1995 : (RAMADAN ABDULLAH SHALLAH LEAVES USF IN FL FOR SYRIA) [Ramadan Abdullah Shallah] left USF in 1995 and later that year turned up in Damascus where he is now secretary-general of PIJ. -"The professor is a terrorist," by Daniel Pipes, The Jerusalem Post , 25 February 2003
IIRC, 1995 was the year the Clinton admin shut down some of the Tampa cell investigations...
1995 : (RAID ON SAMI AL ARIAN'S HOME AND OFFICES) 1995 raid in Tampa of Al-Arian's home and offices. That raid came three weeks after a former Al-Arian associate, Ramadan Abdullah Shallah, emerged as the new leader of the Islamic Jihad in Syria. --------- "Affidavit Ties In Al-Arian ," By MICHAEL FECHTER mfechter@tampatrib.com , Tampa Tribune , Published: Oct 18, 2003
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After the departure of [Ramadan Abdullah] Shallah from WISE, [Sami al Arian's brother in law] Mazen Al-Najjár, a founding member of the ICP and executive director of WISE, was reportedly linked to Islamic Jihad activities in the U.S. Agents of the [INS]... in sworn testimony have described al-Najjár as "a mid-level operative of a terrorist front group." ---"ISLAM IN AMERICA, PART 2 : How U.S. Extremists Fund Terror;Money trail linked to Muslim conference circuit leads to Mideast," WND ^ | January 5, 2004 | Sherrie Gossett
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[Sami] Al-Arian's close ties to both PIJ and Hamas go back to at least 1995. Al-Arian used a group he founded, the Islamic Committee for Palestine, to plead for funds for PIJ and Hamas.
Conferences organized by ICP featured Islamic Jihad founder Abdel Aziz-Odeh, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman (spiritual leader of the 1993 World Trade Center bombers), leading Hamas official Mohammed Sakr and high-ranking Sudanese terrorist Hassan Turabi, a close ally of Osama bin Laden. --------- Democrats' imam was character witness to terror supporter , WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Thursday, July 29, 2004
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* Hassan Turabi aka Hassan al Turabi aka Hassan al Tourabi :
Under Turabi's leadership, Sudan offered residency to any Arab or Muslim. This policy allowed bin Laden to take up residence in Khartoum, along with Imad Mughniyah, the man believed to be responsible for the 1983 suicide bombing in Beirut that killed 241 U.S. Marines, and Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, the Venezuelan drug lord known as "Carlos the Jackal," who converted to Islam and pledged allegiance to bin Laden.---------http://www.sudantribune.com/article.php3?id_article=9398
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* National Islamic Front.: al Qaeda-affiliateed group led by Sudanese strongman Hassan al-Turabi
1991 : (BIN LADEN GOES TO SUDAN -- See NIF, DR HASSAN AL TURABI aka TOURABI, IRAN, TABA INVESTMENTS) In 1991, bin Laden... went into exile in Sudan. The country then was under the patronage of fundamentalist leader Dr Hassan al Turabi, whose powerful National Islamic Front party was supported by Iran. It was at this time that bin Laden started building his underground empire and arranging finance for its operations.
Bin Laden started off with about US$300-$400 million which he had inherited from his father, who owned one of Saudi Arabia's biggest construction groups. Bin Laden set up a building business in Kenya and a concrete factory in Yemen, and he invested in construction projects in a number of European cities, including Rome. In Sudan's capital Khartoum, bin Laden established links with the Al Shamal Islamic Bank, import/export business Wadi al Aqiq, investment company Taba Investment Company and a number of other businesses concerning exports. ----- "Central Asia/Russia : Al-Qaeda primed for wider struggle ," By Syed Saleem Shahzad , Asia Times, December 8, 2001
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1990 - mid March 2003 : (IRAQ AL QAEDA/AL QAEDA IRAQ CONTACTS BEGIN; BIN LADEN SENDS EMISSARIES TO JORDAN TO MEET WITH IRAQI GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS) According to the memo--which lays out the intelligence in 50 numbered points--Iraq-al Qaeda contacts began in 1990 and continued through mid-March 2003, days before the Iraq War began....
