Chertoff, Michael

Of all people, WHY did Michael Chertoff pop up to take this case?

The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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MOST EXTENSIVE SUMMARY Serious Questions for Michael Chertoff (LOCAL copy)
article by former NJ Police Officer, Allan Duncan

EXCERPTS from Bergen court case

Last year, Elamir decided to take his managed-care company into two new arenas, Washington, D.C., and Michigan. The state complaint accuses American Preferred Provider of making improper loans to these sister companies, using $4.4 million from funds intended for the care of New Jersey Medicaid clients. (The State required his business to hold cash reserves in proportion to his business, so he mortgaged his own property at inflated rates, far above actual value. See subprime crisis.)

In addition, the state says American Preferred Provider improperly diverted $ 4.2 million to other companies that Elamir owns, and made $800,000 in questionable payments directly to Elamir and $360,000 to his brother for"medical consultations."
Though Elamir faces no criminal charges, he hired Michael Chertoff, the former U.S. attorney in New Jersey, as his attorney last month.

A Superior Court judge on Thursday ordered state Insurance Commissioner Jaynee LaVecchia to take control of American Preferred Provider Plan Inc., a health-maintenance organization for Medicaid patients allegedly bled dry by its Saddle River owner, neurologist Magdy Elamir.

The state alleges that American Preferred Provider illegally "loaned" more than $4 million to two start-up HMOs in Michigan and Washington, D.C., also owned by Elamir, and that APPP paid Elamir and various other businesses he owned more than $5 million out of Medicaid funds.

APPP was taken over by the Department of Banking and Insurance this month after the state revealed that the HMO, which primarily serves Medicaid recipients, was $25 million in the red. APPP has 44,000 members statewide, ...

Chertoff presented a thick document from Elamir's accountant, Mohammed Hanafy, offering explanations for the money transfers from APPP to other Elamir-controlled corporations.

For example, Management Services of America, which was paid $1,559,000 by APPP, provided administrative services for the HMO and paid half the salary of APPP's top executives and the full salary of consultants working for the HMO, according to the papers submitted by Hanafy.

Hanafy said APPP's payment of $50,000 to the Jersey City Neurological Center, where Dr. Elamir's private practice is based, was to reimburse the practice, which paid part of the cost of installing new elevators at APPP's headquarters at 810 Broad St. in Newark. Elamir owns the Broad Street building.

And Hanafy maintains that a $2,097,000 loan Elamir made to his start-up HMO in Washington, D.C., was to expand the New Jersey HMO's subscriber base. Keupper says the state is not satisfied with Hanafy's explanations, ...

An order to show cause filed Tuesday by the state Attorney General's Office demands that Elamir return $6,115,384.84 the state alleges he took from the American Preferred Provider Plan ... The state has accused Elamir, who owns the HMO, of siphoning off state Medicaid funds for personal use, driving the company $25 million into debt.

Although the state last year sued American Preferred Provider Plan Inc., accusing its founder of bleeding the health maintenance organization of more than $ 9 million, the civil case is stalled in state court. No officers of the failed HMO have been criminally prosecuted.

Only a fraction of the more than $45 million owed to hospitals and doctors has been recovered, and none of it paid to them. Meanwhile, lawmakers are moving closer to approval of a plan to use state funds and an assessment against the state's remaining HMOs to pay $100 million in bills left by APPP and HIP Health Plan of New Jersey, another failed HMO.

APPP's founder, Saddle River neurologist Magdy Elamir, continues to practice medicine in a Jersey City storefront office and lives in a $1.8 million mansion in one of Bergen County's toniest suburbs, court records show. His car leases alone total $65,000 per year, the records show.

Public records in the civil case contain no reference to a criminal investigation, but court officials said some documents in the case were under seal. The state Attorney General's Office would neither confirm nor deny an investigation. The state's Medicaid fraud division is not involved in the case, a Medicaid spokesman said.

The state Medicaid program was paying APPP $ 6.6 million monthly when it folded, money intended for the care of 44,000 of the state's poorest citizens. Elamir's property and bank accounts are worth more than $ 8.8 million, according to his financial statement, but mortgages and other liens reduce his net worth to $760,000. Creditors can expect to get about 20 cents on the dollar, ...

outcome: February 22, 2000 HEADLINE: FOUNDER OF FAILED HMO IN NO PAIN;
HOSPITALS,DOCTORS SUFFERING, THOUGH

A year after a Medicaid HMO accused of misusing state and federal funds was dissolved by the state, its founder is still enjoying a millionaire's income while the hospitals and doctors who allegedly were defrauded delay programs for the poor and fight for restitution. Only a fraction of the more than $45 million owed to hospitals and doctors has been recovered, and none of it paid to them. ... lawmakers are moving closer to approval of a plan to use state funds and an assessment against the state's remaining HMOs to pay $100 million in bills ... The Egyptian immigrant also operates a chain of MRI facilities in Newark, Irvington, and Paterson, a limousine company, and a medical management company.

"He's still in good spirits,"said Michael Chertoff, the former U.S. attorney in Newark whom Elamir hired as his defense lawyer.

Mohamed Atta (allegedly the lead hijacker) his full name is Mohamed el-Amir Awad el-Sayed Atta. That’s what was on his passport and if you look carefully on his U.S. visa issued in May of 2000. The name he went by before that – the name he used for example on email (to US defense contractors) – is Mohamed el-Amir. Atta didn’t go by “Mohamed Atta” until the late spring of 2000, after Able Danger supposedly ID’d him. Is Dr. Magdy his uncle?
Mohammed Atta Senior was said to have visited New Jersey.

