FBI Confidential Informants Dr. Abdussattar Shaikh in San Diego and Imam Muneer Arafat in Sarasota were Saudi spies linked to the 9/11 Hijackers.
Abdussattar Sheikh was an asset of the FBI’s San Diego Field Office from May 14, 1994, to July 2003, they paid him $100,000 at the end of his CI service. He was called "The FBI's Best Chance to Uncover September 11th Before it Happened" by the Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities before and after the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001. His handler was Steven Butler from the FBI's San Diego field office, and recruited him due to his personable nature and his broad influence in his Muslim community, which the FBI had "persons of interest" which they wanted to know more about. Butler had a code name for Sheikh, "Stan". By April 2000, two of the hijackers in the September 11 attacks, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar, rented a room in Shaikh's home in Lemon Grove, California. Shaikh’s handler, Agent Butler, had recruited the doctor – code name “Muppet” – as an “informational source” in May 1994. Yet Sheikh, would only tell ...