Protocols of The Learned Elders of Islam Si'ra 3

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Sometimes word of an action leaks out ± this was even the case
with September 11th: Mamdouh Habib's foray into Islamism began in
1991, when he took his family to New York, where two sisters lived. He
ran into two friends from Cairo who were followers of Sheik Omar
Abdel Rahman. At their urging, Mamdouh Habib went to the federal
courthouse to protest the prosecution of El Sayyid A. Nosair, who was
on trial for murdering Rabbi Meir Kahane. Mr. Habib held rallies in
1995 for Sheik Abdel Rahman, who was then on trial on charges of conspiring to blow
up New York City landmarks, charges on which he was convicted and remains in jail. A
few days before September 11, 2001, Mr. Habib called his wife from Pakistan, and as
was the will of the disbelievers, her phone was being monitored. In the conversation Mr.
Habib said something big was going to happen in America in the next few days. The
Pakistanis were alerted and kidnapped then tortured him and turned him over to the
Americans who brought him to Egypt where he was subjected to more torture then
transferred to Guantanamo then released.1

Another man who was indirectly connected to our network was known
as Anthony Elgindy. At a court hearing the prosecutor, Kenneth Breen, said
that Anthony contacted an unidentified broker at Salomon Smith Barney on
September 10, 2001. Predicting that the Dow Jones industrial average would
soon collapse by about two-thirds, the prosecutor said that Elgindy asked the
broker to sell $300,000 in his children's trust funds. Elgindy, however, was unable to sell
that day and did not sell until the markets reopened for trading on September 18.2
Elgindy was arrested but not because he had foreknowledge of 9/11 but because he
was caught manipulating stock prices along with a corrupt FBI Agent. It would have
been very embarrassing for the FBI to be so connected to a man who knew about 9/11
ahead of time. So, to avoid that embarrassment, the Justice Department avoided any
indictments relating to terrorism, and junked any such investigations into Elgindy despite
the profile of Khaled Elgindy, his brother. Khaled Elgindy used stints at the State
Department and a U.S. government commission to carry out the edicts of Sheik
Rahman in regard to Egyptian Coptic Christians. He worked for a Michigan Islamic
charity that openly funded Hamas, secretly raised money to fund Iraqi insurgents
against American soldiers, and has ties to Al-Qaeda. Finally, there is Khaled Elgindy's
good work for the Palestinian Authority and his work for various pro-Islamist Arab
Muslim groups, like the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.3
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1
. Ray Bonner Australian¶s Long Path In The US Antiterrorism Maze ï
January 29, 2005.
2
. Eric Dash Broker Who Aided US Going On Trial for Fraud ï
November 1, 2004.
3
. http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2005/11/wall_street_jou.html
As the big day drew near Mohammad Salameh became more and careless. He
listed the address of the Islamic Center Of Jersey City 17 Park St, Jersey City on his
rental slip for the van that would transport the bomb, as he worshipped there regularly.
We thank Allah [subhanahu wa ta¶ala] that he did not list Masjid al-Salaam. That is the
address of the oldest mosque in Jersey City that was headed by Hamas fundraiser
Muhammad Al-Hanooti at the time of the bombing but is now as close to a pro-
American mosque as you are going to get. Abdul Rahman Yasin taught him how to
drive the van. As identification, he used a New York license bearing his own name and
El-Gabrowny¶s address, 57 Prospect Park Southwest, Brooklyn, New York, instead of
using a forged document. This was the same address that was used by El-Sayyid
Nosair before he blasted Kahane. Salameh was convinced the van would be destroyed
beyond identification in the explosion. The night before the bombing in order to distance
himself from the Ryder van should it be identified, Salameh falsely reported to the police
that it had been stolen. Another brilliant move!
Eyad Ismoil, a 21-year-old Palestinian Brother and Jordanian citizen who had
entered the United States in 1989 on a student visa agreed to help
transport the bomb to the World Trade Center. After a brief stint studying
engineering at Wichita State University in Kansas, Ismoil dropped out of
school and stayed in America as an illegal alien. He would tell the
Jordanian police that while in America, ³he had been working odd jobs in
different stores and of his two day stay in New York before returning to
Jordan. Ismoil stated that while in New York, in a pornography or sex shop on 42nd
Street, he was confronted by a male from Kuwait, possibly a Pakistani who was in the
company of another male. This male told him they had a cleaning business, like soaps
and things, and the male asked Ismoil if he wanted to work for them as a driver. Ismoil
said that he had initially refused the offer but the male persisted, telling Ismoil that he
should give it a try. Ismoil agreed and drove a van with these men into New York and
then into a large building, the Trade Tower. Ismoil stated that after they had driven down
into the building he was told to stop, the van was left there and all three of them entered
a small car and left the building. After leaving the building Ismoil heard a big explosion
and he was then told to leave the United States.´4
On February 26, 1993 Eyad Ismoil and Mohammed Salemeh drove to the Trade
Center and parked in its basement. Salemeh drove even though he had three accidents
recently, one of which landed Ramzi Yousef a hospital. They had planned to arrive
there early in the morning, at about 9:30 a.m. but one of the Brothers had forgotten to
give them a wake-up call, and they overslept. Because of their tardiness, Mohammed
Salemeh was unable to park the truck next to a key column, which might have resulted
in toppling the Trade Center and killing at least 250,000
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It has been alleged by one Peter Lance that Ahmed Amin Refai,
an accountant at the New York City Fire
4. 93CR180 Doc #599

Department came into possession of the blueprints for the Trade Center. These
blueprints would have been invaluable in determining the best location to park the truck-
bomb. Robert I. Friedman got this statement out of an FBI explosives expert: ³If they
had found the exact architectural Achilles' heel of the World Trade Center I think it
would have brought her down.´ Refai attended both the Al-Farooq and Abu Bakr
Mosques and had been photographed with Sheik Rahman, who he served as a
³translator´ for during the Sheik¶s immigration trial. Peter Lance discovered that Refai
knew Brothers Nosair, Salameh and Ahmed Sattar and was interviewed by the FBI
twice in 1992. He revealed Refai called in sick on the day of the first World Trade
Center Event and that in 1999 he lied about having lost some Fire Department
identification, so that he could gain access to a facility that housed more recent
blueprints. Refai claimed the 1992 FBI interviews concerned a money laundering
investigation, not so-called terrorism and that he did NOT obtain any blueprints nor did
he call in sick on the day of the first World Trade Center Event. When the Brother said
that the United States Government carried out our September 11th action on behalf of
Israel he erred and only aroused more suspicion5 but the Islamist line must be followed.
Later, the Imam Intikab Habib was forced to resign his post as New York City Fire
Department Chaplin because he said this in relation to our 9/11 Victory,
I as an individual don't know who did the attacks. There are so

many conflicting reports about it. I don't believe it was 19 hijackers who did
those attacks. I've heard professionals say that nowhere ever in history did
a steel building come down with fire alone. It takes two or three weeks to
demolish a building like that. But it was pulled down in a couple of hours.
Was it 19 hijackers who brought it down, or was it a conspiracy?6
On June 20, 1993, shortly before Sheik Rahman¶s followers would be arrested
for plotting to destroy the bridges and tunnels leading to New York City Emad Salem
recorded this conversation between Siddig Ali Siddig and a male called whom the
transcriber spelled as ³Rafhi.´
Siddig Ali: (UI). (Beeper sounded off). 795 02
Salem: Samir.
Siddig Ali: This will be in Jersey. Dial 201 let us hope it is something good.
Salem: By God.
Siddig Ali: Dial 201.
Salem: 7
5
. Peter Lance, One Thousand Days for Revenge - Regan Books 2003.
6
. http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/nyc-imam0930,0,6360713,print.story?coll=ny-top-headlines
Siddig Ali: 9-5, 0-2-9-1, (UI) Yes, someone just called me, yeah, peace be
upon you and God's mercy and blessings. Hello, who is this? Huh? Hello
Rafhi, how are you Brother? May God bless you - How is it going man?
Thanks to God. Wahid [Matarawy Mohammed Said Saleh] called me the
day before yesterday, but I were not there. He said he will call. He will
come Monday. Umm, I were not there, I mean he called at home while I
was not there, by God. Umm, yes. Is he with the family at home? I mean
(UI). Monday (UI), so what are we going to do? Didn't you talk to him?
That is it, that means. It means because my wife told me that he said he
will be here on Monday, I said that is it, he may come in Sunday, umm,
yes, as long as he is going to be here Sunday, today, that means thanks
to God. No, no, umm, God willing. With God¶s blessing, yes ok God
willing, God willing, God willing sheik. Do you mean that I should wait on
you tomorrow morning? Should I wait on you in the morning? Yes. No, he
never gave me any money. No, by God, he did not give me at all. Now, ?
because I don't have any. He went, do you remember
when he told you µI am going to Siddig now to give him money?¶ He left
without even talking to me, by God. I am a little upset with him. But I find
an excuse for your brother. Umm do you mean we should transfer it? No
problem. God willing, when he comes Monday, no problem, we will find
out what can be done tomorrow morning and it will do it, I mean it is not a
problem. Ok, no objection,
tomorrow,
there is no objection - I mean there is no objection. Ok, I will wait on you in
the morning, and you call me, God willing. Peace Be Upon You and God's
mercy and his blessings.7
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On January 31, 1986 Matarawy Mohammed Said Saleh (Wahid) using the alias
Wahid Mohamed Ahmed married Evelyn Cortez, a United States citizen. Based on this
marriage, Cortez filed a ã

This application
started the process of acquiring legal permanent residency for Matarawy Mohammed
Said Saleh. In the petition, Matarawy Mohammed Said Saleh claimed to be a self-
employed scuba diver. The INS denied the petition on the ground that Cortez failed to
submit a divorce decree from her previous marriage. The denial was sent by certified
mail but was returned marked ³unclaimed.´ In 1987, still married to Cortez, Matarawy
Mohammed Said Saleh married Leslie Sonkin, also a United States citizen, in a
ceremony in Egypt. They then filed an immigrant visa petition for Matarawy Mohammed
Said Saleh claiming Saleh had never been previously married. In December 1987
Matarawy Mohammed Said Saleh entered the United States at New York City as a
conditional resident alien based on his marriage to Sonkin. This status allowed him to
remain in the United States legally for two years after which time he could file to
permanently remain in the United States. In August 1988 Matarawy Mohammed Said
Saleh was convicted in federal court for selling heroin in Detroit and sentenced to five
years¶ imprisonment. He was paroled after two and a half years and turned over to the
7
. USA v Rahman USDC SDNY 93CR181 Appendix June 20, 1994 Thomas Nooter Tape CM-55
INS for deportation on the basis of his conviction. In December 1990 the INS initiated
deportation proceedings while Saleh was detained in Oakdale, Louisiana. One month
later, Sultan El-Galwi posted an $8,000 bail with the INS to secure Matarawy
Mohammed Said Saleh¶s release. The deportation order was still pending. In March
1993 the INS terminated Matarawy Mohammed Said Saleh¶s conditional residence
status. In July 1993 the FBI interviewed Matarawy Mohammed Said Saleh¶s wife Evelyn
Cortez, who claimed she had re-married to Ashraf Mohammed. She claimed that she
had a son by Saleh six years earlier. On July 22, 1993 a joint INS-FBI team arrested
Matarawy Mohammed Said Saleh in Wildwood, New Jersey and on December 15, 1995
Saleh was convicted of conspiracy to bomb various targets in New York City. He was
sentenced to time served (21 months) and placed on supervised release for three years
despite his outstanding deportation order, despite his illegal immigration status, heroin
conviction, violation of probation, assault of his ex-wife Cortez, assaults on his current
wife, and involvement in credit card fraud and theft. In June 1996 the INS Philadelphia
office issued an arrest warrant for Matarawy Mohammed Said Saleh for his violation of
immigration laws. Shortly thereafter he was arrested by INS Special Agents at the
Federal Probation office in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and placed in INS custody.
Based on his terrorism conviction, Matarawy Mohammed Said Saleh was placed in
administrative deportation proceedings as an aggravated felon. This procedure did not
involve a deportation hearing. Egypt issued a temporary travel document allowing Saleh
to travel only to Egypt and only God knows what happened to him after Egyptian
Security Police had him in custody.8 It was the Ashraf Mohammed and Evelyn Cortes,
who hid Matarawy Mohammed Said Saleh at a Wildwood New Jersey hotel, who did his
time. Mohammed received 42 months and Evelyn 31 months for harboring a federal
fugitive.9
The government did not use him as a trial witness. Assistant United States
Attorney McCarthy characterized him as having portrayed himself at proffer sessions
As a small-time petty criminal who inhabited a shady world where he had

occasional access to, although not the abiding trust of, persons connected
with terrorist groups. Matarawy Mohammed Said Saleh had developed
experience over the years in, among other things, credit card and
immigration fraud« Matarawy Mohammed Said Saleh was thus able to
provide the government with the identities of individuals he had come to
know in that capacity, some information about routes of false identification
once illegal immigrants arrive in the country. Matarawy Mohammed Said
Saleh has also provided information that identified persons believed to be
involved in the International movement of sophisticated weaponry and
counterfeit U.S. currency. Matarawy Mohammed Said Saleh¶s co-
operation ended in mid-1996 and

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Whether the information he provided ultimately has any value beyond
what now appears can only be known after the passage of time.´10
8
. http://www.9-11commission.gov/staff_statements/911_TerrTrav_App.pdf
9
. USDOS Report on International Terrorism 1994
10. Ltr. McCarthy to McElroy October 25, 1995.
The 1996 Gorelick Memo had been disseminated in March 1996 so even if
Saleh¶s information had warranted new prosecutions, it was unlikely there would have
been any follow-up investigation. Had our Brothers parked the bomb in the right parking
space they would have fulfilled the hopes of Adolf Hitler, for Albert Speer reported in his
prison diary written in 1947: ³I never saw [Hitler] so beside himself as he was near the
end of the war when he worked himself...into a delirium over his vision of the downfall of
New York in a firestorm. He described skyscrapers being transformed into giant flaming
torches, then crashing down into one another, with the imploded city reflected in the
night sky.´ None-the-less, the first attack on the Trade Center caused six deaths and
more hospital casualties than any event in American history since the Civil War! The
Brothers were almost killed by their own bomb ± they had ignited a seven-minute fuse,
gotten in an escape vehicle and were about to leave the Trade Center when a truck
blocked their egress. A few minutes later the truck pulled out and they followed it.
Egyptian Islamic Jihad was not about to be outdone by Al-Gama¶a al-Islamiyya.

On the same day as the World Trade Center bombing operative Egyptian Islamic Jihad
operative Adel Abu Bakr was arrested for the explosion of a TNT device that was
wrapped with tape and imbedded with rusty nails at the Wadi El Nil coffee shop in
downtown Cairo. Two people were killed, and another eighteen people, most European
and American tourists, were wounded. No one claimed responsibility for the attack.
Ayman al-Zawahiri was aware of the date of the World Trade Center bombing and
ordered his operative in Egypt to strike on that day.11
Several hours after the first World Trade Center explosion, Salameh returned to
the rental agency and reported that the van had been stolen. He showed them the
police report he had filed on the night before the bombing. That evening Salameh drove
Ramzi Yousef and Ismoil to JFK airport; Yousef escaped to Pakistan using his Pakistani
passport, and Ismoil flew home to Jordan. Salameh had a ticket to Amsterdam on Royal
Jordanian fight 262, which continued on to Amman, dated for March 5, 1993 but it was
an infant ticket that had cost him only $65. He had used it to get himself a Dutch visa.
Needing money for an adult fare, he tried to get his $400 van deposit back by telling the
rental agency that the van had been stolen. Salameh also wished to be reimbursed for
the $20 worth of gasoline he had put in the van¶s tank. He returned three times before
he was finally arrested on March 4, 1993, after the VIN number on the van was
recovered and traces of nitrates were found on his rental documents.12
On March 4, 1993, federal agents executed a search warrant for El-Gabrowny¶s

home. Salameh¶s use of El-Gabrowny¶s address when renting the van used in the
bombing provided the basis for the warrant. The search of El-Gabrowny¶s home
revealed stun guns and taped messages from Nosair urging fighting and Jihad in
response to the Jewish immigration to the Zionist entity. Just prior to executing the
search warrant, the agents encountered El-Gabrowny as he left the building and then,
11
. http://www.milnet.com/state/chrono93.htm
12. Laurie Mylroie ³The World Trade Center Bomb: Who is Ramzi Yousef? And Why It Matters´
http://www.fas.org/irp/world/iraq/956-tni.htm
seeing them, started back toward it. The agents stopped and frisked him. El-Gabrowny
became belligerent and assaulted two agents. On his person, the agents found five
fraudulent Nicaraguan passports and birth certificates with pictures of Nosair and his
wife and children. Salem had obtained the passports for him,13 and had helped him
secure a pistol permit from the New York City Police all this to gain El-Gabrowny¶s trust.
On March 5, 1993 Nosair was thrown into the hole at Attica State Prison. He asked a
corrections officer why this had been done and was told that a lieutenant would stop by
later to answer his question. Nosair told the Correction Officer ± ³If the devil leaders of
this state think placing me in SHU (Special Housing Unit) will end the war, they are
wrong. This is only the beginning. The war will not end until I am released.´

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When renting the Ryder van, Salameh had given a telephone number that
belonged to ³Jodie Hadas´ at 34 Kensington Avenue, Apartment 4 in Jersey City, New
Jersey. This was the home of Abdul Rahman Yasin his brother and his mother.
Salameh and Ramzi Yousef also lived there. For 34 Kensington Avenue the only calls to
Iran appeared in Government¶s Exhibit 818. These calls were billed to an MCI account
for that address, and there were a total of two calls made to the number in Iran. One of
them was made on September 4, 1992 at 10:50 p.m. It lasted for three minutes.
On March 4, 1993, around 2:00 p.m. - after Salameh had been arrested - police
sealed off the block of 34 Kensington Avenue in preparation for a search. When
investigators searched that apartment, they found tools, wiring and manuals concerning
antennae, circuitry and electromagnetic devices. A dog trained in the detection of
explosives responded positively to a closet space within the apartment.14 An Iraqi
passport was also discovered since three of the people living there were from Iraq.15
Assistant United States Attorney DePippo reported: ³There are tools there that are
consistent with the presence of nitroglycerin and he also had that electronic scale, the
scale and the pan part of it. And what do we know about it? Again, it¶s consistent with
urea nitrate and aluminum powder.´16 A law enforcement bomb technician advised the
FBI that these items indicated that a bomb maker lived in the apartment.
Abdul Rahman Yasin accounted for these items by telling the FBI that he was a
Professor of Electrical Engineering at Hudson County Community College and had
known Mohammad A. Salameh for at least two years and considered him a good friend.
The items did not belong to Salameh and Salameh did not even know about them. In
response to a question by FBI Agent Pilker, Abdul Rahman Yasin said that Salameh
had never asked him about electronic circuitry. Abdul Rahman Yasin told FBI Agent
Pilker that he and his mother and his brother moved to 34 Kensington Avenue,
13. Ralph Blumenthal ³Suspect in Bombing Plot Denies Role in Conspiracy´ ï
July 15, 1993 Page B4, 1.
14. Affidavit of Thomas Donlon March 4, 1993.
15. USDC SDNY 93CR 180 (KTD) Q2699 (SUB K-1-1B7 Item #5)
16. USA v Ramzi Yousef Summation page 8409
Apartment 4 in or about September 1992. As of March 1993, Yasin was living part of the
time at the college and the rest of the time in Apartment 4. According to Yasin as of
1993, Mr. Salameh was not living in Apartment 4 or at 34 Kensington Avenue but
Salameh had lived in Apartment 8 until October 1992 when he moved to 251 Virginia
Avenue in Jersey City. In Government¶s Exhibit 820, which is a Sprint account for 251
Virginia Avenue, there are a total of 15 calls to the number Ramzi Yousef called in Iran.
In Government¶s Exhibit 803, the Metro Media account for that address, there are a total
of seven calls to that number in Iran.
The FBI took the occupants, Abdul Rahman Yasin his mother and his epileptic
brother Abdul to the Newark Field Office for questioning. When Abdul was released the
next day he was immediately put on a flight to Iraq.17 Abdul Rahman Yasin pretended to
become a confidential informant for the FBI: ³A Confidential Informant (the CI) has
informed me that on at least two occasions, including on or about February 17, 1993,
and February 34, 1993, the CI and Mohammed Salameh went to 40 Pan Ramapo
Avenue, Jersey City, New Jersey. The CI informed me that when he and Mohammed
Salameh went there they entered a grey door with the number ³MO´ on it, which leads
to a first floor apartment where the CI knew Mohammad Salameh to be living at the
time. The CI informed me that on or about February 24, 1993, approximately two days
before the explosion in the garage area beneath the World Trade center complex, the
CI helped Mohammed Salameh learn to drive a Ryder van. The CI and Mohammad
Salameh drove the Ryder van to 40 Pan Ramapo Avenue, Jersey City.´ The FBI was
appreciate of this information on Brother Salameh as all they had on him to this point
was a reported that he had demonstrated in favor of El-Sayyid Nosair.18
Despite the fact that Agent Pilker described the stuff found at
Yasin¶s apartment as bomb-making tools,19 FBI Agents thanked Yasin for
his co-operation and let him walk out. Abdul Rahman Yasin said he was
even driven back home in an FBI car. This, despite the fact Yasin had
arrived just six months before from Iraq, and might have well attempted to
return there. On March 5, 1993, Abdul Rahman Yasin boarded Royal
Jordanian 262 to Amman, the same plane Salameh had hoped to catch.
From Amman he went on to Baghdad. An ABC news stringer from Jordan allegedly saw
him there, outside his father¶s house, and learned from neighbors that he worked for the
Iraqi government. After ABC broadcast its story in June 1994, Iraqi authorities took
Yasin and imprisoned him for a short time. His sixty-five-year-old mother, ill with cancer,
was allowed to visit him until she died in October 1994. In May 1998, FBI director Louis
Freeh claimed that Yasin was in Iraq. The CBS News program â
interviewed
Yasin in June 2002. Yasin expressed regret for what he had done. ³I'm very sorry for
what happened,´ he said. ³I don't know what to do to make it up.´ Before the occupation
Hussein put Yasin under house arrest, but American officials were engaged in a
propaganda campaign to link Iraq to Al-Qaeda and claimed soldiers in Saddam¶s
hometown of Tikrit had found a cache of documents that indicated Yasin home was paid
17
. Robert E. Precht, Defending Mohammad Cornell University Press 2003.
18
. Ronald Kessler The FBI: Inside the World¶s Most Powerful Law Enforcement Agency Page 31 Pocket Books October 1994.
19
. Robert E. Precht, Defending Mohammad, Cornell University Press 2003.
by the Iraqi Government and that he was being liberally supplied with money, women
and alcohol. This story started with the second least credible source in America ±Dick
Cheney on January 22, 2004: ³Abdul Rahman Yasin arrived back in Iraq and was put on
the payroll and provided a house, safe harbor and sanctuary. So Saddam Hussein had
an established track record of providing safe harbor and sanctuary for terrorists.´ But
reported that an unnamed official said ³some of the analysts have
concluded that the documents show that Saddam's government provided monthly
payments and a home for Yasin.´20 Some, not all, only those who will tailor intelligence
to American propaganda needs. Although Yasin was last seen in Baghdad and Iraq
offered to hand him over to American authorities in February 2003, he was not included
among the 55 individuals that American forces were told to find. When US Troops
began scouring the buildings and streets of Baghdad ± as well as the tunnels beneath
them ± yesterday, they carried bearing specially-designed playing cards, each bearing a
photo on it of a wanted Iraqi official and Yasin was not one of them.21
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We couldn¶t let you make a bomb and then give the

bomb to whoever, Shinway, El-Gabrowny, Sattar,
and lose it, it¶d be gone into the underworld and,
because later on if that bomb, let¶s say goes off at a
synagogue and kills two, three people, and that if
comes out that, that an Agent of the FBI
participated in making the bomb, forget it, they
would go berserk. The press would say we knew, we¶d be sued and
people would be fired. And then, so we got to the point where we thought,
not in our wildest dreams did we think it was a 1,300 or 1,500-pound
chemical bomb in an enclosed area, but we thought we were getting close
to a pipe. But, then we said, µOkay let¶s get it out of there and we¶ll try the
best we can with surveillances and stuff like that to protect you.¶ We didn¶t
have enough time, I mean if, if, we were working on a longer period of
time, you could have introduced an undercover or a friend, ah, who was
an agent and that friend could have introduced another, we could have
removed you two, three times from the FBI agent who would be there to
testify, understand what I¶m saying?
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Dr. Mehdi went to the west coast after the World Trade Center explosion
ostensibly to translate for Sheik Omar Rahman, who had gone there to distance himself
from the action. Before he left New York, Dr. Mehdi was visited by one of the
Abouhalima family. They said to him: Give the Sheik a message. Tell him not to talk
about knowing Mahmud Abouhalima. Mahmud is in jail in Egypt. If the Egyptians found
20
. http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2003-09-17-iraq-wtc_x.htm
21
. http://www.senate.gov/member/ny/schumer/general/SchumerWebsite/pressroom/press_releases/PR01627.html
out about this connection Mahmud Abouhalima would have been taken out to the desert
and left at the mercy of the scorpions and desert rats. Dr. Mehdi was asked:
Ë Following the bombing of the World Trade Center did you issue a
verbatim quote from the Sheik?
Do you remember the exact words of that particular press release?
McCarthy: Objection.
I do.
THE COURT: Sustained.
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Before his return to Egypt Abouhalima went to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and
obtained an Egyptian visa because he had German documents.22 During a conversation
with Siddig Ali, Sheik Rahman, who had his doubts about Siddig, said that Muhmud
Abouhalima fled to Sudan, not to Egypt. After their discussion, Siddig Ali told Salem that
Rahman had ordered that they be circumspect when discussing their plans with him so
that he would not be incriminated in any criminal conspiracy. Salem would betray
Abouhalima¶s whereabouts to the Americans and Abdo Haggag would betray his
whereabouts to the Egyptians. At the same time he turned him in to the Egyptian
government Haggag established a fund for Muhmud Abouhalima¶s family.
When Abouhalima was extradited to the United States he was covered with
cigarette burns. This is what Muhmud told the FBI on his way back to the United States:
³Abouhalima appeared awake, and spoke briefly of having received some injuries at the
hands of the Egyptian authorities. He made reference to a finger having been inserted
into his anus, and to his genital area having been burned by lighted cigarettes. He
requested that he be given medical treatment on his return to New York.´23
Abouhalima¶s attorneys argued that U.S. complicity in his torture was evidenced
by the fact that [Abouhalima¶s] torturers interrogated him about the murder of Meir
Kahane and the explosion at the World Trade Center, crimes on American soil with only
American consequences. They accused him of things about his life in America that they
must have heard from Emad Salem or other American law enforcement sources. They
asked him about Mousab Yassin, an Iraqi doctor, and Ramzi Yousef. The Egyptians
theorized that these men were operatives of Iraqi intelligence involved in the World
Trade Center bombing, the same theory put forth by FBI agent John Anticev in
conversation with Emad Salem on one of Salem¶s recorded phone conversations. The
torturers told Abouhalima that the FBI allowed him to come to Egypt in order to
capitalize on what would happen after his capture there. Abouhalima overheard his
22
. Elaine Sciolino ï
April 5, 1993 ³Egypt Warned U.S. of Terror.´
23. FD-302 on 3.24.93 Doc Number #736 USA v. Ramzi et. al.
torturers talking about his saying the things the Americans wanted him to say, and he
heard them getting information in English from someone and then using that information
to question him during the torture.
Abouhalima told them that Iranian intelligence had aided his cell in its pursuit with
financial backing and that the cell was responsible for many other crimes.24 Abouhalima
said that two Persian speakers, who said they were Iranian intelligence agents, met with
cell members in Peshawar to approve the plan. He added that the Brothers were able to
draw on funds collected by the Al-Gama¶a al-Islamiyya, which received money from
various sources, such as Iranian businessmen and expatriates in Europe, Islamic
institutions in Saudi Arabia and the German offices of the Muslim Brotherhood. Mahmud
Abouhalima, after being tortured, told Egyptian officials that the bombing plan was
hatched in Afghanistan among Arab veterans of the war, and that it was approved by
men describing themselves as Iranian intelligence agents and by Sheik Omar Abdel
Rahman. Two Iranians had appeared in the days before the first World Trade Center
bombing to help the cell with final details, then disappeared shortly before the explosion.
Sheik Rahman¶s followers in Jersey City confirmed this.25 Another report in the
Î
ã
titled ³Egypt told US of µIranian¶ Terrorist Link´ seemingly based on the
same source quoted Abouhalima as saying that two ?
, one of them an Iraqi-
American, had arranged the money for the operation and recruited the Brothers who
carried it out from Mosques in the New York area.26 Harvard educated Dr. Osama al-
Baz, the director of President Mubarak¶s Office of Political Affairs revealed this during a
press conference with foreign journalists. He told them that much of the confession had
been verified by Egyptian intelligence.27
Dr. Osama al-Baz stated that Egyptian authorities had informed the United
States in January 1993 that Egyptian intelligence had received information from several
reliable sources that ³certain terrorist groups´ assisted by ³Iranian elements´ were
plotting an action against the United States. The Egyptians could not determine for
certain if the Iranians were intelligence agents but knew they were plotting and training
with Islamist groups in Peshawar.28 In April 1993 a dispatch originating in Paris alleged
that Sheik Rahman received money from Iran¶s United Nations Mission. The source of
this information was the Arabic daily

