CIA reportedly ordered Blackwater to murder 9/11 suspect

[robertpaulsen]

Source: The Raw Story

In 2004, the CIA sent a team from the private security firm Blackwater, now Xe, to Hamburg to kill an alleged al Qaeda financier who was investigated for years by German authorities on suspicion of links to al Qaeda, according to a little-highlighted element in a Vanity Fair article to be published this month.

The report cited a source familiar with the program as saying the mission had been kept secret from the German government.

"Among the team's targets, according to a source familiar with the program, was Mamoun Darkazanli, an al Qaeda financier living in Hamburg who had been on the agency's radar for years because of his ties to three of the 9/11 hijackers and to operatives convicted of the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in East Africa," writes Vanity Fair's Adam Ciralsky.

"The CIA team supposedly went in 'dark,'' meaning they did not notify their own station -- much less the German government -- of their presence; they then followed Darkazanli for weeks and worked through the logistics of how and where they would take him down," reports the magazine.

Read more: http://rawstory.com/2009/01/cia-reportedly-ordered-murder-911-suspect-hamburg/

[EFerrari]

1. This is an interesting story. Digging around, I found he was arrested

in Oct 2004 in Hamburg on a Spanish warrant. I wonder if they did that to protect him.

[robertpaulsen]

3. What I really found interesting is the A.Q. Khan consideration.

But if the CIA was really considering assassinating him during the Bush administration, I'm sure Cheney put a stop to that!

[Arrowhead2k1]

2. So the CIA is just as bad as Mossad now. Great... nt

[The Hope Mobile]

5. I doubt this is anything new nt

[Kolesar]

4. White-guy assasins would blend in in that country, so we would not need the dreaded Predator

...to take him out.

[gratuitous]

6. If you have evidence, arrest him, try him, convict him and lock him up

If you don't have evidence, this is terrorism wrapped in a flag.

[leveymg]

10. Perhaps, the point was to silence him?

Has ties to Syrian intelligence and has been reported to be a go-between between several intelligence agencies and the CIA. Also has money ties through the Saudis to AQ Khan's network, as well as the Hamburg Al-Qaeda cell. Blackwater/Xe was reportedly tasked to take both out.

This guy may know too much for comfort for some trying to eliminate the common evidence trails that leads to both 9/11 and AQ Khan.

[paparush]

11. DING DING DING!

Lose lips and dead men tell no tales.

[EFerrari]

13. And meanwhile, Eric Prince is threatening graymail.

The games are in full swing again. Frank Church must be spinning in his grave.

[grantcart]

7. I found this confusing -

So the assasination never was actually carried out?

[Wizard777]

8. This is not Murder why?

:shrug:

If our government is going to allow contract killings in any capacity. Then we all have something to truly live in fear of. No not Al Qaida. Uncle Sam Giancana.

[LaPera]

9. Any sick endeavor was encouraged by the Bush/Cheney administration - The only ones

that BushCo recognized that had rights and needed to be protected were the rich and their corporations. - Fuck EVERYONE else - That's the republican way.

So who is really surprised?

[Solly Mack]

12. K&R

[Arctic Dave]

14. If this true could this be tip of an iceberg?

How many strange coincidences have happened since 911 involving untimely deaths. If I recall correctly, their was time when scientist with NBC knowledge were dying.

Maybe a review of some CT stories should be reviewed now that a new angle has been found.