Iran Admits to Aiding Al-Qaeda 9/11 Hijackers With Undocumented Passage on Flights and Training with Hezbollah Terrorists in Beirut. Al-Qaeda is a Sunni group and Hezbollah is Shiite and 'never the twain to meet' (or mix) yet the common goal to take down the USA on 9/11 made them put aside their sectarian differences. Representatives for the groups have at times spoken unfavorably of one another, though al-Qaeda spokesman Ayman al-Zawahiri bridged the rhetorical divide in a July 27 video in which he acknowledged Hezbollah’s fight against Israel is indeed jihad, saying "We cannot just stand idly by while we see all these shells fall on our brothers in Gaza and Lebanon." In fact, evidence suggests al-Qaeda and Hezbollah have cooperated in the past and may do so again. A small group of al-Qaeda members visited Hezbollah training camps in Lebanon in the mid-1990s. Shortly thereafter, according to testimony from Ali Mohammed, an Egyptian-born U.S. Army sergeant who later served as one of bin Laden’s lieutenants and pled guilty to participating in the 1998 embassy bombings in eastern Africa, Osama bin Laden and Imad Mugniyeh met in Sudan. The two men, who have both topped the FBI’s list of most-wanted terrorists, agreed Hezbollah would provide the fledgling al-Qaeda organization with explosives and training in exchange for money and manpower. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage explained in a September 2002 speech, "Hezbollah may be the A team of terrorists and maybe al-Qaeda is actually the B team."The terrorist groups have similar goals vis-à-vis the United States and Israel. From
email communication with Osama 'Sam' Mustafa it appears he is in
Ramallah West Bank with the $17.8 million he stole from the IRS and high
up with the armed wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) — the Abu Ali Mustapha Brigades and financially supporting Hezbollah and PFLP terror attacks on Israel as of end of 2013.
Hezbollah and Osama Sam Mustafa's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in the late 1980s and 1990s, the PFLP sought new allies and developed contacts with Islamist groups linked to Iran, despite the PFLP's strong adherence to secularism and anti-clericalism. The relationship between the PFLP and the Islamic Republic of Iran has fluctuated – it strengthened as a result of Hamas moving away from Iran due to differing positions on the Syrian Civil War. Iran rewarded the PFLP for its pro-Assad stance with an increase in financial and military assistance. The military wing of the PFLP is called the Abu Ali Mustapha Brigades. The PFLP is well known for pioneering armed aircraft-hijackings in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Osama Sam Mustafa's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) considers the
Arab League’s designation of Hezbollah as “terrorist” as an aggressive
act against the entire Arab nation that reflects the hegemony of the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia over the decisions and policies within the Arab
League. It also confirms the Arab League’s submission to the dictates of
U.S. imperialism and Zionism. The PFLP is dedicated to the violent destruction of Israel and Zionism. The group is designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S., European Union, Canada, Australia and Israel. The armed wing of the PFLP — the Abu Ali Mustapha Brigades — has carried out numerous terror attacks in Israel. The wing is most active in the West Bank and has a presence in Gaza. The PFLP is also active in several Palestinian refugee camps in Syria and Lebanon. One of the PFLP’s most high-profile leaders, airline hijacker Leila Khaled, resides in Amman, Jordan. The PFLP, designated by the US and EU as a terrorist organization, issued an angry, rambling statement on last year denouncing Israeli media, Israeli parties and German lawmakers for urging Chancellor Angela Merkel’s administration to outlaw the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Hezbollah in the federal republic. The PFLP has over the years launched scores of terrorist attacks against Israelis, resulting in large numbers of deaths. Hezbollah has 950 active operatives in Germany, according to the country’s most recent 2016 national intelligence report, these guys are not Freedom Fighters.
Texaco gas station, Sam’s Star Mart on Spring Street in La Mesa, is owned by Osama “Sam” Mustafa
[San Diego Union-Tribune, 7/25/2003] Mustafa was first investigated by
the FBI in 1991 after he tells a police officer that the US needs
another Pan Am 103 attack and that he could be the one to carry out the
attack. He also says all Americans should be killed because of the 1991
Iraq War. In 1994, he was investigated for being a member of the
Palestinian organizations PFLP and PLO and for threatening to kill an
Israeli intelligence officer living in San Diego. The
investigation was closed, but reopened again in 1997 when he was tied to
a possible plot in North Carolina. Apparently, it is closed again
before 9/11. He also associates with Osama Basnan and others who have
contacts with the hijackers. Witnesses later claim Osama Mustafa cheers
when first told of the 9/11 attacks. I first had communication
from Osama Mahmud Mustafa a.k.a. “Sam Mustafa” in September of 2009 when
he called and threatened me for writing an article about him. It has been discovered that
Osama Mahmud Mustafa had already conspired with others in July of 2009,
three months before he called me, in a scheme to profit from about $17.8
million in fraudulent IRS refund checks. It appears from a Bail Forfeiture hearing that Osama
Mustafa's GPS tracking device had been tampered with on or about August
28, 2013 and appeared idle in a wooded area off of Interstate 10 in
North West Florida. Osama 'Sam' Mustafa fled from his 20 year federal
prison sentence in a car or truck loaned to him by 'associates', the
Federal government has been unable to find any of the $17.8 Million
Mustafa stole from the IRS. From email communication with Osama 'Sam' Mustafa it appears he is in Ramallah West Bank with the $17.8 million he stole from the IRS and high up with the armed wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) — the Abu Ali Mustapha Brigades and financially supporting Hezbollah and PFLP terror attacks on Israel.
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members of 'Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine' (PFLP) kill 2
Israeli policemen in Jerusalem's Old City, Tampa's Osama Sam Mustafa
has been Funding (PFLP). There has been a marked increase of violence
and murder of Israeli policemen in Jerusalem's Old City by members of
the terrorist group 'Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine'
(PFLP) and Tampa's fugitive on the run Osama Sam Mustafa is funding the
attacks with the $17.8 Million he and his pals stole through a IRS check
scam. The FBI was not able to recover any of the IRS $17.8 million that
Sam Mustafa stole. Osama Sam Mustafa is currently hiding out in
Rmallah, he has been a member of the 'Popular Front for the Liberation
of Palestine' (PFLP) since at least 1994. Ramallah is the headquarters
for the 'Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine' (PFLP).
Shin Bet, the Israeli internal security service, identified the 3 'Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine' (PFLP) assailants who killed the two Israeli police officers as residents of Umm el-Fahm, a large Arab town in central
Israel, near the border with the West Bank: Muhammad Ahmed Jabarin, 29; Muhammad Hamid Jabarin, 19; and Muhammad Ahmed Mufdal Jabarin, 19. Umm al-Fahm is a city which is located 20 kilometres northwest of
Jenin in the Haifa District of Israel. In 2015 its population was
52,500, nearly all of whom are Arab citizens (Palestinians) of Israel. In August 2000 the Shin Bet arrested two members of the PFLP, a militant faction
of the Palestine Liberation Organization as they attempted to cross
into Israel from Jordan via the Allenby Bridge. According to the
indictment submitted, Samah Jibril and Rami Katouni received extensive military training in Syria with the 'Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine' (PFLP) and
were intending to carry out a number of attacks against Israelis
soldiers and civilians. The final attack was to be a suicide bombing at
the high-rise Azrieli Towers complex in Tel Aviv, where the two men had
worked in the past. In Syria, Jibril and Katouni received extensive
weapons training, ranging from small arms to shoulder-held rockets,
prosecutors claimed. They were also trained in the use of explosives
devices with the 'Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine' (PFLP), the indictment said.
