continuing from previous postings... Patrick B. Briley's report to the
Congressional Committee on 911:
The Commission should determine if the Williams memo and conversations
with the CIA
reached Cofer Black of the CIA part of CTC and if William's
information was included
in the CIA report concerning Al Qaeda attacks inside the US discussed
by Dr. Rice at
President Bush's Daily Brief on August 6, 2001. If this information
was not provided in
the CIA report and part of Dr. Rice's briefing on Aug 6, 2001, then
the Commission
should determine why it was not, especially since then it should have
been, because the
CIA knew about it in detail from Ken Williams in time to put it in the
CIA report for Dr.
Rice.
The Commission needs to be fully aware that according to Senate
Intelligence Committee
staff Director Eleanor Hill, the White House ordered the classifying
and withholding
from Congress all information the US knew about terror mastermind
Khalid Mohammed
and his 9/11 plot plans, the foreign [Saudi] sponsorship of the plans
with money and help
to 9/11 hijackers Al Hazmi and Al Mihdhar and Hani Hanjour via Saudi
Omar Al-Bayoumi
and all antecedent information the President was told about the 9/11
plot before 9/11.
The 9/11 Congressional report leaves out the most important facts that
the information
from Ken Williams memo (that reached the CIA) was specific about Al
Qaeda attacks
inside the US using hijacked airlines with the very hijacker pilots
ATTA, HANJOUR,
AL MIHDHAR and AL HAZMI that lived with and/or visited and were helped
by the FBI
informant Abdussattar Shaikh and with the help of the Saudi Omar Al-Bayomi.
The Commission should review and investigate why this information is
not in the final
900-page 9/11 report issued by Congress and why the information was
withheld from
Congress even though part of it may have once been in the redacted 28
pages of the
report.
I received a phone call from James Lewis, the staff director (who
helped write and
assemble the 900 page report) for the House Intelligence Committee
over this story
before the Congressional report on 9/11 came out. Lewis told me that I
could provide
him with information if I wanted to but he also advised me that I
would be under
investigation by law enforcement such as the FBI for anything I told
him or provided him
in writing.
Before the Congressional report came out I also had a phone discussion
about this same
information with James Hensler, the staff director for the Senate
Intelligence Committee
who also helped write the 9/11 Congressional report. The OKC attorney
with whom I
have closely worked for almost 9 years, Michael Johnston wrote Mr.
Lewis and Mr
Hensler providing some of this information before the 9/11
Congressional report came
out. Mr. Johnston received no response and none of the information was
included in the
9/11 Congressional report.
The discussion in items 1-5 above and in items 6-7 below provides a
very strong basis to
conclude that Congress was not fully informed and in fact [was]
blocked by White House
actions and classifications over the 9/11 plot plans of Khalid
Mohammed and what the
FBI ,CIA , CTC and Bush and Clinton administrations knew or should
have known from
tracking the 9/11 hijacker pilots for several years before 9/11.
6. George Tenet has said publicly and recently that he and the CIA
only got incomplete
information - a first name and a phone number - two years before the
9/11 attacks, from
German intelligence about a member of the Hamburg cell of Atta and
Zarrah, namely
9/11 hijacker Al Shehhi.
The Tenet public explanation about Al Shehhi is inconsistent with
published accounts that
CIA agent David Edger monitored the Hamburg cell of Atta, Al Shehhi
and Zarrah for
almost four years before the 911 attacks with an informant Dakalzani.
The CIA and FBI
also appear to not want it publicly learned that a member of the
Hamburg cell, Ziah
Jarrah, had his ticket purchased on the Pennsylvania 9/11 flight by an
employee of
Oklahoma University (OU) with the knowledge of the FBI at the time
when CIA agent
Edger was in Norman working with Tenet's mentor, David Boren, the
former Chairman
of the Senate Intelligence Committee and the Chancellor of OU.
[Oklahoma University]
Ziah Jarrah's uncle supported Ziah while working for German
intelligence and Abu Nidal.
7. In 1998-2000 the CIA learned from monitoring a Malaysian meeting
with Hambali and
other Al Qaeda members that Zacahrias Moussaoui was Al Qaeda. And
Moussaoui was
sent from Paris via the Hamburg cell by Khalid Mohammed to live with
US citizen and
FBI informant Melvin Lattimore while attending the Norman OK Airman
flight school.
