John Pistole

"The FBI conducted a detailed financial investigation/analysis of the 19 hijackers and their support network, following the September 11th attacks.... A continuing investigation, in coordination with the PENTTBOMB Team, has traced the origin of the funding of 9/11 back to financial accounts in Pakistan...."
'Terrorism Financing: Origination, Organization, and Prevention'
John S. Pistole, Deputy Assistant Director, Counterterrorism Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, 31 July 2003

"An FBI official has told a Senate hearing here that investigators had 'traced the origin of the funding of 9/11 back to financial accounts in Pakistan, where high-ranking and well-known Al Qaeda operatives played a major role in moving the money forward, eventually into the hands of the hijackers located in the US.' John S. Pistole, deputy assistant director of the FBI’s counter terrorism division, did not specify how those accounts in Pakistan were funded. He was testifying before the Senate Governmental Affairs committee on Thursday."
Pakistan linked to 9/11 funds
Daily Times (Pakistan), 2 August 2003

"Pakistan's Habib Bank Ltd. denied on Thursday allegations by the widow of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl that it transferred funds on behalf of charities supporting 'terrorist organisations'. Mariane Pearl filed a lawsuit at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York on Wednesday against al Qaeda, other radical groups and Habib Bank Ltd. over the 2002 abduction, torture and murder of her husband. The government holds a 49 percent stake in the bank, though it plans to sell up to 7.5 percent of the bank through an initial public offering later this month....Among those sued is Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, or Sheikh Omar, who was convicted and sentenced to death in a Pakistani court for his role in the abduction and murder. Three others were jailed for life. Another defendant is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a suspected high-ranking al Qaeda leader and Sept. 11 mastermind who is in U.S. custody. Mohammed admitted to a U.S. military tribunal that he beheaded Pearl, the U.S. military said."
Pakistan's Habib Bank denies Pearl allegations
Associated Press, 19 July 2007

"A top FBI counter-terrorism official told the US Senate governmental affairs committee on Thursday that investigators have 'traced the origin of the funding of 9/11 back to financial accounts in Pakistan.' John S Pistole, deputy assistant director of the FBI’s counter-terrorism division, however, did not specify how those accounts in Pakistan were funded, or the role of Pakistani elements. The Times of India first reported on October 10, 2001 that India told the US that some $100,000 had been wired to the leader of the hijackers, Mahmud Atta, by British-born terrorist Ahmad Saeed Umar Sheikh. Indian authorities also told the US that the trail led back from Sheikh to the then chief of ISI, Lt Gen Mahmud Ahmad who was subsequently forced to retire by Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf. The FBI had been provided with the details, including Sheikh’s mobile numbers. But Pistole’s testimony is silent on these issues.... The FBI has estimated the September 11 attacks cost between $175,000 and $250,000. That money — which paid for flight training, travel and other expenses — flowed to the hijackers through associates in Germany and the United Arab Emirates. Those associates reported to Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who managed much of the planning for the attacks from Pakistan, US officials have said. The Bush Administration is being cagey about declassifying 28 secret pages in a recent report on the 9/11 incident which officials say outline connections between Saudi charities, royal family members and terrorism. US authorities are silent about the role some Pakistanis may have played in the conspiracy. The role of Sheikh and Lt Gen Ahmad has yet to see the light of the day. Sheikh, wanted for kidnapping and terrorist conspiracy in India, has since been sentenced to death in Pakistan for the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl."
9/11 funds came from Pakistan, says FBI
Times of India, 1 August 2003

So Did Attorney General John Ashcroft Lean On The FBI After Pistole Gave Evidence To The Senate?
Why Were Pistole's Significant Claims Only Dealt With In Footnotes To A Post Final Report Commission Staff Publication (Released On A Saturday In August) That Few Will Read?
Yet Even That Report Does Not Say Pistole Has Withdrawn His Claim - Only That Others At The FBI 'Disagree With It'
Why Doesn't The Staff Report Confirm They Have Spoken To Pistole Himself
And That He Has Withdrawn His Claim?

