In Cold Blood; Mass Murderers Perry Smith and Richard Hickock Convicted in Holcomb KS Bloodbath Still Linked to 1959 Osprey Sarasota Fl Slaying.

Perry Smith and Richard Hickock linked to mass murder in cold blood, the Clutter family in Holcomb KS on November 14th and the Walker family in Osprey Fl on December 19th 1959. All 8 victims were murdered in the same manner. Mad dog killers Perry Smith and Richard Hickock first met in the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing, Kansas. Smith was eventually paroled, and the pair later resumed their acquaintance upon Hickock's release in November 1959. Hickock allegedly wrote to Smith, imploring him to violate his parole by returning to Kansas to assist Hickock with a robbery he had been planning. Perry Smith met with Richard Dick Hickock, and almost immediately the two set to work carrying out Hickock's plan. 

Perry Smith and Richard "Dick" Hickock, the killers featured in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, have been the primary suspects in the 1959 Walker family murders in Osprey, Sarasota Florida. While the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office has aggressively pursued this lead for decades, no conclusive link has ever been established. The Murder Scene: On December 19, 1959, Cliff and Christine Walker and their two children were found murdered in their home just one month after Smith and Hickock killed the Clutter family in Kansas. Presence in Florida: Investigators confirmed Smith and Hickock were in the Sarasota area at the time of the murders. They were spotted at service stations in Nocatee, just east of Sarasota. The Stolen Car: Smith and Hickock were driving a stolen 1956 Chevrolet Bel Air; the Walkers had been actively shopping for that exact make and model around the time they were killed, leading detectives to believe the killers may have used the car as a pretense to enter the home. The Walker family murder case remains an unsolved open investigation. While the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office still considers Smith and Hickock the most viable suspects based on the "totality of the evidence.

Driving west to Holcomb KS, they entered the Clutter home through an unlocked door late in the evening of November 14, 1959, whereupon they murdered the four family members present: Herbert Clutter and his wife Bonnie, and their younger children, Nancy and Kenyon, they were all shot in the head. Clutter Family mass murder, Hickock later testified that he had gotten the idea to rob the Clutters after being told by former cellmate Floyd Wells, who had worked as a farmhand for the Clutters, that there was a safe in the family's house containing $10,000. When they invaded the house, however, they discovered that there was no such safe. Following the Kansas massacre, Perry Smith and Dick Hickock had stolen a Chevrolet Bel Air and drove it to Florida. On the morning of the Walker murders, the duo checked out of a Miami Beach motel. On Dec. 19 — the day of the killings — they shopped at Grant's Department Store on Tamiami Trail in Sarasota only several miles from the crime scene. They were in the area of the Walker Family mass murder, who were all shot in the head just like the Clutter family. After a multi-state flight, Hickock and Smith were captured in Las Vegas, Nevada, on December 31, 1959. Their eventual execution by hanging was on April 14, 1965. 

"In Cold Blood" book author Truman Capote spent six years researching the book, during which he developed an intense and controversial bond with the convicts, particularly Perry Smith. Author Truman Capote apparently became involved with killer Perry Smith. Capote's involvement went far beyond traditional journalistic reporting. He provided Smith with gifts, helped finance his legal appeals, and supported him emotionally while waiting out the lengthy appeals process. While some historians believe Capote merely manipulated Smith to secure the dramatic details needed for his book. Many accounts suggest the two men, Truman Capote and Perry Smith, fell in love during the six process for the book, "In Cold Blood".

Mass murder psycho killer Perry E. Smith was crack shot with a rifle. Perry Edward Smith (October 27, 1928 - April 14, 1965). At age 16, Perry Smith joined the United States Merchant Marine in 1942. Perry E. Smith joined the army in 1949 in Alaska, he served in the Korean War. “Headquarters, United States Army, Alaska. Pvt. Perry E. Smith, 23, first Army Korean combat veteran to return to the Anchorage, Alaska, area, is greeted by Captain Mason, Public Information Officer, upon arrival at Elmendorf Air Force Base. Smith served 15 months with the 24th Division as a combat engineer. His trip from Seattle to Anchorage was a gift from Pacific Northern Airlines. Perry Smith had lived for a time with his father in Trapper's Den a small town about 160 miles from Anchorage, Alaska. 

Pvt. Perry E. Smith was a hunter and trapper with his father John Tex Smith in Trapper's Den Palmer Alaska, where Perry learned to shoot. Pvt Perry E. Smith also spent 15 months in the Army during the Korean War, Perry was a marksman with a rifle (see news article above). His last fifteen months of service were spent at the Bay of Inchon during the Korean War, where he helped bridge the many rivers needed to ensure troop mobility leading up to the Battle of Inchon, where Smith was awarded the prestigious Bronze Star, the Army’s fourth highest military decoration for valor an honor given only for heroic or meritorious achievement and services in a combat zone. It appears that Perry Smith shot at least 6 of the 8 victims in the two families, shooting all of them in the head with one shot, using a shotgun in Kansas and then a 22 rifle in Florida. Perry Smith tells a former friend from his Army days that he is not sorry and feels no regret for his crimes. Dick Hickock was an ephebophile; according to Truman Capote in his account of the Clutter murders, In Cold Blood, having been prevented by his partner in crime, Perry Smith, from raping 16-year-old Nancy Clutter during the crime in the Clutter home, but Perry Smith appears to be the guy who raped Christine Walker in Osprey Fl.

