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What is being covered up is the fact that powerful groups inside of the government, groups located inside of the CIA and at FBI Headquarters, and perhaps even inside of the administration deliberately allowed the al Qaeda terrorists to carry out the attacks on 9/11.
The proof for this is found from a careful study of the four official government investigations of 9/11, combined with the account of FBI Agent Ali Soufan, in the July 10-17, 2006 issue of the New Yorker, along with information that came out of the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui.
By combining this information and then separating fact from fiction the author of a new book, "Prior Knowledge of 9/11", found it was ultimately possible to put together in almost every detail the complete story of what actually happened prior to 9/11 allowed these attacks to succeed. It actually was all written down, although it took years to finally pull the complete story together. It was also possible to see how the 9/11 Commission report, and even the FBI Inspector General's and CIA IG reports had been deliberately obfuscated to hide the culpability of the CIA and FBI HQ agents in allowing the attacks on 9/11 to take place.
In spite of the heroic efforts of the 9/11 widows to get the US government to hold an official investigation into the events prior to the attacks on 9/11, an effort that resulted in the 9/11 Commission, the real job of the 9/11 Commission turned out to be obfuscating the truth to hide from the American people the criminal actions at both the CIA and at FBI HQ that had taken place which had allowed the al Qaeda terrorists to successfully carry out the attacks on 9/11 .
The truth is that the CIA and groups at the FBI Headquarters that they had subjugated, the FBI ITOS unit and the office of the FBI Director, had deliberately hidden information and even criminally obstructed FBI criminal investigations which ultimately allowed the al Qaeda terrorists to murder 3000 people on 9/11. This was no accident. This was not that they were just going to let it happen. It appears that these groups did everything they could to ensure that the al Qaeda terrorists were left unmolested to carrying out the attacks on 9/11, even going so far as to actually sabotage several FBI investigations of al Qaeda terrorists inside of the US.
The CIA knew the names of several of the terrorists who were to take part in this attack for 21 months, Khalid al-Mihdhar, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Salem al-Hazmi. They even had photographs of them from surveillance of an al Qaeda planning meeting in Kuala Lumpur in January 5-8, 2000. They had photographed at this same meeting Khallad Bin Attash, later found to be the mastermind of the Cole bombing who had recruited and trained several of the terrorists who took part in the attacks on 9/11. At this meeting both the attack on the USS Cole and the attacks on the World Trade Towers had been planned. Khalid al-Mihdhar, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Salem al-Hazmi were all on flight AA 77 that hit the Pentagon.
The CIA knew they were all long time al Qaeda terrorists, knew several weeks prior to the attacks on 9/11 that they were inside of the US. But what is the most horrific, the CIA even ultimately knew several weeks prior to the attacks on 9/11 that they were going to take part in a huge al Qaeda terrorist attack inside of the US that would kill thousands of Americans.
And yet the CIA not only hid this information from the FBI criminal investigation teams that could have prevented the attacks on 9/1, they even deliberately sabotaged FBI criminal investigations teams that wanted to investigate and search for Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi.
What is so horrific, when the CIA knew they were sabotaging any chance FBI investigators would have to find Mihdhar in time and prevent these attack on 9/11, they knew that the ultimate result would be that thousands of Americans would perish in the huge imminent al Qaeda attack inside of the US the CIA was aware of. They did this by hiding the information that Khallad Bin Attash, mastermind of the Cole bombing had been photographed at Kuala Lumpur with Mihdhar and Hazmi, and by working with FBI HQ agents to insure that the investigation and search for Mihdhar was opened as an intelligence investigation only with no priority which effectively shut down any investigation by FBI criminal investigators. They continued to hide the photograph of Khallad Bin Attash taken at Kuala Lumpur from FBI investigators until after the attacks on 9/11 had taken place.