Lattimore's credit card was used to buy bomb-making materials in the
1993 WTC
bombing. Lattimore was with McVeigh's car and two other FBI informants
in OKC at
the time of the OKC bombing and was named to the FBI as part of the
OKC bombing one
day after the bombing. CIA operative Khalid Mohammed used Lattimore
for roles in the
1993 WTC, the OKC and the 9/11 attacks.
The CIA's top man at the CTC, Cofer Black, was in a position to have
known and to have
told Tenet about the connections of Moussaoui with Al Qaeda and his
monitoring in OK
by FBI informant Melvin Lattimore. Groups associated with the CTC
blocked Minnesota
FBI agents from searching Moussaoui's computer when the FBI (Dale
Watson) and CIA
(Black) CTC knew from 1998 -2000 that Moussauoi was Al Qaeda and
training for a
terror mission with hijacked airliners.
8. OKC bombing witness Gloria Smith is the Director of the Travelers
Aid that was down
the street from the bombed Murrah Federal building in OKC. Smith and
three of her
co-workers saw three key suspects that were FBI informants with
McVeigh's car at the
Travelers Aid.
One of the suspects is the known terrorist and the long time FBI
informant, Melvin
Lattimore who is also a Black Muslim originally from St Louis.
Lattimore was Zacharias Moussaoui's roommate who Khalid Mohammed had
sent via
Paris and the Hamberg cell to live with Lattimore while Moussaoui
attended the Norman
OK flight school. Lattimore's credit card was used to buy bomb-making
materials for the
Khalid Mohammed planned and Ramzi Yousef executed 1993 WTC attack.
Other
informants named Lattimore to the FBI one day after the OKC bombing as
a participant
in the OKC bombing. Yet the FBI did nothing adequate about the FBI
informant Melvin
Lattimore.
Lattimore was Federally imprisoned in November 2001 for carrying a
weapon in
violation of a prior felony conviction of stockpiling explosives.
Lattimore was to have
been released in November 2003. Lattimore's attorney was Susan Otto,
McVeigh's original
attorney, who once told attorney Stephen Jones that Jones' opinion of
the US government
would never be the same if Jones learned what the US government's role
in the OKC
bombing had been. Jones described the Otto statement in his book
"Others Unknown". (3)
Melvin Lattimore worked with Khalid Mohammed to help do the 1993 WTC,
the OKC
and the 9/11 attacks all while known to the FBI. Adanan Shukrijumah
was sent to
Oklahoma after 9/11 with two other Al Qaeda accomplices by Khalid
Mohammed to
conduct terrorist acts on the US. The men are pilots and are believed
to be carrying small
footprint WMDS. The FBI claims that they cannot find the men even
though the FBI has
confirmed that the men were inside the US twice in 2003.
Lattimore is now out of prison and could harm Smith. The DOJ and FBI
should get
Lattimore off the street before he could harm Smith. Unless Lattimore
is found and
stopped, Lattimore can connect up again with a known Al Qaeda
terrorist Adan
Shukrijumah at large inside the US and sent by Khalid Mohammed to
attempt another
terror attack inside the US.
Even as an FBI informant, Lattimore should still be considered as a
terrorist and the
911 Commission should understand that the FBI has proven three times
that the FBI's
awareness of Lattimore failed to stop the 1993 WTC, the OKC and the
9/11 attacks. A
fourth attempt by the FBI to monitor Lattimore to track Al Qaeda and
other terrorists like
Adnan Shukrijumah could once again prove to be a fatal mistake.
The other two suspects and known FBI informants identified with
Lattimore and
McVeigh's car by Smith and her co-workers at the Travelers Aid in OKC
were Peter
Langan and James Rosencrans. See item 9 also.
Langan was taken out of prison by the FBI and Secret Service in 1994
to do undercover
work on domestic and foreign terrorism inside the US. While working
for the FBI he
robbed banks in the MidWest, was photographed painting hand grenades
at the FBI-infiltrated
compound, Elohim City, and was with Rosencrans and Lattimore at the
Travelers aid with McVeigh's car just before the OKC bombing.
Rosencrans was a drug dealer and Fortier's next-door neighbor in
Arizona. Rosencrans
was allowed by the FBI to keep the proceeds from the pawning of guns
that were stolen
from gun dealer Roger Moore, the FBI and prosecutors had testified
(perjury) were used
to fund the OKC bombings. Rosencrans was the FBI's star witness
against McVeigh at
the Federal Grand Jury in OKC in June and July 1995. Yet Rosencrans
had large amounts
of ammonium nitrate like [that which was] used to make the OKC bomb
found dumped in his back yard right after the OKC bombing. (snip)
....
10. This item should be known by the CIA and Tenet and should also be
investigated by
the 9/11 Commission:
Federal court testimony revealed that gun dealer Roger Moore was an
FBI and CIA
operative at the time he knew McVeigh and encouraged him for almost
two years to
attack Federal buildings and do the OKC bombing to "combat the new
world order"
according to Moore's letters to McVeigh. Moore had a CIA based
contract to build
nitromethane (believed used with ammonium nitrate and fuel oil in the
OKC bombing
and sought out by McVeigh and Fortier in OKC) powered drug
interdiction boats in
Florida with HW Bush close associate Aranow, (4) involved in Iran
Contra. Moore also introduced McVeigh to an explosives chemist, Steve
Coburn in Arizona before the OKC bombing.
