Michael Wright
CIA Allowed Known Al Qaeda Members to Buy 9/11 Flight Ticket
Fri Jan 9 00:16:53 2004
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CIA Allowed Known Al Qaeda Members to Buy 9/11 Flight Tickets
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Subject: Channel 5 Recording Now at my 9/11 Website (Bungled Sting)
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 17:52:27 -0500
From: MPWright9@aol.com
To: apfn@apfn.org


I invite you to inform your readers about recordings I made of telephone conversations with Channel 5 news in Oklahoma City.

The woman at the news desk confirmed that they broadcast the story about the 9/11 hijacker's airline ticket having been purchased at the University of Oklahoma library. Then the reporter responded to my request by calling me and DENYING it.
This looks very much like a serious cover-up.

I recorded these communications. Oklahoma law enables this so long as one party to the conversation is aware of it. They are now available for the world to hear. Go here and scroll down to the KOCO section to hear it:

http://members.aol.com/mpwright9/sting.html

-- Michael Wright

Introduction

[Since websites can disappear at any time, readers who appreciate this work are encouraged to print out and store the web pages to which there are links.]

Kathy Ashton's son Tommy was killed at the World Trade Center on 9/11. Eight months after the attack, she asserted that the mass murder of 3,000 Americans was enabled "because many agencies in this country dropped the ball." 1 In the wake of the 9/11 attack, it has became popular to talk about the failure of the nation's intelligence community to "connect the dots" in advance of the catastrophe and take the necessary steps to obstruct the terrorists. The American people, their leaders, and the media need to give serious consideration to the likelihood that within the inner circles of the intelligence world they were indeed connecting dots. The problem was that they were drawing a different picture.

The view presented here is not far-fetched conspiricism. Sting operations are common in law enforcement. We were reminded of this by USA Today (August 13, 2003), with a page-one article about an individual being arrested and accused of attempting to sell a surface-to-air missile to Al Qaeda, for use in the US. In fact, the missile was purchased from him by two FBI agents posing as Al Qaeda terrorists. It was a sting on both sides: the missile and launcher had been sold to the accused by two Russian agents acting in concert with the FBI and pretending to be illegal arms merchants. There was no plot to attack an aircraft with a missile. The entire episode appears to be little more than choreographed public relations stagecraft intended to convince Americans that their government is "doing something" about homeland security. A desperate sucker trying to relieve his financial problems played right into their hands.

Given that I do not have police or subpoena power, I have relied mostly on information gathered from commonly available publications. From careful consideration of the various odd events in the trail of evidence, it appears very likely that former U.S. Senator David Boren of Oklahoma, an adroit political schemer still ambitious for higher office, was working with George Tenet and other CIA inner circle associates trying to conduct a sting operation against Al Qaeda. Always hungry for adoration, glory was Boren's goal. This explains why they allowed the 9/11 plot to advance instead of obstructing it when opportunities were presented. Of course, they failed tragically. One of their big blunders was assuming that hijackers intended to land the aircraft and then engage in negotiations over passenger hostages. Readers are invited to review the evidence discussed in this document and then to give careful consideration to the argument that the bungled sting explanation is the best way to account for the known facts.

CIA Allowed Known Al Qaeda Members to Buy 9/11 Flight Tickets

When viewed as a whole, a large troubling question emerges from the following brief set of facts:

1. In his June 2002 testimony before Congress, CIA boss George Tenet admitted that the agency had been tracking Al Qaeda members Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid Almihdhar since January 2000, when an Al Qaeda meeting was held in Malaysia.

2. according to a consensus of experts hired by National Review, the State Department acted unlawfully in granting visas to 15 of the 19 hijackers; the article mentioned Khalid Almihdhar as one of them; 2

3. In his briefing for the President of August 6, 2001, Tenet highlighted his knowledge of Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden's interest in hijacking aircraft.

4. In his testimony, Tenet admitted that the CIA waited until August 23, 2001, to recommend to the FBI and other agencies that Alhazmi and Almihdhar be put on a watchlist.

5. According to the indictment of Zacarias Moussaoui, Alhazmi purchased his ticket for American Airlines Flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11, on or about August 27, 2001. Khalid Almihdhar bought his ticket for the same flight on August 25.

Big Question: Given the CIA's knowledge of Al Qaeda's interest in hijacking aircraft, why were these two known Al Qaeda members allowed to purchase airline tickets, after they had been put on a watchlist?