They knew by doing this, FBI HQ agents that they had been working would be able to shut down any effective investigation of Mihdhar by the FBI. To summarize this information:
On August 28, 2001 FBI IOS HQ Agent Dina Corsi told FBI Agent Steve Bongardt, lead US FBI agent on the Cole bombing that he and his team would not be allowed to take part in the investigation and search for Mihdhar. But Corsi knew at that time she told Bongardt this, that the CIA already had a photograph of Khallad Bin Attash taken at the Kuala Lumpur at the al Qaeda planning meeting in January 2000 where the Cole bombing had been planned and she even knew the CIA had been hiding this photograph from the FBI. She knew that this photograph directly connected Mihdhar and Hazmi to the planning of the Cole bombing, and knew this meant the investigation of Mihdhar should have gone to the Cole investigators. Yet she kept this information completely secret from Steve and his team. Steve and his team were not even told that the CIA and Corsi had this photograph until after the events on 9/11 had taken place.
Unaware of this photograph, FBI Agent Bongardt had no way to connect Mihdhar and Hazmi to the Cole bombing and even though he found out on August 28, 2001 that Mihdhar and Hazmi were inside of the US, and knew they were here only in order to take part in a massive al Qaeda terrorist attack, he could do absolutely nothing to prevent Corsi and FBI Headquarters from blocking any chance that he and his team would have to search for Mihdhar. When Corsi told him on August 28, 2001, that he had to destroy all of the information he had on Mihdhar Bongardt said:
"Why do you think they are here, do you think they are going to FUCKING Disney Land?"
It is now clear that when FBI Headquarters Agent Corsi told Steve he had to destroy the information he had on Mihdhar, and that he and his team would not be allowed to take part in the search for Mihdhar, Bongardt already knew full well that Mihdhar was inside of the US only in order to take part in a huge al Qaeda attack, but since he had no way to directly connect Mihdhar to the Cole bombing, he could do nothing to prevent Corsi and FBI HQ from taking this critical investigation away from him and his team.
Corsi and the people at the CIA she had been working with on an EC to start the search for Mihdhar, Tom Wilshire, former deputy chief of the Bin Laden unit, did not even turn the photo of Khallad over to the FBI NY office until August 30, 2001, two days after Corsi had taken the investigation of Mihdhar away from Steve and his team, and this investigation had been assigned to a single FBI intelligence agent with no prior experience in intelligence investigation. Bongardt was told by Corsi that if one piece of paper ever surfaced at the FBI with his name and the name Khalid al-Mihdhar, his career was over at the FBI.
But this was just one more instance in a long pattern that had already spanned several years where Tom Wilshire and the CIA had previously blocked information on the Kuala Lumpur meeting from going to the FBI on at least 12 separate occasions or had deliberately obstructed important FBI criminal investigations now summarized in a new book "Prior Knowledge of 9/11". To summarize a few of these occasions:
January 5, 2000 Tom Wilshire blocked a cable from going to the FBI, written by FBI Agent Doug Miller, who was an FBI IOS Agent working at the CIA Bin Laden unit. This cable had information on Khalid al-Mihdhar, with his passport photo, his multi-entry visa, the fact he was attending the al Qaeda planning meeting in Kuala Lumpur where it was learned in December 2000 that the bombing of the USS Cole was being planned. When asked by FBI IG investigators after 9/11, Wilshire says he had no recollection of this cable, why it had been blocked, in spite of him clearly being identified right on the cable, or why his CIA desk officer sent out another cable right after the Miller cable had been blocked that said this information had been sent to the FBI.
March 5, 2000, Wilshire reads, along with 50-60 other people at the CIA, a cable that says Nawaf al-Hazmi an al Qaeda terrorist that had attended the Kuala Lumpur meetings, has entered the US. Hazmi had entered the US with Mihdhar, to find a flight school and start flight training. This information is not given to the FBI until it is too late and Hazmi was not watch listed at this time. At the 9/11 Commission hearings on April 14, 2004, in response to a direct question, what was done with the cable that came into the CIA HQ that said Hazmi had entered the US in January 15, 2000, Tenet said "no one read this cable". Since both Mihdhar and Hazmi were both watch listed in Thailand by the CIA and the Thailand CIA station received notice just after January 15, 2000 that both Mihdhar and Hazmi had left Thailand for the US it is strange that the Thailand CIA station where this cable had originated left off Mihdhar and delayed for almost two months this information back to the US. But at this point a massive conspiracy was already in place at the CIA HQ to hide all of this information on Mihdhar and even the meeting at Kuala Lumpur.
