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Muslim Cleric Anwar Awlaki Linked to Fort Hood, Northwest Flight 253 Terror Attacks
ABC World News ^ | Dec. 29, 2009 | RUSSELL GOLDMAN
Posted on December 29, 2009 12:03:00 PM PST by jersey117

Most Americans have never heard of Anwar al Awlaki, but the radical Muslim cleric who may have inspired a young Nigerian man to try to blow up a plane on Christmas Day has been linked to the alleged perpetrators of the deadliest terror attacks on U.S. soil this decade, from 9/11 to the massacre at Fort Hood....

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To: jersey117
Awlaki is regarded as a protege of Abd-al-Majid Al-Zindani, who was designated by the U.S. Treasury as a terrorist on February 24, 2004. Zindani was a close associate of Osama bin Laden, and he set up the Al Iman University in Sanaa in Yemen.
As reported by the Jamestown Foundation, there have been rumors that Al-Zindani gave a fatwa that resulted in the attack on USS Cole in the Gulf of Aden in 2000, an event that killed 17 U.S. sailors.

Much more on Awlaki at the link.

10 posted on December 29, 2009 1:42:28 PM PST by TigersEye (Tar & feathers! Pitchforks and torches! ... Get some while supplies last.)
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To: PA-RIVER
The terrorists who flew the plane into the Pentagon lived here in San Diego as well as the Imam Anwar al-Awlaki
Awlaki also received a M.A. degree from San Diego St. Univ.

11 posted on December 29, 2009 1:47:22 PM PST by SoCalPol (Reagan Republican for Palin 2012)
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To: PA-RIVER; Cindy
Awlaki returned in 1991 to study engineering at Colorado State University.
That’s interesting - Yemen supported Iraq in the Gulf War which was going on about that time. Yemen has a few political parties of note- one is the Baathist Party, which is also found in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and which was born in Syria.

I wonder if the Baathist party sent an operative to the US under his name on purpose , not unlike the 1993 WTC bomb plotter Michell Malkin often talks about ...

13 posted on December 29, 2009 8:45:08 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa
Colorado.

Thank you piasa.

14 posted on December 29, 2009 10:05:01 PM PST by Cindy
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1472411/posts?page=66#66

To: RWR8189; Cindy; Ernest_at_the_Beach
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1472411/posts?q=1&;page=41
...HERE IS WHAT WE KNOW TODAY about Ahmed Hikmat Shakir. In August 1999, Shakir, a 37-year-old Iraqi, accepted a position as a “facilitator” at the airport in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. A “facilitator” works for an airline and assists VIP travelers with paperwork required for entry and other logistical issues. Shakir got the job because someone in the Iraqi embassy in Malaysia wanted him to have it. He started that fall.

Although Shakir officially worked for Malaysian Airlines, his contact in the Iraqi embassy controlled his schedule. On January 5, 2000, Shakir apparently received an assignment from his embassy contact. He was to escort a recent arrival through immigration at the airport.

Khalid al Mihdhar, a well-connected al Qaeda member who would later help hijack American Airlines Flight 77, had come to Malaysia for an important al Qaeda meeting that would last at least three days. (Shakir may have also assisted Nawaf al Hazmi, another hijacker, thought to have arrived on January 4, 2000.)

Malaysian intelligence photographed Shakir greeting al Mihdhar at the airport and walking him to a waiting car. But rather than see the new arrival off, he hopped in the car with al Mihdhar and accompanied him to the meeting.

Malaysian intelligence has provided its photographs to the CIA. While U.S. officials can place Shakir at the meeting with the hijackers and several high-ranking al Qaeda operatives, they do not know whether Shakir participated actively. (Also present at the meeting were Hambali, al Qaeda’s top man in South Asia, and Khallad, later identified as the mastermind of the attack on the USS Cole.)

The meeting concluded on January 8, 2000. Shakir reported to work at the airport on January 9 and January 10, and then never again. Khalid al Mihdhar and Nawaz al Hazmi also disappeared briefly, then flew from Bangkok, Thailand, to Los Angeles on January 15, 2000. Shakir, the Iraqi-born facilitator, would be arrested six days after the September 11 attacks by authorities in Doha, Qatar. According to an October 7, 2002, article by Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman, “A search of Shakir’s apartment in Doha, the country’s capital, yielded a treasure trove, including telephone records linking him to suspects in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and Project Bojinka, a 1994 Manila plot to blow up civilian airliners over the Pacific Ocean.” (Isikoff, it should be noted, has been a prominent skeptic of an Iraq-al Qaeda connection.)

Shakir had contact information for a lot of bad people. As noted, one was a Kuwaiti, Ibrahim Suleiman, whose fingerprints were found on the bombmaking manuals U.S. authorities allege were used in preparation for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Suleiman was convicted of perjury and deported to Jordan. Another was Musab Yasin, the brother of 1993 Trade Center bomber Abdul Rahman Yasin. Yet another was Zahid Sheikh Mohammed, brother of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the September 11 attacks, now in U.S. custody. Shakir also had an old number for Taba Investments, an al Qaeda front group. It was the number long used by Mahmdouh Mahmud Salim, the highest-ranking Iraqi member of al Qaeda. According to testimony from al Qaeda informants, Salim maintained a good relationship with Saddam’s intelligence service.

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Who was it that Hikmat Shakir’s charges future 9/11 hijackers Khalid al Mihdhar and Nawaz al Hazmi, met with after their arrival in Los Angeles and later followed all the way to his new mosque in Falls Church, Va?

Imam Anwar al Awlaki / al Aulaqi, the Imam of Major Hasan, the Fort Hood shooter who wanted to try US troops assigned to him as his patients for war crimes and who opted to just murder 14 other US troops at fort Hood in November 2009.

Who was the inspiration of the Fort Dix plotters?

Imam Anwar al Aulaqi.

Who helped the crotch bomber Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab of Nigeria make his preparations to murder more than 200 people on Christmas Day this year when the bomber visited Yemen?

Imam Anwar al Aulaqi.

Given how the 9/11 Commission’s libs relegated Hikmat Shakir’s involvement with the perps in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing on up to the perps of the 2000 USS Cole bombing and even 9/11 hijackers to the footnotes...

No wonder the libs are freaked out over Ft. Hood and this latest attempt on an aircraft.

66 posted on December 29, 2009 11:32:10 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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Speaking of Yemen...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2423399/posts?page=17#17

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Suspect in Soldier Attack Was Once Detained in Yemen (The almost forgotten terrorist attack)
NY Times ^ | 6/3/2009 | JAMES DAO and DAVID JOHNSTON
Posted on January 7, 2010 2:57:29 PM PST by tobyhill

A 23-year-old man charged with killing one soldier and seriously wounding another in a shooting outside an Army recruiting office in Little Rock, Ark., was once detained in Yemen for possessing a fake Somali passport and other counterfeit documents, law enforcement officials said Tuesday.

The episode in Yemen prompted a preliminary inquiry by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other American law enforcement agencies into whether the man, Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, had ties to extremist groups, the officials said. But that investigation was inconclusive, they said, leaving the bureau with insufficient evidence to wiretap his phone or put him under surveillance.

It is not clear when Mr. Muhammad, an American convert to Islam who was traveling on a valid United States passport, was detained in Yemen or why he would have been carrying counterfeit documents. His detention in Yemen was first reported Tuesday by ABC News.

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