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• P-Tech and 911

• Neil Entwistle

• Global Research   
• CASMI
• Dark Government
• Deep Journal
• Greg Palast privatization of FBI, see InQtel, Choicepoint
• IncogPress, Zakheim  There is also evidence that a possible headquarters for this remote control was located at the Boston Airport, in the offices of a major Military/Industrial complex player, the Mitre Corporation: A company sharing offices with them named Ptech. The reporter Joe Bergantino of WBZ-TV, was following the story, but it was squelched by Michael Chertoff, dual-citizen of Israel and Zionist. PTECH INFO  more
• Islamic Intelligence Dov Zakheim has served more than two decades at the highest level of the Dept. of Defense, since the Reagan administration came to power in 1981. Before that he was at the Congressional Budget Office in the department overseeing National Security and International Affairs from 1975 until 1981. ... These Israeli enterprise software products, like Ptech and Mitre, were key to the execution of 9-11.
• LookingGlassNews, Abramoff, Hillman ... Top 25 censored stories 2007
• RumorMillNews    IS DEFENSE CONTRACTOR MITRE CORP. THE TROJAN HORSE OF 9/11?  By Christopher Bollyn American Free Press American Free Press Did a central controller with "super user" privileges of the command and control systems of the Department of Defense, NORAD, the Air Force, and the FAA, control the aerial attacks of 9/11? There is only one agency that has that capability – a little-known private company known as  continued below  and file
• WayneMadsenReport Entwistle's firm, Embedded New Technologies (ENT), reportedly had connections to the Braintree, Massachusetts-based firm P-Tech, which was investigated subsequent to 911 by the FBI for ties to Muslim Brotherhood financiers linked to Al Qaeda. P-Tech also had software contracts for the FAA, NORAD, Pentagon, and White House during the 9-11 terrorist attacks. According to Entwistle's mother-in-law, he also told his wife that he had large amounts of money held in 'offshore' accounts.
• What Really Happened
• notes: poster: '. Ember, founded by MIT alumni Robert Poor and Andrew Wheeler, Ember Corporation began operations in 2001. In-Q-Tel initially invested in Ember in September 2005.  .  ENT stand for Embedded Technical Networking - ENT (which we All think is short for ENTtwistle thanks to court TV ) this is what his job was - not looking for escorts, but encoding these sites for the FBI .
• Global Report The Center for Public Integrity and the Fund for Independence in Journalism determined, through a collective study and breakdown of Bush administration speeches, press briefings and interviews, that Bush and other top officials "led the nation to war on the basis of erroneous information." and OpEdNews

• Summary A Massachusetts jury found British computer specialist Neil Entwistle guilty of murdering his wife and baby daughter on January 19, 2006. Entwistle fled the United States for Britain after the double homicide.  notes WBZTV Neil Entwistle's attorney says he will raise constitutional issues in his appeal of guilty verdict. WayneMadsenReport "has recently learned from knowledgeable U.S. Intelligence Community sources that Entwistle's contract for P-Tech involved "wiring backdoors" into the computer systems of the FAA, more below, NORAD, Pentagon, and White House to bring about the operational collapse of the computer systems during the morning of 9/11.      full article Wikipedia, PTech Wikipedia, Operation Green Quest  more below Cooperative Research PTech RumorMillNews  Mitre Corporation, 911, Trojan Horse, file Judith Miller,

• Foreign Affairs, The Challenge of Radical Islam by Judith Miller, Muslim Brotherhood
• Embedded New  Technologies Company Overview" Embedded New Technologies (ENT) offers Intellectual Property cores for Xillinx, Altera and Actel FPGAs. DSP systems and system-on-chip, SoC, embedded systems can be provided using our floating-point, fp, fast fourier transform, fft, fir filter and digital down converter cores
• NPR  Joe Bergantino, a CBS journalist who will be the first to report on Ptech, will say of Ptech in 2002, “The worst-case scenario is that this is a situation where this was planned for a very long time to establish a company in this country and in the computer software business that would target federal agencies and gain access to key government data to essentially help terrorists launch another attack.” [National Public Radio, 12/8/2002]
• International Extradition Blog
• Trials & Tribulations