"Three professional staff members of the United State's Independent National Commission investigating the Sept 11 terrorist attacks to draw possible linkages are currently in Pakistan but their visit has been kept under wraps, Dawn has learnt.... The three professional staff members of the 10-member commission arrived here last week to meet officials in key government institutions and to interview individuals that they deem relevant to their inquiry.... This is the first visit by staff members of the high-profile commission to Pakistan since it was formed in late 2002. The members of the commission have already received some official briefings in Islamabad and Rawalpindi, and have been travelling all over Pakistan. There has been no official word about their arrival from either a government office or the US embassy in Islamabad. None of the officials Dawn contacted were willing to even talk about the visit."
9/11 probe body's visit kept under wraps
Dawn (Pakistan), 28 October 2003

"FBI Assistant Director Pistole testified that the FBI had traced the funds back to certain bank accounts in Pakistan, see Senate Govt. Affairs Committee, July 31, 2003, but the FBI has clarified that Pistole meant the funds were traced back to KSM in Pakistan. No actual bank accounts there have been identified."
Monograph on Terrorist Financing, Footnote 163
Staff Report to the Commission, August 2004

"FBI Assistant Director, Counterterrorism Division, John S. Pistole, stated during a congressional hearing last fall that 'the 9/11 hijackers utilized slightly over $300,000 through formal banking channels to facilitate their time in the U.S. We assess they used another $200-$300,000 in cash to pay for living expenses . . .' Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, September 25, 2003, FDCH Political Transcripts at page 5. His statement concerning additional cash was apparently made in error. The FBI personnel most familiar with the 9-11 investigation have uniformly disagreed with it, and the FBI has never conducted any financial analysis that supports it. Although some FBI personnel involved in the early days of the investigation after 9/11 believed the hijackers had substantially more cash than that which was deposited in their accounts, the FBI view after more thorough investigation is to the contrary."
Monograph on Terrorist Financing, Footnote 163
Staff Report to the Commission, August 2004

So Did Ashcroft Lean On The FBI After Pistole Gave Evidence To The Senate?
Why Were Pistole's Significant Claims Only Dealt With In Footnotes To A Post Final Report Publication (Released On A Saturday In August) That Few Will Read?
Yet The Report Does Not Say Pistole Has Withdrawn His Claim - Only That Others At The FBI 'Disagree With It'
Why Doesn't The Staff Report Confirm They Have Spoken To Pistole Himself
And That He Has Withdrawn His Claim?

"While the [911] commission documents the high-level ties that al-Qaida had with Pakistan's government agencies, it has failed to confirm or refute persistent, credible reports connecting key Pakistan government officials to the 9/11 attacks.... While 9/11 commission co-chairman Thomas Kean considers the panel's report definitive, it has a glaring hole with the money trail. The panel says the attacks cost somewhere between $400,000 and $500,000 to execute. Where did the money come from? Despite reports of ISI links, the report says al-Qaida had many sources of funding, but the commission could not find out where the 9/11 funds originated. On Oct. 9, 2001, the Pakistani daily Dawn reported the ISI director-general, Lt. Gen. Mahmoud Ahmed, was fired after FBI investigators established a link between him and a $100,000 wire transfer to 9/11 lead hijacker Mohammed Atta in the summer of 2000. This report was also carried by the Wall Street Journal. Paul Sperry, Washington bureau chief for WorldNetDaily.com, wrote in his Jan. 30, 2002, column that Dennis Lormel, who until the end of 2003 led the FBI's terrorist finance investigations, confirmed this transaction.... On May 15, 2003, a group of 9/11 victims' relatives met with the commission co-chairman Thomas Kean and other senior staff and submitted a list of questions, which included a mention of Lt. Gen. Mahmoud Ahmed. A June 17, 2004, the New York Times reported that Lorie Van Auken, whose husband died in the World Trade Center, was 'irate' that the June 16 commission narrative of the 9/11 attacks did not even mention the allegation about Ahmed's role in the $100,000 transfer to Mohammed Atta. Clearly, the ISI link is no mere conspiracy theory."
Outside View: 9/11 report sidesteps Pakistan
United Press International, 26 July 2004

"Three months before the release of the 9/11 Commission report, commission chief of staff Phil Zelikow asked a prominent Pakistani whether he could 'fill in the gaps about what was happening behind the scenes in Pakistan in the period immediately preceding the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.' He traveled the length and breadth of Pakistan working his sources, which included many former ranking government officials, retired senior officers and ex-ISI personnel. The requested report arrived in Washington too late to be included in the commission's 567-page report, which mentioned Pakistan 311 times. Even if it had arrived in time, it probably would not have been included.... The unpublished addendum to the 9/11 report stated: (1) Former senior ISI officers knew about the 9/11 plot before the attacks took place...... "
Bin Laden's game plan
United Press International, 1 November 2004

