FBI Informant Says Agents Missed Chance to Stop 9/11 Ringleader Mohammed Atta
September 11th, 2009Via: ABC News:
On the eve of the eight year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, an FBI informant who infiltrated alleged terrorist cells in the U.S. tells ABC News the FBI missed a chance to stop the al Qaeda plot because they focused more on undercover stings than on the man who would later become known as 9/11 ringleader Mohammed Atta.
In an exclusive interview to be broadcast tonight on ABC World News with Charles Gibson and Nightline, former undercover operative Elie Assaad says he spotted and became suspicious of Atta in early 2001, when he was sent by the FBI to infiltrate a small mosque outside Miami. Atta was there with Adnan Shukrujuman, an al Qaeda fugitive who now has a $5 million U.S. reward on his head.
“There was something wrong with these guys,” Assaad, a 36-year-old Catholic native of Lebanon who pretended to be an Islamic extremist, says.
The FBI initially declined to comment but released a statement following the ABC News report, saying: “The 9/11 investigation, the most extensive ever conducted by the FBI, has been reviewed in its totality by the 9/11 Commission, Congress and others. The claims made in the news report and the factual conclusions contained in the story are not supported by the evidence.”
The FBI did not specify which claims or conclusions it referred to.
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Assaad, who posed as “Mohammed” a personal representative of Osama bin Laden, says he’s a “million percent positive” the 9/11 attacks could have been stopped if the FBI had gone after Atta and Shukrujumah. But because Atta and his men were suspicious of the FBI undercover operative, and secretive, Assaad says his FBI agent handlers sent him after the easier target two wannabe terrorists whose cases were easy to crack and who were both eventually convicted and sent to prison.
It would be interesting to see what this guy’s relationship to John O’Neill was.
(for those unfamiliar w/John O’Neill: http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=john_o_neill)
The answer, my friends, is that powerful forces in the U.S. had too much at stake to NOT led the 9/11 so-called terrorist attacks come to fruition. The resulting response to the attacks created untold additional wealth for many highly-connected entities here and abroad. The 3,000 or so deaths were simply “acceptable collateral damage” for an enterprise that would generate trillions of dollars in wealth.