Pvt Perry E. Smith and his father, John "Tex" Smith, attempted to build the Trapper’s Den Lodge in Palmer Alaska. All their physical and creative energy expended on a venture doomed to fail. Truman Capote wrote that Perry’s life was "an ugly and lonely progress toward one mirage and then another." The frustration and pain of this failure at Trapper's Den led to a terrible argument in which Perry tried to strangle his father and Tex, the Lone Wolf, pulled out a gun and tried to shoot him. The gun wasn’t loaded, but the intention was there. In a moment of mania Tex had tried to kill his own son, Perry.

On December 19th 959, unknown assailants entered the home of the Walker family and massacred Christine, 22; her husband Cliff, 25; and their children: three-year-old Jimmie and two-year-old Debbie. It remains one of the most haunting unsolved cases in Sarasota County Florida history. Over the past decade, though, the Walker family murders have taken on another chilling dimension, as the prime suspects are, at present, Perry Smith and Dick Hickock. Less that one month earlier, Smith and Hickock slaughtered the four-member Clutter family in Kansas, creating the tragedy that was immortalized in author Truman Capote’s 1966 true-crime masterpiece In Cold Blood and its classic 1969and 2005 movie adaptations. 

At about 4 P.M. on December 19, 1959, Christine Walker, 24, came home to a house she thought was empty in Osprey Fl. It wasn’t. She was raped and shot to death. When Cliff arrived later with the kids, a gunshot cut him down immediately. The killer then also shot both Jimmie and Debbie. The little girl didn’t die immediately, though, so the perpetrator drowned her in the bathtub before leaving. 

Nearly 68 years after the executions, the bodies of the killers Perry Smith and Dick Hickock were exhumed from Mount Muncie Cemetery in Lansing, as authorities hoped to solve a 53-year-old cold case using DNA. Smith and Hickock had originally been questioned about the December 19, 1959, shooting murder in Osprey, Florida of Cliff and Christine Walker and their two young children. Evidence indicated they had spent time just a few miles from the Walker crime scene after the Clutter murders. On December 19, 2012, officials in Kansas exhumed the bodies of Smith and Hickock and retrieved bone fragments to compare their DNA to semen found in the pants of Christine Walker. 

Back in Jan 1960 at least 5 different people claimed they had spoken to or had interacted with mass murderers Perry Smith and Richard Hickock in the Sarasota - Osprey Florida area prior to 12/20/1959 after seeing their photos in the Sarasota Herald Tribune as per the Sarasota County Sheriff Office. The Sheriff added that an 'expert marksman' shot each of the Walker family members with a 22 caliber rifle, one shot each, neatly through the head. Mass killer Perry E. Smith worked with his father a hunter/trapper in 'Trapper's Den' Palmer Alaska where they built a hunting lodge in the wilderness. Perry worked as a hunter trapper with his dad from about 1946 to 1949 when Perry Smith joined the Army in Alaska and served in combat during the Korean War. Perry returned to 'Trapper's Den' Palmer Alaska and to work with his father, John Tex Smith, in Oct. 1951 when he was discharged from the Army. Perry E. Smith learned to hunt and shot from his father, Tex, in Alaska. 

Perry E. Smith most likely was an 'expert marksman' with a rifle before he joined the Army in 1949, Perry was a skilled hunter. In August 2013, the Sarasota County Sheriff's office announced they were unable to find a match between the DNA of Smith or Hickock and the samples in the Walker family murder. Only partial DNA could be retrieved, possibly due to degradation of the DNA samples over the decades or contamination in storage, making the outcome one of uncertainty (neither proving nor disproving the involvement of Smith and Hickock). Sarasota County Sheriff Dept investigators have repeatedly stated that Smith and Hickock still remain the most viable suspects.


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Saudi Spies and Imams at San Diego Mosque that Aided 9/11 Hijackers were Omar Bayoumi, Fahad Thumairy, Anwar Awlaki, Musaed Jarrah HOLY SHEET!

Saudi spy's in America prior to 9/11 terror attack were Omar al-Bayoumi, Imam Fahad Al-Thumairy, Imam Anwar al-Awlaki, Ziyad Khaleel aka Ziyad Sadaqa, Imam Muneer Arafat, Imam Omar Mohamed, Imam Osama Bassnan and MOIA Imam boss Musaed al-Jarrah head of Saudi Religious Ministry of Islamic Affairs, the MOIA, and linked to Saudi intelligence networks and Al-Qaeda. It references a 2017 assessment by the FBI’s Arabian Peninsula Squad, which had concluded Omar Bayoumi was a “co-optee” of the Saudi General Intelligence Presidency, its secret service, he was a spy. It found the assistance given to 9/11 hijackers Hazmi and Mihdhar was consistent with a co-ordinated terrorist support operation, rather than a series of chance encounters, and involved individuals with official connections to Saudi Arabia. Saudi spy Omar Ahmed Mustafa al-Bayoumi, DOB 11/29/1957, Passport Saudi B758502, SSN 616-76-8943 issued in California in 1994. Mutaib al-Sudairy was a lower-ranking diplomat investigated by the FBI for alleged links to the 9/11 hijackers in San Diego. According to court documents, Mutaib al-Sudairy was an employee of the Saudi MOIA, which sent him to San Diego in late 1998 and early 1999 to preach at the Al Madina Mosque. The control center for the Saudi Government’s MOIA and Islamic Affairs operations in the U.S. was on the Saudi Embassy’s (Washington D.C.) second floor where Khalid al Sowailem and Musaed al Jarrah worked. In September 2025 a Sunday Times investigation revealed that the FBI did not inform the London Metropolitan Police that the American investigation into San Diego spy Omar al-Bayoumi from 1998-99 concluded that he was working for Saudi intelligence. The primary foreign intelligence agency of Saudi Arabia is the General Intelligence Presidency (GIP)

