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Ptech, the CIA, FBI, SS, 911, PROMIS, Terrorists-R-US - Peter Lemkin - 24-12-2016 A complex tale by someone who knew the inside story of Ptech....a company involved in 911 planning and execution, with persons inside of it listed as terrorists, yet protected in high places....a strange tale, indeed! Their software, apparently, was a modified version of PROMIS...another long story. In the third 'video' which is really an audio interview of 1:50:46, is in two parts - Part I is about her helping at Ground Zero and health effects / investigations. Part II is about Ptech and the complex 'octopus' between intelligence agencies, government entities, corporations such as Ptech and others, terrorism, and spying on everything/one. Her best one-liner in the second part, which she says knowing what she knows and not hyperbole was 'where the USA is now headed will make the Third Reich look like a teaparty'. Sad, but true. It is beginning to dawn on me that the same forces that were behind 911 and its coverup were behind Trumpf....so I think the 'fourth reich' as Harry Belofonte so aptly named it recently begins in just 3.5 weeks. Welcome to the abyss. This story ties in directly, I believe, to both 911 and those around Trumpf, generally. Just as there are human spies and electronic spying, there is also the desire to have computer programs that can monitor [secretly to those naively using them] what the system and company using it are doing/thinking - but also to covertly take over their computers undetected - that, I believe is the essence of PROMIS and further developed by P-Tech. N.B. P-Tech is still in business under a new name! Ptech, the CIA, FBI, SS, 911, PROMIS, Terrorists-R-US - Peter Lemkin - 24-12-2016 PTECH, 9/11, and USA-SAUDI TERROR - Part I
PROMIS Connections to Cheney Control of
9/11 Attacks Confirmed by
Jamey Hecht With research assistance by Michael Kane
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FTW: You said at the 9/11 Citizens' Commission hearings, you mentioned - it's on page 139 of transcript - that Ptech was with Mitre Corporation in the basement of the FAA for 2 years prior to 9/11 and their specific job was to look at interoperability issues the FAA had with NORAD and the Air Force, in case of an emergency.Indira Singh: Yes, I have a good diagram for that. FTW: And that relationship had been going on mediated by Ptech for 2 years prior to 9/11. You elsewhere say that the Secret Service is among the government entities that had a contract with Ptech. Mike Ruppert's thesis in Crossing the Rubicon, as you know, is that the software that was running information between FAA & NORAD was superseded by a parallel, subsuming, version of itself that was being run by the Secret Service on state of the art parallel equipment in the PEOC with a nucleus of Secret Service personnel around Cheney. In your view, might it have been the case that Cheney was using Ptech to surveil the function of the people in FAA & NORAD who wanted to do their jobs on 9/11, and then intervene to turn off the legitimate response? Indira Singh: Is it possible from a software point of view? Absolutely it's possible. Did he (Cheney) have such a capability? I don't know. But that's the ideal risk scenario - to have an overarching view of what's going on in data. That's exactly what I wanted for JP Morgan. You know what's ironic about this - I wanted to take my operational risk blueprint which is for an operational event going wrong and I wanted to make it generic for extreme event risk to surveil across intelligence networks. What you're describing is something that I said, 'boy if we had this in place maybe 9/11 wouldn't have happened.' When I was going down to DARPA and getting these guys excited about creating an extreme event risk blueprint to do this, I'm thinking of doing exactly what you're saying Cheney might have already had! ***I believe that Dick Cheney also had the ability using evolutions of the PROMIS software, to penetrate and override any other radar computer or communications system in the government. - Mike Ruppert, in "Summation: Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury," from Crossing The Rubicon, p.592 [Few have grasped the overall long-term significance of the saga of PROMIS software and what it has become. When I reported on it in October 2000, after meeting with and assisting members of the RCMP's National Security Staff I was aware that - in terms of secret technologies - PROMIS and its evolutions were the lynchpin of every new military, scientific and financial advance being pursued by the US government and corporate sector. PROMIS progeny have become the "operating system" underlying data management and data mining for every major technology under development in all arenas of technological advance from medicine, to finance, to surveillance, to battlefield Command, Control and Communications or C3. In the long ordeal to secure a publisher for Crossing the Rubicon, my agent and I went through a number of publishers who expressed keen interest in the book. The problem was that almost every one we dealt with came back to us and said, "We'd like to publish the book but we need for you to remove certain things." By a great margin, it was our chapter on PROMIS and my many subsequent references to it that appeared to be public enemy number one for mainstream publishers (most owned by multi-national corporations). By definition, PROMIS progeny are the backbone of a current DoD plan to develop a "Godlike" view of all human (or battlefield) activity from space. They are also inherently a part of the data processing being envisioned for advanced space weapons requiring machines to think as they share data in virtual real time. MIT in a recent scientific publication titled "Space Weapons: Crossing the US Rubicon"(a possible tip of the hat to my book) described a number of capabilities to which FTW referred in our October 2000 story on