, which claimed the FBI was
looking for Mohammad Chalagian, the mission¶s financial controller.29 During an
interview with
ï on March 30, 1993 the Sheik stated, ³I am
challenging the media that accuses me of receiving money from Iran to prove it. They
said that I received $50,000 from Iran. I am challenging them to prove it. I'm challenging
the martial court in Egypt that is saying that the Iranians are sending money to my
family in Egypt and then my family transfers the money here to me. I'm challenging
them to prove it. I'm also challenging that former CIA agent or director who came on
ABC and said he had proof that the sheik was receiving money from Iran. I am
24
. Uri Dan ³Kahane Killer Named by WTC Suspect´ New York Post May 6, 1993.
25
. Chris Hedges ³Egyptian Says Confession Links Iran to Bombing of Trade Center´ ï
July 16, 1993 Page A1, 2.
26
. Caryle Murphy ³Egypt told US of Iranian Terrorist Link´ Washington Post July 16, 1993 Pg A.14.
27
. Chris Hedges ³Egyptian Says Confession Links Iran to Bombing of Trade Center´ ï
July 16, 1993 A1, 2.
28
. Caryle Murphy ³Egypt told US of Iranian Terrorist Link´ Washington Post July 16, 1993 Pg A.14.
29
. ³Iran is Said to Give Money to Abdel Rahman´ ï
April 11, 1993.
challenging the media that is trying to link me to the World Trade Center bombing to get
proof or any evidence whatsoever linking me to the World Trade Center bombing.´ One
of the Sheik¶s sons, Abdullah Rahman, also denied that his father received money from
Iran that was laundered through one of the Sheik¶s wives, ³This is not true, we don¶t
receive money from Iran.´30
Sheik Rahman tried to determine the identity of the informant who turned in
Abouhalima and also made a number of media appearances, including some broadcast
on national television, in which he staunchly denied knowing both Nosair and
Abouhalima who had been his chauffeur and had shared a bank account with him.
c

Unbeknownst to the FBI, Salem secretly recorded his conversations with his FBI
handlers from the very beginning of his relationship with them to use as an insurance
policy to hold the Government to its promises of money and protection. Andrew C.
McCarthy, an assistant United States attorney, said that he had learned of the tapes
while debriefing Salem and that the informer had then voluntarily turned them over. The
ï
reported that the tapes were found in the belongings Salem left behind
either carelessly or by design when he evacuated Bretton Hall residence hotel at 2350
Broadway after exposure as a mole within Gama¶a al-Islamiyya¶s Brooklyn / Jersey City
cell.31
Transcripts of the tapes were distributed to defense lawyers although Judge

Mukasey ordered the lawyers to keep them secret. Portions of the tapes were made
public and reprinted in the Î and the ï
. Salem said this
to Agent Anticev:
Do you deny your supervisor is the main reason of bombing the World
Trade Center? We was handling the case perfectly well until the
supervisor came and messed it up, upside down.32 We was discussing the
bombs we was discussing the explosive, we was discussing the
detonators with him and with Sayyid Nosair and ah, ah, because the
Bureau asking me to withdraw, and I withdrawed, so he¶s not discussing
with me anymore, so he discussing with somebody else and this
somebody else with him went to visit the man who is arranging the issue
from jail one week before the explosion«O.K. Alright. I don¶t think it was
[a little out of the ordinary]. If that¶s what you guys want, 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 uh, uh, uh supervising
supervision from the Bureau and the D.A. and we was all informed about it
and we know what the bomb start to be built. By who? By your confidential
informant. What a wonderful great case! And then he put his head in the
30
. ³Iran Is Not Aiding Rahman, Son Says´ ï
March 15, 1993.
31. Ralph Blumenthal ³Tapes in Bombing Plot Show Informer and FBI at Odds´ ï
October 27, 1993,
32. Ralph Blumenthal The ï
October 28, 1993, Final Correction Appended also Section A; Page 1; Column 4; also
ï
Metropolitan Desk October 27, 1993.
sand and said µOh, no, no, that¶s not true, he is son of a bitch.¶ (Deep
breath) Okay. It¶s built with a different way in another place and that¶s
it«Since the bomb went off I feel terrible. I feel bad. I feel here is people
who don¶t listen«Guys, now you saw this bomb went off and you both
know that we could avoid that. You get paid, guys, to prevent problems
like this from happening«you were informed. They told me that µWe want
to set this, what¶s the right place to put this?¶ Everything is ready. The day
and the time. Boom. Lock them up and that¶s that. That¶s why I feel so
bad. I am willing to speak to Bill Clinton himself because the information I
supplied was enough to save the country¶s ass from this bomb. Your
bureau did so many things wrong and I still smell dead fish all over the
places and this dead fish got to be followed to find out the truth and I feel
that nobody can follow up this dead fish like me. They play it their way and
the World Trade Center be bombed. What other way? The other way is
my way now«but listen, because you didn¶t listen before. It takes a bomb
for you to listen. And you don¶t listen yet. You still not listening.´ Salem
wanted to complain of this to the FBI Director but Anticev told him: ³I don¶t
think that the New York people would like the things out of the New York
office to go to Washington, D.C.
The tapes also revealed that under Carson Dunbar¶s watch, Salem was
considered a suspect. When Salem visited the FBI he saw his photograph on the wall
next to those of the suspected World Trade Center crew. Salem felt that despite his
loyalty to his FBI masters, he might have been under surveillance by them.
Salem: I¶m one of the suspects. Investigate me from A to Z. Well, I saw my

picture on the board, number one suspect.
Anticev: Ah, you were crossed out, though.
In December 1991 Agent Floyd wrote: ³I was advised by the asset that he was
taping conversations of his family members and bad guys. In November 1991 I told the
asset to discontinue taping, as it was illegal.´33 In January 1993 Emad told Agent Floyd
that he had tape recorded a call with Detective Louis Napoli and she reported: ³asset
had not previously advised me that he had continued to tape conversations, and he did
not say if he had taped anyone else.´
Of course, after the arrests were made in the Sheik Rahman case Carson
Dunbar wanted the tapes that Salem had made of his conversations with Dunbar¶s FBI
Agents and he contacted Nancy Floyd who reported, ³In June 1994 [actually June 1993]
while assigned to SOG [Seat of Government ± Washington, D.C.] I got a call from
Carson Dunbar who advised that a former source of mine named Emad told Assistant
United States Attorney Andy McCarthy that he had tapes of terrorist subjects. I told
ASAC Dunbar that I had no knowledge that the source was taping conversations, and in
33. USA v Rahman TT 15199

fact I¶d instructed him repeatedly not to tape conversations«I discussed with Dunbar
the procedures for attempting to retrieve these tapes.´
The FBI did not want these tapes to become part of the evidence because of the
embarrassment and scandal they would cause, as they indicated that the FBI made a
grave error when it pulled Salem off the case. Oliver Revell admitted, ³In hindsight, it
was obviously the wrong move to shut the investigation down. If we had continued that
investigation, it would have led us to the Sheik¶s people and it¶s possible we could have
prevented the bombing.´34
Salem had made the tapes to protect himself against the FBI, which has been
known to discard informants like a worn prayer rug when it no longer had any use for
them: ³But I am trying to protect myself, and I said if you deny that I told you information
about the bombing going to take place, I will do something about it and that we are
going to have surprises.´ On June 29, 1993 Dunbar told Agent Floyd to get these tapes
from Salem¶s apartment, assuring her that only evidentiary tapes would be taken. All of
Salem¶s tapes recovered there found their way into the hands of the FBI after Floyd,
Crouthhamel and Roth retrieved them from where they were hidden in one of Salem¶s
arm chairs.

There is no need to reiterate the details of this show trial: Brother Mohammed
Salameh refused to go to court because he did not want to be put in a cold holding cell
for hours on end:
I hit the lock on the door. The lock was already not in very good condition
even before I came. The door is old and every inmate who comes in starts
hitting the lock; especially black Americans who are in good health and
they hit the door hard. I like them«On Saturday, what happened, I will not
lie, when the officer refused to give me the social call, I had some garbage
that they would not take from me, so I dumped it in the tier. And lots of
other inmates who do the same thing, and this is wrong, this is bad, I know
that. Officer Lopez took the garbage from another inmate and the window
to my cell was open and I was sitting there reading some legal papers so
he threw the garbage at me. And I lost my mind. And I started cussing and
cursing, and I started threatening the cell. I was afraid to hurt myself. I
even inflicted some wounds in my hands. I don¶t know what to do other
than this. So I hit the lamp and I felt the electricity. The officer wrote a
report saying that I wrecked the cell without saying why did this occur. So
anybody looking at that report would say that this is a crazy man who is
doing things like that for no reason. I am not crazy!35
34. ï
, July 30, 1999; Federation of American Scientists Iraq News August 2, 1999.
http://www.fas.org/news/iraq/1999/08/990802-in.htm
35. Conference with Judge Duffy dw 9 20 5 p254
Mohammed Salameh was sentenced to 116 years in prison. At his sham re-
sentencing, wherein Judge Duffy shaved off only a few months from his sentence,
Mohammed Salameh had this to say:
You accuse President Saddam Hussein, the president of Iraq, that

he is a despotic ruler and dictator. I say that if the Iraqi president was a
dictator as you claim, then why does he arm his people? But it is actually
in his interest to deprive them and disarm them of all possible weapons,
even to disarm them of knives, if able to do so, so they would not revolt
against him and collapse his rule, or dispose of him. There is no hole in
Iraq that is empty of a gun or machine gun ranging from the Kalashnikov
or what is referred to in the U.S. as the AK-47. In return we see the
government of the United States of America is attempting to disarm its
own people by the excuses of stopping crime, yet they find a way around
the Second Amendment of the Constitution. Therefore, who is the
dictator? The United States is the highest in the world with regard to the
ratio of prisoners to population«36
Ahmad Ajaj¶s whose left lung was removed during a cancer operation in prison
was sentenced to 114 years. In November 1993 Ajaj went on a hunger strike and then
attempted suicide. He was placed on suicide watch with bright lights and observation at
all times. On November 12, 1993 he was moved to the prison hospital.
Eyad Ismoil, who was extradited from Jordan, got life. Mahmud Abouhalima got
108 years and Nidal Ayyad 117 years. Ayyad¶s punishment began even before he was
convicted. He was eating his lunch and found that someone had inserted a sharp
object, a broken piece of glass, in his sandwich: ³No doctor saw me since then. The
only thing I saw is the nurse that came, and they start asking me where is it, or
whatever? I said I could really see it. Once it happened I just went and spit and all the
defendants were with me and they saw what happened, and I had a roll full of tissue full
of blood, it was really bleeding, it wasn¶t a small cut. But you know, like any normal
person once this happened to me I was hesitant even to eat my lunch. I was like very
careful going through the meat.´ Ayyad¶s attorney added: ³My client Ayyad pointed out
the scar to me and it seems to be in the middle of the tongue, and the location that he
was pointing out essentially, it cannot be a self-inflicted type wound, because of that
location.´37
c
After Salem surfaced in the Rahman trial the ï

writer Ralph
Blumenthal scolded the FBI but there was no Congressional investigation, no demotions
or dismissals, no accountability. The American secret police just continued to go about
their business. If the security service of an Islamic Republic failed so miserably, they
would have been lined up against the wall and shot. The only change in policy was that
36. 93CR180 Doc #791

37. Conference with Judge Duffy, Ayyad and Ahmed, page 506
suddenly Salem was deemed ³reliable´ and taken back into the good graces of the FBI
and once again began working for the FBI as an informant. Salem discussed his
situation with Detective Louis Napoli of the Joint Terrorist Task Force.
Salem: I don¶t think that Mr. Dunbar even want to meet with me. Because
that¶s the impression I get from John. He says he¶s busy running like a
chicken with a chopped head.
Louis Napoli: And you know I can¶t see where he¶s doing all the running. I
mean if he¶s running, he¶s running from one office to another, we¶re
running all over town.
Salem: I know, I know. But I requested to meet him so many times.
Napoli: Would you want that if I see him, I will ask him?
Salem: I did requested that so many times from John. And he never. He¶s
always, ³Oh, he¶s busy, he¶s busy.´ As a matter of fact I ever requested to
meet John (sic) Fox himself. If he is busy let me meet with the Director. I
mean, I will discuss things with him, and things I think its very important.
And I think that the agents agree with me that these things is
important«it¶s became like a game, you know. Trying to degrade the type
of information I¶m giving. Just to make me feel that, oh, no, no, we know
these things.´
Salem told this to Anticev: ³He destroyed my case. And I'm considering it my
case because that was my work with you, and with Louie Napoli, and with Nancy Floyd.
And this guy, and I'm pointing my finger to him and saying, ³This guy destroyed the
case«At the first place, he would be very happy to have a remarkable, historical day for
his squad if he arrested these motherfuckers before they get this bomb to be, to, to go
off. And we all know that we should, we could of do that. And he destroyed it by his,
whatever. And now he's coming to play the same nastiness again? Fine. I'm sorry to
say that. I am really so sorry. But I see that that's no sense for nothing. I'm not trying to
abuse the Bureau for, absolutely not. I'm helping the Bureau.38
FBI Special Agent Steve Veyera, now Unit Chief, FBI Bomb Data Center wanted
Salem back on the case:
Veyera: We need to do the rest of them while they think they¶re safe,
which is probably, this is probably the best time to continue after them
because they think they¶re safe.
Salem: When I talked to John Anticev and John talked to his supervisor,
which is John Crouthhamel and he said, activate Emad¶s file again, and
they are, they hesitated. Let me put it that way Steve, and I know that you
38
. FBI Transcript (Source 34-3) 11560-1654, 0000-0524, 0560-0830, 0838-0999, 1014-1147, 1202-1653
know that, that they start asking me to build the bomb. If we continued in
that time to build the bomb, there would be such a fight with this (U/I)
bomb, which is supposedly pipe bombs at that time. Uhh, they will trust
me more, and then we will come to the big truck, to the big van.
Veyera: Yeah.
Salem: The really historical day, the really remarkable day in the FBI
history, if this van will be driven by a couple of wonderful people, and they
get locked up.
Veyera: Exactly.
Salem: That¶s it. That was the real good job. And of course you will be
informed second by second. Of course. I¶m inside. Everything will be
monitored. And I was completely inside until the people trusting me.
Mahmud Abouhalima before the bombing with like, three, four weeks, he
called me. And he wants me, they wants me desperately. And Sayyid
Nosair wants me desperately. Sayyid Nosair called me from jail. And of
course I cannot go because I am out of the case. I just don¶t know how
these supervisors thought.
In March 1993 there was much unrest in Egypt. Three bombings took place that
month, at Assiut 2,500 Islamists demonstrated - at Manflout, 3000! Sheik Rahman had
a premonition of doom and stated, ³I feel that my meeting with God is nearing.´39 The
Sheik was in touch with God as the devil, Emad Salem asked to be put back on the
case in March 1993 and told Agent Anticev:
I don¶t know, I mean I didn¶t hear anything from the Bureau, John. I mean
the only person contacting me from the Bureau is you now. I mean even
Nancy [S.A. Nancy Floyd] stepped away. I feel that she¶s not calling me
now for almost a week or something. And I understand her position. But
you are the only one who is contacting me from the Bureau and you are
not giving me any definite answers«so that¶s why I said well I gotta better
ease up my mind and stay away, that¶s why I didn¶t go to the rally
yesterday«I mean we, you, you¶re not participating our things
anymore«it takes forever for the, it takes about another bomb until the
Bureau will decide something. So wait until the judge will be kidnapped, or
one of the Jewish leaders with be bombed, or another building like the
World Trade Center will be bombed. I mean what will the Bureau say. µOh
God that these people is really serious.¶ I mean the Empire State or
somebody else will be what ever and then the Bureau will say, Oh God!
That these people is really serious. But they didn¶t wake up that way, they
didn¶t feel that these people is serious yet. I spoke to Dunbar. He was
suspicious in me, and he put me on a polygraph exam, and he didn't
39
. Caryle Murphy ³Bomb Kills an Officer in Cairo´ Washington Post March 28, 1993.
believe me and, uh, he waited until the bomb went off. It takes a bomb to
go off for him to believe that I was saying the truth.
c
In March 1993, President Mubarak was scheduled to visit New York. Certain
members of al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya¶s Brooklyn-New Jersey cell saw this visit as an
opportunity to assassinate him, in the words of Siddig Ali, ³to execute the desire of the
Sheik.´40 In one plan, Siddig and his assassination team would dress up as room
service waiters, sneak into Mubarak¶s hotel room and spray the suite with automatic
machine gun fire. In another plan, they would steal a United Parcel Service truck and
drill a hole in the side while a sniper pointed his arrival out and murdered him as he
walked into the hotel. In seeking financing for this plan, Siddig Ali called Khalid Shaikh
Mohammed¶s relative and operative Ammar al-Baluchi (Ali Abdul Aziz Ali) in the United
Arab Emirates for funding, stating that Sheik Rahman would vouch for him. Siddig Ali
also contacted a source in the Sudanese government to get a copy of Mubarak's
itinerary while in New York. Siddig Ali:
In March 1993, after I learned that Mahmud Abouhalima was arrested in

Egypt I and others actively sought to carry out the assassination of Hosni
Mubarak. The Sheik had previously given me a fatwa for a killing of
Mubarak, and I discussed that assassination with others prior to Mahmud
Abouhalima¶s arrest. After his arrest, I discussed this operation with
Hampton-El and another individual first, then with Abdo Mohammed
Haggag, Amir Abdelgani, Tarig Elhassan and Fadil Abdelgani. Amir and
Tarig were very enthusiastic and interested in the plan, but Fadil was not
because he wanted to go to the Sudan«Hampton-El agreed to provide
the firearms and grenades, but he said he needed a few days to acquire
them. Hampton-El told us to prepare or to appear on a specific date to
pick up the weapons. It was at this time that Haggag reported that the FBI
was aware of the plan, and no weapons were therefore obtained from
Hampton-El. Mubarak canceled his trip to New York, and the decision was
made to postpone the plot«It was my understanding that the killing of
Mubarak would still be pursued in the future even though the prior plan
had been foiled.
Haggag had secretly given the Egyptian government information about the plot,
and the New York part of Mubarak¶s trip to the United States was canceled, instead of
arrests being made. In June 1993 Siddig Ali informed Salem about a plot being
formulated in Egypt to kill Mubarak and bomb the United States Embassy there.
As a result of the failure of the plan to execute Mubarak, there was some
speculation by members of al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya Brooklyn-Jersey City cell that Siddig
Ali was the FBI informer, thanks to Haggag, who was behind the allegations. Haggag
would also blame the arrest of Mahmud Abouhalima in Egypt on Siddig Ali. Siddig Ali
40. USA v Rahman TT 10087-89, 10295-96

and Salem conversed one day with Sheik Rahman about the issue. Sheik Rahman
voiced his suspicions that Siddig Ali was the informer. Ironically, Salem secretly tape-
recorded this conversation for his FBI handlers. In conversations with Siddig, Salem
learned that he attributed the leak of the plot on electronic surveillance:
Salem: Who leaked the news?
Siddig: There was no leak. It appears that Haggag¶s apartment in

monitored, and God knows because they asked him.
Salem: I made a check of Haggag¶s apartment«The telephone is

monitored.
Siddig: No one talked on the telephone. The conversation was at his

house«there is no leak. I suspect fully there is something in house and in
his car«because we didn¶t discuss this subject at all except at Haggag¶s
house and his car.
Salem: You and only him?
Siddig: Only. Of course the man that we were going to obtain the weapons
from [Hampton-El].
c
Siddig Ali proposed a new round of bombings. In late April 1993, Siddig Ali
became very friendly with Emad Salem, who was, by that point, tape recording his
conversations for the FBI. The FBI concluded that Salem had told the truth about the
intentions of our cell but still could not admit it. An FBI Teletype of April 1993 stated that
Mr. Salem¶s affiliation with the FBI was closed ³because polygraphs show[ed] deception
regarding his reporting of violent acts planned and encouraged by Rahman and
Nosair´41 not because the results were inconclusive.
Salem agreed to assist Siddig Ali in putting together the bombs but stated that he
would have no part in deploying them. After contemplating bombing a U.S. armory,
Siddig Ali proposed bombing the United Nations complex. When initially discussing this
plan with Salem, Siddig Ali stated that Rahman had approved the attack on the United
Nations, and had called it not merely permissible, but a ³must´ and a ³duty.´42 After he
agreed to co-operate Siddig testified: ³I proposed to Salem that we change our target
from armories to the United Nations. I added to the list of targets 26 Federal Plaza.´
Siddig and Salem discussed these targets in early May 1993. Siddig wished to kill as
many FBI agents as possible and then take hostages. But the FBI¶s offices at 26
Federal Plaza could only be approached very early in the morning:

42. USA v Rahman TT 5527-28
Salem: Yes, at 3-4 a.m. it is going to be a symbolic operation more than.
Siddig: Materialistic.
Salem: Materialistic. Yes, there will be financial loss but you will be the
one who blew up the FBI building but you are not going to kill agents
because they will be sleeping at home.
Siddig: Yes this is a problem. So we just place it, yes, right.
Salem: First we shall know that is the benefit.
Siddig: Yes, unless we do it in the day time, but how we will get in?
Salem: During the daytime means we destroy ourselves.
Siddig: Of course not, no, no.
Salem: I am not ready to do that.
Siddig: There is nothing better than what I have told you, the big house
[the United Nations]. Oh God, it is beautiful.
Siddig confessed:
The Holland and Lincoln tunnels and the George Washington Bridge were
also targets. In May 1993 Salem and I and another individual visited
Nosair in Attica. Salem spoke with Nosair privately, as did I. In our private
conversation we discussed«Salem¶s reliability. Nosair advised me he was
a good man, but to be careful. I told Nosair about targeting the United
Nations by placing a bomb in a car and driving it into the United Nations
garage. Nosair said it was not a good plan because of the heightened
security of the World Trade Center bombing. He told me that instead I
should consider kidnapping Mr. Nixon and Mr. Kissinger«In connection
with the plan to attack the United Nations I received assistance from the
representatives of a foreign government [the Sudan] in connection with
obtaining access to the United Nations garage, surveillance of the garage
and the use of diplomatic license plates. One of the representatives
introduced me to Mohammed Saleh as being a representative of the
Hamas who was raising money through people in the Middle East«Saleh
agreed to assist with the financing of the operation.43
43. USA v Rahman TT 2239-2240