Saudi Arabia (SA): Ever since they conquered most of the Arabian peninsula by means of severe atrocities a century ago, the House of Saud (SA) has used the holy places of Islam as a base from which to fight against all modernizing and liberal trends in the Muslim world, and to counter them by promoting religious fanaticism. With their vast oil wealth, they spread their ultra-fundamentalist Wahhabi creed — the creed of Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda — around the world via the many universities, religious schools, mosques, and preachers (Imams) they financed. PI Bill Warner's Most Likely and Usual Suspects in 9/11 Support Network: Omar Bayoumi, Imam Fahad Thumairy, Imam Anwar Awlaki, Ziyad Khaleel, Imam Muneer Arafat, Imam Omar Mohamed, Osama Bassnan and MOIA Boss Musaed Jarrah!

Imam Muneer Arafat and Al-Qeada agent Ziyad Khaleel and Saudi official Mutaib al-Sudairy were all roommates at one time or another in Columbia MO from 1998 to 2000, small world, eh? An FBI investigation conducted out of the New York Field Office found that the two Riyadh officials — Mutaib al-Sudairy and Adel Mohammad al-Sadhan — had a “past connection” to the 9/11 hijackers and others who assisted them, according to a declassified Sept. 28, 2010, memo. Mutaib al-Sudairy was also linked “to suspected Al Qaeda operatives in Saudi Arabia,” the report says. Fahad al-Thumairy, an imam at the King Fahad Mosque in Culver City, Calif., was listed as “a contact” for Adel Mohammed al-Sadhan during that first visit to Los Angeles. Fahad Al-Thumairy also later provided “assistance to 9/11 hijackers Al-Hazmi and Al-Mihdhar” — both of whom helped hijack American Airlines Flight 77 and fly it into The Pentagon on 9/11, the FBI files state. Fahad Al-Thumairy, the imam, had been placed at the southern California mosque by Musaed al-Jarrah, director of Islamic affairs at the Saudi embassy in Washington.

PHONE CALLS; On December 9th, 1999 at 12:55 PM a call made from the King Fahad Mosque (KFM) office 310-204-1250 in Culver City CA to Sarasota, FL at 941-358-9841. Why was a call placed to Sarasota Fl from the office of terrorist Imam Fahad Thumairy to a person in Sarasota Fl on December 9th, 1999? 3 months later Al-Qaeda linked Muneer Arafat shows up at the Sarasota Mosque in March 2000 as it's new Imam. Prior to the 9/11/2001 attacks, Saudi Arabia paid the bulk of the KFM Mosque’s expenses. At the King Fahad Mosque’s 1998 Grand Opening, Prince Abdulaziz pledged that Saudi Arabia would pay the operating expenses for the mosque, which were estimated at $500-600,000 annually. In 1999 radical Fahad Thumairy was the Imam at the King Fahad Mosque. Saudi Arabia established accounts at the Saudi Embassy and Saudi Consulate to pay the mosque’s expenses. Prior to the 9/11 Attacks, Saudi Arabia continued to control and operate the King Fahad Mosque, like the Ibn Taymiyah Mosque before it, as a radicalized mosque that provided support to Sunni extremism. The activities of Saudi Arabia, it's Imam/diplomat Imam Fahad Thumairy, and Thumairy’s followers at the King Fahad Mosque were a seamless continuity of the operations of the Sunni extremist cell at the Ibn Taymiyah Mosque.

The evidence shows that Imam Fahad al-Thumairy, Musaed al-Jarrah and Omar al-Bayoumi were part of an extremist platform KSA created to advance the Ministry of Islamic Affairs (MOIA) radical anti-American agenda closely intertwined with Al-Qaeda (AQ) terrorism. Saudi Religious Ministry of Islamic Affairs is the MOIA that controls all the Imams. AQ would never have deployed 9/11 hijackers Hazmi and Mihdhar to California unless a trusted network was in place to receive and support them. This evidence renders Saudi Arabia vicariously liable for its agents’ support for the hijackers, regardless of express direction. Further the proof shows that senior Saudi MOIA officials such as Mutaib al-Sudairy did in fact “direct” Thumairy and Bayoumi. The two men were part of the Saudi Religious Ministry of Islamic Affairs MOIA-led militant extremist network of Imams headed by Khalid al-Sowailem, Mutaib al-Sudairy, Adel al-Sadhan, and other more senior MOIA Saudi officials. Khalid Al Sowailem, Saudi diplomat, MOIA U.S. Director of Da’wah, Saudi Embassy, Washington, DC, IFSIT Board Director. Adel Al Sadhan, MOIA Propagator and Saudi diplomat, Saudi Embassy, Washington, DC & Norman, OK. Prior to the 9/11 Attacks, Saudi Arabia was not a U.S. “ally” nor AQ’s “sworn enemy.” Rather, MOIA joined with AQ to lead a campaign of violent jihad directed against the U.S. KSA’s claim that MOIA was “quietist” misappropriates a domestic political term that has no bearing on the anti-U.S. campaign that MOIA promoted. Saudi Arabia brought MOIA officials, including Imam Fahad Thumairy, as well as Omar Bayoumi, into the U.S. under false pretenses. The facts compel the inference that AQ sent its first operatives for the 9/11 attacks to Los Angeles and San Diego only because of its trust in the MOIA-led support network established there. March 31-April 1, 2001 - Mutaeb al-Sudairy and likely also Adel al-Sadhan met with 9/11 hijackers Hazmi and Hanjour as the hijackers’ traveled cross-country, contrary to Saudi Arabia’s denials. Mutaeb Al-Sudairy, registered MOIA Propagator, Saudi Embassy,
Washington, DC & Columbia, MO.