"This commission was formed about mid-December, the 9/11 Commission. We were supposed to use the joint inquiry report as a launching pad to get into this issue of not only fixing the intelligence community, but moving beyond, and getting into what is the al Qaeda all about? What is this terrorist global network that we're fighting? A new kind of war and all that. Well, the independent, bi-partisan commission, hello, didn't even get the stuff 'til a few weeks ago. I'm saying that's deliberate. I am saying that the delay in relating this information to the American public out of a hearing… series of hearings, that several members of Congress knew eight or ten months ago, including Bob Graham and others, that was deliberately slow walked… the 9/11 Commission was deliberately slow walked, because the Administration's policy was, and its priority was, we're gonna take Saddam Hussein out.... You can read between the lines and see that there were foreign governments that were much more involved in the 9/11 attack than just supporting Islamic fundamentalist teachings and schools. Now, that has been redacted. A whole 28 page section..... The Administration, the White House, has put several blocks in the road. One, they run all the information to the 9/11 Commission through a political coordinator in Ashcroft's Justice Department..... Secondly, they want to put minders — that's people who sit in the room when we have an interview with people in NSA, FBI, CIA, Department of… in DIA — in the Pentagon, and Immigration and Naturalization Services. They want to put minders in there. That to shut down information. That's not to reveal information."
Former Senator Max Cleland and member of the 9/11 Commission who later resigned
PBS Interview, 25 July 2003

"I think there is very compelling evidence that at least some of the terrorists were assisted not just in financing -- although that was part of it -- by a sovereign foreign government and that we have been derelict in our duty to track that down, make the further case, or find the evidence that would indicate that that is not true and we can look for other reasons why the terrorists were able to function so effectively in the United States. It will become public at some point when it's turned over to the archives, but that's 20 or 30 years from now. And, we need to have this information now because it's relevant to the threat that the people of the United States are facing today.... I do not believe we got the full cooperation that we needed. As an example, as of today there are 13 requests outstanding with the FBI alone for additional information which would help us follow the trail -- including the trail of foreign government involvement. That agency and others have been reticent to come forward."
Senator Bob Graham, Chairman of the Senate Select Committe On Intelligence
Improving Intelligence
PBS Online, 11 Dec 2002

"As to September 11th, federal authorities have told ABC News they have now tracked more than $100,000 from banks in Pakistan, to two banks in Florida, to accounts held by suspected hijack ring leader, Mohammed Atta. As well . . . 'Time Magazine' is reporting that some of that money came in the days just before the attack and can be traced directly to people connected to Osama bin Laden. It's all part of what has been a successful FBI effort so far to close in on the hijacker's high commander, the money men, the planners and the mastermind."
This Week
ABC News, 30 September 2001

"There are reports that US investigators have uncovered evidence of financial transfers linking Osama Bin Laden to the 11 September attacks on America. According to FBI sources, Mustafa Mohamed Ahmad, a suspected Bin Laden financial operative, transferred money to Mohamed Atta, one of the hijackers, in the days running up to the attacks... Mr Ahmad, also known as Sheikh Saeed, is one of 27 individuals or groups with a known link to Bin Laden who have had their assets in America frozen."
Bin Laden's 'cash link' to hijackers
BBC Online, 1 October 2001

"India's Central Bureau of Investigation is turning up evidence that is proving inconvenient for the Bush administration as it tries to maintain its shaky alliance with Pakistan. As administration officials, led by State Secretary Colin Powell, praise Pakistan for its help in the war on terrorism, FBI agents responding to Indian leads are quietly investigating Pakistan-based terrorist groups connected to al-Qaida and the Sept. 11 hijackings... [British Pakistani Omar] Sheikh turns out to be one of Osama bin Laden's chief money men. About a year before the Sept. 11 attacks, Sheikh wired $100,000 from Pakistan to Atta from an account in the United Arab Emirates capital of Dubai. Sheikh was spotted in Islamabad at the time the money was transferred. The $100,000 covered the hijackers' flight-school tuition and airfare, as well as living expenses. Sheikh picked up an unspent residual of more than $25,000 from Atta and three other hijackers in Dubai right before the attacks, then fled back to Karachi, Pakistan. The 28-year-old Sheikh is a leader in Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed (J-e-M), an Islamic militant group.... The Indian government thinks Pakistan's military spy agency, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), has sponsored and protected Azhar and his prot�g�, Sheikh....But here's what's really disturbing. According to accounts in both The Times of India and India Today, former ISI chief Lt. Gen. Mahmud Ahmad instructed Sheikh to send the $100,000 to Atta.... The Times (of India) says Ahmad lost his job only after India shared with the FBI evidence showing a link between the general and Sheikh's wiring of funds to Atta. J-e-M's accounts were frozen not long after Dennis M. Lormel, director of FBI's financial crimes unit, confirmed the $100,000 transaction, if not the source. 'They wired over $100,000 into Mr. [Mohamed] Atta a year ago,' he testified in October, not identifying who 'they' were. The Bush administration has said the money trail is a crucial link in uncovering the support network for the 19 hijackers, and then destroying that network....according to the Gulf News, the FBI earlier this month asked the Pakistani government for permission to question Azhar. U.S. officials are reportedly interested in his links to bin Laden, Sheikh and the Sept. 11 attacks. They also want to ask him about bin Laden's whereabouts. Asked about the request, an FBI spokesman demurred. 'I can't answer that question at this point because of the diplomatic issues involved,' FBI's Jay Spadafore told WorldNetDaily, referring to the administration's tender alliance with Pakistan. Have any FBI agents traveled to Islamabad recently? Spadafore put down the phone and checked with a superior before returning to the line. 'I can't comment on where we've deployed agents,' he said."
Did ally Pakistan play role in 9-11?
WorldNetDaily, 30 January 2002

