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--- Begin Message ----Caveat Lector- Saudi Entrepeneur Adnan Khashoggi Linked to 911 TerroristsPART 8: A "DIRTY SON-OF-A-BITCH" & THE BLIND SHEIK By Alex Constantine Emad Salem, the FBI informant - also the government¹s key witness in the trial of Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman and ten followers accused of plotting to blow up the UN, an FBI office and two tunnels - was a hopeless confabulator by his own admission. And a loaded one: Salem was paid a million dollars for his testimony. The Egyptian bodyguard for Shiekh Rahman admitted under questioning that he had lied for years about his past. He boasted to his FBI handlers that he¹d been ³an intelligence officer in the Egyption army,² when in fact, Salem said, he¹d been a lowly ³technical officer.² He freely offered that on one occasion, as the New York Times reported in March 1995, ³he even lied under oath in a criminal trial in Manhattan, saying he had been wounded trying to protect President Anwar Sadat of Egypt when he was assassinated in 1981.²1 Defense attorney William Kunstler investigated and discovered that Salem was a lieutenant colonel in the Egyptian army, an unreliable witness, one ³who never stopped working for the Egyptian government.² Kunstler grumbled that Salem - a bigamist with one wife in New York and another in Egypt - was devoid of character: ³He divulged that he had had amnesia since January of 1992, and that he had been going to a psychiatrist by the name of Dr. Stein to help him with this situation...² It devolved under questioning that Mr. Salem had received a quarter million to one million dollars for his services as an FBI informant cum agent provocateur. In one meeting with FBI, Agent John Anticev - secretly taped by Salem - there was an argument over escalating expenses: Anticev: ... It's like a little out of the ordinary. Salem: Okay. Alright. I don't think it was. If that's what you think guys, fine, but I don't think that because we was start already building the bomb which is went off in the World Trade Center. It was built by supervising supervision from the Bureau and the D.A. and we was all informed about it and we know that the bomb start to be built. By who? By your confidential informant...²3 Defense attorney Ron Kuby listened to the tape and commented: ³We have received information that [Salem] was visually observed at the scene of the bombing shortly after the bombing took place. Shortly after that, he was admitted to the hospital, suffering from an ear problem that was consistent with exposure to blast. The mastermind is the government of the United States."4 Apart from the compensation that Salem received as an FBI asset, he was also funded, according to Kunstler, ³by other sources linked to foreign governments, including money from an organization founded [by] Rabbi Meir Kahane.² ³He¹s just a dirty son-of-a-bitch,² Kunstler opined.5 So were the zealots in Rahman¹s Koran-happy wrecking crew. Four of the bombers were convicted in 1994 on charges of conspiracy, possession of explosives and assault. The defendents confessed that they were incited to murder by US support for Israel. Ramsey Yousef, the bomb plot¹s ³mastermind,² proclaimed at his sentencing hearing in January 1998: ³Yes, I am a terrorist and proud of it as long as it is against the U.S. government."6 Sheik Omar Rahman was one of three ³spiritual² guides on Yousef¹s cratered path through life. Though the cleric had been placed on the national watch list, he entered the US with ease, thanks to a Œmuch-disputed² visa issued to him by a CIA agent. Robert Freidman wrote that Rahman was ³infamous throughout the Arab world for his role in the assassination of Egyptian president Anwar el-Sadat.