released. Moazzam Begg: Did any foreign interrogation take place? Did any Americans or any other foreign nationals interrogate you? Anwar Al-Awlaki: Yes, the US did interrogate me. Officials from the US. Moazzam Begg: And do you know if that was the FBI? Did they identify themselves as FBI, CIA, NSA or anything? Anwar Al-Awlaki: Yes. They were FBI. Moazzam Begg: Okay. And how was their attitude towards you… how did they deal with you as a person, how did they regard you? Anwar Al-Awlaki: There was some pressure, which I refused to accept and that led to a conflict that occurred between me and them, because I felt that it was improper behavior from their behalf. That led to an issue between me

and them during the interrogation. That was solved however, later on, and they apologized. Moazzam Begg: With the help of Allah. Were you able to have contact with your family at all, during the imprisonment, of course you‘ve already said that they restricted from your letters, phone calls, and so forth, for the first nine months, I think you said. But afterwards, did they allow you this contact? Anwar Al-Awlaki: Yes, towards the latter period of my imprisonment, I was allowed visits from my family, once a week. Moazzam Begg: How often were you interrogated, by either local officials or foreign officials? Was it something regular, or was it something sporadic? Anwar Al-Awlaki: The interrogation was on and off for a year. Moazzam Begg: Is there any truth in the rumor that you were placed under house arrest prior to this and that you were banned from speaking in public? Anwar Al-Awlaki: No, no that‘s not true. I haven‘t been placed under house arrest, nor have I been banned from speaking publicly. Moazzam Begg: There was also something that said that you were being punished in prison because you were teaching some of the other prisoners. Is this true also, or could you elaborate on that? Anwar Al-Awlaki: No, I didn‘t have a chance to deliver any lectures because I was in solitary confinement for the entire period except the last month, which was only me and another person, so I wasn‘t in touch with other prisoners. Moazzam Begg: Are you allowed to travel outside the Yemen? Obviously, many people want you to come to the United Kingdom and elsewhere, to come and give lectures and you‘ve only been out a few days! I think this is based on a question from a lot of your supporters, subhan Allah. Are you allowed to travel outside the Yemen to give lectures?

Anwar Al-Awlaki: Well, I would like to travel. However, not until the US drops whatever unknown charges it has against me. Moazzam Begg: Yes, and that would be my advice to anybody who would be in that sort of situation is to be aware of that. Can you tell us any of the lessons that you‘ve learnt from being incarcerated that you would like to share? Anwar Al-Awlaki: In sha‘Allah this is something that I plan to do in a lecture or more, and I would leave it to that point. Moazzam Begg: In sha‘Allah… and is that one of your plans for the future? Do you have any other plans for the future that you‘d care to elaborate upon, or is it something that you‘d wish to wait and see how time evolves? Anwar Al-Awlaki: You mean, in terms of lectures? Moazzam Begg: Lectures, and just life in general. Not just lectures but generally, in the future – what does the future hold? Anwar Al-Awlaki: I have a few opportunities open at the moment and I haven‘t chosen yet among them. I‘m still sort of studying the situation at the time being. Moazzam Begg: What was your response to the outpouring of support and concern, the campaigns, petitions, Facebook groups and the messages that you‘ve received since your release – what was your response to this? How do you feel? Anwar Al-Awlaki: Praise to Allah, it was very moving to know that there were brothers and sisters out there who were making du‘a[v] for me. All praise to Allah Lord of the Worlds. I believe that I was released due to the du‘a of a certain righteous person who was making prayer for me, because The Messenger of Allah, the Prophet Muhammad, may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. says that when a person makes du‘a for his fellow brother, an angel makes du‘a for him, and RasulAllah (salla Allahu alayhi was-salam) says that the du‘a for your brother Muslim is an accepted du‘a. So I believe that it was due to these people, who were making dua for me, that I have been released, and I would like to thank them very much and say May Allah reward you with good.

Moazzam Begg: In sha‘Allah, and I pray that the du‘a that they made for you is also made for all the other Muslim prisoners around the world, in sha‘Allah, and that they will all be released. Could you please give some words of advice, to the other prisoners and the prisoners‘ families in terms of your experience, and how they might benefit from your words? Anwar Al-Awlaki: My advice to them is the saying of Allah, the Mighty and Majestic ―You might dislike something but there is a lot of good in it for you‖. And the hadith of RasulAllah (salla Allahu ‗alayhi was-salam), Whatever decree Allah has decreed for the believer it is good for him. So if Glory be to Him (Allah), may He be Exalted has decreed that a certain person should be in prison, and that if Allah azza wa jall has decreed for a certain family that one of their members is in prison, we, as believers should believe that this decree is good and there is a hikmah, there is wisdom in it, and we should all have the trust and faith in whatever Allah azza wa jall has destined for us; because RasulAllah (salla Allahu ‗alayhi was-salam) used to say, in the du‘a, ‗As‘aluka ridha fil-Qadhaa‘, I ask You to make me satisfied and happy with what you have decreed for me. This is the first word of advice. The second word of advice is this is a test for your sabr, patience; and patience is the one deed in which Allah subhanahu wa ta‘ala has promised an open reward. ―Only those who are patient shall receive their reward in full, without reckoning.‖ There is no limit on their reward that Allah subhanahu wa ta‘ala gives for the Sabireen, the patient. Finally, one should always believe that the strongest weapon that they have is du‘a. They should never underestimate the power of du‘a. ‗Umar ibn Al-Khattab used to say, I‘m not worried about Allah not accepting my prayers but I am worried about the way I pray to Allah azza wa jall. Allah will accept the du‘a, Allah will respond to the it, it‘s just that we have to do it properly, with sincerity. Moazzam Begg: SubhanAllah, jazaakAllahu khair. One of the things that we used to do in Guantanamo, one of the things that I learnt, was Surat Yusuf used to be the most often, the most resonating surah that I used to read, and contemplate on, simply because Yusuf (‗alayhis-salam) was thrown in prison for something he didn‘t do. And when I read that, in prison, it was totally different, my attitude towards it, and I began to cry in a way that I never would have thought was possible. Did you feel any particular

verses from the Qur‘an, any particular verse or The Companions of the Prophet Muhammed, mayAllah be pleased with them all. stories, were relevant to how you were faring your time in prison? Anwar Al-Awlaki: Well, the feeling I had when I was reading Qur‘an – every surah, every ayah was totally different when I was reading it in the cell, compared to when I was reading it when I was outside. Moazzam Begg: Yes, absolutely, what Allah wills. Anwar Al-Awlaki: That was particularly true with Surat Yusuf but I can say that this has been the case with every single ayah and every surah in Qur‘an. It was in a totally different light when I was reading it in prison. Moazzam Begg: It‘s quite amazing, because in prison, for us, in Guantanamo, they took everything away from us, our clothes, our families, our food, our life, everything and the only thing that we had that was familiar to us was the Qur‘an, even though it was a different version or a different print, but it was the only thing that we could look at that was familiar. Everything else - the land, the area, the prisons, even the accents of the people that were speaking were totally unfamiliar except the word of Allah. Anwar Al-Awlaki: Subhan Allah, and because they took everything away and gave the Qur‘an, that is why the Qur‘an had this different meaning. ‗Uthman ibn ‗Affan (Uthman ibn Affan, a companion of the Prophet Muhammed, the third caliph of Islam and one of the ten promised Paradise) used to say that if our hearts were clean and pure we would never satisfy our thirst from Qur‘an. It is because of the distractions that are going around us, that we don‘t get the most benefit from Qur‘an. But when a person is in that solitary environment, all of the distractions are taken away and his heart is fixed on the word of Allah azza wa jall, the ayaat of Qur‘an open into a completely different – they give a completely different meaning. Moazzam Begg: Absolutely. Do you have or have you had interaction with people who have been in Guantanamo, in prison or after release, have you been able to speak to them or see how they‘ve fared since their release at all?

Anwar Al-Awlaki: There were some brothers who were brought from Guantanamo and handed over to the Yemeni government and spent time in the PSL prison where I was but I didn‘t have a chance to interact with them. I heard that they passed through while I was there. However, I never had a chance to interact with any of them yet. Moazzam Begg: In sha‘Allah may you interact with them in Paradise insha‘Allah Anwar Al-Awlaki: In sha‘Allah… I would really like to know how it was over there. Moazzam Begg: In sha‘Allah. Finally, I suppose it‘s a question for Cageprisoners. Do you have any words about your feelings towards organizations like Cageprisoners are; what you think of our work, good or bad? Anwar Al-Awlaki: The brothers and sisters at Cageprisoners are fulfilling the order of RasulAllah (salla Allahu ‗alayhi was-salam) which was stated in Bukhari, „Seek the release of the prisoner‟, and they are at the forefront of fulfilling this command of RasulAllah (salla Allahu ‗alayhi was-salam) so I ask Allah azza wa jall to reward them and assist them in their efforts. Moazzam Begg: May Allah bless you. Anwar Al-Awlaki: And you. In this interview with InFocus257 from September 2008, Imam Anwar spoke from Yemen, reflecting on his past, and talking about the present and future. InFocus: It‘s been nearly a year now since you were released from custody. Upon being released from custody, you called the time you spent in detention a ―great blessing from Allah. Why do you feel that way?

257. http://www.infocusnews.net/content/view/25232/683/

Imam Anwar: It was a chance to review Qur‘an and to study and read in a way that was impossible out of jail. My time in detention was a vacation from this world. InFocus: Have you taken a moment to reflect on that whole ordeal? What did you take away from it? Imam Anwar: I still see my detention as a blessing and I believe that I am still enjoying the fruits of those blessings until this moment. InFocus: Do you have an even greater appreciation for things that we all maybe take for granted? Imam Anwar: Yes, everything is a blessing from Allah. For example I never really liked beans. However in prison I would have beans for breakfast and dinner and they just tasted wonderful. Another example, in my cell the light was on 24 hours a day so when the light bulb went off it was such a blessing to be in darkness for a few days until the bulb was fixed. Even darkness is a blessing we take for granted. InFocus: What were the conditions like for you in prison? Imam Anwar: In general, they were okay. InFocus: My understanding is that you were actually just being held during the entire time in prison. You were never even charged with a crime, let alone convicted of one, yet you still served time in prison. Is that accurate and if so, do you even now wonder exactly why you were imprisoned? Imam Anwar: Yes that is true. I was taken into custody without any explanation and released without any explanation. InFocus: You are an American, born in New Mexico , but according to numerous reports, your detention was ordered by U.S. officials. Do you believe that? Imam Anwar: Yes, I believe that I was held at the request of the United States government.

InFocus: You have said in your lectures that the U.S. government has made false accusations against a number of Muslim leaders in America, so you are not the only one. In your opinion, why does the U.S. feel threatened by Muslim leaders? Imam Anwar: The US has taken Islam as its enemy just like Abu Jahl did and for the same reasons. I do not see much of a difference between the US on one hand and Pharaoh, [the] Talmud, and the people of [Prophet] Noah on the other. They are one and the same. InFocus: One of your most recent lectures is titled a ―Battle of the Hearts & Minds,‖ • in which you talk about lies and propaganda. Would you briefly summarize the point of this lecture for our readers? Imam Anwar: There has been a plethora of reports from governmental and non-governmental sources on how to defeat what they perceive as the Islamic danger. For example RAND Corporation, which is a think tank affiliated to the Pentagon, has issued a couple of reports on this. They have openly stated that they are unhappy with the way Islam is and want to change it. They then proceed to delineate the characteristics of their version of Islam and how to promote it. They also describe the type of Muslims that they think might be willing to prescribe to this ―Rand Islam.‖ Because they understand that the masses in the Muslim world have lost trust in the US, they state that the US hand in this effort should be hidden and that their Muslim stooges should be in the forefront. InFocus: What tips would you give to Muslims living in the U.S. to win this battle of the hearts and minds? Imam Anwar: Muslims need to be able to tell the difference between the real Islam and the RAND Islam and they need to know who their enemy is. Living in the West, they also have a responsibility of refuting such attempts of changing the religion of Allah. InFocus: Please talk about another recent lecture you delivered, ―The Dust Will Never Settle Down.‖ Was it your response to all the recent attacks on the character of Prophet Muhammad? It caused quite a bit of controversy so much so that you had to address many questions about it on your blog.

Imam Anwar: Yes that lecture was in response to how the West has been dealing with the great person of Muhammad lately. As you stated, it did cause some controversy and a lot of responses. Some were staunchly in support of what I have said, while others were angrily against. I have backed up everything in there with solid evidence from Quran, Hadith and statements of scholars and I stand behind every word in it. InFocus: What can we look forward to from you in the near future, inshallah (God-willing)? Imam Anwar: I am currently working on the last part of the Seerah of Muhammad. InshaAllah it should be done within a few months. For a long time I have wanted to do a series on the Crusades and on al-Andalus so these are some ideas for the future. InFocus: Are you allowed to travel outside of Yemen? If so, do you have any intention to return to the U.S? Imam Anwar: There are no official restrictions on my travel. However, I do not intend on doing any travelling at the moment. InFocus: You must know by now the outpouring of support during your incarceration and since your release. How does that make you feel? Imam Anwar: Alhamdulillah I am very grateful to my Muslim brothers and sisters for that. I was also amazed by the amount of email that I received after my release. I thank all my brothers and sisters and ask Allah to reward them abundantly. InFocus: Is there anything else you would like to share with our readers? Imam Anwar: We need to take our religion more seriously. Islam is not something that we use to fill in the spiritual compartment of our life while we leave everything else to our whims and desires. Islam should rule over every aspect of our life. Several months after his release Al-Awlaki stopped checking in regularly with security officials as required under his release agreement. Also, months later, another member of the group arrested with Al-Awlaki left Yemen and was arrested in Syria on terrorism charges. In response,

Al-Awlaki was put on a wanted list on suspicion of possible al-Qaida links.258 US intelligence labeled him al-Qaeda in 2008. Al-Awlaki was banned from re-entering the United States. On December 12, 2007, Al-Awlaki was released by the Yemeni authorities and was reunited with his family. In a February 2009 sermon titled 44 Ways to Support Jihad, Al-Awlaki explains that ―Jihad is the greatest deed after believing in Allah and is the most needed….23. Arms training Preparing for Jihad is obligatory since Jihad today is obligatory and the sharia rule states that: ―Whatever is needed for an obligatory act becomes obligatory‖ Arms training is an essential part of preparation for Jihad. Allah says: ―And prepare against them whatever you are able of power and of steeds of war by which you may terrify the enemy of Allah and your enemy and others besides them whom you don‘t know but Allah knows‖ (8:60) The Messenger of Allah (saaws) said regarding this verse: ―Power is marksmanship, power is marksmanship (Related by Muslim).‖ In August 2009 his speech to Caged Prisoners Beyond Guantanamo at Kensington Hall in London was banned by the British Government. Al-AWLAKI WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE On December 24, 2009 al-Wahishi and his deputy Saeed al-Shihri were attending a secret meeting with Al-Awlaki and others. The meeting was being held in Al-Awlaki’s home. The house was bombed by the Yemenite Airforce. Seven members of Al-Qaeda were killed. A close family relative told the Yemen Observer that the strike hit the Rafadh area in the Shabwah Governorate, and Anwar al-Awlaki's house was located in Suaeed district. "Anwar al-Awlaki was not in the meeting that took place in Shabwah and was not in the area. He has some ideologies yes, but he is not with al-Qaeda and has never been involved with them in any way. He is alive and safe." Al-Qaeda terrorists had gathered that day to plan and carry out several terror attacks against vital Yemeni and foreign interests and economic facilities, in addition to planning to target military and security leaders as a retaliation for the successful pre-emptive operations launched against al-Qaeda in the Arhab district in the capital Sana'a and Abyan province of which led to killing of 34 al-Qaeda terrorists and the arrest of 29 others.

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The Washington Post reported that Rashad Mohammed al-Alimi, Yemen's Deputy Prime Minister for defense and security affairs, said AlAwlaki was alive and that he met with Detroit Christmas Day would-be shaheed Umar Abdulmutallab at a house in Shabwah in Southern Yemen. He also said that the school he attended in August 2009 and September 2009 was a cover. Anwar al-Awlaki was linked to Sheikh AbdulMajid al-Zindani, a well-known Yemeni Islamic caller and the president of Al-Iman University, whom the US Administration accused of financing terrorism, and who is on the UN list concerned with terrorist finance. AlZindani denied the existence of any link between Al-Iman University and AlAwlaki, whether as a student or as a teacher. However it was a fact that Anwar al-Awlaki delivered lectures at Al-Iman University about Islamic history, the history of Andalusia, and other subjects.259 Abdulmutallab traveled in October 2009 to Shabwah, a province in southeastern Yemen and a known al-Qaeda stronghold, said Alimi, adding that the investigation was focusing on the province. Investigators, he said, believe that this was where Abdulmutallab was trained and equipped with explosive chemicals sewn into his underwear. In Shabwah, the 23-year-old engineering graduate met with al-Qaeda operatives in a house built by AlAwlaki to hold theological sessions, said Alimi. Al-Qaeda leaders were believed to be meeting with Al-Awlaki in the same house at the time of the December 24, 2009 airstrike. Anwar Al-Awlaki currently is hiding in Yemen and recently made a taped message to his followers to prove he is still alive. His father, Dr Nasser al-Awlaki, said that his son is innocent of the charge of terrorism, and that he is not like Osama Bin Laden, as he is merely ―an Islamic caller.‖ Dr Nasser al-Awlaki also says that his son became more fundamentalist after his imprisonment in Japan, and he calls for giving him a chance to restore his son to normal life, and to bring him down from Al-Kur Mountains in Shabwah Governorate in which he lives with a number of his supporters. Shabwah's governor, Ali al-Ahmadi, said in January 2010 that al-Awlaki was on the move with a group of al-Qaeda elements from Shabwa, including Fahd Mohammed Ahmed al-Quso, who is wanted in connection with the October 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, which killed 17 American sailors off the coast of Yemen. Al-Awlaki is hoping President Ali Abdullah Saleh will address Al-Qaeda in Yemen to lay down

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their arms and sit down at the table of intellectual dialog, as it happened some years ago through the intellectual dialog committee, which was presided over by Judge Hamud al-Hattar, the current Yemeni minister of Islamic trusts. The U.S. could have taken out al-Awlaki after his contacts with Fort Hood shooter Major Nidal Hassan came to light in November, missing the chance by not authorizing the strike. Perhaps al-Awlaki's U.S. citizenship gave U.S. officials pause. AL-AWLAKI PLANS AND CO-ORDINATES CHRISTMAS DAY TERROR OPERATION Al-Awlaki had his mureed Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab attempt to bomb Northwest Airlines Flight 253 going from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day 2009. Abdulmutallab granted a visa by the American Embassy in London in June 2008. In August 2009 he arrived in Yemen. Abdulmutallab told investigators that Anwar Al-Awlaki, who he contacted through the Internet, put him in touch with an Al-Qaeda leader in Yemen. It was there that son of a wealthy Nigerian banker and President of the local chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood at his college in London was trained and equipped with the IED he was to use in his attempt to destroy the airliner and the 278 passengers aboard. Abdulmutallab’s mode of attack -- detonating a few grams of the powerful military explosive PETN, or pentaerythritol, hidden on his body was similar to tactics used by another failed suicide bomber with known links to al-Qaeda's Yemeni branch. In August 2009, Abdullah Hassah Tali Assiri tried to assassinate Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, who is the son of Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz, the man thought likely to be Saudiʼs next crown prince, using PETN explosives hidden in his underwear. Assiri had crossed into Saudi Arabia from Yemen and passed through two security checks before blowing himself up less than a yard from Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, the head of the kingdom's counterterrorism operations, who escaped with minor injuries. Assiri was on the Saudi‘s Most Wanted Expatriates List and he accomplished this by pretending that he wished to surrender. Bin Nayef was on the phone at the time assuring another Saudi militant it was safe to return home. The official Saudi version is somewhat different, ―The suicide bomber who targeted the assistant interior minister, Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, late Thursday night blew himself up while waiting in line to enter a gathering of well-

wishers for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan at the official‘s home in Jiddah, said Interior Ministry spokesman Mansour al-Turki…. ―I did not want him to be searched, but he surprised me by blowing himself up,‖ said Prince Mohammed, who was shown on state television with a bandage around two of his fingers on his left hand. ―However, this will only increase my determination‖ to fight terrorism in the kingdom, he said. Al-Turki said authorities were still investigating exactly how the attacker detonated his explosives while waiting to enter Prince Mohammedʼs home. It is customary for senior members of the royal family to hold regular open gatherings during Ramadan where citizens can air grievances seek settlement of financial or other disputes or offer congratulations.‖ The bombing was the first assassination attempt against a member of the royal family in decades and was also the first significant attack by militants in the kingdom since 2006. Saudi Arabia killed or captured most of AQ leaders after a string of attacks that started in 2003. As a result al-Qaeda‘s branch in the Saudi kingdom has largely moved its operations to neighboring Yemen, where instability and poverty have enabled it to fester. Saudi officials have expressed concerns that turmoil in Yemen, where the government lacks control of large areas outside the capital, could allow alQaeda to carry out cross-border attacks in its territory. Al-Qaeda is capitalizing on the increasingly tense situation there, where the government is battling Shiite rebels in areas close to the Saudi border, and smuggling fighters into the Kingdom. Al-Qaeda terrorists, including fighters returning from Afghanistan and Iraq, have established sanctuaries in Yemen, particularly in three provinces bordering Saudi Arabia known as the ―triangle of evil‖ because of the heavy terrorist presence. In January 2009, militants announced the creation of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, a merger between the terror networkʼs Yemeni and Saudi branches, led by Naser Abdel-Karim al-Wahishi, a Yemeni who was once a close aide to bin Laden. On November 11, 2009 a Somali man was arrested trying to board a commercial airliner in Mogadishu carrying a syringe and explosives in his underwear, a homemade explosive device similar to the one Abdulmutallab was carrying on Christmas Day. On November 19, 2009 Abdulmutallab's father Alhaji Umaru Mutallab, is alarmed by phone call from his son saying it would be their last contact and associates in Yemen would then destroy his phone. Mutullab feared his son was preparing for a suicide mission in Yemen and went to Nigerian officials who took the father to meet with a CIA officer at the U.S. embassy in Nigeria. The embassy sent a cable to