November 2000, FBI Agent Ali Soufan, who had been assigned lead FBI investigator on the Cole bombing by John O'Neill, after traveling over to Yemen to investigate this bombing, sent a request to the CIA Yemen station asking for any information that the CIA had on any meeting in Kuala Lumpur in January 2000 and on any information the CIA had on Khallad Bin Attash, who was thought by the FBI at this point to be the mastermind of the Cole bombing. He was told that the CIA had no information even though the Yemen station already knew about this meeting and even knew that Mihdhar and Hazmi and even Khallad had been at this meeting.
In December 2000, the CIA Yemen station sent the photo of Khallad Bin Attash attached to Soufan's request to the Joint FBI/CIA source, who identified Khallad immediately as a high level al Qaeda terrorist. The CIA Yemen station then sent this photo to the CIA Bin Laden unit and requested the photos of Khallad and Mihdhar taken at Kuala Lumpur so these could be shown to the FBI/CIA Joint source. These were shown to the FBI/CIA Joint source in January 2001, and Khallad identified in the Kuala Lumpur photos. While the CIA Bin Laden unit, the Yemen station and even the CIA handler for the FBI/CIA Joint source at this point all knew that Mihdhar and Hazmi had been at the Kuala Lumpur al Qaeda planning meeting with Khallad bin Attash planning the Cole bombing, this information is kept completely secret from the FBI and from FBI Agent Ali Soufan, in spite of his direct request to the CIA Yemen station, in a wide ranging criminal conspiracy at the CIA. They were all aware at this time by not giving this information to the FBI criminal investigators on the Cole bombing they were committing criminal obstruction of an on going FBI investigation, a major felony!
However, the 9/11 Commission staff statement Number 10, released on April 13, 2004 says that: "In December <2000>, based on some analysis of information associated with Khalid al-Mihdhar the CIA Bin Laden station speculated that Khallad and Khalid al-Mihdhar might be one and the same. So the CIA asked that a Kuala Lumpur surveillance photo of Mihdhar be shown to the joint source who had already identified an official photo of Khallad."
But the passport photo of Khallad that Soufan sent to the Yemen station had already been sent to the Bin Laden unit at the same time the CIA Yemen station had asked for the photos of Khallad and Mihdhar. And the Bin Laden unit had already positively identified Mihdhar at Kuala Lumpur, from his passport photo the CIA had obtained when he had passed through Dubai on his way to Kuala Lumpur from Sanna, Yemen.
So there was no possible way that the CIA Bin Laden unit could ever have though Khallad and Mihdhar were one and same person in December 2000. This statement in this 9/11 Commission staff statement that the CIA thought they were the one and the same appears to have been added only in order to justify why the photos from Kuala Lumpur were shown to the Joint source. Since the information that the photo of Khallad had been shown to the CIA/FBI Joint source, and Khallad had been identified at the Kuala Lumpur planning meeting was eventually going to come out, this statement was added to the staff report to prove to the American people that the CIA had not deliberately committed criminal actions by hiding this identification of Khallad from the Kuala Lumpur photos from the FBI and Ali Soufan. Just this statement alone renders the entire 9/11 Commission investigation and report a total and complete fraud.
When the CIA handler for the FBI/CIA Joint source did not tell Soufan or the FBI that Khallad had been identified in the Kuala Lumpur photos, the 9/11 Commission statement goes on to say:
"This is an example of how day-to-day gaps in information sharing can emerge even in a situation of good will on all sides."
But they clearly leave out the fact that both the Yemen CIA station and the Bin Laden unit knew Khallad had been identified from the Kuala Lumpur photo, and they also did not tell the FBI or Soufan of this identification. The Yemen station had been directly requested this information by FBI Agent Soufan himself. This is yet another example of how the 9/11 Commission report is a total fraud. Today with much new information available it is easy to see how this fraud is now exposed as an attempt by the 9/11 Commission to hide CIA culpability in obstructing the criminal investigation in the Cole bombing, an investigation that had it not been deliberately obstructed could have prevented the attacks on 9/11.
