CHERTOFF CREATED TERROR PRETEXTS FOR US POLICE STATE

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CHERTOFF CREATED TERROR PRETEXTS FOR US POLICE STATE

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Remember, Chertoff is one of these scumbag LYING ZIONISTS!!

 

Patrick Briley

February 21, 2005

NewsWithViews.com

 

Michael Chertoff, President Bush's nominee for the

next head of the Homeland Security agency was

confirmed by a vote of the full Senate on February 15,

2005.

 

Chertoff is the replacement for Tom Ridge. Bush's

first choice for head of Homeland Security, New York's

former Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, was forced

to withdraw when serious allegations were raised about

his possible improprieties. If the facts presented in

this report are seriously investigated and properly

acted upon, Michael Chertoff should be immediately

removed and face criminal charges. This could be

another fiasco for Bush just as the nomination of

Bernard Kerik proved to be.

 

Bush and Congress certainly should not have entrusted

Chertoff with being the head of the Homeland Security

Agency. Chertoff is a grave threat to the lives,

welfare and freedoms of the American people.

 

Chertoff has had a rapid rise to power as an appointee

of Presidents HW and GW Bush. First, as a U.S.

attorney in New Jersey (1990-1994), then as assistant

Attorney General at the DOJ criminal division heading

up the investigation of 9-11 (2001-2003), and now,

most recently as a federal judge in Philadelphia

(March 2003 to present). Chertoff also helped write

many of the controverisal portions of the PATRIOT Act

and other new laws that even conservative Republicans

believe are unecessary police state infringements of

the Bill of Rights and Consititutional guarantees of

US citizens. Chertoff also was consulted by the CIA

about torture and renditions of terror suspects to

other countries for torture.

 

This report presents a study of Michael Chertoff's

role in the 1993 WTC bombing, the OKC bombing and the

9-11 terrorist attacks as well as Chertoff's coverup

of FBI and DOJ foreknowledge and provocation of these

attacks. The information in the report strongly

implicates Chertoff in intentionally helping create

and provoke these terrorist acts and terror funding in

order to provide a pretext for much of the

controversial police state provisions in laws which

Chertoff has helped write. Chertoff's unethical and

criminal roles and conduct revealed in this report

raises grave concerns that Chertoff, as head of

Homeland Security, would further attempt to impose a

US police state and continue to use illegal,

unconstitutional and immoral tactics against the

America people. The recently enacted National ID card

provisions to be finally determined and enforced by

the Homeland Security agency under Chertoff are likely

to be those of a Russian style police state as

revealed in this report.

 

A Chicago Tribune article " Trading Privacy (Freedom)

for Security " dated April 21, 1995, two days after the

OKC Bombing, carried quotes by Admiral Studeman, the

acting Director of CIA who had been appointed by HW

Bush. Studeman stated that the OKC Bombing indicated "

the true globalization of the terrorist threat. " In

other words, Studeman tried to create the public

impression that the OKC bombing was the result of

global terrorist efforts, not just those of Tim

McVeigh and Terry Nichols.

 

The title of the article " Trading Privacy (Freedom)

for Security " quoting Admiral Studeman belied the past

and future attempts of HW Bush, GW Bush and their

appointee, Michael Chertoff, to push for loss of

freedoms to fight terrorism (PATRIOT Act flaws and

FISA court violations by Ashcroft and Chertoff).

 

In the immediate aftermath of 9-11 former President

GHW Bush publicly advocated suspension of the US

Constitution and violation of laws by the DOJ and CIA

and FBI agents inside the US to allow domestic spying

on Americans. This is what Presidents GHW Bush and GW

Bush and Chertoff have had in mind all along when they

intentionally helped create the terror pretexts they

have used to illegally and immorally trade American

freedoms and privacy for a false sense of security.

 

1993 WTC Bombing

 

The FBI planted and paid Emad A. Salem in New York and

New Jersey to act as an agent provocateur, to recruit,

organize and encourage Muslims to bomb the World Trade

Center (WTC) in 1993. From March through June 1993 Mr.

