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To: bronxville

July 6, 1995-June 26, 1996:

Bojinka Suspect Granted Asylum in Australia and Continues to Live There Openly -

A SYRIAN suspected of involvement in the al-Qaeda BOJINKA PLOT is granted asylum in AUSTRALIA even though the Australian GOVERNMENT IS AWARE OF SOME OF HIS APPARENT TERRORISM TIES. AHMAD al-HAMWI, a.k.a. OMAR ABU OMAR, was head of the International Relations and Information Center (IRIC) from 1993 to 1995, a charity front closely tied to the failed Bojinka plot (see January 6, 1995).

In 1995, PHILIPPINE INVESTIGATORS determined that MOST OF THE FUNDING FOR THE PLOT WENT THROUGH A BANK ACCOUNT CONTROLLED BY AL-HAMWI. [Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies, 3/7/2003 pdf file]

At the same time, he was ROOMMATES with MOHAMMED JAMAL KHALIFA, bin LADEN’S BROTHER-IN-LAW, AND MARRIED THE SISTER OF ONE OF KHALIFA’S PHILIPPINE WIVES. He worked closely with Khalifa in the IRIC until Khalifa was forced to leave the country in late 1994 (see December 1, 1994). [Australian, 4/8/2006]

Shortly after the BOJINKA PLOT FOILED BY PHILIPPINE AUTHORITIES in early 1995, the IRIC is shut down and al-HAMWI is brought in for questioning. HOWEVER, HE IS LET GO and TRAVELS TO AUSTRALIA in July 1995 THEN IMMEDIATELY APPLIES FOR ASYLUM.

The Australian asylum review board is aware of the following things:

He was interrogated by Philippines intelligence and questioned about his ties to WTC bomber RAMZI YOUSEF and the BOJINKA PLOT TO KILL THE POPE.

He tells the review board that he was interrogated by a senior officer with direct ties to the Philippine president

He came into Australia using a fake Dutch passport and has two fake Syrian passports (again with the fake passports yet they keep him...).

He has ties to Khalifa, who had been convicted of funding a bombing in Jordan.

He is a longtime member of the militant group the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD.

But incredibly, in June 1996 he is GRANTED HIM ASYLUM on the grounds that he could be persecuted in Syria due to his ties to the Brotherhood. [Refugee Review Tribunal, 6/26/1996; Australian, 4/8/2006]

In 2006, it will be reported that he is STILL LIVING OPENLY IN AUSTRALIA. FURTHER, PHILIPPINES INTELLIGENCE ALLEGES THAT HE CAME TO THE PHILIPPINES HAVING BEEN BANNED FROM TURKEY FOR HIS SUSPECTED INVOLVEMENT IN A in a 1986 BOBMING THERE.

IT IS NOT CLEAR HOW THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT MISSED INFORMATION LIKE THIS, OR IF THEY JUST IGNORED IT. [Australian, 4/8/2006]

In the wake of these 2006 reports, the Australian government will claim to be investigating his status. Yet there have been no reports that he has been arrested or had his residency revoked since then. [Australian, 4/10/2006; Age (Melbourne), 4/10/2006]”

It’s difficult to believe that ALL of our Intelligentsia are such bumbling fools. There are obviously higher powers manipulating who goes where...else how can one account for this craziness...like the attempted bomber NY Times Sq fiasco. Only for our NY Cops he’d have gotten away...I guess the higher powers didn’t get to them on time or they haven’t gained power over them, yet...and a salute to Philippine Intelligence.


71 posted on 02/06/2011 7:11:45 PM PST by bronxville
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To: bronxville

September 13, 1995:

Muslim Militant Rendered by CIA in Croatia, Then Killed in Egypt -

TALAAT FOUAD QASSEM, 38, a known leader of the Al-GAMA’S AL-ISLAMIYYA (the Islamic Group), an EGYPTIAN EXTREMIST ORGANIZATION, is arrested and detained in CROATIA as he travels to BOSNIA from DENMARK, where he has been been LIVING AFTER BEING GRANTED POLITICAL ASYLUM. He is suspected of clandestine support of terrorist operations, including the 1993 WORLD TRADE CENTER BOMBING (see February 26, 1993). HE ALSO ALLEGEDLY LED MUJAHEDDIN EFFORTS IN BOSNIA SINCE 1990 (see 1990).

In a joint operation, HE IS ARRESTED BY CROATIAN INTELLIGENCE AGENTS and HANDED OVER TO THE CIA. QASSEM is then INTERROGATED BY US OFFICIALS aboard a US ship off the Croatian coast in the Adriatic Sea and SENT TO EGYPT, which has a rendition agreement with the US (see Summer 1995). An EGYPTIAN MILITARY TRIBUNAL HAS ALREADY SENTENCED HIM TO DEATH IN ABSENTIA, and HE IS EXECUTED SOON AFTER HE ARRIVES. [Associated Press, 10/31/1995; Washington Post, 3/11/2002, pp. A01; Mahle, 2005, pp. 204-205; New Yorker, 2/8/2005]

According to the 1999 book Dollars for Terror, TWO WEEKS BEFORE HIS ABDUCTION, QASSEM WAS IN SWITZERLAND NEGOTIATING AGAINST THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD LEADERS. SOME MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD EXILES WERE NEGOTIATING WITH THE EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT TO BE ALLOWED TO RETURN TO EGYPT IF THEY AGREED NOT TO USE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD SWISS BANK ACCOUNTS TO FUND EGYPTIAN MILLITANT GROUPS LIKE Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya, BUT Qassem and other radicals OPPOSE this deal. So THE REMOVAL OF QASSEM HELPS THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD IN THEIR CONFLICT WITH MORE MILITANT GROUPS. [Labeviere, 1999, pp. 70-71]”

The Muslim Brotherhood is the favored son - Apollo.


72 posted on 02/06/2011 7:32:31 PM PST by bronxville
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