Washington with the information provided by Mutallab. The CIA sent a report to the National Counter-terrorism Center. Abdulmutallab's name is added to the government's terror database, but it is not added to the Do Not Fly list. On December 16, 2009 Abdulmutallab bought the ticket to Detroit in Ghana paying cash. Al-Awlaki had not only blessed Abdulmatallab's Detroit attempt but planned the whole thing and put the insect up to it however some FBI officials were still not convinced Abdulmatallab, who said he had been in contact with Al-Awlaki, was telling the truth: "He's saying all this but we haven't determined all of it is true; whether [Awlaki] blessed it or gave the green light or was the impetus behind it," the FBI official said. "It's very possible and it's being investigated. But it's also possible he's saying it to give himself credibility" among militants who look up to Al-Awlaki. The FBI has a vested interest in playing down Al-Awlaki’s importance as he slipped through their fingers on numerous occasions. Al-Awlaki was no doubt in indirect communication with Bin Laden who approved Abdulmatallab‘s operation: ―In the name of G-d the most passionate and the most merciful: From Osama to Obama. May peace be on those who follow the light of guidance [Islam]. If our messages to you could be carried by words we wouldn‘t have done that by planes. The message I want to convey to you through the plane of the hero Umar Al Farouk reaffirms a previous message that the heroes of 9/11 conveyed to you and it was repeated frequently. The message is that America will never dream of living in peace unless we live it in Palestine. It is unfair that you live a safe life while our brothers in Gaza suffer greater therefore with the will of Allah our attacks on you will continue as long as you support Israel. Peace be upon those who follow the light of guidance [Islam].‖ Al-Awlaki was not the only terrorist facilitators the FBI let slip through their fingers after 9/11. There were at least three more: ABDUSSATTAR SHAIKH: TRIPLE AGENT AND JIHADI FACILITATOR The FBI thought it had a high-level informer in San Diego, California in its employ before the September 11th Raids named Abdussattar Shaikh of Lemon Grove, California, but Shaikh knew how to play the Bureau. Shaikh served for eight years on

the Citizens Review Board on Police Practices and also served as an Honorary Deputy Sheriff from 1971-1995. Active in the National Conference of Christians and Jews he has also been trained as a chaplain in the Red Cross. Shaikh, a key FBI asset, was the landlord of Khalid alMidhar from May 2000 to June 2000 and Nawaf al-Hazmi from May 2000 to December 2000! FBI Special Agent Steven Butler had recruited Abdussattar Shaikh. On May 14, 1994 Agent Butler had first visited the Islamic Center of San Diego, a large Clairemont mosque, to investigate eight threatening calls that were received within hours of the Oklahoma City bombing. One caller said the center would be blown up if it were proved that Arabs were responsible. Abdussattar was the co-founder of this Mosque and a prominent member of the Muslim Community. When Butler realized that Muslims were not responsible for the Murrah attack he began to sympathize with them. Butler remained the asset's handling agent or "control agent" - until he retired in February 2002. Abdussattar Shaikh was as an informational source, providing the FBI with information acquired in his normal daily routine. The FBI normally questioned him, although he occasionally volunteered information that he thought might be relevant. After September 11th even the FBI‘s Office of the Inspector General was unable to interview Shaikh. The Joint Intelligence Committee Inquiry had attempted to interview him also without success. The Committee then submitted interrogatories that Shaikh declined to answer, asserting his Fifth Amendment privilege. Shaikh indicated through his attorney that if subpoenaed by the Committee, he would not testify without a grant of immunity. The FBI was unwilling to allow this informer to testify even before a closed session of Congress, claiming it would damage efforts to recruit sources from Arab-American communities. Was this the real reason or was the FBI informant‘s true allegiance to Allah? After 9/11, Abdussattar Shaikh told the FBI the two Brothers were good, religious Muslims. They did not work, yet they always seemed to have money. Although they did not fit the profile of rich Saudis, Abdussattar Shaikh never questioned them about finances. They did not act in a peculiar manner and did nothing to arouse his suspicions although they often would go outside when using their cellular telephones. Shaikh said he identified the two only by their first names to the FBI. Later he said that he had not mentioned them at all. These Brothers living in Abdussattar Shaikh's home were in a position to put Shaikh and the

information he supplied to the FBI in jeopardy. Therefore, prudence and operational security would suggest that information about persons living with the asset should have been sought by the FBI, at least to the extent of learning and documenting their names, and perhaps running a records check on them. This was not done. During one of their last contacts, Nawaf al-Hazmi advised Abdussattar Shaikh that he was moving to Arizona to attend flight training, but Shaikh did not advise the FBI of this information until after the September 11th attacks. Abdussattar Shaikh claimed Nawaf al-Hazmi never mentioned flight training he received while living in San Diego yet he told San Diego Magazine260 ―They said they were old friends from Saudi Arabia who were here to study and become pilots. But they didn‘t have any anger, or temper. Believe me, if I had known they were on some sort of terrorist list, I would have immediately informed authorities. I‘ve lived in this country 42 years. What happened last year was horrible, and I hope and pray nothing like that ever happens again.‖ Which side was Shaikh on, Allah‘s or the FBI? Religious law over-rides civil law as civil law is the word of man not the word of G-d. The Joint Committee on Intelligence wondered about this and other strange events: ―First, while there are several indications suggesting that future hijacker Hani Hanjour had contact with Shaikh in December 2000, Shaikh has repeatedly advised the FBI that he does not recognize photos of Hanjour. Second, Shaikh told the FBI that the hijackers did nothing to arouse his suspicion, but Shaikh also acknowledged that Nawaf al-Hazmi had contacts with at least four individuals Shaikh knew were of interest to the FBI and about whom Shaikh had previously reported to the FBI. Third, Shaikh has made numerous inconsistent statements to the FBI during the course of interviews after September 11, 2001. Fourth, Shaikh ‘s responses during an FBI polygraph examination to very specific questions about his advance knowledge of the September 11th plot were judged by the FBI to be inconclusive, although the FBI asserts that this type of result is not unusual for such individuals in such circumstances.‖ Shaikh asked

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for immunity from prosecution if he was called to testify under oath and commented, ―I don‘t know why I have been accused. I think I‘m going to ask them [the FBI].‖ Shaikh denied he was an FBI informant and said he was shocked by the suggestion. Initially Shaikh was not paid. In July 2003, Shaikh was given a $100,000 payment and closed as an asset.261 This was not the first time the FBI and CIA were bamboozled by a triple agent. The classic case was that of Sergeant Ali Mohamed which was covered by Peter Lance to a far greater extent than me. Another triple agent case surfaced recently in New York City, where jihadist insects planned to detonate a series of bombs hidden in knapsacks on the New York City Subway system. EDWAR SALAMAH 9/11 FACILITATOR There were other Al-Qaeda facilitators in the San Diego area. Edwar Salamah, a Palestinian-born U.S. citizen and manager of Sam's Star Mart gas station in La Mesa, who was at the time being investigated by the FBI, hired Nawaf al-Hazmi to work for him briefly, after receiving a call from a mutual friend at the Ar-Ribat al-Islami Mosque in La Mesa. In January 2000, before Nawaf al-Hazmi‘s employment at Sam's Star Mart gas station, the FBI Los Angeles field office initiated an investigation of Salamah after a person whom the FBI was surveilling entered Salamah‘s car in a mosque parking lot. That person was the brother of a bin Laden operative. Salamah was under FBI investigation when he hired Nawaf alHazmi. OSAMA "SAM" MUSTAFA 9/11 FACILITATOR The owner of Sam‘s Star Mart, Osama “Sam” Mustafa262 cheered upon learning of the September 11th Raids and had been investigated by the FBI numerous times. The first investigation was opened in August 1991 upon receipt of reports from the San Diego Police Department that, during a traffic stop, Mustafa had stated that the United States needed another Pan Am 103 attack and that he could be the one to carry it out. Pan Am Flight 103, en route to New York from London, exploded in the air over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 259 passengers, among them 189

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Americans, and 11 people on the ground. Libya has taken responsibility for this action. Mustafa also said that all Americans should be killed for what they did to Iraqis. During the investigation, the FBI developed information that Mustafa was associated with members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in San Diego and Chicago. In 1994, San Diego police also received an anonymous call stating that Mustafa was a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine member.263 The FBI received information in 1994 that Mustafa had threatened to kill a former Israeli intelligence officer who resided in San Diego. Mustafa informed the Israeli that he was a member of the PLO and that the orders to kill him had come from the PLO. The FBI closed its investigation of Mustafa, but reopened it in 1997 when it received information tying him to a possible plot based in North Carolina. In 1996 the FBI began Operation Smokescreen, after a number of Muslims were seen buying large quantities of cigarettes from wholesalers in North Carolina. In 1997 Bassam Youssef Hamood, of Charlotte, North Carolina, was arrested for cigarette smuggling. It was believed that his profits were being donated to the Hizb‘allah.264 Hizb‘allah earned an estimated profit of $1.5 million between 1996 and 2000 by purchasing cigarettes in a low tax state for a lower price and selling them in a high tax state at a higher price.265 In July 2000 Bassam Youssef Hamood, of Charlotte, North Carolina was charged with the same offense. Although the media reported that the profits from this enterprise were again funneled to the Hizb‘allah he was not charged with giving the Hizb‘allah material support until after the September 11th Raids. Hamood was convicted by a jury verdict on June 21, 2002, for providing material support to a designated terrorist organization, Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, cigarette smuggling, money laundering, and immigration fraud. On

263. In 1967 Wadi Haddad formed the Marxist PFLP that advocated the liberation of Palestine by acts of violence against the Zionist entity. The PFLP kidnapped OPEC leaders in Vienna in 1975 and also commandeered a Lufthansa airliner going to Mogadishu in 1977. ―Carlos the Jackal‖ carried out these attacks as a Haddad operative. The PFLP hijacked an Air France airliner enroute to Entebbe in 1976 where they met a warm welcome from Idi Amin, a convert to Islam and a historical revisionist, who killed the Zionist Dora Bloch, as she faked illness in a local hospital. Amin would be granted asylum in Saudi Arabia, where he died in August 2003. In March 1978 Wadi Haddad, aged only forty-nine, died from suspected leukemia in an East German hospital – the same hospital where Abu Nidal had been treated for leukemia. The Mossad was responsible for the leukemia that struck him down. In Baghdad of 1977, fine chocolates were rare. The Mossad, working with a Palestinian who had become close to Haddad, secretly gave him Belgian chocolate laced with poison over six months, Mossad agent and Time Magazine Jerusalem correspondant Arron Klein told the media in the course of promoting his book Striking Back. (http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-israelkilling-by-chocolate,1,4872993.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines). Haddad died in March 1978, showing only symptoms of leukemia but no signs of poisoning. There are many well-documented cases of radiation-induced leukemia in humans. The early scientists who worked with x-rays and radioactive substances did not realize the risk. Marie Curie who first isolated radium from uranium ore died of leukemia, as did her daughter-assistant. 264. http://www.tobacco.org/news/96217.html 265. GAO Report ―Terrorist Financing‖ November 2003 http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d04163.pdf

February 28, 2003, he was sentenced to 155 years in prison. It is not clear if this is the plot Mustafa was tied to. In February 2001, a stockbroker called the FBI to say that Mustafa had closed his account, explaining that he was sending the money to freedom fighters in Afghanistan. Mustafa now resides in Riverside, California. Nidal Hasan went on to Graduate School at the Uniformed Services University of The Health Sciences F. Edward Herbert School Of Medicine Bethesda MD and got his MD Degree in 2003. Dr. Val Finnell, a classmate of Hasan‘s last year at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Maryland, called Hasan ―a vociferous opponent to U.S. policy in Iraq‖ and said he frequently spoke about his faith, sometimes in inappropriate venues ―We had an environmental health class assignment; most of us gave presentations on things like molds in homes and allergens,‖ Finnell said. ―Hasan‘s topic was, ‗The U.S. war in Iraq: A war against Islam.‘ I have no idea why the faculty even allowed him to make such a presentation.‖ Hasan did his residency in Psychiatry at Walter Reed Medical Center Washington, DC USA and completed his Residency in 2007 some 19 years after leaving Virginia Tech High School. Hasan had served six years at Walter Reed before his Texas assignment. As a clinical psychiatrist, he worked with both wounded troops returning from war and their families. Hassan went on to study Disaster and Preventive Psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of The Health Sciences at Walter Reed in Bethesda and completed his Fellowship in 2009. THE SIXTH PILLAR OF ISLAM Prior to June 2007 Major Hasan began to log on to Islamist Jihadist Web sites that celebrated suicide bombing and encouraged American Muslims to take action against the Infidels. In a June 2007 PowerPoint presentation he wrote, ―My U.S. Muslim clerics are vague and ambiguous, under duress? Non US Scholars [such as Imam Anwar Al-Awlaki] issued fatwa clearly stating it‘s getting harder and harder for Muslims in the service to morally justify being in a military that seems constantly engaged against fellow Muslims.‖ The PowerPoint presentation was clearly that of an Islamist. Hasan ridiculed Muslims who claimed, ―I love the Koran and being a Muslim, but I don‘t want to live under Islamic

rule [Shar‘ia Law].‖ This sentence appears in quotations as if it is someone else‘s thoughts. His definition of a moderate Muslim was, ―Muslims may be seen as moderate (compromising) but G-D is not.‖ MAJOR HASAN WAS A JEW HATER Hasan evidenced hatred of Jews by quoting these passages from the Holy Qu‘ran, ―And certainly you have known those among you who exceeded the limits of the Sabbath, so we said unto them: Be apes, despised and hated. Say, Shall I inform you of (him who is) worse than this in retribution from Allah? Worse is he whom Allah has cursed and brought His wrath upon, and of whom he made apes and swine. Therefore when they revoltingly persisted in what they had been forbidden We said to them Be apes despised and hated. Surely, those who disbelieved in Our Ayat we shall burn them in fire. As often as their skins are roasted through, We shall change them for other skins that they may taste punishment.‖ What do apes and pigs have to do with soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan who are suffering mental disorders? Hasan was telling his colleagues that the Jews, the descendants of pigs and apes, should roast again in the crematoriums. The Army psychiatrists just sat around and listened. No one reported this Jew hater to his superiors. Hasan quoted Qaseem Uqdah as having counted 15,000 Muslims in the American Armed Forces. Qaseem was an official of the American Muslim Council, an organization widely viewed as a front for the Muslim Brotherhood. Hasan concluded, ―Muslims soldiers should not serve in any capacity that renders them at risk to hurting to hurting killing believers unjustly – will vary! Department of Defense should allow Muslims Soldiers the option of being released as ―Conscientious objectors‖ to increase troop morale and decrease adverse events.‖ ―Adverse events‖ was a euphemistic way of describing the murder of American soldiers by other American soldiers.266 If Muslim groups can convince Muslims that they are fighting for G-d against

266. Sergeant Hasan Akbar, an Afro-American convert to Islam and a soldier in an engineering unit that participated in the second invasion of Iraq, was accused of tossing a grenade in a tent filled with his superiors. Akbar followed this fatwa, and refused to murder another Muslim. Akbar was named Mark Fidel Kools at his birth but his mother, Qu‘ran Bilal, changed his name to Hasan Akbar after she converted to Islam. In 1988 he enrolled at the University of California at Davis and graduated nine years later with degrees in aeronautical engineering and mechanical engineering. Akbar attended Masjid Bilal Islamic Center that was partially funded by Saudi Arabia's Islamic Development Bank. He was not allowed to fight in the first Gulf War because he was a Muslim, but this rule was changed. Two ―infidels,‖ Americans, died thanks to this scum.

injustices of the ―infidels‖ ie: enemies of Islam, then Muslims can become a potent adversary ie suicide bombing etc. Osama Bin Laden, Taliban, Suicide bombers, Iran. We love death more than you love life!‖ These were the thoughts of an Islamist yet no investigation was initiated. Additionally Hasan's military superiors repeatedly ignored or rebuffed his efforts to open criminal prosecutions of soldiers he claimed had confessed to "war crimes" during psychiatric counseling.267 As late as November 2, 2009 he tried to convince at least two of his superior officers, Captain Naomi Surman and Colonel Anthony Febbo, about the need legally to prosecute the soldiers. Hasan was willing to violate doctor-patient privilege in order to prosecute another American soldier. If had done this no soldier would have trusted an Army psychiatrist with this thoughts and actions again. Suicide rates, already high, would increase. Hasan was out to imprison or kill American soldiers and demoralize Muslims within the US Armed Forces by encouraging Muslim soldiers to feel guilty about fighting other Muslims, ―It must be hard for you to balance Islamic beliefs that might be conflicting with the current war; feelings of guilt; Is it what you expected‖ yet he advised his fellow psychiatrists ―Don‘t doubt their loyalty to U.S. God vs Country.‖ He would quote this Qu‘ranic passage, ―And whoever kills a believer intentionally, his punishment is hell. He shall abide in it and Allah will send his wrath upon him and curse him and prepare for him a painful chastisement. Do not kill anyone whose killing Allah has forbidden, except for a just cause.‖ Hasan did dawa (Islamic proselytizing) work among his colleagues and openly expressed his opposition to America fighting Muslims in Afghanistan and Iraq. This was certain suspicious activity but the DoD reported, ―Suspicious Activity Reporting or Force Protection Threat Information, as it is known to Department of Defense, is now an FBI nationwide initiative. The Department of Defense was using the Threat and Location Observation Notice Program as its Suspicious Activity Reporting capability, but the program was terminated in September 2007. This left the Department of Defense without a Suspicious Activity Reporting system of its own.268 THE PSYCHIATRISTS AT WALTER REED WERE INTIMIDATED BY THE TERRORIST SUPPORT LOBBY