November 2000, after being told the Yemen station has none of the information Soufan is looking for, Soufan sends this same request to FBI Director Louis Freeh asking Freeh to request this information from CIA Director Tenet. Freeh tells Soufan that the CIA has no information on any meeting in Kuala Lumpur or on Khallad Bin Attash. But Freeh himself knew about this meeting and even knew that Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi had been at that meeting, this fact is described right on page 248 of the FBI IG report and again on page 181 of the 9/11 Commission report!
The FBI IG report says:
In the midst of the Millennium period concerns in late 1999, the NSA analyzed communications associated with a suspected terrorist facility in the Middle East linked to Al Qaeda activities directed against U.S. interests. The communications indicated that several members of an "operational cadre" were planning to travel to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in early January 2000. Analysis of the communications revealed that persons named Nawaf, Khalid and Salem were involved. At the FBI, this information appeared in the daily threat update to the Director on January 4, 2000.
The 9/11 Commission report says; the Counter terrorism center had briefed the CIA leadership on the gathering in Kuala Lumpur and the information had been passed on ... to the Director Freeh and others at the FBI...
So it is clear that Freeh knew about the meeting in Kuala Lumpur at the very time of Soufan's request in November 2000 and then had criminally obstructed his own FBI investigation of the Cole bombing, an investigation that could have prevented the attacks on 9/11.
April 2001, FBI Agent Ali Soufan, lead FBI investigator on the Cole bombing, sends a request to CIA HQ asking for any information that the CIA has on any meeting in Kuala Lumpur in January 2000 and on Khallad Bin Attash, now known to be the mastermind of the Cole bombing. By carefully analyzing the FBI IG report, it is now clear that both Tom Wilshire and Clark Shannon had obtained copies of this request in mid-May 2001, although this information has been kept as one of the most closely guarded secrets at the CIA.
Instead of answering this request and providing the information Soufan has requested, Wilshire enlists Clark Shannon to ask FBI HQ IOS Agent Dina Corsi to set up a meeting in New York City at the NY FBI field office with the Cole investigators for June 11, 2001, they very same people who worked for Soufan, and show them the three photos of Mihdhar Wilshire had obtained from the CIA. At that meeting after Corsi presented these three photos, CIA officer Clark Shannon asked Bongardt and the other Cole investigators if they recognized anyone in any of these photos. Since one photo showed only Mihdhar and Hazmi in Malaysia, it is clear that this meeting had been set up by the CIA only to see if the Cole investigators had uncovered information on Mihdhar and Hazmi in their search for Khallad, the very information that the CIA had been keeping secret since January 5, 2000. This is the information that these two al Qaeda terrorists had been at the Kuala Lumpur al Qaeda planning meeting with Khallad Bin Attash planning the Cole bombing. This meeting was in fact a CIA sting on the FBI set up to find out what the FBI Cole investigators knew about Mihdhar and Hazmi and the meeting in Kuala Lumpur.
July 5, 2001 Wilshire sends email back to the CIA and his CTC mangers that says he is sure that people at the Kuala Lumpur meeting, Khalid al-Mihdhar, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Salem al-Hazmi, are all connected to the warnings of a huge al Qaeda attack, warnings that the CIA has been receiving since April 2001.
July 13, 2001, just 3 days after Tenet and Black tell Rice and Clarke a huge al Qaeda attack will take place inside of the US that will kill thousands of Americans, Wilshire asks his CTC managers via email, for permission to send this information to the FBI. He is never given this permission.
July 20, 2001, Tenet and Black tell Rumsfeld and Ashcroft the same information that a huge al Qaeda attack will take place inside of the US that will kill thousands of Americans. Ashcroft is so terrified of being killed in a aircraft hijacking, he immediately quits flying on commercial aircraft for fear of being on a aircraft hijacked by al Qaeda terrorists. Since Ashcroft is suppose to be the head of the FBI it is strange he does never tells the FBI what the CIA knows.