"Director General of Pakistan's Inter- Services Intelligence (ISI) Lt Gen Mahmud Ahmed has been replaced after the FBI investigators established credible links between him and Umar Sheikh, one of the three militants released in exchange for passengers of the hijacked Indian Airlines plane in 1999. The FBI team, which had sought adequate inputs about various terrorists including Sheikh from the intelligence agencies, was working on the linkages between Sheikh and former ISI chief Gen Mahmud which are believed to have been substantiated, reports PTI website. Informed sources said there were enough indications with the US intelligence agencies that it was at Gen Mahmud's instruction that Sheikh had transferred 100,000 US dollars into the account of Mohammed Atta, one of the lead terrorists in strikes at the World Trade Centre on Sept 11, it adds."
Gen Mahmud's exit due to links with Umar Sheikh
Dawn (Pakistan), 9 October 2001

"We first came to Karachi four month's ago: September 12, 2001. We flew in from New Delhi.... We had witnessed the [911] attacks almost as they had happened on CNN ... We were here to ask the big questions: Who was responsible for the attacks? Who financed them? Who protected the terrorists?.... In October, the FBI were looking for a link between Omar Saeed Sheikh and the then director of the ISI, Lieutenant General Mahmood Ahmed. They wanted to know who instructed Omar to wire the $100,000 to Mohammed Atta. I read that Ahmed had been dismissed as head of the ISI by President Musharraf on October 7, 2001. So it appeared Omar may have associated with the head of ISI and Al Qaeda. He surrendered to another former ISI officer who held him in custody for a week until just one day before Musharraf met with President Bush.... Questions bounce back and forth in my brain like a Ping-Pong ball gone wild. The distinctions between good and bad, government organisations and terrorist organisations, are not simply fading: they seem to be faces of the same coin. Did Musharraf know Omar was in custody? Could he not know? The CIA (God only knows what their position is here) didn't know?"
'A Mighty Heart' by Mariane Pearl, widow of Daniel Pearl
Virago Press, 2003

"Pakistan on Friday denied a report claiming that its intelligence officers knew in advance of the Sept 11, 2001, attacks. The report by Arnaud de Borchgrave, a journalist awarded by the Zia regime for his reporting on the Afghan war, also claimed that Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was treated at a military hospital in Peshawar.... Mr de Borchgrave....claimed that on the eve of the publication of its report, the 9/11 commission received a document from Pakistan showing that Pakistani intelligence officers knew in advance of the attacks.... The document, according to the report, claimed that Pakistani intelligence had been actively facilitating the relocation of Al Qaeda from Afghanistan to Pakistan and that some serving and retired intelligence officers were still helping the network. Such officers, the report said, had provided money and directions to militant groups, specially the Arab hijackers of 9/11 from Al Qaeda. The document, apparently, failed to impress the authors of the commission's report....."
'Pakistan had no hint of 9/11 attacks'
Dawn (Pakistan), 24 July 2004

"Senior Al Qaeda operative Khalid Sheikh Mohammed personally carried out the execution of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, according to an FBI analysis of the video-taped beheading of the journalist, The Sunday Times has reported. Mohammed, who is believed to have been the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, was captured in Pakistan in March 2003..... At the time of his abduction, it was thought that Pearl was investigating British shoe-bomber Richard Reid. But the disclosure of Mohammed’s involvement suggests that Pearl may have been trailing the Al Qaeda operations chief."
Khalid Sheikh slit Pearl’s throat: FBI
Daily Times, 21 December 2004

"An FBI analysis of the video showing the beheading of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter, has revealed that the knife was wielded by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of September 11..... When he was abducted, Pearl was thought to have been investigating Richard Reid, the British shoe- bomber. But the disclosure of Mohammed’s involvement suggests Pearl may have been trailing the Al-Qaeda operations chief."
9/11 mastermind killed Daniel Pearl
Sunday Times, 19 December 2004