Video showing Mohammed Atta Elamir on visa from page
Atta's full name is Mohamed Mohamed el-Amir Awad el-Sayed Atta. That's what was on his passport and if you look carefully on his U.S. visa issued in May of 2000. The name he went by before that--the name he used for example on email--is Mohamed el-Amir. Atta didn't go by "Mohamed Atta" until the late spring of 2000, after Able Danger supposedly ID'd him.
scanned copies of Elamir/Atta docs atta2.gif atta3.gif atta4.gif atta5.gif atta6.gif borrowed from ericumansky.com

Chertoff had been a prosecutor in Whitewater working with Ken Starr, a "Rolls-Royce" attorney, not "legal aid", then later a Federal Judge, then Asst Atty General supervising the Sept 11. investigation, NOW Director of Homeland Security.

DETAILS from MSNBC Dateline, related to Elamir, others

RANDY GLASS AND OPERATION DIAMONDBACK
Mr. MOHSEN: (From tape) You know these (word censored by station) people, they are terrorists. And what else do the terrorists want? 'Special technology,' he says, 'for the deadliest of weapons.' Can Randy Glass be for real? And is he telling the truth?' This man says he is. He's Dick Stoltz, a decorated agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. He was asked to play the role of one of Randy Glass' arms suppliers. And he confirmed that Randy Glass is for real.
Mr. GLASS: Abbas was represented to me as being an ISI agent.

ISI, that's the official intelligence agency, like the CIA, of Pakistan. And this is where the stakes really get high, because if Abbas was telling the truth, Randy Glass and the Feds were about to cut an illegal weapons deal with a Pakistani intelligence operative linked to terrorists. Even though the official Pakistani government and its president, Pervez Musharraf, are US allies, there are splinter groups in the Pakistani Intelligence Agency that are sympathetic to bin Laden and his cause.

Some other ISI agents came to Florida on several occasions to negotiate, but they escaped being arrested. They wanted to pay partially in heroin. One mentioned that the WTC would be destroyed. These ISI agents said some of their purchases would go to the Taliban in Afghanistan and/or militants associated with bin Laden. [Washington Post, 8/2/2002;
Also arrested are Kevin Ingram and Walter Kapij. Ingram pleads guilty to laundering $350,000 and he is sentenced to 18 months in prison. [Associated Press, 12/1/2001] Ingram was a former senior investment banker with Deutsche Bank, but resigned in January 1999 after his division suffered costly losses.

Rajaa Gulum Abbas holding a stinger missile, secretly recorded in a sting operation in August 1999. [Dateline NBC]

Stoltz had to realize that the people being talked about as customers for these weapons were the most wanted terrorists in the world.
“That’s correct,” says Stoltz.
Bin Laden? “Correct,” says Stoltz.
Did Stoltz think they were serious? “Oh absolutely,” he says.

Mr. GLASS: Abbas told me that Americans were the enemy. And he looked around the restaurant and he said, 'We would have no problem with blowing up this entire restaurant.'
HANSEN: (Voiceover) In June of last year, the Feds moved in and arrested Randy Glass's original contact, Diaa Mohsen, and Mohamed "Mike" Malik. That was three months before 9/11. After 9/11, both men pled guilty to violating arms laws. But remarkably, even though they were apparently willing to supply America's enemies with sophisticated weapons, even nuclear weapons technology, Mohsen was sentenced to just 30 months in prison. And Malik? Mysteriously, his sentence remains under seal. And he appears to be a free man, as we saw recently when we visited him at his New Jersey convenience store.

Randy Glass, center, shows Stinger missiles to Rajaa Gulum Abbas and others. [Dateline NBC]

HANSEN: (Voiceover) And Stoltz says he's surprised that all the evidence and intelligence the case generated wasn't pursued more aggressively at the highest levels of law enforcement in Washington.

HANSEN: (Voiceover) We've heard people on tape trying to supply terror groups with sophisticated weapons caught in a government sting operation last year. But only one of them is in jail. Since then, the government has definitely stepped up its investigations of people who may be willing to do business with terrorists. But have some of them ducked the government's radar? Who else might be out there?
Last fall, DATELINE obtained information about this man, Magdy el Amir. He's a prominent doctor, a neurologist with a practice in Jersey City. Born and educated in Egypt, he moved to this country about 20 years ago and since then has built a fortune. He lives in this mansion, is generous to local charities and is an active supporter of both political parties. Should counterterrorism investigators take an interest in Dr. el Amir? Well, take a look at this document obtained by DATELINE last fall. A foreign intelligence report that makes a startling allegation about the doctor, that he has had financial ties with Osama bin Laden for years. The report was given to a senior member of Congress, Ben Gilman, back in 1998 when he was chairman of the House International Relations Committee.

HANSEN: (Voiceover) The report alleges that an HMO owned by Dr. el Amir in New Jersey was "funded by Ben Laden," and that in turn Dr. el Amir was skimming money from the HMO to fund "terrorist activities."
HANSEN: And as we both know sometimes, raw intelligence isn't always accurate.
Rep. GILMAN: Yes.
Rep. GILMAN: Of course. That's always possible. But in like manner, it's important that you pursue it. And make certain that, is there any veracity to it? Is there any substance to it? Is it a credible report or isn't it?
HANSEN: Has the FBI answered those questions? Not to Congressman Gilman's satisfaction. But what DATELINE found intriguing is that less than a year after the congressman says the FBI received the report, Dr. el Amir's HMO was taken over by the state of New Jersey, which opened a fraud investigation. Why? Because, according to sources close to the investigation, more than $15 million is unaccounted for. Where did the money go? DATELINE has reviewed documents that show at least some of it went into hard-to-trace offshore bank accounts.
(Voiceover) Does that mean any of the missing money went, as the intelligence report suggests, to fund terrorist activities? We don't know.