The 'Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine' (PFLP) moved it's headquarters from Damascus Syria to Ramallh West bank in 2000. Two Palestinian 'Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine' (PFLP) attackers senselessly and brutally attacked innocent worshipers as they prayed in the Har Nof neighborhood of west Jerusalem
on 18 November 2014. Four victims - hacked to death with meat cleavers -
were Israelis with dual nationality, three of whom were Americans. The
fourth was from Britain. They were all rabbis. The fifth victim was an
Israeli policeman who died of gunshot wounds. The attackers, affiliated
with the PFLP, were shot dead by Israeli police. Tampa's Osama Sam Mustafa has been Funding (PFLP) since late 2013, he is hiding out in Ramalah West Bank. 
Hezbollah Ramps up Terrorist Activity in West Bank since 2013 when Osama Sam Mustafa arrived with $17.8 million in stolen cash : In 2016 The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) announced that it had taken down a number of terrorist cells in the West Bank whose members had been recruited through Facebook by elite Hezbollah Unit 133 in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. It also has cracked down on efforts by Hezbollah to recruit Arab Israelis. The arrests included a cell from Kalkilya in the West Bank that was ordered to carry out an attack on an IDF patrol. The cell’s leader, Mustafa Kamel Hindi, 18, was recruited by a Hezbollah agent named Bilal through Facebook and was given instructions via email, according to the Shin Bet. Hindi recruited four local Kalkilya men to serve in his cell, including: Muhammad Majad Muhammad Amin Doud, 22, a Hamas agent who helped with raising funds, Taher Muhammad Mahmud Nofal, 22, who provided bomb-making material, Islam Iyad Zahir Abu Sayed, 21, who performed surveillance on the IDF patrol and Bara’a Iyad Muhammad Sayid Hamad, 19, who helped with putting the bomb components together. According to the Shin Bet, which busted the cells together with the IDF and police, Hezbollah has been working diligently in recent years to recruit operatives in the West Bank, Gaza and Israel with the aim of carrying out terrorist attacks against Israeli targets. Among those recruited by Jadian was Usama Noaf Sid Najim, 26, of Kabalan in the West Bank, who received money from Hezbollah and was
ordered to recruit others and to carry out terrorist attacks, including
a suicide attack on an Israeli bus. In 2017 Israel has arrested a Hezbollah operative in the West Bank for allegedly planning terror activity in Israel which included plans to kidnap Israelis, the Shin Bet said Thursday after it was cleared for publication. Yussef Yasser Soylem, 23, was arrested in the West Bank's Qalqilyah refugee camp and was indicted in an Israeli military court, the security service said. According to Shin Bet, Soylem, a carpenter by profession, was enlisted into the ranks of the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah through Facebook. He was instructed to collect information and take photographs of Israeli army bases, checkpoints and key sites in Jerusalem's Old City for the group. He was also instructed to set up a terror cell tasked with kidnapping an Israeli and smuggling the person into Lebanon, the Shin Bet said.
Saleh Hamid, Al Arabiya.net Friday, 8 June 2018 Writes: Iran admits to facilitating passage of al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attackers. Mohammad-Javad Larijani, the international affairs assistant in the Iranian judiciary, confessed in unprecedented remarks that Iran facilitated the passage of al-Qaeda members who carried out the September 11, 2001 terror attacks in New York. “Our government agreed not to stamp the passports of some of them because they were on transit flights for two hours, and they were resuming their flights without having their passports stamped. However, their movements were under the complete supervision of the Iranian intelligence,” Larijani said. No senior Iranian official had previously admitted to the Islamic regime’s role in the attacks. In an interview with the Iranian state TV broadcast on May 30 and circulated by activists on social media networks, Larijani narrated the details of the Iranian regime’s relations with al-Qaeda and how the Iranian intelligence supervised the passage and relocation of al-Qaeda members in Iran. “The Americans took this as evidence of Iran’s cooperation with al-Qaeda and viewed the passage of an airplane through Iran’s airspace, which had one of the pilots who carried out the attacks and a Hezbollah military leader sitting (next to) him on board, as evidence of direct cooperation with al-Qaeda through the Lebanese Hezbollah,” he said. In the same interview, he confirmed that Iranian intelligence officials were in constant contact with al-Qaeda terrorists. Earlier this year, a federal US judge ordered Iran to pay $6 billion to families of the victims of 9/11 after he found various government entities were accountable in the 9/11 attacks. Meanwhile, the European court in Luxembourg had issued a decision to freeze $1.6 billion from the Iranian Central Bank’s money in Europe and to hold them in compensation to the families of the victims of the September 11 terror attacks. According to the document, the Iranian intelligence apparatuses has in some cases facilitated visas to al-Qaeda members tasked with carrying out operations and harbored others. Senior al-Qaeda official Abu Hafs al-Mauritani helped negotiate the deal with Iran before the September 11 terror attacks. The New York court’s reports revealed that Ramzi bin al-Shibh, who was described by the 9/11 commission as the “coordinator” of the September 11 terror attacks, met several times with Mohamed Atta, a hijacker of the attacks, in many European cities at the beginning of 2001 then traveled to Afghanistan to submit a follow-up report from the operations’ team to Bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri. This all happened thanks to assistance by the Iranian embassy in London and afterwards – according to a German intelligence memorandum – he received a visa from the Iranian embassy in Berlin to travel to Amsterdam then to Iran on January 31, 2001.
The documents also revealed the names of some senior al-Qaeda figures whose beginning was at the Lebanese Hezbollah camps. The most prominent is Saif al-Adel who later became the al-Qaeda’s No. 3 and a military leader, as he was first trained by Iranian commanders in Lebanon and Iran. Saif al-Adel is the one who made the orders to carry out the Riyadh explosions in 2003 from his headquarters in Iran. The 9/11 Commission, tasked with investigating the terrorist attacks,
had concluded that Iran played a role in the 9/11 massacre by aiding
al-Qaeda terrorists. The report had also stated that Iranian security
officials let the terrorists travel through Iran without having their
passports stamped. Between 1991 and 1996, Osama bin Laden lived in Sudan where he was protected by Hassan Abdullah at-Turabi, the leader of Sudan's National
Islamic Front, an Islamist movement. According to the 9-11 Commission,
Sudanese officials facilitated meetings between al-Qaeda operatives and
Iranian officials, a relationship which blossomed into tactical
training: While in Sudan, senior managers in al Qaeda maintained contacts with Iran and the Iranian-supported worldwide terrorist organization Hezbollah, which is based mainly in southern Lebanon and Beirut. Al
Qaeda members received advice and training from Hezbollah. Intelligence
indicates the persistence of contacts between Iranian security officials
and senior al Qaeda figures after bin Ladin's return to Afghanistan.
Khallad [bin Attash, a high-level Al-Qaeda operative has said that Iran made a concerted effort to strengthen relations with al Qaeda after the October 2000 attack on the USS Cole, but was rebuffed because bin Ladin did not want to alienate his
supporters in Saudi Arabia. Khallad and other detainees have described
the willingness of Iranian officials to facilitate the travel of al
Qaeda members through Iran, on their way to and from Afghanistan. For
example, Iranian border inspectors would be told not to place telltale
stamps in the passports of these travelers. Such arrangements were particularly beneficial to Saudi members of al Qaeda. Knowledge of
the international travels of the al Qaeda operatives selected for the
9/11 operation remains fragmentary. But we now have evidence suggesting
that 8 to 10 of the 14 Saudi "muscle" operatives traveled into or out of
Iran between October 2000 and February 2001. In mid-November 2000 three of the future muscle hijackers, Wail al Shehri, Waleed al Shehri, and Ahmed al Nami, all of whom had obtained their U.S. visas in late October, traveled in a group from Saudi Arabia to Beirut Lebanon and then onward to Iran. An associate of a senior Hezbollah
operative was on the same flight that took the future hijackers to Iran.