267. Brian Ross ABC News 268. http://www.defense.gov/pubs/pdfs/DOD-ProtectingTheForce-Web_Security_HR_13Jan10.pdf

On May 17, 2007 Scott Moran, MAJ, MC Program Director NCC Psychiatry Residency Training generated this memo: ―The Faculty has serious concerns about CPT Hasan‘s professionalism and work ethic. Clinically he is competent to deliver safe patient care. But he demonstrates a pattern of poor judgment and a lack of professionalism. In his PGY-2 year, he was counseled for inappropriately discussing religious topics with his assigned patients. He also required a period of in-program remediation when he was discovered to have not documented appropriately an ER encounter with a homicidal patient who subsequently eloped from the ER. He did successfully remediate this problem. At the end of his PGY-2 year, he was placed on administrative probation by the NCC GMEC for failure to take and pass USMLE Step 3 and to obtain an unrestricted state medical license by the end of his PGY-2 year; as a result he was not promoted to PGY-3 on time. He did eventually complete step 3 and get a license and was promoted to PGY-3. He was counseled for having a poor record of attendance at didactics and lower than expected PRITE scores. One year he failed to show for his PRITE examination at all. During his PGY-3 year, he was counseled for being consistently late to NNMC morning report. During his PGY-4 year, he was discovered to have only seen 30 outpatients in 38 week of outpatient continuity clinic. He was required to make this missed clinic time up using his elective. He failed his HGT/WGT screening and was found to be out of standards with body fat % and was counseled on that. Lastly, he missed a night of call for MGMC ER and then did not respond to numerous pages by my office the next day. Take together; these issues demonstrate a lack of professionalism and work ethics. He is able to self-correct with supervision. However, at this point he should not need so much supervision. In spite of all of this, I am not able to say he is not competent to graduate nor do I think a period of academic probation now at the end of his training will be beneficial. He would be able to contain his behavior enough to complete any period of probation successfully. My purpose in writing this letter is to give the credentials committee the benefit of full disclosure and the opportunity to modify CPT Hasan‘s plan of supervision following initial privileging. I did discuss this memo with CPT Hasan and informed him I would be adding it to his initial credentialing paperwork.‖ In the spring of 2008 when a group of key officials gathered for their monthly meeting in a Bethesda, Md., office, they did not know what to do about Hasan who had been trouble for six years. Both fellow students and

faculty were disturbed by Hasan's behavior — which they variously called disconnected, aloof, paranoid, belligerent, and schizoid. The officials say he antagonized some students and faculty by espousing what they perceived to be extremist Islamic views. His supervisors at Walter Reed had even reprimanded him for telling at least one patient that "Islam can save your soul." One official involved in the conversations had reportedly told colleagues that he worried that if Hasan deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, he might leak secret military information to Islamic extremists. Another official reportedly wondered aloud to colleagues whether Hasan might be capable of committing fratricide, like the Muslim U.S. Army sergeant who, in 2003, killed two fellow soldiers and injured 14 others by setting off grenades at a base in Kuwait. NPR reported, ―So why didn't officials act on their concerns and seek to remove Hasan from his duties, or at least order him to receive a mental health evaluation? Interviews with these officials suggest that a chain of unrelated events and factors deterred them. For one thing, Walter Reed and most medical institutions have a cumbersome and lengthy process for expelling doctors, involving hearings and potential legal battles. As a result, sources say, key decision-makers decided it would be too difficult, if not unfeasible, to put Hasan on probation and possibly expel him from the program. Second, some of Hasan's supervisors and instructors had told colleagues that they repeatedly bent over backward to support and encourage him, because they didn't have clear evidence that he was unstable, and they worried they might be "discriminating" against Hasan because of his seemingly extremist Islamic beliefs.‖ In Protecting the Force, Lessons from Fort Hood, the Defense Department tacitly admitted that there was no criterion established to determine when religious belief can turn into violence, ―DoD policy regarding religious accommodation lacks the clarity necessary to help commanders distinguish appropriate religious practices from those that might indicate a potential for violence or self-radicalization. DoD Instruction 1300.17, Accommodation of Religious Practices within the Military Services, states that requests for religious accommodation should be granted when the practice will not have an adverse impact on mission accomplishment, military readiness, unit cohesion, standards, or discipline. It does not, however, provide standards or recording procedures necessary to establish a baseline of traditional religious practice within faith groups. The Department of Defense has not issued clear guidance on the degree to which the Religious Freedom Restoration Act applies to the military.

Therefore, commanders, supervisors, and chaplains lack a common source to distinguish mainstream religious practices from extreme practices for faith groups. Service policies and procedures, therefore, vary in stating and reporting standards of religious accommodation. If requests for religious accommodation that compete with mission requirements were recorded and shared among commanders, supervisors, and chaplains, it would help establish a baseline from which to identify deviations within the Services and the Department of Defense. At present, there is confusion about what is acceptable. This lack of clarity creates the potential for denying information to commanders and supervisors that may signal indicators of self-radicalization or extremist behavior. Commanders and supervisors may not recognize unusual religious practices outside traditional norms within faith groups. Current procedures do not provide consistent mechanisms for initiating appropriate action to prevent an escalation toward violence. Clear standards would enhance commanders' and supervisors' ability to promote the climate necessary to maintain good order and discipline, and would reduce both the instances and perception of discrimination among those whose religious expressions are less familiar to the command. Recommendation: Promptly establish standards and reporting procedures that clarify guidelines for religious accommodation.269 EMAILS TO AL-QAEDA & DONATIONS TO AL-QAEDA CHARITIES By this time it was pretty obvious that Al-Awlaki was one of the baddest jihadist Imams around! The fact that when Hasan contacted him alarm bells did not go off in the intelligence community tells this researcher that something went terribly wrong. Al-Awlaki said that Hasan first reached out to him in an e-mail dated December 17, 2008. He described Hasan introducing himself and writing: "Do you remember me? I used to pray with you at the Virginia mosque." Initially, Al-Awlaki said he did not recall Hasan and did not reply to the e-mail. But after Hasan sent two or three more e-mails, Al-Awlaki said he "started to remember who he was," AlAwlaki said it was clear from his e-mails that Nidal trusted me. Nidal told me: 'I speak with you about issues that I never speak with anyone else'" Hasan informed him that he had become a devout Muslim around the time Al-Awlaki was preaching at Dar al-Hijrah, in 2001 and 2002. "Maybe Nidal was affected by one of my lectures?" Al-Awlaki said Hasan's alleged

269. http://www.defense.gov/pubs/pdfs/DOD-ProtectingTheForce-Web_Security_HR_13Jan10.pdf

shooting spree was allowed under Islam because it was a form of jihad. "There are some people in the United States who said this shooting has nothing to do with Islam, that it was not permissible under Islam but I would say it is permissible…those people have let me down…America was the one who first brought the battle to Muslim countries." Beginning late December 2008270 the NSA and FBI reported Major Hasan exchanged 20 e-mail messages with Al-Qaeda spiritual leader Imam Anwar Al-Awlaki. The in early reports the FBI stated that the emails were sent in the form of questions about the American Military and Islam, seemingly for a project Hasan was working on regarding Muslims in the US military. The FBI saw communications asking when is jihad appropriate, and whether it is permissible if there are innocents killed in a suicide attack. Hasan told Al-Awlaki he couldn't wait to join him in the discussions they would having over wine in the afterlife. Going to Al-Awlaki who was a well know Al-Qaeda spiritual leader meant that Hasan wanted his questions about his upcoming mission answered affirmatively. Imam Al-Awlaki had replaced ―His Eminence‖ Shayk Omar Abdel Rahman as the chief Qu‘ranic authority of Al-Qaeda. Rahman preached that jihad is the sixth pillar of Islam271 therefore it is the duty of every Muslim to kill the kuffar infidels – every member of another religion with a focus on Christians, Jews and Hindus.

On December 23, 2008, days after he said Hasan first e-mailed him Al-Awlaki posted these words online "The bullets of the fighters of Afghanistan and Iraq are a reflection of the feelings of the Muslims towards America." In the e-mails Hasan questioned U.S. involvement in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and often used "evidence from sharia law that what America was doing should be confronted."272 Al-Awlaki "They say American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan should be killed, so how can they say the American soldier should not be killed at the moment they are going to Iraq and Afghanistan?"

270. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/us/10inquire.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=hasan%20scott%20shane&st=cse 271. The other pillars include Salat, daily prayer, Zakat, annual charity, Saum, month long fasting Hajj, pilgrimage to Mecca, and Shahadah, testifying allegiance to G-d. 272. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/15/AR2009111503160_2.html?sid=ST2009111503315

By contacting Imam Al-Awlaki Hasan demonstrated a proclivity for violence just as he would have if he contacted Osama Bin Laden. None of this, however, was taken seriously enough to follow him, interview him, tap his phone, bug his conversations, and open an investigation into his good buddy Duane Reasoner. Any intelligence analyst could see something was amiss here especially since Al-Awlaki had been jailed by the Government of Yemen. This should have set of alarm bells throughout the intelligence community. The first batch of Hasan's e-mails was sent by agents in San Diego, to the bureau's Washington field office, where a terrorism task force began to assess them in December 2008. But months later, additional messages emerged. Those e-mails were reviewed only in San Diego, where authorities determined they did not pose a national security risk. The FBI said without going into details about the process, that "all of the e-mails were known." The FBI dropped an inquiry into the matter after deciding that the messages warranted no further action because they gave no indication that he was likely to engage in violence273 and were protected by the right to free speech.274 The FBI also claimed it was under the impression that this contact was part of some academic research Hasan was doing; but no research paper ever surfaced and the content of the emails belied this. There are several possibilities to explain this incompetence; the FBI Agent in charge of the investigation was a mole (unlikely), the FBI in San Diego did not want to admit that they had been unable to snag Al-Awlaki in relation to 9/11 even though it was investigating him during the time he was working with two 9/11 shaheeds so it downplayed his importance, or the FBI was trying to be politically correct and what happened to the intelligence community was that it was progressively weakened by stealth Islamist organizations such as CAIR and the American-Arab AntiDiscrimination Committee. America has a tradition of at least trying to treat all religious groups equally and these two subversive organizations along with their Leftist America hating allies in the ACLU, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the National Lawyers Guild play on this constitutional tradition with the ultimate intent of destroying freedom of

273. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/us/10inquire.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print 274. http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/declassified/archive/2009/11/09/fbi-counter-terror-officials-were-never-told-about-hasan-s-gunpurchase.aspx

religion in America and imposing Shar‘ia Law, a system that would exterminate the ACLU, Center for Constitutional Rights etc. The long term pathological strategy of the terrorist support lobby in America had worked. Because of ―political correctness‖ foisted on America by Islamists disguised as Civil Rights advocates nothing was done about Hasan. Everyone was afraid to be accused of profiling and discrimination, after all Hasan had a right to his beliefs, so he was passed around like a hot falafel ball. Additionally the FBI discovered Hasan transferred funds to Pakistan which went toward the furthering of jihad. In the months before the shootings, Al-Awlaki and Hasan discussed how Hasan could make several transactions of less than $10,000, a threshold for reporting to U.S. authorities. Of course Hasan did not explicitly vow to fund terrorist activities or evade tax and reporting laws for contributions, as he did not just fall off a turnip truck. A source told the Washington Post, "I believe they were interested in the money for operational-type aspects, and knowing that he had funds and wouldn't be around to use them, they were very eager to get those funds." Hassan wrote this on Scrib‘d in May 2009, ―There was a grenade thrown amongst a group of American soldiers. One of the soldiers, feeling that it was too late for everyone to flee jumped on the grave with the intention of saving his comrades. Indeed he saved them. He intentionally took his life (suicide) for a noble cause i.e. saving the lives of his soldier. To say that this soldier committed suicide is inappropriate. It‘s more appropriate to say he is a brave hero that sacrificed his life for a more noble cause. Scholars have paralleled this to suicide bombers whose intention, by sacrificing their lives, is to help save Muslims by killing enemy soldiers. If one suicide bomber can kill 100 enemy soldiers because they were caught off guard that would be considered a strategic victory. Their intention is not to die because of some despair. The same can be said for the Kamikazes in Japan. They died (via crashing their planes into ships) to kill the enemies for the homeland. You can call them crazy I you want but their act was not one of suicide that is despised by Islam. So the scholar‘s main point is that "IT SEEMS AS THOUGH YOUR INTENTION IS THE MAIN ISSUE" and Allah (SWT) knows best.‖ "subhanu wa ta'alah" which translates as "Glorified and Exalted".

HASAN WAS IN TOUCH WITH REVOLUTION MUSLIM THROUGH HIS CO-CONSPIRATOR DUANE REASONER

In July 2009 Hasan was transferred to Fort Hood for deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan. His supervisor, Captain Naomi Surman recalled his telling her that as an infidel she who would be "ripped to shreds" and "burn in hell." Another person reports his declaring that infidels should be beheaded and have boiling oil poured down their throats. At Fort Hood Hasan made contact with 18-year-old Duane Scott Reasoner. Reasoner is an African-American Army brat and Muslim convert from Copperas Cove, Texas. Prior to moving to Texas Duane‘s father was stationed at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. Aberdeen Proving Ground is the Army's oldest active proving ground, one of the world's foremost research development, testing, and training facilities for military weapons and equipment. After evening prayers Hasan would often buy a fish dinner for Reasoner at the Golden Corral, a chain buffet restaurant. Besides mentioning that he prayed for a wife, the conversation almost never strayed from religion, Reasoner said, describing Hasan as warm and caring.275 ―He felt he was supposed to quit, in the Koran, it says you are not supposed to have alliances with Jews or Christians, and if you are killed in the military fighting against Muslims, you will go to hell.‖ Manager Vera Brooks said Hasan, dressed in typical civilian clothes, was a regular there, eating by himself almost every weekend. The night before the shootings, Hasan and Reasoner went as usual to the Golden Corral. Reasoner said Hasan acted as he always did. No red flags. "Nothing was out of the ordinary," he said. This was a lie. Contrast his with what he told the BBC after the event, ―I‘m not going to condemn Nidal for what he did. I don‘t know why he did it. I will not, absolutely not, condemn him for what he had done though. If he had done it for selfish reasons I still will not condemn him. He‘s my brother in the end. I will never condemn him. Well, that‘s the way it is. I don‘t speak for the community here but me personally I will not condemn him. They (the victims) were troops who were going to Afghanistan and Iraq to kill Muslims. I honestly have no pity for them. It‘s just like the majority of the people that will hear this, after five or six minutes they‘ll be shocked, after that they‘ll forget about them and go on their day.‖

275. http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=65920

Reasoner acted as an internet intermediary between Hasan and domestic Islamist terrorists. Brian Ross of ABC News reported that in March of 2007, Duane created a YouTube account under the name "ooklepookle." He has used the handle on other accounts as well, but they can always be traced back to Duane Reasoner Jr. On his YouTube account, Reasoner chose as favorites 14 different videos by Anwar AlAwlaki along with videos featuring Osama Bin Laden, the Taliban, Shayk Omar Abdul Rahman and Adam Gadahn; a once-Jewish member of Al Qaeda. In December 2008, Reasoner created a profile on Stickam.com. Under personal tags, he wrote "extremist, fundamentalist, mujahedeen, Muslim." He posted a picture of the U.S. Capitol in ruins, as well as a picture of a Muslim warrior on horseback and a rendering of the "Sword of Tawheed." In February 2008 Hasan was granted a SECRET security clearance based on a National Agency Check with Local Agency and Credit Check of background investigation. ―Although accomplished in accordance with current guidelines, this background investigation did not include a subject interview or interviews with co-workers, supervisors, or expanded character references.' We believe that if a more thorough investigation had been accomplished, his security clearance may have been revoked and his continued service and pending deployment would have been subject to increased scrutiny.‖276 On his MySpace account, created in March 2008, Reasoner called himself "Salah ad-Din," after the famous Muslim Sultan who won back Jerusalem from the Crusaders. Reasoner also referred to himself as "Salah ad-Din" on Facebook. On an unknown date, Reasoner created a photobucket.com account. Among the photos on that account is a composite shot of Osama Bin Laden's head rearing above the White House, which is surrounded by flames and armed men in Arab dress. The picture is captioned "Osama caliphate." Another picture shows the White House with an Islamic flag above it and the caption "Nation under Islamic Law." On an unknown date Reasoner became a subscriber to the YouTube channel of a YouTube user named Sahab929 who posted videos of al-Qaeda leaders Osama Bin Laden and Ayman Al-Zawahiri. "Sahab"

276. http://www.defense.gov/pubs/pdfs/DOD-ProtectingTheForce-Web_Security_HR_13Jan10.pdf

is the name of the media company that produces al-Qaeda's videos. Ooklepookle also visited anti-Israel websites and used proxy servers. REASONER CONTACTED AL-KHATTAB ON THE SAME DAY HASAN BOUGHT THE GUN On August 1, 2009, in response to a video that was posted on YouTube by user IslamicRevolution TV, "ooklepookle" posted the comment, "Ya Abdullah do you have any vids on martyrdom operations or the ruling on them." The user answered, "No I don't but look around online on the Jihadi blogs."277 Hasan purchased the murder weapon on August 1, 2009. IslamicRevolution TV is the media arm of RevolutionMuslim. On August 23, 2009 Al-Awlaki was banned from speaking via teleconference at a London event to raise money for Muslims held in Guantanamo Bay.

Because the Hasan investigation was closed the FBI did not know of the association between Hasan and Reasoner. Had it investigated further and discovered this relationship it might have become clear that Hasan was in indirect communication with RevolutionMuslim, which is run by foulest moral degenerate in America, Yousef al-Khattab, a convert to Islam formerly known as Joseph Leonard Kaplan. Kaplan spent a good deal of his youth in a New Jersey mental hospital then joined Neturei Karta, a group of Jews who believe that the destruction of the State of Israel will bring about the coming of the Messiah. He was the chauffeur for Neturei Karta ―Rabbi‖ Joseph Freiman when they all lived together in Washington Heights. While Frieman was in the car he would propagandize this weak

277. http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/hasans-friend-proclaimed-extremist/story?id=9100187&page=3

minded fool about how Hamas were "heroes for blowing Jews up in Israel" sic and other pro-Hamas, pro-Arab terror statements that sunk into Kaplan‘s easy to fill empty mind. Kaplan left Washington Heights for Satmar Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It was no great leap from this traitor with a yarmulke to out and out defection to Islam. Soon after he flew to Israel converted and officially joined the Arab Nazis of Al Qaeda, all as part of his goal to try and murder Jews! Yousef al-Khattab promotes violence and he has advocated attacks on synagogues, throwing drain cleaner at Jews, attacking Jewish social institutions and more. The way he gets away with it is that he phrases everything as a prayer, ―Ya Allah (Oh God) I beseech You to carry out your wrath on the Jewish occupiers of Palestine & their supporters. Ya Allah (Oh God) please throw liquid drain cleaner in their faces. Ya Allah (Oh God) burn their flammable sukkos while they sleep. Ya Allah (Oh God),make rocks crash through their car windows as they drive in Your land Bayit al Maqdes Ya Allah (Oh God), make their fingers and brains stick on cafe walls from impact. Ya Allah (Oh God) answer my duaa (prayer)‖ and his makes it fall under Freedom of Religion. As a result of these threats he has received widespread media coverage.