Omar Bayoumi called Mutaib al-Sudairy at his assigned MOIA workplace in Columbia, MO to arrange that meeting, and kept handwritten notes of Mutaib al-Sudairy’s contact details, as well as three cities on the hijackers’ planned route east. Omar Bayoumi also handwrote Hazmi’s AQ code-name for the 9/11 Attacks - “Rabi’ah Ibn Ka’ab” – and linked it to Mutaib al-Sudairy’s “Columbia, Missouri” location. Omar Bayoumi’s notes reveal intimate knowledge of 9/11 hijacker Hazmi’s AQ mission and show that Omar Bayoumi and Mutaib al-Sudairy were not outsiders to AQ’s 9/11 plot. Al-Qaeda agent Ziyad Khaleel also lived in Columbia MO and was an IARA fundraiser and one of eight regional directors of the Islamic African Relief Agency (IARA) that funded Al-Qadea and UBL. 

9/11 Families' lawyer in communication with Judge Netburn: Encore document shows 'a cancer' within Saudi Ministry of Islamic Affairs, it was a Saudi spy network of Imams. A known Saudi spy who helped the 9/11 hijackers in San Diego in 1999 and 2000 was Omar Al-Bayoumi who had direct links to Mataib Al-Sudairy. Mutaib Al-Sudairy was roommate of Al-Qaeda procurement agent Ziyad Khaleel aka Ziyad Sadaqa for 4 months in 2000, in Columbia MO. Al-Qaeda procurement agent Ziyad Khaleel aka Ziyad Sadaqa was also roommates for some time in Columbia MO during 1998 and 1999 with Imam Muneer Arafat who arrives in Sarasota Fl in March of 2000 just 4 months prior to Mohamed Atta and his two other Hijack pilot pals showing up in Sarasota County for flight training. 

Imam Muneer Arafat was arrested in November 2002 in Sarasota for expired Visa and shipped to St Louis to face a terrorism Grand Jury. The FBI flipped Muneer Arafat in St Louis and when he returned to Sarasota Fl in December of 2002 he was wearing a wire, he was now a paid confidential informant (CI) he got $35,000 from the FBI for the Sarasota 2002 to 2003 terror investigation. The FBI investigated Al-Qaeda linked Imam Anwar al-Awlaki, later linked to two of the 9/11 hijackers in San Diego, the Fort Hood shooter, and the Christmas Day bomber, beginning in June 1999 through March 2000, after the FBI learned Imam Anwar al-Awlaki had been contacted by Al-Qaeda agent Ziyad Khaleel aka Ziyad Sadaqa, they all knew each other prior to 9/11. 

Media Newsflash; Prior to 9/11 Al-Qaeda made guys (spys included) living in America did not roommate with anyone other than other Al-Qaeda made guys who they shared phone lines, faxes and computers with. Imam Muneer Arafat in Sarasota Fl was Al-Qaeda connected. Judge Gorge B. Daniels of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, ruled that the 9/11 families have presented credible evidence of Saudi government involvement in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Nearly 24 years after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, a federal judge in New York decided Thursday that Saudi Arabia can face a civil lawsuit alleging the kingdom sponsored, aided and supported the al-Qaeda hijackers. 

Documents Released By FBI reveal Nationwide Saudi Imam network that supported 9/11 hijackers. Lawyers for relatives of 9/11 victims claim that a group of extremist religious leaders (Imams) in Saudi Arabia and in America aided the 9/11 hijackers who flew planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on 11 September 2001. Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Dawah, and Guidance (MOIA) this government ministry oversees Islam-related affairs, manages and regulates mosques, Imams and prayer halls. In the late 1990's and early 2000's Musaed Al-Jarrah was the head of the Ministry of Islamic Affairs he traveled the US and kept in contact with Imam's (Holy Men - Clerics) who he supervised and assigned to various locations to continue the spread of Wahhabism, strict fundamentalist Islam. Musaed Al-Jarrah would have had direct contact with Imams linked to al-Qaeda like Anwar al-Awlaki terminated in 2011 by CIA-DOD opp he was born in New Mexico and a U.S. citizen, Omar Mohamed arrested December 19, 2003 and Sarasota Imam Muneer Arafat arrested in November 2002. A FBI source spoke of Muneer ARAFAT the Imam of the local Sarasota mosque and that Muneer ARAFAT was a member of the Kuwaiti Islamic Brotherhood, and he follows the radical belief and teachings of Sheikh ALBAZ, and Arafat wishes harm to the United States. Muneer Arafat was born in Kuwait City, Kuwait.

