Terrorist Leader Tied to FBI? An American born al-Qaeda operative whom President Obama assassinated in a drone strike on September 30, 2011, in Yemen was almost certainly a FBI asset. Thats what 900 pages of internal documents we obtained from the agency seem to show. The documents were released to us as a result of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit which we filed on June 4, 2012. We had asked for the documents more than three years ago, so you can imagine that the FBI is none too happy to have been compelled to disgorge this explosive material thanks to a federal court order. The previously secreted documents include an October 23, 2003, email message to an unidentified FBI agent directly from Anwar al-Aulaqi that references a congressional report (the 9/11 Commission report) that says he was a spiritual advisor to the 9/11 hijackers. Al-Aulaqi also mentions media reports that indicated U.S. officials were attempting to contact him. He then offers to meet with U.S. officials and concludes his email by writing what was mentioned about me was nothing but lies. Heres the problem. It is evident that the FBI maintained an open channel of communications with this individual despite al-Aulaqis terrorist designation. Take a look at al-Aulaqis email to the FBI yourself (which he only sent after leaving a voice mail!). This new information makes equally clear that there was a serious rift between the agencys 9/11 Commission Task Force and the National Commission on Terrorism that may have hindered the 9/11 investigation and certainly deserves further scrutiny. The new FBI emails provide us with a picture of agency personnel who were irritated by the Commissions investigation into the worst attack on America. These agents complained about numerous and unrelenting requests from the Commission concerning the U.S.-born al-Qaeda member. The emails, which date back to December 2003, describe how the FBI declined to set up interviews with the Commission and al-Qaeda. And the antagonism did not stop there. It is clear from the emails that the FBI was surprised to learn of the Commissions trip to Yemen, where it tried but failed to track down the terrorist. And it is obvious from the tone of the emails that the FBI did not want these meetings to take place. Theres a long history here. In January 2014, we obtained 79 pages of surveillance reports and logs from the FBI that provide disturbing details that link al-Aulaqi, and another terrorist leader named Omar al Bayoumi, with counter-terrorism investigations organized through the government of Saudi Arabia, the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration in the days leading up to the 9/11 attacks. For more details on the information in the new emails, click here. Theres more. Despite an active arrest warrant, the FBI ordered the release of al-Aulaqi at the JFK airport shortly after he was detained. Plus, we have evidence that they dogged his steps all the way to the doors of the Pentagon. On September 11, 2012, we released surveillance reports and logs obtained from the FBI that showed its agents tracked al-Aulaqi to the Pentagon on the same day he addressed a Department of Defense luncheon as an invited guest. All of this despite the fact that just one day before the surveillance and luncheon, al-Aulaqi had been identified as a terrorist organization member. The FBI had also issued an alert that said Warning -approach with caution... Do not alert the individual to the FBIs interest and contact your local FBI field office at the earliest opportunity. Heres another disturbing detail we pulled out of the U.S. State Department: Apparently, the FBI was aware on September 27, 2001, that al-Aulaqi had purchased airline tickets for three of the 9/11 plane hijackers. Former FBI director Mueller has refused to deny that al-Aulaqi was recruited to be an asset of either the FBI or another federal agency. He told Fox News, I am not personally familiar with any effort to recruit Anwar al-Aulaqi as an asset - that does not mean to say there was not an effort at some level of the Bureau (FBI) or another agency to do so. Al-Aulaqi is the first American ever acknowledged to have been subject to a targeted drone killing. His 16-year-old son Abdulrahman al-Aulaqi was also killed by a U.S. drone attack; supposedly by accident, just two weeks later. So, as the newly obtained emails confirm, it appears as though the man President Obama targeted for elimination had a special relationship with the FBI that, while still not entirely clear, was far more intimate and involved than the American people have been led to believe. A report by Catherine Herridge of Fox News, who has been persistent in pursuing this important issue, allowed us to put this into context for a national news audience: Fitton claims federal law enforcement had al-Awlaki in their custody, until the FBI let him walk - and in the years before he was killed by a CIA drone in 2011, al-Awlaki pioneered the digital jihad, now being capitalized upon by the Islamic State, or ISIS. ISIS took that and ran with it - who knows, maybe if we had gotten al-Awlaki and kept him off the streets and in jail or in prison where he belonged that there would have been a much more slow development of the Internet jihad that were all facing worldwide. No one else is asking tough questions of the FBI but well keep digging. Al-Aulaqi, even though now (thankfully) dead, still inspires terrorism through his writings and exhortations on the Internet. I suggest that you review our materials on this issue directly and ask your elected representatives in Congress why arent they following Judicial Watchs leads and demanding accountability from the Obama administration and the FBI about its mishandling of a terrorist mastermind who created a new Internet organizing template for the Islamic State and other Islamic supremacists (too many from America) were now fighting in a new war.
Posted on: Sat, 04 Oct 2014 03:02:26 +0000
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