In 2001, a Sudanese-born suspect arrested in a foiled plot to bomb the U.S.
Embassy in New Delhi told Indian investigators that Sudanese diplomats had given him
explosives and detonators.44
c c

Ambassador Sirajuddin Hamid Yousouf served on Khartoum¶s mission at the

U.N. and was our contact there. Consul Hamid and his deputy Ahmed Yousef were in a
constant contact with Siddig Ali and Emad Salem. In the course of the action, Siddig Ali
would always brag to Salem about his high level contacts with officials from Khartoum
mission at the U.N. and the National Islamic Front. Ali even took Salem to the mission to
see Sirajuddin Hamid. During a phone conversation with Ahmed Yousef, Ali prayed,
³May God grant you the ability to repulse the enemies«the ones who are here.´ He said
he and others are ³ready to die´ if necessary. Yousef invoked the Qu¶ran during the
recorded conversation by saying, ³We are not going to prevail by outnumbering you, but
rather God¶s wrath is focused upon you.´ Ali noted in agreement that, ³we will fight them
with this religion.´
To fulfill it¶s part in the event, the Khartoum mission granted access of the
targeted U.N. facilities for Siddig Ali to survey the sites. The officials from the mission
promised to provide diplomatic license plates for 4 stolen cars to gain access to the
target areas. Siddig Ali then expected to escape to the Philippines and then Sudan
using fake documents provided by the Khartoum. During Mubarak¶s scheduled trip to
the U.S., Ali was able to get Mubarak¶s itinerary from Ahmed Yousef. The itinerary
included details of Mubarak¶s stay in New York where it enabled Ali to plan diligently for
the operation to assassinate the Egyptian scoundrel.
The Khartoum mission connected Siddig Ali with Hamas operative Mohammed
Saleh who was caught carrying with him personal telephone numbers of Hamid, Yousef,
and a phone number of an official from Khartoum embassy in Washington. Sirajuddin
Hamid and Ahmed Yousef were declared as persona non grata and expelled from the
U.S. They were considered security agents who posed as diplomats.45
Ambassador Sirajuddin Hamid Yousouf is a trained Sudanese lawyer who joined

Khartoum government diplomatic service almost immediately after the Islamist regime
took power in a coup. He also served as Khartoum¶s ambassador for the mission in
Uganda until 2005 and as well as in other parts of the world. Hamid is currently
Ambassador at the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs under the Sudan
unity government and was also on the commission investigating the helicopter crash
that killed Dr. John Garang de Nabior, the chairman of SPLA, the Christian / Animist
opposition based in the Southern Sudan.
44
. Council on Foreign Relations in Co-operation with the Markle Foundation Sudan
http://www.terrorismanswers.org/sponsors/sudan_print.html
45
. http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article18681
Steve Paterno is a Sudanese residing in the U.S.A., and he can be reached at
<a href="mailto:stevepaterno@yahoo.com" stevepaterno@yahoo.com

On July 8, 2005, millions of people throughout Sudan came to show their support
in Khartoum when Garang was sworn in as First Vice President of Sudan and on July
30, 2005, Garang died in a helicopter crash near the Uganda-Sudan border on his way
back to southern Sudan from Uganda. On August 1, 2005 violence erupted following the
announcement Garang¶s death -- mainly in the capital Khartoum. Reports put the
number of deaths near 130. Observations indicated gunshots and beatings with sticks
and steel bars to be the main causes of death. A commission was empanelled to look
into the crash.46 Black boxes that were recovered from the crashed Ugandan
presidential helicopter were sent to Russia for analysis while other parts of the
helicopter were sent to the United States. The Russian manufacturer of the helicopter
said it was in good condition. ³The crash did not appear to have been caused by any
technical malfunction,´ said Rudolf Temurazov, the director of technical security for the
Moscow-based Interstate Aviation Committee of the 12-nation Commonwealth of
Independent States. Temurazov said one of the two flight data recorders on the
helicopter was recovered in good condition, while the other, which registers technical
functions (Flight Date Recorder), was reportedly destroyed: The photo tape media that
was found inside the FDR was melted on the receiving spool. The FDR would have
allowed the altimeter readings to be examined. The altimeter is equipment that shows
you how far above the ground the chopper is flying. Assuming poor visibility and failure
of other navigation equipment, the altimeter would allow the chopper to continue flying
without coming dangerously close to the ground. Whether or not it was functioning is
something the investigators would have been keen to determine, because those who
have gone through the information gleaned from the other black box have claimed that
the co-pilot had at one time during the journey complained about proximity to the ground
though the altimeter reading was indicating they were high up above the ground. The
data from the Advance Moving Maps System was also lost. This is an instrument with a
combination of GPS, multiple mode radar that captures the terrain as far as 100km. The
equipment also has an audio warning system. So in case of failure of the altimeter and
in poor visibility, the AMMS should be able to guide the plane above the ground safely
giving warnings of any approaching obstacle at a minimum of 300 meters and a
maximum of 100km away. The pictures taken by the investigators from the crash site
show the chopper crashed into a cliff within the Kidepo valley before the fateful impact.
Indeed, the pictures also show that the left wheel makes the first contact before the
propellers cut through trees. The fuselage and tail (which had broken apart) of the
chopper and three bodies were found at a location about 300m away. The
circumstances have cast doubt in the minds of the investigators as to whether the
chopper benefited from either the altimeter or the AMMS.47 The Cockpit Voice Recorder
revealed, within I minute 53 seconds the pilot asked the copilot 7 questions about:
1. G.P.S?
- exactly on track sir;
2. Miles remaining?
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- we are remaining 14 miles sir;
3. Look and tell me how many?
- bearing now 018;
4. How many more until now?
5. How high are we?
- height 5500 ft sir;
6. Check, my friend, the altimeter?
- Altimeter still above 300 where it stopped;
7. Distance?
- Distance 11 miles bearing 018;
Screaming Voice (DANGER).
Investigators¶ concluded that the crash was not caused by technical malfunction
based on English conversations in the cockpit and between the pilot and the dispatcher,
describing them as ³standard´ until the crash. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said
crash may not have been an accident, however, the Sudanese Commission ruled that it
was the result of pilot error. The findings attributed the cause of the accident to a
combination of the following:
The Captain¶s failure to maintain horizontal and vertical situational

awareness of the helicopter¶s proximity to the surrounding terrain,
resulting in inadequate clearance and controlled flight into terrain; The
Captain¶s decision to continue visual flight into deteriorating weather
conditions; and Inadequacies in operational systems.
The late Colonel Peter Nyaikiru was an officer of proven competence and one of
the most experienced pilots in the Ugandan Air force, hence a reason for him being
chosen as the president¶s personal pilot. How are South Sudanese expected to believe
the story that the pilot was faulty and that he insisted on applying visual flying rules
instead of using onboard instruments while it was dark and the weather was bad and
cloudy as reported earlier? The pilot had all options available at his disposal. He was at
liberty to fly back to Entebbe airport where he took off or land at Gulu town in Northern
Uganda, which is not very far from the scene of the crash. Alternatively he could again
radio Entebbe, if the weather condition proved unmanageable. There was no
communication between the pilot and the control tower at Entebbe suggesting
difficulties in navigating the MI 172 chopper.48
On September 5, 2005, Sudan Commission¶s Chairman, Ambassador Sirajuddin

Hamid interviewed the Ambassador of Norway in Kampala. On September 7, 2005,
Hamid and Napoleon Adok Gai met with the American Ambassador in Kampala, Jimmy
Kolker accompanied by his deputy, William Fitzgerald and his counselor, Mr. Nathan
Holt. The Sudan Commission requested the US Ambassador to ask Dennis Jones to
come to Kampala to join the Joint International Technical Commission. On September
8, 2005, Ambassador Hamid interviewed Yoka Brandt, the Ambassador of the Royal
Kingdom of the Netherlands, in Kampala. On September 9, 2005, Hamid and Gai
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interviewed the Ugandan Minister, Agar Didi who saw off Garang on his Entebbe-New
Site flight. Mr. Agar emphasized that the First Vice President stayed in the airport for a
brief time. On September 9, 2005, in Nairobi Hamid and Gai interviewed Rebecca de
Mabior, wife of the late Dr. John Garang de Mabior. It was convenient having Hamid as
Chairman of the Commission as he had helped effectuate the assassination of this
infidel leader.
In July 1992 the INS generated a document about Mohammed Saleh entitled,
³Record of Deportable Alien´ that indicated Mohammed Saleh had last entered the
United States in August 1991 when he returned from a trip to the United Arab Emirates.
Mohammed Saleh listed his occupation as ³Sunoco gas station attendant.´ The
narrative in the report stated: ³Subject presented himself to information center at
Hartford on July 13, 1992 to obtain extension of Temporary I-551«Deportability
established. Subject presented a copy of a false Temporary I-551 belonging to another
person to obtain the extension. Subject claims to have obtained the original (which was
lost) in Miami through his employer, Miami Construction Company, where he worked as
an engineer«It appears subject is involved in a document fraud scheme.´ The FBI
would soon discover that Mohammed Saleh had attempted to broker an arms
transaction that involved the shipment of rocket-propelled grenade launchers from
Jordan through Palestine to Egypt, yet the Brother was allowed to remain in the United
States.
By this time the FBI knew that Sheik Rahman had foreknowledge of the first
World Trade Center attack, but allowed him to remain free so that they could spy on
those who visited him. The U.S. issued a statement to the effect that the jailing of the
Sheik would be too costly. In a letter written by an acting Attorney General, it was
stated, ³In view of Rahman¶s poor health and incidental requirements for medical
attention, his confinement, pending disposition of his appeal of the exclusion order
would impose a significant burden upon Government resources. In the absence of
concrete evidence that Rahman is participating in or involved in planning acts of
terrorism, the assumption of that burden is considered unwarranted.´49
c
Siddig Ali explained to Emad Salem that Mohammed Saleh, ³supports, gives
things to Hamas«The Sudanese Brothers introduced me to him who are in the
Sudanese Islamic Movement and I learned that he is an important figure in Hamas
faction, the Islamic struggle movement.´ When Salem was asked to testify about
Mohammed Saleh¶s membership in Hamas, Mohammed Saleh¶s attorney John Jacobs
stated:
Let¶s talk about Hamas. It¶s interesting, as you just heard the tape CM 31
in English, where Emad Salem announces to the FBI that Mohammed
Saleh is a member of Hamas. You want to see how Salem lied? Let¶s talk
about what he and Siddig talked about minutes after that occurred, what
49
. Mary Tabor ³U.S. Rejects Sheik¶s Jailing As Too Costly´ ï
April 22, 1993 Page B1, 1.
he tells the Bureau on one hand because he needs the money, and what
he tells Siddig. He tells the Bureau Mohammed Saleh is a member of
Hamas and of course Emad Salem is very interested to find out if anybody
has affiliations with overseas organizations because that¶s what my client
is charged with in the indictment, and he asks Siddig right up front, is
Mohammed Saleh a follower ± not even a member, now we are down to
followers. But Siddig Ali says I don¶t know nine times. But our boy he¶s
looking for money so he tells the FBI he¶s a member of Hamas.50
Later in this proceeding Jacobs reacted to the fact that a bus bombing by Hamas
had just killed an American from Connecticut: ³I take the following position which is the
word Hamas is mentioned by my client in CM 32 in evidence and he refers to some
night vision goggles. [Mohammed Saleh had shipped night vision goggles to occupied
Palestine to aid in anti-Zionist operations. He told Siddig,
Some Palestinian Brothers from Hamas called me and asked me for night
vision equipment; I told them I was ready to buy it for them.] I think the
government should not be allowed to ask my client ± I assume not Salem
or anybody else ± what is Hamas.51
Hamas helped finance the first World Trade Center Event. AUSA Fitzgerald
stated: ³In the indictment we have charged that Mohammed Saleh had links to an
overseas organization. That is Hamas. The government¶s theory is the reason that the
defendants turned to Mohammed Saleh at a time when they needed financing for
terrorist activities is because of the link to Hamas. Hamas was part of what formed a
voucher of trust, if you will, that they could rely upon in order to turn to Mohammed
Saleh as opposed to, you know, turning to somebody else who had money.´
Siddig believed he could obtain money from Iran for his plan:
Salem: You don¶t have the rest of the money.
Siddig: No, we will get it, no problem. I know few sources. I¶ll ask to give
the amounts to me in cash.
Salem: I am generally speaking.
Siddig: I thought strange thoughts. I thought to get an airplane ticket to

Tehran. Tehran. I don¶t have the ticket. But I tell them to give visa there.
The most important thing is the passport. It is not necessary to use my
passport. You know Ahmed (LNU) the white man did you see him?
Anyway, I fly and talk with one there. He is interested to do that. I receive
him in New York. He doesn¶t have any contact or connection. This is the

Iranian intelligence. They have the capabilities. All what I need is some
technical things to go inside and get out.
Salem: Where?
Siddig: In the Big House. (The United Nations)
Salem: I thought there.
Siddig: No, they can¶t do that there. I believe they can¶t because it is a
government [building]. But the BIG HOUSE, they have ID¶s and they can
go in and get out«IA52 I thought of Iraq, no, it is just thoughts.
(A noise of a hammer)
Siddig: You will need money (IA). The weapons will cost about $1,500:
Three pistols and two machine guns. The powder is expensive. We need
3,000 pounds and each pound costs four or five dollars.
Unidentified Male: How you reach (IA) to Iran.
Siddig: It is possible you must use another passport. Get another passport
if you lost your passport.
Unidentified Male: (IA)
Siddig: No, as a Sudanese you need them to help you in issuing a new
passport under another name. Even if the CIA have a list of all the
Sudanese who entered Tehran, they will not find out who you are.
Salem: Do the Sudanese help?
Siddig: (IA) I obtained four or five passports in my lifetime. There was no

problem in any country which I visited. The officer signs on the passport. It
is public relations. Are you asking whether the big officials help us or not?
Salem: Yeah.
Siddig: I don¶t guarantee them.53

On the way home from a trip to Philadelphia Salem and Siddig Ali had this
conversation:
52
. Inaudible.
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Siddig: Where did I get this information [regarding a van with diplomatic
plates that could be used to transport a bomb into the United Nations
garage] from? I get it from the highest level.
Salem: Then who is this high level?
Siddig: I am telling you there are people from inside the embassy, Brother.
Salem: The Sudanese Embassy, too?
Siddig: I¶m telling you Brother, the Ambassador, Brother.
Salem: Good.
Siddig: So these people know the details. It is not a game, they know the
details.
Salem: Is the ambassador going to participate with us in this operation?
Siddig: No, no. (laughing)
Salem: Man I am kidding, a man in the diplomatic level comes and

connects wires. (laughter)
The van was to be delivered, along with a United Nations entry pass on June 24,
1993 but our operation was shut down by then.54 Siddig Ali invited Salem to discuss
these matters directly with Sheikh Rahman, but reminded him that because of the
surveillance due to the World Trade Center bombing, to use caution in so doing.
Caution, as defined by Siddig Ali, included phrasing statements in a broad and general
manner, and assuring that Rahman was insulated from active involvement in the plot.
Salem met with Siddig Ali again on May 12, 1993 pretending that he had
surveyed locations for use as a bomb-making safehouse and that he had settled on a
garage in Queens that was renting for $1,000 a month. This safehouse was actually
rented by the FBI, and the FBI installed video cameras and surveillance equipment in
the safehouse before members of the group began using it.
Taking Siddig Ali up on his earlier invitation, Salem had a private conversation
with Rahman on the night of May 23, 1993. At the bidding of Siddig Ali, Salem began
the conversation by pledging allegiance to Rahman. Salem then told Rahman that he
and Siddig Ali were planning to ³do a job.´55

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55. USA v Rahman Government Exhibit #311T at 3
The Learned Elders of Islam have long been hesitant to reveal our connection to
the training of Sirhan Sirhan, even to our own most trusted members, but do so in light
of the fact that on May 23, 1993 Sheik Rahman was overheard on a FBI listening device
discussing a plan to bomb the United Nations and the New York City Field Office of the
FBI. Here is a transcription of that tape:
Emad Salem: «I do wish to know in regards to the United Nations, do we

consider it the house of the devil«because my strike is a devastating one
and not an amateur one like the one that took place at the Trade Center,
we are preparing something big, something big if God willing, that will
bring its highest and lowest, so is that forbidden or allowed?
Rahman: It is not forbidden, however it will be bad for Muslims.
Salem: Not forbidden, however, will be bad for Muslims, we do it or«
Rahman: No.
Salem: Forget it.
Rahman: Find a plan to inflict damage on the American Army because the
United Nations will damage Muslims.
Salem: We keep it in the Army.
Rahman: Yes, keep it, let us think, you all think of something else,
because basically, the United Nations, this, they will consider it to be a
center of peace and that Muslims are against peace, and will create a
difficulty, and will disturb the Muslims being.
Salem: Yes, but Siddig suggested the second target will be the FBI¶s
center, which is 26 Federal Plaza, what do you think of this one?
Rahman: By God, I mean, postpone it a little, postpone it a little, this way

because, what«
Salem: Emh, ok, fine, but we have prepared the thing now, Sheik.
Rahman: It¶s ok.
Salem: We wait then?
Rahman: Wait a little.
Salem: Fine, Sheik.

Rahman: Slow down, slow down a little bit. The one who killed Kennedy
was trained for three years.56
The Sheik whispered this last line to Emad Salem for fear the FBI was bugging
his telephone and his apartment ± which it was from February 1993 to June 1993, when
the FBI ceased to do so after having searched it. Long before the PATRIOT (Providing
Appropriate Tools Required To Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism) Act was enacted, the
FBI also had a ³roving wiretap´ on the Sheik and tapped the telephones that he used
when he traveled to cities like Seattle and Los Angeles.57 There were other
transcriptions of this last part of the tape: ³Salem then asked Rahman what he thought
of the plan to bomb the FBI at 26 Federal Plaza.´ Rahman responded, ³Well, uh, a little
bit later. We¶ll talk about this.´ When Salem indicated that the plan was currently in
motion, Rahman responded, ³It doesn¶t matter. Slow down. Slow down a bit. The one
who killed Kennedy was trained for three years.´ When Sister Lynne Stewart was put on
trial for aiding al-Qaeda she remembered it this way, ³By God," the Sheikh answered. "I
mean, postpone it a little, slow down a little. May God make things right for you.´
When the transcript of this electronic surveillance was mentioned during the trial
of Sheik Rahman that began in January 1995, the Zionist-Jewish-hangman Judge
Mukasey, the Catholic prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy, and all the defense attorneys
thought, or pretended to think, that this was a reference to the assassination of John F.
Kennedy and not Robert Kennedy. Listen to the dialogue in Mukasey¶s courtroom when
this valuable insight into the secret history of Islamism in America was discussed:
Assistant United States Attorney McCarthy: Your Honor, we are going to

get CM10, a transcript that has the allusion to the Kennedy assassination
in it.
THE COURT: Right. I ruled that out didn¶t I?
McCarthy: No, you ruled that it wasn¶t to be mentioned in front of the jury
until you said one way or the other. It is our position, your Honor, that it is
relevant, probative evidence of Dr. Abdel Rahman¶s state of mind«The
whole case is about what he had on his mind, and it makes it much more
relevant that he¶s mentioned the name of a United States Government
official as opposed to another man.
THE COURT: No. All it does is call for all kinds of speculation that have
not a great deal to do with this case by a good number of years.
McCarthy: It¶s not the government¶s position that he actually had anything
to do with the Kennedy assassination. But it is extremely relevant, given
56. USA v Rahman Document 691 pgs. 4 and 5, Peter Waldman ³The Infiltrator: Ali-Mohamed served in the U.S. Army and bin-
Laden's circle´ The Wall Street Journal Nov. 26, 2001.
57. ï
April 23, 1993 - Lynne Stewart quoted.
the fact that what was being proposed were attacks on American
installations, that what he is talking about is training for an attack on an
American government official in a case where he has contended that he¶s
not involved in any kind of Jihad other than Jihad overseas«
THE COURT: ³The person who carried out the Kennedy assassination
trained for three years,´ is a point he could just as easily have been
making about a proposed act to take place overseas, as he could about a
proposed domestic act. For example, if he had said ³Have your escape
plans ready, because John Wilkes Booth has a horse waiting out in the
alley«´ But if he is talking about an attack on American military
installations, it will be apparent without his reference to advice based on
an earlier act. If he is saying, ³Wait to attack American installations
because after all the person who attacked Kennedy trained for three
years,´ then the fact that he alludes to the person who attacked Kennedy
doesn¶t add anything. On the other hand if he says wait to train to
assassinate Mubarak because the person who assassinated Kennedy
trained for three years, that doesn¶t make a proposed assassination of
Mubarak somehow a more American act«
McCarthy: Perhaps the name Kennedy, ± it has a danger of unfair

prejudice that an appropriate substitution or to an instruction from the
court with the transcript left intact that the government doesn¶t make any
contention that any defendant on trial had anything to do with that incident.
Defense Attorney Lynne Stewart: Could you read it aloud, Judge? I don¶t
have it in front of me, just as it would be without the word Kennedy, that
sentence.
THE COURT:
Rahman: The man who killed X was training for three years. We don¶t
want ah ±
Salem: No, no we will do a good job God willing.
Rahman: OK
Stewart: The problem is John Wilkes Booth ±
Defense Attorney Amsterdam: Without being funny, there is the tension. I

am extremely concerned with spillover prejudice as to any inference in
front of this jury that somebody even remotely connected with this group
had something to do with Kennedy. On the other hand if you substitute it
with a blank there is some suggestion that a recent assassination was
actually committed. So from her [Lynne Stewart¶s] point of view, I think
that she will almost take the Kennedy because it is so far away in time that
she couldn¶t possibly have been involved in it. From my point of view I will
take anything other than Kennedy. I think from that point of view Lincoln«
Stavis: Or President Garfield.
THE COURT: Let¶s take another step further. Instead of just blanking out
Ä , why not blank out also, and leave it as the man who was
redacted was training for three years.58
This was what the jury heard and read:
Rahman: The one who [redacted] [redacted] was training for three years,
we don¶t want uh.
Salem: No, no we will do a good job, God willing.
The Assistant United States Attorney summed up this conversation:
Those are the words he spoke in the kitchen. Keep it away from the
United Nations, put it right at the Army itself. The FBI: Slow down. Do it
right. Those words are not words he wanted anyone but Salem to hear.
He whispered them. The last people he wanted to hear those words are
you. But you will listen to them right now. Cue it up you can listen on your
headphones, it will play out loud, but you can hear it much better on your
headphones, because it is whispering. (Audiotape played.) When we talk
about corroboration that is what corroboration is. Someone tells you he
said these words, he whispered them in a kitchen. You have it on tape.
That is the side he never wanted people to see.59
All praise to Allah! The Sheik¶s indiscretion was excised from this tape!
After the Sheik was sentenced to life imprisonment he glossed over his reference
to this event that had far reaching consequences on America¶s history:
When he then countered with a plan for FBI headquarters at 26 Federal

Plaza I told him to slow down, take time ± all to dissuade this insistent hot-
headed individual, who I know now only had thoughts of money and his
master¶s glory. The attack on American military bases here, supposedly
suggested by me on tape was nothing more than an instantaneous
reaction to a person I thought to be either unbalanced or an Egyptian spy.
It was said to set out an impossibility, and thus relieve myself of his
unwelcome presence.


On June 5, 1968 Sirhan Sirhan assassinated presidential candidate Senator

Robert F. Kennedy. With all praise to the Almighty, this conspiracy was written off as the
act of a lone gunman, a deranged individual, a 1960¶s version of how Nosair was first
perceived, when in reality, like the Kahane assassination, it was our work of carried out
in the name of the .
Sirhan Sirhan was born in 1944 in al-Quds60 and in 1948, he and his family
moved to Old Jerusalem after half of the city had been stolen by the Jews, where they
remained until coming to the United States in 1956. Throughout his eight years in Old
Jerusalem there were intermittent bombings perpetrated by the Zionists. Sirhan¶s family
resided in a one-room apartment with grossly inadequate toilet facilities. He often said
³the Jews have kicked us out of our home´ and was also told of the Deir Yassin
massacre in which the Jews slaughtered 250 people including women and children.
Sirhan elaborated, ³While living in Old Jerusalem I went to a well for some water, and
when the bucket came up it contained a hand and this sickened me. On one occasion I
saw the exploded remains of a grocer I knew. Another time I came across the body of a
neighbor hanging on the barbed wire on the street in front of our home. Once a Zionist
truck drove through our street carrying a number of young Arab girls whose breasts had
been slashed. I was four years old at the time and I told my mother µLook at the blood,
mommy!¶´61 In 1956 he heard about aggression by the Zionists against the Arabs in the
Suez Canal. In the 1960¶s Sirhan asserted that violence was the only means by which
the American Negroes would achieve their goals, and that the State of Israel had taken
his home, and that the Jewish people were on top and directing the events in America.
These experiences made it easy for a small group of Islamists led by Dr. Mehdi
to train and groom the Christian Sirhan Sirhan, and lead him back to the Islamic
tradition that had run through his blood for ages. In court, during his trial, Sirhan Sirhan
burst out that he had killed RFK ³willfully, premeditatively, with twenty years of malice
and forethought. I am willing to fight for the Arab cause. I am willing to die for it.´ On
June 1, 1968 Ben Herrick, the owner of the Lock, Stock and Barrel Gun shop in San
Gabriel, California, sold Sirhan the ammunition he used to assassinate Kennedy.
Herrick stated that two Arab Brothers accompanied Sirhan.62 Larry K. Arnot, who
worked at the store at the time refused to talk about the incident.63 Sirhan repeatedly
stated that he carried out this assassination alone, however, a fellow inmate with Sirhan
in San Quentin from 1972 to 1973 claimed that Sirhan was involved in the prison
murder of inmate Ronald Woods who had gone to the FBI and told agents there that
Sirhan had admitted to him that others were involved in the RFK assassination.64
c
60
. Jerusalem.
61
. Douglas Robinson ³Sirhan Tells Court He Killed Kennedy´ ï
March 4, 1969.
62
. ³Shell Purchase by Sirhan Noted: 2 Were With Accused Killer, Gunshop Owner Says,´ ï
June 16, 1968 Page 32,
1.
63
. Larry K. Arnot 626-358-8787
64
. Philip Melanson ³The RFK Assassination´ Shapolsky Press 1991 page 117
Sheik Rahman was in Egypt when Robert Kennedy was assassinated and did
not know Sirhan Sirhan, however God, in his divine wisdom put Mehdi the Elder in
contact with Sirhan Sirhan. Mehdi, who was in touch with Sheikh Rahman, received a
fatwa from him authorizing the assassination. After the Robert Kennedy assassination
the FBI failed to investigate a connection between Sirhan Sirhan and the West Coast
office of the Arab Information Center in San Francisco, founded by Dr. Mehdi, despite
the fact that Sirhan stated at his trial ³that he read everything about the Arab-Israeli
situation that he could lay his hands on, including publications from the Arab Information
Center in the United States.´65 Dr. Mehdi had left San Francisco in 1963 to direct the
New York Office of the Center, but the office on the West Coast remained in operation
and Mehdi and Sirhan visited it. Sirhan reportedly collected intelligence for the Arab
Information Center by reading publications such as the p p
, and
attending Jewish meetings and parades.
After Sirhan Sirhan performed his service to the , Dr.