HASAN VISITED REVOLUTION MUSLIM.COM

Reasoner was on line when the post titled Subhan Allah brother, may Allah reward‖ was posted but it was not credited to Reasoner. Could Hasan have posted this? He said he was a ―revert,‖ not a convert so this ruled out Reasoner. The fixation re; data mining indicates that this person believed his emails and posts were being watched. Chances are this was the scumbucket Hasan. If he was willing to take a chance by emailing alAwlaki, he had testicular fortitude enough to visit jihadist websites. Authorities poring over Hasan's computer, Internet records and multiple e-mail accounts have found evidence that he visited radical Islamist websites with some frequency. The phenomenon of Al-Qaeda's recruiting and handling terrorists from across the globe through the Internet was extensively covered in a report published by the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on May 8, 2008. Titled ―Violent Islamist Extremism, The Internet, and the Homegrown Terrorist Threat‖, the report discussed the extensive use made of the Internet by Al-Qaeda, global jihad elements, and groups associated with radical Islam, and voices concerns over the exposure of American citizens to the websites of Al-Qaeda. Those terrorists go through a process of losing their own identity and embracing the jihadist ideology of Al-Qaeda and radical Islam, distributed through the Internet and in other media.278 The DoD reported, ―The Department of Defense does not have a comprehensive and coordinated policy for counterintelligence activities in cyberspace. There are numerous DoD and interagency organizations and offices involved in defense cyber activities. The evolving security threat increasingly involves information exchanges using the Internet. The Services have developed cyber counterintelligence programs to identify potential threats to DoD personnel, information, and facilities. Non-DoD agencies are also involved in cyber counterintelligence activities. The Department of Defense does not have an overarching policy coordinated across the interagency and with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence that provides clear guidance to the Services and Defense agencies on the execution of counterintelligence cyber activities. The Department of Defense is reviewing comments from the Services and appropriate defense agencies on Draft DoD Instruction 5240.mm, Counterintelligence Activities in Cyberspace. Recommendation: Publish

278. http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/gj_e003.htm

policy to ensure timely counterintelligence collection, investigations, and operations in cyberspace for identifying potential threats to DoD personnel, information, and facilities.‖279 Note the use of Servant of Allah and Subhan Allah. Hasan designed green and white personal business cards that included his name, then Behavior Heatlh [sic] Mental Health and Life Skills, a Maryland mobile phone number, an AOL e-mail address, and "SoA (SWT)." SoA is the jihadi abbreviation for Servant of Allah and SWT stands for Subhanahu waTa'ala, or Glory to Him, the Exalted.280 The guest poster used both these words. This information was supplied by Rusty Shackleford of http://mypetjawa.mu.nu. A jawa is a fictional character from Star Wars that bears many similar characteristics to Islamists. SHEIK ABDULLAH EL-FAISAL Aside from Al-Awlaki the Revolution Muslim group relied on the teachings of Sheik Abdullah el-Faisal, a Jamaican born convert to Islam who did a four year bid in an English prison for inciting Muslims to kill Jews, Christians and Hindus. In his sermons, El-Faisal encouraged Muslims to wage jihad against non-Muslims using violent terrorist tactics. He has supported the use of nuclear and chemical weapons to "exterminate nonbelievers", and encouraged his congregations to train in operating planes, tanks, Kalashnikov rifles and missile launchers. He regularly called for the killing of non-Muslims, particularly Jews and Hindus. In one lecture, he remarked, "How do you fight a Jew? You kill a Jew. In the case of Hindus, by bombing their businesses." In another talk, he suggested that Hindus should be slaughtered and their bodies used to fuel nuclear power plants. El-Faisal has preached to hundreds of Muslims in the United Kingdom, including several known al-Qaeda operatives. James Ujaama, an American citizen currently imprisoned for conspiring to aid the Taliban, Richard Reid, who attempted to detonate a shoe-bomb on a transatlantic flight, and Zacarias Moussaoui, a co-conspirator in the September 11 attacks, have all reportedly attended his lectures in the past. In addition, intelligence agencies have credited El-Faisal with radicalizing other Islamic terrorists including Abdullah Shaheed Jamal, a suicide bomber who took part in the

279. http://www.defense.gov/pubs/pdfs/DOD-ProtectingTheForce-Web_Security_HR_13Jan10.pdf 280. http://www.danielpipes.org/7763/major-nidal-hasan-islamist-life

July 2005 London subway bombings. El-Faisal went to Africa, where after being sent back by Nigeria, he was arrested by Kenyan authorities. Because of this rioting broke out in Nairobi, and at least five people were confirmed dead and scores in critical condition. He is back in Jamaica now. AL-KHATTAB‘S TERRORIST ASSOCIATES Neil Bryant Vinas, a young New Yorker who has pleaded guilty to plotting to attack trains on the Long Island Rail Road, met with al-Khattab. Al-Khattab said Vinas and ―some brothers‖ traveled to Atlantic City, New Jersey, and had dinner with him. AlKhattab said they considered him something of a hero because he left Israel and converted to Islam. Al-Khattab also influenced Tarek Mehanna, now under indictment in Boston, Massachusetts, on charges of conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists. What follows is a time line of Mr. Mehanna's and his group's alleged actions from before the 9/11 attacks in 2001 up to 2008, according to the FBI's complaint and an affidavit supporting a search warrant: 2000-2001 – Tarek Mehanna, who has known as CW2 (a conspirator who in late 2006 agreed to cooperate with the FBI) for 15 to 20 years, introduced him to Ahmad Abousamra, and the three men become close friends. Common interests include talking about religion and Muslims' role in the United States and justification for certain jihadist acts. Pre-Sept. 11, 2001 Mehanna, Abousamra, and CW2 talk about going to terrorist training camps in Pakistan, searching the Internet for logistical information for locations and travel, but no solid plans materialize. After Sept. 11, 2001 Mehanna, Abousamra, and CW2 express support for the attacks. April 4, 2002 – Abousamra traveled to Pakistan in search of terrorist training, but apparently doesn't find it, returning home. Fall 2002, Mehanna meets Daniel Maldonado through Abousamra. At Mehanna's home, they watch jihadi videos showing pillaging of the Muslim world in Bosnia and the Palestinian territories. Later, the video shows mujahideen victories and footage of people being killed. Afterward, Mehanna, Abousamra, and Maldonado talk about the glory of dying for Allah. Nov. 17, 2002, Abousamra travels again to Pakistan, where he connects with a man who helps him find a Taliban camp and another run by a Lashkar e Tayyiba group. But, as he later tells CW2, he was rejected by the former for being too inexperienced and by the latter for not being Pakistani. 2003,

Mehanna, Abousamra, and CW2 determine Pakistan is not a feasible place to get terrorist training. Frustrated, they begin exploring other options, including committing domestic terrorist acts. One topic of discussion: the feasibility of shooting a member of the executive branch of government. In another discussion, killing a second member of the executive branch is debated. Second half of 2003, inspired by the 2002 sniper attacks in Washington, D.C., Mehanna, Abousamra, and CW2 discuss a plan to get automatic weapons, go to a shopping mall, and randomly shoot people. Abousamra says civilians aren't innocent because they pay taxes to the government and because they are Kufar (nonbelievers). October 2003, Abousamra flies to California to meet with Individual A, who tells him whom to see and where to go to find terrorist training camps in Yemen. Late 2003, discussion of the mall attack plan continues, including types of weapons needed, number of attackers involved, and coordinating the attack across different entrances. Attacking emergency responders is debated. CW2 travels to New Hampshire to meet with Maldonado, a former gang member, who is believed to have access to automatic weapons. But Maldonado says all he can get is handguns. Lacking firepower, the plan is abandoned. Late 2003 Mehanna, Abousamra, and CW2 begin planning a trip to Yemen to attend a jihadist training camp or training in southern Jordan. Traveling to Iraq is discussed and of particular interest because of the opportunity to fight US forces and because it is more accessible than other jihad conflicts around the world. February 2004 CW2 hides video of his actions that he expects to tell family about later by e-mail. Mehanna, Abousamra, and CW2 debate the permissibility of suicide bombings. Abousamra agrees. CW2 does not; he and Mehanna want to be soldiers for jihad, not suicide bombers.‖ Daniel Maldonado pleaded guilty before a federal judge in Texas to receiving military training from Islamic militants in Somalia. The Eagle Tribune on Line reported ―Yousef al-Khattab, a New York City bicycle-taxi driver, said in a telephone interview he believes the government trumped up the charges against Maldonado. Al-Khattab said he never met Maldonado but has known him for four or five years through the Internet and considers him a friend. AlKhattab described Maldonado as a mainstream Muslim who was going through the typical stages of a convert. ‗Every new Muslim starts out like a zealot," al-Khattab said. "Nobody sticks with it too long. Slowly, slowly, they just become mainstream Muslim.‘" Al-Khattab received this letter from Mehanna:

―26th of Dhu al-Qa'dah, 1430 / 14th of November, 2009. In the Name of Allah, I praise Allah and invoke peace and blessings on the Messenger of Allah. First of all, I would like to thank you all from the bottom of my heart for your immense support. Each and every person who is praying for my family and I, who has written a letter, and who attended a hearing or raised general awareness of what is going is known to Allah, and I ask that they each be rewarded with the good of this life and the next, and that Allah relieves each of you of trials and calamities just as you have helped to relieve my own...I cannot speak in detail about the charges and accusations against me, but suffice to say that nobody who truly knows me would for a second believe the utter lies and sensationalist garbage that has been peddled around in the media since my arrest.‖ Duane Reasoner lost his job as a substitute teacher and has gone into hiding. Without Hasan‘s testimony he will probably go free but will have to be on the lookout for extra-judicial justice as this traitor should have his ass kicked. Hasan was transferred to the Darnall Army Medical Center Fort Hood, Texas for deployment in July 2009 and on August 1, 2009 he purchased the Belgian made FN Herstal 5.7 pistol he used to perpetrate his act of mass murder. The FBI was made aware of his purchase but the information could not be passed on to the Joint Terrorist Taskforce as the investigation of Hasan had been closed. The second gun was an older model Smith & Wesson .357-caliber revolver. It was not fired. The revolver was so old investigators doubted it could be traced to a specific purchase. It is alleged Hasan had hired an attorney to prevent his deployment but none has come forward. In October 2009, the FBI Behavioral Science Unit established a Military Violence Unit to assist the Department of Defense with coming to grips with this problem.281 On November 5, 2009 he perpetrated the Fort Hood Massacre. Since Hasan was making jihad he was exempt from Shar‘ia Law. Women employed at a strip club Starz in Killeen, Texas, told ABC News they remembered Hasan and that he visited the all-nude club at least three times, bringing his own six pack of beer. According to the British Telegraph, Mohamed Atta, the pilot of the first hijacked aircraft that crashed into the

281. http://www.defense.gov/pubs/pdfs/DOD-ProtectingTheForce-Web_Security_HR_13Jan10.pdf

World Trade Centre, and his fellow shaheeds spent some of their time in Las Vegas at the Olympic Bar, a downtown strip club. Hasan was videotaped dressed in white prior to the event282 the color traditionally worn by the shaheed. He left his decrepit apartment complex to attend 6 a.m. prayers at a mosque near Fort Hood, which was subsequently a garbology target of the FBI. He said goodbye to fellow Muslims there and asked forgiveness from one man for any past offenses. He went to a shooting range and emptied out his safe deposit box. When he committed the act he bowed his head for several seconds in prayer to Allah, stood up and drew a high-powered pistol. "Allah Akbar," he said -- "G-D is great." Hasan believed, ―Allah created life and death the He might put you to the test and find out which of you acquitted himself best.‖ Authorities identified 12 soldiers and 1 civilian employee who Hasan murdered: Lt. Col. Juanita L. Warman, 55, of Havre De Grace, Maryland. She was assigned to the 1908th Medical Company, Independence, Mo. Maj. Libardo Caraveo, 52, of Woodbridge, Virginia. He was assigned to the 467th Medical Detachment, Madison, Wisconsin. Capt. John P. Gaffaney, 54, of San Diego, California. He was assigned to the 1908th Medical Company, Independence, Missouri. Capt. Russell Seager, 51, of Racine, Wisconsin. He was assigned to the 467th Medical Company, Madison, Wisconsin. Staff Sgt. Justin Decrow, 32, of Plymouth, Indiana. He was assigned to the 16th Signal Company, 62nd Signal Battalion, 11th Signal Brigade, Fort Hood, Texas. Sgt. Amy Krueger, 29, of Kiel, Wisconsin. She was assigned to the 467th Medical Company, Madison, Wisconsin. Spc. Jason Hunt, 22, of Tillman, Oklahoma. He was assigned to the 1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas. Spc. Frederick Greene, 29, of Mountain City, Tennessee. He was assigned to the 510th Engineer Company, 20th Engineer Battalion, Fort Hood, Texas. Pfc. Aaron Nemelka, 19, of West Jordan, Utah. He was assigned to the 510th Engineer Company, 20th Engineer Battalion, Fort Hood, Texas. Pfc. Michael Pearson, 22, of Bolinbrook, Illinois. He was assigned to the 510th Engineer Company, 20th Engineer Battalion, Fort Hood, Texas. Spc. Kham Xiong, 23, of St. Paul, Minnesota. He was assigned to the Forward Support Company, 20th Engineer Battalion, Fort Hood, Texas. Pvt. Francheska Velez, 21, of Chicago, Illinois. She was assigned to the 15th Combat Support Battalion, Fort Hood, Texas. Chief Warrant Officer retired Michael

282. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1ExEpi7f48

Cahill of Cameron, Texas. He was a civilian employee on Fort Hood. He wounded another forty-three human beings. After Hasan‘s attack in Fort Hood Al-Awlaki stated, ―Nidal Hassan is a hero. He is a man of conscience who could not bear living the contradiction of being a Muslim and serving in an army that is fighting against his own people. This is a contradiction that many Muslims brush aside and just pretend that it doesn‘t exist. Any decent Muslim cannot live, understanding properly his duties towards his Creator and his fellow Muslims, and yet serve as a US soldier. The US is leading the war against terrorism which in reality is a war against Islam. Its army is directly invading two Muslim countries and indirectly occupying the rest through its stooges. Nidal opened fire on soldiers who were on their way to be deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. How can there be any dispute about the virtue of what he has done? In fact the only way a Muslim could Islamically justify serving as a soldier in the US army is if his intention is to follow the footsteps of men like Nidal. The heroic act of brother Nidal also shows the dilemma of the Muslim American community. Increasingly they are being cornered into taking stances that would either make them betray Islam or betray their nation. Many amongst them are choosing the former. The Muslim organizations in America came out in a pitiful chorus condemning Nidal‘s operation. ―The fact that fighting against the US army is an Islamic duty today cannot be disputed. No scholar with a grain of Islamic knowledge can defy the clear cut proofs that Muslims today have the right -rather the dutyto fight against American tyranny. Nidal has killed soldiers who were about to be deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan in order to kill Muslims. The American Muslims who condemned his actions have committed treason against the Muslim Ummah and have fallen into hypocrisy. Allah (swt) says: Give tidings to the hypocrites that there is for them a painful punishment – Those who take disbelievers as allies instead of the believers. Do they seek with them honor [through power]? But indeed, honor belongs to Allah entirely. (al-Nisa 136-137) The inconsistency of being a Muslim today and living in America and the West in general reveals the wisdom behind the opinions that call for migration from the West. It is becoming more and more difficult to hold on to Islam in an environment that is becoming more hostile towards Muslims. May Allah grant our brother Nidal patience,

perseverance and steadfastness and we ask Allah to accept from him his great heroic act. Ameen.‖283 Yemeni journalist Abdulelah Hider Shaea interviewed Al-Awlaki in November 2009, after Al-Awlaki‘s website was taken off the internet. AlAwlaki acknowledged his correspondence with Hasan, and said he "neither ordered nor pressured Maj. Nidal M. Hasan to harm Americans.‖ This went against everything Al-Awlaki stood for, violence, mass murder in the name of Allah. Print, video and audio files of Al-Awlaki‘s words have been found on the private hard drives of terrorism suspects in Canada in 2006 and in the United States in 2007 and 2008. He also wrote congratulations to al-Shabaab, an Islamic extremist group leading an insurgency in Somalia, after it apparently used the first U.S.-citizen suicide bomber last fall. Al-Awlaki said Hasan arrived at his own conclusions regarding the acceptability of violence in Islam, and said he was not the one to initiate this. What else could he have said? He is not going to confess. Shaea summarized their relationship by stating, "Nidal was providing evidence to Anwar, not vice versa." Asked whether Hasan mentioned Fort Hood as a target in his e-mails, Shaea declined to comment. Why would the interviewer sent by the Washington Post to Yemen decline to comment if the emails had not mentioned Fort Hood? Referring to a post on his blog praising the shootings after they occurred, al-Alwaki said he "blessed the act because it was against a military target. And the soldiers who were killed were not normal soldiers, but those who were trained and prepared to go to Iraq and Afghanistan." In December 2009 al-Alwaki granted an interview to the Arabic news service Al-Jazeera284 and turned over copies of the emails that were exchanged between himself and his mureed (student of jihad) Hasan. The following was taken from a machine translation of this interview: Al-J: Sheikh Anwar, when did your relationship with this jihadist begin?

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Al-Alwaki: Brother Nidal asked G-D to protect him when he was praying in Mosques during the time I was an Imam who had just moved to Virginia. Al-J: When was the first meeting between you and him? Al-Alwaki: Some nine years ago when I preached at the Dar al-Hijrah Mosque in Washington, D.C., one of the largest Islamic Centers in America. Al-J: There are reports that there was a closer relationship than that. Al-Alwaki: Brother Nidal was also communicating with me via email in the past year to mid year 2009. Al-J: When did your contact with him about the Islamist struggle begin? Al-Alwaki: The first message I received from this jihadi was on December 17, 2008. Al-J: Who began this correspondence, you or him? Al-Alwaki: He began it my contacting me. Al-J: What did he want? Al-Alwaki: He was asking if the killing of American soldiers and officers was legitimate or not? Al-J: He was asking this for nearly a year? Al-Alwaki: Yes, I am surprised they were not intercepted by U.S. Security agencies who claim they can read the license plate numbers from any vehicle in the world from space. Al-J: What did he want to know about jihad in these communications? Al-Alwaki: Of course, as I‘ve mentioned the first message was about fatwas regarding the morality of killing another Muslim soldier while serving in the United States military. And group of other emails explained his view that making jihad while killing Israeli civilians had religious legitimacy and he was in favor of this, those letters mentioned the legal and factual justification for the targeting of Jews with rockets. Then there were some of

the letters requesting a way to transfer some funds to us to contribute to the work of the ―charity.‖ Al-J: Were there other signs the indicated jihad? Did you bless the work of jihad that he carried out three days later? Al-Alwaki: I associate myself with the process that was done by the brother that is the work of heroic jihad and I tried to articulate my opinion on what happened because many of the Islamic organizations and preachers in the West condemned the operation, and I had to be a voice to be linked to Muslims in America and in the West who were independent of them. At the same time it showed the truth in what Brother Nidal by his act of jihad did, an act that the media especially tried to link to me since the beginning. Al-J: Why do you bless the works of the jihadi and shaheeds? Al-Alwaki: Because the objective targeted by Nidal was a military target within the United States and this only makes his jihad more legitimate, not only that these are not ordinary soldiers but they were equipped and preparing to start to fight and kill vulnerable Muslims by committing war crimes in Afghanistan. How can I or other Imams remain silent after hearing the testimony of jihadis who performed forensic analysis incriminating Americans in war crimes? There is a dispute about operations involving non combatants but his objective was purely a military target. Al-J: How can you support the fact that he committed treason against the United States? Al-Alwaki: It is more important not to betray the Islamic faith. To work in the U.S. military to fight Muslims is a betrayal of Islam. America today is the Pharaoh of yesterday. It is the enemy of Islam. It is not permissible for a Muslim to be employed by the United States Army unless he intends to follow in the footsteps of our brother Nidal. Allegiance in Islam is to Allah, His Messenger and to the other believers and not to a handful of dust which these traitors call home. A Muslim Americans loyalty is to the Muslim Nation and not to America and the brother‘s jihad proved that through the blessed struggle, and G-d will reward him richly for that. Al-J: Are you directly related to the incident, did you have a hand in it?

Al-Alwaki: I did not cause him to perform blessed jihad, but what inspired him was the United States and its crimes, the injustice it perpetuates and this is what the United States is trying to hide and does not want to be recognized. America does not want to recognize what he had done and that the struggle by thousands of Muslims fighting against America exists because of the unfair policy of America when it comes to the Islamic world. Nidal Hasan before being an American is a Muslim from Palestine as well and he sees what the United States is doing perpetuating the injustices of the Jews under the cover of American support. Yes, I might have had a role in the intellectual guidance of the jihad, but it is not beyond that. I am not trying to shirk from the link by disassociating myself from jihad and with him but I am admitting I had a bigger role than ever before! Al-J: From what I can see from the emails you gave me Nidal trusts you and respects you, and you still say that you did not have a hand in the event? Al-Alwaki: Talking to you about this, and I explained to you and I gave you for publication the emails because the United States Administration prevented their publication. So why do they not want them to exist? What is the reason? Do they want coverage on the failure of security? Or do they not want to admit that the jihadist struggle is the principle behind the event and that he did what he did in the service of Islam? They wish to show it was a sudden act of an individual not related to the war crimes of the American military. Al-J: Do you think he was get the death penalty? Al-Alwaki: This is likely in any case. We call upon him to prove Allah is the right G-d and helps those who do good. I ask Allah to accept him as a shaheed and when Allah sees his death certificate congratulate him. JEWISH DEFENSE ORGANIZATION BREAKS UP AL-QAEDA CELL IN WOODSIDE QUEENS

As for Hasan‘s United States Emir, Yousef Al-Khattab, Jewish Defense Organization was able to obtain his address and put an end to this piece of filth. Al-Khattab had recently praised Hasan calling him ―an officer and a gentleman‖ so once his address was revealed to his neighbors they and others began a campaign, with the help of the JDO, to get him evicted from his office. Al-Khattab, believed that he was in danger of getting what he deserved from some local patriotic Americans or from members of the JDO, so this dirty dog fled the United States with his tail between his legs and joined his family in Morocco. By doing so he immediately put himself and his family in danger of arrest because he had made statements calling for the overthrow of the monarchy on his RevolutionMuslim blog. Al-Khattab also resigned from RevolutionMuslim: ―It‘s not surprising the Jewish Defense Organization want to drive me out of Queens, they are rabbinical Jews with the emphasis on rabbinical and this is the way the do things historically let‘s start from 1948 where they drove the indigenous population of Palestine into refugee status for over 61 years now even though they have no links to Palestine…as they are trying to drive me out…I am not too worried about any violence from them, and when they do things they do things sneaky like planting bombs in the Russian Embassy which their people did before…There is no reason to confront them, there is nothing to talk about they are hokum, their verdict has been sealed and it‘s just a matter of time until that verdict is handed out so there is nothing we can discuss with them. It‘s not like we are talking to anybody else. They have their opinions, they are disgusting they are fascists and they don‘t have the greater good of all the people in their mind, they have the greater good for their own gene pool that is passed down through their mothers which is Orthodox Judaism whereas Shar‘ia law, whenever it takes over it cares about all of its citizens and rather than raping their resources and seizing power from them it gives them the same rights basically…so there is no one to confront.

