9/11 Commission Misses FBI's Embarrassing Al Qaeda DealingsPeter Dale Scott,
Pacific News Service, Jun 24, 2004
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 J. 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."
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One year earlier, according to the Toronto Globe and Mail, Ali Mohamed had been picked up by the RCMP in Canada in the company of an al Qaeda terrorist.
Mohamed immediately told the RCMP to make a phone call to his FBI handler. The call quickly secured his release.more:
http://news.pacificnews.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=2e24aeacc97518c20d3136c87d457910The FBI told the RCMP to release Mohamed before he flew to Nairobi, photographed the US Embassy, and took the photo or photos to bin Laden. It's been widely reported that Mohamed worked for first the CIA and then Special Forces after first arriving in the US from Egypt.
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