People like Ed Lake lament that the United States Department of Justice and Lousiana State University were opposed to having someone work in a taxpayer-funded program where he had forged a PhD certificate in gaining access to the deadly ebola pathogen. But would it not have been irresponsible NOT to exclude him? (The training of law enforcement and first responders was going to include exercises at Dugway). Ed says it is “blaming the victim” to not allow someone who forged a PhD in gaining access to a BL-4 — to the contrary, the victim of the fraud is the government. Taxpayers are the victim of the fraud. At deposition, Dr. Hatfill could not even begin to remember how many times he had falsely claimed to have a PhD. He was falsely claiming to have a PhD at the time he briefed the FBI’s DC Field Office on bioweapons. Ed’s lackadaisical approach to biosecurity — and his “the clock ticked 5 p.m. so I’m outta here” approach to true crime analysis — is precisely the attitude of many who work for the government. When they do stand up and make the right decisions aimed at avoiding know-how from being allowed to fall in the hands who lack integrity and moral responsibility, they should not be faulted.
Ed’s lackadaisical approach to biosecurity also extends to the threat posed by salafi-jihadists. The blind sheik’s son, Mohammed Abdel-Rahman, would come to the United States and speaking alongside Ali-Timimi at IANA charity conferences He was a close associate of the “911 imam.” His mentor was a self-described recruiter for jihadis. His other mentor with whom he was actively working was Bin Laden’s sheik. IANA was a charity formed after WTC 1993 to spread the views of Bin Laden’s sheiks who were the subject of the 1996 Declaration of War and the claim of responsibility for the 1998 bombing of the embassies
The USG has explained in an indictment: “On or about September 21, 2000, an Arabic television station, Al Jazeera, televised a meeting of Usama Bin Laden (leader of the al Qaeda terrorist organization), Ayman al Zawahiri (former leader of the Egyptian Islamic Jiha organization and one of Bin Laden’s top lieutenants), and Taha. Sitting under a banner which read, “Convention to Support Honorable Omar Abdel Rahman,” the three terrorist leaders pledged “mad to free Abdel Rahman from incarceration in the United States.” During the meeting, Mohammed Abdel Rahman, a/k/a “Asadallah,” who is a son of Abdel Rahman, was heard encouraging others to “avenge your Sheikh” and “go to the spilling of blood.”
Now why did not United States counterintelligence not pick up and act on the fact that Mohammed Abdel Rahman was speaking alongside Ali Al-Timimi at a charity conference at a time he was a government employee working for Andrew Card, then Secretary of the Department of Transportation? Why wasn’t Al-Timimi’s Salafist-jihadist connections explored before he was granted a security clearance in working for the Navy while at SRA International? Why after 9/11, was his office moved to not much more than 15 feet away from the leading anthrax scientist in the world and the man in charge of threat assessment for the United States government, a former deputy commander of USAMRIID? We, of course, now have the benefit of the hindsight and even electronic intercepts. Prior lapses perhaps can be excused given Ali’s moderate demeanor and well-crafted speech. But what could excuse Ed and TrebleRebel NOW in not understanding what happened? The USG is under no similar misapprehension and has had clarity on these issues for at least half a decade. TrebelRebel has tunnel-vision on a narrow issue that has blinded him to the correct true crime analysis.
While Al-Timimi was recruiting for the Taliban, he was also connected to one of the principals on Al Qaeda’s WMD Committee, Mohammed Abdel-Rahman. The CIA and FBI have known this for years now but have kept it secret as part of their ongoing confidential national security and criminal investigation. Mohammed Abdel-Rahman spoke at the first conference of the Islamic Assembly of North America (”IANA”) in 1993 and was noted to be from Afghanistan. Mohammed Abdelrahman spoke alongside Ali Al-Timimi again, for example, in 1996 in Toronto and again that December in Chicago at the annual conference. The December conference was held after blind sheik Abdel-Rahman was indicted. Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation was closely involved in the financing and promotion of IANA activities. Al-Buthi of Al-Haramain was in contact with Bin Laden’s sheiks and also his brother-in-law Khalifa who had funded the KSM-led Bojinka operation. Global Relief Foundation participated in and sponsored a number of annual conferences. GRF sent money to IANA to offset the conferences’ costs. Mohammed Abdel-Rahman was close to bin Laden and was engaged in planning key operations. OBL considered him like a son. Mohammed was on the three member WMD committee with Midhat Mursi. Mohammed Abdel-Rahman ran a training camp that was part of the larger complex of several camps. He was an explosives trainer.