Moore is the man who testified at the Nichols Federal trial and
recanted his testimony in
a published letter a few months later. Nothing was ever done to Moore
about his false
testimony. The US prosecutors had claimed that guns were stolen from
Moore to help
pay for the OKC bombing. (snip) ....
Moore's alias with McVeigh, “Robert Miller”, was used by FBI informant
Peter Langan
(see item 7) on a phony drivers license found with Langan's
belongings.
Langan's father was a high level official at the CIA. Langan was taken
out of Federal
prison in 1994 by the FBI and Secret Service to do undercover work on
domestic and
foreign intelligence. Langan was filmed by BATF informant Carol Howe
at the FBI and
CIA infiltrated Elohim City compound in OK where CIA, FBI and German
intelligence
informant Andreas Strassmeyer also worked. Strassmeyer worked with
Colonel Petroskie
connected to the CIA and was protected by the US State Department and
FBI during
undercover operations (1989-1995) at the Elohim compound in Oklahoma
including
Strassmeyer contacts with Tim McVeigh.
15. A number of FBI agents like Robert Wright of Chicago have publicly
complained
that they were only allowed to follow known terrorists for years
inside the US but never
allowed to open a criminal investigation against them for prosecution
and arrest.
16. Former FBI Director Louis Freeh told the Senate Judiciary
Committee and Senator
Orin Hatch in May 1995 that the FBI was monitoring known Abu Nidal
terror cells in
Dallas, LA and Virginia without taking them off the streets. Freeh
told the committee that
the FBI was also deliberately helping known terrorist individuals come
into the US to
populate and track the Nidal cells for years. (emphasis mine)
The problem with this policy by Freeh which the Judiciary Committee
did not object to is
that while Abu Nidal worked directly for Iraq he trained terror
mastermind Khalid
Mohammed, his nephew Ramzi Yousef (1993 WTC bombing), along with 9/11
terror
hijackers Mohammed Atta and Ziad Jarrah.
17. Senator Orin Hatch openly told journalist Cal Thomas for a 1998
published interview
that the FBI was closely monitoring (but not taking off the streets)
over 2000 known
terrorists inside the US. (snip)
....
19. FBI agents in Sacramento, California used Egyptian Ali Mohammed
[emphasis mine – see sections on Ali Mohammed below] as an informant
from 1992 until 1996 while Ali Mohammed participated in Al Qaeda
operations around the world. The CIA should have been aware of Ali
Mohammed's operations during this time as well. Ali Mohammed wrote Bin
Laden's terrorist training manual, not just Mohammed Atef, according
to what CIA official LC Johnson admitted to me.
Ali Mohammed helped Bin Laden write the Al Qaeda terrorist manual
using US
intelligence manuals and information Ali gained while he served as a
US Green Beret and
worked for a time for the CIA. Ali moved Bin Laden from Sudan to
Afghanistan while
CIA agent Cofer Black of the CTC was in the Sudan monitoring Bin
Laden's activities.
Ali Mohammed was used by the FBI to squire Dr. Ayman Zawahiri around
inside the US
in 1995 possibly along with Khalid Mohammed as well.
During that time Ali Mohammed helped Khalid Mohammed set up terrorist
cells
throughout the US, trained Bin Laden terrorists in the US on how to
use US intelligence
manuals and to deliver bombs, biological, chemical and possibly
nuclear weapons in the
US. Ali was indicted in New York in December 1998 along with Bin
Laden's secretary el
Hage for the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, the Kenyan and
Tanzanian
Embassy bombings and for setting up Bin Laden terrorist cells in the
US.
El Hage had been living in Dallas and [was] tracked by the FBI in
Dallas for several years
before his arrest. When arrested, Ali was carrying US intelligence
manuals and
documents on how to plant explosive devices in public buildings.
Explosive devices were
planted inside the Murrah building based on eyewitness accounts and
forensic experts. In
addition to an exploded Ryder truck, evidence of exploded and
non-exploded devices was
found at the scene.
FBI and CIA asset Ali Mohammed may have had a role with Khalid
Mohammed in the
1995 OKC Oklahoma City bombing because of the direct participation of
Ali and Khalid
Mohammed with the same men in the OKC bombing that were also involved
in the 1993
WTC attacks, namely Anas and Asad Siddiqy, Mohammed Chafti (see item
1), and
Melvin Lattimore (see items 1,7,
End quoted passages from Patrick B. Briley's report to the
Congressional 911 Committee.
continued next post....