FBI: Moussaoui not involved in 9/11

posted by ewing2001 on Sunday October 19, @05:06PM

U-Turn: Once again, the FBI is changing the official version: Moussaoui had nothing to do with 9/11

FBI: Moussaoui not involved

News24.com - 19/10/2003

Washington - The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has concluded that Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person charged in America in connection with the September 11 attacks, was not involved in the strikes, Time magazine reported on Sunday.

The news weekly, in its edition appearing on Monday, quotes unidentified sources as saying the FBI has long believed that the Moroccan-born Frenchman "played no part in the 9/11 scheme and was only a minor player in al-Qaeda."

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Moussaoui was detained by US authorities on an immigration violation less than a month before the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon.

Jailed in Virginia while awaiting trial, he has acknowledged membership in Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda group, but has repeatedly denied the government's charges that he was to have taken part in the September 11 attacks.

Because of the government's refusal to allow Moussaoui to interview captured members of al-Qaeda, a US district judge, Leonie Brinkema, has barred prosecutors from alleging that Moussaoui was linked to the September 11 attacks.

How the Moussaoui Case Crumbled

TIME - Sunday, Oct. 19, 2003

...When Zacarias Moussaoui was enrolled in flight school in Eagan, Minn., he could have easily looked up in the sky to see the kind of airplane he wanted to fly. Along the approach to the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport, 747s screamed overhead day and night. His flight instructor at Pan Am International Flight Academy found Moussaoui genial but clueless and totally unable to explain why he wanted to pilot a 747. The school's administration called the fbi, and he was arrested nearby on Aug. 16, 2001.

...Nearly two years later, the government's case, which had been billed as a slam dunk, is a shambles. On Oct. 2, U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema said prosecutors could not seek the death penalty for Moussaoui and could not even allege that he had a link to the 9/11 conspiracy. She put those shackles on the government's case because it had denied the defendant, on national-security grounds, access to witnesses who were in a position to say whether he was part of the 9/11 gang—Ramzi Binalshibh, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other key al-Qaeda figures the U.S. has captured.

...investigators discovered that Moussaoui, who had lived in London and had a master's degree from South Bank University, had recently been to Pakistan and Malaysia and had spent time at a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan. Moreover, in a notebook he had the German phone number and alias of Ramzi Binalshibh, a key orchestrator of the 9/11 attacks and, like the hijackers, had been wired funds by him.

But from the start, the government's case against Moussaoui was utterly circumstantial, and the connection between the hijackers and him was mainly inferred from their similar profiles. In fact, sources tell Time, the fbi has long believed that Moussaoui played no part in the 9/11 scheme and was only a minor player in al-Qaeda. Still, the Justice Department's December 2001 indictment laid out in chilling detail the 19 hijackers' activities in the months leading up to Sept. 11, alongside Moussaoui's doings over a similar time frame. Their tracks were roughly parallel, but direct contact between Moussaoui and the 19 was never alleged.

...Early on the morning of Sept. 11, 2002, Pakistani intelligence officers engaged in an intense fire fight with occupants of a suspected al-Qaeda safe house and captured Ramzi Binalshibh, a former housemate of some of the hijackers and an alleged coordinator of the attacks. Binalshibh's capture was a victory in the war against terrorism, but Moussaoui saw the arrest as something more practical: it offered a possible witness for his defense. He asked the court for the opportunity to depose Binalshibh. In fact, he had been named in the Moussaoui indictment, which seemed to hint that Moussaoui was to have taken Binalshibh's place in the 9/11 attacks after Binalshibh failed to get a visa to enter the U.S.

...In January, Brinkema said Moussaoui could take a videotaped deposition of Binalshibh, a ruling that the government quickly appealed. Binalshibh had reportedly told investigators that Moussaoui was considered too unreliable for the 9/11 attacks, did not know about them and was to be used only if absolutely necessary. In March, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-described mastermind of the 9/11 strikes, was captured in Pakistan, and three days later Moussaoui demanded access to him as well. As it turned out, Mohammed later told interrogators that Moussaoui was to be used for a separate attack unrelated to 9/11...

The Unanswered Question: Was Moussaoui part of a secret script by Tenet, Boren and Edger?

Map: Moussaoui lived 3 minutes away from Oklahoma University (OU) of ex-CIA David Boren (401 W Boyd St).
Moussaoui "trained" at Airman Flight School, which has a contract with OU

Please check the following links:

M. Wright: Bungled Sting Article Updated

The Moussaoui-Tenet-Boren Connection

Zacarias Moussaoui (911review)

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