Mehdi visited Sirhan in prison numerous times66 and issued a
statement that Sirhan might have been motivated to attack Robert
Kennedy because Robert Kennedy had promised to sell
sophisticated bombers to Israel. Mehdi talked honestly of the
³frustration of many Arabs with American politicians who have sold
the Arab people of Palestine to the Zionist Jewish voters.´ When
Sirhan was arrested, a newspaper article that stated Senator
Kennedy favored aid to Israel, with arms if necessary, was found in
his pocket.67 Dr. Mehdi visited with Sirhan after Sirhan was incarcerated, under the
pretext of writing a book on the Robert Kennedy assassination that was printed by the
ï Îã
in 1968 and titled Ä !Î" The ï Îã
was located in Dr. Mehdi¶s apartment.
In this book Mehdi justified Sirhan¶s action:
Kennedy, the dove on Vietnam, who had called for the de-
escalation of the war, was a hawk in the Middle East and had proposed
sending fifty Phantom jets to Israel; Israel having been created because
Palestine was destroyed and its people shattered and Sirhan being a
member of that destroyed and shattered nation of Palestine, it was clear
why he would consider Kennedy as one of his enemies. As soon as the
identity of the assailant was discovered, the Action Committee on
American-Arab Relations issued a statement in New York explaining that
his act µreflects the frustration of many Arabs with American politicians
who have sold the Arab people of Palestine to the Zionist Jewish voters.¶
Furthermore, the Action Committee condemned µthe fact that Senator
Kennedy had kowtowed to the Zionist pressure to the detriment of
65
. Robert Kennedy FBI Files Part 1 of 9 FBI 77-51387 http://foia.fbi.gov/rfk/rfk1a.pdf
66
. Conversation with Ghazi Khanken October 7, 2003.
67. David Lawrence Pasadena Evening Star News - May 26, 1968.
America.¶ President Johnson, who sends American planes to bomb North
Vietnam, is a legitimate target for the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese. To
say that the Viet Cong should not attack Johnson and should direct their
fire only at the GI's would not make sense. If the Viet Cong could get
Lyndon Baines Johnson, to them he is a fair game. By the same token,
when Robert F. Kennedy supports Israel against the Arabs, he is
assuming the role of an Israeli high-ranking official. To say that the Arabs
should direct their fire only at Israeli soldiers, but not at those who have
supplied the soldier with arms and economic and political strength and
thereby created the Israeli war machinery - this too does not make
sense«Sirhan has raised some other questions of greater theoretical and
philosophical interest. He has raised the question of political assassination
and conventional morality; His decision raises the questions of the use of
force: whether µorganized¶ use of force is moral and µindividual¶ use of
force immoral. Whether the American politician, whose policies,
statements and actions affect the lives of millions of people the world over,
should be accountable only to the American voters, or as he affects the
destiny of other people, he should be equally accountable to these
others«On the question of prevention of greater evil, if the death of one
person has prevented the sending of Phantom jets which might kill and
destroy the lives of, say, fifteen thousand human beings, then possibly a
greater evil was prevented even though a great tragedy took place.
In another book,

! Î" Mehdi wrote: ³Robert
Kennedy, of course, was not interested in killing Arabs. But his action in the course of
the elections resulted in the death of thousands of Arabs. Indeed, Robert Kennedy can
be considered as the man responsible for the arms race in the Middle East. The Israeli
occupation of Sinai, annexation of the Golan Heights and war in Lebanon might be
traced to Bobby Kennedy¶s desire to become the President of the United States.
Was Sirhan able to appeal to Kennedy in any way whatever so that

politician Kennedy would not push for giving Phantom jets to Israel? In
Sirhan¶s own words, if he had wanted µto lick Kennedy¶s boots, pleading
with him not to send the phantom jets to Israel, Kennedy would not have
even stopped to have his boots licked¶ by Sirhan. Sirhan, of course,
committed an act of terrorism. p Robert Kennedy¶s pushing for arms to
Israel has led to hundreds of acts committed by Israel terrorists, resulting
in the death of tens of thousands of Palestinians, Syrians, Lebanese and
other Arabs. Kennedy was responsible for acts of war terrorism and other
horrors in the Middle East. Sirhan, of course, could have appealed to the
American people to pressure Kennedy not to send arms to Israel. But in
the absence of the capability to affect American public opinion peacefully
to prevent Kennedy from supporting Israel,
was
committed by Sirhan in reaction to Kennedy¶s promotion of war in the
Middle East.

The Arab Higher Committee for Palestine instructed its New

York representative Issa Nakhleh to offer all possible assistance to
Sirhan, and Nakhleh became a consulting attorney at the Sirhan
Sirhan trial.68 Born in Palestine Nakhleh, another Christian by birth,
was a graduate of London University, a Barrister-at-Law of the
Honorable Society of Lincoln Inn, London, and a Member of the
Palestine Bar. He represented the Arab Higher Committee for
Palestine (also known as the Palestinian Arab Delegation) a pro-PLO
group in New York from 1947 to 1948. He then became Representative of the League
of Arab States with the rank of Minister Plenipotentiary for Latin America with an office
in Buenos Aires, Argentina. For the last 32 years he had represented the Arab Higher
Committee for Palestine in New York. He attended more than 15 Sessions of the United
Nations General Assembly, and made more than 50 speeches in the Special Political
Committee on the Problem of Palestine. The Justice Department reported that
Palestinian Arab Delegation is registered with the Foreign Agents Registration Board as
a representative of the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine: ³The registrant engaged in
meetings at the United Nations for the purpose of winning support of the United Nations
Delegations for the cause of the Palestine Arab people.´ The Delegation received
$24,000.00 for the six-month period ending June 26, 2001 from the Palestinian
Authority.69 The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin el-Husseini, whose spirit guided
Brother Nakhleh, had originally formed the Palestinian Arab Delegation.

His Eminence Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand

Mufti of Jerusalem, was born in Al-Quds in 1893 and
served in the Ottoman Army during World War I, where he
fought against the British-dominated Western powers. The
Mufti engineered the bloody attacks against Zionist
settlements in 1929 and 1936. Sheik Rahman had this to
say about him: ³He who negotiates or permits the land of
Islam or permits it to be handed over to the enemies of
Islam is . And Jerusalem¶s spiritual leader decreed the
same thing -- if I recall correctly it was Sheik Amin Al-Husseini, may God¶s mercy be
upon him.´ Attorney Ron Kuby had this analysis of the Arab-Israeli conflict:
A man jumps out of a burning building and lands on another man walking
below, and the two men of course can fight, and they can fight endlessly
about who has what rights, certainly the man jumping from the burning
building had the right to jump, just as of course the Jewish people had the
right to jump from the Holocaust in Eastern Europe. But the Palestinian
walking beneath had every right to walk and live his life and not be jumped
68
. ³Arab Agency Orders Aid Offer to Sirhan´ Associated Press June 23, 1968 published in ï
.
69
. http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/fara/Fara1st01/COUNTRY/PALESTIN.HTM
upon by another man. After all, it was the Nazis and not the Palestinians
who built the gas chambers. The Palestinians did no less than the rest of
the peoples to rescue the Jews during the Holocaust.´
Kuby forgot that the Mufti totally comprehended the kinship Islamism shared with
the National Socialist Party of Germany, who, although, worshippers of the ancient
Nordic deity Odin, did the work of the Islamists as regarded the
Jews, in perhaps the most effective fashion to date. The Mufti¶s
contribution to Nazism was the recruitment of tens of thousands
of Muslims in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Albania to the Arabic
Waffen SS, the Handschar, which participated in the ethnic
cleansing of hundreds of thousands of partisan Serbs, Jews and
Gypsies. In 1943 there were 20,000 Muslims under arms in the
Handschar. An Imam was assigned to each division. The Mufti
was already a part of the Abwehr, the German counter-intelligence and sabotage
agency, and he had a cordial meeting with the man who changed the course of Jewish
history, Adolph Hitler. In 1947 Nakhleh attempted to counteract Zionist propaganda
about the Grand Mufti and wrote a letter to the Î
ã
in which he stated,
The Grand Mufti occupies in Arab hearts the same position General
George Washington occupied in American hearts«It is not only untrue but
it is willful misrepresentation to say that the Grand Mufti had µcontacts with
the Fascist powers in the early thirties and had arms guidance and funds.¶
The Arab national movement was never financed by any foreign power.
His Eminence the Grand Mufti did not go to Germany by his own free will
as the British pursued him from one country to the other. When he was in
Germany, he refused to act as a Nazi tool as falsely alleged by the
Zionists. He never took part directly or indirectly in the
extermination of Jews or had anything to do with any of Hitler¶s plans. His
eminence is one of the most noble and human leaders of our time.70
Nakhleh was a participant in the 1982 conference of the Institute for Historical
Review and he gave speech entitled, ³Palestinians and the Israeli Wars of Aggression.71
In 1991 ? p
72 published Nakhleh¶s # ã

ã$ . Nakhleh was a legal adviser of the Saudi Arabian Mission to the United
Nations before his death on March 29, 2003.73

Spear S. Sayegh, a member of Sirhan¶s support group, came to the attention of

FBI when a witness overheard him discussing the Sirhan case on the telephone at his
place of business. Sayegh was an Arab and in active in the Los Angeles Arabic
70
. Letters to the Editor Washington Post September 14, 1947.
71
. Spotlight November 8, 1982 IHR Advertisement
72
. Simon and Schuster also had a subsidiary known as Intercontinental Books, but it only published children¶s titles. The Chinese
had a publishing house known as Intercontinental Press.
73
. Letters to the Editor ³Saudi Arabia: America's Friend´Washington Post February 3, 2002.
community. Sirhan was friendly with a student named Anwar John Sayegh. An FBI
investigation into the matter revealed that the telephone call to Sayegh was probably a
request from John Lawrence in New York for Sayegh to assist in Sirhan¶s defense. John
Lawrence worked for Mohammad T. Mehdi. This was how the FBI reported the incident:
³Mrs. Lois Garner entered the GPS Pharmacy in Temple City on approximately June 7,
1968, and observed the pharmacist on the telephone. She stated she overheard him
say, µBut I had to! We will have to call an emergency meeting. We must band together
and stand behind him.¶ The pharmacist observed Mrs. Garner and said: µI have to go
now,¶ and he hung up the phone. Mrs. Garner believed the conversation was related in
some way to Sirhan Sirhan and reported the incident to the Temple City Police
Department.
On July 8, 1968, FBI Agent Lloyd Johnson interviewed Spear Sayegh at

his place of business. Sayegh stated that he had never met Sirhan Sirhan
and knew nothing of him. He stated that he was acquainted with most
Arabs in the Los Angeles area and that he had met [Sirhan Sirhan¶s
brother] Adel Sirhan when he had seen him as a musician at the Shaker¶s
Oasis Bar and The Fez Bar. Sayegh was president of the American
Jordanian Society that he formed, for two years. He was presently
president of the United States Organization of Medical and Educational
Needs. The organizations were both charitable and not political in nature.
Sayegh stated that he and most Arabs of his acquaintance had warm
feelings for both John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy. He said that it was
the opinion of many Arabs that Zionists had induced Sirhan to assassinate
Robert Kennedy. He personally did not have evidence of this belief.
Sayegh does not recall the specific conversation Mrs. Garner referred to
but stated that it could have been any number of people due to his
involvement with different organizations. He did recall several calls from
John Lawrence requesting that he (Sayegh) arrange a defense for Sirhan.
Sayegh stated that he declined because he thought that Sirhan was guilty
and should be executed. Lawrence was identified as the executive
secretary of the µOrganizing Committee for Clemency for Sirhan¶ in New
York City.
For decades al-Qaeda was able to use non-profit charitable organizations to

raise money for Jihad. After September 11th this subterfuge was no longer viable.
Nevertheless, we thank Allah [subhanahu wa ta¶ala] for allowing us to raise funds
through organizations such as the United States Organization of Medical and
Educational Needs. Alfred Lilienthal, whose articles have appeared in the Revisionist
?
%
, spoke before the Organization of Medical
and Educational Needs.74 The Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee listed the
74
. Alfred Lilienthal Lecture Brochure 147 W 55 St New York, New York.
Organization of Medical and Educational Needs75 as being identical with the Palestinian
Refugee Fund.76 The Mercy Relief of Singapore supported the Palestinian Refugee
Fund. The Government of Kenya deregistered Mercy Relief International in September
1998 as they had been found to be working against the interests of Kenyans in terms of
security according to the Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) Coordination Board,
the government body that oversees the activities of locally registered NGOs. No further
details were given, although the Kenyan Police and the FBI raided Mercy Relief
International as part of their investigations into the August 7, 1998 bombing of the
American spy-nests in Kenya and Tanzania. Documents were taken in that raid, but no
arrests were made, however, during the 2001 trial of the Brothers who carried out these
activities the traitor Jamal Ahmed Mohammed al-Fadl was asked:
Ë And during the time that you were in Nairobi were you familiar with a
charity or relief organization known as Mercy International Relief
Organization?
Yes.
Ë And were there any al-Qaeda people affiliated with the Mercy
International Relief Organization?
Yes, the people of al-Qaeda they were dealing with the Mercy
International.
Ë Who were those people? Which al-Qaeda people were dealing with
Mercy International?
Bin Laden, Mohammad Masry.
Brother Abu Jihad called Sayegh in February 2003:
Abu Jihad: My name is Abu Jihad and I am graduate student doing a PhD.
thesis on Sirhan Sirhan. I came across a document about someone
having overheard a telephone call you received at your pharmacy.
Sayegh: Ray Jollo is in charge of my life history. R-A-Y J-O-L-L-O.
Abu Jihad: Who was this guy Lawrence you were talking with? Was he
connected to Dr. Mehdi?
Sayegh: Yes, Dr. Mehdi was his friend too.
Abu Jihad: He was a very great man, Dr. Mehdi.
75
. United States Organization for Medical Educational Needs Attn. Az Nashashibi Tel. 415-665 0830 Fax. 415-284 3225 2 Plaza
Drive P.O. Box 16308 San Francisco, CA 94116
76
. http://groups.google.com/groups?q=United+States+Organization+of+Medical+and+Educational+Needs&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-
8&safe=off&selm=8s60fp%241c3r%241%40pencil.math.missouri.edu&rnum=1
Sayegh: Yes he is. I can¶t help you I am sorry sir.
Abu Jihad: Did Mr. Lawrence know Mr. Mehdi?
Sayegh: Yes he knew him.
Abu Jihad: The organization you were talking to regarding Sirhan was
connected with Dr. Mehdi?
Sayegh: Yes.
Abu Jihad: There was a friend of Sirhan who had the same last name as
you. Was that any relation?
Sayegh: No.
Abu Jihad: You were with the United States Organization of Medical and
Educational Needs? This foundation, was this similar to the Holy Land
Foundation? I know that after the bombings an affiliate in Kenya of the
Organization of Medical and Educational Needs was kicked out of that
country.
Sayegh: I have no idea about it now. It was a long time ago.
Abu Jihad: The money you raised wasn¶t going to any militant
organizations?
Sayegh: No, no, to Palestinian refugees. I have to go.
It was Brothers like Nakhleh and Sayegh, who hated the Zionist occupiers and
had connections, directly and indirectly, to organizations comprised of Nazi¶s posing as
historians, who provided support for Sirhan Sirhan¶s action.
Doctor Mehdi was placed on the Rahman Unindicted Co-Conspirator List

released to the public by the Department of Injustice. Dr. Mehdi died on February 28,
1998, may God have mercy on his soul for he was a key player in the assassinations of
Robert Kennedy and Meir Kahane. When Sirhan was asked who killed Robert Kennedy
he responded, ³Sirhan Sirhan I suppose, no other person.´77 To be sure our
sponsorship remained a secret Abu Jihad called Ghazi Khankan in October 2003 and
asked him about Dr. Rahman¶s reference to killing Kennedy. ³What? That¶s very very
farfetched. Dr. Mehdi was only a translator for Sheik Rahman in a court situation.78
Sirhan was a Christian he has nothing to do with any«Dr. Mehdi used to go there to
see to visit him in the jail to see«he was calling for his parole. Dr. Mehdi worked for the
77
. ³Sirhan Says No One Helped to Kill Kennedy´ ï
June 16, 1983 Page A18, 1.
78
. Î
ã
of August 16, 1993 described Mehdi as ³a close advisor of the Sheik.´
League of Arab States. The Arab Information Center was not his. He was director for a
few years in the 1950¶s.´79 The League of Arab states funded the Arab Information
Center.80
The Sheik was not the only figure in the Arab world to link the RFK assassination
to so-called ³organized Arab terrorism.´ The Saudi Ambassador to the United Nations,
Jamil M. Baroody, in a speech to the Security Council hinted, ³When the Palestinians,
who have been robbed of their property, of their homeland, chased out of their country,
are desperate and try to express their despair by such acts as we hear of, whether it is
in the airport at Athens81 or elsewhere, or even in Los Angeles where one of the leaders
of this country was assassinated because he supported the Israeli cause for political
reasons, these people are called µmurderers.¶´82
On March 2, 1973, in Khartoum, Sudan, members of the Black September group

captured five diplomats, including the American Ambassador Cleo A. Noel and outgoing
Charge d¶Affairs G. Curtis Moore. The Palestinian freedom fighters said they wanted to
exchange them for Sirhan Sirhan. When the Americans refused these men were
executed! The Brothers who executed this event served 16 months in a Sudan prison
and were released to the PLO in June 1974. They were to complete their two-year
sentences in a West Bank prison but there is no evidence they ever did so.83

Salem recounted his conversation with Sheik Rahman to Siddig Ali, regarding
hitting the FBI and the U.N. Siddig Ali stated that when he had discussed the United
Nations issue with Rahman, Rahman had been in favor of the plan. Subsequently, in
discussing the plan to bomb the United Nations with Hampton-El, Siddig Ali told him that
he had received an ³official fatwa´ from Rahman regarding the plan.84 Siddig Ali stated
that Rahman¶s approval was necessary whenever one did something ³basically
unlawful,´ which would be wrong unless the ³mission [was] under the flag of God and
his messenger.´85
Over the next few days, Siddig Ali and Amir Abdelgani (once accompanied by
Salem) drove together to the Lincoln and Holland tunnels, the United Nations, and the
Federal Building in Manhattan to scout the targets and examine traffic conditions. Salem
recorded their conversation:
79
. Tape Recorded conversation with Ghazi Khankan October 14, 2003.
80
. Washingon Post February 20, 1976 ³Arab Center, Leader Named in US Suit.´ The USDOJ filed suit against the Arab Information
Center for failing to file a Foreign Agents Registration Act Statement as the Center worked on behalf of the League of Arab States.
81
. On December 26, 1968 the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine killed on Israeli during an attack on El-Al Airlines at
Athens airport.
82
. ³Arab Envoy at UN Cites RFK Murder´ Washington Post January 1, 1969 page A24
83
. Jim Hoagland ³Sudan Releases Envoy¶s Killers to PLO´ Washington Post June 25, 1974.
84. USA v Rahman Govt. Ex. 315T at 7-9
Siddig Ali: Fine, now we are entering the tunnel, there are two lanes, one
lane on the right and one on the left. The hadduta86 will be placed on the
right lane always which is close to the water, because the left lane is close
to the opposite lane.
Salem: Maya, it is called maya.
Siddig Ali: Maya (laughing). You want me to speak to you in Egyptian, I

will speak Egyptian, in the name of God the merciful, the Almighty«There
is a police officer, don¶t worry about him, don¶t pay him attention, you have
to concentrate on your assignment, it is wrong to get police attention, if
you look at them 1, 2, 3, times, they will be wondering why? It is going to
be a catastrophe at the end. Look it says hazardous material checkpoint,
the inspection point is the checkpoint. They inspect any hazardous
material, means dangerous oil, hawadith.87 Any material.
Salem: But we are carrying weapons, it does not matter.
Siddig: No, no, it does not matter.
Salem: It is not important. (laughing)
Siddig: It is called children¶s toys man.
Salem: Okay, where do you want to place the haddoutha? So that I can
concentrate on the line.
Siddig: Yeah, always.
Salem: At this line, stop so I can tape.
Siddig: From here, this is the location of the hadduta.
Salem: Then you tell her to sing.
Siddig: I will tell her to sing Ashra Baladi as you have it in Egypt and in
Sudan we call it Dallauka let her sing Dallauka.
Salem: (Laughing) Ah yeah yeah.
Siddig: Or it better be to let her sing Noba songs and mention the name of
God, let the hadduta pray, the name of God.
86
. The codeword used for the bombs was the Arabic word ³Hadduta,´ which literally means a child's bedtime story when translated
from Arabic.
87
ð Events, changes
Salem: No God, but God.
Siddig: I will let the hadduta pray for God, there is booth on the left, there
is nobody in it, there is no man in it, empty (UI) homework (UI) we will
review this film (UI) I am going at a speed of 20 miles, here is a second
booth, third, fourth, fifth, on the left another one, empty, there is no
monkey in it«The man who is going to place the hadduta, he will get out
here, of course he will ride with his Brother. This one thing, it will be sing,
sing, sing is the one who is going to place the hadduta.
Aside from the Holland tunnel other targets included Grand Central Terminal, the
Empire State Building and Times Square. During one of these scouting trips, Amir
Abdelgani suggested that they consider bombing the diamond district in Manhattan
because that would be like ³hitting Israel itself.´88 ³We continued talking about bombing
the jewelry district, and once we put the bomb, the whole front windows will shatter and
the jewelry, the diamonds will be all over, and everybody will pick up, and that¶s what
happening.´ At the United Nations, Siddig Ali noted that a bomb detonated at the
entrance would topple the building. The men later gathered at the safehouse to discuss
the operation.
On May 30, 1993, Hampton-El met with Siddig Ali and Salem at Hampton-El¶s
safehouse, which he used for conducting business. Siddig Ali and Salem explained that
they needed detonators, and Hampton-El said he would try to locate some for them.
Hampton-El sought detonators and ³clean´ guns from Garrett Wilson, who became a
cooperating witness for the U.S. Naval Investigative Service. Hampton-El explained to
Wilson that he wanted to train a group of people in commando tactics and discussed
training techniques and bomb identification.89 On June 4, 1993, Siddig Ali arranged to
go with Salem to meet Mohammed Saleh.
c cc
Mohammed Saleh was the owner of two gasoline stations in Yonkers, New York,
always a good job for a Brother. During dinner at Mohammed Saleh¶s house, Siddig Ali,
who knew Mohammed Saleh through their mutual friends at the Sudanese mission,
explained the bombing plan to him, noting the different targets on a piece of paper.
These plans included the bombing of domestic American targets, the murder of the
Secretary General of the United Nations as a ³must´, trafficking in firearms, murder for
hire, and enhancing Mohammed Saleh¶s relationship to Hamas.90 Salem was asked by
Siddig Ali to eat the piece of paper once Siddig Ali felt that Mohammed Saleh
understood the plan. Many members of our cell had links to Sudan including Amir
Abdelgani, Fadil Abdelgani, Tariq Elhassan and Fares Khallafalla, however even after
this knowledge became public, the Clinton Administration was hesitant to place the
Sudan on its list of nations that support ³terrorist´ acts. The House Republican Task