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ABC7 News at 7:00pm Continues to Pander to the Sarasota ACLU Cop Haters and it's President Michael Barfield's Distrust of Surveillance Cameras. Sarasota ABC7 News at 7:00pm should be called ACLU News at 7:00pm. ABC7 News at 7:00pm liberal host Alan Cohn has repeatedly had members of the Sarasota ACLU on his show (Michael Barfield & Susan Nilon) to demonize law enforcement, specifically the Sarasota Police Department, and the surveillance equipment they use to catch BAD GUYS. ABC7 Writes: The Sarasota Housing Authority (Section 8) installed 25 cameras in 2010. That number has since grown to 66 in areas including Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Five Points Park, Payne Park, and the Robert L. Taylor Community Complex. "Cameras can act as a deterrent because people know that they're on the camera and if they commit a crime or something happens then we can go
back and view it," said Sarasota Police Chief Bernadette DiPino.
Tonight ABC7 News at 7:00pm liberal host Alan Cohn turned the show over to cop hater Michael Barfield, the current president of the ACLU in Florida, so that he could complain about panoramic surveillance cameras installed in violent no-go Newtown where there has been 34 incidents of gun fire and 17 actual shootings since the beginning of 2018. It's the wild west in Newtown, blood literally flows in the streets. There was no one on the ABC7 News at 7:00pm show to refute anything Michael Barfield said, he had the floor. Michael Barfield is an ex-con who has spent time in the Navy Brig, various Florida County jails, the Florida State prison system at Lake Correctional Institution and Florida State Prison and to top it off he spent 6 years in the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) system, quite a checkered history don't ya think?
United States v. Barfield, Middle District of Florida;
Michael A. Barfield, a paralegal and litigation consultant, pled guilty on May 12, 1999, to five felony offenses, including conspiracy, obstruction of justice, perjury before a federal grand jury, and two separate wire fraud schemes. On October 25, 1999, Michael A. Barfield was sentenced to ten years in prison, fined $7,500, and ordered to pay $50,500 in restitution. Michael A. Barfield did 6 years of the 10 year sentence, see link CLICK HERE.
SARASOTA COUNTY (WWSB) - License plate readers. Back on Wednesday, March 21st, 2018 at ABC7 News at
7, Alan Cohn was joined by Susan Nilon of the ACLU, private investigator Bill Warner and ABC7 News reporter Duhane Lindo. During this show ACLU member Susan Nilon was complaining about the use of license plate readers by law enforcement, she incorrectly claimed that there was some secret database where law enforcement was tracking innocent people by use of the license plate readers and storing their GPS activity, total nonsense, Michael Barfield echos the same rhetoric. I strongly disagreed on camera with everything Susan Nilon said.
SARASOTA MAGAZINE WAS QUESTIONED ON A BARFIELD ARTICE: “Why are you doing an article on Michael Barfield?” asks one Sarasota attorney close to city politics. “He’s a liar and felon who terrifies people. I hope you are not going to aggrandize him.” “He’s a piranha working with a lawyer who has no sense of ethics,” says retired criminal court judge Frank Brenner. “His downfall will only come when the way he’s ripping off the city leads to a public uproar.” “Barfield’s a con man’s con man, no question about it,” said Federal District Judge Richard Lazzara during a sentencing hearing in 1999, an assessment that dogs Barfield to this day.
10 NEWS TAMPA WRITES: Surveillance cameras broken near three Sarasota crime scenes in violent No-Go Newtown. Neighbors are concerned after three people were shot, all in the leg, in three days within the Newtown community. “I’m saddened very saddened," said Rose McKenzie, who lives in the area. "I hope the gun violence stops. It’s been scary for young people and older people. A stray bullet doesn’t’ know anyone." Surveillance cameras were present at each crime scene, but the cameras haven't worked for about a year, police said. In a statement, city officials said 19 cameras haven’t worked for multiple reasons, including recent construction interfering with the camera’s line-of-sight, the wireless function stopped working and some are damaged. $150,000 has been budgeted for the 2018-19 fiscal year to fix the cameras and have a full-time city employee operate the system. Sarasota Police said similar cameras have brought
marked success here, with crime in Fredd Atkins park Newtown cut in half after
11 cameras were installed in 2006.
The map above, with a few words attached, shows all the locations of outdoor security cameras maintained by the Sarasota Police Department. Each camera is represented
by a red flag. Thirty-five of the 43 cameras are in
Newtown. Security
Cameras Focus on Newtown Because That's Where the Majority of Sarasota
Crimes Originate. There were 800 plus crimes in the Newtown Section of
Sarasota Fl between October 9th, 2014 and April 7th, 2015.
Michael A. Barfield, a paralegal and litigation consultant, plead guilty on May 12, 1999, to five Federal felony offenses. The Federal conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and perjury convictions stem from Michael Barfield’s role in concocting a false accusation in 1997 against then-United States District Judge Lee P. Gagliardi, now deceased, and Assistant United States Attorney Kathleen A. Haley, in an attempt to disqualify the judge from presiding over a pending criminal case. Michael Barfield hired two private investigators, Deana Scapaccino and Dana Corum, to help carry out the illegal scheme. Michael Barfield, Scapaccino and Corum falsely claimed that the judge and prosecutor met at a restaurant where they discussed details of the pending prosecution and exchanged case-related documents. During the federal grand jury investigation triggered by this accusation, Barfield and his co-conspirators repeatedly attempted to bolster their false accusation by providing false information to the FBI and false testimony and Michael Barfield and his pals fabricated documents to the grand jury.
Michael Barfield and the ACLU in Sarasota are attempting to disrupt investigative techniques
used by Law Enforcement to catch violent felons. A city circuit judge
dismissed a lawsuit seeking applications to the Florida state court and
the state court’s orders, approving the use of “StingRay” devices capable of surveillance of entire communities. But
the judge did not resolve the issue of the United States Marshals
Service seizing copies of records from the Sarasota Police Department so
the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) would not be able to get
them. Detective Michael Jackson is, according to US Attorney Sean Flynn
of the Justice Department, a “sworn special deputy” of the US Marshals Office. He is assigned to a “federally created regional task force”—the Florida/Caribbean Regional Fugitive Task Force (he covers the area where fugitive Andre Neverson is thought to be). He was working out of the Sarasota Police Department. According to FBI
officials, the Stingray technology helps apprehend fugitives, provides
information for complex drug investigations and can help lead to the
rescue of kidnapped children. It’s also an “important tool in the
Federal Government's efforts to protect and defend the United States
against terrorism and other threats to our national security,” he said.
According to FBI officials, the release of the information would allow
“criminals and terrorists to piece together information about cell site
simulators' use and capabilities and thereby develop methods to evade
them.”