"Business as usual. That's the message of today's 9-11 Commission report. No one is held accountable for anything.... While the media focus on Iran's recently discovered possible involvement—allowing Al Qaeda people through its porous northern border with Afghanistan—the more likely culprit is Pakistan's intelligence service, the ISI..... Getting to the bottom of the close relationship between the U.S. and Pakistan's spy agency could prove dangerous to some reputations.....Writing today in The Guardian (U.K.), Michael Meacher, a member of the British Parliament and former environment minister, pointed out that Omar Sheikh, who's about to hang for the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, wired $100,000 before the 9-11 attacks to lead hijacker Mohammed Atta—on the orders of General Mahmoud Ahmed, then head of the ISI. And it turns out, Meacher writes, that General Ahmed was in D.C. on September 11, 2001: He had just had a series of meetings 'in the White House, the Pentagon, the National Security Council, and with George Tenet . . . and Marc Grossman, the undersecretary of state for political affairs. When Ahmed was exposed by The Wall Street Journal as having sent the money to the hijackers, he was forced to 'retire' by President Pervez Musharraf. Why hasn't the U.S. demanded that he be questioned and tried in court?' Then Meacher zooms in on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a bin Laden lieutenant often identified in reports as 'KSM.' He was arrested in Pakistan in March 2003. A congressional report has identified him as having been 'active in recruiting people to travel outside Afghanistan, including to the U.S., on behalf of bin Laden.' [Quoting directly from the Congressional report] Meacher wryly notes that, although the CIA and FBI were both aware of that, 'neither agency apparently recognized the significance of a bin Laden lieutenant sending terrorists to the U.S. and asking them to establish contacts with colleagues already there.' And he points out that The New York Times has already written that 'American officials said that KSM, once Al Qaeda's top operational commander, personally executed Daniel Pearl . . . but he was unlikely to be accused of the crime in an American criminal court because of the risk of divulging classified information.' Meacher adds, 'Indeed, he may never be brought to trial.' Bottom line: Some events preceding 9-11 implicate too many people high up in both the Clinton and Bush administrations for either Kerry or Bush to raise the issue in an election campaign."
Reading Between the Lines
Village Voice, 22 July 2004

"..... Incidentally, one of Porter's [Goss] previous claims to fame was that he spent the early morning of 9/11 power-breakfasting with Pakistani ISI general Mahmoud Ahmad, a gentleman subsequently described by the FBI as Mohammed Atta's money-man...."
Diary
Guardian, 13 August 2004

"... Goss, the man picked by President Bush to head the CIA, was having breakfast with former ISI chief Gen Mahmud Ahmad as the Sept 11 attacks unfolded, says information released by US intelligence officials. Mr Goss, when asked to comment on the meeting, said he was not discussing Osama bin Laden or terrorism with Gen Mahmud Ahmed, but India-Pakistan relations.... Reports in the US media suggest that he was looking after CIA interests in Greece when Greek colonels staged a coup in 1967 and established a brutal regime. Mr. Goss, who studied Greek at Yale, was fluent in this language as well. Goss left the CIA in 1971 after suffering a debilitating infection that left him unable to continue clandestine overseas work.... As chairman of the committee, Mr. Goss won the respect and admiration of America's intelligence community for his efforts to protect them from too much congressional interference. He also co-chaired the joint congressional investigation into the 9/11 attacks. In the course of this probe, Mr. Goss sought a Justice Department investigation of his own joint committee, after a leak to the media of some information supplied to the committee by the Bush administration. The report issued by the congressional joint committee was rejected by the families of victims of the 9/11 attacks who successfully lobbied for the appointment of an independent panel in 2002. Mr. Goss opposed the new panel, until the Bush administration agreed to accept it."
CIA's new boss met former ISI chief on 9/11: officials
Dawn (Pakistan), 14 August 2004