89. USA v. Rahman et. al. TT 10748-60. TT 10758-59
90. USA v Rahman GXt93T
Force on Terrorism disagreed and reported that much of Sudan¶s training of our forces
was being carried out with help from Iran.91
Ë
Over the next few weeks, Siddig Ali brought Victor Alvarez and Elhassan into the
group. Various members of the group began to collect the items they believed were
needed to prepare the bombs. On June 13, 1993, Salem and Fares Khallafalla
purchased two timers for the bombs in Chinatown. Salem suggested that the bombs
should be detonated remotely by purchasing a beeper and substituting a filament for the
bulb that flashed when the beeper was called. On June 15 and 18, 1993 Hampton-El
left messages for Siddig Ali indicating that he was still searching for detonators, which
were harder to obtain than the materials to assemble the Improvised Explosive Device.
Siddig Ali indicated that they needed fertilizer, fuel, and stolen cars.
Amir, Alvarez, and Salem attempted on the evening of June 19, 1993 to buy
stolen cars to deliver the bombs and to use as getaway cars during the bombing.
Although they located a source for stolen cars, they did not have sufficient funds to
purchase the cars. Our source for the stolen cars was Mohammed Saleh.
That same day, Elhassan met with a friend who was an engineer to discuss the
feasibility of blowing up the tunnels and to determine where the weakest points of the
tunnels were located. Elhassan told Salem that he asked someone to do a study of the
strong sides and the weak sides of the tunnels and bridge to be bombed and indicated
that he wanted to share this information with the al-Fatah Organization, the Sudanese
and Hamas.92
On June 22, 1993, after buying five 55-gallon steel barrels from a Newark drum
business, Siddig Ali and Amir Abdelgani went to Mohammed Saleh¶s gas station to get
fuel for the bombs. Mohammed Saleh agreed over the phone to provide the fuel.
Belhabri, who was Mohammed Saleh¶s employee, filled two of the drums with $140
worth of diesel fuel. Siddig Ali and Amir did not pay for the fuel, but Belhabri made out a
receipt on which he recorded the license plate of the van. Siddig Ali wrote a phony
signature on the receipt. At the same time, Siddig Ali and Salem were purchasing more
fertilizer for the bombs.
Victor Alvarez gave Siddig Ali a 9mm semi-automatic rifle with an empty 25-
round magazine. Siddig Ali and Salem took the gun from Alvarez¶s apartment in New
Jersey to the safe house. At a little after 8 p.m. that evening Amir Abdelgani and Fadil
Abdelgani arrived at the safe house with the fuel. Amir Abdelgani then washed down the
van so that there would be no traces left of the fuel. Fadil Abdelgani was asked whether
he would participate, and he responded that he had to perform an Istikhara prayer.93
After going to the mosque to pray, Fadil Abdelgani met Elhassan and Alvarez, and they
91
. R. Jeffery Smith ³US Review of Sudan Terrorist Links Gain Urgency´ Î
ã
June 27, 1993 page A.21.
92. USA v Rahman CM 58 p1-2
93
. A prayer seeking divine intervention to guide one's decision in a course of action
drove back to the Queens safehouse where Amir Abdelgani began mixing the fuel and
the fertilizer, and watched the video showing the tunnels that had been shot earlier in
the day by Siddig Ali and Salem. Elhassan, Alvarez, and Fadil Abdelgani then returned,
joined Amir Abdelgani, and began stirring the fuel and fertilizer together. They
discussed the timers and the placement of bombs. Carson Dunbar wanted Salem to
neutralize the timer that Salem had supplied to the Brothers, but Salem refused for if
this would have been detected Salem would have been executed!
At about 2:00 a.m. on the morning of June 24, 1993 FBI agents raided the
safehouse and arrested the Brothers, seizing the fuel and fertilizer mixture and the
cardboard diagram Siddig Ali had periodically used to sketch the bombing plan. A few
hours before arrests were made at the FBI sponsored ³bomb factory,´ FBI agents
arrested Mohammed Saleh at his apartment in Yonkers. United States Secret Service
Special Agent Brian Parr reported that Saleh was hiding under his bedcovers while fully
dressed when he came to arrest him. At FBI headquarters, Mohammed Saleh denied
having sold fuel to the men but said that Salem had come to his station demanding fuel
on two occasions. About a week later on July 5, 1993, Mohammed Saleh called one of
his employees from prison and instructed him to tell Belhabri to destroy the two receipts
documenting the fuel given to the Abdelganis and Siddig Ali. Mohammed Saleh said
that it would be ³dangerous´ for Belhabri if he failed to follow these instructions.
Mohamed Saleh was convicted of 3 counts including seditious conspiracy, bombing
conspiracy, and attempted bombing. Saleh was sentenced to 35 years of imprisonment
and 3 years of supervised release.
c
On July 2, 1993 Sattar and Sheik Rahman barricaded themselves in the Abu
Bakr Mosque then surrendered following a tense 20-hour standoff with authorities that
suddenly had decided to revoke Rahman¶s parole on immigration charges, however the
Sheik was convinced he was being arrested on the same conspiracy that his followers
had been charged with the previous week and he told the crowd who formed a human
chain across the street from the Mosque, ³I might not stand in front of you again. We are
not conspiring against America even though we disagree with American policy.´94
Mohammad T. Mehdi was present and reported that Sheik Rahman asked him, ³Is
America becoming another Egypt [complete with administrative detention]?´ Sheik
Rahman, who was suffering from numerous illnesses, including a non-contagious form
of tuberculosis, was to Otisville Federal Prison in upstate New York. There,
he was hospitalized after he began to suffer from higher than normal blood sugar levels
as his medication had been taken away from him for security reasons.95 The warnings
to the Americans began, ³We have issued statements warning the Americans never to
touch Dr. Omar Abdel Rahman and now they will see our response.´ Montassar al-
Zayyat added that the Sheik¶s extradition could ³set off a wave of violence.´96
94
. Allison Mitchell ³Sheik to be Held While Fighting Deportation´ ï
July 3, 1993 Page 1,2.
95
. Joseph B. Treaster, ³Sheik Hospitalized at Federal Prison´ ï
July 7, 1993 Page A1, 3.
96
. Joseph B. Treaster ³Lawyer Says Sheik Plans Fight Against Extradition´ ï
July 6, 1993 Page B2, 1.
On July 3, 1993 State Department official Robert H. Pelletreau, was informed by
Amr Moussa who is now head of the Arab League, that the Sheik had been ordered
arrested by the Fayoum High Security Court. In a television interview July 4, 1993
Secretary of State Warren Christopher said he knew that Egypt wanted Abdel Rahman
returned and that the United States would take ³a sympathetic view´ if an extradition
request was received for the charge of inciting to riot. During his immigration hearing
Sheik Rahman was asked:
Ë What do you think would happen if you went back to Egypt?
They will set up various charges against me in order that they may
order me, remand me in the prison or to kill me. When I was in the United
States in November or December 1991, I tried to return to Egypt, but the
Minister of Interior sent me a delegate, threatening me that if I returned
then I will face the prison and detention or at least house arrest. I gave my
lawyer the name of the witness, if necessary.
Ë Who was the delegate that was sent to you?
A person whom I know that is acquainted with the Minister of Interior.

His is Dr. Mustafa Mouman. I prepared myself to return to Egypt and this
Mustafa Mouman came to New York and contacted me, and I went to him
and he told me what Minister of Interior said.
Ë How did-how did the Egyptian government know you were going to
return to Egypt?
I didn't say that they Egyptian government knew that I was going to
return. It was my intention to return.
Ë Well, but why did the Egyptian government happen to send this
delegate to you coincidentally at the same time that you were planning to
return?
I had no intention of returning at that particular date, but I was thinking

of returning.
Ë Do you know if Dr. Mustafa Mouman he works for the Egyptian
government?
You mean as a spy?
(Off the record. On the record.)
JUDGE FOR THE RECORD: The last answer was I don't think so.
On July 4, 1993, Amad Sattar told the media "we haven't decided the time or
place, but our Muslim community will definitely demonstrate its outrage at the arrest of
the Sheikh and that if anything happens to the Sheikh, we will hold the American
administration responsible. Something very bad could happen." On July 10, 1993 the
Immigration Board of Appeals upheld Meisner¶s determination and rejected the Sheik¶s
application for asylum. Doctor Mehdi commented, ³The Sheik is exceedingly
disappointed. I understand that he is improving and taking some of his medication but
he is demoralized and this was before the Board rejected his appeal.´97 Sheik Rahman
was offered asylum by the Sudanese. Then Prime Minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar of
Afghanistan stated, ³We are willing to give him refuge, it will not cause a problem.´98
August 27, 1993 was a day that sealed the fate of the United States. The Islamist
scholar, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, whose only crime was having correctly interpreted
the Qu¶ran, was brought before a federal magistrate and charged with conspiring to
wage a holy war against America.
During his incarceration the Sheik took his immigration case to the United States
Appellate Court which ruled: ³Based on this court¶s review of the administrative record,
this court concludes that the Board of Immigration Appeals decision, as well as that of
the Immigration Judge, on the application for asylum and withholding of deportation is
supported by substantial evidence in the record. Fear of persecution, the basis for
asylum, is not to be equated with an expectation of prosecution. The latter is not a
ground for asylum. The unclassified summary opinion of the State Department Office of
Asylum Affairs, Bureau of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, notes that: µWe think
that his acquittal in Egypt [in the Anwar Sadat assassination trial] reflects the practice of
the Egyptian courts whose judges we respect and who enjoy a reputation for
independence in their wish to hold government to a high standard in bringing charges
against individuals for security breaches and for fomenting sectarian violence.¶ This
court also concludes that the Board of Immigration Appeals and the Immigration Judge
had reasonable grounds for regarding the Petitioner as a danger to the security of the
United States and therefore were required to deny his application for relief. Petitioner
next argues that he was deprived of his right to a full and fair hearing on the ground that
the Immigration Judge improperly considered µclassified¶ information despite the Judge¶s
representation on the record that he would not. Before reaching the merits of this
argument this Court notes that it has declined, for policy reasons noted below, to
receive the classified documents for in camera review [however] the undersigned
received Secret level security clearance and [now] has the authority to read such a
document. Although the undersigned has authority to base his decision on the classified
information contained in the advisory opinion, the undersigned has not considered the
classified information in reaching a decision in this case«The undersigned notes that
the information contained in the classified document is relevant to the case and is a
more detailed account of applicant¶s alleged activities that are set forth in the
unclassified U.S. Department of States advisory opinion, dated October 23, 1992«99 In
97
. Joseph B. Treaster ³Immigration Board Rejects Sheik¶s Plea for Asylum´ ï
July 10, 1993.
98
. ³Sheik Offered Refuge´ ï
, August 1, 1993 Page 39, 1.
99. USA v Rahman Doc 682
fact, the Board of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs advisory opinion noted that it
was accompanied by a classified letter µwhich summarizes information available to the
U.S. concerning the continuing involvement of [the applicant] in terrorist activities which
would have detrimental foreign policy and security consequences for the U.S.
Government.¶ The regulation specifies that the agency that provides the classified
information provide an unclassified summary. The immigration judge found that the
Board of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs opinion did adequately summarize the
classified information and provide the applicant an opportunity to offer opposing
evidence.´
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The imposition of a judge, Michael B. Mukasey, in the Rahman trial, who is a

Zionist Jew, whose wife is the principal for the Ramaz School,100 that wishes to see the
immigration of all Jews in Manhattan to Israel, and who is a regular visitor to Israel, over
the trial of ten men, all Muslims, with eight of them of Arab heritage, was a travesty of
justice. This was akin to a Hamas member presiding over the trial of Baruch Goldstein,
the settler who opened fire on a mosque full of Palestinian worshippers.101
In 1972, Mukasey joined the U.S. attorney¶s office, eventually serving as chief of
the official corruption unit from 1975 to 1976. He left to join the law firm of Patterson,
Belknap and became a partner in 1978 along with former the former New York City
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. At the firm, Mukasey represented the homosexual Jew Roy
Cohn during his legal disciplinary hearings. Cohn soon died of AIDS. In 1987 Mukasey
was a member of the four-lawyer panel that cleared transit police officers of killing
graffiti artist Michael Stewart. That year, Mukasey, a Republican, was recommended by
Senator Alfonse D¶Amato for a federal judgeship. An allegation had arisen that had
plotted to kill D¶Amato.102
We asked Mukasey to recuse himself but he refused. Mohammad T. Mehdi filed

an Affidavit in Support of Motion to Disqualify in which he wrote: ³As a civil libertarian, I
have been a card-carrying member of the American Civil Liberties Union for the last
forty years. My friends are all races, nationalities and religions including Jews,
Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Chinese, Russians, Hispanics, etc. As a Muslim, I judge
persons on the bases of their deeds, not their creeds. Both the National Council on
Islamic Affairs and American-Arab Relations Committee and myself personally have
appeared before courts of judges of various persuasions and have been defended by
lawyers of various backgrounds. We have never suggested that any judge should be
disqualified because of his religion, ethnicity or his politics. When the late Rabbi Meir
Kahane¶s right to his passport was challenged by the State Department the National
Council on Islamic Affairs and American-Arab Relations Committee and myself
personally submitted an
to the Federal Court in Washington in support of
Rabbi Kahane¶s right to his American passport. On the basis of the above, the National
100. Archives of the Mayor's Press Office For Immediate Release Date: Tuesday, October 27,1998 Release #496-98.
101. http://www.islam.co.za/saiin/abdulrahman.html
102
. Peg Tyre ³Judge Up to Job´ Newsday January 30, 1995.
Council on Islamic Affairs and American-Arab Relations Committee and myself request
permission to submit the attached in support of the motion filed by Ronald
L. Kuby and William M. Kunstler, Attorneys for the defense, asking the Honorable Judge
Michael B. Mukasey to consider to disqualify himself from the case of
.´103
Kunstler commented: ³This is a judge who is, I think, openly Zionist and very
friendly to Israel. And he¶s Jewish. And he¶s gonna have rough time with people who are
accused of conspiracy to blow up Jews, for example, on 47th Street. If the shoe was on
the other foot and we had a Muslim judge for this trial, you know that he would never
serve. We appreciate he may have strong views toward Israel, strong views toward
Zionism, which he¶s perfectly able to have. I don¶t criticize him. But what I do criticize,
he¶s the wrong judge for the case. And he wasn¶t selected for this case initially. It was a
maneuver to get him in.´
Mukasey, later promoted to Chief Judge, would rule that prosecutors had the
right to detain our members to testify before grand juries, reversing Jewish Judge Shira
Scheindlin, who called it an illegitimate use of this statute.104 In October 2002 Mukasey
rejected a request by Assicurazioni Generali of Italy to dismiss about a dozen lawsuits
that were filed against it by Jewish holocaust survivors more than five years ago,
insuring the Jews will get amounts of money they do not deserve.
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The Sheik was never extradited nor allowed to voluntarily move to Afghanistan;
instead a show trial involving the Sheik and his cell was staged beginning in late
January 1995 that was a total farce, since the Sheik had not lifted a finger to make the
bomb.
On July 6, 1995 Lynne Stewart wrote a letter to Andrew McCarthy of the U.S.
Attorney¶s Office proposing that Vincent Cannistraro be allowed to testify for the
defense:
He will state that for approximately 25 to 30 years, Dr. Rahman has been
solely focused and worked for bringing an Islamic government to Egypt by
any means necessary«in Mr. Cannistraro¶s expert opinion, Dr. Rahman
has never been viewed as a threat to the institutions or the U.S.
government within U.S. boundaries and further, any such focus would be
contrary to and dilute Dr. Rahman¶s Egyptian agenda«Finally, Mr.
Cannistraro will testify on the Jihad Organization as alleged in the
indictment. He will state that in his professional opinion there is

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& ' and that although there
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104. Benjamin Weiser ´US Judge Clears Detention of Witnesses for Grand Jury´ ï
July 12, 2002 Section B, Page 4,
Column 1.
are a number of nationally diverse (Iran, Algeria, Sudan, Palestine,
Jordan, Egypt etc.) based groups with shared goals and outlooks but with
no single hierarchy or organizational head.
This was disrespectful to Usama bin Laden. Believe it or

not from January 1987 to October 1988 Cannistraro was a
Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for
International Security Affairs where he served as United States
Department of Defense representative on inter-agency
committees on special operations, covert action and foreign
policy chaired by the White House. Cannistraro was Chief of
Operations and Analysis, Counter-terrorism Center, CIA, from October 1988 to
November 1990.
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The verdict, handed down by a jury of three whites seven blacks and two
Hispanics on October 1, 1995, came after only 36 hours of jury deliberation, highly
unusual in a trial in which there are ten defendants, 200 witnesses, and 1,000 exhibits.
Rahman was convicted uniformly on each and every count, even though the evidence
on some, such as the count charging him with solicitation to murder Hosni Mubarak,
was meager at best, even by government standards. Sheik Rahman was also convicted
of soliciting an attack on American military installations. All the Brothers were found
guilty of bombing conspiracy except Nosair and El-Gabrowny.
On or about January 21, 1996, a statement, issued in the name of the Al-Gama¶a
al-Islamiyya, responded to the sentence of life imprisonment imposed on Abdel Rahman
by threatening, ³All American interests will be legitimate targets for our struggle until the
release of Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman and his Brothers. As the American Government
has opted for open confrontation with the Islamic movement and the Islamic symbols of
struggle, () * (?
swears by God to its irreversible vow to take an eye for
an eye.´
Sheik Rahman commented on this farcical event:
And the judge granted the government all their requests and did not give
the defense anything, and the judge refused every motion that was put
forward by the defense. And the judge even evaded the responsibility that
is internationally agreed upon. The defendants are entrusted to the judge,
and the judge only gave us one day when it came to our own feast, and
we had the right to four days. And he gave himself two days when it came
to his own feast«And William Kunstler asked the judge to recuse himself
from the case, for reasons all of us know, and Kunstler was right and the
judge refused that, and actually did not allow Kunstler to be in the case.
And Kunstler, after having the experience of fifty years, said that any
Muslim who is facing trial in the country will not have a fair trial. And
Kunstler met his God, and his words remained as a stigma against
American justice«The American media, the one that is very angry, is
propagating the idea of the Muslim danger, according to them all over, and
it takes the front lines: Islam and the sword, the Muslim dagger, the rabid
Islam, the threat of Islam to the West, Black Emmanuel. It is like an X-
rated movie as a background it puts the call to prayers instead of the
background music in the movie«
The President Nixon put the choices as such: We have to liquidate the
Muslim current around the world, and whatever does not melt, we will
liquidate and finish it«And President Nixon, irrespective of his enmity to
Islam, say that the winds of change in the Muslim Orient, it has reached
the stage of a typhoon that cannot be stopped. Islam came to stay, and
the Qu¶ran was given so that it will be the rule. The American intelligence
found in Abdul Nasser their man of the future, and that horrible revolution
took place in Egypt in 1952, and they promised to practice certain things,
three things. First to hit the Islamic movement and to finish off the
existence of Al-Azar and to guarantee the security of Israel, and officers
executed that precisely. Many Muslims were killed and tens of thousands
ended up in jail. In the year 1964 the CIA presented Abdul Nasser with a
report there is a Muslim undercurrent and the Muslim movement should
be hit again. And after that Nasser declared from the top of Lenin¶s tomb
that we have arrested 17,000 young men and we shall not forgive them.
And President Nixon said it is incumbent on Russia and America that they
should have a decisive co-operation to hit Muslim fundamentalism«
[Now] Muslim fundamentalism took the place of communism being the

basic tool for violent change«And America loved Mubarak because he
ruled Egypt with an iron fist, and he ruled it with a police regime, and he
ruled Egypt with emergency laws, and he disgraced and insulted justice,
and he referred the cases to military tribunals, and it is not courts but it is
slaughterhouses. The judge in it is a butcher. They have condemned
many young Muslim men to death. But God is revengeful. And America
crowned all this kind of corruption by convening the Convention on
Population in Egypt, to destroy the Muslim family and to spread corruption
and homosexuality and spread AIDS and encourage abortion and birth
control and the destruction of the family, and all the diseases that are
found in the American community. With all that I did not conspire to kill
Mubarak, and I have not instigated anybody against him. And how could
this happen from a person who actually calls for press conferences to
attack him in the open?
America has surrounded Iraq and they have starved its Muslim people,
and within forty days they killed 110,000 Iraqi soldiers. And America
dropped thousands of tons of explosives on Iraq, an amount of bombs
equivalent to seven and a half times the bomb that fell on Hiroshima. And
they destroyed the drinking water networks. They destroyed grids and
railway tracks, bombarded the cities and petroleum plants. And after that
America asked Iraq to pay compensation, from $70 to $100 billion«And
then America went against the Libyan people. They barricaded the country
to starve them to hunger and to destroy their economy. And America also
surrounded the Sudanese people and starved them, and they accused
them of having harbored terrorists, and instigated its neighbors to fight
with it, and send millions to the secessionists in southern Sudan in order
to spread hunger. And America sent the Marines to Somali«
This allegation Jihad Group is that one that says America is - It is the
word of all the Muslims around the world. One thousand million Muslims
around the world agree that the United States of America is a
country, when it comes to all measures. It is or disbeliever with
all its organizations and its institutions.

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This courtroom is .
Nobody disagrees on that except those who are tails to the United States
of America, like the King Hosni Mubarak, and whoever is a tail of his, too,
and like the clerics, the chief, the clerics of the state and of religion. That is
what the holy Qu¶ran says. I did not want to mention the fact that the
United States of America is a country. It was thanks to the American
prosecutor who actually brought this up. Number two. Why was it
considered ? One thousand million Muslims answered that by saying
America is an country because its system and its society and its way
of life never said there is no God but God and Mohammed is his
messenger. That is what the holy Qu¶ran says.105
When he was sentenced to life imprisonment Sheik Rahman did not beg for
mercy:
Today when I am faced in a few minutes time with a life sentence in jail, or
more than that, injustice, unlawfully, with that I am facing I am honored to
join those who are in jail for God¶s cause, with the martyrs and good doers
and the saints. I am disagreeing with my attorney when she tries to make
the jail sentence a little less. I am refusing any mercy or pleading for
having less time in jail. And when I was put in jail, since 31 months
America is putting me in jail in solitary confinement. I am also under
surveillance 24 hours a day and officer sees me even when I am sitting in
the toilet. And this is against my beliefs. God is great and he will be
revengeful. Justice is clear and injustice is flaky. And justice will continue
no matter how much America resists it.106

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The jury convicted the other Brothers on counts for which there was virtually no
evidence. One of the most blatant examples of this was: Defendant Ibrahim El-
Gabrowny was charged with assault of a police officer. Although the officer did not
appear to testify against El-Gabrowny as expected, El-Gabrowny was convicted of two
counts of assault on a federal officer; assault impeding the execution of a search
warrant; five counts of possession of a fraudulent foreign passport, and one count of
possession with intent to transfer false identification documents.
El-Gabrowny could not be linked to the bomb ± after receiving a post arrest
admonition not to wash his hands, he asked to use the bathroom. He was taken to the
bathroom in a holding cell, where he urinated and then plunged his hand into the urine-
filled toilet bowl, covering all traces of nitrates. There were no tapes of him conspiring
with Salem:
Anticev: Did you ever tape anything between you and El-Gabrowny talking
about the bombs and stuff like that?
Salem: You told me don¶t.
Anticev: Yeah, but maybe you did it on your own anyway. You have all the
machinery there to do it.
Salem: I know, but since you told me don¶t, I didn¶t.
At his sentencing El-Gabrowny told this to Judge Mukasey:
Neither me or the people in the government or you or the judges in that

appeal court would be able to make it the historical record of staying in
this life forever. Some day, I will pass away the same to you and them.
When you move to the other side, none of us will carry his title that he had
in this world. I would like you now to make believe that me and you are
standing in front of Allah. You are no judge anymore. I¶m not a defendant
anymore. I¶m raising my claim that the government used you to oppress
me and I will have my record with my hand to support my claim. I don¶t
mean the record which the stenographer writes. I would ask for the record
of your thoughts, any phone calls, any conversation, any idea came to
your mind since 1993 to today. I will face you with that. I claim my
innocence now and I will claim my innocence in front of Allah. Do you think
you have answers for all my questions in the other court? Remember,
you¶re not going to be a judge like now. You are not going to have the
same power like what you have now. You have been repeating
speculations. I can prove to you that that is wrong.
You can get away with it now. What you are going to do in the other court
Mr. McCarthy and the others will not be with you in the other court. And
even if they are going to go there, they are not going to be able to support
you. Not concerning about me, Judge, concerning about yourself. Imagine
yourself over there in the other court. I am raising my claim, concern about
the consequences of whatever being -- whatever you have been doing for
me. I¶ve been oppressed through this trial. None of these speculations is
right. I can prove it. You don¶t give me a chance. None of this allegations
is right, even the assault. I have no role in any criminal activities
whatsoever. I never shared with anybody any criminal agreement
whatsoever. I was total political sacrifice in this case. I¶m totally innocent.
I¶m claiming it now. I will claim it forever. That¶s it.
Mr. Ricco interjected:
Judge, may I say one thing? Judge, for five years, I¶ve represented Mr. El-
Gabrowny. I know that the Court has to impose sentence, and the Court is
also human. Mr. El-Gabrowny expresses himself oftentimes in a way of a
person who deeply believes in his religion. So, on his behalf, I want the
Court to know that his speech is not a threat against Your Honor.107
Defendant Victor Alvarez was shown by defense experts to be borderline

retarded; strong evidence existed in his favor, which was not rebutted by the
government. Alvarez was, nonetheless, was convicted of facilitating the bombing
conspiracy by shipping a firearm in interstate commerce and using and carrying a
firearm in relation to a crime of violence, and attempted bombing.
All the defendants were convicted of seditious conspiracy; additionally Hampton-