• TrueCrimeWeblog

• Wikipedia, Neil Entwistle   On June 25, 2008, Neil Entwistle was found guilty on two counts of first degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment without the option of parole. Jurors at Middlesex County Superior Court in Woburn, Massachusetts, had deliberated for 13 hours before finding Entwistle guilty. As well as being found guilty of the murders, he was convicted of two other charges - illegal possession of a firearm and illegal possession of ammunition - and sentenced to probation which forbids him from gaining profit from the sale of his story to the media. ...  Entwhistle is serving his life sentences at Massachusetts Correctional Institution - Cedar Junction supermax prison.

• WebSlueths

• Wikio Neil Entwistle

• AP  Entwistle linked to escort services, smear campaign? pornography, set-up.  Google search on murder.
• video Ron Paul names neo-cons video
• Boston Globe   ... he will be transferred to the maximum-security Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley. There he will undergo medical and physical tests, which include obtaining a sample of his DNA, as is the case for all inmates, said Diane Wiffin, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Correction.
• Boston Herald A juror who carefully watched a curiously grinning Neil Entwistle over 12 days of testimony by 46 witnesses said the perfectly coiffed wife-and-baby killer is nothing but a narcissist.
• CBSNews Entwistle
• CIA
• FBI
• Ember Ember Corporation’s wireless semiconductor solutions help auto­mate homes, lower buildings’ energy consumption, reduce manu­facturing plants’ breakdowns, and keep the country’s borders and infrastructure safe and secure. With more than 120 customers, Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with offices and distributors worldwide, the company is a lead promoter of the ZigBee Alliance; its platform is the National Technical Systems’ (NTS) “Golden Suite” 
• FoxNews  We know that our son Neil is innocent, and we are devastated to learn that the evidence points to Rachel murdering our grandchild and then committing suicide. I knew Rachel was depressed. Our son will now go to jail for loving, honoring, and protecting his wife's memory.
• In-Q-tel, CIA company
• Mitre Corporation
• Norquist, Grover
• P-Tech
• WBZTV, laptop, Google search  Judge Diane Kottmyer agreed to allow prosecutors to present evidence suggesting Neil Entwistle trolled the internet for sex in the days before the murders and logged into his account at Adult Friend Finder after the murders.
• notes: BMI / PTech  Yassin al-Qadi, a Saudi multimillionaire. He will invest $5 million of Ptech’s start-up money. The US will declare him an al-Qaeda financier shortly after 9/11 (see October 12, 2001). In 1998, al-Qadi will come under investigation by FBI agent Robert Wright (see October 1998) for potential ties to the 1998 US embassy bombings (see August 7, 1998). Al-Qadi is also a major investor in BMI Inc., an investment firm with connections to a remarkable number of suspected terrorist financiers (see 1986-October 1999). Al-Qadi later will claims that he sold his investment in Ptech in 1999, but there will be evidence he may continue to hold a financial stake after that year, and even after the US will officially declare him a terrorism financier (see 1999-After October 12, 2001).
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• Jewish Virtual Library, Dov Zakheim, mastermind of 911