"Former FBI contract translator and whistleblower Sibel Edmonds and her attorneys were ordered removed from the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse [in Washington] so that a three-judge U.S. Court of Appeals panel could discuss her case in private with Bush administration lawyers.... Criminal evidence in Edmonds’ explosive case is apparently getting too close to Washington officials, since the former contract linguist also told us she would not deny that 'once this issue gets to be...investigated, you will be seeing certain [American] people that we know from this country standing trial; and they will be prosecuted criminally,' revealing the content of the FBI intercepts she heard indicates that recognizable, very high-profile American citizens are linked to the 911 attacks. When we asked how many Americans were named in the intercepts, Edmonds said 'There is direct evidence involving no more than ten American names that I recognized,' further revealing that 'some are heads of government agencies or politicians--but I don’t want to go any further than that,'..... All three judges who removed Edmonds and her attorneys are Republicans: Douglas Ginsburg and David Sentelle, having been appointed by Ronald Reagan, and Karen LeCraft Henderson who was tapped in 1990 by President George W. Bush’s father, former President George H. W. Bush. 'Judge Ginsberg said ‘I am asking the plaintiff and her attorneys to stand outside;’ then they had government officers standing at the door to prevent anyone from listening. And after about 25 minutes, they came out and said ‘we have finished questioning the government attorneys and we don’t need you anymore, so you are free to leave,’ ' said the crestfallen former translator. 'I cannot be present at my own hearing; and not a single paper was there Thursday to cover the story--even though all of my allegations were supported by the FBI Inspector General’s report and my case involves 911 and national security,' said Edmonds.... Edmonds told another paper 'I took [the allegations] to higher levels all the way up to [assistant FBI director] Dale Watson and Director [Robert] Mueller. And, again, I was asked not to take this any further and just let it be. And if I didn’t do that they would retaliate against me,' according to the Baltimore Sun.... When we pressed Edmonds as to whether she would deny that FBI Assistant Director Dale Watson had prior knowledge of the 911 attacks, she quickly said, 'no comment,' carefully adhering to her judicial gag order--and not revealing all she knows.... 'It’s so simple,' Edmonds told TomFlocco.com. 'Nobody is looking at the Department of Defense aspect of the whole 911 cover-up. The FBI is citing two reasons for my gag order: to protect ‘sensitive’ diplomatic relations and to protect foreign U.S. business relationships.'.. In attempting to let the American people how close the 911 cover-up comes to home, Edmonds told us, 'I will say this: the FBI is only a mouthpiece for the State Department. The State Department is the main reason for the cover-up. It has to do with foreign business relationships and who they are...Pakistan, Turkey...espionage in the State Department...preventing an investigation.'...."
Campaign coffers profit from 911, coke and courts
TomFlocco.com, 25 April 2005

"This puzzles me, knowing the detailed information, I, myself, provided to the commission during a three and a half hour tape-recorded briefing; yet, finding only one footnote (footnote 25) briefly stating insufficient translation capability within the Bureau. It is highly curious that the report mentions nothing regarding the 'intentionally blocked translations by certain Middle Eastern Translators, who also breached FBI security, as confirmed by the Senate Judiciary'; nothing regarding 'adamant resistance to investigations of certain terrorist and criminal activities; refusing to transfer them to Counterterrorism from existing counterintelligence investigations, solely based on the vague notion of protecting certain foreign relations'; nothing regarding 'continued efforts to cover up certain highly specific information received prior to September 11, even now, years after 9/11,'; or nothing regarding 'knowingly allowing certain individuals, directly or indirectly related to terrorist activities, to leave the United States months after 9/11, without any interrogation, and per the State Department's request.' I am highly puzzled and curious. This puzzles me, having first hand knowledge of on going intelligence received and processed by the FBI since 1997, which contained specific information implicating certain high level government and elected officials in criminal activities directly and indirectly related to terrorist money laundering, narcotics, and illegal arms sales. It is highly curious that the report omitted all this information, knowing that others in the Congress have been briefed on these issues, having been given the names of targets involved, Special Agents, translators, field offices, and files."
'Puzzled & Curious' By Sibel Edmonds
BreakForNews.com, 23 July 2004

"Two veteran FBI investigators say they were ordered to stop investigations into a suspected
terror cell linked to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network and the Sept. 11 attacks.... even after the [1998 African embassy] bombings, Wright said FBI headquarters wanted no arrests."
Called Off the Trail?
ABCNews 19 Dec 2002

"The two [Congressional] Joint Inquiry chairmen Sen Bob Graham and Rep Porter Goss were fully cognizant of the 'Pakistani ISI connection' and the role played [in financing 911] by its former head, General Mahmoud Ahmad. Why then did they choose to exclude an examination of the role of the ISI from the Joint Inquiry's 858 page Report?"
Mysterious September 11 Breakfast Meeting on Capitol Hill
Global Outlook, Winter 2003