El, Amir Abdelgani, Fadil Abdelgani, Fares Khallafalla, Elhassan, and Mohammed Saleh
were convicted of attempted bombing. Hampton-El¶s108 wife has started a campaign to
free her husband in which she states that he is related to Fred Hampton, a Black
Panther assassinated by the Chicago Police Department. Hampton¶s son, Fred
Hampton Jr. was sentenced to 18 years in prison for firebombing two Korean Stores
during the height of the Rodney King rebellion and released in 2001.
The Justice Department, unhappy with the verdict of the Brooklyn jury in case of
the assassination of Rabbi Kahane, convicted El-Sayyid Nosair of two counts of
attempted murder and one count of murder in furtherance of a racketeering enterprise;
attempted murder of a federal officer; three counts of use of a firearm in relation to a
crime of violence; possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number.
The United States Attorney¶s Office claimed that in an August 3, 1993 article in
the ï ã
Nosair blamed Rahman for the Kahane assassination, but later
retracted this statement. An examination of this article proved this was untrue, however,
Nosair did say that the World Trade Center and Bridge and Tunnel operations would not
have been carried out without ³the blessing´ of the Sheik.
107
. United States Court of Appeal Southern District NY 00-01401
108
. Hampton-El #34854-054 USP Florence, POB 7500, 5880 State Highway 67 South Florence Co 81226. Dr. Abdur Rashid will be
free, the stuggle continues, victory or paradise, freedom or death!
Nosair hated the Jews and he believed: ³We are from the east side of the river;
they are from the west side of the river. We will kill all of the Jews.´109 After Nosair was
thrown in the ³hole´ after the September 11th attack he softened up considerably. In
August 2002 he wrote, ³The formation of the federal state of Abraham in Palestine is the
µonly¶ just and proper way to fix the crisis. It is just for all the Israelis as well as the Arab
Palestinians. I call it the federal State of Abraham since Abraham is the father of both
Israelis and Arabs, and for religious reasons for all the Jews, Christians and Muslims.´
Nosair, however, also wrote, ³There are two kinds of µterrorism¶. One is µGood Terrorism¶
and the other is µevil terrorism.¶ The later comes by those who break the law (of justice)
for their unlawful aims. But the first; (Good Terrorism) is used against those who violate
it.´110
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Abdo Haggag did not immediately surface as an Egyptian intelligence agent. He

cover was deep and he spent several months in a Federal detention facility in
Manhattan ± MCC. Ultimately he received a reduced sentence of time served. Haggag
and his family were entered into the witness protection program. Aside from committing
arson, Abdo Haggag worked hard to win the trust of Sheik Rahman. When the Sheik
was under house arrest in Egypt, Haggag sent him stun guns to him to be used in an
escape attempt. Haggag agreed that Mubarak ought to be killed and suggested that
Sheik Rahman fax an order so stating to the Egyptian military. He later helped obtain a
false divorce certificate for the Sheik to help him avoid the immigration consequences of
his bigamy. Haggag found the Sheik an apartment next door to his own at 115 Fairview
Avenue in Jersey City. He arranged for the Sheik¶s marriage to an American citizen in
case the Sheik encountered trouble obtaining a Green Card. He corresponded with
Hassan al-Turabi, the former strongman of the Sudan. In order to win the trust of Siddig
Ali Haggag agreed with him that killing Senator D¶Amato and Congressman Schumer
was a good idea and did not report this plot to the authorities. He gave Siddig Ali a book
so that Siddig Ali might learn to construct letter bombs to be used against Jewish
targets. Then he accused Siddig Ali of being an informant putting Siddig Ali¶s life in
danger.
Abdo Haggag was truly a mole. During the time that Haggag knew Siddig Ali was
plotting to kill Mubarak in New York City, he refused to co-operate with the FBI. Later,
he lied to the United States Government about his relationship with Egyptian
intelligence and falsely denied he received payment from that intelligence service. He
was an illegal immigration overstay, he did not report all of his income while working in
the restaurant business for ten years and he engaged in automobile insurance fraud. He
didn¶t even pay the $2500 fine to which he had been sentenced when he testified.111 But
all this was forgiven as being ³part of his cover´ when he agreed to snitch not only for
Egypt but for America!
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110
. Nosair v. USA Louisiana Western Federal District Court 02-Civ-1806
111. USA v Rahman McCarthy to Muk 6.17.98
On the other hand, there was something not quite Halal about this man. Haggag
showed great enmity for Sheik Rahman and this should have been a clue to his
schizophrenic personality. When Siddig Ali visited a mosque in Queens frequented by
Haggag he was told: ³Your Sheik is a CIA man and you are an FBI one.´ Siddig Ali told
Salem: ³
By Allah the Great all this happened. What is worse is that Haggag hurts
the Sheik. I do not, and I say it out loud and I don¶t care if someone
doesn¶t like it, let who ever doesn¶t like it drink the saltiest water I don¶t like
anyone to touch this man. Haggag is the intelligent guy who will get
people into trouble. Okay, we are all Brothers, we can have a fight and be
fine again, but what about his man, we value and count each day of his
life, he is second to none and you want to creep on his shoulder? Pardon
me, this is to say, like he creates issues«Sheik Rahman¶s problem is his
frankness - the Sheik is a truthful person. If he tries to prove one way or
the other that the Sheik is otherwise«
Salem interjected:
I think he wrote a book, Brother. You know what he named it? +

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.´ Yes, by Allah, he finished
one third of it. He says the Sheik is a hypocrite, he lies«I am talking now
behind his back but I am ready to face him when we sit together. Bombs
will explode. How can you say that about the Sheik then polish the apple
and tell him µWe want to do some heroic act but stay away from this bad
man, that is Siddig. We are heroes.¶ You draw near to him at the same
time you write a book about him«.

Before he was arrested Ibrahim Siddig Ali said,
Whoever works for the FBI should be killed. Whoever I find out that he
works with the FBI against us, by God, I will kill him, by God I will kill him
with my hands.´ He also proclaimed his willingness to die for Allah
[subhanahu wa ta¶ala] and when it was pointed out that the U.N. mission
might be a suicide attack he said, ³We say that we are ready to sacrifice
anything. We enter and don¶t get out.112
Siddig predicted the Mubarak mission might entail suicide since there would be a
high likelihood the conspirators would be killed since the area around the hotel would be
filled with law enforcement and other security personnel. After his arrest Siddig Ali
declared his innocence before United States District Court Judge Michael Mukasey, and
he said he intended to retain attorney William Kunstler. Then he made this statement
112
. Tape recorded conversation with Emad Salem May 7, 1993.
that was widely quoted: ³Of course, don¶t forget God said in the Qu¶ran, in times like
this, everything is lawful to the Muslim, their money, their women, their honors,
everything. I give you as example Mubarak, a tyrant. He is killing people, good Muslims.
We¶ll be called sinners in the eyes of God if we don¶t do something about it... must
be killed...and the Muslim when he dies it is the way to heaven. He becomes a
Shaheed. A Muslim will never go to hell by killing a .´
Siddig Ali did in fact retain the team of Kunstler and Kuby as did Ibrahim El-
Gabrowny and Sheik Rahman, however Judge Mukasey said it would be a conflict of
interest for the two to represent all three and designated El-Gabrowny and Siddig Ali as
their clients.
Beware of those who loudly boast of their courage: in February 1995 Siddig Ali
dropped Kunstler and Kuby as his attorney and pleaded guilty to all charges against him
for his role in a plot to bomb New York City landmarks and to assassinate Egyptian
President Hosni Mubarak in 1993. As a result of this Mukasey barred them from
representing El-Gabrowny citing a conflict of interest because they had represented
Siddig. Kunstler and Kuby the only Jews whose deviousness could have saved the
Sheik, were thrown off the case by an even more devious Jew.113
It would be Siddig¶s testimony that helped prosecutors convict the others for their
heroic roles in our noble undertaking, by corroborating that of Salem and Haggag. In
order to get a lesser sentence Siddig would have sworn to Federal prosecutors that we
were planning to destroy our own mosques! He was a habitual liar who said he flew out
to Chicago and that he and another person killed a man by the name of Francis Dane,
yet Francis Dane was alive and well. Salem was questioned about this:
Ë He said that during the assassination of Francis Dane he had used a

machine gun. Do you recall that?
Yes, he said that.
Ë As you sit here today, do you know whether or not Francis Dane is still
alive?
I don¶t know who is Francis Dane, ma¶am.
Ë Isn¶t it a fact that he said to you that he could get a -- that he used a
silencer on a machine gun?
I don¶t think that he said that.
Ë And you told him: I looked in the newspaper, I didn¶t see anything about
it. And he went on to tell you: Well, they hushed it up and they said that his
family killed him. Correct?
113
. Joseph P. Fried ³Kunstler, in a Lesser Role, Has His Day at Terror Trial´ ï
July 12, 1995.
What you saying, it¶s not what I had said. He didn¶t say his family killed
him. That¶s not happened, ma¶am, or did not happen.
Ë He went on to say that they had, that the papers had said that the
political opposition or his family had been accused of killing him, right? But
Siddig said it was actually him who had done it, right? Siddig said it was
he that had done the assassination. Did you believe him?
Absolutely.
Ë He said Boom, boom, boom, boom, and two in the driver and four in
him. Meaning he shot Francis Dane and his driver, correct? And you say:
Who was the shooter? And he says: A Brother. You say: Yes, God bless?
Yes, ma¶am.114
This note was found at our Dona Josefa safehouse in Manila ± ³To: Brother
Mohammad Alsiddiqi. We are facing a lot of problems because of you. Fear Allah, Mr.
Siddiqi, there is a day of judgment. You will be asked, if you are very busy with
something more important, don¶t give promises to other people. See you in the Day of
Judgment. Still waiting, Khalid Shaikh, and Bojenga.´
If you have listened carefully to my report on this attempted military activity

against Jews and Crusaders bridges and tunnels, Siddig Ali was the leader of the cell,
co-coordinated most of the participants and planned the attack, yet, in return for
becoming a snitch, he received the lightest sentence.
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The United States, dissatisfied with having imprisoned many of our soldiers and
our spiritual guide, issued a blacklist of over one hundred and seventy ³co-conspirators´
in the Trade Center bombing.115 The Rahman Unindicted Co-Conspirator List was

115. Feb. 2, 1995. Co-Conspirators¶ List in the case of & $ (S5) 93 Cr.181 (MBM). Mary Jo
White, US Attorney Signed by Andrew C. McCarthy, Assistant US Attorney 1 Ahmed Muhammad Aasran 2. Mohammed Yousef
Abbas 3. Jamal Abdelgani 4. Mohammed Hassan Abdou 5. Emad Abdou 6. Amad Elden Abdou 7. Abdalhele A. Abwalannen 8.
Dawud Adib 9. Hosni Ahmed 10. Mohssen Ahmed 11. Nasser Al Din Alamani 12. Majdi Alghamrawi 13. Hekmat Alhadashek 14.
Abd Al Hafez Mustafa Ali 15. Atif Ahmed Ali 16. Hamdi Ali 17. Samy Ali 18. Sharif Ali 19. Mike Alkam 20. Bilal Alkasi 21. Hassan
Karim Allah 22. Abu Abdullah 23. Othman Abdullah 24. Abu Abdulla Alnagar 25. Raef Alwishe 26. Saleem Amin 27. Hiam Arazy 28.
Mustafa Assad (Boriqua) 29. Moneeb Ashraf 30. Mohammed Atiyah 31. Sami Atiya 32. Amin Awad 33. Mona Awad 34. Abdellah
Azzam 35. Mohammed Azzam 36. Ahab Ashraf Abdul Azziz 37. Hasab el Rasoul Mohamed Babiker 38. Abdul Basir (Tito) 39.
Ahmed Bilal 40. Adnan Constantine 41. Fawaz Damra 42. Ahmed Al Dalta Daota 43. Halim Abul Efni 44. Moustafa Elaebrak 45.
Mahmud Elder 46. Nimmer Elder 47. Ahmed Mansour El-Eslah 48. Ali El-Gabrowny 49. Mohammed El-Gabrowny 50. Ahmed
Elganainy 51. Moustafa Mohamed Elnore 52. Ali Al Faqueer 53. Shawki Abd Al Fariz 54. Umar Faruqq 55. Abu Al Walid Gizeh 56.
Abdel Hafez 57. Sahied Hahmad 58. Mohamed Ahmed Al Haj 59. Isam Abdul Hakim 60. Saad Hanafi 61. Esteshamel Haque 62.
Quazi Haque 63. Hameed LNU (In April 2004 Moinuddeen Ahmed Hameed, 40, admitted conspiring to operate an unlicensed
money transmitting business in New Jersey. He was charged after FBI agents arrested suspected UK arms dealer Hemant Lakhani
in New Jersey for allegedly trying to sell the missiles that he tried to obtain from the Russians.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3645113.stm) 64. Hesham El Hamamey 65. Hammid Hammid 66. Jack Hamrick 67.
Mohammed Al Hanooti 68. Fathy M. Hassan 69. Sabri Hassan (John Kinard) 70. Ibrahim Higazi 71. Nasser Homosany 72. Khalid
LNU 73. Alaa Ibrahim 74. Khalid Ibrahim 75. Mamdouh Ibrahim 76. Muhammad Shawqi Islambouli 77. Abdel Rahman Jafar 78. Al
denounced as neo-McCarthyism, guilt by association, by the Muslim Public Affairs
Council: ³Christians are not treated in this manner because of a few who bomb abortion
clinics or assassinate physicians who perform abortion, and Jews are not associated
with the extremist behavior of the Jewish Defense League. The premature and unwise
step in releasing names as a tactic of combating terrorism exposes the lack of effective
measures in the policy on terrorism.´ Who ever heard of a criminal indictment with 170
co-conspirators? In reality, had the FBI and CIA indefinitely detained, arrested or even
thoroughly investigated the Brothers on the Rahman Unindicted Co-Conspirator List it
would have been very difficult, if not impossible for al-Qaeda to resume its operations.
But America¶s attention was focused on the War on Drugs, not the War on so-called
Terror. Usama bin Laden¶s name was on the Rahman Unindicted Co-Conspirator List
but was overlooked; his name surfaced only once during the trial of Sheik Rahman
when defense witness Khaled Ibrahim, an Egyptian born Islamic who worked at the Al-
Kifah Refugee Center was asked:
Ë Are you familiar with the person by the name of Osam Ben Laden, O-s-
a-m B-e-n L-a-d-e-n?
Yes.
Ë Have you ever met him?
No.
Ë Have you ever passed messages from Osam Ben Laden to anyone
else?
No.
Usama bin Laden was also found on the Rahman Unindicted Co-
Conspirator List under his nom de guerre ³Abu Abdullah´ which would still
be utilized: When Heni Lased (left) was arrested in Germany a major part
of the evidence came from wiretaps made by Italian police in Milan during
which Heni Lased and his associates discussed ³a suffocating liquid that
Sayyid Sami Jamal 79. Mahir Al Jamal 80. Kamal Al Jayh 81. Ali Abdul Kareem 82. Ahmed Kazalek 83. Abdel Khalek 84. Walid
Khalid 85. Yah Yah Ibn Khalid 86. Muhammed Khalifa 87. Ashraq Kahlil 88. Samir Khalil 89. Abd Al Khaliq 90. Atif Mahmood Khan
91. Ahmed Khatteria 92. Tareq Khatteria 93. Lawrence L. Khidr 94. Y'aqub Kursam 95. Osama Bin Ladin (sic) 96. Khalil Lahoud 97.
Yousef Maani 98. Mokhtar Mahmoud 99. Adel Mahroud 100. Hamam Sayeed Mahseen 101. Ahmed Abd Al Majeed 102. Abd Al
Manam 103. Abd Al Halimi Mansour 104. Said Mansour 105. Hassan El Mansouri 106. Safullah McNeil 107. Ahmed Megali 108.
Mohamed Mehdi 109. Ali A. Mohamed 110. Arioua Mostafa 111. Adel Said Mohammed 112. Ashraf Mohammed 113. Mouaki
Benani Mohammed 114. Mohmoud Mohmoud 115. Hassan Mousa 116. Mohammed Mousa 117. Sami Mousa118. Ahmed H.
Moustafa 119. Assan Muhammad 120. Hanif Muhammad (Abu Hanif) 121. Moustafa Muhammad 122. Ahmed Muneer 123. Daniel
Murteza 124. Raymond Murteza 125. Hamdi Musa 126. Omar Mohammed Musa 127. Majed Mustafa 128. Adel El Nasser 129.
Mustafa Dauod Mustafa Nassar 130. Walid Abu Al-Noor (Waleed A. Noor) 131. Kamal Muhamad Omar 132. Bilal Phillips 133.
Fatahi Qoura 134. Nabig Ragab 135. Mikial Abdur Rahim (Richard Smith) 136. Nabir Abu Abd Al Rakhi 137. Frank Ramos 138. Abu
Obaida Rouas 139. Yehyeh Sabor 140. Hussein Saffan 141. Mustafa Saif 142. Saifuldin 143. Tharwat Saleh 144. Tariq Mustafa
Salem 145. Muhammad Samir 146. Ahmed Samy (Samy Mohammed Ali) 147. Ahmed Abdel Sattar 148. Sabir Shakir 149. Mustafa
Shalabi 150. Mustafa Al Shareef 151. Hisham Al-Shihuri 152. Ali El Shinawi 153. Osama El Shinawi 154. Kelvin Smith 155. Abu
Suliman 156. Yahya Abu Ubaidah 157. Abdul Wahhab 158. Sirraj Wahhaj 159. Sudanese Mission to the United Nations 160. Abdul
Wali 161. Madha Warda 162. Seraj LNU 163. Shawkat M. Wehidy 164. Khalid Younis 165. Nasser Younis 166. Ahmed Yousef 167.
Mahmud Yousef 168. Yousef Bin Yousef 169. Zakariah 170. Badre Zhony 171. Ahmed Zidan
kills people efficiently.´ Heni Lased wanted to ³die a Shaheed´, while using poison gas
to suffocate worshippers in the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. The gas was to have
been released with the help of a rudimentary bomb made from a converted pressure
cooker. In another conversation, months before the September 11th Victory Heni Lased
hinted that the ³Sheik Abu Abdullah´ was planning a major attack: ³He is planning
something because he has wished for a goal and he wants to carry it out. It is not a
small thing.´116
On November 29, 2001 Italian investigators shut down the Milan-based Islamic
Cultural Center that follows the teachings of Omar Abdul Rahman and is al-Qaeda's
logistical center for European operations. The Center's key financial supporter, Ahmed
Idris Nasreddin, a wealthy businessman and Kuwait's former honorary consul in Milan,
was a Director of Al Taqwa Trust. The United States Treasury Department knew for
many years that Al Taqwa has long acted as a financial adviser to Usama bin Laden.
But only after the September 11th Victory of Allah, did Bush the Younger publicly say:
³Al Taqwa is an association of offshore banks and financial management firms that have
helped al-Qaeda shift money around the world.´ If Jamie Gorelick had not issued the
1996 memo quashing any pro-active investigation of Gama¶a al-Islamiyya¶s Brooklyn /
Jersey City cell the FBI¶s Usama bin Laden Squad might have been formed much
earlier in the game and our plans thwarted.

Waleed Abouel Nour was on the Rahman

Unindicted Co-Conspirator List. Waleed Nour and Egyptian
Mohamed el-Atriss were incorporators, registered agents
and directors of Sphinx Trading Company located at 2828
Kennedy Boulevard in Jersey City that was founded in
1987. Sphinx Trading provided check cashing, mailbox
services and international wiring services for the Gama¶a
al-Islamiyya¶s Brooklyn / Jersey City cell. Brother Nosair
had a mailbox there. Siddig Ali Siddig¶s translation service
was located at Box 161 2823117 Kennedy Boulevard. El-Atriss claimed he met Nour
while both were cab drivers in Newark, New Jersey and not through an Islamist
network. Sphinx Trading was next door to the Afghan Refugee Services Center, a front
group for Gama¶a al-Islamiyya¶s Brooklyn / Jersey City cell and the Al-Salaam Mosque,
where Sheik Rahman preached. These outposts of Islamism were both located at 2824
Kennedy Boulevard.
Mohamed el-Atriss also ran a fake-document mill called

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on Paterson, New Jersey's Market Street that sold
false identification papers to illegal immigrants and false
international drivers licenses. El-Atriss provided September 11th
116
. John Miller ³The Milan Connection´ ABC News, November 1, 2002. On September 4, 2001, pictures of the World Trade Center
were saved as temporary files on one of the computers at the Via Quaranta Mosque in Milan. Alexandra Salomon ABC News, Rome
May 8, 2003.
117
. A typographical error as there is no maildrop at that address.
Shaheeds Abdulaziz Alomari Khalid al-Midhar with some bogus identification. The FBI
believed he did so unwittingly. Maybe he did but the Brothers went to Paterson for a
specific reason, namely because they were aware of el-Atriss¶ connection to what was
left of the Gama¶a al-Islamiyya¶s Brooklyn / Jersey City.
When New Jersey authorities raided Mohamed al-Atriss¶ operation in July 2001
he fled to Egypt but returned to the United States August 20, 2001 and was released on
bail and went back in business. When the Paterson Police learned that documents from
All Services Plus, El-Atriss' company, were uncovered at an apartment where some of
the September 11th Shaheeds lived, the local police obtained search warrants for his al-
Atriss¶ home and business. He initially denied selling to the hijackers, but when further
confronted apparently agreed after a download of the names of the September 11th
Shaheeds was found in his office with the names he sold the ID to underlined. Detective
Ernst was a major witness against al-Atriss:
We initially started to investigate Sphinx Trading Company as a potential

money laundering operation. We identified ties to Middle Eastern
countries, specifically Egypt and Saudi Arabia. We were asked to not
pursue the investigation any further by a specific federal agency, who
indicated to us that they had interest in that as well. We began to
investigate -- we did a check through the Federal HIDTA System, which is
a drug enforcement agency, intelligence system. They work with an
intelligence gathering system called the EPIC System, which is the El
Paso Information Center that provides intelligence to federal authorities.
Through the EPIC System they classify, they being the FBI and U.S.
Customs in a joint task force, have classified Waleed Abouel Nour, as a
terrorist. When I specifically asked the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force to
confirm that, they indicated to me that they would have to get back to me
on that. And it's been several months and I haven't heard. But the initial
indication from the EPIC System was that the FBI classified his partner in
this incorporation as a terrorist. Mr. El-Atriss is listed on the bank records
as the principal of the company. Also of interest, the location Sphinx
Trading Company, 2828 Kennedy Boulevard is also red flagged by the FBI
as a known location that was involved in the first bombing of the World
Trade Center with the Blind Sheik Rahman. He had received mail at that
location. And it was also indicated to me by the FBI that several of the
hijackers involved in the September 11th Events also had mailboxes at that
location.
After this raid, the FBI questioned El-Atriss on September 19, 2001. On
November 19, 2002 a secret bail hearing was conducted to consider evidence against
el-Atriss in order to determine if his bail should be raised or revoked. The hearing
excluded the suspect and his lawyer because of National Security concerns. After this
hearing Superior Court Judge Marilyn Clark doubled his bail to $500,000 after finding
out that there was substantial evidence that el-Atriss was connected to the Sphinx
check cashing company with large amounts of cash flowing through it, and could
conceivably use this money to finance life as a fugitive. At least that was what she wrote
in her ruling. Her real reason for raising the bail was Nour. In February 2002 Mohamed
el-Atriss pleaded guilty to one count of selling simulated documents and was released
from jail on $50,000 bail pending sentencing. Originally el-Atriss had been charged with
racketeering and a number of counts of selling false documents. El-Atriss had spent six
months in prison then had received only three years probation.
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When he was first arrested he told an unnamed witness that he felt his family
was in grave danger in the United States. Was he a FBI informant prior to September
11th who intentionally withheld information from the Bureau because he was protecting
an operation yet another triple agent? During his bail hearing the question arose as to
when he first made contact with the FBI as it was unusual for local authorities to beat
the federal authorities to a case like this one.
THE COURT: It was my impression that the FBI had gone to him, not him
going to the FBI. As far as your information is concerned what is your
opinion, your best-informed opinion at this point as to who made the
contact first?
MR. BRIZEK: It's impossible for me to determine. There has been

speculation one-way or the other, but it's merely speculation. The only
testimony that there is on the subject comes from Detective Ernst; and the
discussion I had with the investigator that I referred to that took place
yesterday was a discussion with someone who was not privy to the kind of
details that Detective Ernst described during the course of his testimony.
THE COURT: Based upon that is it fair to say that your information seems
to indicate that the FBI was led to Mr. El-Atriss following the execution of
search warrants which uncovered documents?
MR. BRIZEK: That's what Detective Ernst says and that's what I expect
occurred. One of the items in Detective Ernst¶s testimony dealt with the
downloading of a list of names, which downloading apparently occurred,
according to Detective Ernst's testimony, before Mr. El-Atriss¶ initial
contact with federal authorities, and in that downloaded list of names he
underlined a few names, among whom were hijackers to whom he sold
identification. So whether that suggests that Mr. El-Atriss¶ then reached
out to federal authorities or they had reached out to him without regard to
what he had done with this downloaded information is simply unknown to
me«[I do know that] seized in a search warrant and subsequently
provided to the FBI after the service of the search warrant we uncovered a
list of names that were downloaded from a public web site on the Internet
in his desk in his office at 152 Market Street found there during the
execution of the search warrant. The list is a list of the hijackers as
identified.
THE COURT: And this document was downloaded on September 15,

2001. And are there particular hijackers' names that Mr. El-Atriss appears
to have zeroed in on and taken note of?
MR. BRIZEK: Well, yeah. This is a complete listing of the 19 hijackers.