PROMIS, including a statement that space is "the ultimate high ground." The MIT article also contains a reference to one of the greatest fears expressed by all who wonder what hidden technologies might be making the Neocons so brazen in their attempts at bullying the world into submission: "On the other hand, the prospect of weapons in orbit-poised to strike anywhere on the globe at any time-has elicited vigorous opposition, both in the United States and abroad."45 The Neocons have placed their faith in technologies we have only begun to evaluate and discuss, and this is an area needing much additional research by authentic journalists. Iran is a much more industrialized and automated nation than the ruin and rubble of Iraq. What if Donald Rumsfeld believed that he could use computers through the Internet to turn off all of the power generating stations supplying Tehran? What if Dick Cheney could shut down all of the computerized pumping, pipeline, refining and chemical technology used to keep Iran's oil flowing to the rest of the world? This is how the American, British and Israeli elites (including corporations) think and how they plan. All three countries have long, deep and continuous links to PROMIS software. As time passes it is beginning to appear that PROMIS is literally what made possible not only 9/11, but everything that has followed since and what is being planned. Recently the New York Times published a story about how the US military was envisioning a costly new "Internet" in space to control all military operations worldwide, calling it a "God's-eye view" of battle. Called Global Information Grid or GIG, this new platform performs the exact functions we described in an FTW article more than four years ago. Then we were called delusional conspiracy theorists. Four years later we are shown to have been right on the money. Giant, expensive technology programs like SDI and GIG are sometimes neither wasteful porkbarrels nor the actual instruments that are presented to the public; instead, they are some third thing nobody knows about. This is the way large black projects are funded. Total Information Awareness or TIA, an Orwellian nightmare of data mining that uses PROMIS-evolved technologies and artificial intelligence, is now operating and able to incorporate vastly divergent data bases of personal information on private citizens from computer systems using different languages in near-real-time. Every bit of personal information from grocery shopping habits to driving records, credit reports, credit card transactions and medical records is now almost instantly accessible. Access will be expedited and broadened to local law enforcement agencies when what will become a national ID card comes into being. That will happen as driver's licenses are standardized nationwide (following the recent intelligence reform act) to include a simple UPC-like code that will allow approved agencies to get all of our data. The surveillance and intervention capabilities of PROMIS progeny can now be used to prohibit a credit card purchase or (soon) prevent someone from boarding a commercial aircraft. These capabilities could also be used to empty a private bank account or - when coupled with biometric face recognition technology - prevent you from making a withdrawal from your bank or even buying food. In every one of these software applications there are two themes: machines that "talk" to each other and artificial intelligence. (Please see Crossing the Rubicon). As you will see below, these capabilities are now known to exist. TIA has been renamed several times. We know that the first software was delivered to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in 2003. Its latest nom de guerre is TIE or Trusted Information Environment. According to the San Francisco Chronicle last October TIE now allows the government to access private databases without a warrant. I go one step further to assert that TIE allows access to private databases without the knowledge of the database owners, provided only one condition exists: the database can be accessed through the internet. And although the public face of TIA pretends that these technologies have not yet been applied, we are certain with the publication of this story that the same software the government needs is already in use by private corporations - the big ones - and we remind the reader that FTW's map of the world states that the government has been turned into a franchise operation of these corporations anyway. So where's the seam? What the courageous and brilliant Indira Singh has to tell us is a matter of monumental importance. Based upon these new revelations which confirm what I suggested in Crossing the Rubicon every American and quite likely every citizen of an industrialized nation should assume that all of these technologies are operational today. A bit of breathing room is left as I conclude that they have not been sufficiently deployed yet to monitor all citizens in real time. My best assumption is that right now perhaps a million or so high-interest Americans are under constant surveillance; all by computer technology which has proven so accurate that it can detect suspicious movements just by correlating gasoline and food purchases with bank withdrawals and utility consumption. [--MCR] FTW readers are aware that on the morning of 9/11 NORAD was engaged in multiple war games which drew fighter jets away from the doomed airliners, and polluted air traffic control screens with false information from the exercises. One of those injected blips was the so-called "phantom Flight 11," which appeared and persisted on control screens after the war games had been aborted.1 That would require exactly the kind of technology that Ptech (with whom Singh did business) and its partner Mitre had been providing to each of the three agencies involved: the FAA, NORAD, and - most significantly for Dick Cheney that morning - the Secret Service. In other words, one of the