The relationship began shortly before the first Gulf War. According to reporting in the memo, bin Laden sent "emissaries to Jordan in 1990 to meet with Iraqi government officials."
The primary go-between throughout these early stages was Sudanese strongman Hassan al-Turabi, a leader of the al Qaeda-affiliated National Islamic Front. Numerous sources have confirmed this. One defector reported that "al-Turabi was instrumental in arranging the Iraqi-al Qaeda relationship. The defector said Iraq sought al Qaeda influence through its connections with Afghanistan, to facilitate the transshipment of proscribed weapons and equipment to Iraq. In return, Iraq provided al Qaeda with training and instructors."
One such confirmation came in a postwar interview with one of Saddam Hussein's henchmen. As the memo details:
4. According to a May 2003 debriefing of a senior Iraqi intelligence officer, Iraqi intelligence established a highly secretive relationship with Egyptian Islamic Jihad, and later with al Qaeda. The first meeting in 1992 between the Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS) and al Qaeda was brokered by [* leader of Sudan's al Qaeda affiliated National Islamic Front, Hassan] al-Turabi. Former IIS deputy director Faruq Hijazi and senior al Qaeda leader [Ayman al] Zawahiri were at the meeting--the first of several between 1992 and 1995 in Sudan. Additional meetings between Iraqi intelligence and al Qaeda were held in Pakistan. Members of al Qaeda would sometimes visit Baghdad where they would meet the Iraqi intelligence chief [Mani abd-al-Rashid al-Tikriti] in a safe house. The report claimed that [Iraqi leader] Saddam [Hussein] insisted the relationship with al Qaeda be kept secret. After 9-11, the source said Saddam made a personnel change in the IIS for fear the relationship would come under scrutiny from foreign probes. ------- "The U.S. government's secret memo detailing cooperation between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. ," by Stephen F. Hayes, 11/24/2003, the Weekly Standard, Volume 009, Issue 11
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1995 : (TAMPA, FL : SAMI AL ARIAN) [Sami] Al-Arian's close ties to both PIJ and Hamas go back to at least 1995. Al-Arian used a group he founded, the Islamic Committee for Palestine, to plead for funds for PIJ and Hamas. Conferences organized by ICP featured Islamic Jihad founder Abdel Aziz-Odeh, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman (spiritual leader of the 1993 World Trade Center bombers), leading Hamas official Mohammed Sakr and high-ranking Sudanese terrorist Hassan Turabi, a close ally of Osama bin Laden. --------- Democrats' imam was character witness to terror supporter , WorldNetDaily.com, Thursday, July 29, 2004
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1994 : (SUDAN : BIN LADEN REQUESTS THAT IRAQ ASSIST AL QAEDA WITH THE PROCUREMENT OF ANTISHIP LIMPET MINES, AND ALSO REQUESTED THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AL QAEDA TRAINING CAMPS WITHIN IRAQ - See FARUQ HIJAZI OF IIS later ALSO AMBASSADOR TO TUNISIA,TURKEY) ----------- "The Mother of All Connections (New evidence of collaboration between Saddam's Iraq and al Qaeda)," by Stephen F. Hayes & Thomas Joscelyn, The Weekly Standard, July 18, 2005
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The right question is: Who other than al-Ani did Atta meet with in Praha?
Or maybe Al Ani is a red herring, Atta met with someone else. Search "Hijazi". Remember the story of the Iraqi "ambassador" to Turkey???
NEW YORK, Oct. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- The ringleader of the 19 hijackers from the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Mohamed Atta, met twice with Iraq intelligence operatives in Prague, in June 2000 and then again last April, Newsweek reports in the current issue. The second meeting was with Farouk Hijazi, Iraq's ambassador to Turkey, who was called back to Baghdad before Sept. 11. One intelligence source called the two meetings interesting, but still far from proof of Iraqi involvement in the plot, Newsweek reports.87 posted on 06/18/2004 9:58:11 AM PDT by Shermy