OpEdNews - Page 4 of Article: "Mr. Fitz, in your threat to sue for libel, please, either put up or shut up"

The truth was that by then, Mohamed was a principal player in the emerging plot to blow up the U.S. Embassies in Nairobi and Dar Es Salaam. In fact Mohamed had commenced the plot in 1993 by taking the very surveillance picture in bin Laden would use to locate the bombs that would detonate years later in 1998.

In an interview for the book Cloonan admitted that Ali was actually angry at the Feds for not paying his airfare from Africa to California for the meet with McCarthy.

But the al Qaeda spy's most audacious act would play out three years later in the fall of 1997 in front of Patrick Fitzgerald himself. After another Squad I-49 agent discovered evidence linking Ali to one of the plot's top co-conspirator's in Nairobi, Fitzie actually flew across country to confront Ali in a face to face meeting. It took place in a Sacramento restaurant across from the California state house.

After the Feds made their pitch to get Mohamed to turn, the hardened terrorist declared that he "loved" bin Laden and didn't need a fatwa to attack America.

Further, he admitted that he had a number of effective "sleepers" hiding in the U.S. homeland whom he could activate at any time.

LEAVING MOHAMED "ON THE STREET"

Then thumbing his nose as the man Vanity Fair called "the bin Laden Brain," Mohamed left -- at which point Fitzgerald turned to Cloonan and called Ali, "the most dangerous man I have every met." More importantly he declared, "we cannot let this man out on the street."

But that's exactly what happened. Mysteriously, Fitzgerald allowed this al Qaeda master spy to stay loose for another ten months until a month after the simultaneous truck bombings in Kenya and Tanzania that killed more than 200 and injured thousands.

Only then did Fitzie pull Ali "over;" arresting him and stashing him in the M.C.C. (federal jail in Lower Manhattan) under a John Doe warrant; ultimately cutting a deal with Mohamed to avoid the death penalty.

By any definition a deal is a contract -- a promise for a promise -- and previous "rats" like Sammy "the Bull" Gravano, earned their way to an early release by becoming star witnesses at a host of Federal trials.

But when Patrick Fitzgerald commenced U.S. vs. bin Laden the embassy bombing trial in early 2001 (the case that made his career) Ali "The American" was curiously missing from the stand.

THE GREATEST ENIGMA

In effect, the Feds had bought his silence with that deal. Today, Mohamed is hidden away in some kind of custodial witness protection perhaps the greatest enigma in the "war on terror."

This ex-al Qaeda spy, is a one man 9/11 Commission, who could stand witness to the failures and screw ups of the FBI and Southern District Feds on the road to September 11th but there are seals upon seals on his case. He'd been virtually forgotten by the public, until I happened to tell his story with such detail in Triple Cross.

That's the book that Patrick Fitzgerald didn't want you to read.

The new trade paperback edition is now in stores -- updated and 26 pages longer so that I could air Fitzie's charges and give him his due.
As to my key findings on his anti terrorism track record, the paperback is virtually identical to the hardcover edition he tried to kill.

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