He left behind bicycle messenger Abdullah as-Sayf Jones as the new Amir. From Jones' blog: "The author of this blog is named Abdullah as-Sayf Jones, however was born as David Scott Jones into an average American family of Italian-Irish background. He grew up like every other kid living in lower-class Brevard, Florida. While most kids in his area were getting involved in gangs and crime or trying to become famous rappers and athletes; Abdullah (David) was interested in other things like history, religion, revolution, etc. Abdullah began reading the books of Sayyid Qutb and listening to the lectures of Shaykh Abdullah al-Faisal and Shaykh Anwar al-Awlaki. Through this he came to be the person he is today, Abdullah as-Sayf Jones a Muslim revolutionary in pursuit of Allah‘s pleasure and Jannah insha‘Allah ta‘alaa.‖ On Sunday December 20, 2009 the Jewish Defense Organization staged a demonstration in front of the headquarters of the Al-Qaeda recruitment cell in Woodside, Queens. Al-Khattab told The Queens Tribune that Jones no longer resided in the apartment and claims the apartment has been vacant for at least two weeks. He said the landlords are not involved in any of his writings and have nothing to do with either him or Jones, except as a landlord. He also harshly criticized the JDO for releasing the landlord's phone number to the public. He criticized the JDO for labeling them as al-Qaeda operatives. He said if that were true, he wouldn't have his freedom. "Do they think they know something the police don't?" al-Khattab said, noting that neither the NYPD nor federal law enforcement have arrested him on any terrorism charges. He said if the JDO's claims were true, he'd "be in prison already. We never said 'kill Jews'," al-Khattab said, "We're not blanket racists, we're not the KKK, we're not al-Qaeda. We merely critique American politics." This was a lie. Note A Prayer to My God by Yousef al-Khattab ―Ya Allah (Oh God) I beseech You to carry out your wrath on the Jewish occupiers of Palestine & their supporters. Ya Allah (Oh God) please throw liquid drain cleaner in their faces. Ya Allah (Oh God) burn their flammable sukkos while they sleep. Ya Allah (Oh God),make rocks crash through their car windows as they drive in Your land Bayit al Maqdes Ya Allah (Oh God), make their fingers and brains stick on cafe walls from impact. Ya Allah (Oh God) answer my duaa (prayer).‖

PART TWO: THE TERRORIST’S SUPPORT NETWORK The terrorist support network can be regarded as falling into two groups. The first are Islamic educational institutions that mask their Islamist agenda by offering numerous courses in what on their surface are harmless, watered down courses in Islam, but these lectures are intermixed with an occasional course or Professor with a virulent Islamist agenda. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab flew from London to Houston Texas to attend the Al-Maghrid Insitute, an ―Islamic educational institution.‖ The director of the 2008 program and national Dean of Academic Affairs was Yasir Qadhi, an associate of Ali Al-Timimi, a terrorist who was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of soliciting others to wage war against the United

States. Even after Timimi's conviction Qadhi wrote this about him "who I can say (with pride) that 15 years ago, back in the early ‗90s, he played an instrumental role in shaping and directing me to take the path that has led me to where I am today." Yasir Qadhi also believed death while carrying out jihad was the most cherished honor: "Prophet Mohammad (saws) said that if [a man] dies as martyr in a battle, that is the only thing that is more beloved than a person who is practicing and praying and being a good Muslim for these ten days." In a 2001 speech Qadhi portrayed Jews as the enemies of Muslims: "I am not advising any Muslim to waste his time studying Judaism. But I am saying, why are Jews studying Islam? There is a reason. Not that they want to help us, they want to destroy us. Hitler never intended to mass destroy the Jews. There are a number of books out by Christians, written on this. You should read them. The Hoax of the Holocaust, I advise you to read this one. Do you want to write this down. The Hoax of the Holocaust, a very good book."285 The second part of the Islamist terrorist support network consists of litigious pressure groups. Dr. Nidal Malik Hasan was a respectable Arab who had risen in the ranks of the Armed Forces. What allowed Hasan to fester like an open sore was the fear that not being politically correct could result in a lawsuit combined with complacency about the internal danger posed by Islam. The fact that Dr. Hasan was a Muslim should have been factored into the equation when the intelligence community evaluated his threat level and should not have been discounted by rationalizing that ‗he is just doing research on extremist religious belief and his actions fall under the Freedom of Religion entitlement of the Bill of Rights just as they would if he was a Christian was studying the radical pro-life Movement.‘ Anyway we might get sued for discrimination if we go after him. Interestingly enough the enforcers of political correctness are Arabs, the most politically incorrect people in the world.

THE ENEMY WITHIN: ISLAMIST MOLES POPULATE THE ADC: ARAB AMERICAN ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE.

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In 1980, James Zogby286 joined with former Senator James Abourezk to form the ADC. The ADC has 18,000 members and is the largest grass roots Arab-American organization and claims that its mission is defending the political rights and promoting the cultural heritage of the more than three million Americans of Arab descent. Senator James Abourezk is definitely a terrorist sympathizer – he was willing to testify for Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman287 but was prevented from doing so. The Senator served one term – 1973 to 1979 – in the Senate and one in the House of Representatives from 1971 to 1973. The ADC is part of our ―Terror Lobby‖ and uses civil liberties issues to make it easier for Islamists to operate by lobbying against ―anti-terror‖ legislation on the highest levels of government. In order to do so they recruit the best Islamist subversive minds in America. Sara Najjar-Wilson is the ADC‘s National Executive Director. Sara is an experienced attorney with more than 30 years of service in the Federal government, having served as a Trial Attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice‘s Civil Division and as a Senior Attorney in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Office of the General Counsel. Among other leadership positions, she has served as Chairperson of the Federal Litigation Section of the Federal Bar Association (FBA) and as the Program Chairperson of the Washington Foreign Law Society. Ms. Najjar-Wilson represented NASA in several ―high profile‖ activities, including the interests of the families of the late

In 1984, Zogby served as deputy campaign manager for fundraising for the Reverend Jesse Jackson‘s presidential campaign and served as an advisor on Arab American issues to the Clinton administration. In 1994, he was appointed to the Democratic National Committee‘s Resolutions Committee. Zogby has come to the defense of the Muslim Brethren, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad, arguing that these groups are merely ―politically‖ or ―religiously‖ opposed to the peace process. He defended the American Muslim Council. James Zogby criticized President Clinton‘s January 1995 executive order classifying a number of Islamist organizations as terrorist groups. Zogby rejected outright in the pages of a pro-Hamas publication, that fundraising within the Arab-American and Muslim American community is in any way connected to any Middle Eastern so-called terrorist groups. In 1984, Zogby served as deputy campaign manager for fundraising for the Reverend Jesse Jackson‘s presidential campaign and served as an advisor on Arab American issues to the Clinton administration. In 1994, he was appointed to the Democratic National Committee‘s Resolutions Committee. Zogby is not an Arab Uncle Tom. He is a Brother who has stated, ―Not enough has been done to explain Islam in the West and to deal with those passages in the Qu‘ran that some in the West find troubling. One easy way to do this is to invite those who ask the questions to read the entire Qu‘ran and read the entire Torah and then see which is the bloodier scripture.‖ 286.

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287. USA v Rahman Doc. Number 642

Challenger astronauts. Among many honors and awards, Sara received the NASA Exceptional Service Medal. Former ADC National Executive Director, Kareem Shora, worked for ADC for ten years, and is now a Senior Policy Advisor to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. In June 2004 the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee keynote speakers were Asa Hutchinson Undersecretary of the Department of Homeland Security and Teresa Heinz Kerry wife of Presidential Candidate John Kerry. To please the ADC Hutchinson promised that the Department of Homeland Security would eliminate the special registration for people who fit the profile of Arab terrorists program completely in the near future and pledged to deal with all travelers equally and without discrimination. That would make it easier for jihadis to board flights. The ADC announced that the Office of Inspector General (OIG) at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will be conducting an audit reviewing the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS) in early January 2010. This will make it easier for terrorist to enter the United States. The ADC wants to eviscerate or destroy the Patriot Act. The Islamists will recruit fair minded liberals to participate in their own self destruction. Heinz Kerry, "John will be committed to a strong America, where our nation's laws are enforced without resorting to discrimination. He has always supported strong hate crime laws, and he believes that the practice of racial profiling should be prohibited."288 She had 57 Varieties of stupidity. She had not the slightest idea that this politically correct thinking was paving the way for Nidal Hasan to escape an FBI investigation. If anyone messed with Nidal Hasan, a Major in the United States Army, the ADC she and Hutchinson cozened up to would have attempted to destroy them via its connections of through the justice system as it has aside from its leadership it has numerous lawyers, including a few self-hating Jews, at its disposal.

A DANGEROUS TERRORIST SUPPORT GROUP

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―It‘s frightening to think that an organization with clear-cut ties to terrorism could have a hand in influencing policy, especially national security policy, within our government. The investigations that we‘re asking for are simple, and I‘m hopeful that they will bring to light any and all information regarding the goals of CAIR.‖ – a statement by Rep. Sue Myrick Congresswoman from North Carolina. CAIR, The Council on American-Islamic Relations289 is the stealth arm of the Hamas section of the Muslim Brotherhood, is a guilty as Hasan for the Fort Hood Massacre. This terrorist group had been allowed to poison and intimidate the FBI for decades. The FBI did not act because Hasan was Muslim and it was afraid of being accused of being sued for racial profiling and religious discrimination by CAIR. CAIR would have sued the FBI, FBI officials and individual agents. CAIR has a long history of litigiousness. For example CAIR represented a veteran of the American military and a doctor in trying to force the USG to grant them citizenship. CAIR was behind an effort in 2008 by six imams who were taken off a U.S. Airways flight for acting suspiciously to sue the passengers who reported the imams to airline personnel. If their attempt had succeeded, Americans would be afraid to report suspicious behavior in airplanes for fear of being sued. This became known as the Flying Imam‟s case! The lawsuit‘s real purpose was to facilitate another 9/11. Like the ADC, CAIR is determined to security strip America as part of a hidden Islamist agenda. This document reveals CAIR‘s strength. The FBI had to factor this into the equation when deciding whether or not to investigate Hasan. Before CAIR was linked to Hamas and cut off these Islamist terrorists passing themselves off a mainstream Muslim-Americans had plenty of contact with the FBI. WHY WAS A TERRORIST GROUP WORKING WITH THE FBI? CAIR conducted religious sensitivity training sessions for the FBI. In 2006 CAIR stated that it ―works closely with local, state and federal law enforcement agencies to foster a positive partnership with the Muslim community that ensures the protection of all people‘s civil rights. After the 9/11 attacks, CAIR‘s executive director met with Robert Mueller, the

289. Council on American-Islamic Relations 453 New Jersey Avenue, SE. Washington, DC 20003 Tel: 202-488-8787 Fax: 202-4880833 http://www.cair.com mailto:[email protected]

director of the FBI. In 2004, senior CAIR officials met with Cassie Chandler, then Assistant Director for Public Affairs, and Gary Bald, then Assistant Director for Counterterrorism, in the FBI‘s Washington, DC headquarters to discuss ways to improve the working relationship between CAIR and the FBI. In 2006, senior CAIR officials attended a meeting with FBI Deputy Director John Pistole in the FBI‘s National Headquarters in Washington, DC. Currently, CAIR officials are providing on-going diversity training about Islam and Muslims to participants at the Counterterrorism Division of Federal Law Enforcement Training and Education Center (FLETC) in Glynco, GA. FLETC serves as an interagency law enforcement training organization for more than 80 Federal agencies. Recently CAIR officials gave seminars and lectures at The United States Army Central Command in Tampa and at USMA in West Point.‖ During this time one FBI official gave CAIR a clean bill of health, ―In a March 14, 2007 New York Times article, MichaeI RoIince, a retired F.B.I. officiaI who directed counterterrorism in the Washington field office from 2002 to 2005, said, ‗Of aII the groups, there is probabIy more suspicion about CAIR, but when you ask peopIe for coId hard facts, you get bIank stares.‘‖ Rolince also gave Zacharias Moussaoui a clean bill of health: Moussaoui‘s Defense attorney Edward B. MacMahon Jr. asked Michael E. Rolince290 then the retired head of the FBI's International Terrorism Operations Section, whether he knew that agent Harry Harry Samit had warned in an August 18, 2001 memo to his office that Moussaoui was a potential terrorist. "No," he answered at Moussaoui's death penalty trial.291 Rolince claimed to have never seen Samit‘s report and anyway believed the report to be ―suppositions, hunches and suspicions.‖ Steven Pomerantz

290. Michael E. Rolince earned a B.A. in Mathematics from the State University of New York, and joined the FBI after he graduated in 1974. He was assigned to a specialized surveillance component in the San Francisco office (counter-surveillance against the Soviets) then was assigned to the New Orleans office where he worked Bank Robbery and Fugitive investigations. In August 1988 Rolince was designated as a Supervisory Special Agent within the Boston division, charged with managing a Russian counterintelligence squad. In 1992 the FBI reported 4 ―terrorist‖ incidents within the United States. That figure rose to 12 in 1993. In October 1993 Rolince was transferred to the Washington Field Office where he was specialized in Espionage and Counterintelligence cases. When the incidents of ―terrorism‖ dropped to 0 in 1995 Rolince was promoted and assigned to the National Security Division at FBI Headquarters. In February 1996 he was promoted to Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Counterintelligence and Counter terrorism programs.

291. Jerry Markon and Timothy Dwyer Moussaoui Memo Unseen, Court Told Ex-FBI Official Was Unaware of Agent's Warning Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, March 22, 2006; A07

and Oliver ―Buck‖ Revell, both former FBI Agents, disagree with Rolince and believe CAIR is a terrorist support group.292 THE FBI CUTS OFF CAIR 16 MONTHS TOO LATE In May 2007 CAIR was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism case. Sixteen months later the FBI cut off CAIR. This is from the CAIR website ―The FBI severed relations with CAIR in October 2008. Shortly before the end of the Bush administration, FBI offices contacted many CAIR chapters stating that they were suspending some ties between the Washington-based civil rights and advocacy group and FBI field offices. The letters also stated that the FBI will continue to work with CAIR on civil rights issues impacting American Muslims. A number of anti-Muslim Internet sites have promoted the story as a means to smear CAIR. However, these same sites have been forced to admit that the Bush administration‘s policy has not been fully accepted by local FBI officials. According to WorldNetDaily.com, a site many argue adopts a significant anti-Muslim tone: "F.B.I. sources, however, say the new policy has not been uniformly followed since it was put into effect late last summer. They say there is still political resistance to the rule, which has generated complaints from some in the Muslim community." (1/30/2009) CAIR is a civil rights and advocacy group that often challenged Bush administration policies. It is not surprising that we would be targeted in a purely political move by those in the previous administration who sought to prevent us from defending the civil rights of American Muslims. This campaign of smears and misinformation is an unfortunate legacy of the Bush administration's misguided and counterproductive efforts to marginalize mainstream American Muslim organizations. The true losers under this unfortunate policy are those FBI officials who will have their access to the mainstream American Muslim community restricted by the Bush administration‘s directive that prevents them from taking part in the many public activities such as town hall meetings and diversity workshops sponsored by CAIR chapters. We hope the FBI will not be perceived as turning back the clock on the civil rights movement to a time when those who defended civil liberties were targeted, as was the case with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. It should be noted that even if the Bush administration‘s politically-motivated policy remains in place, CAIR chapters nationwide will

292. http://www.cair.com/PDF/urbanlegends.pdf

continue to work with local law enforcement agencies and the FBI on issues related to our core mission of defending the civil rights of all Americans. Going forward, we will do our utmost to work with the new administration to ensure that public officials and representatives of law enforcement agencies hear the voices of American Muslims. We look forward to returning to normal relations with law enforcement now that there is a new administration.” The FBI explained, "CAIR was named as an unindicted co-conspirator of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development in the United States v. Holy Land Foundation et al. (Cr. No. 3:04-240-P (N.D.TX.). During that trial, evidence was introduced that demonstrated a relationship among CAIR, individual CAIR founders (including its current President Emeritus and its Executive Director) and the Palestinian Committee. Evidence was also introduced that demonstrated a relationship between the Palestinian Committee and HAMAS, which was designated a terrorist organization in 1995. In light of that evidence, the FBI suspended all formal contacts between CAIR and the FBI. The FBI's decision to suspend formal contacts was not intended to reflect a wholesale judgment of the organization and its entire membership. Nevertheless, until we can resolve whether there continues to be a connection between CAIR or its executives and HAMAS, the FBI does not view CAIR as an appropriate liaison partner."293 President Obama did not rescind that directive and so he is taking the fact that CAIR was named as an unindicted co-conspirator seriously, as well he should.

UNINDICTED TERRORIST CO-CONSPIRATORS Don‘t dismiss the importance of unindicted co-conspirators, as the intelligence community did in the trial of Shaykh Omar Abdel Rahman. Usama bin Laden was on the Rahman Unindicted Co-Conspirator List under his nom de guerre “Abu Abdullah.” When Heni Lased (left) was arrested in Germany a major part of the evidence came from wiretaps made by Italian police in Milan during which Heni Lased and his associates discussed ―a suffocating

293. Read more at: http://www.investigativeproject.org/1091/us-rep-frank-wolf-who-is-cair

liquid that kills people efficiently.‖ Heni Lased wanted to ―die a Shaheed‖, while using poison gas to suffocate worshippers in the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. The gas was to have been released with the help of a rudimentary bomb made from a converted pressure cooker. In another conversation, months before the September 11th Islamist Victory Heni Lased hinted that the ―Sheik Abu Abdullah‖ was planning a major attack: ―He is planning something because he has wished for a goal and he wants to carry it out. It is not a small thing.‖294 Waleed Abouel Nour was on the Rahman Unindicted Co-Conspirator List. Waleed Nour and Egyptian Mohamed el-Atriss were incorporators, registered agents and directors of Sphinx Trading Company located at 2828 Kennedy Boulevard in Jersey City that was founded in 1987. Sphinx Trading provided check cashing, mailbox services and international wiring services for the Gama‘a alIslamiyya‘s Brooklyn / Jersey City cell. The Islamist assassin of Rabbi Meir Kahane, Said Nosair, had a mailbox there. Siddig Ali Siddig‘s (one of the 1993 World Center crew) translation service was located at Box 161 2823295 Kennedy Boulevard. El-Atriss claimed he met Nour while both were cab drivers in Newark, New Jersey and not through an Islamist network. Sphinx Trading was next door to the Afghan Refugee Services Center, a front group for Gama‘a al-Islamiyya‘s Brooklyn / Jersey City cell and the Al-Salaam Mosque, where Sheik Rahman preached. These outposts of Islamism were both located at 2824 Kennedy Boulevard. This author and Peter Lance visited Sphinx and confronted its employees. Mohamed el-Atriss also ran a fake-document mill called All Services Plus on Paterson, New Jersey's Market Street that sold false identification papers to illegal immigrants and false international drivers licenses. El-Atriss provided September 11th Shaheeds Abdulaziz Alomari and Khalid al-Midhar with some bogus identification. The FBI believed he did so unwittingly. Maybe he did but the Brothers went to Paterson for a specific reason, namely because they were aware of el-

294. John Miller ―The Milan Connection‖ ABC News, November 1, 2002. On September 4, 2001, pictures of the World Trade Center were saved as temporary files on one of the computers at the Via Quaranta Mosque in Milan. Alexandra Salomon ABC News, Rome May 8, 2003. 295. A typographical error as there is no mail drop at that address.