• WayneMadsenReport Entwistle's firm, Embedded New Technologies (ENT), reportedly had connections to the Braintree, Massachusetts-based firm P-Tech, which was investigated subsequent to 911 by the FBI for ties to Muslim Brotherhood financiers linked to Al Qaeda. P-Tech also had software contracts for the FAA, NORAD, Pentagon, and White House during the 9-11 terrorist attacks. According to Entwistle's mother-in-law, he also told his wife that he had large amounts of money held in 'offshore' accounts. ......  WMR has recently learned from knowledgeable U.S. Intelligence Community sources that Entwistle's contract for P-Tech involved "wiring backdoors" into the computer systems of the FAA, NORAD, Pentagon, and White House to bring about the operational collapse of the computer systems during the morning of 9/11.  more search terms: Gatwick Airport, Hanscom Air Force Base, Gulfstream rendition aircraft, full article
• notes: Neil Entwistle (born 18 September 1978) is an English-born man accused of murdering his wife, Rachel Entwistle, and their infant daughter Lillian on January 20, 2006 in the United States. ... The bodies of 27-year-old Rachel and 9-month-old Lillian were found on January 22, in the master bedroom of the couple's rented Hopkinton, Massachusetts home where the Entwistles had been living for only ten days. Autopsy results showed that Rachel died of a gunshot wound to the head, and the baby died of a gunshot wound to the stomach
• Wikipedia  Ptech Inc. was a Quincy, Massachusetts-based provider of business process modelling software that was closed down in the wake of a December 5, 2002 raid by federal authorities under the auspices of Operation Green Quest.  ... Business domain Describing itself as a "provider of enterprise architecture, business modeling, analysis and integration software solutions, "the privately-held corporation was founded in 1994, and known for its technology, which was based on a unique implementation of neural net and semantic technologies. Ptech was recognized as one New England Technology's "Fast 50" by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu in 2001. For four years in row (from 2000 to 2003), Ptech was also recognized, for their velocity of innovation in the knowledge economy, as one of the hundred companies that matters in the world of IT and Business  with the major names in Technology companies such as Microsoft, IBM, HP and Oracle Corporation..  The CEO of Ptech Oussama Ziade appeared on different television shows in the USA and has been featured on the cover of several magazines. . The company was once part of UML Partners, the consortium that was convened to develop standards for UML, the Unified Modeling Language.  ...  Federal investigation Ptech was brought to the front of the spotlight following the visit of law enforcement officials to its Headquarters in the middle of the night of December 5th 2002, under the operation of Operation Green Quest, a U.S. Customs Services unit charged with the investigation of alleged terrorist funding networks. The December raid brought a rush of media sources to Ptech's Boston headquarters[7] amid allegations of Ptech's involvement in terrorist financing, which the White House and the Federal Attorney General of Massachusetts later rebuffed  ...  Notable clientele Ptech's roster of clients included several governmental agencies, including the United States Armed Forces, NATO, Congress, the Department of Energy, the Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Customs, the FAA, the IRS, the Secret Service, and the White House. Despite the media allegation that the company's was connected to terrorism, an allegation that both the US government and the company's official denied, as of May 2004 they were still contracted by several federal agencies, including the White House.  ...  Ptech had a security clearance to work on sensitive military projects dating to 1997.  ... [edit] Notable personnel Yaqub Mirza, angel investor, board member. Hussein Ibrahim, VP, Chief Scientist    ..........Ymette St guillen murder and her father's ties to Venezuela via the infamous "School of the Americas"
• Wikipedia  "Operation Green Quest was a United States Customs Service-sponsored interagency investigative unit formed in October of 2001, and concerned with the surveillance and interdiction of terrorist financing sources. The FBI refused to participate in the raid and to date, no charges have ever been filed.  ... SAAR   ...    Synopsis Led by the U.S. Customs Service, and included agents and analysts from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the Secret Service, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. Federal prosecutors from the U.S. Justice Department's Criminal Division also formed an integral part of Operation Green Quest. The director of Operation Green Quest was a senior special agent from U.S. Customs and the deputy director is a senior special agent from the IRS.  ....  According to Customs, by its fourth month of operation Operation Green Quest had initiated more than 300 probes into terrorist finances, seizing about $10.3m in smuggled US currency and $4.3m in other assets. Its work resulted in 21 searches, 12 arrests and four indictments.  SAAR network raid:  Its most spectacular operation of was March 20, 2002 raid ... 19 interrelated business and non-profit entities in Herndon, VA associated with an umbrella corporation known as the SAAR Foundation, looking for ties to the Al Taqwa Bank and the Muslim Brotherhood. No arrests were made and no organizations were shut down, but over 500 boxes of files and computer files were confiscated, filling seven trucks. Finding no incriminating evidence, much of the confiscated material has been returned.   The raid would raise concerns of unfair persecution within the American Muslim community,[2] leading to an April 4, 2002 meeting (arranged by Grover Norquist) in which several notable Muslim figures, including Palestinian-American financier and Republican organizer Talat M. Othman and Islamic Institute head Khaled Saffuri were received by Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill as representatives of the Muslim-American community, and to voice complaints about the raid
