With no deputies along and no publicity, Chertoff was on a stealthy swing through France , Belgium and the Netherlands . His mission: sell Western European governments on a new Bush Administration plan to post U.S. Justice Department prosecutors overseas in unprecedented numbers. "The sinews that hold a terrorist network together are money, communications and transportation," Chertoff told TIME before his trip. To help sever those sinews, Chertoff wants to have American prosecutors stationed in key capitals, where they can work behind the scenes with their counterparts to overcome the legal and cultural obstacles to shipping evidence to the U.S. for use in court.”
Perhaps Chertoff could have saved some time and effort and looked in his own backyard for evidence of terrorist financing. To date, Dr. Magdy Elamir and his brother have not been arrested and are still free.
I have a theory that Elamir was not arrested, because if his case did come to court, then Chertoff’s role as his lawyer in the HMO case might have been exposed. Since Elamir’s HMO was supposedly a front for Bin Laden and millions of dollars were allegedly skimmed from the HMO to fund terrorism, Chertoff himself might be implicated in some way since he had to have had access to the HMO’s books and Elamir’s finances when he defended him.
I also have a theory that this may be why Operation Diamondback remained a criminal case and not a counterterrorism case. As head of the Criminal Division in the Department of Justice, the case would have been under the control of Michael Chertoff himself. Was this the real reason why the case came to a screeching halt with only a few arrests? Was this the reason why Randy Glass was told to drop the matter by federal agents when the case started focusing on Dr. Elamir’s brother Mohamed El Amir? Was this the reason why so many federal agents were frustrated because they felt the case hadn’t received the attention of higher ups in federal law enforcement? Maybe it had?
On April 22, 2003 President Bush nominated Michael Chertoff to be the Federal Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit. Judge Chertoff now presides over federal cases in New Jersey , Pennsylvania , Delaware and the Virgin Islands .
Part 2: The Good Doctor Who Wasn’t So Good
Sources:
(1) Las Vegas Sun, Indictment Against Mosque Leaders Unsealed, by Kirstan Conley, Associated Press, August 10, 2004
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2004/aug/10/081003703.html
(2) Dateline NBC, On the trail of arms merchants, August 2, 2002
http://www.msnbc.com/news/788686.asp
(3) Dateline NBC, Stinger missile sting operation, March 18, 2003
http://www.msnbc.com/news/887141.asp?cp1=1
(4) Palm Beach Post, Con Man Turned Patriot Tells All, by John Pacenti, Cox News Service, August 2, 2002
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline/2002/coxnews080202.html
(5) Time Magazine, Al-Qaeda Moneyman Caught, by Elaine Shannon, May 1, 2003
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