Atriss‘ connection to what was left of the Gama‘a al-Islamiyya‘s Brooklyn / Jersey City. When New Jersey authorities raided Mohamed al-Atriss‘ operation in July 2001 he fled to Egypt but returned to the United States August 20, 2001 and was released on bail and went back in business. When the Paterson Police learned that documents from All Services Plus, El-Atriss' company, were uncovered at an apartment where some of the September 11th Shaheeds lived, the local police obtained search warrants for his alAtriss’ home and business. He initially denied selling to the hijackers, but when further confronted apparently agreed after a download of the names of the September 11th Shaheeds was found in his office with the names he sold the ID to underlined. Detective Ernst was a major witness against alAtriss: ―We initially started to investigate Sphinx Trading Company as a potential money laundering operation. We identified ties to Middle Eastern countries, specifically Egypt and Saudi Arabia. We were asked to not pursue the investigation any further by a specific federal agency, who indicated to us that they had interest in that as well. We began to investigate -- we did a check through the Federal HIDTA System, which is a drug enforcement agency, intelligence system. They work with an intelligence gathering system called the EPIC System, which is the El Paso Information Center that provides intelligence to federal authorities. Through the EPIC System they classify, they being the FBI and U.S. Customs in a joint task force, have classified Waleed Abouel Nour, as a terrorist. When I specifically asked the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force to confirm that, they indicated to me that they would have to get back to me on that. And it's been several months and I haven't heard. But the initial indication from the EPIC System was that the FBI classified his partner in this incorporation as a terrorist. Mr. El-Atriss is listed on the bank records as the principal of the company. Also of interest, the location Sphinx Trading Company, 2828 Kennedy Boulevard is also red flagged by the FBI as a known location that was involved in the first bombing of the World Trade Center with the Blind Sheik Rahman. He had received mail at that location. And it was also indicated to me by the FBI that several of the hijackers involved in the September 11th Events also had mailboxes at that location.‖ CAIR’S LINKS TO ANWAR AL-AWLAKI Anwar Al-Awlaki supporters include the civil rights coordinator for CAIR's Los Angeles chapter, Affad Shaikh, who has listened to Al-Awlaki‘s

lectures and posted links to his Web site on his blog Muslamics. Shaikh, who in 2008 was questioned by Homeland Security agents near San Diego, wrote: "In death there is something to celebrate," on his blog in a post titled Celebrating Death. The essay mirrors one Al-Awlaki previously posted titled Why Muslims Love Death. "Our culture of martyrdom needs to be revived because the enemy of Allah fears nothing more than our love of death. We will implement the rule of Allah on earth by the tip of the sword whether the masses like it or not.‖ Ali al-Timimi, 41, a Ph.D. in computational biology and a selfprofessed Islamic scholar was convicted on all ten terrorism counts against him, including soliciting others to levy war against the United States and inducing others to use firearms in violation of federal law. The firearms convictions require mandatory life imprisonment without parole.296 AlTimimi's storefront mosque was located in the same Falls Church office building as a Muslim-run travel agency that booked trips to Saudi Arabia for the haj. Copies of its travel itinerary show Al-Awlaki acted as a tour guide for the trips. Listed directly under him was a trip advisor named Mohammad el-Mezain, who is the CAIR fundraiser recently convicted of providing material support to terrorists in the Holy Land Foundation trial. El-Mezain cofounded the Hamas charitable front with CAIR director Elashi. El-Mezain and Al-Awlaki knew each other from San Diego. Before his arrest, elMezain headed Holy Land's San Diego office and, like Al-Awlaki, served as a leader in local mosques there.They pair once lived in the same small Colorado apartment complex together.297 According to federal investigators, el-Mezain likely met Al-Awlaki in Fort Collins, Colorado, around 1990, when the two were neighbors and attended the same local mosque. CAIR’S LINKS TO THE MOMBAI ISLAMIST MASSACRE Randall Todd Royer, a leading member of CAIR now locked up in a cage 23 hours a day was a member of Lashkar-e-Taiba the group that sent its Islamist suicidal mass murderers to Mombai Chabad House to kill its Rabbi and his wife. Royer, who

296. http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/565 297. Muslim Mafia ibid

served as a communications specialist and a civil rights coordinator at CAIR was indicted and arrested for his association with Lashkar-e-Taiba. He traveled to Pakistan, did propaganda work for it, and ―fired at Indian positions in Kashmir‖ with a machine gun and Rocket Propelled Grenade. In addition, his indictment states that Royer ―possessed in his automobile an AK-47-style rifle and 219 rounds of ammunition‖ in September 2001. It was charged that on or about May 8, 2003, in Gaithersburg, Maryland, codefendant Masoud Ahmad Khan possessed a photograph downloaded from the Internet of the FBI Headquarters building in Washington, D.C.298 In November Judge Leonie Brinkema sentenced three of Royer‘s codefendants to 11½, 11¼ and 3 years and 10 months in prison. Royer received a twenty-year prison sentence.299 CAIR has consistently defended jihadi leaders and as stated in May 2007 was named as an unindicted coconspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism case. CAIR termed the conviction of the operatives of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing as ―a travesty of justice.‖ The conviction of Sheik Rahman was called a ―hate crime.‖ CAIR chairman, Omar Ahmed, said in 1998: ―Islam isn‘t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Qu‘ran... should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth.‖300 CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper (left) made this clear: ―I wouldn‘t want to create the impression that I wouldn‘t want the Government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future.‖301 The FBI‘s former chief of counter-terrorism, Steven Pomerantz, bestowed this compliment on CAIR: ―CAIR, its leaders and its activities effectively give aid to international terrorist groups.‖302 CAIR-New York‘s Executive Director Ghazi Khankan solicited contributions for the families of September 11th detainees and said that American Taliban John Walker Lindh was a ―misguided young American Muslim‖ who should not have gone overseas to ―get involved in local politics.‖ Ghazi Khankan was an Islamic Center of Long Island officer until 2004, director of both interfaith affairs and communications. Shortly after 9/11, he told The New York Times that the U.S. government hadn't proven Osama Bin Laden's role in the attacks: ―We need to have proof. We need to have facts. If there is something wrong, let‘s get together through the United Nations, not act as

298. http://fl1.findlaw.com/news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/usroyer603ind.pdf 299. Justin Bergman ―Three Men Sentenced In Jihad Paintball Case‖ Associated Press November 7, 2003 300. Editorial Jerusalem Post May 7, 2003. 301. Daniel Pipes ―Fixing Islam‘s Image Problem‖ New York Post July 29, 2003. 302. Daniel Pipes ―CAIR: 'Moderate' Friends of Terror.‖ New York Post April 22, 2002.

a lynch mob.‖ His speech at a fund-raiser in Virginia that October 2001 was recorded: ―Why is it assumed that Muslims were behind the attack? We know at least three people assumed to be hijackers who are still alive in the Middle East. The question is, who is impersonating these Muslim names? Who benefits from assuming Muslims are behind this tragedy and who benefits from this tragedy?‖ That same month, Khankan gave Newsday his view on who had really perpetrated the atrocities: ―What about the world Zionist network? Why are you in the media not looking at them?‖303 In 1999 CAIR received $250,000 loan from the Saudi-run Wahhabist Islamic Development Bank to buy land in Washington, D.C., construct a headquarters facility.304 On September 9, 2001, at a rally to support Jamil Al-Amin305, Sheik Hamza Yusuf Hanson, a convert to Islam and a member of CAIR who is known as a moderate Muslim stated that ―America faced a terrible fate‖ and that Sheik Rahman was unjustly tried and condemned against any standards of justice in any legal system. The FBI went to interview Yusuf to determine whether this statement meant that he had prior knowledge of the September 11thEvent, which of course he said he did not. When agents came to his San Francisco home on September 20, 2001, they learned he was meeting with President Bush. Later the website of Yusuf‘s organization vowed to send part of any money it collected to the Benevolence International Foundation, a front for jihadi.306 CAIR received $500,000 from Saudi prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, one of the world's richest men.307 If not for this litigious group with unlimited resources there would have been action taken against Major Hasan. They succeeded in tying the hands of intelligence agencies via the justice system and their goal of killing Americans was achieved. CAIR was forced to put out a page

303. http://www.nypost.com/php/pfriendly/print.php?url=http://www.nypost.com/seven/10042006/postopinion/opedcolumnists/the_jihad_o n_king_opedcolumnists_steven_emerson.htm 304. http://saudiembassy.net cited by http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-schwartz063003.asp 305. Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (once known as H. Rap Brown) was another American Muslim Council leader. In 1968 Brown joined the Black Panther Party. Associated with the rallying cry, ―Burn, Baby, Burn‖, Brown was arrested and charged with inciting people to riot and committing arson. The law in America against crossing state lines to incite a riot is informally known as ―the H. Rap Brown law.‖ He was also accused of importation of a weapon into Louisiana. Imprisoned several times between 1967 and 1970, Brown was eventually shot and captured by New York City police during an armed robbery. Sentenced to a term of from five to fifteen years in Attica Prison, Brown was paroled in 1976. Converting to Islam, he changed his name to Jamil Abdullah al-Amin. After his release in March 2000, he was arrested and charged with killing a sheriff‘s deputy in Atlanta, Georgia. As he was taken from the courthouse he told reporters: ―It‘s a government conspiracy, man,‖ however he was convicted and is now serving a life sentence. Daniel Pipes ‖Mainstream Muslims?‖- New York Post June 18, 2002. 306. Hanna Rosin and John Mintz, "Muslim Leaders Struggle With Mixed Messages‖ Washington Post, October 2, 2001 also Frank J. Gafney, ―A Troubling Influence‖ Frontpage Magazine December 9, 2003. 307. http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/021119/2002111910.html

dispelling all the rumors about it. CAIR is the subject of an excellent book entitled The Muslim Mafia and several members of Congress have called for an investigation of this terrorist support group. This book revealed that CAIR's founder Omar M. Ahmad praised suicide bombers who "kill themselves for Islam." He also hosted blind Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman at his home not long before he was arrested and convicted of terrorism, according to Ahmad's apartment manager at the time, who turned photographs and other evidence over to the FBI's San Jose, California, field office. While the Blind Sheik was plotting terrorism in New York, he paid Ahmad a visit at his Villa Monroe apartment in Santa Clara, California, says then-apartment manager Andy Hyslop. A few years later, a Santa Clara mosque, which Ahmad helped found, hosted and raised thousands of dollars for bin Laden deputy Ayman Al-Zawahiri.

PART THREE: DR. AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI: Al-QAEDA LOUDMOUTH

Doctor Ayman Al-Zawahiri was born June 19, 1951 descendent from a deep-rooted wealthy Egyptian family. His grandfather was one the Imams at the Al-Azhar mosque, and his other grandfather from his mother‘s side, Doctor Abdul Wahab Azzam was president of Cairo University then was the ambassador of Egypt to Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. His father was doctor Mohammad Rabi‘ Al-Zawahiri, a professor at the medical school Ain Shams University, one of the most famous doctors before he died in 1995. Ayman was a member and leader of the banned Muslim Brotherhood starting at age fourteen, thanks to his great uncle Mahfuz Azzam, who brought Ayman and his brother Muhammad in the terrorist fold. Al-Zawahiri recalled, ―The purpose of this cell was to establish an Islamic government …Jihad means removing the current government through and changing the current regime to establish an Islamic Government instead. This was to be done through a military coup. We were convinced that civilians and the military should cooperate to achieve this end.‖ Al-Zawahiri graduated from medical school in 1974, then spent three years as a surgeon in the Egyptian Army. In his book, Al-Hisad Al-Murr (The Bitter Harvest) Egyptian Islamic Jihad founder Dr. Ayman Al-Zawahiri summed up the feeling of many jihadi in the mid 1970‘s when he stated that the Muslim Brotherhood was more interested in the ballot than the bullet and that this was in his opinion a violation of Shari‘ah, Islamic Law, as he understood that democracy was a new religion that must be destroyed by war. He accused the Muslim Brotherhood of having sacrificed Allah's ultimate authority by accepting the

notion that the people are the ultimate source of authority. He condemned the Muslim Brotherhood for renouncing Jihad as a means to establish the Islamic State. Al-Zawahiri characterized the Muslim Brotherhood as kuffar. Their adherence to democracy to achieve their political goals meant giving the legislature rights that belonged to Allah. Thus, he who supported democracy was, by definition, an infidel. "For he who legislates anything for human beings, would establish himself as their god" wrote Al-Zawahiri. He criticized the Muslim Brotherhood for extending bridges of understanding to the authorities that rule them. These bridges became part of a package or a quid pro quo: the rulers allowed the Brotherhood a degree of freedom to spread their beliefs308 and the Brotherhood acknowledged the legitimacy of the regime. For him, those who endorsed this philosophy could not be trusted even if they split from the Brotherhood. Their minds were forever polluted and set in stone. Al-Zawahiri drew attention to the enormous financial wealth of the Muslim Brotherhood. This "material prosperity," he argued, is the result of the Brotherhood's leaders who escaped Gamal Abdul Nasser's oppression and took over regional and international banks and businesses.309 In 1981 Dr. Al-Zawahiri was thrown in jail as an accessory in the Sadat assassination due to his connection to Gama‘a al-Islamiyya. He was sentenced to three years for carrying a weapon without a license. There he witnessed his jailers‘ torture to death the founder of the Afghan refugee clinic where he had previously worked. The Egyptian authorities claimed that the man had committed suicide. The legend goes that this was what totally radicalized Al-Zawahiri, however, if Al-Zawahiri weren‘t already a radical, he would not have participated in the Sadat execution in the first place. Brother Issam (Essam or Isam) Al-Qamari was another of aI-Zawahiri‘s fellow prisoners, who was at one time an active officer in the Egyptian army waiting for a chance to affect an Islamist military coup, however he left the Army in 1981 after his jihadi tendencies were discovered. Later Dr. AlZawahiri would publicly write, ―The Islamic movement's infiltration of the 308. In 2005 the Egyptian government permitted members of the Muslim Brotherhood to participate in the political arena but Mubarak has continued the ban on the Gama‘a al-Islamiyya and Dr. al-Zawahiri‘s Egyptian Islamic Jihad Organization, athough certain surrogate parties have been formed. 309. http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=subjects&Area=jihad&ID=IA12703

Army will always be countered by purging operations. It is difficult for the Islamic movement to recruit a large number of officers in the Army without getting discovered, in view of the tight security measures within the ranks of the Armed Forces.‖ Al-Qamari was a charismatic figure who organized and led Islamist cells within Egypt's Tura Prison and it was during their incarceration and interrogation in 1981-1982, that the idea occurred to them of splitting from the Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyyah and forming Egyptian Al-Jihad. Basically Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyyah would shoot infidels; Egyptian Islamic Jihad would blow them up. AL-ZAWAHIRI GIVES UP HIS CLOSEST FRIEND AL-QAMARI WHILE UNDER TORTURE During his trial Al-Zawahiri pulled off his shoes and raised his robes to expose the marks of torture while denouncing the torture that took place in the "dirty Egyptian jails, where we suffered the severest inhuman treatment. There they kicked us, they beat us, they whipped us with electric cables they shocked us with electricity! They shocked us with electricity! And they used the wild dogs! And they used the wild dogs! And they hung us over the edges of the doors"— he bent over to demonstrate—"with our hands tied at the back! They arrested the wives, the mothers, the fathers, the sisters, and the sons!" The other defendants chanted, "The army of Muhammad will return, and we will defeat the Jews!" Unable to endure this AI-Zawahiri gave depositions and served as a witness implicating Al-Qamari: ―He occasionally visited me in my clinic. I also found a flat for him and gave him money and the seized pistol, along with other weapons including five pistols, two machine guns and a number of bullets, I do not remember how many.‖ After he was arrested on October 15, 1981, Al-Zawahiri informed the authorities of Al-Qamari's whereabouts. He had taken refuge in a small mosque where he used to pray and meet Al-Zawahiri and other members of the group. ―The police asked me to go this mosque to meet him so that they could arrest him because they were worried that there would be loss of lives. I went with them to the mosque and sat there under their eyes until he arrived and while he was performing the mosque greeting prayers he was arrested.‖

Al-Zawahiri’s relative, Mahfouz (Mahfuz) Azzam, had an entirely different version of events: ―On October 21, 1981, after the Menassa (the place of assassinating late President Sadat) event, he was in a car driven by his brother, on his way to the air port, after visiting his aunt he found State Security surrounded him and was arrested. He was able to travel before October 21 if he committed a crime, but he had a relation with Essam al-Qamari and the State Security had a problem with capturing him, so when they wanted to captured him waited until Essam speaks in telephone. They broke into Ayman's house and destroyed walls in order to find any clues, and when he said to them in the telephone: "tell Ayman we will meet after Salat al Maghreb (sunset prayer) in the mosque near KetKat‖ - they knew him as Essam al-Qamri. If it were not for that call, all security forces will not catch him because Essam was a professional fighter, and he traveled to Russia.‖310 Al-Zawahiri has a third version of events: ―After intensive pursuits, I was arrested. An attack was conducted on the hideout of Essam al-Qamari, at the Cairo neighborhood of Al Jammaliyah, where an interesting battle took place. This battle occupied an important place in the history of the movement because of the serious facts that it demonstrated about the confrontation between the Islamists and government troops. It also proved the validity of Essam's theory and his farsightedness. This battle took place in the Manshiyat Nasir area in the Al-jammaliyah neighborhood. It is a poor area where poor homes are stacked next to each other, divided by narrow alleys and paths. Essam was hiding in a turner's workshop built by Muhammad Abdal Rahman al-Sharqawi311, along with Ibrahim Salamah Iskandarani and Nabil Na'im (detained since 1991), to serve as one of our bases. This workshop was in a modest house consisting of a roofless hallway, with two fastened a few centimeters away from the iron door. They had two old short machine guns, two revolvers, and a number of hand grenades in their possession. When the break-in troops tried to storm their way into the gate they were jolted, and they immediately retreated in shock. Essam seized the opportunity and hurled a hand grenade over the door. It landed in the middle of the break-in team, killing or wounding the team members. The battalion officers and soldiers panicked when they heard the screams of the break-in team. There was complete silence in the air. 310. http://ikhwanweb.com/Home.asp?zPage=Systems&System=PressR&Press=Show&Lang=E&ID=5180 311. Al Sharqawi received a 7-year prison sentenced in connection with Anwar Sadat Al-Mujahideen's case then a 15-year term in the case of Tala'i AlFath. He is still at the Al-Aqrab Prison in Egypt.