And there are specific names that are underlined. One specifically is
circled and that's Khalid Al-Midhar.
THE COURT: Notwithstanding who made the first contact, it appears that
the evidence, if true, indicates he continued to actively sell phony
documents to people who had come into his business, is that correct, up
until his arrest?
MR. BRIZEK: Yes. We have the contact by the federal authorities

occurring shortly after September 11th, and without abating from that point
until the time the search warrant is executed in July 2002, his business of
selling the so-called international driver licenses and other forms of
identification continued. Detective Ernst indicated that Mr. El-Atriss did, in
fact, admit to having sold documents to at least two of the hijackers. I have
had a subsequent discussion with an investigator who described to me in
further detail, although he was somewhat sketchy about what had actually
occurred because he was not the prime mover in this operation. He
described to me that a week after the September 11th incident he, together
with a federal agent, visited Mr. El-Atriss' office. Apparently there had
been a prior arrangement for that visit to take place. Who initiated the
contact between the federal authorities and Mr. El-Atriss is not clear to
me. In any event, the investigator and the federal agent went to Mr. El-
Atriss' office, and he co-operated by providing the applications that were
submitted by the hijackers. I believe he also turned over a photograph that
was used in the preparation of one of the documents and it appeared,
from my understanding of the investigator's discussion with me, to have
co-operated with respect to his contact with those hijackers in connection
with the sale of these documents. The details beyond that are not known
to me. I am making efforts to follow-up on what I just learned yesterday
from this particular investigator to see if I can get reports or other
information that will fully flush out the nature and extent of Mr. El-Atriss'
co-operation in this connection. There is another matter that may have
involved Mr. El-Atriss' co-operation with federal authorities, and this is
extremely sketchy. Through the investigation of this matter it became
known to the Passaic County Prosecutor's Office that Mr. El-Atriss was
involved in an investigation relating to the possible sale of stinger missiles
by certain individuals in Jersey City, I believe, and was in a position to co-
operate in an effort to get to the bottom of that potentially dangerous
situation. I'm very vague in describing what the nature of that investigation
was and Mr. El-Atriss' possible participation and co-operation in it because
I have no further details. This is something that was learned in passing
over the last several weeks and it has not been really possible to get
further information with respect to this possible co-operation as well. It was
something someone alluded to which was not elaborated upon to any
great extent.
THE COURT: Okay. All right. So are you indicating that to date this was
not articulated simply because you do not know ±
MR. BRIZEK: I do not know. It's fair to say that federal authorities were in
contact with Mr. El-Atriss at least beginning shortly after the September
11th incident, and it appears that there was some contact between Mr. El-
Atriss and federal authorities between that time and the time of the
execution of the search warrant by the Sheriff's Department on July 31,
2002. Details regarding that contact, the nature and quality of any
relationship that may have developed between Mr. El-Atriss and federal
authorities is really not known to me. All right.
THE COURT: Mr. Brizek, based upon the totality of information that you
have given me, I believe that there has been some sense during these
hearings, although not articulated, that Mr. El-Atriss may, and I underline
may, have had some relationship at some point with the FBI. If, in fact, he
did, in the interest of completeness and making sure that I know all
relevant information, I would want to know that. I realize you may not be
sure. You may only be speculating yourself. But I would like to hear your
thoughts on that. I realize that there has been some tension between the
federal authorities and the State authorities and that you have said before
on the record that you are not being given a lot of information«
MR. BRIZEK: The FBI alleged to the U.S. Attorney that we had impeded
an investigation that we had interfered with an ongoing FBI investigation.
Even though up to that point we had no indication that they were going to
pursue any charges. On the contrary they indicated to us that they were
not going to pursue any charges. And they really had no further interest in
All Services Plus.
THE COURT: Did you ever receive any instructions from the FBI or U.S.
Attorney's Office not to proceed any further with any of the information that
you had developed and placed on the record today?
MR. BRIZEK: Subsequent to the execution of the search warrant, yes, we

did.
THE COURT: Could you just describe the manner of this communication?
MR. BRIZEK: We met at the U.S. Attorney's Office in Newark with
representatives from the Joint Terrorism Task Force, specifically Kevin
Klein from the Joint Terrorism Task Force, Chris Setabrino (phonetic) from
the Joint Terrorism Task Force, myself, Chief Coberetto (phonetic) from
my department, Lieutenant Robert Weston and Assistant U.S. Attorney --
Stu Radnor. At which time we were told not to proceed with any of the
investigations that had any ties at all to Mohamed El-Atriss until we got
clearance from the -- from the FBI.
THE COURT: And based upon this communication that was -- that you
received from the U.S. Attorney's Office, did you honor their request up to
this point?
MR. BRIZEK: Yes, we did. We were -- we were prepared to execute

additional search warrants. We had identified other locations where they
were performing basically or provided the same services to the
community, fictitious documentation, I.D. cards. We had reason to suspect
that some of the people involved in these -- involved at these locations
might have ties to some of the other things we uncovered in Mohamed el-
Atriss¶ office.118
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On July 7, 1999, Mustafa Elnore, another Brother whose name appeared on the
Rahman Unindicted Co-Conspirator List, was arrested on charges of lying before a
federal grand jury investigating the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 1990
assassination of Kahane, and related violent activities in the United States. A ten-count
indictment charged Mustafa Elnore with providing false testimony concerning his
attendance at firearms training and participation in bomb making activities while a
member of the Al-Salaam Mosque.119 The FBI believed Elnore was a link between
Sheikh Rahman and Usama bin Laden.120 It took almost five years, and two explosions
in East Africa, for the FBI to arrest Mustafa Elnore, who was also an unindicted co-
conspirator in the Embassy bombings.121
Others on the Rahman Unindicted Co-Conspirator List were arrested quicker.

Abu Obaida Rouas was taken into custody on February 22, 1995. Even though he was
dead, Sheik Abdallah Azzam was on the Rahman Unindicted Co-Conspirator List. We
believe that [Sami] Hosni Ahmed was arrested then killed in his homeland of Egypt
because he appeared on this Rahman Unindicted Co-Conspirator List.122
118
. Superior Court of New Jersey Passaic County Courthouse 03-01-95-A
119
. USDC SDNY 99CR0617
120
. Colum Lynch and Vernon Loeb ³Bin Laden's Network: Terror Conspiracy or Loose Alliance?´ Washington Post August 1, 1999;
Page A01.
http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/bincon.htm
http://www.terrorismcentral.com/Library/Incidents/USEmbassyKenyaBombing/Indictment/Count287-308.html
121
. USDC SDNY 98 CR 1023 LBS
122
. ³Egypt human rights report, Egypt Culture,´ ArabicNews.com March 16, 2001.
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Imam Dawud Adib, who worked for the New Jersey

Department of Correction as a chaplain at Northern State Prison was
on the Rahman Unindicted Co-Conspirator List 123 as was Imam
Sirraj Wahhaj (also spelled Siraj Wahhaj) of the Al-Taqwah Mosque.
In 1991 Wahhaj, a CAIR advisor recited an invocation (opening
prayer) in front of the United States House of Representatives. He
was the first Muslim to do so. Imam Siraj Wahhaj is one of the most
revered Muslim leaders in America. Imam Wahhaj had met often with
Mayor Dinkins of New York City. He has not been co-opted and not only calls for
replacing the evil U.S. government with a caliphate, but served as a character witness
for Sheik Abdel Rahman and Hampton-El at their landmark trial, and also testified for
the defense at the African Embassy bombing trial.124 Members of the Al-Taqwah
Mosque provided security for the Brothers during the trial of Nosair.
³The Al-Taqwah Mosque is an inner city, it¶s in Bedford-Sty,´ said Wahhaj
A few years ago it was surrounded by 15 crack houses, but we were

fortunate enough working with the authorities to get rid of those drug
houses, so now it¶s a residential business area. I graduated from the High
School of Music And Art, seems like a thousand years ago. I went to New
York University where I studied math education. In 1978 I went to a
training program at the University of Saudi Arabia in Mecca, studied
Islamic studies. I¶ve been the Imam of this particular Masjid since 1980. In
1987 Louis Farrakhan made some statements that were considered to be
very negative to the Jewish community. The Jewish community was very
angry and threatened to blow up any building that this particular minister
was speaking at. Nobody talked about freedom of speech at that particular
time. I don¶t see the press saying that Salman Rushdie offends Muslims,
or that he made some very profound (sic) statements against the religion
of Islam, against the prophets.125

Imam Sirraj Wahhaj is the Vice president of the Islamic Society of North America.
The Islamic Society of North America is linked to Leesburg¶s Graduate School of Islamic
and Social Sciences that trains Muslim clerics, including those who will serve in the U.S.
military.126 At least nine of the 14 chaplains in the U.S. military received their religious
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/010316/2001031631.html
123
. US District Court for State of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey Hall v Adib 93Civil01722
124. Daniel Pipes National Review February 21, 2000 ³In Muslim America: A Presence and a Challenge.´
http://www.danielpipes.org/article/329
125
. Newsday February 23, 1989.
126. Phillip Kurata ³Islamic Leaders Issue Fatwa on U.S. Muslim Soldiers Fighting Terrorists U.S. Muslim soldiers need to defend
their country and combat terrorism.´ US Department of State Press Release October 16, 2001.
http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/pol/terror/01101611.htm
training from this institution. The Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences was
founded by Taha Jabir Al-Awani and is its president. Taha Jabir Al-Awani is also
president of the Fiqh Council of North America. The Fiqh Council of North America
evolved from Religious Affairs Committee of Islamic Society of North America after the
founding of the Islamic Society of North America in 1980. We are one entity under the
aegis of Islam. Taha Jabir Al-Awani was an unindicted co-conspirator of Professor Sami
Amin Al-Arian.127 A letter dated November 6, 1992, from Taha Jabir Al-Awani that was
seized by the FBI, made reference to the following Brothers:
1. Sami Al-Arian, head of the Iranian-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad in

America.
2. Dr. Khalil Shiqaqi, a prominent Palestinian sociologist with a degree

from Columbia University and co-founder of Al-Arian¶s Î ?

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(WISE), a front for Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
3. Bashir Musa Mohammed Nafi, a leading member of

Palestinian Islamic Jihad responsible for much of its
ideology. Nafi was close with our Syrian Brothers and
served as a communication link to them, however, he was
deported from the United States to England in 1996. Nafi
became a professor of Islamic studies at Birkbeck,
University of London, and was finally accused by America in February
2003 of being a leader of Islamic Jihad. The U.S. has charged Nafi with
racketeering, however the status of the proceedings remains unclear.
4. Ramadan Abdullah Shallah a resident of Damascus, Syria, and

Secretary General of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad since October 1995
and a member of Palestinian Islamic Jihad's Shura Council.
5. Abd Al Aziz Awda, who is a founder and spiritual leader of Palestinian

Islamic Jihad.128
Taha Jabir Al-Awani wrote that these scholars were an extension of his group
and promised to send the remainder of the money he had previously pledged to
Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Taha Jabir Al-Awani instructed Dr. Sami Al-Arian that he
could use the money regardless of the party or the façade for which the money was
designated.
The Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences, a truly prestigious

institution, issued this fatwa in conjunction with the Fiqh Council of North America
regarding Muslim service in the American military: ³We abide by every law of this
country except those laws that are contradictory to Islamic law...´129 but deserves only
127
. Washington Post September 25, 2003.
128
. http://reports.tbo.com/reports/alarian/ Tampa Bay on Line.
129. Phillip Kurata US DOS International Information Program October 16, 2001 ³U.S. Islamic Leaders Issue Fatwa on U.S. Muslim
Soldiers Fighting Terrorists.´ http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/pol/terror/01101611.htm
partial credit for this fatwa: It was co-authored by Mohammad Al-Hanooti,130 another of
Sheik Rahman¶s unindicted co-conspirators, and a member of the Fiqh Council of North
America. In July 2002 the FBI leaked a document to the press that called Al-Hanooti a
big supporter of Hamas who raised more than $6 million for the group. The document
reported Al-Hanooti took part in a three-day meeting in 1993 designed to devise ways to
defeat the so-called Oslo Accords. The FBI bugged the meeting but, of course, the fools
were afraid to act. ³It was mentioned that the United States provided them with a
secure, legal base from which to operate,´ the FBI report stated. Al-Hanooti is now the
Imam of the Islamic Center of the Capital District near Albany.131
Federal Agents raided both the Fiqh Council of North America and the Graduate
School of Islamic and Social Sciences claiming they were searching for evidence of
money laundering and tax evasion as well as possible ties to a worldwide private
financial empire that Western governments have long suspected of funding our
activities.132 The thieves called this Operation Green Quest.

Bilal Philips converted thousands of American soldiers to Islam since the 1991
Gulf war. Philips was himself a convert to Islam who was once a member of the
Jamaican Communist Party and whose name appeared on the Rahman Unindicted Co-
Conspirator List.133 As evidenced from this tape made by the FBI, Phillips was a conduit
for funds that were given to the Brothers by the Saudis. Emad Salem asked Siddig Ali
Siddig about Mustafa Shalabi¶s funding:
Siddig: No, no the money was at hand, it came from there.
Salem: From Saudi Arabia.
Siddig: It was too much money. Although, the money was available, he
took from the poor Brothers.
Salem: Is that means, that Saudi Arabia gave the money to this man
directly or give it to you?
Sergeant Hasan Akbar, an Afro-American convert to Islam and a soldier in an engineering unit that participated in the second
invasion of Iraq, was accused of tossing a grenade in a tent filled with his superiors. Brother Akbar followed this fatwa, and refused
to murder another Muslim. Akbar was named Mark Fidel Kools at his birth but his mother, Qu¶ran Bilal, changed his name to Hasan
Akbar after she converted to Islam. In 1988 he enrolled at the University of California at Davis and graduated nine years later with
degrees in aeronautical engineering and mechanical engineering. Akbar's attended Masjid Bilal Islamic Center that was partially
funded by Saudi Arabia's Islamic Development Bank. The Brother was not allowed to fight in the first Gulf War because he was a
Muslim, but this rule was changed. Two infidels, Americans with murder in their hearts, died thanks to this Brother¶s sacrifice. Bless
him. Deanne Stillman ³What's the U.S. military doing about radical Muslim soldiers? Not enough.´ Slate March 27, 2003,
http://slate.msn.com/id/2080770/
130. Mohammad al Hanooti Director Islamic Center of New Jersey 2780 Kennedy Boulevard New Jersey 07304
131. ³Religious Leader Tied To Terror,´ Albany Times Union June 30, 2002 page A1.
132. Brooke A. Masters Washington Post, May 3, 2002; Page A09 ³Virginia Muslim Groups Want Property Back Evidence Also
Sought by Organizations, Individuals Raided in Terror Probe.´
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A24729-2002May2
133. Harvey Shepherd ³Muslim scholar calls for unity´ The Gazette, Montreal, Saturday, January 17, 1998. Dr. Abu Ameenah Bilal
Philips http://www.islaam.com/bp/interview.htm
Siddig: Originally, there is certain service, Saudi Arabic, is not the
government. Brothers.
Salem: Such as the system of....
Siddig: No, I don't know who are they. Brothers, like that. They have
money in Saudi Arabia.
Salem: Okay, with the blessing.
Siddig: Thank Allah. That means, the government has no idea. The
government will be scared from such thing. So he collects the money and
make the Council, the American Brothers there in Saudi Arabia. One of
them, whatever his name is, (IA) a very good Brother, Allah bless him. He
is a scholar from Saudi Arabia. He speaks Arabic very well. (IA) his name
is Bilal Philips.
Salem: He was American?
Siddig: Yes. Also some of the Brothers whom they are well known. So
these people meet in Saudi Arabia and they are studying there. They are
staying there, they met and collect this money, and they established their
council. They chose Abdel Rashid to be in charge of the camp, to help the
Brothers in Bosnia.134
The FBI stated the Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences was the
major funder of Sami Al-Arian¶s University of the South Florida-affiliated think tank,
WISE, which was shut down after the FBI confiscated its files in 1995. WISE was a front
for Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
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Amin Awad who counseled inmates in the city¶s Rikers Island jail was on the
Rahman Unindicted Co-Conspirator List. Awad was forbidden to have contact with
inmates and was reassigned to administrative duties.135 Amin Awad was also the
President of the Board of Trustees at Al-Farooq Mosque in Brooklyn. In 1988 Sheikh
Abdullah Azzam addressed a conference at the al-Farooq mosque, exhorting the faithful
to carry out holy war wherever they are. Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman served as Imam at
the al-Farooq Mosque for two months in 1990. After this the Al-Farooq Mosque was
linked to Gama¶a al-Islamiyya¶s Brooklyn / Jersey City cell but it did not matter as the
Clinton Justice Department quashed any pro-active investigation of Islamists as it might
have interfered with the Oslo Peace Accords.
134
. USA v Rahman Misc. Files Cassette #41
135
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March 21 2003 Muslim Chaplain barred from counseling NYC inmates

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http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/news/news.php?article=4476
Brothers continued to raise money at the al-Farooq136 ±
millions of dollars ± and some of the money reached the
charities of Sheikh Muhammad Ali Hassan al-Moayad who had held
a position in Yemen¶s Ministry of Religious Affairs and was the Iman
at the Al-Ihsan Mosque in Sanaa, Yemen. The Sheikh¶s
charitable foundations did not just exist on paper - they fed six
thousand needy Yemenite families each day as Sheikh al-
Moayad had established a non-profit bakery to give bread to the poor instead of giving
them money, which could be used for qat.137 He gave money to widows. During Eids, he
gave the orphans clothes. In the winter he gave blankets to the poor. Once a family
came back from Saudi Arabia and he paid the rent on their apartment two years in
advance. Furthermore, he paid all of their living expenses. There was only one
qualification to receive the Sheik¶s largesse: you had to be a card-carrying member of
the Islamist Reform Party138 or Yemeni Islah Party (YIP).
The Muslim Brotherhood established the Yemeni Islah Party in September 1990
³to be the lively continuation of the modern Yemen reform movement and a framework
for all who seek to reform and change the current situation to a better one guided by
Islamic faith and Shari'ah.´139 It is an opposition party to the regime of President Ali
Abdullah Salah and is similar in its thinking to Hamas. In August 2006 Yemen¶s Speaker
of Parliament, Sheikh Abdullah bin Hussein al-Ahmar, a leader of the Yemeni Islah
Party, condemned the capture of his Palestinian Hamas counterpart Aziz Dwaik by
Israeli forces.140 Sheikh Abdullah bin Hussein al-Ahmar worked with an exile from South
Yemen named Sheikh Tariq al-Fadhli. A member of a former ruling family of South
Yemen, Fadhli had taken up Islamist causes as a youth in Saudi Arabia and, funded by
Osama bin Laden, he eventually ³divided his time between Iran, the northern borders of
Pakistan, and Afghanistan.´ Brother Fadhli fought as a member of bin Laden¶s Afghan-
Arabs against Soviet forces in Afghanistan. At the end of that war, he returned to Saudi
Arabia, and with the continuing patronage of bin Laden, quietly filtered back into Yemen
as head of its Islamic Jihad Organization with aims of exacting revenge on his Marxist
adversaries then sharing power with President Ali Abdullah Saleh in the newly unified
Yemen.141
By December 1999 Islamists felt confident enough to have a close associate of

Sheikh Abdullah bin Hussein and Sheikh Moayad, former Islah Party Member of
Parliament Abdullah Satar, fly to New York City and speak openly at the al-Farooq
Mosque and other hotbeds of Islamism about his desire to raise money for ³needy
families.´ Due to the USS Cole Operation in Yemen in October 1999 throughout this trip
the FBI followed Abdullah Satar who was driven to his destinations by Numan Maflahi, a
136
. The al-Farooq Mosque will always be a stronghold of Wahbism. In a book published by the Saudi Ministry of Islamic Affairs, and
distributed at the Al-Farouq Mosque the late Abdul-Aziz Bin Baz, authorized Muslims to kill converts to Islam who violated sexual
mores on adultery and homosexuality: "If a person said: I believe in Allah alone and confirm the truth of everything from Muhammed,
except in his forbidding fornication, he becomes a disbeliever. For that, it would be lawful for Muslims to spill his blood and to take
his money." http://www.nysun.com/article/8445
137
. A leaf that is chewed because of its stimulating properties
138
. http://www.yobserver.com/cgi-bin/yobserver/exec/view.cgi/22/10592
139
, http://www.al-bab.com/yemen/pol/islah.htm
140
. http://www.yobserver.com/cgi-bin/yobserver/exec/view.cgi/22/10697
141
. http://www.jamestown.org/publications_details.php?volume_id=400&issue_id=2933&article_id=23672
New Jersey gas station owner. Maflahi would be sentenced to five years in prison for
lying to the FBI about this episode. Soon after Abdullah Satar left the United States he
visited with Abdelkader Mahmoud Es Sayed in Milan, Italy.
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Abdelkader Mahmoud Es Sayed was a Gama¶a al-Islamiyya Brother convicted in

Egypt in connection with the 1997 executions of 58 foreign tourists at Luxor, Egypt who
was granted political asylum in Italy and headed al-Qaeda's documentation committee
in Milan. In a recording made in November 2000 by the Special Operations Directorate
of the Milan police, Abdelkader Mahmoud Es Sayed recounted how he had fabricated
his request for asylum by falsely claiming that he would be subject to political
persecution if returned to Egypt: "I told them I was wanted, I told them I had been
wrongly persecuted, that my wife had died in a road accident orchestrated by the
Egyptian intelligence. It all sounded good, the whole thing corresponded to their idea of
persecution, and consequently, I was granted asylum." In December 1999, his request
for asylum in Italy having been granted, Abdelkader Mahmoud Es Sayed moved to
Milan from Rome. The same month, the Special Operations Directorate of the Milan
police began following Es Sayed and planting microphones in his apartment, car and in
a local mosque where he served as an Imam, the Islamic Cultural Institute, which the
Milan cell used as its headquarters and which the U.S. Treasury Department has since
labeled Al Qaeda's main "station house" in Europe.
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On August 12, 2000 Abdulsalam Ali Ali Abdulrahman a 42-year-old Yemeni

national who entered Italy with a Yemeni diplomatic passport paid a brief visit to
Abdelkader Mahmoud Es Sayed in Milan. Abdelkader Mahmoud Es Sayed picked up
Abdulsalam Ali Ali Abdulrahman in a bugged Citroen, at the Bologna airport. According
to transcripts of the conversations Abdulsalam Ali Ali Abdulrahman told Es Sayed about
a massive strike against the enemies of Islam involving aircraft and the sky, "This will be
one of those strikes that will never be forgotten...it will be written about in all the
newspapers of the world. This is a terrifying thing. This is a thing that will spread from
south to north, from east to west. The person who came up with this program is a
madman from a madhouse, a madman but a genius. He is fixated on this program; it will
leave everyone turned to ice. It will wreak such a great havoc and leave them all
dumbfounded.´ The Italian authorities say they lost track of Abdulrahman in early 2001
and have not been able to pick up his trail. Nor have they confirmed that Abdulrahman
is an officer of the Yemeni intelligence service, only that he was close to the Yemeni
government. 142
142
. Abdelkader Mahmoud Es Sayed was overheard expressing his intentions to permanently leave Italy but explaining to associates
"that he had been convinced to remain in Milan by an unspecified !"#$%&' man.´
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/showcase/chi-0206300380jun30.story?coll=chi%2Dnews%2Dhed
Al Qaeda `sleepers' may be in U.S. Italy's eavesdropping on terrorists hints at infiltration beyond Sept. 11 group
By John Crewdson and Tom Hundley Tribune correspondents June 30, 2002
In May 2001 the police in Milan received information about Abdelkader Mahmoud
Es Sayed's involvement "in an unspecified criminal project that had U.S. citizens or
diplomats as its objectives." Abdelkader Mahmoud Es Sayed role in the project included
a plot to bomb targets in France, involved supplying false identity documents obtained
from "an unspecified Tunisian." In July 2001 the police were able to obtain a warrant to
search Abdelkader Mahmoud Es Sayed's house. No false documents were found. But
police did discover a fax, sent by someone in Sudan, providing a precise itinerary for the
grueling 20-hour journey by taxi and other "means of transportation" from Mashad, Iran,
to Kandahar, Afghanistan. The police didn't arrest Abdelkader Mahmoud Es Sayed, who
in their view still hadn't committed a crime. Abdelkader Mahmoud Es Sayed fled Italy to
Afghanistan in late July 2001, after Italian police rounded up Brothers in a Tunisian-
dominated network accused of plotting against US targets. Before his
arrest in Milan, Italy, cell member Essid Sami Ben Khemais, (left) a 33-
year-old Tunisian, obtained ³an extremely efficient liquid that suffocates
people...It is difficult to transport but we want to transport it in tomato
cans which can withstand pressure. As soon as you open this liquid, it
suffocates people.´143
In December 2001 % , an Arabic language newspaper published in

London, reported that Abdelkader Mahmoud Es Sayed had been killed "during the
recent bombing of Najran in Afghanistan" by American forces however, his body has
never been recovered. Abdelkader Mahmoud Es Sayed was named in an April 19, 2002
order by the Treasury Department blocking the assets of suspected terrorists and he
was wanted in Italy on charges of conspiring to traffic in arms, explosives, chemical
weapons and identity papers and aiding illegal immigration.144 Abdelkader Mahmoud Es
Sayed was convicted $
in Milan in January 2004 of criminal association with
Al-Qaeda. His location is unknown although there are reports that he was apprehended
and is now among the disappeared.145
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Sheikh al-Moayad had the misfortune to have one Mohamad Al-Aansi (or Aansi)
pray with him at the Al-Ihsan Mosque. Al-After Al-Aansi became the America
Government¶s chief witness against the Sheikh he was asked about his relationship with
Sheikh al-Moayad at the Sheikh¶s sham trial:
Ë Now, when did Mr. Al-Moayad tell you he was involved in supplying
money, arms and recruits for Mujahideen fighters for al-Qaeda in
Afghanistan and separatist groups in Chechnya and Kashmir?
In 1996 or 1997.
143. Finn and Delaney, op.cit. Tribunale Civile e Penale di Milano, Ufficio del Giudice per le Indagini Preliminari,
N13016/99 RGNR; N.6652/99 RGGIP, p. 44, 45.
144
. http://www.news24.com/News24/Archive/0,,2-1659_1191770,00.html
145
. http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=F1071EFF3B5F0C738DDDAE0894DC404482
http://www.nationalreview.com/ledeen/ledeen021103.asp
Ë Where did he tell you that?
In the mosque.
ËWas anyone else there?
Me and him alone.
Ë He confided in you because you were a friend of his, is that right? Did
you at that time tell Mr. Al-Moayad that you were involved in terrorist
activities?
Sheikh Moayad asked me if I knew volunteers that can go to

Chechnya. I told them I don't know any.
Ë Then he told you right out that he raised money, arms and fighters for
Chechnya, Kashmir and Afghanistan?
He told me he helps Al Qaeda with money and arms and he send