Salem recruited seven Muslims from the Abu Bakr mosque

in Brooklyn and the al-Salaam mosque in Jersey City,

where the Muslim cleric Sheik Abdel Rahman preached to

incite violence in his terrorist cell. Salem had known

Rahman from Egypt. Salem used the seven men to scout

targets, plan tactics and obtain chemicals and parts

for bombs. Salem also worked in the operation with a

Sudanese man named Siddig Ali who was a follower of

Abdel Rahman. The plans of the Salem and Rahman group

also included bombings of United Nations headquarters

in Manhattan and several other buildings, bridges and

tunnels in New York

 

The FBI supplied a safe house for Salem's group in

Queens. At the WTC trial US prosecutors and attorneys

acknowledged Mr. Salem's role in organizing the safe

house activities, but told the jury " he was merely

providing an opportunity " to people who already wanted

to commit crimes. According to tapes played at the

trial, the FBI and US Attorneys clearly were shown to

have intentionally used Salem as a provocateur.

 

Michael Chertoff was the US Attorney appointed by HW

Bush and retained by Bill Clinton for New Jersey from

1990-1994. As US Attorney for New Jersey Chertoff was

deeply involved with the 1993 WTC bombing sting

operation using FBI monitoring of the Abdel Rahman and

Salem's recruited cell members at the Al Salaam mosque

in Jersey City. The US Attorney from New York who

worked with Chertoff to prosecute the 1993 WTC bombing

case was Patrick Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald is also

conducting the federal grand jury investigating the

illegal outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame, the wife of

Ambassador Wilson who investigated claims of uranium

acquisition by Iraq. Chertoff and Fitzgerald were

fully aware of the statements made by prosecutors

admitting that the FBI intentionally had provided the

safe house for Salem terrorist recruits.

 

Federal trial testimony and tapes revealed that when

Salem was asked to assemble the bomb for the WTC,

Salem went to the FBI to ask that harmless powder be

used to avoid deaths. But FBI and US Attorneys

involved essentially cut Salem off and the WTC was

bombed killing people in 1993. Testimony by two of

Salem's FBI agent handlers, Mr. Anticev, and Mrs.

Nancy Floyd, confirmed that their FBI supervisors

intentionally refused the agents and Salem's pleas to

render the WTC bomb harmless.

 

Three years after the 1993 WTC bombing, Ramzi Ahmed

Yousef, who prosecutors said helped mastermind the

1993 bombing, was also convicted. Khalid Shaikh

Mohammed, Yousef's uncle and an engineer trained in

the US, was named by the FBI and DOJ as another

mastermind of the 1993 WTC bombing and the 9-11

attacks. There is evidence known to the FBI and

Chertoff that also shows Khalid Mohammed was behind

the planning for the OKC bombing with Terry Nichols.

Khalid Mohammed was captured in 2003 in Pakistan.

Khalid has since been tortured by the CIA with methods

reviewed by Alberto Gonzales and Michael Chertoff at

DOJ, according to published statements by US

authorities, to extract details of Khalid's role in

the 1993 WTC and OKC bombings as well as being the

architect for the 9-11 attacks.

 

Three of the men Salem recruited at the Brooklyn Abu

Bakr mosque were allowed by the FBI and US Attorneys

to go free and roam the streets. They were Anas and

Asad Siddiqy and Mohamed Chafti. They later were seen

very close to the OKC bombing in April 1995 with

Timothy McVeigh. These three men were arrested on the

day of the OKC bombing and then released after

intervention by the FBI, DOJ and CIA. The FBI 302

reports of their arrest were kept hidden from the

public in the office of FBI OKC bomb task force

inspector Danny Defenbaugh until the reports were

found and released in early 2001. The witness to the

three men in OKC being with McVeigh, Debbie Burdick,

was intimidated and coerced by FBI agent Odom to not

talk about her eyewitness account during and after OKC

bombing federal trials. FBI agent Odom was working

with DOJ prosecutors in Denver at the federal trials

of McVeigh and Nichols when Odom called Burdick.

 

It seems that Khalid Mohammed and Ramzi Yousef had

kept in contact with the Siddiqys because a letter

from Khalid to the Siddiqys was found on Ramzi's

computer when confiscated by the FBI and CIA in the

Philippines in January 1995. Plans for the OKC bombing

and the 9-11 style attacks were also found on the same

computer shortly after Khalid and Ramzi had met in the

Philippines with the other OKC bombing participant,

Terry Nichols.