²7 TIME MACHINE: Egypt. The government was gripped by a civil war with Islamic warriors , including hundreds of CIA-trained guerrillas in the Afghan struggle. The main contender for power was an army led by fundamentalist Mohammed Shawky al-Istambouli, brother of Khalid al-Istambouli, an army lieutenant. Khalid and Ayman Zawahiri, both assets of the CIA, led the death squad that murdered Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in October 1981. This faction spun-off from a larger army, the Dawa and Sharia, the umbrella group for all Mujahedins fighting in the war against Soviet Russia, covertly sponsored by the U.S. French, British and Israelis. Al-Istambouli traveled to Peshawar, the Mujahedin base of operations, in 1983, and transfered funding from Iran to Afghanistan. Al-Istambouli was sentenced to death in absentia by an Egyptian court in December 1992 for plotting to overthrow Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's government and kill Egyptian leaders...8 The charge that the Sheik operated with CIA sanction comes from a number of sources, including an anonymous government official who leaked that a CIA officer assigned as a consular official approved the Sheik¹s visa from the Sudan after the consulate approved it, according to the New York Times on July 14, 1993. Egyptian President Mubarak suggested that the visa had been issued to Rahman as a payoff for "services" rendered. The Atlantic Monthly reported in 1996 that early off, "the sixty or so CIA and Special Forces officers based [in Afghanistan] considered [Rahman] a "valuable asset," according to one of them, and overlooked his anti-Western message and incitement to holy war because they wanted him to help unify the mujahideen groups..."8 "The sheik has been a CIA agent since his days in Afghanistan," Mubarak told Egypt's al-Gomhuria newspaper. "He still earns a salary."9 Researcher Paul Thompson has compiled a sourced timeline for the Internet that dispells the notion that Rahman was an independent operator: ³Abdul-Rahman was heavily involved with the CIA and [Pakistan] ISI efforts to defeat the Soviets in Afghanistan, and became famous traveling all over the world for five years recruiting new mujaheddin. [Atlantic Monthly, 5/96] He is ³infamous throughout the Arab world for his alleged role in the assassination of Egyptian president Anwar el-Sadat.² Abdul-Rahman immediately begins setting up a terrorist network in the US. [Village Voice, 3/30/93] He is known to have befriended bin Laden while in Afghanistan, and bin Laden secretly pays Abdul-Rahman's US living expenses. [Atlantic Monthly, 5/96, ABC News, 8/16/02] Abdul-Rahman's ties to the assassination of Rabbi Meir Kahane in later 1990 is ignored. As one FBI agent says in 1993, he is ³hands-offŠ. It was no accident that the sheikh got a visa and that he's still in the country. He's here under the banner of national security, the State Department, the NSA, and the CIA.² A very high-ranking Egyptian official says Abdul-Rahman continues to assist the CIA in recruiting new mujaheddin after moving to the US. This official says, ³We begged America not to coddle the sheikh.² Egyptian intelligence warns the US that Abdul-Rahman is planning new terrorist attacks, and on November 12, 1992, terrorists connected to him machine-gun a busload of Western tourists in Egypt. But still he lives freely in New York City. [Village Voice, 3/30/93] He is finally arrested in 1993 and convicted for assisting in the 1993 WTC bombing. [Atlantic Monthly 5/96]²10 [TO BE CONTINUED] ------------- NOTES 1) Anon., ³N.Y. Terror Trial Witness Tells What a Liar He Was,² San Francisco Chronicle, Wednesday, March 8, 1995. 2) Transcript of Paul DeRienzo's interview with William Kunstler, Broadcast on WBAI in New York on August 3, 1993. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1995/03/08 /MN6657.DTL&type=printable 3) Tape transcript concerning Salem¹s expenses: http://anti-state.com/forum/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=11621 4) James S. Adam, ³Troubling Questions in Troubling Times,² October 5, 2001. http://www.serendipity.li/wot/adam.htm 5) DeRenzo. 6) 'Proud terrorist' gets life for Trade Center bombing, CNN report, US News Story Page, January 8, 1998. http://www.cnn.com/US/9801/08/yousef.update/index.html 7) Robert J. Freidman, ³The CIA and the Sheikh,² Village Voice, March 30, 1993. 8) Mary Ann Weaver, ³Blowback,² The Atlantic Monthly, May 1996. 9) Freidman 10) Paul Thompson, ³Complete 911 Timeline: Incompetence, bad luck, obstr. of justice,² Project: Complete 911 Timeline, Open-Content project. http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_911_timeli ne&theme=incompetence www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! 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