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Here's another story about the mediocrity of Patrick Fitzgerald:
9/11 Commission Misses FBI's Embarrassing Al Qaeda Dealings
Commentary: Peter Dale Scott Pacific News Service wrote the article originally and titled: "ON WAR, 9/11, AFGHANISTAN, AL-QAEDA, DRUGS, OIL,IRAQ, BUSH, CHENEY, AND OSAMA BIN LADEN" I read it at:http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~pdscott/q.html
Jun 24, 2004:
[In excerpted form.]
"The name "Ali Mohamed" came up briefly during the 9/11 Commission hearings. Had commission members done their homework -- writes PNS contributor Peter Dale Scott -- they could have probed the links between Mohamed and the FBI, the terrorist who was likely released years ago in a bungle that may have contributed to the loss of hundreds of lives."
"It is clear that important new evidence about al Qaeda has been gathered and released by the 9/11 Commission. But it is also clear that the commission did nothing when a Justice Department official, in commission testimony last week, BRAZENLY COVERED UP THE EMBARRASSING RELATIONSHIP of the FBI TO A SENIOR AL QAEDA OPERATIVE -- Ali Mohamed. By telling the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) to release Mohamed in 1993, the FBI may have contributed to the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Kenya five years later."
"The official testifying was Patrick Fitzgerald, U.S. Attorney for Northern Illinois, who prosecuted two terrorism cases involving Mohamed. As Fitzgerald told the commission, Ali Mohamed was an important al Qaeda agent who 'trained most of al Qaeda's top leadership,' including "persons who would later carry out the 1993 World Trade Center bombing."
"As for Ali Mohamed's long-known relationship to the FBI, Fitzgerald said only that, 'From 1994 until his arrest in 1998, he lived as an American citizen in California, applying for jobs as an FBI translator and working as a security guard for a defense contractor.'"
Whatever the exact relationship of Mohamed to the FBI, it is clear from the public record that it was much more intimate than simply sending in job applications. Three years ago, Larry C. Johnson, a former State Department and CIA official, faulted the FBI publicly for using Mohamed as an informant, when it should have recognized that the man was a high-ranking terrorist plotting against the United States. In Johnson's words, ""It's possible that the FBI thought they had control of him and were trying to use him, but what's clear is that they did not have control." [San Francisco Chronicle, 11/04/01]
"Ali Mohamed faced trial in New York in 2000 for his role in the 1998 Nairobi Embassy bombing. He pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of conspiracy and avoided a jury trial. While pleading guilty, Mohamed admitted he had trained some of the persons in New York who had been responsible for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing."
"In Mohamed's plea-bargain testimony, as summarized on a U.S. State Department Web site, he revealed that in late 1994 the FBI ordered him to fly from Kenya to New York, and he obeyed. "I received a call from an FBI agent who wanted to speak to me about the upcoming trial of United States v. Abdel Rahman (in connection with the 1993 WTC bombing). I flew back to the United States, spoke to the FBI, but didn't disclose everything that I knew."
[End excerpts.]
If this country had a MINISTRY OF DISINFORMATION Patrick Fitzgerald would have to be its Secretary. The Ali Mohamed Fitzgerald testified about was allowed to -- even encouraged to be -- a "double agent" working inside the Al Qaeda network. Somewhere along the line, either the FBI lost trust in Mohamed or Al Qaeda "flipped" him to change sides.
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**by the way, PolicyBot and The Heartland Institute can be found at: www.heartland.org
Here's another story about the mediocrity of Patrick Fitzgerald:
9/11 Commission Misses FBI's Embarrassing Al Qaeda Dealings
Commentary: Peter Dale Scott Pacific News Service wrote the article originally and titled: "ON WAR, 9/11, AFGHANISTAN, AL-QAEDA, DRUGS, OIL,IRAQ, BUSH, CHENEY, AND OSAMA BIN LADEN" I read it at:http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~pdscott/q.html
Jun 24, 2004:
[In excerpted form.]
"The name "Ali Mohamed" came up briefly during the 9/11 Commission hearings. Had commission members done their homework -- writes PNS contributor Peter Dale Scott -- they could have probed the links between Mohamed and the FBI, the terrorist who was likely released years ago in a bungle that may have contributed to the loss of hundreds of lives."
"It is clear that important new evidence about al Qaeda has been gathered and released by the 9/11 Commission. But it is also clear that the commission did nothing when a Justice Department official, in commission testimony last week, BRAZENLY COVERED UP THE EMBARRASSING RELATIONSHIP of the FBI TO A SENIOR AL QAEDA OPERATIVE -- Ali Mohamed. By telling the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) to release Mohamed in 1993, the FBI may have contributed to the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Kenya five years later."
"The official testifying was Patrick Fitzgerald, U.S. Attorney for Northern Illinois, who prosecuted two terrorism cases involving Mohamed. As Fitzgerald told the commission, Ali Mohamed was an important al Qaeda agent who 'trained most of al Qaeda's top leadership,' including "persons who would later carry out the 1993 World Trade Center bombing."
"As for Ali Mohamed's long-known relationship to the FBI, Fitzgerald said only that, 'From 1994 until his arrest in 1998, he lived as an American citizen in California, applying for jobs as an FBI translator and working as a security guard for a defense contractor.'"
Whatever the exact relationship of Mohamed to the FBI, it is clear from the public record that it was much more intimate than simply sending in job applications. Three years ago, Larry C. Johnson, a former State Department and CIA official, faulted the FBI publicly for using Mohamed as an informant, when it should have recognized that the man was a high-ranking terrorist plotting against the United States. In Johnson's words, ""It's possible that the FBI thought they had control of him and were trying to use him, but what's clear is that they did not have control." [San Francisco Chronicle, 11/04/01]
"Ali Mohamed faced trial in New York in 2000 for his role in the 1998 Nairobi Embassy bombing. He pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of conspiracy and avoided a jury trial. While pleading guilty, Mohamed admitted he had trained some of the persons in New York who had been responsible for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing."
"In Mohamed's plea-bargain testimony, as summarized on a U.S. State Department Web site, he revealed that in late 1994 the FBI ordered him to fly from Kenya to New York, and he obeyed. "I received a call from an FBI agent who wanted to speak to me about the upcoming trial of United States v. Abdel Rahman (in connection with the 1993 WTC bombing). I flew back to the United States, spoke to the FBI, but didn't disclose everything that I knew."
[End excerpts.]
If this country had a MINISTRY OF DISINFORMATION Patrick Fitzgerald would have to be its Secretary. The Ali Mohamed Fitzgerald testified about was allowed to -- even encouraged to be -- a "double agent" working inside the Al Qaeda network. Somewhere along the line, either the FBI lost trust in Mohamed or Al Qaeda "flipped" him to change sides.
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