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Copyright 2002 by Patrick B. Briley Admiral William O. Studeman served as acting CIA director from 11 January 1995 to 3 July 1995 during the time of the OKC Bombing on April 19, 1995. Studeman had been appointed by President GHW Bush and became Deputy Director of CIA on 9 April 1992. Studeman became acting Director of the CIA when Admiral Woolsey unexpectedly resigned as Director of the CIA in January 1995. Studeman served as acting director until replaced by John Deutsch in July 1995. Previously Studeman had served as the Director of Naval Intelligence (1985-1988) and then as the...

Excerpted: NEWSWEEK has learned that one of the bureau’s informants had a close relationship with two of the hijackers THE CONNECTION, JUST discovered by congressional investigators, has stunned some top counterterrorism officials and raised new concerns about the information-sharing among U.S. law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. The two hijackers, Khalid Almihdhar and Nawaf Alhazmi, were hardly unknown to the intelligence community. The CIA was first alerted to them in January 2000, when the two Saudi nationals showed up at a Qaeda “summit” in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. FBI officials have argued internally for months that if the CIA had more quickly passed...

Saddam Hussein of Iraq hired mercenaries from Baluchistan for his war on terror against the US even before the 1991 Gulf War. Saddam’s Baluchi mercenaries have been very successful in attacking American targets and killing innocent American citizens in the 9/11, OKC and 1993 WTC Attacks. Khalid Mohammed and his nephew Ramzi Yousef were Saddam’s Baluchi mercenaries who attacked America for Saddam and Iraq. Middle East expert Lorie Mylroie has given eloquent proofs over the years of Saddam’s involvement in the 1993 WTC attack. The FBI and DOJ publicly say Khalid Mohammed was a mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks and...

There is sure to be much debate in the coming days about what has and hasn't changed in Washington since last Sept. 11. Political talk shows will spend hours debating this over the next few weeks. One thing they probably won't discuss: the Federal Bureau of Investigation's unchanged penchant for destroying the lives of innocent U.S. citizens. Oh sure, the Bureau is under new management and former Director Louis Freeh's cronies have left for greener pastures. The Bureau's missions have changed, again, and now focus on terrorism and counterintelligence. The Bureau has new "tools" to fight terrorists and spies, including...

Copyright 2002 by Patrick B. Briley Sargeant Don Browning, a K9 unit police officer for OKC found many living and dead out of the Murrah rubble. Browning had the courage to testify before the OK County Grand Jury and stand up for another police officer, Terry Yeaky, who was murdered but the FBI and police chief called it suicide. Yet no autopsy was done on Yeakey and his wounds according to a coroners report were consistent with murder. Browning complained strongly that the autopsy should have been done and that the OKC police chief Gonzales and the FBI had covered...

Copyright 2002 by Patrick B. Briley The conclusions and findings in this long summary are based on interviews with private attorneys, law enforcement, Pentagon and Congressional officials, journalists and witnesses as well as analysis of news articles from major media over the last seven years. I am summarizing very important new material as well as old material previously reported in replies and articles I have written and posted on FreeRepublic.com since June 2000. Important supporting evidence for the conclusions in this editorial has been provided to attorneys, Congressional officials and to the DOJ since 2000 So as to more efficiently...

If you turn your back on My precepts and commandments If you thrive on perjury and taking of bribes If you do not protect your own men, women and children and cause them to become widows, widowers and orphans If you murder children in their mother’s womb If you steal wages and pensions and stocks from your workers If you murder the reputations of My righteous men If you extol unnatural affection between men and between women If you divide Jerusalem and My Holy places for a price of betrayal among those who worship the God of Forces If you...

NewsMax reported in a story “Report Links LAX Shooter to Egyptian Jihad “ on July 5, 2002 that the LAX gunman Hesham Mohamed Hadayet was a secret operative of the Egyptian Jihad cell in Brooklyn, New York which helped Ramzi Youseff carry out the 1993 WTC attack. But the NewsMax story further reported that Hadayat abetted the pilot Gameel el-Batouty who deliberately crashed Egypt Air Flight 767 after it departing Los Angeles and was en route to Cairo via Kennedy airport in New York on October 31, 1999. The NewMax story also quoted other sources:. "Our sources affirm that Hadayat,...

Khalid Mohammed has been identified as one of the FBIs 22 most wanted for his role in masterminding or implementing the 9/11 attacks for Bin Laden and AlQaeda. This was reported in the NY Times in mid June 2002 by James Risen. It has recently been learned that Mohammed was directly involved with and oversaw the participants in the 1994 meeting with Terry Nichols in the Philippines to plan the OKC bombing. Khalid Mohammed was in charge of the men connected to AlQaeda, Bin Laden and Abu Sayeff, the men who met with Nichols in the Philippines to plot the...