"Randy Glass, the former Boca Raton con man who rubbed elbows with terrorists as a federal informant, testified Wednesday before congressional investigators looking into the terrorist attacks last year. What Glass has to say centers on his role in the probe that resulted in the West Palm Beach arrests of two men as arms brokers trying to finalize a deal to sell stinger antiaircraft missiles, nuclear components and other high-tech weaponry to terrorists linked in court documents to Osama Bin Laden. The special joint inquiry committee created by the House and Senate intelligence committees to review the events of Sept. 11 also is looking into intelligence communication breakdowns. In August 2001, just before Glass started to serve a seven-month sentence for a $6 million jewelry scam, he said he reached out to Sen. Bob Graham and U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler. He said he told staffers for both lawmakers that a Pakistani operative working for the Taliban known as R.G. Abbas made three references to imminent plans to attack the World Trade Center during the probe, which ended in June 2001. At one meeting at New York's Tribeca Grill caught on tape, Abbas pointed to the World Trade Center and said, 'Those towers are coming down,' Glass said. Glass also now says the State Department, in an effort to maintain good diplomatic relations with Pakistan, pulled the plug on the South Florida terrorist probe... Glass spent 3 1/2 hours under oath Wednesday. .... 'I told them I have specific evidence, and I can document it,' Glass said. ..... A federal prosecutor told a judge that Glass had been in contact with agents of the Taliban, the Afghan regime that protected bin Laden. "
Intelligence Panel Hears from Glass
The Palm Beach Post, 17 October 17, 2002

"One of the most startling developments during the investigation occurred on July 22, 1999, at the TriBeca Grill in New York where Glass, wearing a wire, met with a man referred to in court documents as Abbas, believed to be a Pakistani government agent brought in by Malik. Glass was informed that they wanted to buy a whole shipload of weapons and they said it was for bin Laden. 'At the meeting Abbas said Americans are the enemy and they will have no problem blowing up this entire restaurant because its full of Americans,' Glass said. 'As we leave the restaurant, Abbas turns and says, 'those towers (the World Trade Center) are coming down.' Despite that information, available to the government two years before the World Trade Center attack, the FBI's terrorism task force didn't appear to take the threat seriously, Glass said."
Con Man Turned Patriot Tells All
Cox News Service, 2 August 2002

"Three months before September 11th, he [Glass] reached out to Florida State Senator Ron Klein and told him about threats against national security.... Klein contacted the office of Florida Senator Bob Graham, the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee. According to Graham spokesperson Jill Greenberg, case worker Charlie Yonts spoke with Glass last summer, prior to September 11th, Glass claiming he had at least six conversations with the case worker. And while we've been unable to corroborate the nature of those conversations, Greenberg confirms some of that information was passed along to the Senate Intelligence Committee.... Glass says that until recently no one from any intelligence agency had contacted him."
Tip Questions
Newschannel 5, NBC TV, Florida, 7 October 2002

"... we in turn gave that information [from Mr Glass] to the appropriate intelligence agency..... The acutal operations of collection of information, interviewing possible sources, is the responsibility of the F.B.I. if it's a domestic matter or the C.I.A. if it's foreign..... I had a concern about that and a dozen other pieces of information, uh, which were emminating in the summer of 2001.... I cannot say what agency but the agency that we felt was the most appropriate for the nature of the information that he was providing."
Senator Bob Graham, Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee
Tip Questions
Newschannel 5, NBC TV, Florida, 7 October 2002

"I think there is very compelling evidence that at least some of the terrorists were assisted not just in financing - although that was part of it - by a sovereign foreign government and that we have been derelict in our duty to track that down, make the further case, or find the evidence that would indicate that that is not true and we can look for other reasons why the terrorists were able to function so effectively in the United States. It will become public at some point when it's turned over to the archives, but that's 20 or 30 years from now. And, we need to have this information now because it's relevant to the threat that the people of the United States are facing today...."
Senator Bob Graham, Chairman of Senate Intelligence Committee
Public Broadcasting Service, 11 Dec 2002

"Federal investigators are reexamining a recent arms smuggling case in Florida to determine whether agents of the Pakistani government tried to buy missiles and nuclear weapons components in the United States last year for use by terrorists or Pakistan's military. The original criminal case - a sting operation in which intermediaries allegedly tried to buy the weapons from [Randy Glass] a diamond thief-turned-informant for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms - attracted little public notice when arrests were made in June 2001. It resulted in a single guilty plea and the sealing of court files for another defendant..... One reason, informed sources said, was that prosecutors, in an unusual step, removed references to Pakistan from public filings because of diplomatic concerns.... "
U.S. Reopens Arms Case In Probe for Taliban Role
Washington Post, 2 August 2002

"Sheikh himself appears to be one of two key figures who might be able to give first hand testimony of central relevance to these matters. The other is the former head of the Pakistani intelligence agency, the ISI, who was suddenly 'retired' in October 2001 once the Indian government and the FBI had reported their claimed discovery of Sheikh's involvement in the 911 attacks (they say that it was ISI chief General Mahmoud who instructed Sheikh to make a large money transfer to lead hijacker Mohammed Atta before the attacks. It is also now known that it was Mahmoud who was meeting with the Bush administration in Washington immediately before and during the attacks)."
The 911 Omar Sheikh Files
'Fight Smart', 2 January 2003