The “Superseding Indictment” in United States of postal employee Ahmed Abdel Sattar et al., explains that on February 12, 1997, with Mohammed Abdelrahman back in Afghanistan, a statement issued in the name of the Islamic Group threatened, “The Islamic Group declares all American interests legitimate targets to its legitimate jihad until the release of all prisoners, on top of whom” is Abdel Rahman. Three months later, on May 5, 1997, a statement issued in the name of the Islamic Group threatened, “If any harm comes to the [S]heikh [,] al-Gama al-IsIalamiy[y]a will target [] all of those Americans who participated in subjecting his life to danger.” The statement also said that “A1-Gamaa al-Islamiyya considers every American official, starting with the American president to the despicable jailer [] partners endangering the Sheikh’s life,” and that the Islamic Group would do “everything in its power” to free Abdel Rahman.
The same person who posted notice of the 1996 conference where Al-Timimi, Bilal Philips and Mohammed Abdel-Rahman spoke, then posted notice of a protest titled “STOP RAILROADING OF SHEIKH OMAR ABDEL RAHMAN - PROTEST US POLICIES AGAINST ISLAM.” The Rally was to take place on June 20, 1997 in front of the US Bureau of Prisons in Washington DC.
An FBI affidavit, drafted in support of a warrant for the search of Post Office employee Sattar’s Staten Island apartment, explains that Sattar was the communications hub to and from the imprisoned Abdel-Rahman. The 42-year-old postal worker worked as a paralegal during the blind terrorist’s federal trial for attorneys Lynne Stewart and Stanley Cohen. Sattar was in frequent contact with IG leaders worldwide, including Rifa’i Taha Musa (”Taha”) and WMD Committee member Abdel-Rahman’s son Mohammed.
Al Qaeda continued to seek religious approval from blind sheik Abdel-Rahman for its attacks. The US indictment of the Post Office worker in contact with Mohammed Abdel-Rahman alleged: “On or about June 19, 2000, one of Abdel Rahman’s sons, Mohammed Abdel Rahman, spoke by telephone with SATTAR and asked SATTAR to convey to Abdel Rahman the fierceness of the debate within the Islamic Group about the initiative, and said that “even if the other side is right,” SATTAR should tell Abdel Rahman to calm the situation by supporting “the general line of the Group.” The indictment of the US Post Office worker Sattar further alleges: “On or about June 20, 2000, SATTAR spoke by telephone with Mohammed Abdel Rahman and advised him that a conference call had taken place that morning between Abdel Pahman and some of his attorneys and that Abdel Rahman had issued a new statement containing additional points which made clear, among other things, that Abdel Rahman was not unilaterally ending the initiative, but rather, was withdrawing his support for it and “stating that it was up” to the “brothers” in the Islamic Group now to reconsider the issue.
In December 2001, the blind sheik’s lawyer Montasser Al-Zayat — the fellow in touch with US Post Office employee Sattar who claimed in March 1999 that Zawahiri was going to use weaponized anthrax against US targets — claimed that Mohammed Abdel-Rahman, 29, had died from wounds received during the bombardment of the Tora Bora caves in eastern Afghanistan. He said his information came from an Islamic activist in London. The report was false. Mohammed Abdel-Rahman was arrested in mid-February 2003 and Ali Al-Timimi’s townhouse was searched two week later.
The FBI feels that they are damned if they do, and damned if they don’t. They are criticized for making arrests too soon — other times they are criticized for not acting sooner. They are criticized when they don’t give out any information. They are criticized when they do. All the while, the public is seldom well-positioned to second-guess the issue and commenators like Ed and TrebleRebel remain willfully ignorant of the steps the FBI has taken to neutralize the anthrax threat.
“Summons to Conquest”
http://www.anthraxandalqaeda.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J751cTFWVM
“Do I look like I’m negotiating?”
— George Clooney in “Michael Clayton”
Ed’s lackadaisical approach to biosecurity — and his “the clock ticked 5 p.m. so I’m outta here” approach to true crime analysis —
Ed’s lackadaisical approach to biosecurity also extends to the threat posed by salafi-jihadists.
“Do I look like I’m negotiating?”
Your comments are starting to get pretty creepy. You're reminding me once again of what was said about you in another thread:
Nothing personal...but you sound a little bit on the obsessive side, and not completely coherent. Are you surprised that people might ask to have you banned? Besides the obvious trespass of registering under a new name after being banned, you have the sound of someone who might drive halfway across the country to find someone who offended you in a post.