Mujahideen to Chechnya and Afghanistan.
Ë Who was fighting in Afghanistan then, 1996?
I don't know. He told me that. Ask him.
The Sheikh and Aansi worked together in transmitting funds used for Jihad
because between 1993 and 2001 as it was alleged that Mohamad al-Aansi ran a multi-
million dollar hawala operation in Brooklyn. In this capacity he sent money through
various means, including couriers and overnight mail, to a business partner in Yemen.
Both Mohammed Aansi and his partner were paid a percentage of the transmitted
amount for this service. Mohammed Aansi maintained ledgers and records of these
transactions that were seized by the FBI.146 In June 2001 Mohamad al-Aansi
immigrated to the United States. Al-Aansi began defrauding Islamic organizations and
charities in the U.S., stealing their property, running up phone bills, using public and
private services of individuals and masajid for his and his family's luxury. A few months
after his arrival he pleaded guilty to bank fraud but was not deported.147 Mohamad Al-
Ansi found an escape hatch, contacting FBI Agent Robert Fuller, one who had just
joined the Terrorism Task Force and was eager to find targets as he had missed some
prior to 9-11 thanks to his lax predecessors. In August 2001two Brooklyn supporters of
Sheik Moayad moved about $500,000 into or out of their bank accounts in small sums,
a technique used to skirt the federal requirement that transactions of more than $10,000
be reported. FBI Agent Robert Fuller described his relationship with Aansi:
146
. USDC EDNY Cr-03-133 ³Declaration in Support of Application for a Post-Indictment Restraining Order´ filed February 7, 2003.
147
. Transcript 1629
Since approximately November 2001, I and other agents have been
working with Mohammed Aansi, a Yemeni citizen who has resided in the
United States since approximately June 2001. I and other agents have
worked with Mohammed Aansi in connection with three federal
investigations. During this time, Mohammed Aansi has provided
information that has proven to be reliable and contributed, in part, to the
arrests of 20 individuals and the seizure of over $1 million.´
In December 2001, Mohammed Aansi told the FBI that Sheikh Al-Moayad the
Iman at the Al-Ihsan Mosque in Sanaa, Yemen, and a leader of the Islah Party was
laundering and transmitting money to Usama bin Laden. In March 2002 Al-Aansi
identified several individuals and businesses that operated as unlicensed Hawala148
money remitters that sent funds to Yemen in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1960, operating as
an unregistered money-remitting business.
On September 19, 2002 Sheikh al-Moayad hosted a mass wedding for young
Yemeni men who were about to join the Jihad. At the wedding festivities, Mohammed
Siam, one of the founders of Hamas, gave a speech. After thanking al-Moayad for
inviting him to the wedding, Siam praised a Hamas operation that had just occurred in
Tel Aviv, Israel. Siam suggested that the organizers of the wedding, i.e., al-Moayad,
must have known of the %
mission because they planned the mass wedding to
coincide with that ³wedding there,´ referring to the Hamas operation. Siam told the
wedding guests that they would read about the operation in the newspapers the next
day. Siam triumphantly reported that many of the occupying invaders were hurt during
the operation. On September 19, 2002, at approximately 1:00 p.m. a shaheed
detonated a bomb on a bus in Tel Aviv, killing five people and injuring over 50 people.
Hamas claimed responsibility for the bombing.
Siam is a well-known %
leader with a noble history of raising money to
support Hamas¶ activities. In December 1994, Siam was a keynote speaker for a Muslim
Arab Youth Association Conference held at a Hyatt Regency hotel in Los Angeles,
California. Siam was introduced as ³head of operations of Al Jihad Al Islamia in Gaza,
the Hamas military wing.´ During his keynote address, Siam told the audience, ³I¶ve
been told to restrict or restrain what I say. I hope no one is recording me or taking any
pictures, as none are allowed because I¶m going to speak the truth to you. It¶s simple.
Finish off the Israelis. Kill them all! Exterminate them! No peace ever! Do not bother to
talk politics.´ Following his speech, a Hamas leader exhorted the audience to contribute
money. $207,000 was raised for the cause. An FBI informer was in the audience yet the
American Justice Department looked the other way and let Hamas continue its fund
raising activities because Israel and America would be at peace with Hamas soon and
all of this would be moot.149
148
. Hawala, which derives from an Arabic word meaning ³trust´ is an alternative or parallel remittance system. It exists and operates
outside of, or parallel to traditional banking or financial channels. Hawala systems pre-date western banking systems and are based
on trust and the extensive use of connections such as family relationships and regional affiliations. Transfers of money take place
based on communication between members of a network of hawala dealers and makes minimal use of any sort of negotiable
instrument. This system is cost effective, efficient in moving funds to remote areas, reliable and, if unregistered, free from
government scrutiny. Developed in India, Hawala is currently a major remittance system used around the world.
149
. USDC SDNY 03-MJ-0016
In December 2002, Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement-led
investigation in Detroit150 resulted in 10 search warrants, five seizure warrants, and six
arrest warrants were executed for the illegal transmission of funds to Yemen. In
addition, five bank accounts were seized, totaling $234,000, along with a quantity of
narcotics. In January 2003 the charges against many of these men were dropped.151
Mohammed Aansi was a busy desert rat.
In late December 2002 Mohammed Aansi traveled to Yemen where he had

conversations with the Sheikh about making a contribution to aid Jihad. He told the
Sheikh he knew of an ex-Black Panther who had access to millions of dollars and
wanted to make a large contribution to the Jihad. Most ex-Black Panthers ended up
dead or in prison, not millionaires or friends of millionaires but the Sheikh did not know
this as in many ways he was a provincial man. Aansi¶s ³Black Panther´ (actually an FBI
agent) was named ³Said Sharif bin Turi´ and was said to be an American-born convert
to Islam who did not speak Arabic.152 Aansi told the Sheikh that he would travel to
Germany where would purchase counter-surveillance equipment for the Reform Party,
including a ³Quartz Controlled Ball Point Pen´ and that he should join him there if he
wished to meet this potential donor. On &'(&#) * +,,-, Sheikh Al-Moayad and his
aide-de-camp Mohammed Mohsen Yahya Zayed flew from Yemen to Frankfurt,
Germany, to meet with the two bogus Islamists. The bogus ex-Black Panther claimed to
have worked for Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman and was roughly modeled after Hampton-
El and a man Hampton-El said was his cousin, deceased Chicago Black Panther leader
Fred Hampton.
Mohammed Aansi: I talked a great deal about you [to Said Sharif bin Turi]
and about Sheikh Mohammed Zayed for the many things that you have
accomplished...such as your support of Afghanistan with lots of money, as
well as your support«
Sheikh Moayad: Me and him were«
Mohammed Aansi: to bin Laden.
Sheikh Moayad: Bin Laden. [Chuckles]. Tell him, that I sat with him ±
Mohammed Aansi: With whom.
Sheikh Moayad: Bin Laden.
Mohammed Aansi: Oh! With money?
150
. http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/bank/hba88332.000/hba88332_0.HTM
151
. Peter Thierjung ³Charges Dropped Against Yemenis in Detroit´ - February 3, 2003.
152
. The Yemeni press reported that the purported evidence offered by the U.S.A. against al-Moayad said that al-Moayad
acknowledged to a? that he has offered constant aid on different occasions to al-Qaeda and Hamas.
Sheikh Moayad: Yes, financially yes, and I sat with him like now, we talked
and chatted like normal people. I am more knowledgeable than him in the
Islamic Law.
Mohammed Aansi: Excuse me?
Sheikh Moayad: I am more aware than Usama with the Ulum Al Sharia,
and I used to teach him some of the Islamic Laws. He called me "His
Sheikh." He used to say that I'm his sheikh.
Said Sharif bin Turi: Allah Akba, Allah Akbar!
Sheikh Moayad: I just wanted him to know that I sat with him. But, I sat
with him before all these crises happened, a long time ago.
Mohammed Aansi: Yes«
Zayed: In the eighties, it was in the 1980¶s.
Mohammed Aansi: It was before the crises: prior to the latest incidents.
Sheikh Moayad: Back in the days of Afghanistan with the Russians.
Mohammed Aansi: He [the bogus ex-Black Panther] is saying that he was

extremely proud to have people from the Mujahideen in Afghanistan, they
were supporting and they still are supporting $
& *
attorneys.
Sheikh Moayad: & $ "
Mohammed Aansi: Yes, Dr. Omar Abd Al Rahman, he was, of course,

among many who supported those brothers in order to fulfill their duties.
Therefore he is proud of that, he also said-
Zayed: Take our picture with him.
Mohammed Aansi: Huh?
Zayed: Take our picture with him.
Mohammed Aansi: Sure, God willing. And he also said that he is always in
touch with his [Sheikh Rahman¶s] lawyers-
Sheikh Moayad: Uhum.
Mohammed Aansi: -in order to make his sentence much lighter.

Sheikh Moayad: God willing. Omar Abd Al Rahman.
Mohammed Aansi: Sheikh Omar Abd Al Rahman, yeah. Have you met
him sheikh?
Sheikh Moayad: - one time in Mecca, a long time ago.
Mohammed Aansi: He [Said Sharif bin Turi] says that he is very

comfortable that the goal and the intent are the same. He will tell you the
names of the people he did Jihad with, and whom he supported.
Sheikh Moayad: God willing, we ask for God's approval. And I tell him for
the second time now, he should not mention his good deeds so God could
reward him for it.
Mohammed Aansi: He says: "I'm very careful, very careful to the extent
that even my closest friends don't know what I do, on my private matters
at all, at all." I said to him that even your very very close friends, even
families they don't know. They don't know. He says even his wife doesn't
know what he does or his secrets. He says that no one knows about this,
except for the people on the straight path, and whom he knows and he
sends them to run errands. And even they don't know his secrets. He
sends them on certain missions and they don't even know each
other...Surat Al Mustaqim [Those who are on the straight path]. They don't
know anything at all. Each one is on his own mission.153
Despite the fact that Aansi could not get Sheikh Rahman¶s name right, during
one of these meetings with Mohammed Aansi, al-Moayad identified five individuals in
New York who were sending money from the United States to al-Moayad and he
provided Mohammed Aansi with contact telephone numbers for these individuals. He
also told Mohammed Aansi that he received money for the Jihad that was collected at
the Al-Farooq Mosque in Brooklyn. Mohammed Aansi called al-Moayad and his
assistant in Yemen while Mohammed Aansi was in the United States, and this is being
used as a basis for American jurisdiction.
The German authorities arrested the Sheikh and his aide. All of this alleged
activity took place in Yemen and Germany and the Speaker of the Yemeni Parliament,
Sheikh Abdullah bin Hussein accused the United States of America of violating other
states¶ sovereignty and imposing its will in open disregard for international laws and
resolutions: ³The Sheik must be charged according to Yemeni law rather than other
legislation. All his speech and actions were done while in Yemen, and Yemen is an
independent country with its own sovereignty; it is not an American state. The President
of the Republic has given instructions to pay a sum of US $50,000 to cover the costs of
defending Sheik al-Moayad in Germany.´ Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh
153
. USA v Moayad Transcript February 2, 2005 page 361
protested the Sheik¶s extradition to Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder during a visit to
Germany in June 2003 to no avail. The Brothers were extradited to the United States in
November 2003.
Brother Zayed and Sheikh al-Moayad were denied access to their Yemeni-
sponsored lawyer, Khaled al-Anesi. Khaled Al-Anesi is executive manager of HOOD the
Yemeni National Organization for Defending Rights and Freedoms, and group
dedicated to freeing the Yemeni mujahedeen held at Gitmo. Instead he had the senile
communist Jew from William Kunstler¶s Center For Constitutional Rights, William H.
Goodman, as his attorney. On November 15, 2004 the mental case Mohammed Aansi
set himself on fire in front of the White House.
During his trial, U.S. District Court Judge Sterling Johnson refused to admit an
application for a mujahedeen fighter for entry into an al-Qaeda training camp that listed
Sheikh al-Moayad as that fighter¶s sponsor in order to make it seem as if the Brothers
were getting a fair trial. FBI Agent Brian Murphy testified that the Sheikh had told him
that Usama bin Laden had issued a fatwa calling for his death because of a dispute
between them regarding how much room there was in Islam for democratic principles.
Sheikh al-Moayad also told Murphy that based on the same fatwa bin Laden killed an
associate of his, whose name was transcribed as ³Maqubil Alwada.´ On February 28,
1998 two people were killed and three injured when a grenade exploded outside the al-
Rahman Mosque in the Mansurah district of Aden while Sheikh Muqbil bin Hadi al-
Wada'i, a prominent Salafist, was giving a sermon. A security source suggested it was
an accident, claiming that a man had been "fooling around" with a hand grenade that
exploded, killing him and one of the Sheikh's bodyguards. This explanation was not
widely believed. Previously a man had blown himself up along with another bodyguard
while attempting to plant a bomb in the sheikh's car.154 On April 24, 1998 two men were
killed and 27 injured in an explosion as they left al-Khayr mosque in Sana'a after Friday
prayers. The mosque, in the Bir 'Abid district, is known for its links with Salafism. Sheikh
Muqbil al-Wada'i and his religious opponent, Ibrahim Ahmad Abdel Majeed al-Reemy
[Abd al-Majid al-Rimi], have been waging an , circulating accusations against
each other on cassette.155 Those injured included a number of foreigners: Libyans,
Somalis and two American passport holders of Arab origin.156 In May the editors of the
weekly opposition newspaper ( , were sentenced to 80 lashes each after they
were convicted of writing and publishing a series of articles critical of Sheikh Abdul
Mejid Al-Zindani, a leading politician in the Al-Islah Party.157 The Ministry of Justice
suspended this judgment while reviewing its conformity with law and judicial procedure.
Unlike Sheikh Moayad, Sheikh Muqbil al-Wada'I had been critical of the ruling coalition
and was targeted by Usama bin Laden. Sheikh Muqbil al-Wada'I adversary, Ibrahim
Ahmad Abdel Majeed al-Reemy, was a Yemeni closely linked to Osama bin Laden and
was the organizer of the attempted bombing of the Interior Ministry building and the
Special Emergency Forces headquarters training unit at Riyadh on December 29, 2005.
The bombings and related clashes with Islamist militants accounted for a total of 90
154
. Al-Quds al-Arabi, 2.3.98; AP 28.2.98
155
. Cassettes are often used for religious and political propaganda in Yemen because of the high illiteracy rates
156
. http://www.al-bab.com/yemen/data/incident98.htm
157
. http://www.hrw.org/wr2k/Mena-11.htm
injuries and the death of one bystander. The cost to the mujahideen was five killed
during the bombings (three of whom from suicide detonations) and a further 10 hunted
down in gunfights. Ibrahim Ahmad Abdel Majeed al-Reemy was one of seven militants
killed in a shootout with Saudi security forces in Riyadh. Reemy, who did not make the
Saudi kingdom's most-wanted list, is the link between the organization in Saudi Arabia
and bin Laden himself.158
Sheik al-Moayad protested that the Government had offered him millions of
dollars if he collaborated with them. Stanley Cohen, who recently visited Yemen, met
Sheikh al-Moayad's family in Sana'a and got a power of attorney to defend Brother
Zayed and Sheikh al-Moayad. The US Court of Appeals will hear the case of al-Moayad
shortly.159

The following exchange took place within Judge Sterling Johnson¶s chambers:
Juror: This is too big a risk for my family. This is crazy. This is crazy. You
drop -- every morning you pick me up at the same spot, drop me off at the
same spot. If anybody wanted to follow me, they could follow me to where
they drop me in the van. And you can give numbers, descriptions, colors,
they will find out where I live in 10 minutes.
THE COURT: Step outside a second. (Juror leaves chambers.)
Ms. Moore: Your Honor, I think under the circumstances, it would appear
appropriate to release the juror. My concern is that I'm afraid that jurors as
they start vanishing through the days will think oh, I can come in and get
off too.
THE COURT: I'm afraid of that also but I have to deal with this situation
right here.
Ms. Moore: With respect to him, I can't see any way to get around it.
Mr. Goodman: My client can't get a fair trial from this juror, absolutely.
THE COURT: We'll release him but in a situation where he won't

contaminate the juror.
Mr. Marks: Exactly.
Ms. Moore: Perhaps we can do it in the guise of he of upset.
158
. http://www.jamestown.org/news_details.php?news_id=84
159
. http://www.mhryemen.org/archive/archive_detail_en.php?n_no=2002
A Juror: Yes, sir.
The Court: There is nothing to be upset by. One of the things that we do,
the only concern that any of us have is the media. That is why they have
all the jurors together and they pick you up and drop you off.
A Juror: Sir, she is talking about Al-Qaeda, the terrorists and the people
that are killing people left and right. I have a family at home. Four years in
the marines. What they did to me before I had kids, I didn't give a damn. I
have to worry about my kids. These guys can go after my family. Come
hell or high water, I'm not going to risk my children.
THE COURT: I was in the Marine Corps too and if anybody was going to
do anything, it would be the prosecutor or the defense counsel. They are
not concerned with you.
A JUROR: I can't risk that. I can't. I'm sorry. That is crazy, we're all going
to happily gamble as to whether my family is safe? I can't do that. You
want to throw me in jail, throw me in jail but I'm not going to stand down
one way or the other on people that she is telling me are blowing people
up. You are confirming that these people are terrorists and now you are
telling me to put my family on the line.
THE COURT: We didn't say they were terrorists.160

Maflahi, prosecutors charged later, was his driver, and the two were watched as
they made at least one stop at Carnival French Ice Cream.
But not in Brooklyn where Abad Elfgeeh pleaded guilty to a federal felony and
said he received Jihad money for collected at the Al Farouq mosque and reluctantly
admitted his association with Sheikh Al-Moayad161 then changed his plea and went to
trial. Abad Elfgeeh was convicted of unlicensed transmission of funds and no mention of
³terrorism´ was made at his trial. How did CI-1 know so much about the hawala
business?
Iman Abdul Wali was on the Rahman Unindicted Co-Conspirator List. Wali
preached at the Al-Farooq Mosque. In 1987 a FBI spy observed weapons at this
mosque, however no wiretap was put on the phone by the Justice Department because
of our work in Afghanistan. The excuse that was used was ³there was no evidence of a
criminal conspiracy.´162 It was a miracle that the FBI did not investigate the Al-Farooq
sooner, with so many Brothers linked to it.
160
. Sealed Proceedings In Chambers p127 USA v Moayad
161
. Tom Hays ³As terror war spreads into money-moving network, an ice cream shop takes center stage.´

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November 9, 2003.
162
. Steven Emerson American Jihad Free Press Page 24 February 2003.
Imam Fawaz Damra, spiritual leader of the Islamic Center of
Cleveland was on the Rahman Unindicted Co-Conspirator List. Fawaz
Damra was one of the speakers at an International Committee for
Palestine meeting, and a regular guest at International Committee for
Palestine¶s conferences, stated that International Committee for
Palestine is ³the active arm of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and we like to call it the
International Committee for Palestine here for security reasons.´ Damara stated,
³Terrorism and terrorism alone is the way to liberation.´ Sharing the podium with
Professor Sami Al-Arian, he also called for ³directing all the rifles at the first and last
enemy of the Islamic nation and that is the sons of monkeys and pigs, the Jews.´
Brother Sami Al-Arian told the audience, ³Jihad is our path. Victory to Islam! Death to
Israel.´163 On December 16, 2003 Imam Damra was indicted by a federal Grand Jury in
Ohio for failing to disclose his membership in the Al-Kifah Refugee Center, Palestinian
Islamic Jihad and the Islamic Committee for Palestine.164 The mosque leaders of the
Islamic Center of Cleveland wanted Damra ordered to cease all spiritual duties. In June
2004 Damra was convicted for lying about his connections and commitment to Islamism
and was convicted and sentenced to two months in prison ± he could have gotten five
years. Michael Dahan, a professor of political science at Hebrew University in
Jerusalem was a defense witness for the Imam. Dahan was to testitify that ³As
unquestionably hate-filled and thus morally reprehensible as such language is, when
Palestinians refer to Jews as µdescended from apes and swine,¶ or encourage support
for those who µkill Jews,¶ they do so with the reasonably justifiable self-image of victim
and persecuted, not of victimizer and persecutor. The statements Fawaz Damra made
on the tapes were examples of political rhetoric frequently used by Palestinians during
that time period." Damra was found guilty in the US of lying about his past on his US
immigration form, and hiding his links to jihadi organizations. Other charges and
allegations brought by the Zionists against Damra included a link to Osama Bin Laden,
a counterfeiting operation at mosque he led in Brooklyn (the FBI showed Damra printed
currency inside his own mosque, but the details are classified) working with Sami al-
Arian to raise money for Palestinian Islamic Jihad, money laundering, funding families of
suicide bombers, and obstructing an FBI investigation, and associating with El Sayyid
Nosair. Damra was released from prison then arrested the next day in front of his home
to face deportation charges. He immigrated to Palestine where the PA granted him
asylum165 after having been arrested by the Israelis.

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Mohammed Hassan Abdou was on the Rahman Unindicted Co-Conspirator List.

In 1999 Abdou was charged by the United States Department of Justice with having
obtained a false passport under the name of Edward K. McCants. On June 8, 2001
Abdou was allowed to visit Saudi Arabia. Abdou¶s attorney wrote: ³The Government has
163
. ADL Backgrounder: Sami Al-Arian February 20, 2003 http://www.adl.org/Terror/terrorism_al-arian.asp
164
. USDC for the Northern District of Ohio Eastern Division O3-CR-484 Indictment
165
. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/article.php3?id=6872
given careful consideration of this request before agreeing. My client is aware of the
potential danger to his safety under the present climate but he feels that it will be
safe«It is respectfully requested that this be kept under seal.´ Judge Loretta Preska
wrote: ³Travel approved so long as Abdou provides itinerary. This shall be filed under
seal.´166
Kahlid Ibrahim was on the Rahman Unindicted Co-Conspirator List. In 1998

Ibrahim was charged in New York and New Jersey with ³having made, forged, altered or
counterfeited an oath, affidavit required of aliens to wit submitted an affidavit falsely
claiming he had known Mohammad Salameh to be living in the United States since in
and about 1981 when in truth and fact Kahlid Ibrahim never met Mohammad Salameh
until in or about 1989. The New York case was dismissed on the grounds of double
jeopardy. AUSA Charles McKenna handled the New Jersey case.167 Ibrahim was
sentenced to three years probation and paid a five hundred dollar fine.168
Moustafa Abdalmot Elaebrak was on the Rahman Unindicted Co-Conspirator

List. He was sent to federal prison and fined $50 for reasons that were sealed for having
declared under oath that he lived in the United States since 1981 when in reality he
lived in Egypt since 1989. Elaebrak was released in January 1998.169
Said Mansour was on the Unindicted Co-conspirator list. In August 2005 Danish
police made Mansour, 45, a Moroccan-born Danish citizen, the first person ever
charged under an anti-terrorism law enacted in 2002 that forbids
instigation of terrorism or offering advice to terrorists. Mansour was
charged for distributing CDs that contained inflammatory K
speeches and gruesome images. Monsour had been close friends
with Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman.170
Ahmad Sattar was on this Rahman Unindicted Co-

Conspirator List. Why he was not indicted will always be a mystery to us, however, the
FBI did obtain a FISA warrant (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act ± allows the FBI to
obtain Secret Warrants from a Secret Court in terrorism cases) on Sattar and recorded
thousands of hours of his conversations. During the trial of Sheik Rahman, AUSA
McCarthy presented testimony that Sattar would not discuss sensitive matters with
Rahman unless he was sure the room was not bugged: ³Your Honor, there is discussion
between Mr. Sattar and Sheik Abdel Rahman about Salameh. Sattar reports to Sheik
Rahman that Salameh called me yesterday. The Sheik responds why? What is the
story? Ultimately Sattar says to him I¶ll talk to you about it in the mosque.´ Sattar let his
guard down after he realized there were no immediate or foreseeable repercussions for
those on the Rahman Unindicted Co-Conspirator List.
166
. USDC SDNY 99cr0515
167
168
. Federal District Court Newark, New Jersey 99CR00085
169
170
. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/28/AR2005082800899.html
Abdu Wali Zindani, head of Brooklyn¶s Al-Kifah Refugee Center
was on the Rahman Unindicted Co-Conspirator List. Zindani stated:
³Allah, the most high and exalted, ordered us to kill the idol
worshippers, the enemies of Allah... Fight the idol worshippers
wherever you find them. Pursue them and finish them off.´171 Mustafa
Shalabi was on the Rahman Unindicted Co-Conspirator List, even
though he was dead. Now Specially Designated Global Terrorist
Muhammad Shawqi Islambouli a leader of Al Gama¶a al-Islamiyya was
on the Rahman Unindicted Co-Conspirator List. Islambouli was tried in absentia in
Egypt along with one hundred other Brothers for offenses against the state. Montassar
al-Zayyat represented these men.172 A Hanif Muhammad was on the Rahman
Unindicted Co-Conspirator List. In August 2003 Taliban spokesman Muhammad Hanif
told the
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by satellite telephone that Afghan government troops

launched two separate offensives against guerrilla fighters in the mountainous Dai
Chupan district. ³It was a massive force of the government who wanted to kill and arrest
the Taliban but they were not successful,´ he said.173
Samir Khalil was on the Rahman Unindicted Co-Conspirator List. In 1991Khalil

pleaded guilty to insurance fraud and spent eight months in federal prison. According to
court documents, Khalil denied FBI allegations that linked him to the Palestinian
Liberation Organization.
After Ali-Mohamed switched loyalty to the Americans he said this at his

sentencing hearing: ³In 1995, I obtained a copy of the co-conspirator list for the Abdel
Rahman trial. I sent the list to el-Hage in Kenya, expecting that it would be forwarded to
bin Laden in Khartoum.´
171. http://www.terrorismvictims.org/terrorists/Jihad-in-america.html
172
. ³Mass Trial of Suspected Militants Begins´ Middle East Times
http://www.metimes.com/issue99-6/eg/mass_trial_of.htm
173
. The News International Pakistan August 26, 2003 ³Fifty Taliban Killed in Afghanistan´
http://www.jang-group.com/thenews/aug2003-daily/26-08-2003/main/main5.htm

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