segovius
06-30-2005, 07:42 AM
The name Ali Mohamed is not generally known to the public. It should be.
Mohamed was born in Egypt but was a Sergeant in the US army. In 2000 he admitted he had been personally involved in the African US embassy bombings that occurred in 1988 - the ones that are traditionally blamed on OBL.
But there's more - Mohamed told a New York court that he personally helped train members of al Qaeda under the auspices of OBL and was also a member of the terror group 'Islamic Jihad'.
So far this much is public record but investigations have revealed that Mohamed may also have been a CIA agent:
A book originally published abroad, Dollars for Terror, by Swiss television journalist Richard Labeviere, suggests that Ali Mohamed was an active agent of U.S. policy who trained bin Laden’s agents in the New York area. Labeviere, who conducted a four-year investigation, concluded that the international Islamic networks linked to bin Laden were nurtured and encouraged by elements of the U.S. intelligence community, especially during the Clinton years.
LaBeviere’s thesis strikes some as too outlandish to accept, but Larry C. Johnson, a former deputy director of the Office of Counterterrorism at the State Department who had previously worked for the CIA, confirms it at least in part. He told the San Francisco Chronicle that the CIA had a brief relationship with Ali Mohamed after he offered in 1984 to provide information about terrorist groups in the Middle East. In 1981, the year in which Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was assassinated by Army officers who belonged to the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, Mohamed joined that terrorist group. Seven years later he told Lt. Col. Robert Anderson, "Anwar Sadat was a traitor, and he had to die."
Johnson, the ex-CIA man from the Office of CounterTerrorism confirmed that as well as being used in certain capacities by the CIA, Mohamed had also subsequently worked for the FBI.
All this was allegedly at the same time that he was plotting terrorist acts against the US - someone at those agencies should have noticed. They didn't.
But this is where it gets strange: In 1985, then in the Egyptian army, Mohamed was granted a US visa and subsequently enlisted in the US Army and assigned to Special Forces at Ft. Bragg.
But it was known at the time that he had previously been a Major in the same Egyptian unit that killed President Anwar Sadat. This seems slightly odd and seemed so to Lt. Col. Robert Anderson mentioned above:
Lt. Col. Anderson thought it strange that a major in the Egyptian Army unit that killed President Anwar Sadat would be given a visa to come to the U.S. and that he would be accepted by our Army and assigned to Special Forces. Anderson assumed that Mohamed was sponsored by the CIA, but Larry Johnson told the Raleigh News & Observer, "He was an active source for the FBI, a double agent." Johnson charged that the FBI "did a lousy job of managing him. He was holding out on them. He had critical information years ago and didn’t give it up."
Note that at his later trial, Mohamed's four co-defendants were all found guilty and imprisoned. Mohamed issued a plea-bargain - to this day no-one knows what this involved as the evidence is sealed by the court. And unlike them, he was not even called to testify.
But it gets worse. While still in the US Army, Mohamed asked for leave to go and fight in Afghanistan. He was dispatched there immediately on active duty.
This was against all Army regulations. Lt. Col. Anderson again:
Anderson said he wrote reports to get Mohamed investigated, court-martialed and deported, but no action was taken. The News & Observer says that near the end of his tour at Ft. Bragg, Mohamed would go to New Jersey on weekends to train Islamic fundamentalists in surveillance, weapons and explosives. This Egyptian terrorist was honorably discharged in 1989 with commendations for "patriotism, valor, fidelity and professional excellence." He later became an American citizen.
What Mohamed had been doing in Afghanistan is known. He was meeting with OBL and his operatives and while there he personally helped move OBL from Afghanistan to Sudan - all the while still in the US Army (from which he would receive the above commendations), all the while planning the Nairobi bombings and all the while working for the CIA and FBI.
Finally after a career which encompassed planning the WTC bombings, liaising with OBL in Afghanistan, running terrorist cells in NY, serving in the unit that assassinated Sadat and being involved with the planning of the Kenya/Tanzania US Embassy bombings Mohamed made plans to flee the country.
This is the point where he was arrested and faced trial as described above ending in the mysterious plea bargain - as mentioned on the Rotten.com link, people were holding their breath....
And they're still holding their breath today. Ali Mohammed never testified. In fact, Ali Mohammed was never seen again.
After entering his guilty plea, Ali Mohammed's sentencing was scheduled for July 2001. In October 2001, after The Big One, CBS News reported that Mohammed was still "awaiting sentencing." Some time between then and now, Ali Mohammed vanished from the federal prison system.
His current whereabouts are unknown. He was Osama bin Laden's right-hand man, he apparently worked for the Army, the FBI and the CIA. And now he's just gone.