July 23, 2001 Wilshire again sends a email request to his CTC mangers asking what had happened to his July 13 request to transfer information on the Kuala Lumpur meeting to the FBI and further says he is sure Mihdhar, and by association, Hazmi, will be found at the point of the next big al Qaeda attack. He again is not given permission.
At the CIA, if you are not given permission from doing something, everyone understood this meant you were forbidden from doing this, particularly if you were not responded to twice for the exact same request.
The July and July 13 emails in their exact form are found in both the evidence item number 939 entered into the Moussaoui trial on March 11, 2006, and in the FBI IG report, but the July 23 email is missing from the FBI IG report, so someone had carefully stripped this horrific email out the FBI IG report prior to it being released to the public. This is yet another example of where even the FBI IG report had been sabotaged to hide the fact that the CIA knew that Mihdhar and Hazmi and even Hazmi's brother Salem al-Hamzi were going to take part in the huge al Qaeda attack everyone at the CIA and the administration knew about in the summer of 2001.
August 22, 2001, Wilshire is told by FBI Agent Margaret Gillespie, a FBI IOS agent working at the CIA Bin Laden unit, that Mihdhar and Hazmi are now both inside of the US. While, he is clearly aware that they will take part in a huge al Qaeda attack that will kill thousands of Americans, Wilshire continues hide this information from the FBI, and also continues to hide the photo of Khallad Bin Attash taken at Kuala Lumpur from the FBI knowing this will allow FBI agents at FBI HQ to block any investigation of Mihdhar and will prevent the FBI criminal investigators from stopping these attacks. He clearly knows that as a result, thousands on Americans will perish from his and CIA actions.
Wilshire is apparently concerned that if the photo of Khallad taken at Kuala Lumpur is sent to the FBI at the same time the photos of Mihdhar and Hazmi are, and this photo ends up going to the Cole investigators and Steve Bongardt, Bongardt will know immediately that the CIA had criminally obstructed the investigation of the Cole bombing on numerous occasions.
When Gillespie forces the CIA Bin Laden unit to issue a worldwide alert for Mihdhar and Hazmi on August 23, 2001, the entire CIA Bin Laden unit and even the entire CIA hierarchy knew these al Qaeda terrorists were inside of the US for no other reason than to take part in the huge al Qaeda attack the CIA was aware of. Yet this information is deliberately kept secret by all of these people, from the FBI. Although we are told in the CIA IG report that 50-60 people at the CIA are now aware of this information, no one raises any alarm and no alarm is ever given to anyone at the FBI about the huge attack inside of the US that is just about to take place.
August 24, 2001, almost beyond belief, Wilshire continues email contact with Maltbie and Frasca, the two FBI managers at the FBI RFU who were sabotaging FBI Agent Harry Samit's investigation of Moussaoui by denying him even the chance to ask permission for a search warrant for Moussaoui's possessions. This warrant when granted lead the FBI to finding the connections between the terrorists in just a few days. So even before August 24, Wilshire, knows Mihdhar and Hazmi are inside of the US in order to take part in a huge al Qaeda attack and also knows Moussaoui has been arrested by the FBI and is thought to be an al Qaeda terrorists who is learning how to fly a 747 in order to take part in a an aircraft hijacking that will fly this plane into the World Trade Center Towers.
Both the FBI RFU unit with Maltbie and Frasca and the FBI Bin Laden unit with Dina Corsi reported to the Michael Rolince, the head of the FBI ITOS unit! Tom Wilshire had been moved over from the CIA to be liaison to Rolince in mid-May 2001 right after the CIA had received the request from Soufan for the information the CIA had on a meeting in Kuala Lumpur and Bin Attash. His job as liaison to Rolince is to provide CIA information to the FBI to be exploited in FBI investigations. No one on the 9/11 Commission even explains why when Wilshire's job as liaison to Michael Rolince and the FBI is to give CIA information to the FBI to be exploited in FBI criminal investigations, he does just the opposite and makes sure CIA information is kept away from FBI investigations!