most central arguments in the Rubicon's case has just been independently validated. (See Part II) In this electrifying timeline-driven report, Wall Street whistleblower Indira Singh lays out the connections between the providers of this advanced software (derived from the PROMIS software stolen from the Inslaw corporation in the 1980s by the US Justice Department and others) and the network of terrorist financing (sustained with US blessing) that has pervaded U.S covert operations for years. That deep-political relationship is at its strongest in the Bush administration, whose Saudi and Pakistani ties go back decades. Dick Cheney, James Baker, GHWB, Dubya, and the people in and around the once and future American ruling junta have financially live links to the Muslim Brotherhood milieu that formed part of BCCI and, more recently, al Qaeda (this is also the context of a fascinatingly influential relationship among Kermit Roosevelt, GHWB, and Adnan Khashoggi). Nazis and their admirers are the third piece in the triangle, connected to Islamists since the Muslim Brotherhood's creation in 1928 by Hitler ally Hasam al-Banna, and connected to the Bush clan through decades of interdependence with American oil and intelligence elites - including the Rockefellers (Standard Oil) and the Harrimans (Brown Bros. Harriman / Kellogg Brown and Root / Halliburton).2 Viewed in this context, the Ptech story is a chilling reminder that this network is still in charge; that it facilitated the 9/11 attacks that murdered thousands and destroyed the health of thousands more; and that "our" American defenses against sabotage are woefully dependent upon the goodwill of saboteurs (both foreign and domestic). - JAH] January 20, 2005, 0900 PST (FTW) - In 1995 Indira Singh started working on Wall Street (around the corner from the WTC) as a Senior Enterprise Architecture Consultant for JP Morgan. When the company was purchased by Chase Manhattan Bank in January 2001, Singh moved from enterprise architecture to a related part of Morgan's IT operations: the Operational Risk Management (ORM) group.3 ORM is the informational part of bank security, in which sophisticated software is engineered and deployed to detect malfeasance - especially money-laundering, rogue trading, and accounting fraud.4 Since the spectacular collapse of BCCI in 1991, a decade of bank failures had shown the terrible importance of such surveillance and intervention capability. At JP Morgan Chase, Singh worked on the next generation of risk software, whose function, according to Singh, was "to think about all the information going on throughout the enterprise as bank business was being conducted worldwide… If it spotted something, it would be able to react by notifying an intelligent agent or actually stop what was happening in real time."5 In the wrong hands, such a program could have disastrous political and financial implications. From The Wilderness has published several stories about PROMIS software, the robust datamining program whose theft by the Justice Department has occasioned decades of international legal and illegal maneuvering. PROMIS is also the subject of a chapter in Crossing The Rubicon, because it took on geopolitical importance when a group of criminals connected to US intelligence modified PROMIS and sold it to foreign intelligence agencies in multiple countries as far back as the early 80s. There, it acted as a back door through which intelligence agencies stole proprietary and national-security information from those countries and dumped it into US computers. That was before artificial intelligence. In the twenty years since PROMIS was developed, artificial intelligence (AI) has potentiated such datamining programs in astonishing ways. Half of Crossing The Rubicon is about 9/11; the other half is about the surrounding system of deep political alliances, terrorism, narcotraffic, money laundering, bank fraud, and information technology (PROMIS) that made it possible. Following where her Ptech experience led, Singh came face to face with the monster behind a half-century of criminally funded rightwing militarism. The Ptech story is a crucial piece of 9/11 because the software was used to simultaneously coordinate the FAA with NORAD and the Secret Service. But it transcends 9/11 because that terror attack is continuous with preceding decades of violent Islamic extremism epitomized in the international Muslim Brotherhood, of which al Qaeda is only one, relatively recent, incarnation.6 Worse, the Muslim Brotherhood has from its first days been linked to the Nazi party and its Swiss neo-Nazi epigones.7 Anti-Soviet projects of the CIA and the Pentagon (from 11-22-63 to the Afghan War) have long been recognized as continuous with the absorption of Nazi SS personnel into what became the CIA.8 The connection of the Bush crime family to the political economy of the Nazi movement is familiar from the excellent work of former Justice Department Nazi war crimes prosecutor John Loftus and others.9 Its triangulation with the Bush-Saudi alliance forms a powerful explanatory paradigm - one to which FTW will be paying further attention in the sequel to this story. The following timeline is a red thread running through the larger fabric of contemporary Rightist attacks on democracy and the rule of law. Global in scope, this milieu transcends the boundaries of nation-states just as banks and multinational corporations do; it transcends the boundaries of religions as does the conceptual purview of what is universally recognized as "fundamentalism"; and it comprehends the wide range of projects that unite every domestic political assassination in America from RFK to the latest "suicided" Enemy of the State. Such a tapestry cannot hang on the single nail of an article like this one, but if we are to understand this "warthatwillnotendinourlifetimes," we need to pick up the hammer. With the Rubiconbehind us and Indira Singh at our side, we begin with her experience.