"'The complaints were ordered sanitized by the highest levels of government,' Glass said. The complaints were sealed, but Glass pointed out that his sentencing document June 15 listed threats against the World Trade Center and Americans. The [WTC] towers came down three months later."
Informant: Terrorists Warned Of WTC Collapse
WPBF Channel 25, 5 August 2002

"Randy Glass, the former Boca Raton con man who rubbed elbows with terrorists as a federal informant, testified Wednesday before congressional investigators looking into the terrorist attacks last year. What Glass has to say centers on his role in the probe that resulted in the West Palm Beach arrests of two men as arms brokers trying to finalize a deal to sell stinger antiaircraft missiles, nuclear components and other high-tech weaponry to terrorists linked in court documents to Osama Bin Laden. The special joint inquiry committee created by the House and Senate intelligence committees to review the events of Sept. 11 also is looking into intelligence communication breakdowns. In August 2001, just before Glass started to serve a seven-month sentence for a $6 million jewelry scam, he said he reached out to Sen. Bob Graham and U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler. He said he told staffers for both lawmakers that a Pakistani operative working for the Taliban known as R.G. Abbas made three references to imminent plans to attack the World Trade Center during the probe, which ended in June 2001. At one meeting at New York's Tribeca Grill caught on tape, Abbas pointed to the World Trade Center and said, 'Those towers are coming down,' Glass said. Glass also now says the State Department, in an effort to maintain good diplomatic relations with Pakistan, pulled the plug on the South Florida terrorist probe... Glass spent 3 1/2 hours under oath Wednesday. .... 'I told them I have specific evidence, and I can document it,' Glass said. ..... A federal prosecutor told a judge that Glass had been in contact with agents of the Taliban, the Afghan regime that protected bin Laden. "
Intelligence Panel Hears from Glass
The Palm Beach Post, 17 October 17, 2002

"I felt incredibly uncomfortable. Because I knew that something was going to happen.... I did know there was a plan of attack against the United States and that the World Trade Centre was mentioned."
Undercover FBI informant, Randy Glass,
whose warnings he says were passed onto the intelligence community three months before 911 via State and Federal Senators
Newschannel 5, NBC TV, Florida, 7 October 2002

"[Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee] Graham acknowledged at news conference in Boca Raton last month that Glass had contact with his office before Sept. 11, 2001, about an attack on the World Trade Center."
Intelligence Panel Hears from Glass
The Palm Beach Post, 17 October 2002

"U.S. Rep. Ben Gilman has called for an investigation. 'The government knows about those involved in my case who were never charged, never deported, who actively took part in bringing terrorists into our country to meet with me and undercover agents,' Glass said."
Con Man Turned Patriot Tells All
Cox News Service, 2 August 2002

'The Pakistan connection'
There is evidence of foreign intelligence backing for the 9/11 hijackers. Why is the US government so keen to cover it up?
Michael Meacher
Thursday July 22, 2004
The Guardian - Click Here For Full Article

'Smoking Gun'
9/11 Commission Report One Year On
Key Witnesses Blatantly 'Overlooked'
In Official Cover-Up Of 9/11 Money Trail
www.btinternet.com/~nlpwessex/Documents/WAT911OmmissionReport.htm
John O'Neill, John Pistole, Robert Wright, Sibel Edmonds,
Lt General Mahmood, Omar Sheikh, Daniel Pearl, Robert Baer
The Inner Secrets Of 9/11
Are Held By The FBI

Wanted 'Dead Or Alive' Evidence Omitted From The Official 9/11 Report From Watergate To 9/11 The Truth Resides Within The Ranks Of The FBI Including 3 Hours Of Personal Testimony From Former FBI Translator Sibel Edmonds Why Was None Of This Covered In The Official 9/11Report? The Omission Of Key Evidence Is The 'Smoking Gun' Clue Of The 9/11 Report Below Are Some of The People Who Held Crucial Missing Elements Of The 9/11Story But Whose Pivotal Knowledge Was Not Reported By The Official 9/11Commission Even Though Known By Witnesses Within The FBI

John O'Neill - FBI (Dead)	John Pistole - FBI (Alive)	Robert Wright - FBI (Alive)	Sibel Edmonds - FBI (Alive)

Lt General Mahmoud - ISI (Alive)	Omar Sheikh - ISI (Death Sentence)	Daniel Pearl - WSJ (Dead)	Robert Baer - Ex CIA (Alive)
Click Here To Read Details Of Their Missing Evidence