 

(Obviously PLANTED since the FEDs were the ones who carried out OKC!

OKC Bombshell Implicates Feds In Murrah Blast

http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/okc_bombshell.html

 

 

Former Egyptian army sergeant Ali Mohammed was

captured and tried in 1998 for his role in the 1993

WTC and the Tanzanian and Kenyan embassy bombings. Ali

Mohammed trained the Middle Eastern recruits of the

FBI and Chertoff's provocateu, Emad Salem, in bomb

making and planting skills for the 1993 WTC bombing.

When finally arrested Ali Mohammed was carrying

training manuals on how to build and plant bombs in

public buildings. Ali Mohammed has also written

training manuals along with Mohammed Atef for bin

Laden and AlQaeda.

 

Ali Mohammed worked for US Special Forces, the CIA and

then the FBI all while Ali was close to bin Laden and

Dr. Ayman Zawahiri and Khalid Mohammed. In fact with

the knowledge of the FBI, Ali Mohammed squired

Zawahiri and Khalid around the US and in Oklahoma City

in March & shy;April 1995 to survey terror targets and set

up terror underground networks.

 

Although convicted, the details of Ali Mohammed's plea

bargain and detention arrangements with Attorney

General Reno are still secret. Ali Mohammed knows a

great deal about US sting operations of the FBI, the

CIA and US attorneys.

 

Abdul Rahman Yasin was another bomb maker in the 1993

WTC bombing who lived in Jersey City. FBI agents

picked up Yasin after the WTC bombing and had Yasin

retrace for the FBI where and how the WTC bomb had

been built in New York and New Jersey. Yasin had acid

burns on his legs and jeans from the bomb making

efforts. With the full knowledge and approval of the

US Attorneys involved in the case, Yasin was set free

and encouraged to leave the US. Yasin left and went to

Iraq where reporter Leslie Stahl later interviewed

Yasin in 2000. Stahl did a documentary on the story

and also interviewed US Attorneys who acknowledge that

they had agreed to release Yasin to go to Iraq.

 

The credit card of another FBI informant, Melvin

Lattimore, was used to purchase the bomb making

materials for bomb makers Salem, Yasin and Ramzi

Yousef. This information was disclosed during

testimony of a BATF agent at a felony gun violation

trial in OKC for Lattimore in 2001. Lattimore was also

seen helping McVeigh, Iraqi agents and the three 1993

WTC suspects/informants in OKC- the Siddiqys and

Chafti-during the 1995 OKC bombing operation.

Lattimore is a Black Muslim from St. Louis. Lattimore

was also 20th 9-11 hijacker Zacarias Moussaoui's

roommate in Norman OK while he attended the Airman

flight school on instructions from Khalid Mohammed.

Lattimore was also visited in Norman, OK apartments by

two other 9-11 hijacker pilots, AlHazmi and AlShehhi.

Lattimore, like the Siddiqys and Chafti, is still free

to roam America's streets this very day.

 

(There are reports implying ISRAELIs instead of Iraqi's at the OKC

bombing. It

is known that Bush SENIOR settled 3500 Iraqi MILITANTS, many in and

around OKC.)

 

Attorney Lynne Stewart had been representing Muslim

cleric Abdel Rahman for the 1993 WTC bombing until

Stewart was indicted based on DOJ wiretaps (approved

by Ashcroft and known to Chertoff) of Stewart's

conversations with Rahman. The indictments alleged

that Stewart had passed critical information to

Rahman's terrorist supporters while Rahman was in

prison.

 

On February 10, 2005 Lynne Stewart was convicted of

two of the original four charges against her. Stewart

and her defense attorney Michael Tigar plan to appeal

and strongly claim that Stewart did not knowingly

break any laws if any and that the wiretaps of her are

an infringement of attorney-client privilege. The

Stewart appeals case will likely revolve around

whether or not the charges she was convicted of were

valid and whether or not the wire taps used in her

case were in fact legal or constitutional. The judge

in her case threw out two of the more serious charges

against Stewart in 2003.