Cop Hater Michael Barfield is New Prez of Sarasota ACLU Who Couldn't Pass a Background Check to Flip Burgers at McDonald's. A convicted felon by his own admission
and barred from calling
himself a lawyer by the Florida Bar Association, Barfield serves as
President of the Florida ACLU Sarasota and chair of the Legal Panel of
the
A.C.L.U.’s Sarasota Chapter. He currently works for the law firm of
Andrea Flynn Mogensen, P.A., filing predatory law suits against local governments and public officials in Sarasota and Manatee Counties and
elsewhere in the state of Florida. In Sarasota Fl the ACLU media face is represented by attorney Andrea Mogensen, paralegal (ex-con) Michael Barfield and Susan Nilon an 'investigative researcher'. Susan Nilon is a Board member of the ACLU in Sarasota Fl, "Secretary – Susan Nilon", she writes favorable reviews of Michael Barfield and the ACLU under the cover of the "Nilon Report" and appears on local media, (ABC7 News at 7:00pm with liberal host Alan Cohn), as the owner of the Nilon Report without revealing she is a board member of the ACLU and siding with all things ACLU. Susan Nilon is also a State Board Representative of the ACLU. See http://thenilonreport.com/2015/10/its-not-just-about-michael-barfield/
Bill Warner
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Chance to foil 9/11 plot lost in San Diego & Sarasota according to Congressional Report that Named Osama 'Sam' Mustafa, Ziyad Khaleel and Anwar Al-Awlaki as part of a nation wide terror support network in the USA. FLORIDA BULLDOG WRITES: As late as October 2012, federal prosecutors and FBI agents in New York City were actively exploring filing charges against a suspect, Osama Sam Mustafa, for providing material support to the 9/11 hijackers and other crimes. The suspect’s identity and many details of the New York investigation are blanked out of a FBI summary report that discusses “Updates and Initiatives (as of 5 October 2012)” about 9/11. The document was released to Florida Bulldog amid ongoing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation that seeks access to records of the 9/11 Review Commission.
The report was heavily redacted for national security, privacy and other reasons but links to Tampa's Osama Sam Mustafa currently a fugitive from justice wanted by US Marshals service. But the report’s declassified portions indicate the New York investigation targeted an apparent U.S. support network for two of the 9/11 suicide hijackers – Saudis Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar – who with three other terrorists crashed American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon. “This has never been disclosed before and it’s to the contrary of almost everything the FBI has produced so far that has indicated that 9/11 is history,” said former Sen. Bob Graham, D-FL, who co-chaired Congress’s Joint Inquiry into the terrorist attacks. “It’s interesting that it took them 11 years to get there, and a FOIA to get this information to the public.” The report, originally classified secret, is marked “declassify on 12-31-2037.” The report discloses top-secret communications intercepts in which at least two of the hijackers were identified and linked to a terrorist facility in the Middle East two years before the attacks -- information collected by the National Security Agency but not shared in time with the FBI or other agencies. "I remain deeply disturbed by the amount of material that has been
censored from this report," said Sen. Bob Graham (D-Fla.), co-chairman
of the joint inquiry, which included members of the Senate and House
intelligence committees.
Sean Carter, a Philadelphia attorney who represents numerous victims of 9/11 in a massive lawsuit against Saudi Arabia, called the release of the 2012 FBI report “a powerful and important disclosure.” “We’ve been repeatedly told by U.S. officials that all questions of Saudi involvement were resolved by the 9/11 Commission and now you have confirmation that there was an active investigation happening years after the 9/11 Commission shut its doors” in August 2004. The report contains several bullet points about individuals with ties to Hazmi and/or Mihdhar. All of the names are redacted, but one name is discernable from the available information: former Tampa resident Osama “Sam” Mustafa. Prior to 9/11 Mustafa owned a gas station in a suburb of San Diego where future hijacker Hazmi worked for about a month in the fall of 2000. Mustafa previously had been the subject of an FBI counterterrorism investigation that yielded no evidence of criminal conduct, according to the 9/11 Commission’s final report.
The 2012 FBI report recounts Osama Mustafa’s May 15, 2012 arrest in Tampa for Treasury check fraud filed by a U.S. Attorney in Virginia. Court records say the case involved a $17 million tax-refund fraud scheme, and that Osama Mustafa was found guilty in April 2013. Four months later, while out on bond, Osama Mustafa removed a monitoring bracelet and vanished. In June 2014, Osama Mustafa was sentenced in absentia to 20 years in prison. He remains a fugitive. According to the report, federal authorities in Tampa had offered Osama Mustafa a deal on Sept. 17, 2012. “During the proffer [Mustafa] echoed [a] previous statement he had made, denying any knowledge of the hijackers’ terrorist affiliation and providing no additional details of use to investigators. [Mustafa] seemed optimistic about the charges he was facing. [Redacted] investigators anticipate future proffer sessions with [Mustafa] on the [Redacted] national security issues.” One disclosure points to a December 1998 intelligence report, from
an unidentified source, in which an Al Qaeda operative described plans
to hijack U.S. aircraft as "proceeding well" and referred to a "dry run"
in which two individuals had successfully evaded checkpoints at a New
York airport.
Chance to foil 9/11 plot lost in San Diego & Sarasota according to Congressional Report that Named Osama 'Sam' Mustafa, Ziyad Khaleel and Anwar Al-Awlaki as part of a nation wide terror support network in the USA. The "best chance" to uncover the Sept. 11 plot was lost in San Diego – where FBI agents were tantalizingly close to discovering two terrorists living with a government informant in Lemon Grove, according to a congressional report released July 25, 2003. The report, which lists mistakes and missed opportunities by intelligence agencies, found no single piece of intelligence that could have tipped off authorities and prevented the deaths of more than 3,000 people. The report detailed investigations of San Diego men by counterterrorism agents before or while the hijackers lived in San Diego. Those men, mentioned in the 832-page report, eventually became friends, helpers or employers, (Sam Mustafa) of the two hijackers. Two of the men listed in the report are the owner and manager of a business that employed Alhazmi.
The report indicated that one of the men, a Palestinian-born U.S. citizen who owns several businesses in the San Diego area, "cheered upon learning of the Sept. 11 attacks" and had been investigated by the FBI in 1991, 1994 and 1997 for associations with terrorist groups and threats against Israelis. The men were not named in the report but Alhazmi worked briefly at Sam's Star Mart gas station on Spring Street in La Mesa, which at the time was a Texaco franchise owned by Osama "Sam" Mustafa and managed by Ed Salamah. Also mentioned in the report was an unnamed Muslim cleric who became a spiritual adviser to Alhazmi and al-Midhar. Anwar Al-Awlaki is the former leader of the Masjid Ar-Ribat al-Islami mosque on Saranac Street on the border of San Diego and La Mesa, which was attended regularly by the hijackers and their acquaintances.
The FBI opened a counterterrorism inquiry into imam Anwar Al-Awlaki's activities in June 1999. When the imam moved to one of the largest Muslim communities in the country at the Dar Al-Hijrah mosque in Falls Church, Va., Alhazmi and hijacker Hani Hanjour followed and began attending that mosque, the report said. The June 1999 investigation is opened when it is learned Anwar Al-Awlaki had been visited by a “procurement agent” for bin Laden, Ziyad Khaleel. Khaleel had helped buy a satellite phone for bin Laden; when he is arrested in December 1999 he reportedly tells the FBI crucial details about al-Qaeda operations in the US (see December 29, 1999).
The FBI learns that al-Awlaki knows individuals from the suspect Holy Land Foundation and others involved in raising money for Hamas, Ziyad Khaleel and Imam Muneer Arafat who ends up in Sarasota Fl. Sources allege that al-Awlaki has even more extremist connections. But none of these links are considered strong enough for criminal charges, and the investigation is closed. It appears that Anwar Al-Awlaki was heading up a nation wide terror support network in the USA starting in San Diego and reaching out to Sarasota and Orlando Fl.