Ziyad Khaleel, also known as Khalil Ziyad, Ziyad Sadaqa, and Ziyad Abdulrahman, was a Palestinian-American al-Qaeda member, a made guy, based in the United States, primarily in Colorado, Orlando Florida, Michigan and Columbia 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. Khaleel was a roving jack-of-all-trades in the American underground militant Islamic community, while in Orlando, Florida, Khaleel served as the regional director for the Columbia, Missouri-based Islamic African Relief Agency (IARA), an Islamic charity that funded Al-Qaeda.

Nationwide Support Network for 9/11 Hijackers of Saudi Funded Imam's was Anwar al-Awlaki & Omar Abdi Mohamed in San Diego and Muneer Arafat in Sarasota. Secret ICE Operation Green Quest Investigation in Sarasota linked to Operation Encore 9/11 investigation. Documents Released By FBI reveal Nationwide Saudi Imam network that supported 9/11 hijackers. Saudi Official Mutaeb Sudairy met with al-Qaeda Agents Omar Abdi Mohamed and Ziyad Khaleel who was roommate to Sarasota Imam Muneer Arafat, and on and on it went. There was Group of Imam's in USA linked to Al-Qaeda operatives prior to 9/11 that were paid by Saudi Arabia. Imam's in the USA are paid about $1,700 per month by The Ministry of Islamic Affairs in Saudi Arabia to spread "Wahhabism,". The collision of Saudi missionary work of MOIA and suspicions of terrorist financing in southern California illustrates the perils and provocations of a multibillion-dollar effort by Saudi Arabia to spread its religion around the world through the MOIA. 

 

Detailed findings from the 2004 FBI/CIA Joint Assessment about MOIA’s support for AQ and the FBI’s newly declassified July 2021 EC about the “Saudi (Wahhabi)/Salafi/MOIA militant network of Imams…created, funded, directed and supported by the KSA in the U.S.” from the FBI Arabian Peninsula Squad’s two-decade long probe of KSA. Saudi Arabia’s MOIA support network was indispensable in providing AQ with its beachhead for the 9/11 Attacks. The mission that Bin Laden hand-picked 9/11 hijackers Hazmi and Mihdhar to carry out required sustained, meticulous planning for their reception and assistance in California. Thumairy and Bayoumi, with the guidance of MOIA and Saudi Embassy officials, filled these critical roles.

Imam Omar Abdi Mohamed was a MOIA radical jihad preaching Somali 'holy man' paid $1,700 a month by the Saudi government and MOIA to promote Wahhabism at a Somali social center in San Diego CA. He set up a small charity to help 'supposed' famine victims in Somalia, and the charity received more than $365,000 from the suburban Chicago branch of Global Relief foundation, a terrorist-financing entity linked to Al Qaeda according to the indictment the government would ultimately file against Mohamed. He also received $5,000 from Al Haramain Islamic Foundation, a Saudi-supported charity linked to Al-Qaeda. Imam Omar Abdi Mohamed was arrested December 19, 2003 by ICE on Immigration Violations, he had been laundering money for Al-Qaeda. Imam Omar Abdi Mohamed turned out to be a core member of Al-Qaeda, an advance man for the 9/11 hijackers in San Diego CA. Imam Omar Abdi Mohamed was found guilty October 28, 2005 on the Immigration Violations and sentenced December 20, 2005 he was released from Federal prison on December 22, 2005. Omar Abdi Mohamed did not serve his 1 year and 6 months sentence. In January 2004, U.S immigration officials (ICE) charged Abdi Mohamed with fraud after he allegedly lied about receiving approximately $370,000 from one of those front groups, Global Relief foundation and Al Haramain Islamic Foundation. Nevertheless, Imam Abdi Mohamed walked away from the charge, again. “The Department of Justice told the US. Immigration Court in San Diego, California that the U.S. decided not to prosecute Abdi Mohamed for this crime ‘due to concerns of diplomatic reasons.’

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Inside the Saudi 9/11 Cover-Up of the Terrorist Support Network in Sarasota Fl by the FBI and CIA after Sept 11 2001

'FOLLOW THE MONEY' TO SARASOTA, FLORIDA: Inside the Saudi 9/11 Cover-Up of the Terrorist Support Network in Sarasota Fl by the FBI and CIA after Sept 11 2001. Secret ICE Operation Green Quest Investigation of 9/11 Sarasota Fl Support Network in 2002 shut down by FBI in 2003. The FBI appears to have 'protected' the Saudi family in Prestancia Sarasota Fl. The ICE 2002 - 2003 Operation Green Quest Investigation of 9/11 Terrorist Support Network in Sarasota Fl, "follow the money," Saudi funded Ministry of Islamic Affairs linked to support of 9/11 pilot terrorists. Wealthy Saudi Royals connected to Esam Ghazzawi and his son-in-law Abdulaziz al-Hijji, who lived in Ghazzawi's Prestanci home in Sarasota, had been on the FBI terrorist watch list. More information about this reward offer is located on the Rewards for Justice website.

