Francois Genoud (left) and Ahmad Huber, a.k.a. Albert Huber (right). [Source: Seuil, AIJAC] Francois Genoud (left) and Ahmad Huber, a.k.a. Albert Huber (right). [Source: Seuil, AIJAC](April 25-May 1989):
US Holds Secret Meetings with Egyptian Terror Group Headed by ‘Blind Sheikh’
Members of Egyptian militant group Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya, whose spiritual head is the ‘Blind Sheikh,’ SHEIKH OMAR ABDUL-RAHMAN, hold a SERIES OF SECRET MEETINGS WITH US OFFICIALS AT THE AMERICAN EMBASSY IN CAIRO. The meetings are initiated by Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya, which wants to co-operate with the US, because it THINKS THE US IS CO-OPERATING WITH AND SUPPORTING THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD IN EGYPT.
At the meetings, representatives of the group tell the US:
Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya has between 150,000 and 200,000 members;
One of the representatives at the meetings sat on Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya’s shura, or leadership council, between 1981 and 1988. The 11 members of the group’s shura are named at the meetings, as is its operational commander;
Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya thinks highly of Saudi Arabian KING FAHD, but believes he should take a stronger line against IRAN. HOWEVER, ABDUL-RAHMAN MET AN IRANIAN DELEGATION IN PAKISTAN IN AUTUMN 1988;
The group will not attack US diplomats;
Abdul-Rahman travels to the US yearly, and also travels to Britain;
The group is not as secret and violent as represented by the Egyptian government and has undergone a “change in thinking,” becoming concerned about its radical and violent image.
Embassy officials are skeptical about some of the claims, as the group’s representatives reveal more than the officials think is prudent. ONE YEAR AFTER THE MEETINGS, ABDUL-RAHMAN WILL BE ISSUED A US VISA BY A CIA OFFICER AND MOVE TO THE US (reminds me of all the renewed visa’s of the attempted bomber of Times Sq, despite his being on a terrorist list, he got his citizenship just months before the attempt, again despite being on lists, he got on a plane heading to the ME despite being on numerous no-fly lists. Someone ignored the terrorist lists - renewed his visas - got him the citizenship and took him off the fly-list - who?). [US Embassy in Cairo, 4/25/1989 pdf file; US Embassy in Cairo, 5/3/1989 pdf file]