December 29, 1999: Bin Laden’s ‘Procurement Agent’ Detained in Jordan, Said to Describe ‘Bin Laden’s US Operations’. Police in Jordan detain Ziyad Khaleel, who the FBI calls a Florida-based “procurement agent” for Osama bin Laden. The FBI says Khaleel’s role is to “procure computers, satellite telephones, and covert surveillance equipment” for al-Qaeda leaders. [Newsweek, 2/7/2000] In 1995, Khaleel started studied at Columbia College in Kansas City. The following year, using money sent by others, the FBI monitored him as he helped bin Laden buy a satellite phone (see November 1996-Late December 1999 and November 1996-Late August 1998).
Ziyad Khaleel continued to buy new minutes and parts for the phone at least through 1998 (see July 29-August 7, 1998). [Knight Ridder, 9/20/2001] While living in the US, he also was helping Hamas, the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), and working as a regional director for the Islamic American Relief Agency (IARA), which was directly funding bin Laden (see November 1996-Late December 1999). FOX NEWS…. A Missouri-based
Islamic charity that was shut down after being identified by the
federal government as a global terrorist organization admitted in
federal court Wednesday, July 20th 2016, that it illegally funneled $1.4
million to Iraq in violation of U.S. sanctions. A representative of the
Islamic American Relief Agency pleaded guilty in Jefferson City,
Missouri, to conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic
Powers Act. The Islamic American Relief Agency, once based in Columbia MO and run by Ziyad Khaleel, also pleaded guilty
to one count each of conspiracy to commit money laundering and
obstructing the administration of internal revenue laws. US intelligence also linked Ziyad Khaleel to the Al-Kifah Refugee Center in 1994, a charity front with ties to both bin Laden and the CIA (see 1986-1993). Once in custody, Khaleel cooperates with the FBI and is said to provide “crucial evidence about bin Laden’s US operations.” But he is quickly released. He will graduate from Columbia College later in 2000. [Newsweek, 2/7/2000; Knight Ridder, 9/20/2001] He will continue to raise money in the US for Palestinian groups the US government will later say are terrorist-related. He will leave the US around early 2001 and apparently dies in a car crash in Saudi Arabia in 2002. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1/22/2003; Newsweek, 10/20/2004]
US
Treasury documents show the terrorist-front organization with close
links to the Saudi government, the International Islamic Relief
Organization (IIRO), set up branches in the Philippines in the 1990s.
One of its directors there was Mohammad Jamal Khalifa, Osama bin Laden’s
brother-in-law and a senior Al Qaeda member. The US Treasury designated
both the Philippine and Indonesian IIRO branches as conduits for
channeling money to Al Qaeda and other radical groups. A 1996 CIA report
said the IIRO had financed six militant training camps in Afghanistan
in the 1990s. The 2016 federal indictment alleges the IARA lied when it denied ever employing an agent for al-Qaeda named Ziyad Khaleel aka Ziyad Sadaqa as
a regional director who was also the roommate of Sarasota Imam Muneer
Arafat. A secret CIA report in early 1996 concluded that the IARA was
funding radical militants in Bosnia (see January 1996).
US intelligence will later reveal that in the late 1990s, IARA is
regularly funding al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. For instance, it has
evidence of IARA giving hundreds of thousands of dollars to bin Laden in
1999. Ziyad
Khaleel, president of the Columbia College (Missouri) MSA, was a
representative of the Islamic Association for Palestine (a Hamas front).
In life, Ziyad Sadaqa attracted the interest of federal investigators who wanted to find out whether he was a knowing accomplice to terrorists or their unwitting tool. In death - if he is dead - he is still provoking questions. While living in Columbia, Mo., in 1996, Sadaqa bought the satellite telephone that authorities say Osama bin Laden used to orchestrate the bombings of two U.S. embassies. Sadaqa testified before a federal grand jury but was never charged. Pedro Ruz; Roy, Roger; Leusner, Jim "Bin Laden's men lived quietly in Orlando," The Orlando Sentinel, September 23, 2001. The Congressional Joint Inquiry will later find that several of the hijackers, including Mohamed Atta and Marwan Alshehhi, attend mosques in the US and that at least one of the mosques is in Florida. [US Congress, 7/24/2003, pp. 169 ]
The Florida mosque attended by Atta and Alshehhi is the Al Hijrah mosque run by Gulshair Shukrijumah in Miramar, Broward County, Florida. Mohamed Atta and several other hijackers live near the mosque (see April 11, 2001) and train at nearby Opa-Locka airport (see December 29-31, 2000). After 9/11, the FBI will visit the mosque and ask Shukrijumah and his wife if they recognize the hijackers and if their son, Adnan, knew Atta or had mentioned trips to Pakistan and Afghanistan. [Miami New Times, 4/3/2003; Los Angeles Times, 9/3/2006] Atta is seen with Adnan Shukrijumah, a al-Qaeda operative, in 2001 (see May 2, 2001). His father previously served as an imam at the Al Farouq mosque in Brooklyn. In addition to working as a translator for Sheikh Abdul-Rahman, he also testified as a character witness at the WTC bombing trial for one of the defendants, Clement Rodney Hampton-El, who attended Al Farouq. [FrontPage Magazine, 10/27/2003; Los Angeles Times, 9/3/2006] Gulshair Shukrijumah is receiving money from the Saudi embassy in Washington at this time. [Newsweek, 4/7/2003] In 2009, an FBI informant will claim that he tried to get close to both Atta and Adnan Shukrijumah at the Al Hijrah mosque in early 2001, but the FBI had him work on easier cases instead, because both of them were secretive and wary (see Early 2001). [ABC News, 9/10/2009] The army’s Able Danger data mining program identifies Atta as a member of an al-Qaeda cell centered on Brooklyn. Exactly how it does this is never disclosed, although Atta’s apparent association with Gulshair and Adnan Shukrijumah is one possibile explanation (see January-February 2000).
Mohdar Abdullah, a friend of future 9/11 hijackers Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid Almihdhar when they live in San Diego, allegedly learns about the hijackers’ attack plans in early 2000. Abdullah helps Alhazmi and Almihdhar adjust to life in the US when they first arrive in San Diego. Abdullah speaks English well, and Alhazmi only speaks a little English and Almihdhar virtually none at all. Alleged Prison Confessions - While imprisoned in the US in 2003 on minor charges, Abdullah will reportedly brag to other prisoners that he knew the two hijackers were planning a terrorist attack (see September 2003-May 21, 2004). According to one prisoner, Abdullah claims he had been told by an unnamed individual that Alhazmi and Almihdhar would be arriving in Los Angeles to carry out an attack before they arrived there on January 15, 2000 (see January 15, 2000). According to another prisoner, Abdullah claims that after Alhazmi and Almihdhar arrived in San Diego, they told him they planned to fly an airplane into a building and they invited him to join in the attack. Abdullah’s prison boasts will not be completely verified by the FBI. However, Abdullah will admit to the FBI that he knew of the hijackers’ extremist beliefs and that he was involved in the Islamic Army of Aden, a militant group in Yemen with al-Qaeda ties (see 1996-1997 and After and Around October 12, 2000). The 9/11 Commission will later comment, “Abdullah clearly was sympathetic to those extremist views.” [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 218-219]
Distantly Related to Almihdhar? - Abdullah is a Yemeni citizen, and after 9/11, it will be reported that the name in his Yemeni passport is actually Mohammed al-Mihdhar. Authorities don’t believe he is closely related to Khalid Almihdhar, but he could belong to the same tribe or clan. [San Diego Union-Tribune, 10/21/2001] There is evidence that Abdullah cases the Los Angeles airport in June 2000 with Alhazmi (see June 10, 2000), and he appears to know about the timing of the 9/11 attacks several weeks in advance (see Late August-September 10, 2001).