Link From Rotten.com (http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/crime/terrorists/ali-mohammed/)
Another Link (http://newsmine.org/archive/9-11/binladen/cia-asset/bin-laden-military-role.txt)
Mohamed was born in Egypt but was a Sergeant in the US army. In 2000 he admitted he had been personally involved in the African US embassy bombings that occurred in 1988 - the ones that are traditionally blamed on OBL.
But there's more - Mohamed told a New York court that he personally helped train members of al Qaeda under the auspices of OBL and was also a member of the terror group 'Islamic Jihad'.
So far this much is public record but investigations have revealed that Mohamed may also have been a CIA agent:
A book originally published abroad, Dollars for Terror, by Swiss television journalist Richard Labeviere, suggests that Ali Mohamed was an active agent of U.S. policy who trained bin Laden’s agents in the New York area. Labeviere, who conducted a four-year investigation, concluded that the international Islamic networks linked to bin Laden were nurtured and encouraged by elements of the U.S. intelligence community, especially during the Clinton years.
LaBeviere’s thesis strikes some as too outlandish to accept, but Larry C. Johnson, a former deputy director of the Office of Counterterrorism at the State Department who had previously worked for the CIA, confirms it at least in part. He told the San Francisco Chronicle that the CIA had a brief relationship with Ali Mohamed after he offered in 1984 to provide information about terrorist groups in the Middle East. In 1981, the year in which Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was assassinated by Army officers who belonged to the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, Mohamed joined that terrorist group. Seven years later he told Lt. Col. Robert Anderson, "Anwar Sadat was a traitor, and he had to die."
Johnson, the ex-CIA man from the Office of CounterTerrorism confirmed that as well as being used in certain capacities by the CIA, Mohamed had also subsequently worked for the FBI.
All this was allegedly at the same time that he was plotting terrorist acts against the US - someone at those agencies should have noticed. They didn't.
But this is where it gets strange: In 1985, then in the Egyptian army, Mohamed was granted a US visa and subsequently enlisted in the US Army and assigned to Special Forces at Ft. Bragg.
But it was known at the time that he had previously been a Major in the same Egyptian unit that killed President Anwar Sadat. This seems slightly odd and seemed so to Lt. Col. Robert Anderson mentioned above:
Lt. Col. Anderson thought it strange that a major in the Egyptian Army unit that killed President Anwar Sadat would be given a visa to come to the U.S. and that he would be accepted by our Army and assigned to Special Forces. Anderson assumed that Mohamed was sponsored by the CIA, but Larry Johnson told the Raleigh News & Observer, "He was an active source for the FBI, a double agent." Johnson charged that the FBI "did a lousy job of managing him. He was holding out on them. He had critical information years ago and didn’t give it up."
Note that at his later trial, Mohamed's four co-defendants were all found guilty and imprisoned. Mohamed issued a plea-bargain - to this day no-one knows what this involved as the evidence is sealed by the court. And unlike them, he was not even called to testify.
But it gets worse. While still in the US Army, Mohamed asked for leave to go and fight in Afghanistan. He was dispatched there immediately on active duty.
This was against all Army regulations. Lt. Col. Anderson again:
Anderson said he wrote reports to get Mohamed investigated, court-martialed and deported, but no action was taken. The News & Observer says that near the end of his tour at Ft. Bragg, Mohamed would go to New Jersey on weekends to train Islamic fundamentalists in surveillance, weapons and explosives. This Egyptian terrorist was honorably discharged in 1989 with commendations for "patriotism, valor, fidelity and professional excellence." He later became an American citizen.
What Mohamed had been doing in Afghanistan is known. He was meeting with OBL and his operatives and while there he personally helped move OBL from Afghanistan to Sudan - all the while still in the US Army (from which he would receive the above commendations), all the while planning the Nairobi bombings and all the while working for the CIA and FBI.
Finally after a career which encompassed planning the WTC bombings, liaising with OBL in Afghanistan, running terrorist cells in NY, serving in the unit that assassinated Sadat and being involved with the planning of the Kenya/Tanzania US Embassy bombings Mohamed made plans to flee the country.
This is the point where he was arrested and faced trial as described above ending in the mysterious plea bargain - as mentioned on the Rotten.com link, people were holding their breath....
And they're still holding their breath today. Ali Mohammed never testified. In fact, Ali Mohammed was never seen again.
After entering his guilty plea, Ali Mohammed's sentencing was scheduled for July 2001. In October 2001, after The Big One, CBS News reported that Mohammed was still "awaiting sentencing." Some time between then and now, Ali Mohammed vanished from the federal prison system.
His current whereabouts are unknown. He was Osama bin Laden's right-hand man, he apparently worked for the Army, the FBI and the CIA. And now he's just gone.
Link From Rotten.com (http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/crime/terrorists/ali-mohammed/)
Another Link (http://newsmine.org/archive/9-11/binladen/cia-asset/bin-laden-military-role.txt)