REWARDS FOR JUSTICE, Operation Green Quest and Sarasota Fl...The Tampa FBI is whitewashing the Sarasota Saudi Family and Saudi Gov Connection to 9/11 as it all links directly to Operation Green Quest and Saudi Arabia funded think tanks IIIT and SAAR in Herndon VA. To understand why the FBI is withholding evidence of the involvement of the Sarasota Saudi Family and many others to the 9/11 Hijackers while they were in Sarasota Fl, one has to step back and look at the much bigger and broader picture involving Saudi Arabia. This coverup goes far beyond the suppression of the crucial 28-page chapter from the Joint Congressional Inquiry into 9/11, concerning Saudi support for the 9/11 hijackers, the concealment of which has continued under different Presidential Administrations to this day. The investigation into the Sarasota Muslim network and Sami al-Arian in 2002 to 2003 directly links to the Bureau of Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) 'Operation Green Quest" raid of IIIT. The Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) is yet another institution funded by Saudi Arabia. The IIIT Institute’s Herndon, VA, headquarters, located at 555 Grove St., were subject of a March 20, 2002 raid, along with 19 other Saudi funded business and non-profit entities allegedly related to an umbrella corporation known as the SAAR Foundation, as part of a joint FBI-ICE program known as Operation Green Quest. 

The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations report also noted that at the same time that the Bosnia raid occurred, in March 2002, the FBI was also raiding the Northern Virginia offices of the SAAR Foundation, a front for the Al-Rajhi group, linked both to the Muslim Brotherhood and other hard-core terrorist cells around the globe. "Operation Green Quest" targeted SAAR and the affiliated Safa Group of charitable and business fronts, all tied to the Saudi Arabia regime. The FBI took over the Operation Green Quest investigation in late 2003 or early 2004, as it linked to terrorism, and excluded ICE, there was a huge stink over that move and the IIIT FBI investigation continues. In June 2002, the Washington Post will headline an article, “Infighting Slows Hunt for Hidden al-Qaeda Assets.” [Washington Post, 6/18/2002]. FBI Wants Control of Green Quest – With the creation of the new Department of Homeland Security (see November 25, 2002), the FBI and its parent agency the Justice Department are given a chance to gain total control over Operation Green Quest. 

U.S. Customs Service (ICE) Launches "operation Green Quest" Multi-Agency Initiative to Target Sources of Funding for Terrorist Organizations. Washington, D.C. -- Deputy Treasury Secretary Kenneth Dam, Assistant Attorney General Michael Chertoff, Treasury Under Secretary of Enforcement Jimmy Gurule, and U.S. Customs Service Commissioner Robert C. Bonner today announced the launch of Operation Green Quest, a new multi-agency financial enforcement initiative. The goal of Operation Green Quest is to augment existing counter-terrorist efforts by bringing the full scope of the government's financial expertise to bear against systems, individuals, and organizations that serve as sources of terrorist funding. The initiative will target current terrorist funding sources and identify possible future funding sources. Underground financial systems, illicit charities, and corrupt financial institutions are among the entities to be scrutinized as possible facilitators of terrorist funding. The initiative will also target counterfeiting, credit card fraud, fraudulent import/export schemes, drug trafficking, cash smuggling, and other activities that may fund terrorists. Led by the U.S. Customs Service ICE, Operation Green Quest will serve as the operational and investigative arm for the Office of Foreign Assets Control, the new Foreign Terrorist Asset Tracking center, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, and other entities tracking terrorist assets. Using leads from these entities and leads developed independently, the initiative will launch full-scale investigations resulting in seizures, blocking orders, civil and criminal forfeitures, criminal prosecutions, and other actions.  

Operation Green Quest was to use the full array of law enforcement techniques to pursue its objectives, including undercover operations, electronic surveillance, outbound currency operations, and the exploitation of intelligence data, financial data, trade data, and confidential source data. The initiative will also draw on the resources and expertise of the Treasury and Justice Departments and many other federal agencies. A command and coordination center for Operation Green Quest has been created at Customs Service (ICE) headquarters. A senior Customs official will serve as the director and a senior IRS [Internal Revenue Service] official will serve as the deputy. A senior FBI [Federal Bureau of Investigation] official will also be posted to the facility. Two federal prosecutors from the Justice Department and nearly 30 special agents and analysts from the participating agencies will be present. The Customs Money Laundering Coordination Center will be supporting this center. 

The Green Quest coordination center for will be responsible for collecting, managing, and disseminating leads to field agents. The center will serve as a deconfliction mechanism for all investigative activity related to the initiative. In addition, the center will serve as a means to exchange data with the FBI and other agencies targeting terrorist finances and to ensure that their activities are not duplicated by Operation Green Quest. Outside Washington, D.C., Operation Green Quest will have field task forces (Tampa and Bradenton Fl) pursuing terrorist finances. Each of these multi-agency units will be modeled after an existing financial task force in New York known as the "El Dorado Task Force." The first unit will be located at the Customs Special Agent-in-Charge Office in New York and will actually operate as a component of the El Dorado Task Force. By utilizing the existing El Dorado framework for the first field unit, Operation Green Quest will immediately be able to draw on an established financial intelligence center and a large cadre of highly trained special agents, analysts, and bank regulators. 