At least five of the hijackers operated "within the scope of the FBI's coverage of radical Islamic extremists," the report says. Hijackers Hani Hanjour, Mohamed Atta, Marwan Al-Shehhi, Alhazmi and Almihdhar all appear to have had contact with individuals who "had come to the FBI's attention" during counter-terrorism or counter-intelligence investigations. Four of those people were the focus of active FBI investigations during the time the hijackers were in the U.S. Mohamed Atta, along with others of the alleged 9/11 hijackers, is believed by some to have resided in Punta Gorda, Florida before July 2000 (see Before July 2000), prior to his attending flight school in Venice, about 30 miles north of there (see July 6-December 19, 2000). He is also witnessed in Punta Gorda around July-August 2001 (see Mid-July-Mid-August 2001), well after the time he leaves Venice. Additionally, Atta and some other hijackers are reportedly witnessed at the Charlotte County Airport in Punta Gorda. Cathy Mohr, the owner of a cafe there, later says, “The picture [of Atta] in the paper looked really familiar and people from the airport said, ‘Hey you know they were here.’” [NBC 2 (Fort Myers), 4/24/2002] After seeing photos of them after 9/11, Frank Cvelbar, whose Aero Precision flight school is based at the airport, believes he has seen four of the alleged hijackers “very occasionally” visiting the airport, shopping in his school’s pilot supplies shop, or hanging around the airport’s lobby. Cvelbar will say he is “very sure” about having seen Atta, and “pretty sure” about seeing Marwan Alshehhi, Saeed Alghamdi, and Ahmed Alnami. [Charlotte Sun, 10/3/2001] A salesperson at Eastern Avionics, a vendor at the airport, later recalls Marwan Alshehhi having bought a pilot’s headset from them. After the sale, he starts receiving e-mails, apparently sent by Mohamed Atta (see Before September 11, 2001). After 9/11, the Punta Gorda Police Department will confirm handing over half a dozen pieces of information to the FBI. [Charlotte Sun, 10/2/2001; NBC 2 (Fort Myers), 4/24/2002] Yet according to official accounts, Atta and Alshehhi were only in this area when attending flight school in Venice. [US Congress, 9/26/2002; 9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 223-253] When asked to corroborate or refute reports of the hijackers having been in Charlotte County, FBI spokeswoman Sara Oates will only respond, “The FBI has information but the FBI cannot disclose the information because the investigation is pending.” [Charlotte Sun, 10/3/2001]
Early January 2000: 9/11 Hijackers Alhazmi and Almihdhar Given Mysterious Contact Address in US. Two future 9/11 hijackers, Khalid Almihdhar and Nawaf Alhazmi, are given the contact of someone useful in the US, and they may utilize this contact when they move to the US a short time later. These two hijackers fly to Los Angeles, California, only about a week after the summit, and begin living in San Diego (see January 15, 2000). Presumably, the US address would point to at least one conspirator in the 9/11 plot living in the US, but if the name of this person is known to investigators, it is not made public. Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid Almihdhar had more visible links to Al Qaeda
than any of the other hijackers. The CIA had observed both men attending
an Al Qaeda meeting in Malaysia in January 2000. Two months later, the
CIA learned that Alhazmi had entered the United States. Indeed, both men
had arrived in Los Angeles on Jan. 15.
Sarasota
Cell phone store owner Wissam Hammoud appears to have had knowledge of
terrorist activity prior to 9/11. Terrorist ringleader Mohamed Atta used
a Verizon cell phone with a Sarasota cell phone number 941-685-0468,
purchased and later serviced in Sarasota. "Mohamed Atta aka Mohamed
el-Sayed" had multiple cell phones in Florida. While living in the US, the 9/11 hijackers make at least 206 international phone calls. In 2006, these calls will be mentioned in a German intelligence report based on telephone records obtained from the FBI. There are 66 calls to Syria, 32 calls to Saudi Arabia, and 29 calls to Germany. A majority of the call are made from a cell phone registered to hijacker Marwan Alshehhi. Additional details on who was called, who else made the calls, when the calls were made, what other countries were called, etc… have not been made public. The ARC is widely considered bin Laden’s publicity office. ARC head Khalid al-Fawwaz will be indicted for his involvement in the US embassy bombings in 1998 (see 10:35-10:39 a.m., August 7, 1998 and August 21, 2001). Denver-based radical publisher Homaidan al-Turki begins to be investigated over suspicions he is involved in terrorism in 1995, although it is unclear whether this is related to the Saudi Arabia-Britain phone lines. [Associated Press, 8/31/2006] Another likely suspect for this communications hub would be Ziyad Khaleel. He lives in Denver in the early 1990s until about 1994, and is vice president of the Denver Islamic Society. In 1998, he will work with al-Fawwaz to buy a satellite phone for bin Laden (see November 1996-Late August 1998). [Denver Post, 1/27/1991; St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1/22/2003] It seems likely Khaleel is in contact with Anwar al-Awlaki at this time, since al-Awlaki works as an imam for the Denver Islamic Society from 1994 to 1996. In 1999, al-Awlaki will be investigated by the FBI for his links to Khaleel (see June 1999-March 2000). He will go on to be the imam for a couple of the future 9/11 hijackers in San Diego, California, and then will become a prominent radical in Yemen. [New York Times, 5/8/2010]
Just two
weeks before the 9/11 hijackers slammed into the Pentagon and World
Trade Center, members of the Abdulazzi al-Hiijjii Saudi family abruptly
left their luxury home in Sarasota at 4224 Escondito Circle, leaving a
brand new car in the driveway, a refrigerator full of food, fruit on the
counter — and an open safe in the master bedroom.
In the weeks to follow, FBI law enforcement agents not only discovered
the home was visited by vehicles used by the hijackers, but phone calls
were linked between the home and those who carried out the death
flights — including leader Mohamed Atta. Mohamed Atta's cell phone
941-685-0468 links to Abdulazzi al-Hiijjii at 4224 Escondito Circle
Prestancia Sarasota Fl that's why the Saudi family fled before 9/11.
MOHAMED ATTA PHONE RECORDS FOR 941-685-0468, Mohamed Atta's cellphone was recorded phoning the Moroccan embassy in Washington D.C. at 202-462-7979 and 202-462-7722 on January 2, just before Marwan Al-Shehhi flew to the country, see above records. A FBI counter-terrorism agent said records
of incoming and outgoing calls made at the Escondito Circle house were
obtained from the phone company (BellSouth Sarasota Fl) under subpoena.
Agents were able to conduct a link analysis, a system of tracking calls
based on dates, times and length of conversations — finding the
Escondito Circle calls dating back more than a year, “lined up with the
known 9/11 hijackers.” The links were not only to Mohamed Atta at 941-685-0468 and his 2 hijack pilot pals, the FBI agent said, but to 11 other terrorist suspects,
including Walid al-Shehhri, one of the men who flew with Atta on the
first plane to strike the World Trade Center. Another was Al-Qaeda
leader Adnan Shukrijumah, a former Miramar FL resident identified as
having been with Atta in the spring of 2001.