Randy Glass, holding Stinger missile. Aug 17, 1999: Arms Merchants Seek Nuclear Materials in US; Report Is Sanitized

Dr. EL AMIR: (From video) That's preposterous. Never.
HANSEN: (Voiceover) DATELINE has found another reason why federal investigators might want to pay close attention to Dr. el Amir and his family. It's something we learned when we interviewed Randy Glass, the con man-turned-undercover operative who helped the government break up an illegal weapons ring allegedly tied to terrorist groups. It turns out that one of the people recorded trying to arrange an arms deal with Randy Glass was Dr. el Amir's own brother, Mohamed, an engineer, also a US citizen now living in Egypt.
Mr. GLASS: (From tape) So they just want to do, basically, small arms and ammunition, right?
Mr. EL AMIR (brother): (From tape) Yes.
HANSEN: (Voiceover) Glass says federal agents told him to drop the matter.
HANSEN: So what happened to the case?
Mr. GLASS: Nothing.
HANSEN: There was no follow-up.
Mr. GLASS: No.
HANSEN: (Voiceover) And Randy Glass doesn't know the half of it, because that same intelligence report that talks about Dr. el Amir also names his brother Mohamed as having ties to Osama bin Laden.
A group of illegal arms merchants, including an ISI agent with foreknowledge of 9/11, had met in a New York restaurant

Michael Chertoff: Defender of Terror

WHY did Michael Chertoff at the DOJ help FBI sabotage Green Quest?
Chertoff was running Operation Green Quest --- dedicated to tracking down terrorist financing --- while simultaneously (a month or so overlap) defending a client on charges of financing terrorists. Coincidence? We won't know.

Sander Hicks (audio parts 1 and 2) found that no newspaper would touch the Chertoff story on home page, even an alt-weekly like Village Voice.

Well, maybe not NO newspaper... a student paper in Texas picked up the original Dateline story and tied Chertoff to it...

Foreign intelligence reports given to then chairman of the House International Relations Committee Ben Gilman, R-New York, in 1998 accused Magdy Elamir of having “had financial ties with Osama bin Laden for years,” according to an Aug. 2, 2002 Dateline NBC broadcast.
Federal Appeals Court Judge Michael Chertoff’s ties to the financiers of the Sept. 11 attacks may prevent his confirmation as Homeland Security Chief.
According to a June 20, 2000 article in the The Record of Bergen County, New Jersey, Chertoff defended accused terrorist financier Dr. Magdy Elamir.

Here is a letter to FBI/Customs re: Greenquest and a company called Ptech which handles our highest level security installations incl. DOE (nuclear), NATO, etc. owned by a Saudi named Qassin al-Kadi, who possibly tied to Al-Qaeda financing (as our leaders are). No answers.

1993 WTC bombing
Chertoff and Patrick Fitzgerald were both at the center of the 1993 WTC bombing which was entirely orchestrated by the FBI, directing their Egyptian intelligence operative, Emad Ali Salem. -- Patrick Briley

Salem was forever "brashly talking about violent actions and trying to incite people to do ‘crazy things.’ "These "things" were proposed after prior discussion with high-level intelligence authorities in the United States. LA Times article cited the role of a "decorated former Egyptian military officer" for the emergence of "a clandestine cell of terrorists who conspired to set off the World Trade Center bomb blast, plotted an unparalleled wave of attacks on U.S. landmarks and political figures and shattered America’s image of invulnerability to terrorism.

Granted, I think some of the membership at Free Republic has changed, because despite what they said below, clearly implicating the US govt in domestic terrorism, after Sept 11 and the exact same scenario for which they blamed Clinton (or the FBI), now they think Bush is God.
Now if you say the USG carried out Sept 11, they'd throw the "tin-foil hat" slur at you, but during the Clinton era, THEY posted this stuff.

from Hannity's forum: Before the bombing, he offered to do a switcheroo on the bombers, substituting a harmless powder for the deadly explosives and thereby preventing any potential catastrophe. The FBI spurned his offer. The New York Times October 28, 1993, article with this revelation was headlined, “Tapes Depict Proposal to Thwart Bomb Used in Trade Center Blast.” Salem complained to one FBI agent that an FBI supervisor “requested to make me to testify [in public] and if he didn’t push for that, we’ll be going building the bomb with a phony powder and grabbing the people who was involved in it. But … we didn’t do that.”

From reading the article at length, it seems clear that an unnamed FBI supervisor of John Anticev and Nancy Floyd is the person who thwarted efforts to use a phony powder instead of live explosives, and allowed the bombing to go forward.

ORIGINAL NEWS ARTICLES on FREE REPUBLIC:
In one of the first numbered tapes, Mr. Salem is quoted as telling agent Floyd: "Since the bomb went off I feel terrible. I feel bad. I feel here is people who don't listen."
Mr. Salem recounts a conversation he said he had with Mr. Anticev, saying, "I said, 'Guys, now you saw this bomb went off and you both know that we could avoid that.' " At another point, Mr. Salem says, "You get paid, guys, to prevent problems like this from happening."
"Do you deny," Mr. Salem says he told the other agent, "your supervisor is the main reason of bombing the World Trade Center?" Mr. Salem said Mr. Anticev did not deny it. "We was handling the case perfectly well until the supervisor came and messed it up, upside down."
The transcripts reflect an effort to keep Mr. Salem as an intelligence asset who would not have to go public or testify.
"You were informed. Everything is ready. The day and the time. Boom. Lock them up and that's that. That's why I feel so bad."
By creating the so-called bootleg tapes, Mr. Salem has given ammunition to defense lawyers who argue that he entrapped the 15 defendants charged with conspiring to bomb New York City landmarks.

