This is something that will not be looked at in any 9-11 US government
committees. Why not? Why did the FBI not act on the information he gave? What
did the US government know?
Andrew
Moderator of People's Revolution
http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/peoplesrevolution
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http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/news/WABC_031203_jordanattacks.html
Deportation Ordered For Jordanian Who Warned Of 9-11 Attacks
(Bradenton, FL-AP, March 12, 2003) — A man who tried to warn FBI agents about
the impending World Trade Center attack will be deported to his native
Jordan, a judge has ruled.
Walid Arkeh, who came to the United States when he was two months old, will
be deported under a Tuesday ruling by immigration Judge Keith Williams.
Williams said a child abuse conviction against Arkeh for slapping his
daughter in 1999 was serious enough to rule out any consideration for
political asylum.
The judge acknowledged the risk Arkeh had taken to speak out about terrorism
in his detailed opinion.
Arkeh said he learned of the September 11 plot from three inmates
incarcerated with him at the Brixton prison in London from September 2000 to
July 2001. Arkeh was arrested in Britain after fleeing the United States
while he faced the child abuse charge and a charge of trying to sell a stolen
ring.
Federal prosecutors have indicted the three inmates as co-conspirators with
Osama bin Laden in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
The inmates are Khalid al-Fawwaz, 37; Adel Abdel Bary, 32; and Ibrahim
Eidarous, 30.
After his extradition to central Florida, Arkeh said he told FBI agents in
August 2001 that an attack on New York was imminent and he would exchange
more information for his freedom and asylum.
His request was not granted. But FBI agents returned hours after the attacks
and federal authorities took Arkeh to New York City as a material witness for
four months last year.
Florida FBI agents dismissed Arkeh's credibility, but his New York lawyer,
Labe Richman, said federal authorities there called his testimony credible.
Arkeh told the judge Tuesday he did not want to appeal his deportation.
"I would like to be removed as soon as possible," he said.
His Orlando attorney, Barry Brumer, said Arkeh will likely return to Jordan
within days accompanied by U.S. marshals.
Arkeh's 12-year-old daughter and his estranged wife had appealed the judge to
allow him to stay in the United States.
(Copyright 2003 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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