• Cooperative Research  On December 3, 2001, New York Times reporter Judith Miller telephones officials with the Holy Land Foundation charity in Texas and asks them to comment about what she says is a government raid on the charity planned for the next day. Then in a December 4, 2001, New York Times article, Miller writes that President Bush is about to announce that the US is freezing the assets of Holy Land and two other financial groups, all for supporting Hamas. US officials will later argue that Miller’s phone call and article “increased the likelihood that the foundation destroyed or hid records before a hastily organized raid by agents that day.” Later in the month, a similar incident occurs. On December 13, New York Times reporter Philip Shenon telephones officials at the Global Relief Foundation in Illinois and asks them to comment about an imminent government crackdown on that charity. The FBI learns that some Global Relief employees may be destroying documents. US attorney Patrick Fitzgerald had been investigating the charities. He had been wiretapping Global Relief and another charity in hopes of learning evidence of criminal activity, but after the leak he changes plans and carries out a hastily arranged raid on the charity the next day (see December 14, 2001). Fitzgerald later seeks records from the New York Times to find out who in the Bush administration leaked information about the upcoming raids to Miller and Shenon. However, in 2005 Fitzgerald will lose the case. It is still not known who leaked the information to the New York Times nor what their motives were. Ironically, Fitzgerald will succeed in forcing Miller to reveal information about her sources in another extremely similar legal case in 2005 involving the leaking of the name of CIA agent Valerie Plame. [New York Times, 12/4/2001; New York Times, 12/15/2001; Washington Post, 9/10/2004; Washington Post, 2/25/2005] The 9/11 Commission will later conclude that in addition to the above cases, “press leaks plagued almost every [raid on Muslim charities] that took place in the United States” after 9/11. [Washington Post, 9/10/2004  full research
• Cooperative Research “Investigators tried to prove Alamoudi was a terror middleman but could not find ‘smoking gun’ evidence. That allowed Alamoudi to became a politically connected Muslim activist and co-founder of the American Muslim Armed Forces and Veteran Affairs Council, which helps the US military select Muslim chaplains.” [New York Post, 10/1/2003] This same year, Alamoudi will be one of the founders of Ptech, a US computer company with suspected terrorism ties (see 1994). It will later be alleged that he was able to operate with impunity for years due to his close ties to Grover Norquist, a powerful Republican lobbyist (see March 20, 2002). In 2004, the US will sentence him to 23 years in prison for illegal dealings with Libya (see October 15, 2004).
• RumorMillNews   continue:   MITRE Corp. ... There are basically two versions of events surrounding the terror attacks of September 11, 2001. There is the government version, propagated by the controlled media, which claims that 19 Arab terrorists, organized by Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan, hijacked 4 passenger aircraft and used them to attack the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. This version, used to launch the "war on terror" and two invasions in the Middle East, is challenged by a lack of evidence. On the other hand, a host of unofficial explanations, based on available evidence, make up what can be called the "inside job" or anti-government version. This version basically claims that agents embedded within the U.S. military and intelligence organizations conspired to carry out the terror attacks.
• IncogPress Ptech was financed by the Guardium Corporation of Israel, a hi-tech investment company with ties to the Mossad through the front groups Cedar Firm, Veritas Venture Partners and StageOne, all located in Herzelia, the same as Mossad’s headquarters. Also, these companies are tied to AMDOCS and COMVERSE INFOSYS, who builds the digital-switching telecomm equipment, used all over the US and in the government and thought to have a back door for intelligence gathering. ...  This was the subject to Carl Cameron’s banned FOX report, from December, 2001, that showed phone information of LA undercover Drug agents and DEA were given to an Israeli Ecstasy Drug ring. Abe Foxman of the ADL forced FOX to discontinue the reports and to remove them from their website. These reports may be seen here (for now): FOX REPORTS  ...  Ptech was owned by Lebanese and Arab front men; but appears that one Michael Goff, the son of a member of Commonwealth lodge 600 of the B’nai B’rith Worcester, Massachussets and who strangely left his job as a lawyer to go run a Hi-Tech start-up company. Was he a Sayan (Jew Mossad collaborator)? More on Ptech coming up in another Blog posting.  