Early in the game, as the shady background of Ptech began to emerge, Indira Singh came to a point of decision. Should she go forward with Ptech's product, or reject the company? Were the allegations about Ptech serious, or were they disinformation from competitors engaged in commerce interference? She sought out the FBI agent to whom Jeff Goins had spoken. He sent her a video documentary produced by Joe Bergantino for WBZ TV, a CBS affiliate in Boston, about an Islamist charity called CARE International. "The people in the video that the FBI were looking for right after 9/11 were Ptech employees: Muhammed Mubayyid and Suheil Laher, who had also worked for CARE International. But this was not the Care International everyone knows. This CARE listed its corporate office in the same suite as Al Khifah's Boston office25 - whose more famous location was the Al-Khifah Refugee Centre in Brooklyn's Atlantic Avenue, where mujaheddin recruits were processed for the CIA's Afghani "Operation Cyclone." It was later named as the locus of the 1993 conspiracy to bomb the World Trade Center.26 Muhammed Mubayyid, a Ptech employee and former treasurer of CARE, has donated money to Al Khifah's Brooklyn office. Recall the notorious intransigence of the FBI in the 1993 WTC case - using Egyptian informant Emad Salem, the Bureau had successfully infiltrated the terrorist cell responsible for the bombing and secretly recorded myriad hours of the cell's planning discussions. It has never given a satisfactory account of its failure to act on that abundant advance information. As documented in Crossing The Rubicon, the same deeply disturbing obstructionism pervades the behavior of middle and high officials in the FBI's before and after 9/11/01. This is the same FBI. Indira took Joe Bergantino's video report down to Virginia and interviewed Ptech employees herself. Having confirmed fears, she demanded the FBI agent who gave her Bergantino's report re-open an investigation into Ptech. He said he couldn't. She told him to tell his supervisor. He already had, and was told there was nothing they could do. The FBI was one of Ptech's clients. Her next stop was Mark Coughlin, the Chief Information Officer (CIO) at JP Morgan Chase. His particular position equipped him to understand the kind of damage the firm might suffer if it were to adopt a malicious program with Ptech's computational power. Moved and alarmed, Coughlin called Security, the General Auditor, and the CEO. They contacted the FBI - at a very high level - who validated all of Indira Singh's claims about Ptech. Coughlin was shaken. He sent her to William Moran, the General Auditor, who refused to meet with her until she had been debriefed by his security people. "They treated me like I was crazy, like I was the terrorist." And when the meeting finally happened, it was an Orwellian horror show. He asked where she had gotten her information, and as she named her individual sources Moran answered each name the same way, over and over: "That person should be killed... that person should be killed… that person should be killed."27 Hateful words, motivated by a terrible fear of the truth. CODA: Knowledge is Power The computational power of the Ptech evolution of PROMIS software represents of a daunting new surveillance-and-intervention capability in the hands of the same elites who planned 9/11, prosecute the subsequent resource wars, and are presiding over what may become a full economic and military disaster for the resource-consuming citizens of America and the world. Since the "War On Terror" and this coming dollar / natural gas collapse will necessitate new levels of domestic repression, this is just the capability those elites require. Ptech is Total Information Awareness. It combines datamining, artificial intelligence, and "interoperability," the capacity for one program to read, operate, and modify the source codes of other programs. Datamining is a technique for detecting and extracting meaningful patterns hidden within vast quantities of apparently meaningless data. Applications include policing and case management (where PROMIS -- Prosecutor's Management Information System began), aviation (Mitre), banking and risk management (JP Morgan), enterprise architecture and knowledge management (Popkin), the gathering and sifting of political and industrial intelligence information (FBI, RCMP, et al.), and a wide range of military applications (NORAD, Navy, etc.). Programs based on datamining are powerful analytical tools; finding meaningful patterns in an ocean of information is very useful. But when such a tool is driven by a high-caliber artificial intelligence core, its power gets spooky. The datamining capability becomes a smart search tool of the AI program, and the system begins to learn. In recent decades, great strides have been made by the mutually fertile disciplines of mathematics, computer science, and neuroscience. Among the results has been a new discipline called cognitive neuroscience, which constitutes a powerful new understanding of