Informant says FBI threw away chance to catch alleged 9/11 plotter
Published: September 10, 2009
Updated 12 hours ago
A Lebanon-native who pretended to be an Islamic extremist at the behest of American authorities claims that the FBI took him off the trail of alleged 9/11 plotter Mohammed Atta right as a window of opportunity opened to catch him.
Were it not for the FBI’s action, the informant says he is “one million percent positive” the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks could have been prevented.
The claims are part of an ABC News report, set to air on Thursday’s editions of World News Tonight and Nightline.
An advance story published on ABC’s Web site notes:
[36-year-old Elie] Assaad, who posed as ‘Mohammed’ – a personal representative of Osama bin Laden, says he’s a “million percent positive” the 9/11 attacks could have been stopped if the FBI had gone after Atta and Shukrujumah. But because Atta and his men were suspicious of the FBI undercover operative, and secretive, Assaad says his FBI agent handlers sent him after the easier target – two wannabe terrorists whose cases were easy to crack and who were both eventually convicted and sent to prison.
“I was right, I was a hundred percent right,” Assaad says of his suspicions. He says that when he learned that Atta was one of the 9/11 hijackers, when the FBI asked if he could identify any of the attackers, he was “very upset, angry” and cried.
The network also notes criticism of Assaad by defense attorneys for men who they say he entrapped.
But the informant dismisses the knocks to his credibility. “When you are working undercover, your job is to lie,” he told ABC.
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Mohamed Atta had as much to do with 9-11 as Captain Kangaroo.
9-11 was hatched at Langley and Tel Aviv. Executives within U.S. television media were also DIRECTLY involved with the crimes of 9-11.
Google “September Clues.” Also “Enlightening the Shadows.”
More and more people are waking up to the truth of 9-11.
watch and read the stuff charlie sheen is doing thses says.
i believe you can find it here:
http://www.infowars.com/charlie-sheen-demands-obama-reopen-911-investigation-in-video/
read the letter.
60% of 9/11 comission openly admits it was a whitewash cover up
WE NEED A NEW INVESIGATION BECAUSE THE OFFICIAL STORY IS CLEARLY FALSE
I’m not surprised by this. It fits the FBI’s institutional history and memory of going after easier targets to claim greater effectiveness than really exists in investigative ability. Take the general example of organized crime under Hoover: for decades, the director denied that it even existed when municipal and state cops knew it was utter crap.
He knew it was a much harder target that wouldn’t yield the easier results of say icing a John Dillinger, or even the Rosenbergs, it wouldn’t get the same kinds of headlines because it’s a more complicated beast to take on and a stronger one than isolated gangs of bank robbers, stick-up artists, or any other variety of yeggs.
The FBI has always overstated its effectiveness in the interdiction of crime and always will because it’s hopelessly politicized and not what it says it is. More often, they’re spying on American dissidents, unions, and the like. That’s why I never joined, and I was told in college by more than one professor (one in the criminology dept.) that I should. Why bother?
You can add this little nugget to the mounting and totally un-ignorable evidence of prior knowledge and complicity.
Just by a show of hands…..how many people here still believe the ridiculous stories coming from our Government about 9/11?
Just to be clear, how many of you think the Governments version of WHAT and HOW it happened, is all the way through factual and honest?
If you DIDN’T raise your hand you then MUST contemplate why any of these stories should be listened to, debated, or tolerated.
Atta was a patsy.
This story is not surprising.”The Terror Timeline”by Paul Thompson is filled with cases of “missed opportunities”.If the story about the FBI’s handling of Niaz Kahn doesn’t spell it out for people ,then I doubt this one will.
As well,I still find it amazing that Atta stalled a small air craft on a runway at Miami International,got out and abandoned it right there with the lights off,and NOTHING came of it.What about the speeding ticket that failed to lead to his arrest,though there was a warrant out for him.Or,how ’bout that “Able Danger” program that identified him in 1999?He sure was lucky I guess.
We still have no answers about the denfense contractors on his email list?Or the alleged meetings on the Sun Cruz Casino boat with Republican lobbyists?Or the flight training at military bases reported in newsweek?
In light of what is found with a little digging around, it seems logical to believe that atta was some sort of patsy,drug dealer or participant in the hijack simulations the day of 9/11.
Bush Family’s Partnership with Killers of Americans: http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/10_09_01_carlyle.html
250+ 9/11 Smoking Guns: http://thewebfairy.com/killtown/911smokingguns.html
texaxarch indeed.
And how hard is it, after Osama provided us with one video claiming they had nothing to do with 9/11, to film some grainy footage of an old bearded guy in a burka and a headrag….speaking PERFECT ENGLISH… I’ve seen comparitive photos. One ‘looks *kinda* like the other. Like those people who look *kinda like* celebrities. They look kinda like them, but you could easily tell the two apart.
+grainy footage, walking stick, etc…
Plus osama was a US operative in the 80s promoting civil unrest at the request of the US, in Afghanistan or Pakistan or some-istan…
PLUS…WE KNEW, WE WERE FOREWARNED, (see above link) from MULTIPLE FOREIGN AGENCIES that ‘raadical Islamists’ wanted to hijack airplanes (Condi says no one ever imagined it but that’s a lie because … check the above link, ill give you a hint: PNAC 1999)…
see suburra.com too. Why are we giving all this money to criminals, we know what prohibition does, we learned that when we outlawed booze! Invites corruption and crime, and our bankers just robbed the country of 878 BILLION…
I Agree 1000% with Kurt.