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• Dailykos   "Zawahiri Letter to Zarqawi: A Shiite Forgery?  The Arabic text of the recently released letter alleged to be by Zawahiri (al-Qaeda's number two man) to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq raises questions for me as to its authenticity.  The very first element of the letter is the blessing on the Prophet. It says: al-salah wa al-salam `ala rasuli'llahi wa a-lihi wa suhubihi . . . (peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of God and his family and his companions . . .)  the phrase "salla Allahu `alayhi wa alihi wa sallam" (the blessings and peace of God be upon him and his family) is a Shiite form of the salutation, because of the emphasis of the Shiites on the House or descendants of the Prophet. Because of the cultural influence of Shiism in South Asia, one does find that form of the salutation in Pakistan and India among Sunni Muslims."
• Juan Cole search Zawahiri hoax letter, Negroponte

• Washington Post  "The 6,000-word letter from Osama bin Laden's chief lieutenant, Ayman Zawahiri, to Iraqi insurgent leader Abu Musab Zarqawi amounts to a detailed portrait of al Qaeda's long-term goals in Iraq and the Middle East, and includes a striking critique of how Zarqawi has gone about waging his war against not only U.S. troops but also Iraqi civilians. The letter was posted yesterday on the Web site of Director of National Intelligence John D. Negroponte -- http://www.dni.gov/ -- after senior intelligence officials released excerpts of it last week."

• CNN Zarqawi says the letter is a fake
• GOPUSA Zawhiri Letter Draws Increasing Skepticism
• Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Negroponte Zawahiri, Zarqawi hoax letter, copy
• "Among the letter's highlights are discussions indicating: & The centrality of the war in Iraq for the global jihad.  &  From al Qa'ida's point of view, the war does not end with an American departure.  &  An acknowledgment of the appeal of democracy to the Iraqis.  &  The strategic vision of inevitable conflict, with a tacit recognition of current political dynamics in Iraq; with a call by al-Zawahiri for political action equal to military action.  &  The need to maintain popular support at least until jihadist rule has been established.  &  Admission that more than half the struggle is taking place "in the battlefield of the media."

   

"Coincidentally, the U.S. Attorney for Chicago, Patrick Fitzgerald, on the job for only a couple of weeks, had extensive experience as a terrorism prosecutor and immediately became involved in the investigation of BIF [Benevolence International Foundation] and GRF [Global Relief Foundation]" 

# National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States Terrorist Financing Staff Monograph Chapter 6 - The Illinois Charities Case Study [ PDF | HTML]

And "Fitzgerald immersed himself in the case and took a major role"? Well, this was quite a "coincidence." In this post Re: FRANK RICH: It's Bush-Cheney, Not Rove-Libby!!!!, I explained that Fitzgerald also was part of the prosecution team in the Omar Abdel Rahman case. Just to recap this, the prosecutors in the Rahman case didn't want their case thrown out on "national security" grounds, so they were careful to totally leave the CIA out of the picture. The leading prosecutor even claimed that when they discovered this "mujahideen" paramilitary training by Rahman's followers, "the FBI’s concern was that the group could be violating federal 'neutrality' laws." Of course, everybody knows that the US was not "neutral" in the Afghan war, and US officials publicly eulogized the "mujahideen" as "freedom fighters." I think that Fitzgerald's role in the Rahman case indicates that the Valerie Plame case will remain as matter of "Rove-Libby," and not "Bush-Cheney."