 

Following the establishment of the task force in New York, Operation Green Quest will consider establishing similar task forces in other parts of the country. Consistent with the 2001 National Money Laundering Strategy, the Customs Service and other participating agencies will monitor the effectiveness of Operation Green Quest based on qualitative, quantitative, and enforcement measurements. The Treasury Department agencies participating in Operation Green Quest are the Customs Service, the Internal Revenue Service, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, the Office of Foreign Assets Control, and the Secret Service. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and federal prosecutors from the Justice Department's Criminal Division are representing the Justice Department in Operation Green Quest. "Operation Green Quest (ICE) was shut down nationwide due to the conflicts with the FBI in the Sarasota 9/11 investigation which led directly to terrorism".

The U.S. agency (ICE) involved in tracking terrorist funds and terrorist funding was interested in both Esam Ghazzawi and his son-in-law Abdulaziz al-Hijji way before the 9/11/2001 terrorist attacks. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) enforces federal laws governing international money laundering and had Esam Ghazzawi and his son-in-law Abdulaziz al-Hijji under investigation. In the mid-1990s, Esam Ghazzawi's name arose when investigators of the renowned corrupt bank BCCI were trying to recover assets from Saudi Prince Fahd bin Salman, and the prince argued that his assets were being held in another account under Esam Ghazzawi's name.  

Green Quest investigators from the Department of Homeland Security (ICE) charge that the FBI deliberately sabotaged their investigations of Esam Ghazzawi and his son-in-law Abdulaziz al-Hijji in Sarasota Fl. Michael Chertoff was apparently an architect of this, as well. Esam Ghazzawi's influence also extends to his children. His 42-year-old son, Adel Ghazzawi, is a board member of the New York-based think tank 'EastWest Institute', which counts the likes of Michael Chertoff, a director of Homeland Security under President George W. Bush and co-author of the Patriot Act.

In October 2001, Michael Chertoff was appointed head of Operation Green Quest by Pres George Bush, a multi-agency initiative to target sources of funding for terrorist organizations, according to a U.S. Customs Service (later ICE) press release. Underground financial systems, illicit charities, and corrupt financial institutions are among the entities to be scrutinized as possible facilitators of terrorist funding. Chertoff told the Associated Press on Oct. 25, 2001 that, ‘The lifeblood of terrorism is money, and if we cut the money we cut the blood supply.’ Chertoff served in the capacity of Assistant Attorney General of the criminal division at the Department of Justice from 2001 to 2003

“They [The FBI] won’t share anything with us,’ said a Homeland Security official. ‘Then they go to the White House and they accuse us (ICE) of not sharing . . . If they can’t take it over, they want to kill it.’ The Treasury Department agencies participating in Operation Green Quest are the Customs Service (ICE), the Internal Revenue Service, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, the Office of Foreign Assets Control, and the Secret Service. If nothing else, the battle over Green Quest illustrates the bureaucratic tensions that still plague the war on terror. The creation of the Homeland Security Department was supposed to put an end to such turf fights. The new department took over a diverse assortment of federal agencies that had various responsibilities for combating terrorism, including the Customs Service (ICE), the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the U.S. Border Patrol.”

ISLAMIC CHARITIES FUNDING AL-QAEDA & OPERATIVES IN USA: “Procurement Agent” for bin Laden, Ziyad Khaleel (a.k.a. Ziyad Sadaqa). 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 with Imam Muneer Arafat (later in Sarasota Fl). Newsweek will later say that this puts the Sudan-based charity Islamic American Relief Agency (IARA) “on the FBI’s radar screen” because Ziyad Khaleel is one of IARA’s eight regional US directors. Furthermore, Ziyad Khaleel (his roommate is Imam Muneer Arafat) is working for the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), a Hamas-linked organization co-founded by Mousa Abu Marzook. 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. December 1999 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, his roommate was Imam Muneer Arafat who moved to Sarasota Fl in early 2000. Ziyad Khaleel and Muneer Arafat were fundraisers for Islamic African Relief Agency and the Holy Land Foundation both designated terrorist supporters of Hamas and Al-Qaeda. UPDATE August 11th, 2021, ABC Action News Tampa I-Team Investigator Adam Walser and Photojournalist Matt McGlashen appear to have some interest in my involvement in a 2002 Sarasota Fl investigation into a terrorist support network that included Imam Muneer Arafat, "We'll see".

UPDATE SEPT 9th, 2021: ABC ACTION NEWS 9/11 SUPPORT NETWORK IN SARASOTA: Click image above for ABC News video and print story. $4,000 phone bills fished from the trash/ Sarasota private investigator Bill Warner started his own 9/11 investigation in 2002. “They were here, in my neighborhood. So I had to look at it, kept looking at it,” Bill Warner said, he partnered with police, sheriff’s deputies and was eventually paid by ICE for providing surveillance photos and phone bills he collected from the garbage cans of people of interest. Bill Warner said some of the cell phone bills he collected were 35-to-40 pages long, with calls made to phone numbers located all over the world. At that time, cell phone and long-distance companies charged by the minute for calls. “The bills you could see they were $1,200, $1500, $2,000, sometimes even $4,000 a month,” Bill Warner said. ”These are guys living in duplexes, driving old cars, who don’t have a job, see more CLICK HERE.

