Posted on 07/08/2004 7:10:31 AM PDT by doug from upland
Edited on 07/08/2004 2:03:56 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Makes no sense or else the FBI is more incompetent than previously thought. Go to Chapter 21 of my book and read about Menepta. If he was believed to be the chief of overseas recruiting for the Al-Fatah network then why was he jailed for firearms violations in the wake of 9-11?
What do you think?
Good research, Thanks much. BTW, what does swampfx mean?
The I-40 connection between Zacarias Moussaoui and Mohamed Atta
by Jim Crogan
After the attacks, said the motel owner, he recognized his visitors in photos from television reports. "I was really stunned," he said. Then he decided to call the FBI hot line. The motel owner said he didn't hear right back from the FBI. In the interim, he also spoke to a former law-enforcement officer who was investigating reported sightings of Mujahid Abdulquaadir Menepta at the same motel during the mid-1990s. Menepta, reportedly a friend of Moussaoui's, was arrested 30 years ago in Colorado for aggravated robbery and served more than three years in prison.
After September 11, Menepta publicly defended Moussaoui, calling him a "scapegoat." The FBI arrested him as a material witness and subsequently charged Menepta with a federal gun violation. He pleaded guilty and in April 2002 was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison. He was never charged with any terrorism-related crime. But during the preliminary hearing on the gun charge, Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Agent Jeffrey Whitney testified that a confidential source placed Menepta at a meeting of a radical Islamic group in St. Louis where he allegedly threatened to shoot any police officer who entered the mosque. Menepta's attorney challenged the credibility of this report in court.
I supplied that information and witness testimony to Crogan for the LA Weekly article. It is detailed in Chapter 21 under Nexus: 4-19 and 9-11.
I think we are talking about two different people, but then again, more information is needed to make a final determination.
I would like to hear what you think about he information I developed on Menepta and the Cactus motel.
It is consistent with the court testimony of ATF Agent Whitney.The Crogan article is one of the best summaries in the media connecting the OKC bombing persons of interest to the 9-11 participants. I look forward to reading more about it in The Third Terrorist.
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http://college4.nytimes.com/guests/articles/2001/11/10/883493.xml
November 10, 2001
No Bail for Friend of Man Suspected of Preparing for Sept. 11 Hijackings
By JO THOMAS
An Oklahoma friend of Zacarias Moussaoui, the man the authorities suspect was meant to be the 20th suicide hijacker in the Sept. 11 attacks, has been ordered held without bail on weapons charges by a federal magistrate in Oklahoma City.
The Oklahoma man, Mujahid Abdulqaadir Menepta, 51, who was arrested on Oct. 11 and taken to New York as a material witness in the World Trade Center investigation, is dangerous and poses a flight risk, Jeffrey Whitney, an agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, testified at a hearing on Wednesday. He made no specific reference to Mr. Moussaoui.
Without offering many details, Mr. Whitney told the court that some telephone numbers connected with cellphones seized in a search of Mr. Menepta's home in Norman were associated with continuing criminal investigations in Oklahoma City, St. Louis, Detroit, El Paso and Kansas City, Mo. These involve organized crime, drugs and money laundering, he said.
Mr. Whitney told the court that Mr. Menepta, who was born Melvin Lattimore in St. Louis, and changed his name in 1989 after converting to Islam, came to the attention of the authorities the day after the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. He testified that an informer told federal agents that Mr. Menepta had belonged to an Islamic group in Norman and St. Louis, whose leaders advocated terrorist acts and killing law enforcement agents.
Without offering many details, Mr. Whitney told the court that some telephone numbers connected with cellphones seized in a search of Mr. Menepta's home in Norman were associated with continuing criminal investigations in Oklahoma City, St. Louis, Detroit, El Paso and Kansas City, Mo. These involve organized crime, drugs and money laundering, he said.
I wonder whose phone numbers appear on Mr. Menepta's cell phone bill?
If the calls link to any of the nefarious characters in 4-19 that would establish a paper trail that unravels from 2001 to 1995.
My goodness, swampfx, it is great to have you on this thread and at FR. I thought I knew quite a bit about OKC, but I guess I've only touched the surface.
Why not find a way to file a civil suit and go for it through depositions. That way you get beyond the he said she said, finger pointing and agendas.
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Michael Moore = Lily White propagandist.
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