After examining Fitzgerald's role in the GRF & BIF cases, I am even more convinced that this Valerie Plame case will not reach the "Bush-Cheney" level. Just look at the outcome of the BIF & GRF cases. As soon as the investigations reached those close to higherups in Washington, the prosecutors seemed to spend more time on a coverup, than on pursuing a bona fide investigation. Then attorney general Ashcroft kept a tight rein on the BIF-Arnaout case. "The case fell apart and Arnaout was convicted only of fraud." The terrorism charges were dropped and the DOJ reached this plea deal with Arnaout. It doesn't look like the feds ever even intended to bring a criminal case against the Haddad or the GRF. The plan seemed to be to lock him up until they got him out of the country.

"The decision to deport him rather than continue the criminal investigation was made in Washington, without consultation with the Detroit case agent who had investigated Haddad"? I think that the feds opted to skip a public trial and to get Haddad deported because Haddad had worked directly with the Bin Laden, Azzam, & MAK. With Arnaout, he did work for MAK, but there was more distance between him & the hierarchy of the MAK. GRF co-founder "Rabih Haddad had worked for years for bin Laden‘s [and Azzam's] Makhtab al-Khidamat, which supported the tens of thousands of Arabs who rushed to Afghanistan to join the anti-Soviet resistance in the 1980s." A GRF attorney said "The United States also supported that organization [Makhtab al-Khidamat] then." This is true. A BIF attorney also correctly stated that "Mr. Arnaout's activities in war-torn regions like Afghanistan in the 1980's and Bosnia in the 1990's came on behalf of many of the same rebel fighters the United States was backing then." I think this is the main reason why Fitzgerald came to have such a "major role" in these cases. He had already proved himself in the Rahman case, as someone who knew when to limit the scope of these inquiries. Quite frankly, if he didn't have this reputation, I think that the Bush administration would have found a way to get him off the Valerie Plame case.

It came out in the Kifah Waed Jayyousi case that Rahman's followers had "a network across North America to fund-raise for and recruit mujahedeen to train and fight in various areas including but not limited to Bosnia, Kosovo, Chechnya, and Somalia." Jayyousi "was transferring money intended for Chechen militants through the Global Relief Foundation." Fitzgerald would have been well aware of a connection between the GRF and the followers of Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman through Alkifah and Wadih El Hage:

"At the beginning of the Afghan war against the Soviet Union, El Hage left Louisiana and traveled to Pakistan to enroll in mujahedeen war training programs. Thousands of young Arab men from around the world flocked to Pakistan to help the Afghans expel the Soviets. Sources told FRONTLINE that El Hage was a follower of Sheik Abdullah Azzam, one of the most important spiritual leaders of the Arab mujahedeen forces. Azzam preached that the war in Afghanistan was a jihad, or holy war, and that those who participated would have a special place in heaven...