ICE along with Sarasota Police Intel unit and Sarasota County Sheriff Dept Intel unit and myself were the nexus of a 2002 "trade based" money laundering investigation in Sarasota Fl that was eventually taken over by FBI agent Thomas Baugher when it linked to support of terrorism in June 2003. Same time frame as the so-called 2002 FBI Secret Sarasota Investigation of Abdulazziz al-Hijji’s clan in Prestancia Sarasota Fl and their links to 9/11 terrorist pilots. Ain't no coincidences in terrorism as A FBI agent told me on several occasions in 2002 and 2003. I was there and involved in undercover work obtaining nexus connections.

Jihad Preaching Imam Muneer Arafat Had Pilot's License From Parks college in St Louis Before Coming to the Sarasota Mosque in March 2000, and just prior to 9/11 Kamakazi Terror Pilots Mohamed Atta, Marwan Al-Shehhi and Ziad Jarrah arrival in July 2000 in Venice Fl and then Laurel Ave W Nokomis Fl until Jan 2001. Suiciders Mohamed Atta, Marwan Al-Shehhi and Ziad Jarrah all took pilot training courses in Venice and then Sarasota Fl. The flying Imam Muneer Arafat was a 4 year Grad of Parks College of St. Louis Univ with a BS in Aero Space ENG, Sept 1986 to April 1990. Parks College of St Louis Univ is a flight school.  Imam Muneer Arafat was a well know jihad preacher in the East St Louis area prior to coming to Sarasota in 2000 after purchasing a 2000 blue Isuzu Trooper SUV. 

In St. Louis, 1996 to 2000, Muneer Arafat became a well-known lecturer at different Masjids and built up quite a following. Muneer Arafat 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 Muneer Arafat from giving lectures at the Gateway Masjid. Jihad preaching Imam Muneer Arafat banned in St Louis but welcomed in Sarasota in March 2000? Why did the Saudi funded Ministry of Islamic Affairs send jihad preaching Imam Muneer Arafat to Sarasota Fl?

In early 1999 Muneer Arafat and Ziyad Khaleel lived in Manchester, Missouri, and both were linked to Columbia College in St. Louis. Upon moving to Columbia, Missouri, he was known as Ziyad Khaleel, but began using the surname Sadaqa as early as 1996. That year he was a fundraiser and one of eight regional directors of the Islamic African Relief Agency (IARA), which the government later determined was a front for al-Qaeda and Hamas.



IMAM MUNEER ARAFAT WENT TO FLIGHT SCHOOL IN ST LOUIS, HE GOT HIS PILOT'S LICENSE IN 1990: The flying Imam Muneer Arafat lists on his resume, Parks College of St. Louis Univ BS in Aero Space ENG Sept 1986 to April/1990. It appears that Muneer K. Arafat came into the US on a student visa around 1986. At Federal trial of Sami al-Arian in 1995 in Tampa Muneer K. Arafat said he meet terrorist Sami al-Arian at a conference of the Islamic Committee for Palestine in St. Louis in 1988. Muneer Arafat rejected Sami Al-Arian's invitation to join Palestinian Islamic Jihad as he was already a member of a another terrorist group, both men are Palestinians. Under cross-examination by Al-Arian’s attorney, William Moffitt, Arafat admitting lying in the past on resumes, job applications and a voter registration form. Arafat also testified that the government has paid him a total of $35,000 since 2003 to cooperate with them (wear a wire). Muneer Arafat the flying Imam: At Parks College of Engineering Aviation and Technology trains students to become skilled pilots as well as strong industry leaders. Flight School in aviation, planes, hours, certification. The Center for Aviation Science is housed at the St. Louis Downtown Airport, located at 4300 Vector Drive in Cahokia, Illinois. Students enrolled in SLU’s Parks College aviation program are able to fly within weeks of their freshman year, and continuously gather more and more certification throughout each year of the flight science degree program.


April 3rd 2002 FBI report indicates that at least two people linked to the al-Hijji house in Prestancia Sarasota Fl were taking flight lessons at Huffman Aviation with the 9/11 hijackers in the year 2000. Individuals tied to Huffman Flight School and 9/11 Hijackers by FBI linked to 4224 Escondito Circle Sarasota as family members appear to be Abdulaziz al-Hijji and Adel Ghazzawi son of Esam Ghazzawi. In the year 2000, Sarasota Saudi’s Abdulaziz 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 Hoffman Aviation at the same time, small world, eh? It appears the Adel Ghazzawi had been staying at 4224 Escondito Circle Sarasota, he also was linked to a address in nearby Longboat Key Fl. Interestingly the flying Imam Muneer Arafat at the Sarasota Mosque who has ties to al-Qaeda members before coming to Sarasota Fl in 2000 also had taken advanced flight lessons, small world, eh? Sarasota Fl was Terror Central from the summer of 2000 and into 2001.

Sarasota Imam Muneer Arafat and his roommate Ziyad Khaleel aka Ziyad Sadaqa were fundraisers for the terrorist organization Holy Land Foundation for Relief which funded Hamas, while in Columbia MO and just prior for Arafat showing up in Sarasota Fl. Holy Land Foundation boss Ghassan Elashi got 65 years in Federal Prison. Ghassan Elashi is currently located at: McCreary USP a high security Federal prison in Pine Knot KY with a scheduled release date of 06/24/2068, just 47 more years to go, LOL. If Muneer Arafat had not flipped for the FBI in December 2002 he would have been right there in prison with Elashi.

 

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