* NSA ORCON: CIA and FBI Dropping the Ball In Anthrax Mailings and 9/11 Involved Same Failure To Track And Intercept Al-Midhar And Nawaf After Meeting At Kuala Lumpur Condo Of Anthrax Lab Tech Sufaat and Anthrax Planner Hambali
Posted by Lew Weinstein on January 27, 2012
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DXer said
The White House kept the FBI and DOJ out of a proper and full investigation of Al-Timimi and the communications among members of the network through a program called STELLAR WIND, under which DOJ and FBI investigators — and the federal courts — were left largely out of the loop.
FBI Director famously threatened to quit over STELLAR WIND and drafted his resignation letter.
DXer said
The Department of Justice OIG, in its report on the intelligence failings relating to CIA-FBI communication about the Kuala Lumpur, failed to note the anthrax connections.
For example, there was an additional anthrax connection already known connected to the Cole bombing. Not only would Yazid Sufaat serve as the key lab anthrax tech in Afghanistan, but a microbiology student in Karachi was secretly rendered on October 23, 2001. How is GAO going to get answers about the intelligence failures and resulting risks if the CIA whisked those with personal knowledge of the failings to Jordan? Never to be seen again.
Alissa Rubin, “Pakistan Hands Over Man in Terror Probe,” Los Angeles Times, October 28, 2001.
Excerpt:
The man, who authorities confirmed was named Jamil Qasim Saeed Mohammed, was detained and deported to the U.S. in connection with America’s terrorism investigation.
“This is not unusual. Over the last six months, many people have been deported if they had false documents or suspect links with terrorist organizations in African and Middle Eastern countries,” a military intelligence source said….
Mohammed was handed over to the United States under cover of night. The transfer took place about 1 a.m. Tuesday and involved masked U.S. officers, according to witnesses at the Karachi airport.
The plane was parked in a dark and isolated area of the terminal, according to witnesses, and military sources confirmed that special arrangements were made for the man’s deportation.
The plane arrived from Amman, Jordan, and headed back there after picking up the detainee. A private company was used to service the U.S. aircraft rather than national airport authorities….
The deported man was a student of Yemeni origin who went to Karachi in 1993 and was a student there, according to local reporters. Karachi is a large city on the Arabian sea in southern Pakistan.
He stopped showing up for classes in early October. Shortly before he disappeared, the Interior Ministry requested all information about him from the university.
DXer said
Masood Anwar, “Mystery Man Handed Over to US Troops in Karachi,” The News International (Pakistan), October 26, 2001.
Excerpt:
Pakistani authorities handed over a ‘suspected foreigner’ to the US authorities in a mysterious way in the early hours of Tuesday and there are strong suspicions that he was an Arab student of the Karachi University, with connections to some infamous wanted organisation. A Falcon aircraft owned by the US air force landed at Karachi airport at around 1 am and was parked in a remote, dark and isolated area at the old terminal, a source at the Karachi airport disclosed told The News.
The aircraft having registration numbers N-379 P arrived from Amman and departed at 2.40 am for the same destination, he said. “I cannot tell you about the nationality and identification of the person handed over to the US men. The entire operation was so mysterious that all persons involved in the operation, including US troops, were wearing masks,” he said. A masked US trooper was also making a video film of the entire operation.
A private service company at the Karachi airport, Chemic Aviation, provided the airport services to the US aircraft. The ‘wanted person’ handed over to the US forces was not a Pakistani national as the man was addressed as a deportee. No one in the Civil Aviation Authority and Airport Security Force knew the details of the operation. Everything was kept in secret and operated by an agency, sources said…
The most likely possibility is that an Arab student of Microbiology Department of Karachi University, who has been missing since the start of October, could be the man deported. Jamil Qasim Saeed Mohammad belonged to Taiz, a city of Yemen. He came to Karachi in 1993 from Sana’a. Just before he went missing, Interior Ministry had asked the University administration to send all the information about him. His connections with any terrorist organisation or if and why he was deported, could not be confirmed from official sources.
DXer said
Rajiv Chandrasekaran and Peter Finn, “U.S. Behind Secret Transfer of Terror Suspects,” Washington Post, March 11, 2002.
Excerpt:
In October, for instance, a Yemeni microbiology student wanted in connection with the bombing of the USS Cole was flown from Pakistan to Jordan on a U.S.-registered Gulfstream jet after Pakistan’s intelligence agency surrendered him to U.S. authorities at the Karachi airport, Pakistani government sources said. The hand-over of the shackled and blindfolded student, Jamil Qasim Saeed Mohammed, who was alleged to be an al Qaeda operative, occurred in the middle of the night at a remote corner of the airport without extradition or deportation procedures, the sources said.
Comment: If you don’t know the lab that Rauf Ahmad visited by Dr. Ayman to obtain the anthrax, ask yourself: Why don’t you know?
DXer said
The systemic Intelligence Community deficiences during the Summer of 2001 leading up to the attacks were summed up by the 9/11 Commission: “Information was not shared…. Analysis was not pooled.” The FBI lacked basic computer capabilities and did not share information even within the FBI. The CIA and FBI were unwilling to exchange information quickly and effectively with each other. The IC analysts were ill-equipped to “connect the dots.” There was a lack of coordinated effort. The purpose of this blog is not to find fault with the analysis of particular individuals — with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight. Everyone seems hard-working and talented and acting in good faith. The purpose instead is to permit the efficient pooling of documents and informaiton. The purpose of the blogging and uploading of documents is to get people on the same page. If you are involved in the selection production of documents to the GAO, history will not be kind — because there are no secrets that will withstand the test of history.
Fault is only leveled at those responsible for withholding of documents in violation of FOIA, who thus actively thwart that effort and are obstructing justice.