Individuals
tied to Huffman Flight School and 9/11 Hijackers Mohamed Atta and
Marwan al-Shehhi by FBI linked to 4224 Escondito Circle Sarasota as
family members appear to be Abdulaziz A. Al-Hijji, DOB 12/28/1973, and
Adel Ghazzawi son of Esam Ghazzawi. In the year 2000, Sarasota Saudi’s
Abdulaziz A. Al-Hijji then age 27 and his brother in law Adel Ghazzawi
then age 30, were contemporaries of 9/11 Hijack Pilots Ziad Jarrah then
age 25, Marwan Al-Shehhi then age 22, and Monamed Atta then age 32 who
all appear to have taken Flight Training in Venice Fl at the same time
from mid June 2000 up to end of August 2000 when Atta and al-Shehhi
moved over to Jones Aviation at the Sarasota Bradenton International
Airport for 2 months, small world eh? Abdulaziz
A. Al-Hijji, DOB 12/28/1973, was issued a Florida drivers license on
September 12th, 1995 it expired on his birthday December 28th, 2001.
Abdulaziz A. Al-Hijji, DOB 12/28/1973, was issued a duplicate Florida
drivers license on October 28th 1997, again on February 24th 1998 and
again on April 20th 2000. Abdulaziz A. Al-Hijji married Anoud Essam
Ghazzawi on May 12th 1995 in Sarasota Fl most likely at the Islamic
Center of Sarasota and Bradenton Mosque 4350 N. Lockwood Ridge Rd Sarasota Fl. Abdulaziz
A. Al-Hijji, DOB 12/28/1973, got a $65 parking ticket in Manatee County
on Wednesday October 25th 2000 that was not paid until February 14th
2001 he was driving a 1999 tan 4dr Jeep.
Osama bin Laden uses a satellite phone to direct al-Qaeda’s operations in 1998. The phone—a Compact M satellite phone, about the size of a laptop computer—was purchased by Ziyad Khaleel for $7,500 using the credit card of a British man named Saad al-Fagih. During this time period Imam Muneer Arafat was Ziyad Khaleel's roommate. After purchasing the phone, Khaleel sent it to Khalid al-Fawwaz, al-Qaeda’s unofficial press secretary in London (see Early 1994-September 23, 1998). Al-Fawwaz then shipped it to bin Laden in Afghanistan. [CNN, 4/16/2001] It appears US intelligence actually tracks the purchase as it occurs (see November 1996-Late December 1999), probably because an older model satellite phone bin Laden has is already being monitored (see Early 1990s). Bin Laden’s phone (873682505331) is believed to be used by other top al-Qaeda leaders as well, including Ayman al-Zawahiri and Mohammad Atef. Al-Fawwaz also buys satellite phones for other top al-Qaeda leaders around the same time. Though the calls made on these phones are encrypted, the NSA is able to intercept and decrypt them. As one US official will put it in early 2001, “codes were broken.” [United Press International, 2/13/2001; Newsweek, 2/18/2002].
In November 1996, the FBI monitors the progress of bin Laden buying a new satellite phone and tracks the purchase to Ziyad Khaleel, a US citizen and radical militant living in Missouri (see November 1996-Late August 1998). Newsweek will later say that this puts the Sudan-based charity Islamic American Relief Agency (IARA) “on the FBI’s radar screen” because Khaleel is one of IARA’s eight regional US directors. [Newsweek, 10/20/2004] Khaleel is monitored as he continues to buy new minutes and parts for bin Laden’s phone at least through 1998 (see July 29-August 7, 1998). He is also the webmaster of the official Hamas website. His name and a Detroit address where he lived both appear prominently in ledgers taken by US investigators from the Al-Kifah Refugee Center in 1994, a charity front with ties to both bin Laden and the CIA (see 1986-1993). That Detroit address is also tied to Ahmed Abu Marzouk, the nephew of Mousa Abu Marzouk, a high-ranking Hamas leader who is imprisoned in the US between 1995 and 1997 (see July 5, 1995-May 1997). Furthermore, Khaleel is working for the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), a Hamas-linked organization co-founded by Mousa Abu Marzook. [National Review, 10/2/2003] A secret CIA report in early 1996 concluded that the IARA was funding radical militants in Bosnia (see January 1996). US intelligence will later reveal that in the late 1990s, IARA is regularly funding al-Qaeda. For instance, it has evidence of IARA giving hundreds of thousands of dollars to bin Laden in 1999. But Newsweek will later note that “at the very moment that the [IARA] was allegedly heavily involved in funneling money to bin Laden, the US branch was receiving ample support from the US Treasury through contracts awarded by the State Department’s Agency for International Development (USAID).” Between 1997 and 1999, USAID gives over $4 million to IARA, mostly meant for charity projects in Africa. Finally, at the end of December 1999, counterterrorism “tsar” Richard Clarke gets USAID to cut off all funding for IARA. But the charity is merely told in a latter that US government funding for it would not be “in the national interest of the United States” and it is allowed to continue operating. At the same time, US agents arrest Khaleel while he is traveling to Jordan (see December 29, 1999. He will graduate from Columbia College later in 2000. The US government will wait until 2004 before shutting down IARA in the US and raiding the Missouri branch where Khaleel worked. Newsweek will later comment, “One question that is likely to arise [in the future] is why it took the US government so long to move more aggressively against the group.” [Newsweek, 10/20/2004]
“A sheikh named Muneer Arafat came to St. Louis talking all that jihad talk
prior to the September 11th, 2001 terror attacks“. In St. Louis, 1996
to 2000, Muneer Arafat became a well-known lecturer at different Masjids
and built up quite a following. He gave lectures at local mosques that
almost exclusively focused on jihad week in and week out and this got
him into trouble with Sheikh Muhammad Nur of the Islamic Foundation of
Greater St. Louis who at one point banned him from giving lectures at
the Gateway Masjid. Muneer Arafat was the Imam at the Islamic Society of
Sarasota and Bradenton (ISSB) Mosque from early March 2000 to the end
of 2003, at the time it was a little wood frame house on N. Lockwood
Ridge Rd, he showed up just prior to Mohamed Atta and the rest of the
9/11 terrorists in nearby Nokomis Fl in June 2000. Another indication of the al-Qaeda support network in the U.S. which needs to be investigated, is the report that Muneer Arafat became the imam of the Islamic Society of Sarasota and Bradenton Mosque in Florida in March 2000, just before Mohamed Atta and the rest of the 9/11 terrorists showed up in nearby Venice, Florida, in June of 2000. Muneer Arafat had been the roommate of Ziyad Khaleel in Columbia, Mo., and the St. Louis area. Khaleel had bought the satellite telephone that al-Qaeda leaders used to bomb the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. Peter King also cited a San Diego terrorism task force which investaged an alleged link between al-Awlaki, Osama Bin Laden, and Ziyad Khaleel, the former roommate of Muneer Arafat.
As per a FDLE Report of 12/03/2003, Special Agent Scott McAllister
(Florida Department of Law Enforcement) along with Special Agent Tom
Baugher (Federal Bureau of Investigation) and Detective James LaPlante
(Sarasota City Police Department) interviewed a confidential informant,
under control of the Detroit office of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation. The source spoke of Muneer ARAFAT as the Imam of the local Sarasota mosque
and that ARAFAT was a member of the Islamic (Muslim) Brotherhood in
Kuwait, who follows a radical belief and teachings of ALBAZ, and wishes
harm to the United States. Sarasota Imam Muneer Arafat is a member of the Kuwaiti Muslim Brotherhood’s
Lajnat al-Daawa al-Islamiya (“Islamic Call Committee”) which was
designated as a foreign terrorist organization by President George W.