In view of the compelling evidence available in late August 2001 indicating that at least one airline hijacking was under way for September 11, an intelligence leadership with honest motives could have obstructed the success of that team of hijackers. At the very least, the "defense of incompetence" seems highly suspect with regard to the question of preventing the crash of Flight 77. Could other 9/11 crashes have been prevented by conscientious action from the American intelligence community?

An Airline Ticket for a 9/11 Hijacker Was Purchased from the OU Library Computer

Former Senator David Boren is currently president of the University of Oklahoma in Norman, where I reside. In the fall of 2001, I was talking to an OU library employee who told me that she was present when an FBI agent was interviewing her colleague. From this encounter she learned that an OU library computer terminal had been used for an online purchase of an airline ticket for a 9/11 hijacker who was on the plane which crashed in Pennsylvania. She also told me that the person who made the purchase had not been a hijacker. Contrary to expectation, he was a white American male, but he knew he was assisting the hijacking operation.

The librarian's report is consistent with information provided by Yosri Fouda and Nick Fielding in their book Masterminds of Terror. 3 They wrote that the 9/11 hijackers mostly used the Internet for selecting their airplane seats. Fouda is a reporter for Al-Jazeera and Fielding works for the London Sunday Times.

In October 2002 I assisted Bill Crozier, a fellow OU graduate, in making a Freedom of Information Act request to the FBI, in order to obtain more details about this incident. The letter requesting details from the FBI began with this sentence:

Under the Freedom of Information Act I request information about a report I heard involving purchase of airline tickets for the 9/11 terrorist hijacking from the public computer terminals in the University of Oklahoma library.

The request also asked FBI to identify the purchaser and to report whether he was taken into custody. The scan of their reply is at the bottom of this article. The FBI letter confirms that the incident happened. Their subject line at the top reads:

PURCHASE OF AIRLINE TICKETS/911 TERRORIST HIJACKING/ PUBLIC COMPUTER TERMINALS

The letter informs us that "the material you requested is located in an investigative file which pertains to a pending investigation." While confirming the event, the FBI did not identify the person who bought the ticket. Their secrecy over this matter inspires a strong suspicion that the purchaser was an infiltrator operating under the CIA's instructions. The most likely explanation indicated by all the evidence compiled for this report is that he was a participant in a failed attempt by the CIA to organize a sting operation against terrorists who later succeeded in the 9/11 attack. Had he not been an infiltrator, he would have been accused of a crime and brought to court in a public proceeding. The concealing of his identity cannot be explained by offering the possibility that he is a fugitive. The names and photos of fugitives are commonly put on wanted posters. If he were a fugitive, why haven't they put out a wanted poster?

An Oklahoma City TV news station broadcast a report about this ticket purchase, but I did not see the broadcast. Several people have told me about it. One of them who saw the broadcast has emailed the Family Steering Committee for the Independent 9/11 Commission and confirmed having seen it. She copied the email to me. Other Oklahomans who saw this broadcast are asked to write and tell me.

According to USA Today, the CIA definitely had infiltrated Al Qaeda. The newspaper reports that "the intercepts and field reports didn't specify where or when a strike might occur." Those who supervised the purchase of the 9/11 ticket from OU library knew, for at least one flight. Conscientious action by the leadership of the American intelligence community could have saved Flight 93.

KOCO TV News Reported the Airline Ticket Purchase at OU But Later Denied It

In early October 2003 I began to call Oklahoma City TV news stations in order to discover who reported the terrorist airline ticket purchase and to try to obtain a videocassette of the broadcast. At first I reached an editor at KFOR (Channel 4). He said they did not report this.

Then I tried KOCO (Channel 5) and reached a woman named Melissa at the news desk. She confirmed that KOCO reported the event and proudly asserted, "We broke the story." She told me I needed to speak to reporter Terri Watkins about obtaining a videocassette and transferred me to her voice mail, and I left a message requesting it.

Watkins returned the phone call and left a message on my answering machine. She denied that Channel 5 had reported this event. It now appeared very likely that the station had been pressured into covering it up. I needed evidence of this. In Oklahoma, it is legal to record a telephone conversation if only one party to it grants consent. Bearing this in mind, I called again and recorded Melissa confirming it.

Click here to play the sound file of these recordings.
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