freepers say: more terrorism = more power for the FBI. It's a simple equation.
more terrorism = more power for the FBI = diminishing Bill of Rights and Rule of Law

from conservative FREE REPUBLIC on the WTC 1993 attack.
Since Bill Clinton left office, Free Republic has turned from libertarian critical thinkers to Republican glue sniffers.
1. Tapes Depict Proposal to Thwart Bomb Used in Trade Center Blast (local copy)
2. The FBI And The Mad Bombers (local copy)
3. FBI HISTORY - THE WORLD TRADE TOWERS -- FBI allowed the bombing to happen. (local copy)
4. CONSPIRACY THEORY/FACT (local copy)
5. Who Is Ramzi Yousef? And Why It Matters (local copy)
(Laurie Mylroie is critiqued by Schoenman as working for a PR firm Benador, specializing in war propaganda, called the "Neocons favorite conspiracy theorist", but see response articles farther down that page.)
4. HEY, FOX NEWS!!!! (local mht copy)

Evidence Points to Role of FBI Operative at 1993 WTC bombing
Profile: Ramzi Yousef limited, from cooperativeresearch
(2nd article on 1993 from WhatReallyHappened.com)
(3rd detailed articles on 1993 in Chertoff story) above
Mossad+CIA Link to First WTC Bombing link to my False-Flag page

The FBI benefited greatly from the World Trade Center bombing. In particular, the bombing resulted in the proposal of the 1995 Counterterrorism Bill greatly expanding federal authorities' budgets and powers.

Attorney Lynne Stewart has been convicted by Patrick Fitzgerald under the PATRIOT ACT, and is facing 30+ years in prison, for providing rigorous defense for her client in this matter of the FBI-sponsored 1993 WTC attack.
Lynne is a political prisoner, of the type we associate with (US-backed) Third World dictatorships.

discussion by Ralph Schoenman on WTC 1993 (video) and Lynne Stewart's case

MORE on 1993 Bombing and Oklahoma City

DETAILS IN 15 MIN VIDEO of Schoenman (Windows media)
website is www.takingaimradio.com NOT takingaim@info (in the final credits)
thanks to Snowshoe Documentary Films for Social and Economic Justice

additional page
COUNTER-TERRORISM - WORKING W/ TERRORISTS

SANDER HICKS:
Am I the only one who thinks that it’s creepy that the FBI guy who admitted the FBI knew all about planes being flown into buildings well before 9/11, Michael Anticev, has the same last name as the FBI agent John Anticev, who handled Emad Salem, the informant who said that the FBI “built the bomb” for the 1993 WTC bombing? Michael and John Anticev….are they brothers? Or what? What’s the link?

Paul DeRienzo published the audio recording on his website, pdr.autono.net.
As Salem is pressing for money while emphasizing his value as a Bureau asset, the conversation moves in and out of references to the bombing and the FBI’s knowledge of the bomb making.”

Here’s a key excerpt:
ANTICEV, FBI: You got paid regularly for good information. I mean the expenses were a little bit out of the ordinary and it was really questioned. Don’t tell Nancy I told you this.
SALEM: Well, I have to tell her, of course.
FBI: Well then, if you have to, you have to.
SALEM: Yeah, I mean because the lady was being honest, and I was being honest, and everything was submitted with receipts, and now it’s questionable.
FBI: It’s not questionable, it’s like a little out of the ordinary.
SALEM: OK. I don’t think it was. If that what you think guys, fine, but I don’t think that because we was start already building the bomb which is went off in the World Trade Center. It was built by supervising supervision from the Bureau and the DA, and we was all informed about it and we know what the bomb start to be built. By who? By your confidential informant. What a wonderful great case! And then he put his head in the sand I said, “Oh, no, no, that’s not true, he is son of a bitch.” (Deep breath) OK. It’s built with a different way in another place and that’s it.
FBI: No, don’t make any rash decisions. I’m just trying to be as honest with you as I can.
SALEM: Of course, I appreciate that.

If you stick with it and listen to the entire audio file on DeRienzo’s site, there’s a dramatic moment at the end, when John Anticev seems to show his hand. Anticev was OK with what happened, he reassured Salem (and himself?) that:

“We’re doing this for a higher reason. We know what we’re doing and we know what it’s gonna mean in the future. Forget about bureaucrats! Forget about them. They come and go, OK? We know what we’re doing, and at the end we’re gonna at least be able to look at each other and say we tried the best we could, ya know? Not for the government. The ‘government’ is this very, you know, what do you call, unidentifiable thing, you know? It’s a, sometimes it’s one person affecting you, sometimes it’s bureaucratic things, but we’ll still know what we did. That’s all we’re gonna say.”

Who Bombed The World Trade Center? FBI Bomb Builders Exposed <--Salem audio there or saved here)

Two cassette tape recordings, obtained by SHADOW reporter Paul DeRienzo of telephone conversations between FBI informant Emad Salem and his Bureau contacts reveal secret U.S. Government complicity in the February 26, 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City in which six people were killed and more than a thousand were injured.

After careful deliberation, the SHADOW believes the question regarding the bombing boils down to the following:
Did the FBI do the bombing, utilizing informant Salem as an "agent provocateur" or did it fail to prevent an independent Salem and his associates from doing it? The taped conversations obtained by the SHADOW seem to indicate the former:

SALEM: OK. I don’t think it was. If that what you think guys, fine, but I don’t think that because we was start already building the bomb which is went off in the World Trade Center. It was built by supervising supervision from the Bureau and the DA, and we was all informed about it and we know what the bomb start to be built. By who? By your confidential informant. What a wonderful great case! And then he put his head in the sand I said, “Oh, no, no, that’s not true, he is son of a bitch.” (Deep breath) OK. It’s built with a different way in another place and that’s it.

(If you stick with it and listen to the entire audio file on DeRienzo’s site, there’s a dramatic moment at the end, when John Anticev seems to show his hand. Wondering why Anticev didn’t contradict Salem when Salem accused the FBI of “building the bomb” with the “supervision of the Bureau”?)