In early 1991, according to El Hage's grand jury testimony, he was called to New York to help direct the Alkifah Refugee Center, a Brooklyn-based group that raised money to support veterans of the Afghan war. According to documents from the World Trade Center case, Alkifah had a Tucson office and contacts with the main mosque in Arlington, Texas, and family members confirmed that El Hage had been in contact with the group." "

Azzam was also involved with Brooklyn's Alkifah group. During the CIA’s Jihad, to the “US intelligence community,” "Azzam was considered a prime asset because of his close connections to the Muslim Brotherhood, Saudi intelligence, and the Muslim World League." Note that Rahman himself had received four visas from "CIA agents acting as consular officers at American embassies in Khartoum and Cairo." Alkifah in Brooklyn “became the de facto headquarters of” Rahman. This was the springboard for building up this "string of jihad offices that had been set up across America with the help of Saudi and American intelligence.” This network didn't dry up after the Cold War ended. It came out in Rahman's trial that his followers were receiving funds from the Saudi embassy in Washington to recruit for Bosnia. See: Al Qaeda Recruited U.S. Servicemen: Testimony Links Plot To Saudi Gov't. Alkifah followed suit: ARAB VETERANS OF AFGHANISTAN WAR LEAD NEW ISLAMIC HOLY WAR

[Oct. 1994] "The Al-Kifah, or Struggle, Refugee Center in New York, which used to recruit and raise funds for Mujahedeen headed for Afghanistan, last year announced it was switching its operations to Bosnia. It was established in the mid-1980s by Egyptian Mustafa Rahman as a joint venture with Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, spiritual leader of Gamaat al-Islamiya."

If the FBI wanted to know what the GRF & BIF were doing and where the money was going, they didn't have to rely on what they found in trash bins. The GRF & BIF didn't exactly keep their agenda a secret. It was known for years that these "charities" did a lot more just than feed starving kids. This List of Muslim Relief Organizations was published by the Muslim Students Association of the USA and Canada in the 1990's. The BIF & GRF are listed:

Benevolence International Foundation PO Box 548, Worth, IL 60482 USA Tel. 708-233-0062 Fax. 708-233-0069 Email: bif@benevolence.org URL: www.benevolence.org Focus: Benevolence International Foundation (BIF) is a humanitarian organization dedicated to helping those afflicted by wars. BIF first provides short-term relief such as emergency food distribution, and then moves on to long term projects providing education and self-sufficiency to the children, widowed, refugees, injured and staff of vital governmental institutions. Current list of projects include running refugee camps, hospitals and clinics, sponsoring orphans, operating vocational and computer centers, and conducting seasonal projects. Established in 1987, BIF is currently conducting projects in five countries including Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Chechnya, Daghestan, and Tajikistan. BIF is incorporated in the state of Illinois, USA as a non-profit, humanitarian organization and coordinates its efforts through an office in Chicago. BIF is solely supported by private donations and does not receive any governmental assistance. Entry updated: Apr 1999. .......

Global Relief Foundation PO Box 1406, Bridgeview, IL 60455 Phone: 1-888-256-2532 (1-888-ALNAJDA) Phone: 708-233-1473 Fax: 708-233-1474 Email: talk2grf@aol.com Email: info@grf.org URL: www.grf.org US Tax ID#: 36-3804626 Focus: Chechnya, Kosova (Kosovo) and other places. You can ask for a documentary illustrating the genocide in Kosovo. You can use this documentary to create awareness and raise funding for Kosvo. You can order English/Arabic. Entry updated: Dec 1999."

In 1992, the GHW Bush administration decided that Izetbegovic was their man to lead the Bosnia "jihad." Warren Zimmerman, U.S. Ambassador in Belgrade "persuade[d] Izetbegovic to renege on the [Lisbon peace] agreement, promising him all political, diplomatic and military aid if he agreed to do so." The GHW Bush & Clinton administrations "pulled the strings from the background, encouraging the world-wide Moslem agitation in favor of Izetbegovic." Many of these "strings" were in the Bin Laden network. As to Kosovo, Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) training camps in Albania were "run by Osama bin Laden, and various other foreign mujahedeen" and also by the "CIA and British intelligence." And "the CIA seems to have provided monetary support." There was a civil war in Kosovo with atrocities on all sides, but there was no "genocide." Kosovo - the site of a genocide that never was. In other words, after the Cold War, the CIA & the Pentagon continued to use this same network of "charities," like the BIF & GRF, to serve US strategic aims.