Bush on September 23, 2001. Imam Muneer Arafat and 9/11 Mastermind
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed both joined the terrorist group Kuwaiti Lajnat al
Daawa al Islamiyya (LDI) aka Kuwait Muslim Brotherhood “Islamic Call
Committee” in 1980, Muneer was 17 and Khalid was 16 years old. Lajnat
Al-Da'wa al Islamia (LDI) leadership links to Saudi Royal Prince Bandar
bin Salman bin Mohammed Al-Saud. According to a press release from the
Saudi Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Endowments, Call and Guidance, Prince
Bandar bin Salman bin Mohammed Al-Saud was identified as the Head of
(Islamic) Call Committee in Africa. Background: Kuwaiti Lajnat al Daawa
al Islamiyya (LDI) also known as the “Islamic Call Committee”, based in
Kuwait, was submitted to the UN for designation as a terrorist
origination by a foreign government. Lajnat Al-Da'wa al Islamia' (LDI), American intelligence analysts said had provided logistic support to various terrorist groups. In
late October 2000, LDI representatives were present in a meeting in
Kandahar with Mullah Omar and other collaborators of Usama bin Laden
(UBL). During that meeting, there was a commitment made to offer
logistical support to Arab volunteers willing to leave Afghanistan, and
especially to supply them with vehicles or travel documents in October
2000 almost a full year prior to the 9/11 attacks in USA.
Much has
been made about a secret 2002 FBI investigation into the Sarasota Saudi
al-Hijji family and their links to the 9/11 hijackers at their 4224
Escondito Circle Sarasota Fl house. Sarasota Imam Muneer Arafat of the Islamic Society of Sarasota and Bradenton (ISSB) was
arrested in November 2002 and flipped by the FBI, he became an
informant for the US Department of Justice (FBI) and they paid him
$35,000 to spy (wear a wire) on a group of Muslim businessmen in
Sarasota Fl during 2002 and 2003. The Sarasota Saudi al-Hijji family
went to Muneer Arafat’s Mosque in Sarasota, Islamic Society of Sarasota and Bradenton (ISSB)
from 1995 to summer of 2001. FBI agents said records of incoming and
outgoing calls made at the 4224 Escondito Circle Sarasota Fl house were
obtained from the phone company under subpoena. It would not be
unreasonable to maintain that Muneer Arafat also visited the 4224
Escondito Circle house as he was the al-Hijji family’s Imam or Holy Man.
Agents were able to conduct a link analysis, a system of tracking calls
based on dates, times and length of conversations — finding the Escondito calls dating back more than a year, “lined
up with the known suspects.” The links were not only to Mohamed Atta
and his 9/11 hijack pilots, the agent said, but to 11 other terrorist
suspects, including Walid al-Shehri, one of the men who flew with Atta
on the first plane to strike the World Trade Center.
In March 2000 Imam Muneer Arafat shows up at the Islamic Society of Sarasota and Bradenton (ISSB) Fl. An Imam would wear a Red Kufi - Sarik Takke Islam Prayer Hat - Ottoman Style Sarik Men Kufi, as seen in the photo above. Muneer Arafat was driving a 2000 black Isuzu Trooper with Illinois tag 3678625 in Sarasota. Imam Muneer Arafat is a large man at 5'11 and 270 lbs he was known as the '2
Whopper Imam' for his love of Burger King fast food in the St Louis
Area. Muneer Arafat has several links to terrorists and terrorism fund
raising and was at one time the roommate of Ziyad Sadaqa aka Ziyad
Khaleel who is an Al-Qaeda procurement agent in the USA. Ziyad Sadaqa
aka Ziyad Khaleel purchased and had shipped a satellite phone to Osam
bin-Laden for use in the 1998 US Embassy bombing in Africa.
Muneer Arafat was driving a 2000 black Isuzu Trooper with Illinois tag 3678625 in Sarasota. Muneer Arafat, the Sarasota Imam and Al-Qaeda agent
Ziyad Khaleel’s prior roommate, was arrested by BICE on Nov 22nd 2002 in
Sarasota Fl, 6 days after I took the surveillance photo of his vehicle
in Sarasota, for over staying his visa on immigration charges. The FBI
shipped Muneer Arafat back to St Louis MO to face a Federal Grand Jury and he
was questioned about his past roommate Ziyad Khaleel aka Ziyad Sadaqa aka Ziyad Khalil.
Muneer Arafat had registered his 2000 Isuzu Trooper SUV in East St.
Louis IL in February 2000 and was driving around Sarasota Fl with no drivers license,
flying under the radar, Arafat didn’t register his 2000 Isuzu Trooper SUV vehicle with the State of Florida until 2003.
Imam
Muneer Arafat's roommate Ziyad Sadaqa aka Ziyad Khaleel was linked to
terrorist Anwar Al-Awlaki when they both lived in Denver CO. Anwar
Al-Awlaki first came under the FBI radar due to his association with
Imam Muneer Arafat's roommate Ziyad Sadaqa aka Ziyad Khaleel, the
Al-Qaeda procurement agent. The FBI investigated Anwar al-Awlaki from
June 1999 through March 2000 for possible fundraising for Hamas, links
to al-Qaeda, and a visit in early 2000 by a close associate of "the
Blind Sheik" Omar Abdel Rahman who is now serving a life sentence for
his role in the 1993 World Trade Center attack and plotting to blow up
NYC landmarks. The FBI's interest was also triggered because he had been
contacted by an al-Qaeda operative who had bought a battery and a
satellite phone for Osama bin-Laden, Ziyad Khaleel aka Ziyad Sadaqa,
Muneer Arafat's roommate.
Ziyad
Khaleel – A Designated Terrorist. Purchased a satellite telephone and
the battery for Osama Bin Laden that allegedly facilitated the Al-Qaeda
attack on the 1998 U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya. Muneer Arafat
the Imam at the Islamic Society of Sarasota and Bradenton from 2000 to
2003 and at the Islamic Center of Boca Raton in 2003 and a frequent
visitor in Sarasota Fl afterwards is a member of the Kuwait Muslim
Brotherhood. Muneer Arafat the Imam at the Islamic Society of Sarasota
and Bradenton was a roommate to al-Qaeda agent Ziyad Khaleel AKA Ziad
Sadaqa in Columbia MO.
Ziyad Khaleel, also known as Khalil Ziyad, Ziyad Sadaqa, and Ziyad
Abdulrahman, was a Palestinian-American al-Qaeda member, based in the
United States, primarily in Colorado, Florida, Michigan and Missouri. He
had been identified as a "procurement agent" for Osama bin Laden,
arranging the purchase and delivery of "computers, satellite telephones,
and covert surveillance equipment" for the leadership of al-Qaeda, as
well as administering a number of radical Islamic websites as webmaster,
including the website of the terrorist group Hamas. Among the cities in
which he resided at various times were Denver, Detroit, Columbia and
Orlando: ZIYAD KHALEEL, DOB 06/23/1964 address search results USA:
Broadway #157, Columbia, MO 65203 (10/21/2001)
Goodson St, Hamtramck, MI 48212 (07/13/2001)
Sun Tree Cir #55, Orlando, FL 32807 (07/13/2001)
Cedar Bend Cir #102, Orlando, FL 32825 (10/01/2000)
Cedar Bend Cir #104, Orlando, FL 32825 (10/01/2000)
Willow Pond Ct #102, Orlando, FL 32825 (08/01/2000)
Dahlia St #39, Denver, CO 80246 (07/01/1998)
Dorothy St #2, Hamtramck, MI 48211 (12/31/1996)
Bloom St, Hamtramck, MI 48212 (12/01/1994)
Oliver St, Hamtramck, MI 48211 (03/01/1994)
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