Anticev was OK with what happened, he reassured Salem (and himself?) that:
“We’re doing this for a higher reason. We know what we’re doing and we know what it’s gonna mean in the future. Forget about bureaucrats! Forget about them. They come and go, OK? We know what we’re doing, and at the end we’re gonna at least be able to look at each other and say we tried the best we could, ya know? Not for the government. The ‘government’ is this very, you know, what do you call, unidentifiable thing, you know? It’s a, sometimes it’s one person affecting you, sometimes it’s bureaucratic things, but we’ll still know what we did. That’s all we’re gonna say.”

According to attorney Ron Kuby, after Salem was taken into the Witness Protection program on June 24, 1993, he told the feds about the more than 1,000 conversations he had recorded sometime between December, 1991 and June, 1993. Kuby says that while some of these tapes are not significant, others contain substantive dealings with Salem and his FBI handlers. Salem was actually bugging the FBI.

The World Trade Center bombing, along with subsequent alleged plots to bomb prominent targets in New York City, spawned a number of federal indictments and trials resulting in the conviction of more than a dozen men, all of Arabic descent. Salem's exposure as a government informant who had a year earlier infiltrated the group of men later charged in the bombing conspiracy caused many to wonder why he and the FBI failed to provide any warning of the pending World Trade Center bombing.

The answer now appears self-evident. According to William Kuntsler, attorney for Ibrahim El-Gabrowny, one of those accused in the larger bombing case, the entire conspiracy was the product of Salem, the government informant. Kuntsler's law partner Ronald Kuby told the SHADOW that within hours of the World Trade Center blast, Salem checked into a midtown hospital, complaining of a loud ringing in his ears.

There is a growing belief that some of the four men charged and since convicted and jailed for the World Trade Center bombing, Mohammed Aboulihma, Mohammed Salameh, Nidal Ayyad and Ahmad Ajaj may be innocent [victims] of a government frame-up.

Attorneys for those convicted have maintained that the government's case is circumstantial at best, with no evidence or motive linking the accused with the bombing. The FBI and federal prosecutors have not as yet responded to questions over the lack of warning of the attack on the Twin Towers, despite the strategic placement of their informant.

Two possible scenarios emerge.
One: Salem is a rogue FBI informant who created the conspiracy to bomb the World Trade Center for the money his information about the plot (minus his role) would bring. An attorney for one of the convicted men told the SHADOW that Salem was an FBI informant from November of 1991 to the summer of 1992. The attorney says that the FBI became aware of the World Trade Center bombing plot through informant Salem during this period, but they refused to believe his information or pay Salem's exhorbitant fees. In fact, the feds claimed that they dropped Salem as an informant during the summer of 1992 after he refused or failed a lie detector test. This left Salem with a bombing plot but no one to sell it to.

According to the attorney, Salem let the plot that he hatched go forward and the World Trade Center was bombed so that he could get money and publicity. The attorney says that within 48 hours of the bombing, the FBI requested Salem to help them solve the case. Salem quickly pointed the fingers at the defendants, all followers of Sheik Rahman.

So, who did it? From the above point of view, Salem constructed the bomb plot with those whom he subsequently set up. The U.S. government and its FBI were innocent bystanders who failed to prevent the carnage due to their unwillingness to take Salem's claims seriously, despite his close collaboration with Bureau agents for the better part of a year.

The other scenario looks like this:
Informant Salem organized the bomb plot with the "supervision" of the FBI and the District Attorney as part of a classic entrapment setup. He befriended certain individuals, possibly some of the defendants, convinced them that his intentions to bomb the World Trade Center were sincere, and convinced them to get involved. The bomb goes off. Greedy Salem, with his ears still ringing, sells out his accomplices while attempting to sell more information to the Bureau. In order to protect him and their relationship, the FBI sequesters Salem and utilizes him against the real target of the FBI, Sheik Rahman.

In one of the taped conversations between Salem and "Special Agent" John Anticev, Salem refers to him and the Bureau's involvement in making the bomb that blew up the World Trade Center. As Salem is pressing for money while emphasizing his value as a Bureau asset, the conversation moves in and out of references to the bombing and the FBI's knowledge of the bomb making:

FBI: But ah basically nothing has changed. I'm just telling you for my own sake that nothing, that this isn't a salary but you got paid regularly for good information. I mean the expenses were a little bit out of the ordinary and it was really questioned. Don't tell Nancy I told you this. (Nancy Floyd is another FBI agent who worked with Salem in his informant capacity. The second tape obtained by the SHADOW is of a telephone conversation between Salem and Floyd -Ed.)

SALEM: Well, I have to tell her of course.

FBI: Well then, if you have to, you have to.

SALEM: Yeah, I mean because the lady was being honest and I was being honest and everything was submitted with receipts and now it's questionable.

FBI: It's not questionable, it's like a little out of the' ordinary.

SALEM: Okay. I don't think it was. If that what you think guys, fine, but I don't think that because we was start already building the bomb which is went off in the World Trade Center. It was built by supervising supervision from the Bureau and the DA and we was all informed about it and we know what the bomb start to be built. By who? By your confidential informant. What a wonderful great case! And then he put his head in the sand I said "Oh, no, no, that's not true, he is son of a bitch." (Deep breath) Okay. It's built with a different way in another place and that's it.

FBI: No, don't make any rash decisions. I'm just trying to be as honest with you as I can.

SALEM: Of course, I appreciate that.