Batterjee was "affiliated with a group of wealthy donors from the Persian Gulf region known as the 'Golden Chain'"? This Golden Chain was a huge Pandora's box, which shows that the BCCI never was really shut down. Just some of the names of the fronts changed. After Fitzgerald took on a leading role in the BIF investigation, the feds made a plea deal with Arnaout, dropping the terrorism charges and ending any further investigation of the case. Now the last time I looked, Bin Laden's Al Qaeda was officially called a "terrorist organization." So there was no lack of evidence. The evidence just led to directions where the higherups in Washington didn't want to go. How many references do you see to the Muslim World League [MWL], the Binladens, Bin Mahfouz, & Abdullah Taha Bakhish on this Golden Chain? According to the DOJ's own documents in the Arnaout case, this is "a list of people referred to within Al Qaida as the 'Golden Chain,' wealthy donors to mujahideen efforts." This was found in a file called "Osama's history" in the BIF office in Bosnia. The CIA had used the BCCI to channel the funds "to CIA client Osama bin Laden, part of the $2 billion Washington sent to the Afghani mujahideen." Bill Clinton's old pal in Arkansas, Jackson Stephens, arranged a BCCI "bailout" for George W. Bush's Harken. "A board seat was given to Harken shareholder Sheikh Abdullah Taha Bakhsh, whose chief banker was BCCI shareholder Bin Mahfouz." You may also remember Jackson Stephens and the Riadys from the Clinton "China-gate" scandal. In 1984, Mochtar Riady bought "a stake in the Worthen holding company whose assets include the Stephens-controlled Worthen Bank....Other Worthen co-owners will eventually include BCCI investor Abdullah Taha Bakhish." Jackson Stephen had bankrolled both Republican and Democratic campaigns.

It is also clear from this 9-11 Commission's staff report account that the CIA was working with the FBI on both the BIF & GRF cases prior to 9-11 and the Patriot Act. Apologists for the Patriot Act claim that this was needed to authorize communications and "intelligence sharing" between the FBI and CIA or other intelligence agencies. Of course, since the BIF & GRF involved the protection of former and current CIA "assets," the "CIA held back some information" in dealing with the FBI. Also one way to kill an investigation is to make inflated claims, which if disproved, can bring down the entire case. I think that the WMD in these "charity" cases was really a stretch, and I think that when the investigation was diverted into this direction, that it was headed for a deadend. Also this could have served as a rationale for Haddad's deportation. Unproven weapons claim led to Islamic charity raid in '01

"This plan went awry when word of the impending action apparently leaked to GRF. FBI personnel learned that some of the targets of the investigations may be destroying documents"? There is some question as to Judith Miller's involvement in "alerting" the GRF of action to freeze their assets. We do know that Judith Miller had connections to the Pentagon & other top Bush officials and that she did play a role in the disinformation about Saddam's WMD. Last year, Chicago U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald "informed the [New York] Times by letter...that his office has subpoenaed telephone company records" of reporters Philip Shenon and Judith Miller. "The move is part of an effort to determine whether anyone in the government told Times reporters of planned federal asset seizures in December 2001" at the GRF's office. "The FBI believes that a call from a reporter to a representative of the charity, the Illinois-based Global Relief Foundation, may have led to the destruction of documents there the night before the government's raid, according to findings by the Sept. 11 commission." It is possible that Shenon & Miller were the channel for this "alert" to the GRF. However, this "alert" could have come from a number of sources through channels in the US "intelligence community," in ways that could not be traced back to the source. There is also a question of exactly how much damage that this destruction of evidence may have done to the prosecutors' case. It is very unlikely that there was ever any serious intent to prosecute Haddad or anyone else in the GRF. The Bush administration certainly seemed in a rush to get him out of the country, and this plan was brought to fruition after "Fitzgerald immersed himself in the case and took a major role."

By BlackJade

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