Essam and his companions climbed to the roof of the workshop and started hailing the neighboring rooftops with bullets from their two machine guns, which soon stopped working. But Essam and his companions did not stop. They rained the force with 10 hand grenades, nine of which exploded. The resistance by the force stopped, and here Essam realized that it had been weakened. The brothers emerged from the workshop. They found a soldier in front of them pointing his weapon at them. However, he turned his back on them. Brother Nabil Na'im shot him in the head. ―Essam asked them to sit still and wait for him to throw a hand grenade then start running in the direction of the grenade. The brothers started running through the cordons of the siege. It was as if they were running amidst dead people and ghosts. They continued to run until they reached the neighboring hills of Al-Muqattam. From a distance, they sat down to watch the badly hurt troops as they gathered their wounded men and moved back to their vehicles. Ibrahim Salamah suggested that this was the best opportunity to attack the battalion with what was left with the brothers in terms of ammunition, but Essam decided it was enough. The brothers continued to walk on the hills of Al-Muqattam. Ibrahim Salamah had a hand grenade in his hand. He had removed the pin from it then returned it again. However, it seemed that the pin shifted out of place when he was running. The brothers stopped for a while near one of the caves. ―Ibrahim Salamah wanted to urinate. He turned around and faced the entrance of the cave. Essam and Nabil sat a few meters away from him with their backs to Ibrahim. The grenade dropped on the floor, causing the pin to shift a little. The brothers heard the capsule exploding. Ibrahim immediately threw himself on the bomb to protect his brothers. The explosion of the bomb, which ripped Ibrahim apart, broke the silence of the night. He took the full power of the explosion. It was an act of destiny that was beyond any expectation. After escaping safely from over a 100-man force from the Central Security Forces, Ibrahim met his fate. Isam and Nabil were astonished by the gravity of the surprise. Isam was arrested and put on trial in the Al-Jihad case. The prosecutors, colluding with the intelligence department, did not take him to attend the first session of the trial. They brought him along with Rifa'i Taha (a military official of the Islamic Group) on the second session from their place of detention in AlQal'ah Prison.‖

THE HYPOCRITE AL-ZAWAHIRI ORDERS THE EXECUTION OF ANOTHER JIHADI WHO CRACKED UNDER TORTURE Al-Zawahiri as leader of Al-Jihad should have faced martyrdom to protect the organization instead of being a sissy, as he expected others to do as in the case of an Arab-Afghan fighter and Egyptian Islamic Jihad member named Mohamed Abdel Aleem, better known as ―Abu Khadija‖, who was one of the most loyal members of Islamic Jihad. He worked in an orphanage in Peshawar in Pakistan. Although he was only 25 at the time, he was very active. Before joining and working with Zawahiri in Afghanistan, he was a good friend of Abu Ubaidah al-Banshiri ('Ali alRasheedi) martyred by drowning in Lake Victoria. In Afghanistan, Abu Khadija joined Islamic Jihad and worked directly with Zawahiri himself but he had to leave behind a wife and children. He expressed to Zawahiri his wish to go back to Egypt to see them and try to bring them to Afghanistan. Zawahiri tried to talk him out of traveling for fear that he would be arrested by the Egyptian authorities, but his resolve was firm. The Security Committee made a plan to return him to Egypt on a forged passport with an itinerary that passed through a number of countries before arriving in Egypt, in order to make it difficult for the Egyptian authorities to track him. Despite these measures, as soon as he arrived at the airport, he was arrested by the Egyptian authorities who tortured him terribly until they extracted information about the activities of the group. Abu Khadija told the authorities about the hiding place of Esam Abdel Gayyid, who had infiltrated into Egypt to achieve certain aims. Soon thereafter, Abdel Gayyid was arrested. He is still in prison today. The Egyptian authorities eventually released Abu Khadija, and after lengthy judicial procedure, he received his passport. Abu Khadija insisted on joining his family in Saudi Arabia, where he bumped into Zawahiri in the Holy Mosque. He explained to Zawahiri that what was revealed was done under the pain of torture, and that he did not mean to cause the arrest of Abdel Gayyid. Zawahiri treated him coldly but was forgiven and was assured that since he was under torture he could not be held responsible. Abu Khadija returned to Afghanistan to work for the same orphanage. A few weeks after Abu Khadija‘s arrival, aI-Zawahiri‘s returned to Afghanistan. Abu Khadija then traveled to Islamabad en route to Jeddah to bring his family to Afghanistan. Abu Khadija was hosted by

Pakistan's Islamist group Harakat ul-Ansar (aka HUM or Harkat-ulMujahideen).312 He then disappeared in Pakistan. Islamic Jihad spread rumors that he died in a car accident, that he had a car that he used for his travels between Islamabad and Peshawar. There was no accident. Members of the Security Committee in Islamic Jihad pretended they wanted to have him meet someone away from where he was hosted by Harakat ul-Ansar. He disappeared soon after this executed on the orders of Doctor aI-Zawahiri.313 ZAWAHIRI SNITCHES OUT HIS OWN BROTHER Dr. Al-Zawahiri identified his brother Muhammad Al-Zawahiri as a member of the same militant cell, according to the transcript of his 1981 Higher State Security Court confession, as reproduced by the jihadi house counsel Egyptian Montassar al-Zayyat (also spelled Zayat) in his The Road to Al-Qaeda: The Story of bin Laden‟s Right-Hand Man.314 AI-Zawahiri‘s cooperation with the authorities along with the CIA‘s desire to destroy Communism perhaps led to his quick exit from Egypt to Saudi Arabia. Al-Qamari met a heroic death at the hands of the Egyptian security forces while lobbing grenades at them and holding them off until fatally wounded during a jailbreak. Montassar al-Zayyat visited AI-Zawahiri in the Ibn al-Nefees hospital, where he was working in Jeddah. He looked very sorrowful. The scars left on his body from the indescribable torture he suffered caused him no more pain, but his heart and soul still ached from it. The torture he suffered was not proportionate to his comparatively minor role in the assassination of Sadat and under the pain of torture he gave testimony to the Higher Military Court against other jihadi members from the army. Under these conditions, he admitted that they formed a movement inside the army to topple the regime and institute an Islamic government. From Saudi Arabia it was on to Afghanistan in 1986 where he joined Usama bin Laden in his struggle against the Soviets. In 1987 Ayman AlZawahiri founded the Peshawar bureau of Egyptian Islamic Jihad and started a monthly magazine called The Conquest. He also started 312. The HUM changed its name to Harakat ul-Ansar in October 1993 313. http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc//awcgate/cpc-pubs/aboul-enein.pdf 314. The Road to al-Qaeda Montasser al-Zayyet London: Pluto Press, 2004, pp. 36-45

Tanzeem al-Jihad (Jihad Organization) and in 1988 merged it with Islamic Jihad. Ayman Al-Zawahiri led the Egyptian Islamic Jihad throughout the 1990s and planned numerous attacks against Egyptian officials. THE INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC FRONT FOR THE JIHAD AGAINST JEWS AND CRUSADERS Dr. Ayman Al-Zawahiri rejoined bin Laden in Afghanistan in 1997 and signed a May 1998 declaration calling on Muslims to kill Americans and Jews all over the world, to wage Jihad against the US and its interests. Bin Laden formed The International Islamic Front for the Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders - a coalition of Islamist groups which included Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya and AlJihad as major players. In bin Laden's May religious pronouncement he told American news correspondent John Miller that, "we don't differentiate between those dressed in military uniforms and civilians. They are all targets of this fatwa…We also hold them (American government) responsible for its attacks on Islamic symbols, Sheikh Abdel Rahman, who is considered one of the most prominent Islamic scholars who Allah gave the courage to speak the truth. We hear that he is in a bad health condition and he is a man beyond 60 years of age and is blind and America treats him badly. The imprisonment of Sheikh Omar is an attack on the Muslim religion and countries. We hold it completely responsible for the imprisonment of Sheikh Omar and the imprisonment of other Muslims in America." AL-ZAWAHIRI VILIFIED SHAYKH OMAR ABDEL RAHMAN

While Al-Zawahiri was in prison for the murder of Anwar Sadat, he came face to face with Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, who had also been charged as a conspirator in the assassination of Sadat.315 During this time a struggle took place between the members of the Al-Gama’a alIslamiyyah and the many splinter jihadi elements in the Tora Prison over whether Sheikh Rahman was capable of leadership of the group despite his blindness. Al-Qamari‘s voice was the loudest, wholeheartedly opposing Abdel Rahman’s leadership on account of his poor eyesight. Al-Zawahiri wanted the Sheikh to resign for the sake of unity. This issue led eventually to the demise of the coalition between the various jihadi groups under the leadership of Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyyah. Al-Qamari was a courageous man who did not fear anyone in his struggle to follow the path of God, even to the extent of rashness. It was the rashness that caused him a lot of problems with his brethren from the Islamist movements in prison, especially regarding the debate over Abdel Rahman’s leadership of the newly unified Islamic group.316 In 1991 Al-Zawahiri published a book in which he said that a blind person should not be Ameer. In the book he said that in books of Shari'ah there are a number of conditions that have to be met by any great Imam, including having sound senses. Throughout this book he said that Sheikh Rahman, as the Imam of Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya was in violation of Islamic Law. Archetypal double agent Sergeant Ali-Mohamed brought Dr. Ayman Al-Zawahiri into the United States in 1993 without leaving any traces of his entry. Later in 1993 Ali-Mohamed was not as successful and told agents of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police that he ―had provided intelligence and counterintelligence training in Afghanistan to a particular identified individual [Dr. Ayman Al-Zawahiri]. Ali-Mohamed indicated that he met [Dr. Ayman Al-Zawahiri] in 1988 and last saw him in Afghanistan in 1991. Ali-Mohamed admitted that he had traveled to Vancouver, Canada, in the spring of 1993 to facilitate the entry of [Dr. Ayman Zawahiri] into the United States. [Dr. Ayman Al-Zawahiri] had been stopped by Canadian customs officials and was found to be in

315. http://www.lawrencewright.com/art-zawahiri.html 316. The Road to al-Qaeda Montasser al-Zayyet

possession of a false passport and the driver‘s license of Ali-Mohamed. AliMohamed further admitted that he and [Dr. Ayman Al-Zawahiri] had transported Usama bin Laden from Afghanistan to the Sudan in 1991, at which point Ali-Mohamed had left his driver‘s license with [Dr. Ayman AlZawahiri]. Ali-Mohamed told the RCMP that he was in the process of applying for a job as an FBI interpreter and did not want this incident to jeopardize the application. (In fact, Ali-Mohamed then had such an application pending though he was never hired as a translator.)‖ Some Western analysts believe the man with Ali-Mohamed‘s ID was Ahmed Salama Mabruk Dr. Ayman Al-Zawahiri‘s right-hand man, however, Mabruk had Canadian citizenship. Ahmed Salama Mabruk, head of military operations for Egyptian Islamic Jihad was jailed for life in April 1999 after trying to buy chemical and biological weapons in the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan along with Mohamed Saeed al-Ashri (aka Abu Khaled) and Ahmed Salama Mabruk.317 His laptop computer contained plans to produce anthrax along with many names and addresses of the members of Egyptian Islamic Jihad including those living overseas who were unknown to the Egyptian authorities including jihadi Mohamed Atef. The hard drive listed over 100 targets in the United States, Israel and also in India. This led to the arrest of nearly one hundred members, who were tried in one case entitled, ―The Returnees From Albania.‖318 The San Francisco Chronicle reported, ―A Silicon Valley physician and civic leader told The Chronicle that in 1989 or 1990 he had been introduced to Al-Zawahiri and accompanied him to local mosques. The civic leader, Dr. Ali Zaki, said he had been duped into assisting AlZawahiri and had not been told his real name or the true purpose of his fund raising.‖319 On August 3, 2005 Dr. Al-Zawahiri maintained that an offer was extended to the nations ―allied with the Crusaders‖ to become Muslims, and

317. Nato Headquarters, Brussels, December 19, 2001 statement by Serj Sargsyan Minister of Defense of the Republic of Armenia. http://www.nato.int/docu/speech/2001/s011219u.htm 318. Al-Zayyat, Montasser The Road to Al-Qaeda p66 319. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/10/11/MN119457.DTL

reiterated Usama bin Laden‘s truce of ceasing aggression against Muslims, promising: ―For all who collaborated with the Americans in Afghanistan and Iraq I will collect the price of the betrayers very soon.‖ In November 2005 Al-Zawahiri stated that its battlefield of Jihad is the most difficult and its mujahideen and people are to be supported. He urged support for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Emir of al-Qaeda in Iraq, stating: ―The Nation of Islam, I ask you to support your brothers, the mujahideen in Iraq, and our brother, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, whom I didn't see anything about but good things the whole period I knew him.‖ DR. AL-ZAWAHIRI: JIHADIST BAIT Terrorist pig Dr. Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal Al-Balawi started out as so many maggots do; on the internet. Al-Balawi was a well known jihadist blogger famous in the jihadi blogosphere who was known as Abu Dujana al-Khurasani. He had quickly risen to prominence - and eventually an administrator position - on the al-Hisban forum in 2007, and was widely regarded for a series of popular essays he wrote on the forums, especially on the course of the jihad in Iraq and in praise of al-Qaeda in Iraq. Al-Hisbah http://www.hisbah.net is one of the oldest, most important websites associated with Al-Qaeda and global jihad. It is not an online community open to all web surfers but rather a members-only Internet group. Those who want to join the website must undergo a screening process. The website features technical information about the Internet (including information published by hackers working for Al-Qaeda), a wealth of information about radical Islamic literature and ideology, news, updates, as well as audio and video clips inciting to terrorism and violence. In addition, Al-Qaeda and global jihad use the website to recruit new members and handle terrorist squads. Because of his postings and his position he had sparked the interest of the GID (Jordanian Intelligence). When Al-Balawi returned to Jordan after studying medicine in Turkey he ran a clinic in a Palestinian refugee camp near the town of Zarqa. Authorities in Jordan arrested Al-Balawi in March 2009 after he signed up for a ―humanitarian‖ mission to the Gaza Strip with a Jordanian field hospital in the wake of Israel's offensive there, according to a Jordanian counterterrorism official. The GID took note of a progression in the Al-Balawi‘s Islamism. He went from the Internet to a refugee camp and finally he was planning to go to a battle area (Gaza). Al-

Balawi was jailed for three days. Nisreen el-Shamayleh, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Amman added: "In the past Al-Balawi had been imprisoned and tortured in Jordanian prisons for participating in al-Qaeda meetings. That was way back in the past. After being released from prison, he was summoned several times by Jordanian intelligence and it is believed that during that period, and because of al-Balawi's valuable knowledge of al-Qaeda, he may have then have been recruited by Jordanian intelligence." There is reason to believe this is true. We are dealing with intelligence community professionals here and Al-Balawi was subjected to the Preliminary Credibility Assessment Screening System, fluttered (polygraphed), then given computer voice stress analysis. AlBalawi was not an experienced double agent and in all probability he would have failed this test had he not sincerely agreed to work for the Jordanians and the CIA in return for millions of dollars and a new identity should he collar the big falafel ball Zawahiri. A CIA source told the London Sunday Times, ―Agents used polygraphs or lie-detectors to check alBalawi‘s sincerity.‖ His assignment was to travel to Pakistan and join AlQaeda, posing as an Arab volunteer. Once infiltrated he would help CIA agents in Afghanistan to track down Al-Qaeda‘s core leaders, including Zawahiri. Jordanian intelligence had provided the information that led to the assassination in 2006 of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq so it was considered reliable. Al-Balawi linked up with members of the Haqqani network run by Jalaluddin Haqqani, the Afghan warlord, and his son Siraj. Based in North Waziristan, one of the tribal areas on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, the Haqqanis are close to Al-Qaeda and were one of the main targets of the CIA agents based just over the border at Chapman. A Jordanian intelligence official told CNN ―After (a) few months, he got in touch with us through the Internet and sent us several e-mails that included very important and rather dangerous information that might affect the security and stability of the country. We kept in touch with him through e-mails in order to get more information and also trying to bring him over to be able to get more information. We shared and exchanged the information he gave us with some other friendly countries that are involved in countering terrorism.‖ The CIA claimed he provided critical information on several Al-Qaeda targets, which were attacked by US forces, and was ―extremely well paid.‖ A ―former American intelligence official‖ claimed, ―Once in Afghanistan, Al-Balawi provided valuable intelligence information that helped foil Al Qaeda terror plots on Jordan.‖ The former official said that information led to drone-launched missile strikes that led the CIA to kill a number of Al Qaeda leaders. That last remark strains credibility. The

records of who died in these attacks and who provided the intell that led to them will never be made public. Did Al-Balawi collaborate with other jihadists who were willing to sacrifice their lives to bolster Al-Balawi’s credibility? The Ana Muslim (I am a Muslim) jihadist website reported, ―Every time that the reports which he gave proved accurate, their confidence in Al-Balawi rose.‖ It is more likely that Al-Balawi gave the CIA the locations of Al-Qaeda safehouses that was accurate however the structures were either empty of the jihadists had a bomb shelter in the basement that they hid out in when the drones attacked. Al-Balawi had to be aware of when the attack was to take place so that he himself would not be killed! The jihadists could have staged fake funerals for the Brothers allegedly killed in the raid, and these men could have kept a low profile until after Al-Balawi attacked. Were there other CIA snitches who confirmed these deaths? Unlikely as Al-Balawi would have had to have known who they were so they wouldn‘t become causality statistics. No matter how you look at it, the CIA was spoon fed disinformation (good info combined with lies) and has egg all over their shirts and blouses. In September 2009 it was announced on the forums that Abu Dujana had joined the mujahidin in ―Khurasan‖ (Afghanistan and western Pakistan), and the al-Qaeda magazine Vanguards of Khorasan ran an interview with Abu Dujanah about his jihadi career that same month. Q. Abu Dujanah is a figure known for his articles and discussions which are published on the jihadi web forums. We would like to better familiarize our kind readers with him, so who is he? A. Praise be to Allah, and prayers and peace upon the Mustafa [Mohammed]. In the beginning, I wish to thank my brothers at Vanguards of Khorasan for the chance to communicate with my beloved ones here and on the Internet, thus may Allah reward them all with success on behalf of us and the Muslims. Your young brother comes from the northern Arabian Peninsula, may Allah release it from its state of imprisonment, and I am a little over 30 years old. I'm married and I have two young daughters, praise be to Allah. Allow me to give this much information. Q. The good omens are true, as Abu Dujanah al-Khurasani is actually now inside Khorasan, and the decision to travel to the lands of jihad is a divine

blessing and a magnificent grace. So, what affected you and pushed you to take up your weapon in this land? A. Praise be to Allah for his blessing, and this is the blessing that I love the most next to the blessing of Islam. Regarding your question dear brother, the answer is comprised of two sections or two dimensions. The first one is personal that is connected to my love of jihad and martyrdom, and the second is general and relates to the present state of the Islamic nation. First, I was raised to love jihad and martyrdom since my youth, and I used to listen to the Holy Quran in piety and in hopes of receiving the honor of jihad and martyrdom when I grew older and became stronger. I used to wonder whether I would still love jihad and seek martyrdom when I became a man, or whether I was going to become like everyone else around me who considers jihad a delusional thought and a sort of lunacy, may Allah protect us. This love [of jihad and martyrdom] grew in me, although it faced some downturns at various times of my life. He who does not know this kind of love will ruin the life of who does not carry it and will corrupt his pleasures, and only those who love it will understand my words. When you ponder the verses and hadiths that speak about jihad and its graciousness, and then you let your imagination run wild to fly with what Allah has prepared for martyrs, your life becomes cheap when spent in his cause, and the extravagant houses and expensive cars and all the material wealth of life becomes very distasteful in your eyes... If the love of jihad enters the heart of man, it will not leave him even if he wished it to. The more he tries to forget about it, or attempt to disregard it, the symptoms will multiply and the situation will become impossible to bear—he will find himself surrounded with everything that reminds him of it [jihad]. He will be reminded by every brief news segment that speaks about a new message from Shaykh Usama, and he will even be reminded of the places reserved for the martyrs in the highest ranks of paradise when he sees extravagant palaces. If he looks upon his wife, then he will only begin imagining the beauties who have been waiting for their martyr husbands on silk furnishings... Every incomplete pleasure in life will remind him with its perfect counterpart in the afterlife of what Allah has prepared for his martyred servants. A person once said, 'there is love that kills.' I only see the truth of this in my love for jihad, as this love will either kill you with regret if you should choose to stay away from jihad, or else you will die as a martyr for the cause of

Allah if you choose to go to jihad—and it is up to every human to choose between these two fates. Regarding the general dimension in responding to the question, this is related to the suffering of the Islamic Nation from defeats and catastrophes which make even the sternest eyes tear up and cause even hearts of stone to bleed. These images and stories which reach our eyes and ears cannot be borne by a stone, so imagine a human being— imagine a Muslim whose parents believe him to be a man? [What about] the images of naked Zionists with binoculars watching the city of Gaza burning with everyone inside of it like watching a comic film or a natural phenomenon!! The images of the corpses of children lined up there in the hallways of hospitals, and upon their faces pure innocence is drawn, not disfigured by the ugliness of the crime, until we ceased being able to recognize if they were sleeping or dead! And before that, there was what happened at the Red Mosque, and how the female students of Shaykh Abdelrashid Ghazi, 320 may Allah have mercy on him, were killed when they chose determination. They have not left any excuse for any Muslim with a hint of honor to remain hesitant and accept the shame of staying away from the honor of participating in jihad. After all that, people want us to hold flower bouquets and wear holiday clothes! No, by Allah we will not carry anything but the weapon, and we will not wear anything but military uniforms and explosive belts... Q. A person's situation changes when he dusts off the dirt accumulated from staying away from Jihad and joins the lions on the battlefields. What changed in you after you arrived in the land of jihad and training? A. You should really ask what hasn't changed about me! Here, I was newly born and I began counting my age when I saw the first man carrying a weapon. Despite the hardships we live as mujahideen, I nonetheless feel very happy like an innocent child playing with his friend, and I feel weightless from dropping away all my worries like a butterfly traveling between flowers in the garden... My grudge towards those who