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Making things even worse for the FBI's image are the revelations of former crime lab analyst Frederic Whitehurst. In an AP story carried nationwide and on an ABC "Primetime Live" segment, Whitehurst made the following startling revelations:

1) He was pressured to distort findings about the World Trade Center bombing to favor prosecutors.
2) In a Georgia bombing case investigated by current FBI Director Freeh, two agents slanted evidence by testifying about tests that weren't done and scientific conclusions they could not support. One of the agents, Roger Martz, testified in the Simpson case.
3) During one investigation, he was physically threatened by FBI bomb squad members to make false claims about evidence.
4) On one occasion, an FBI crime lab expert illegally adjusted a forensic testing device in order to alter the results the machine produced.

In a turn that will be familiar to all JFK researchers, when Whitehurst complained about these practices, nothing was done about his memos. Indeed the FBI's only reaction has been to declare Dr. Whitehurst's charges false and then demote him. At the end of the ABC segment, when reporter Brian Ross asked Whitehurst outside his home why he had gone public with the charges, Whitehurst, choking back tears, said that the proudest day of his life was when he became an FBI agent. On that day, he took an oath to uphold the Constitution. That oath did not include a clause to remain silent when other FBI agents broke the law. This genuinely moving moment will remind many readers of the transformation described by Kennedy researcher Bill Turner in his pioneering book Hoover's FBI.

In the face of all this, FBI Director Louis Freeh - while acknowledging the accusations as very serious - rejected suggestions for an outside panel review of the FBI. Even though opinion polls show that, in the face of these violent controversies, favorable opinions of the FBI have declined and negative perceptions have risen. To our knowledge, Freeh has taken no public position on the ARRB dispute with the FBI files. In a Los Angeles Times interview, the Director stated that 1) he regarded any matter that affected the FBI's credibility as serious, 2) that it was essential to acknowledge past mistakes, and 3) that firm action should be taken to correct wrongdoing. If Louis Freeh is serious, a good place to begin on all three is for him to take a public stand for openness on the Kennedy files.

From a December 1993 post by Terry Atwood:

"Tucked away on page A5 of the Washington Times for Wednesday, December 15 is a tiny article about tape transcripts of a conversation between the FBI informant, Emad Salem, and his controller, FBI agent John Anticev. As you may already know, Salem is a former Egyptian army officer hired by the FBI to infiltrate (or organize?) a terrorist group here in the U.S. In April, two months after the bombing, when the taped conversation took place, Anticev asked Selem to justify his expenses. Salem defended his expense report by saying that his usual expenditures were pushed up by the costs of building the trade center bomb. He acknowleged procuring the materials (at government expense) and personally building the bomb."

March 8, 1995, San Francisco Chronicle article, "New York Terror Trial Witness Tells What a Liar He Was," and post by Terry Atwood.

(Miami) Terror crew urged to hit FBI's bldgs.
Thursday, July 6th, 2006
An FBI informant urged seven terror suspects to target FBI offices throughout the country
"The FBI knew exactly what was going on and was in complete control."

The FBI benefited greatly from the World Trade Center bombing. In particular, the bombing resulted in the proposal of the 1995 Counterterrorism Bill greatly expanding federal authorities' budgets and powers.

CHERTOFF CREATED TERROR PRETEXTS FOR US POLICE STATE -- LOTSA JUICY DETAILS, GREAT ARTICLE!
WTO Cop Big Gun

(check out Patrick Briley's deep military-intell bio at the bottom of his article)

According to tapes played at the trial, the FBI and US Attorneys clearly were shown to have intentionally used Salem as a provocateur. Testimony by two of Salem’s FBI agent handlers, Mr. Anticev, and Mrs. Nancy Floyd, confirmed that their FBI supervisors intentionally refused the agents and Salem’s pleas to render the WTC bomb harmless.

... evidence implicates Chertoff in intentionally helping create and provoke these terrorist acts and terror funding in order to provide a pretext for much of the controversial police state provisions in laws which Chertoff has helped write into the USA PATRIOT Act.

The same cast of characters known by Chertoff and the FBI, including FBI informants, Special Forces, and CIA recruits, were also involved in the Oklahoma City Bombing and the 1998 Tanzanian and Kenyan embassy bombings. I think the USS Cole too. More on 1993 by Schoenman, on home pages.

US PROVOCATEUR FOR AL-QAEDA FREED FOR NEW TERROR MISSION?
so he WAS sentenced!!
Thanks to the GW Bush DOJ, AG Gonzales and John Richter, Ali Mohammed and Melvin Lattimore were not fully prosecuted, did not serve the full time required for their crimes and now are free once again...
Patrick Briley
October 7, 2005
The GW Bush DOJ arranged for the early release of convicted FBI and CIA provocateur Ali Mohammed in July 2005. When released Ali had not served a full sentence commensurate with his convictions for the 1993 WTC and Kenyan and Tanzanian bombing attacks during the Clinton Presidency. AG Gonzales and John C. Richter were instrumental in the release of Ali Mohammed. John C. Richter was a former assistant attorney general for the GW Bush DOJ criminal division who had served in the DOJ criminal division with current Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff.

John Richter was also instrumental in protecting Melvin Lattimore, another FBI provocateur involved with Ali Mohammed in the 1993 WTC and 1995 OKC bombings. Richter was brought to OKC in October 2001 by the DOJ to prosecute Lattimore for a firearms violation. But at the time of Lattimore’s conviction the FBI and DOJ as well as Richter and AG Ashcroft knew that Lattimore had been used as an FBI provocateur together with Ali Mohammed in the 1993 WTC and the 1995 OKC bombing. They also knew that Lattimore was the roommate of 9/11 hijackers Moussaoui, AlShehhi and AlHazmi and had been with Mohammed Atta in Norman OK just before the 9/11 attacks. Richter’s 2001 prosecution of Lattimore was done to get Lattimore out of the limelight to avoid press and public scrutiny of FBI, CIA and DOJ corruption, murder and treason involving these attacks with Ali Mohammed and Melvin Lattimore.