 

During the wiretaps of conversations between Rahman

and Lynne Stewart, the FBI and DOJ and especially

Chertoff and Ashcroft could have learned of

information communicated to Lynne Stewart by the

Muslim cleric Abdel Rahman revealing possibly

incriminating details of how the FBI and DOJ knew in

advance of the 1993 WTC bombing through monitoring of

Rahman's cell with FBI informants and paid

provocateurs that included the bomb maker Salem and

very possibly the Siddiqys, Mohammed Chafti and Melvin

Lattimore.

 

Chertoff was directly involved in the prosecution of

the Moussaoui case and sought to limit the testimony

of AlQaeda leaders, bin Alshibh and Khalid Mohammed to

such an extent that the federal judge in the case

threatened to throw out the case and moved to severely

restrict if not kill the government's continuance of

the case. Chertoff may have sought to limit the

testimony of Khalid Mohammed in the Moussaoui case in

part because of torture of Khalid ratified by DOJ

attorneys but also because Khalid would be in a

position to describe facts pointing to FBI and DOJ

foreknowledge information of the 1993 WTC, the OKC and

the 9-11 attacks. Chertoff handled the appeal of the

DOJ case against Moussaoui in the 4th Circuit court of

Appeals now before the Supreme Court. Chertoff with

Ashcroft's and now Alberto Gonzales' help may likewise

be trying to stifle this type of information from

coming out in the Rahman case by the wiretapping and

indictment of Lynne Stewart.

 

Since Chertoff was the US attorney in New Jersey fully

aware of FBI monitoring of Rahman's cell with

informants and at a mosque in New Jersey, it is

entirely possible that even Chertoff would not want

incriminating information brought out by Lynne Stewart

in Rahman's trial. The complete story of the roles of

Chertoff and Fitzgerald and other US Attorneys with

Ali Mohammed, Emad Salem, Yasin, the Siddiqys, Chafti,

Melvin Lattimore, and others is one that the DOJ, FBI

and Chertoff, Ashcroft and now Gonzales do not want

exposed in a federal trial of Rahman represented by

Lynne Stewart.

 

Protecting Terror Financiers and Nuclear Arms

Traffickers

 

Dr. Magdy Elamir, a prominent Egyptian neurologist

from Jersey City, was sued by New Jersey for skimming

over $16 million from an HMO he operated.

 

According to a June 20, 2000 article in " The Record "

of Bergen County, New Jersey, Michael Chertoff was the

defense attorney for Dr. Magdy Elamir.

 

The lawsuit alleged that Dr. Elamir " caused more than

$5.7 million to be paid by wire transfers to unknown

parties where the beneficial owner of the account is

unknown. "

 

An August 2002 Dateline NBC reported that bin Laden

funded the HMO owned by Dr Elamir and the money

skimmed from the HMO by Dr. Elamir was transferred

overseas to fund bin Laden terror activities. The

Dateline story was based on intelligence documents

furnished by the chairman of the House International

Relations Committee Ben Gilman, R-New York. Dr. Elamir

also funded the Jersey City Al Salaam mosque led by

Muslim cleric Abdel Rahman and his terror cell who

helped carry out the 1993 WTC bombing. Recall that

while US attorney for New Jersey from 1990 to 1994

Michael Chertoff knew of the FBI use of Emad Salem as

a provocateur associated with the Al Salaam mosque and

Abdel Rahman.

 

Dr. Elamir also owned MRI centers in New Jersey

including Paterson New Jersey where 7 of the known

9-11 hijackers lived. The Nuclear Regulatory

Commission revoked his license. It has been reported

that Elamir personnel at the MRI centers had

unlicensed and untrained access to nuclear materials.

Michael Chertoff not only defended Dr. ElAmir against

the New Jersey HMO fraud case but Chertoff also

weighed in to publicly assert that nuclear licensing

requirements may not have applied to Dr. Elamir's MRI

centers.

 

As the result of a federal sting operation named

Diamondback, between the fall of 1998 and June 2001, a

group of Middle Eastern men including Dr. Magdy Elamir

and his brother Mohamed Elamir were named as suspects

seeking to arm Osama bin Laden by trying to buy

millions of dollars of weapons including stinger

missiles and components for nuclear bombs, nuclear

bomb triggers and weapons grade plutonium.