320. Zawahiri: ―The martyr Shaykh Moulawi Abdullah, father of Shaykh Abdul Rashid Ghazi, martyr of Islamabad's Red Mosque, may they both rest in peace. He visited us in Kandahar with his son and a delegation of his school's ulema and teachers and spent a whole day with us. One of them read a poem in Arabic in praise of Shaykh Usama, may God preserve him. The martyr Moulawi Abdullah loved and backed Shaykh Usama, who asked him to gather the ulema's signatures on a fatwa urging jihad against the Americans to drive them out of the Land of the Two Mosques, Palestine, and the rest of the Muslim countries. Moulawi promised to do that. I spoke to him about conditions in Egypt and the crimes that its regime was perpetrating against Islam and the Muslim people. I remember that I presented him as a gift a copy of my book "The Black Book: The Story of Torturing Muslims in Husni Mubarak's Era."

have turned away [from jihad] turned into pity, and praying for their dismissal turned into prayers for them to be rightly guided, as Allah has excluded them from a great grace. By Allah, if they would come here, they would cry for their sins, and praise is due to Allah who kept us safe from what others have come to bear. We have experienced Allah's reward in our path to the mujahideen... nothing keeps our mind busy except two matters: steadfastness and loyalty, and we ask assistance from Allah. Q. There are many hadiths that encourage jihad by word, and which state that this act has a big impact in supporting Islam. So why wasn't Abu Dujanah satisfied with this kind of jihad when he had an influential role in this field? A. How can I encourage people to join the jihad while I'm staying away from it? How can I sell them on the virtues of the beautiful musk while my smell is gross? How do I become a burning wick for others follow the light of? Can any sane person accept that? Not me. Jihad by word is needed, and jihad by wealth is needed, but neither of them can replace jihad by self, and they aren't considered a replacement for participation in jihad... Jihad in the cause of Allah is simply a good thing. Even if were merely permissible, I would still do anything to seek it because of the rewards—so imagine my situation when it is an obligation upon us? Furthermore, for a Muslim, traveling to jihad in the cause of Allah does not prevent one from also carrying out jihad by word, but rather, it strengthens it. Nothing is more effective than achieving public credibility through action, and if the Muslim pursues this logic, and his words become action, and if he is slain in the cause of Allah, his words will become immortal so that they can remain signs on the road leading to jihad, Allah-willing. Q. Then, after this, what advice do you have to the writers in the forums and what do you say to them? A. I advise them to go to jihad in the cause of Allah and not to allow Satan to deter them from doing so with delusional excuses. They must realize that the tyrants have oppressed our countries and increased corruption within them. While you are fighting them with the words you write and speak, they are killing your religion with something that is stronger than words—and that is corruption and collusion which they spread on the roads, in the universities, through various media

perhaps it will take too long for us to become aware of this, and we seek guidance from Allah. By Allah, even if there wasn't a benefit gained from going to Jihad in the cause of Allah other than by living in a land without sins and heresy, then it would be enough for Him... so ponder that! Q. Since we already spoke in our previous question about the subject of forums, we would like to ask: how did Abu Dujanah begin his journey and what has motivated him on the path? A. By Allah, you just reopened my wounds and awakened my emotions, because I left behind on the forums some brothers who are dearer to me than members of my own family, and we ask Allah to gather us with them in paradise. Regarding my journey: my original base was the proud al-Hesbah [forum]. One day I wrote an essay about the failure of plans for Baghdad in comparison to battle for Fallujah, and I added facts and evidence, so one of the administrators there confirmed my contribution and that motivated me to continue participation. The truth is, and should be stated here: the administrators there put huge efforts in following the discussions and they selected the most useful as if they were selecting from the most juicy of fruits. This is exactly what qualified the al-Hesbah Forum to be a school that graduated experienced writers like Abdulrahman al-Faqir, Yaman Mukhdeb, Tariq Abu Ziyad, and others whose names cannot even be counted. I remained an ordinary member there until the brothers suggested that I join the convoy of administrators on al-Hesbah. Praise be to Allah, I accepted their invitation, and it allowed me to familiarize myself with a group of such brothers like I have never seen before in the forums; barely anyone knows them and barely anyone thanks them, but they wait for their rewards from Allah. O' how much I used to belittle and pity myself next to them. I used to wonder how could they sacrifice themselves and enjoy the morals and traits of the mujahideen without being on the fighting frontlines? When I meet any mujahid here who knows about the forums, I rush to ask him whom he knows from al-Hesbah, as he may be one that we loved in Allah, from amongst the administrators or members, and I would hug him as one brother longing for another brother. Q. Who were you influenced by from amongst the forum writers? A. Louis Attiyatullah, lover of Allah's messenger, and many more.

Q. Now that you are amongst the mujahideen, how do you find your brothers in faith and jihad? A. O' how wonderful they are, and Allah will reward them. I used to write about them constantly and when I arrived here, the pen went silent. Every day that passes, I speak less than the day before, as I have learned from them that silence is clearer than speech. This is a group, half of whom are in paradise and the other half is still on earth waiting. I wonder about them... why do they not cry in front of me when they mention their martyred brothers, and there is no law against crying? If I should mention the name of a martyr before them; of those known to them, you would find the tears frozen in their eyes like a drizzle on a flower. You would see tears in their wondering eyes stronger than any outcry. Sometimes I'm forced to be silent in sympathy of their situation, despite my curiosity to listen to the biographies of these heroes. If I see one of them slowing down in pace and seemingly the fires of longing are increasing, I leave him and walk away, because if I don't, then who will, and that is why you find most of their stories incomplete. There was a man here named 'Abdullah Azzam al-Azdi' who was killed months ago—we ask Allah to accept him—but he is in every one of them, and he left in each of them a piece of himself. I used to hear about his morals and jihad and modesty, and I wish I came to jihad before he died to meet him. When you listen to a brother who has experience in jihad and who tells stories about jihad, he would say, 'with me there was this person—may Allah have mercy on him—and this other person, may Allah gather us with them, is in paradise.' You would think that he was telling a story that occurred perhaps a few years ago, or as if he was reading about the battle of Badr or al-Qadisiyya, and that is why you find that every moment and second he spends on earth away from his brothers is in loyal service to Allah. I ask Allah to reward them with success. Regarding the morals of the brothers, there is much to say. One of the mujahideen brothers would stop me from washing the dishes out of the excuse that I'm not a good cook, and then he would be busy cleaning and preparing without being seen by anyone. One of the brothers was our commander, and when we would gather around a dish of food, you

would see him breaking the meat for us and putting it in front of each of us, and only bones and fat remain for him. I decided not to sit with them around one dish so I wouldn't eat his food. I met a foreign brother who is new to the battlefield and I did not find a more truthful voice than his. He speaks little Arabic but he puts effort in reading religious books in Arabic. I was once walking with him while he was reading one of the books, and he called me from a far distance. When I got there, he told me, as his face shone with happiness and joy, 'Brother, read this hadith about the grace of jihad.' So I did, and he looked upon me with a smile, and then he asked Allah for martyrdom. A short while passed, and then he called to me again, 'come here, brother!' His face looked like a full moon, and he had read another hadith that inspired him regarding the grace of jihad... Then he asked Allah for martyrdom. Every time I looked at his illuminated face, I wondered to myself: where are those of you who you call yourselves Salafi jurists? Where are you, clergy of the nation, who speak Arabic far better than this man who only learned a small bit, but came here, a believer in the words of the Lord and his Messengers, seeking death in the cause of Allah. Shame on you, O' those who remain behind in your houses amongst the apologists and defeatists? There is no power but in Allah. Q. Is there anything that you would like to say to the patient lions in the trench of jihadi media. A. I say to my brothers in the jihadi media trench to rise up and support your mujahideen brothers with your pens, wealth, and time. Dust off the dirt of laziness, as the situation is not a happy one, and he Jewish Haganah dogs have attacked us, closed the forums, and have manipulated the download links of jihadi media productions—so is it that they are more patient and determined than you are? If you are familiar with your reputation amongst the mujahideen, then you would not sleep or enjoy living before you can reassure them with the return of the al-Hesbah, al-Ekhlaas, and al-Boraq forums, so will you do this now that you are aware? In late December 2009 al-Balawi, made this video a transcription of which follows: ―Praise be to God, Lord of all creation. Peace and prayers be upon our Leader Muhammad. I am Doctor Abu Dujanah al-

Kurasaani, Jordanian. I left my family, and I left my clinic, I left my car to join the Mujahideen in the land of Kurasaan. The Jordanian and the American intelligence services offered me billions of dollars, to work with them and spy on Mujahideen here. But Alhamdulillah I came to the Mujahideen and I told them everything and we arranged together this attack to let the Americans understand that the belief of Allah, the Emaan which we hold, the Taqwa that we strive for cannot be exchanged for all the wealth in the world. This Ishtishaadi attack will be the first of the ‗Revenge Operations‘ against the Americans and their drone-teams, outside the Pakistani borders. After they killed the Amir of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, Baitullah Mehsud, may Allah have mercy on him. This is a message to all Kaffireen, that we as Muslims, as Mujahideen, as Muhajireen and Ansaar, we never forget our martyrs, we never forget our prisoners, and we will never forget Aafia Siddiqui and Sajeer Risawee. And our jihad, Insha‘Allah will continue ‗til we free our prisoners, and until the Word of Allah prevails.‖ Al-Balawi had been rolled over! Not a big surprise on this unstable individual. Thanks to Al-Balawi a few days later the chumped off agents at the CIA Station Forward Base Chapman, located near the Pakistani Afghani border not far from Khost thought it was about to take out Al-Zawahiri. AlBalawi had driven across the border from Pakistan where he had spent a mere 9 months allegedly becoming close to Al-Zawahiri. There was no way he would be trusted with this information so quickly but December 2009 Balawi had requested an urgent meeting with the CIA and Captain Sharif Ali bin Zeid, his Jordanian handler. He had dangled a prearranged code in front of his handler nose which meant he had located Zawahiri. On Wednesday December 30, 2009 Al-Balawi was picked up at the Ghulam Khan border crossing by an Afghan army commander called Arghawan, who was in charge of security at the Chapman CIA base. The pair drove to the village of Mermandi, near Khost in southeastern Afghanistan, where at about 12:30 pm they were met by Arghawan‘s driver. The driver told The London Sunday Times that he had been instructed by his boss a week earlier to paint his white Toyota Corolla red, to put in tinted glass, and to keep his mobile phone on him at all times. ―Arghawan was waiting for me in a white Corolla with Al-Balawi in the back seat,‖ he said. The driver had never seen Al-Balawi before but said ―he was obviously trusted by my commander, Arghawan. The two men clearly knew each other.‖ The two men got into the red car. Arghawan got

into the driver‘s seat and Al-Balawi sat in the back wearing sunglasses, a pattu (a very large men‘s shawl), that covered his head and upper body, and a yellow turban. The driver was left behind in Mermandi. It was a 40minute drive to Chapman base. Its main focus was gathering intelligence to direct the unmanned drones onto Taliban and Al-Qaeda targets across the border in Pakistan‘s tribal areas. The base is surrounded by a high mud wall patrolled by plain-clothed Afghan security men carrying AK-47s. There are concrete fortified towers on each corner. Then there is an inner layer of security and a second mud wall topped with concertina wire. The third gate is manned by American soldiers and also ringed with barbed wire. AlBalawi was not once searched before entering. One of the base‘s security guards said: ―I was warned before not to search or stop the car when it arrived.‖ According to the guard before Al-Balawi reached the first gate, the Afghan security guards in charge of the perimeter security were instructed by US soldiers to go into their rooms. ―They did not want any Afghans to see al-Balawi,‖ he said. A US army vehicle then led the car through the next two gates, reaching the inside of the base before stopping outside a block of buildings used by the CIA and military intelligence to debrief their sources. As Al-Balawi stepped out of the car, seven CIA officers and a handful of soldiers gathered around. According to the guard, it was then that Al-Balawi detonated his bomb, killing eight and injuring six. Arghawan, still sitting in the driver‘s seat, survived the initial blast but a US soldier shot him in the head with his pistol, assuming that he was part of the bomb plot. ―There were lots of body parts,‖ said the guard. ―The suicide bomber‘s legs were all that was left of him. He had hidden the bomb beneath his pattu.‖ KHOST TOASTIES According to to the Ana Muslim website Al-Balawi was taken to the CIA base in Khost because he claimed to have urgent information about Doctor Ayman Zawahiri, the website said. He was not searched as he went in because a CIA agent boasted, ―He is our man, so there is no need,‖ the website claimed. The bomber then pretended to detail plans for a mooted operation on a piece of paper and asked the intelligence agents to gather round to look before blowing himself up, the website said. The very fundamentals of tradecraft was lacking when the

CIA had its informant report to its base of operations rather than meeting him at a neutral location safe house or using a dead drop to transmit information. What if Al-Balawi had not been rolled over and was followed by a jihadist? What if the jihadis had the base under surveillance? He would have been dead halal meat. Additionally hooking up with him in a neutral location would have minimized the number of personnel exposed to him. DCIA Leon Panetta, aka Leon Pinheada, who had less experience with the Agency than this author, claimed there was no CIA safe houses in that neck of woods. None-the-less a meet might have been arranged in some Allah-forsaken area in the open! Dr. Al-Balawi‘s family background should have been closely examined so see how much he valued material wealth over his religion. This would have also revealed the degree of social isolation Al-Balawi would suffer and experience should his CIA informant status have come to light after he collected his reward and new identity. His wife, Defne Bayrak, was an Islamist bitch and stated ―I am proud of my husband. He carried out a great operation in this war. I hope Allah will accept his martyrdom, if he has become a martyr. I am not ashamed. He did this against the American occupation. I am proud of him; my husband has carried out a great operation in such a war. May God accept his martyrdom!‖ His younger brother told reporters Al-Balawi had been ―changed‖ by the Gaza war and Israel‘s blockade. His wife added that Al-Balawi prayed to become a martyr against Israelis two days after Israel‘s Gaza offensives began. ―Anyone who sees such painful picture and does not rush to fight should consider his manhood and masculinity dead," he wrote on December 29, 2008, one day after the war began. "I have never wished to be in Gaza, but now I wish to be a bomb fired by the monotheists or a car bomb that takes the lives of the biggest number of Jews to hell.‖ The intelligence community should have known prima fascia that his bitch was hardcore and that if her husband either confessed to being, or was exposed as a snitch, she would take a powder along with their two Qu‘ranic brainwashed daughters! Defne was an al-Qaeda sympathizer who had translated a book that praised Osama Bin Laden into Turkish titled Osama Bin Laden Che Guevara of the East. The problem here is that when the Islamists take over they execute the G-dless communists! But the Left has decided that it is worth getting

executed if America and Israel are destroyed in the process, which is how pathological the Left has become. CIA PERSONNEL WERE DIFFERENT THAN AMERICA’S COLD WARRIORS During the Cold War the CIA was composed of the best and the brightest. Soviet Communism was a direct threat to the American Ruling Class so it was willing to send its sons into battle. The power elite does not perceive Islamism in the same way, as the communists made no bones about their desire to line the capitalists up against the wall and shoot them and their families. Islam favors capitalism, but capitalism without interest. Another factor is that the Left has bad rapped the CIA to the point where it is difficult for the Agency to recruit on Ivy League campuses. Judging from what was revealed about current day agency operation from the attack on Forward Operating Base Chapman the nature of CIA personnel and their knowledge of how to conduct operations has changed drastically since the days of patrician Princeton educated DCIA Allen Dulles, Yale educated DD/P Richard Bissell and CI Chief James Jesus Angleton or Operative E. Howard Hunt who attended Brown. Additionally those assigned to guard these CIA agents are no longer members of the American Armed Forces but trigger happy mercenaries willing to take chances with their and others lives.

MOHAMMAD AL-SHEUER The CIA Station Chief was a mother of three children who had worked under Michael Sheuer at the Bin Laden Desk. It must be said that if an order was issued NOT to search Dr. Al-Balawi‘s it originated with her. Why? The CIA had bought Al-Balawi‘s cock and bull story hook, line and sinker for more than one year and the Station Chief and others were pissing in their panties and pants with excitement because CIA would be the Agency to nail the loudmouth Dr. Ayman Al-Zawahiri. They couldn‘t wait to see the info he had come up with and so the Station Chief waived the search to speed things up then the crew gathered around Al-Balawi before he even entered the building used for debriefing agents and assets.

They were like fans surrounding a Beatle for the first time. Other than that there is nothing to be said about the Station Chief. Elizabeth Hanson was a 2001 graduate of Colby College ranked #22. Hanson majored in economics and wrote her thesis titled Faithless Heathens: Scriptural Economics of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. She was not an outstanding student in college nonetheless she became an Al Qaeda specialist for the CIA. It is unclear when she joined the CIA. I do not know what Hanson‘s track record with the CIA was so I could be dead wrong about her but I believe she was in over her head. Scott Roberson was hired straight out of Florida State University, ranked #102, where he graduated with a degree in criminology. After he left college he began police work. He worked his way up the ranks and soon Roberson was a vice squad cop working sex and drugs in Atlanta. In the late '90s he briefly left the force to work as a United Nations security officer in Kosovo. When he returned he was back on patrol duty. Soon after the war in Iraq started, Roberson secured work as a contractor, hoping to one day land with the CIA which he did in August 2009.321 His job entailed protecting high risk officials. Roberson‘s wife was a hair stylist. PRIVATIZATION OF THE ARMED FORCES There were two Blackwater employees killed at Chapman. Blackwater is an entity that turns career military men, many former Navy Seals, into soldiers of fortune. Blackwater has a long time relationship with the CIA but is a money-making business, rather than a CIA proprietary. Blackwater‘s mercenaries can get away with killing civilians more easily than a combatant in the American Armed Forces can and if they are caught the CIA or the Army will not get the blame. Rather than operate in this fashion it would be better to loosen the rules of engagement for the Special Forces, the Green Berets, instead of hiding behind a transparent scam. Despite the fact CIA is not supposed to be dealing with Blackwater two of these men were killed at

321. http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/apd-officers-remember-colleague-267039.html

Chapman; Jeremy Jason Wise, 35, was a former Navy SEAL, with eight years of service, who was serving with XE Security Company (Blackwater) in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. He graduated from Westside Christian School in El Dorado, Ark., and received a degree from Hendrix University in Conway, Ark. He was a member of the Trinity Church in Virginia Beach. During his service, the former petty officer was awarded three Navy / Marine Corp achievement medals and a Joint Service Achievement medal. He also was awarded an Iraq Campaign medal, two Sea Service Deployment ribbons, a Rifle Marksmanship medal and a Pistol Marksmanship medal. Jeremy left the Navy in September 2009. Master Sergeant Dane Clark Paresi US Army (Retired) of Fort Lewis Washington served 27 years on active duty, and was a veteran of both the 1st and 3rd Group Special Operations serving in over 6 overseas tours. These include Mauritania, Philippines, Iraq, Bosnia, Rwanda, Southeast Asia, Kenya and Afghanistan to name a few and was awarded and earned the Bronze Star, Meritorious Service Medal, NATO Medal, Combat / Expert Infantryman's Badge, Special Forces Tab, Parachutist Badge, Driver Mechanic Badge. Captain Sharif Ali bin Zeid was a distant cousin to the Jordanian Royal Family. He was at Amman, Jordan, July 8, 1975 (s/o Ferihan), educated at American Community School, Amman, Emerson College, Boston, Massachusetts (BS 1998). He worked for Senator John Kerry 1997-1998, United Nations Compensation Commission, Geneva, Switzerland 1998, commissioned. 2nd-Lieutenant Jordan Arab Army 2004, promoted to Captain 2007. Rcvd: the Order of Independence 4th class (2007). m. 2008, Fida, née Dawani, a senior project mngr. at OFFTEC. This was how his death was reported in Jordan ―His Majesty King Abdullah II, the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah and His Royal Highness Crown Prince Hussein bin Abdullah were at the Queen Alia International Airport on Saturday to receive the body of Captain Sharif Ali bin Zeid Al Aun who was killed in Afghanistan on Wednesday. Sharif Ali fell as he performed his humanitarian duty with the Jordanian contingent of the U. N peacekeeping forces in Afghanistan. His body was flown home today on board a Royal Air Force plane.‖