Ali Mohammed worked for the FBI, CIA and Army Special Forces and with Bin Laden and 9/11 mastermind Khalid Mohammed, all at the same time! After Ali’s conviction during Clinton’s Presidency, DOJ AG Janet Reno made a special deal with Ali Mohammed and only held him under house arrest and never with the prospect of Ali having to serve out his full sentence. Ali Mohammed has always enjoyed a protected status with the DOJ, first with Reno and now with Ashcroft, Gonzales, Chertoff, and Richter. Because of this DOJ protection and his roles with so many different government agencies it is highly likely that Ali Mohammed was and still is a tool of the National Security Council (NSC) under Clinton and perhaps even under GW Bush and HW Bush.
The 9/11 Commission staff director Philip Zelikov and current NSC director, Steven Hadley, both former NSC deputies for Condi Rice, intentionally lied about and hid the facts of what the Clinton and GW Bush NSC and Pentagon knew about the roles of Atta, Lattimore and Ali Mohammed.
MORE: www.newswithviews.com/Briley/Patrick18.htm

Chertoff and Fitzgerald (

audio discussion on 051129) were most likely part of the NY Prosecutors team which created the name "Al-Qaida" meaning "the base" (needed for a RICO charge), named after a DataBase of jihadists on the CIA's .. oops, I mean Osama's .. computer.

shocking discussion by

Ralph Schoenman on WTC 93 (video) and Lynne Stewart's case

related website www.lynnestewart.org

How can Lynne be in trouble for defending her "terrorist" client -- who never carried out any terrorism himself -- upon testimony of FBI -- when FBI DID in fact promote/fund terrorism and KILL people?!

Lynne is "guilty" of calling Reuters News, on behalf of her client. Reuters published a controversial statement from her client which could have potentially maybe caused something bad to happen in Egypt ... but didn't.
Press statements are a routine duty of lawyers in high-profile cases ... except in Lynne's case.
Lynne Stewart was caught in a trap set by John Asscroft, to persecute lawyers who rigorously defend people the government wants to destroy, or who threaten to expose the government. For example, Ashcroft arbitrarily "eliminated" client-attorney privilege, embodied in the Bill of Rights, Amendment Five and Six.

Clinton almost got to pass his "anti-terrorism" and "eliminate habeus corpus" bill back in '93.

If only more people had died ...

The 1996 Anti-Terrorism Act
S. 390 was introduced February 10, 1995 by Sen. Joe Biden, D-Delaware, and Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pennsylvania. H.R. 896 was introduced the same day in the House by Rep. Charles Schumer, D-New York, and Rep. Dicks.
The bill passed the Senate in June 1995, but was held up in the House by intense lobbying by what was called "an unusual coalition" of gun rights groups and civil liberties organizations. Such coalitions are unusual in the traditional right-left frame of mind, but not in the libertarian movement.

The bill finally passed the House in March 1996, and was signed into law in April 1996.

The Center for National Security Studies issued an excellent analysis of the bill, along with information on the FBI and trends.

The National Coalition Against Repressive Legislation summarized the bill in 1995 and the law as finally passed in 1996. NCARL and others raised important criticisms:

Presumed guilty, secret evidence can be used

Permanent resident aliens arrested under this law have to prove they should not be held in jail before trial. Secret evidence can used in the detention hearings and at trial that only the judge could see, not the defendant.

First Amendment protections weakened.

The law lifts a 1994 Crime law restriction prohibiting the FBI from investigations based on speech or beliefs, when restricting humanitarian aid. Foreigners can be barred from speaking in the U.S. using McCarthy era McCarran-Walter Act provisions. An overbroad definition of terrorism virtually requires the Justice Department to select crimes to prosecute based on political beliefs and associations.

Presidential powers expanded.

The President can label organizations -- without any appeal or review -- as "terrorist", and criminalize fundraising for humanitarian aid even remotely related to such groups.

Punishment for lawful actions.

Permanent resident aliens can be deported or indefinitely jailed for their affiliations or political activity, with no judicial review.

Constitutional protections eroded.

The law further restricts the Bill of Rights' habeas corpus protections for state prisoners. Although this is a terrorism law, and death-row inmates were used to justify this provision, this affects all state prisoners, and no one convicted of federal terrorism laws. Prisoners are required to prove the state acted "unreasonably," a tough legal standard that isn't met simply by having credible evidence of innocence or wrongful imprisonment. Prisoners will be limited to one federal appeal within a short time of exhausting state appeals. Federal courts are required to render decisions within six months, and can't overrule state courts' interpretations of constitutional law.

More spending (meaning higher taxes and debt), and more police abuses.

The law authorizes $1 billion in new federal spending over five years. The amount includes an additional $100 million for one of the most terroristic organizations in the United States, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

Further restrictions on financial privacy.

The law requires banks to identify any domestic "agents" (undefined) of groups labeled as terrorist, and freeze their funds with no right of appeal.

The original bill contained a provision, supported by the Clinton administration, lifting the historical "Posse Comitatus" restriction on the U.S. military working with domestic police. The provision did not make it into the final version. (That would come years later.)

The law creates an oversight commission for federal police agencies. Even though the commission has no subpoena power and can only make recommendations, then-FBI Director Louis Freeh lobbied against the bill based on this one provision.