 

Dateline NBC aired two documentaries on the

Diamondback sting operation: " On the trail of arms

merchants " (August 2002) and " Stinger missile sting

operation " (March 2003).

 

One of the men in the arms deal sting, Raja Ghulam

Abbas, a Pakistani ISI agent, was inexplicably allowed

to return to Pakistan.

 

Two others named in the illegal arms deal were the US

citizens Dr. Magdy Elamir and Dr. Elamir's brother,

Mohamed Elamir, an engineer and a US citizen. A

federal agent who was conducting the Diamondback sting

was told at one point by federal authorities to not

pursue with Mohamed Elamir where the arms to be

procured in the deal were going.

 

After Michael Chertoff took over the DOJ criminal

division in June 2001, no DOJ charges were filed

against Dr. Magdy Elamir or Mohamed Elamir for their

role in trying to buy nuclear weapons for bin Laden in

New Jersey. There also was no adequate effort made to

apprehend the Pakistani ISI agent Raja Abbas. Because

the Diamondback case was handled as a criminal case

rather than a counter terrorism case, Chertoff was

also in a position to control and limit prosecution

and arrests in the Diamondback case so that Magdy

Elamir and Mohamed Elamir would not be charged or go

to trial.

 

Dr. Magdy Elamir has not been arrested by the FBI nor

charged or prosecuted by the DOJ under Chertoff even

though the intelligence documents provided by

Congressmen Gilman show that Dr. Elamir funneled

millions of dollars from fraudulent HMO and MRI

companies to fund terrorist activities for cleric

Abdel Rahman in the 1993 bombing and also for bin

Laden.

 

With no arrest, no charges filed against and no

prosecution of Mohamed Elamir or of Dr. Magdy Elamir

in the Diamondback case, Michael Chertoff was also

able to avoid being publicly implicated in court as

having known the details of Mohamed's brother's (Dr

Magdy ElAmir) activities to skim HMO funds and

transfer the funds to bin Laden AND to the Al Salaam

mosque of Abdel Rahman used to carry out the 1993 WTC

bombing during the FBI and Chertoff directed sting

operation with provocateur Emad Salem, Ali Mohammed,

Melvin Lattimore, the Siddiqys, and others.

 

It is ironic that Chertoff was a defense attorney for

likely terrorist Dr. Elamir just as Lynne Stewart was

a defense attorney for a terrorist advocate, Abdel

Rahman, who was caught in a sting operation mounted by

Chertoff and FBI provocateurs who were intentionally

not stopped from carrying out the WTC bombing. While

Stewart has been indicted on disputed and thrown out

charges using highly questionable wiretaps known about

and possibly authorized by Chertoff, Chertoff has yet

to be asked to explain his improprieties, conflicts of

interest and immorality for helping to promote the

1993 WTC bombing and for not having Chertoff's client

Dr. Elamir and his brother Mohammed Elamir adequately

investigated and charged when Chertoff was head of the

criminal division of DOJ.

 

Coptic Christian citizens of America should no longer

trust the FBI and Michael Chertoff at Homeland

Security for protection now that a Coptic Christian

family in New Jersey connected to the Egyptian based

Al Salaam mosque has been murdered in their own home

by Muslim extremists. The Coptics from Egypt had been

working to convert Muslims to Christianity at the Al

Salaam mosque of Egyptian cleric Abdel Rahman, the

same mosque that had been supported by the Egyptian

bin Laden terror backer, Dr. Magdy Elamir who was

protected by Chertoff. Some of the Christian Coptics

recruiting Muslims as Christian converts at the Al

Salaam mosque also likely had been informants to the

FBI about terror activities at the mosque at the time

Chertoff and the FBI were using Emad Salem and the

mosque to carry out the 1993 WTC bombing.

 

A similar group of Coptic Christians from Egypt in OKC

had been informants to the FBI concerning ME and Iraqi

suspects. Some of these suspects turn out to actually

have been FBI informants and provocateurs in the OKC

bombing. But now that they have seen what has happened

to their Coptic brothers in New Jersey, they now

should know that they too could be murdered,

especially since it is also now known that the FBI and

Chertoff betrayed the Coptics' good efforts to help

and try to provide information that could have been

used to stop and prosecute many more of those involved

the 1993 WTC and 1995 OKC bombings. But this

information was not used because the FBI and DOJ

Attorneys like Chertoff did not want to publicly

expose their knowledge of the use of FBI provocateurs

in both attacks.

