Posted on 08/28/2002 10:30:13 PM PDT by Destro
The following is a vanity and posted as such. The conclusions reached are my own but I think they are worthy of review Bush shuts down terrorist financial support network in U.S. that Clinton knew existed and ignored
On August 28, 2002 the AP reports:
In Seattle, American citizen and Muslim activist James Ujaama was accused in a two-count indictment of trying to set up a "jihad (holy war) training camp" on the West Coast and providing support and resources to al-Qaida. The indictment accused him of leading discussions about creating poison to use on the public and firebombing vehicles. Ujaama has repeatedly denied any ties to terrorism.
Separately, four men who had been in the United States since at least 2000 were charged in Detroit with operating a "covert underground support unit" and a "sleeper operational combat cell" for a radical Islamic movement allied with al-Qaida. A fifth man whose full name isn't known by the government was also named in the indictment.
Both indictments used a law barring people living in the United States from providing "material support and resources" to terrorist groups. U.S. officials said Wednesday they expected several more such indictments in coming months as the FBI, Customs Service and other federal agencies attempt to block money and operational support from the United States from reaching terror groups overseas. "The evidence that is being developed suggests that America has been a piggy bank for certain terror organizations to the tune of tens of millions of dollars," said a senior law enforcement official directly involved in the investigation. Agents believe they have uncovered a broad effort by U.S. residents — many who are citizens or legal residents — to use credit card thefts, illegal cigarette sales, diverted charitable funds and cash smuggled in airline luggage to enrich anti-American and anti-Israeli terror groups, the officials said. "The material support for terrorism has to be regarded as serious as terrorism itself," said Charles Mandigo, the FBI's top agent in Seattle where Ujama was investigated. One law enforcement official said agents also recently began investigating possible terrorist funding schemes that employ the Internet or defrauding of federal aid programs. That official said evidence so far indicates the anti-Israel groups Hamas and Hezbollah receive far more support from U.S. soil than al-Qaida.
------ With the above facts in mind I direct the reader to the following Seattle news item from Channel 6000:
FBI Investigates Local Ties To Al-Qaida (Chechnya, al-Qaida and American Donations)
Channel 6000
Thursday November 15 02:56 PM EST
FBI Investigates Local Ties To Al-Qaida As investigators try to shut off the flow of money to al-Qaida, they're looking closely at a bank branch inside an Albertson's store in Clackamas. The tiny strip-mall bank is the focus of an inquiry by the FBI, the state department, and the Russian government. A Seattle newspaper reports that a radical faction from Chechnya is collecting donations for al-Qaida through an account at the US Bank branch at Sunnyside Square. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer quotes sources as saying that the Russians have repeatedly asked United States officials to shut down the account without success. The owner of the account lists an address in West Linn, but police think he's not in the area anymore.
---------- Let us read this line again The Seattle Post-Intelligencer quotes sources as saying that the Russians have repeatedly asked United States officials to shut down the account without success.
The US officials at the time were the Clinton ones since Bush was only in office a short time before this investigation happened.
I ask any investigative body out there WHY DID CLINTON'S OFFICIALS IGNORE what amounted to a Russian tip off about terrorist funding in the US? Did the Clinton administration assume that the funding being gathered by this and other accounts was targeting Russia and therefore not a threat to America?
WHAT DID CLINTON KNOW AND WHEN DID HE KNOW IT AND..AND...WHY DID CLINTON IGNORE IT!!!!
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer quotes sources as saying that the Russians have repeatedly asked United States officials to shut down the account without success.
Destro, i personally think that such events occur when those in power act in ways that show lack of intelligence. After all why did they refuse to use the info given to them by the Russians? Maybe the reason was arogance or maybe some political hang-up. Who knows.
I will bet Putin has LOTS of documentation on a variety of interesting subjects, this one among them.
If someone had enough time & testicles, I'm sure it could be found out they DID...After all, If Jihad Cindy can get the dough, surely Hamas Hitlery can.
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