The Critics

On April 24, 1995, the American Civil Liberties Union issued a press release quoting their Executive Director Ira Glasser,

In past times of tragedy and fear, the government has harassed, investigated and arrested innocent people solely because of their race, religion, national origin, speech or political beliefs. In the 1920 Palmer raids, thousands were improperly arrested and jailed in 33 cities as a response to a frightening wave of bombings. People were summarily deported based on their national origin and their political association. During World War II, the federal government committed what is now universally seen as an act of racism and war hysteria when it incarcerated Japanese-American citizens. In the 1950s, legitimate fears of Soviet threats were used to convert dissent into disloyalty. People were spied upon and punished on the basis of political beliefs and associations instead of criminal evidence. In the turbulent 1960s, the government again engaged in widespread infiltration and surveillance of organizations opposed to the Vietnam war and those trying to win equality for African-Americans. Again, normal standards of criminal evidence were abandoned; instead, race and political beliefs became a cause for suspicion.

We must now try to avoid that same mistake. The government should certainly investigate vigorously based on criminal evidence. But no one should be targeted because they believe in the Second Amendment, or belong to far right organizations. No matter how much we may disagree with some of those organizations, we must not target people associated with them in the absence of credible evidence of criminal conduct.

Vince Miller, Director of the International Society for Individual Liberty, said the following in an April 26, 1995, message to LiberNet:

The "Counter-Terrorism Bill" however, concentrates enormous police powers in a domestic equivalent of the National Security Council, and gives the President tremendous arbitrary power to declare who is a domestic or overseas "terrorist" -- a decision which this legislation says shall not be subject to appeal! The bill authorizes secret trials for citizens and immigrants who are merely accused of lending support (including humanitarian aid) to domestic or international "terrorist" organizations, and these accusations may be made by anonymous informants.

The bill says that individuals arrested under this act may be declared ineligible for bail, may be detained indefinitely until trial, and will be considered guilty until proven innocent -- the direct opposite of American principles of justice that have protected the freedom of innocent people for over two hundred years.

If the individual cannot somehow prove his or her innocence, than he will be summarily deported if a "green-card" resident, or put in jail for up to 10 years if a citizen -- while still not necessarily having been proven guilty of any real crime.

It is worth noting that if the President has arbitrary standards for declaring individuals or groups "terrorist", standards and targets can change according to short-term political goals. Syria was a "terrorist state" until George Bush needed them to help fight Iraq. Iran has been an alternate ally and enemy, as has Iraq, some Afghan groups, the ANC and numerous others. How is one to know what aid is legal and what may be suddenly not?

The Libertarian Party issued a press release April 27, 1995, on the relationship between the Oklahoma City bombing and the Counterterrorism Bill, saying:

"Law-enforcement agencies should act swiftly to bring the criminals who committed this heinous act to justice, and to punish them to the fullest extent of the law," said Steve Dasbach, Chair of America's third largest political party. "However, we must not dishonor the men, women, and children who died in that brutal and senseless act by linking their tragedy to any effort to undermine fundamental American liberties.

"The freedoms recognized under the Bill of Rights are our strongest bulwark against terrorism," asserted Dasbach. "Security measures that infringe on those freedoms will inevitably lead to abuse, ultimately making us less secure in our lives and property."

...

Under Clinton's proposal, the FBI would have the power to examine financial, travel, and telephone records, conduct wiretapping, and infiltrate "suspect" groups. Clinton said such powers were needed to protect "our way of life."

"An abiding respect for liberty is our way of life," countered Dasbach.

The Libertarian Party issued another news release on April 18, 1996, unsuccesfully urging the President to veto the bill:

"You don't honor the memory of the dead by depriving the living of their basic freedoms," said the party's National Chair Steve Dasbach. "And you don't protect Americans from hypothetical foreign terrorists by giving more power to government agencies with a history of running roughshod over our civil liberties."

...

"The fact that Clinton and Congress are trying to link this bill to the Oklahoma City tragedy is political ghoulishness as its worst," said Dasbach. "It shows that there is no tragedy that politicians won't try to capitalize on to further increase the power of government."

Richard Hartman of Spokane, Washington, reported hearing the following exchange on the radio between a reporter and Attorney General Janet Reno:

REPORTER: If the FBI had already possessed the powers described in President Clinton's anti-terrorism legislation, would you have been able to prevent the Oklahoma disaster?

RENO: No.

The Supporters

U.S. voters should take note that once again, Republicans and Democrats united to take away your rights. The Libertarian Party was the only political party to publicly oppose the passage of the law.

Opposite situation, the Al-Arian case. I think Prof. Al-Arian did NOT launder money for terrorists, or possibly sent money to Palestinian groups which had a political AND a military wing. A military outfit without a country is de facto "terrorist". He definitely made some very angry statements against US support for horrible abuses of Palestinians. Prosecution admitted they have no evidence that he funded anything or planned any terrorist attacks, but since he is a Palestinian political activist, he's in the slammer since 2003, on charges of "CONSPIRACY". At very least, there's something very fishy here.

Karl Rove's right wing buddies Grover Norquist and Jack Abramoff were Al-Arian's non-profit consultants, AND Jeb Bush gave his private school $350,000. My opinion is that Al-Arian got burned as a fall guy.
Same for Palestinian Fawaz Damra of Cleveland, who spoke inflammatory words against Jews in 1994, and sent funds to legit charities which later added a military defense arm, and later got labelled "terrorist".
You are only allowed to defend yourself against Israeli murder squads IF you are part of a "legitimate govt". But anyone Israel attacks is NOT "legitimate". It's de facto "terrorist".
If you are just a private human being, tough shit, shut up and take it.

Gotta justify that Homeland Security office by arresting "dangerous" computer sci professors and mosque leaders.

Norquist is a super lobbyist like Abrahoff. He's Newt Gingrich's bud, NRA ally, head of American Taxpayers Union. Alamoudi hired Norquist to head up the Islamic Institute. Grover Norquist's best friend is Karl Rove, White House chief of staff, so apparently Norquist was able to "fix things". Moderate Arab-Americans couldn't speak out after 9/11, because Norquist got his extreme right wing Muslim friends to be "gatekeepers" at the White House.