 

9-11 Hijackers

 

9-11 hijacker Mohamed Atta was known to his friends

and associates in Cairo and Hamburg by exactly the

same name as Dr. Elamir's brother, namely, Mohamed El

Amir. Atta's father, an attorney in Cairo, is also

named Mohamed El Amir. Dateline NBC reported that

Magdy's brother, Mohamed El Amir was an engineer in

Cairo, Egypt, the same place that Mohamed Atta also

studied engineering.

 

Atta shares the same surname as Dr. Magdy Elamir and

the exact same name as Magdy's brother Mohamed Elamir.

 

 

The FBI stated in a September 27, 2001 press release

that Mohamed Elamir was an alias of Atta's.

 

The 9/11 Commission Report indicated that Mohamed

Elamir Atta visited at least seven other 9-11

hijackers living in an apartment in Paterson, New

Jersey, the location of one of Dr. Magdy Elamir's MRI

centers publicly defended by Michael Chertoff:

 

" Within a few weeks, Hanjour, Hazmi, and several other

operatives moved to Paterson and rented a one-room

apartment. When their landlord later paid a visit, he

found six men living there-Nawaf al Hamzi, now joined

by his younger brother Salem, Hanjour, Moqed, probably

Ahmed al Ghamdi, and Abdul Aziz al Omari; Hazmi's old

friend Khalid al Mihdar would soon join them. "

 

9-11 Drugs, Arms Trafficking and Terror Funding

 

Attorney General Ashcroft put Chertoff in charge of

the entire DOJ investigation of the 9-11 attacks.

Chertoff may well have known of the connections of

Mohamed Elamir Atta, Mohamed Elamir, and Dr. Magdy

Elamir in New Jersey with each other and the 9-11

hijackers, possibly even before the 9-11 attacks.

 

The New Yorker described Chertoff's role in the 9-11

investigation on November 5, 2001:

 

" Since the September 11th terrorist attacks,

Chertoff's office has become the funnel for what is

probably the most important criminal investigation in

American history, as prosecutors and F.B.I.

investigators pour in to seek the boss's approval.

…For day-to-day decisions, Chertoff has the last

word… "

 

Chertoff intentionally squelched and covered up Saudi

financing and money laundering, drug and arms

trafficking, and terror ties to 9-11 as identified by

Ms. Indira Singh and by FBI translator Sibel Edmonds.

As part of this ongoing cover-up, Chertoff would have

known of and likely been involved in the decision by

Attorney General Ashcroft to place a rare state

secrets gag order on Sibel Edmonds.

 

Indira Singh was a business associate of a Saudi

financed US company, the Ptech Corporation having

terror ties to bin Laden and the 9-11 attacks. Indira

Singh independently corroborated Sibel Edmonds'

assertions of drug trafficking, money laundering and

arms trafficking ties of US officials and business

entities, Saudis and US Air Force officers to the 9-11

attacks. Singh identified that one of these entities

was the Ptech Corporation.

 

Indira Singh's and Sibel Edmonds' evidence and

allegations point directly to DOJ criminal cover-up by

Ashcroft and by Michael Chertoff when Chertoff was

head of the DOJ criminal division. Although Ashcroft

placed Edmonds under a DOJ gag order, Singh gave

testimony to the 9/11 Citizens' Commission, Sept 9,

2004 in New York. Singh read an open letter from

Edmonds, and added, " what I have uncovered in Ptech

connects with some of the things that she has

discovered. Sibel is not allowed to disclose content

but she can ask me questions. I know some of the

things that she mentioned there connect directly to

what I discovered. "

 

Despite Indira Singh's and Sibel Edmond's testimony,

their testimony was intentionally left out of the

commission's final report as a result of the Bush

administration.

