Face to Face With a Terrorist: Gov't Worker Recalls Mohamed Atta Seeking Funds Before Sept. 11

ABCNEWS ^ | Friday, June 7, 2002 | By Brian Ross

[JohnHuang2]

Friday, June 7, 2002

Quote of the Day by Violette

[Dialup Llama]

>"I felt that he was trying to make the cultural leap from the country that he came from, with all the violence, as compared to the United States," she says. "I was attempting, in every manner I could, to help him make his relocation into our country as easy for him as I could make it."

And that is the problem. They need to be shown the door. Now, Mr. Ashcroft.

[xJones]

This is how lax our country is. The terrorists even tried to take advantage of our good nature and hospitality to borrow our money to kill Americans. THAT would have been the ultimate sick joke.

[headsonpikes]

USDA bump.

Building a stronger socialist America for over 60 years.

[JohnHuang2]

This is how lax our country is. The terrorists even tried to take advantage of our good nature and hospitality to borrow our money to kill Americans. THAT would have been the ultimate sick joke.

Bears repeating....

[joesnuffy]

Immigrant Terrorists: "We've always relied on the kindness of strangers"
Time to Stanley Kowalski 'em
"We know what they desire...now its time to show them the street and run them over with my car."

[alnick]

Ah, tolerance. He talks to her of cutting her throat and destroying monuments in D.C., and she dismisses it as a man trying to adapt to a new culture and wishes him luck in his endeavor.

[Biblebelter]

The story here is chilling. The terrorists had no fear of the enemy they sought to destroy. And what has been our response? By not profiling terrorists, we are allowing the lowest level of bureaucratic incompetents to hassle and humiliate our grandmothers and grandfathers, mothers and fathers, and lots of people who have lived in this country a long time and have led honorable and decent lives.

[eno_]

Reminder: There is still an armored (used by Dept. of State in foreign WoD missions) Ayers cropduster gone missing somewhere in the Carribean. It was modified for long range ferrying, enabling it to use its chemical tanks for fuel as needed. This article highlights the terrorists' chutzpah. Why not whack a FedGov pilot on his way home from Columbia and steal a REALLY GOOD cropduster? Anyone still think that's tinfoil hat-ism?

[tm61]

yeah this guy really blended into the woodwork, how many times a day do people offere to slit throats? or destroy national monuments? If this person was really surprized at what atta turned out to be, well I hope we have more aware people on the job now. Somehow I doubt it.

[xJones]

For some reason, I am reminded of what my mother used to tell me. That was that the U.S. sold scrap iron in the 1930's to the Japanese military, knowing how they were building up, and we had a large part of our scrap iron shot back at us in WWII. When will we learn? Different enemy, but as least as lethal.

[Orangedog]

Ah, tolerance. He talks to her of cutting her throat and destroying monuments in D.C., and she dismisses it as a man trying to adapt to a new culture and wishes him luck in his endeavor.

I wonder which one of our major cities or population centers has to be turned into a pile of rubble before the politically correct crowd calling the shots is shown the door? Will all of downtown Chicago or Los Angeles have to look like the WTC did the day of the attack? Which nuclear power plant has to have it's cooling system destroyed, forcing a core meltdown? Which of the 50 states will have to be quarantined due to a release of ebola or black-pox (mutated, vaccine-resistant strain of smallpox)? How much more blood has to be spilled to get the masses to stand up and throw these PC idealogs out of positions of power and influence?

[Nita Nupress]

There is still an armored (used by Dept. of State in foreign WoD missions) Ayers cropduster gone missing somewhere in the Carribean. It was modified for long range ferrying, enabling it to use its chemical tanks for fuel as needed.

I'm looking for recent news & documentation on this. Anyone out there have any links? If not, can you think of anyone I should ping who may know?

[backhoe]

Nita, here's all I could find with a fast HotBot search of FR after 911:

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1.	FUTURE WIDOWS OF AMERICA: WRITE YOUR CONGRESSMAN
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2.	TIME Exclusive: Cropduster Manual Discovered in Suspected Terrorist Hideout
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5.	Crop Dusters Grounded Sunday by FBI
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6.	The Net Opens Wide; Man Who Allegedly Helped Two Hijackers Get IDs Is Charged
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10.	Crop Dusters
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[bandleader]

Mega-Dittos To That!Actually,It began(building a socialist America)more than 60 years ago.The 'Socialization" process began with Woodrow Wilson(1912-20),stumbled a bit during The Roaring Twenties,and with The Great Depression(And The New Deal)it really took hold!!!

[Nita Nupress]

Thanks! I'm curious... What keyword(s) did you use to find such a diversity of titles? I don't have much experience with the FR search engine. Is there a way to use FR's search engine to look for words within the threads?

[backhoe]

What I did was go over to hotbot.com and use cropduster as the only keyword... restricted it to after 9-11 and only searched domain freerepublic.com-- actually, let me try something.... OK, I didn't find anything new using a boolean phrase +cropduster +missing-- darn it!

HotBot
Description: An advanced search engine. There are many configurable options, both in simple as in advanced search mode.

[Nita Nupress]

Thanks, backhoe.

This is from way back in October:

October 9, 2001, Tuesday NEWS BRIEFING

RICHARD BOUCHER HOLDS STATE DEPARTMENT BRIEFING

SPEAKER:  RICHARD BOUCHER, STATE DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN
LOCATION: WASHINGTON, D.C.
 
 (snip)

QUESTION: Speaking of planes -- maybe I missed this -- have you ever located that missing cropduster?

BOUCHER: I don't think so.

QUESTION: Are you working with any other federal agency right now on that, given that, you know...

BOUCHER: We've been working with the other federal agencies on this. Search and rescue was done with the Coast Guard. I don't know if there's any further investigation that can be done, but certainly a lot of search and rescue was done together with others.

Thank you.

END

[olivia3boys]

I agree. This is one of the most chilling articles I've ever read. They probably tried to get government-subsidized student loans for flight school too.