Essam Al-Ridi says his life is "ruined" because he agreed to testify for the Justice Department against al Qaeda members. — Airline pilot Essam Al-Ridi admits helping Osama bin Laden buy a plane to transport Stinger missiles 10 years ago. But he says he did the right thing as a U.S. citizen by testifying and helping to put four al Qaeda members behind bars. The 1992 deal was years before bin Laden emerged as a terrorist leader, and Al-Ridi has never been accused of belonging to bin Laden's al Qaeda terror network. Al-Ridi, 43, was born in Egypt but came...

MANILA, Philippines –– The man suspected of masterminding the Sept. 11 attacks lived lavishly in the Philippines with his nephew, the 1993 World Trade Center plotter, partying, scuba-diving and renting a helicopter as they planned attacks against Americans, according to a former police official who investigated al-Qaida. U.S. counterterrorism officials have said that since Sept. 11, evidence has mounted that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was chief among Osama bin Laden lieutenants organizing the plot that sent hijacked passenger jets crashing into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field, killing more than 3,000 people. Abu Zubaydah – a senior...

Journalists and congressional investigators are beginning to trace the terror trail backward from 9-11 to Oklahoma City and the earlier World Trade Center bombing. Ramzi Yousef, the reputed mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, sits in a federal maximum-security prison in Florence, Colorado, serving a life sentence. Terry Nichols, the convicted co-conspirator of Timothy McVeigh in the Oklahoma City bombing, is incarcerated in the Oklahoma County Jail. He faces a life sentence without parole for the deaths of eight federal law enforcement agents in that 1995 bombing, as well as an upcoming state trial for the deaths of...

Excerpt: FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III is coming under fire from some conservatives for agreeing to deliver a keynote address this week to the American Muslim Council, a group whose founder has declared support for the Hamas and Hezbollah militant groups. The council, which is holding a four-day convention in Alexandria that begins Thursday, also has urged members to contribute to two charities, the Holy Land Foundation and the Global Relief Foundation, whose assets have been frozen by the Bush administration for alleged ties to terrorists. To read the rest of the article, visit the source URL.

The director of the FBI is facing allegations from one of the bureau's lawyers that he twisted the truth to hide failings by senior agents that could have prevented the September 11 attacks.

This article presents, analyzes and adds important new information about a recent letter to the editor of the Washington Times concerning the nominee for FBI Director, Robert Mueller. The letter was published on page A-11 of the Times on July 28, 2001 and was written by Patrick Downes of Boston. His letter was entitled “FBI Appointment Needs More Investigation”. While Downes letter is to the editor, it provides valuable information about Mueller’s previous role in DOJ collusion to help facilitate FBI and DOJ corruption in mishandling evidence in important cases. The text of the letter is first reproduced and then...

GREG PALAST: The CIA and Saudi Arabia, the Bushes and the Bin Ladens. Did their connections cause America to turn a blind eye to terrorism? UNNAMED MAN: There is a hidden agenda at the very highest levels of our government. JOE TRENTO, (AUTHOR, "SECRET HISTORY OF THE CIA"): The sad thing is that thousands of Americans had to die needlessly. PETER ELSNER: How can it be that the former President of the US and the current President of the US have business dealings with characters that need to be investigated? PALAST: In the eight weeks since the attacks, over 1,000...

On September 23rd, twelve days after the terror attacks on America, Secretary of State Colin Powell told a Sunday-morning television-news show that the Bush Administration planned to publish a white paper that would prove to the world that Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda organization were responsible for the hijackings. "We are putting all of the information that we have together, the intelligence information, the information being generated by the F.B.I. and other law-enforcement agencies," Powell said. The information that the White House had available, we now know, included a top-secret briefing, given to President Bush on August 6th,...

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation largely ignored an appeal from one of its field offices to investigate suspicious pilot training by Middle Eastern men weeks before the September 11 attacks, FBI Director Robert Mueller acknowledged. The damaging admission came as the beleaguered agency scrambled to fight back allegations that it might have missed telltale signs of the coming tragedy. "That was received at headquarters," Mueller said of the appeal as he testified Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee. "It was not acted on by September 11. "The episode became the focus of congressional scrutiny over the weekend, when FBI...

Copyright 2002 by Patrick B. Briley Dan Vogel’s services at the OKC office of the FBI field office spanned more than two decades. Vogel was a public information spokesman for the FBI under FBI agent Bob Ricks during the time of the WACO siege and the OKC bombing. When he first entered the FBI, Dan Vogel was sent to the FBI training center in Quantico, Virginia. Vogel first served starting in 1975 in the FBI Los Angeles Division in California where the FBI ran a program called CointellPro. The agent in charge in the California FBI office at the time...

60 Minutes II Transcript of FBI Agent Dan Vogel Remarks About the OKC Bombing May 29, 2001 (CBS) In the next few days Timothy McVeigh will decide whether to fight his death sentence. If he does it will be based in part on what a former Oklahoma FBI agent says about missing documents in the McVeigh case. Tonight, you will hear from that man... As well as three other agents who worked the case…. The case known at the FBI as “okbomb.” They believe in their investigation, but have doubts about the FBI’s explanation for not turning over thousands of...