 

Federal judge Reggie Walton is the judge used by

Ashcroft and Bush to uphold the DOJ's gag order on

Edmonds and block Sibel Edmond's testimony about

corrupt US officials involved in money laundering,

drug trafficking, arms trafficking tied to the 911

attacks, AlQaeda, and the Turkish American council. GW

Bush and Ashcroft were also involved in having federal

judge Reggie Walton block the lawsuit filed against

Iraq by 20 OKC bombing victims. Evidence in the OKC

bombing case exposed the FBI and DOJ's foreknowledge

and use of the same provocateurs and informants in the

OKC bombing that had also worked with Chertoff during

the 1993 WTC bombing & shy; Melvin Lattimore, Anas and Assad

Siddiqy and Mohammed Chafti , the recruits of Emad

Salem for Chertoff and the FBI.

 

Ptech was a Boston software firm financed by Saudi

businessman Yassin Al-Qadi, a key financial backer of

Osama bin Laden. Ptech's clients included many federal

governmental agencies, including the U.S. Army, the

U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Naval Air Command, Congress,

the Department of Energy, the Federal Aviation

Administration, the Internal Revenue Service, NATO,

the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Secret

Service and even the White House.

 

Ptech was an outside contractor with strong terrorist

ties that was in a position to have infiltrated and

sabotaged and taken advantage of information from

government computer systems vital on 9-11. Ptech was

in the FAA building for two years before 9/11. Ptech

worked on interoperability of the FAA with NORAD and

the Air Force during emergencies like 9-11. Ptech had

the opportunity to know intimate procedures at FAA and

NORAD, to add or change software, and to mine

databases in a way that may have helped the 9-11

hijackers and planners. In October 2001 the chief

financier of Ptech Corporation, Yassin Al-Qadi was

formally designated as a terrorist financier under the

International Emergency Economic Powers Act. Al-Qadi

was also a key financial backer of Osama bin Laden.

The Bush administration delayed investigating Ptech

after October 2001. A government investigation did not

start until August 2002 when a Boston WBZ-TV

investigation called attention to Ptech.

 

WBZ-TV started its investigation based on reliable and

accurate information given to WBZ-TV about Ptech's

terror connections by the Ptech business associate

Indira Singh.

 

Federal authorities told WBZ-TV not to air the story

in September 2002 because it would jeopardize their

investigation and would threaten national security.

But Joe Bergantino, the WBZ-TV reporter who did the

story, has said he now believes the government's

demand to hold off on the story was instead a pretext.

 

 

Ptech whistleblowers initially went to FBI agents in

2001, but the whistleblowers say that the FBI and DOJ

(Chertoff's criminal division) did nothing adequate to

respond and investigate. Then the whistleblowers went

to US Customs agents working under operation

Greenquest and these agents finally raided Ptech in

December 2002 after the Bush DOJ and FBI deliberately

waited, delayed and stalled for a year and a half. The

impedance, delay and stalling by the FBI and DOJ

however continued after the Customs raid on Ptech as

the FBI then stepped in and unsuccessfully tried to

take control of the case.

 

In October 2001, Chertoff was appointed head of

Operation Greenquest, a multi-agency initiative to

target sources of funding for terrorist organizations,

according to a U.S. Customs Service press release.

Chertoff told the Associated Press on Oct. 25, 2001

that, " The lifeblood of terrorism is money, and if we

cut the money we cut the blood supply. "

 

But this is an exceptionally hypocritical statement

given Chertoff's legal defense of Dr. Magdy Elamir and

Chertoff's knowledge that Dr. Elamir was sending money

skimmed from a New Jersey HMO to bin Laden and to the

terrorist cell of Abdel Rahman at the Al Salaam mosque

whose members Chertoff had used to blow up the WTC

with Emad Salem and the FBI in 1993. But just as bad,

and perhaps even more hypocritical if not corrupt, is

the fact that while also head of Greenquest, Chertoff,

the DOJ and FBI impeded and sabotaged the efforts of

Customs agents investigating Ptech and the very agents

who had set up Greenquest in the first place! Former

U.S. Customs chief Robert Bonner created Operation

Greenquest just after the September 11 terror attacks

to be a high-profile federal task force targeting the

financiers of Al Qaeda and other international

terrorist groups. But as noted, in October 2001,

Chertoff was appointed head of Operation Greenquest.

When the Customs task force was folded into Homeland

Security, the FBI and DOJ