All of the people at FBI HQ who were sabotaging the FBI criminal investigations of al Qaeda terrorists inside of the US worked at this group, the ITOS unit of the FBI. Since Wilshire had been moved over in mid-May 2001 to be liaison to this group from the CIA and he had been denied permission twice to transfer the information from the Kuala Lumpur meeting to the FBI it is obvious his role at the FBI was first to find if the FBI criminal investigators knew about Mihdhar and Hazmi, then block any CIA information on the Kuala Lumpur meeting from going to the FBI criminal investigators and finally have the RFU and Bin Laden units at the FBI ITOS unit shut down using any means possible any investigations on any al Qaeda terrorists found inside of the US.
It looks like that all of the people killed on 9/11 were probably completely doomed from the very day in mid-May 2001 that Wilshire was moved over to be liaison to the FBI ITOS section by Tenet and Black, with the concurrence of Rolince and Freeh. Toward the later part of August it is now clear when Mihdhar and Hazmi were found to be inside of the US, and the CIA knew they were going to take part in this huge al Qaeda attack, and Moussaoui was arrested by the FBI Wilshire then did everything he could in addition to spying on these investigations to make sure all of these criminal investigations of al Qaeda terrorists inside of the US were shut down completely.
What hope was there for any of these people killed on 9/11 when the Director of the CIA, the head of the CTC section of the CIA, the entire Bin Laden unit at the CIA, several CIA stations including Yemen, Thailand and Malaysia and even the FBI director, the head of the FBI ITOS, the liaison to the FBI ITOS, the FBI Bin Laden unit and the FBI RFU unit were all involved in hiding critical information from the FBI field criminal investigators or blocking critical investigations of al Qaeda terrorists inside of the US.
What hope did they have when almost everyone of importance in the current administration, including Rice, Clarke, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft and even the President, knew about this attack, knew it would kill thousands of Americans, and then did absolutely nothing in any way to prevent this huge attack from taking place. No one even bothered to alert the FBI, or step in to block the CIA and FBI HQ from shutting down these investigations of known al Qaeda terrorists inside of the US.
What is the biggest horror story of all is that all of this is information is now in the public domain although it took the author several years to pull it all together in this book.
The big question is why has the main stream media not found and then printed this very same information, and right on their front page? Are they terrified of reprisals from the current administration.
Do they feel that the deaths on 3000 people on 9/11 is just old news and in the news business old news is no news, so who cares that all of these people were killed.
Perhaps they are too scared to print this story, out of fear of reprisals from the current administration.
Perhaps they feel it was in fact their fault that all of these people were killed on 9/11. After all when Ashcroft quit flying commercial aircraft after being told on July 20, 2001 by Tenet and Black, that al Qaeda was planning a huge attack inside of the US that would kill thousands of Americans, and then he released a press statement that said this was due to a unspecified threat from the FBI, and it was even reported on CBS evening news on July 26, 2001, no other news organization even bothered to pick up on this, and asked if the AJ is no longer going to fly on commercial aircraft because it was so dangerous maybe it is unsafe for the average American to fly on commercial aircraft. No one from the MSN media bothered to ask what was this FBI threat that was so horrific the AJ had completely modified his travel arrangements for the rest of his term in office.
When the New York times found out around July 4, 2001 time frame that a huge attack was aimed right at the US, they did not put this in their paper due to the fact they felt they did not have enough to make it into a front page story. It was more important to them to have a story for their front page than it was to save the lives of thousands of their own fellow New York City citizens.
So in the end, what can you do even if you know the whole story in every detail? You can take this blog and send it everywhere, you can get the book, take out excerpts and add these to blogs everywhere, but you can do virtually nothing else. It is now clear that there will never be another 9/11 investigation, the powers that be will never allow it. If the government spent a huge effort to prove to the American people that the FBI HQ and CIA and even people in the current administration were not involved in deliberately allowing the attacks on 9/11 to take place, where is it in their interest to go back and have another investigation that will undoubtedly prove just the opposite!
(See www.eventson911.com for additional information on all of this.)
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