Syrian Had Inside Knowledge of 9/11 and London Bombings

[sabra]

http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,371201,00.html

Syrian Had Inside Knowledge of 9/11 and London Bombings

Two weeks ago, Turkish police arrested an Islamist with ties to many upper tier al-Qaida members. The man not only tried to get asylum in Germany, but claims to have known about the London bombings beforehand and to have helped the 9/11 pilots.

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It wasn't the only surprise the Syrian-born suspect presented to investigators. Turkish anti-terror officials held the suspected al-Qaida member for four days. Just after his arrest two weeks ago, Sakra admitted to planning strikes against Israeli cruise ships; he hoarded 750 kilograms of explosives for the purpose. When some of those explosives went up in flames, in his Antalya apartment, he fled.

What Sakra told officials during his interrogation suggests a deep jihadist career. The Syrian, who knows weapons as well as he knows his whiskey and wine, has obviously played a far more important role in the terrorist underground than officials first suspected. According to his own testimony, he knew about the London bombings before they happened, and supported the pilots on 9/11.

"I was one of the people who knew the 9/11 perpetrators," Sakra reportedly said in passing during the interrogation, "and I knew the plans and times beforehand." He claims to have provided the pilots with passports and money.

[StrafingMoose]

1. I haven't read the whole thing...

But he said (Sakra) interesting things about Al-Qaeda, reported by ZAMAN (Turkish Daily newspaper)

http://www.zaman.com/?bl=national&alt=&hn=22982
http://www.zaman.com/?bl=national&alt=&trh=20050815&hn=23056

Start the clock, if this guy gets killed soon -- something's fishy. I just don't understand why this guy is talking about the insides of Al-Qaeda as an ex-member, and no other who got caught did.

[spooked911]

2. he sounds like a bullshitter to me:

"“At one moment during the clashes, there were 10 US soldiers on the roof of the house, in which we were hiding and yet none of them noticed us. I killed 10 US soldiers with my bare hands. I came out of the Fallujah inferno alive."

(from your second link)

[StrafingMoose]

3. That would explain why they let him talk...

and, for example, don't let Moussaoui speak and speak to other 'Al-Qaeda' people he knows (because he's the real deal)...

ON EDIT: And also, Sakra might have been tasked to do some disinfo too. Give real info, throw a turd in the punchbowl, the whole bowl gets thrown out the window.

[spooked911]

4. yes, good point about the disinfo

[philb]

5. There were people from most countries with inside info on 9/11

The most in the U.S. it seems.
http://www.flcv.com/warnings.html