the way the human brain works (see Churchland, Gazzaniga, etc.) While this has illuminated some very fundamental and grand issues of philosophy, it also has applications so practical that they have reshaped our world. "Neural Network" programming is modeled on the computational techniques used by the human brain - an electrochemical computer that uses neurons instead of semiconductors; the firing or non-firing of neurons instead of ones and zeros. With neural networking, software has become much smarter than it had been. Now it can perform multiple, related operations at the same time through parallel processing; now it can learn from setbacks, and use genetic algorithms to evolve its way out of limitations. Now it can respond to more kinds of data from the electronic environment, including "fuzzy" values that don't come in discreet numerical packages. This kind of computational power supports an inference engine that can digest the mined data into results that are not only descriptive of the system's present state but predictive for imminent and, to some degree, even middle-term outcomes. That's why the same family of programs that does enterprise architecture, which is descriptive (and prescriptive if you take its descriptions as a mandate for cutting costs by firing people - "process management"), comes to include risk management software, which is predictive of the future. It extrapolates from current trends in a more than quantitative way. Conventional electronic surveillance finds patterns in the data of other instruments; Ptech's Framework can exploit the patterns it detects and extrapolate future probabilities. Then it can integrate itself with the computers from which it's getting the information and intervene in their functioning. The result is a tool for surveillance and intervention. The program can identify suspect streams of cash in a banking network and allow a bank officer to freeze the suspect assets. Of course, a user could direct the same program to prevent detection. It can discover salient anomalies in a person's movements through a city and either flag those anomalies for further scrutiny, or erase them from the record. And it can find errant flights in an air traffic map and initiate an intercept response. Or not. Additional Reading on PROMIS and Its Evolutions:
1 Crossing the Rubicon, p. 444 (quoting from Air War Over America, p. 59): "Could Deskins and her colleagues have been confused by one of the radar injects left in place by the maestro? A subsequent statement by General Arnold suggests that at least some of the exercises continued to run well into the attacks. United Airlines Flight 175 crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center at 9:03 AM with 65 people aboard. Two 767s were gone, and it was anyone's guess what might happen next. "I thought it might be prudent to pull out of the exercise [Vigilant Guardian] which we did." Arnold says. "We called NORAD, and they were well aware of what had happened obviously. … As we pulled out of the exercise we were getting calls about United Flight 93 and we were worried about that." Here Arnold states that Vigilant Guardian was not terminated until about the same time that the first reports of Flight 93's hijacking, which we have already established occurred at around 9:16 or 54 minutes after it had been known that Flight 11 was a hijack. Why did it take so long?" What this all means is that, according to all official accounts, we have the exercises called off by 9:16 - well before 9:25 when "Phantom Flight 11" comes on the scene [-MK]. 2 Glenn R. Simpson, "U.S. Tries to Tie Maze of Firms, Charities Based in Herndon Into a Global Network: Bin Laden's 'Golden Chain'" The Wall Street Journal, June 21, 2004 ; Page A1. 3 FTW interview with Indira Singh. She worked for Peter Cerenita & Mark Coughlin under Martha Gallo on the Morgan side of the newly merged organization. For Gallo, see:http://www.infoworld.com/articles/fe/xml/01/11/26/011126fejp.html. 4 http://ar.jpmorganchase.com/ar/mda/operating.html. 5 See FTW, May 16, 2002, "The Lie Won't Stand," by Michael C. Ruppert.http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/051602_liewontstand.html "To quote 60 Minutes from Sept. 19,'Sources tell CBS News that the afternoon before the attack, alarm bells were sounding over unusual trading in the U.S. stock options market.'" Those "alarm bells" were part of this software. The irony of ultra-sophisticated software is that whatever it is equipped to protect, it is also equipped to sabotage; everything depends on the intentions of the user. Note that one of the earliest and most potent articles on 9/11 insider trading was the September 19, 2001 "Black Tuesday: The World's Largest Insider Trading Scam?" by Don Radlauer, a consultant at the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism in Herzliya, Israel. http://www.ict.org.il/. 6 National Commission On Terrorist Attacks Upon The United States. Public Hearing Wednesday, July 9, 2003. 253 Russell Senate Office Building, Washington, DC Panel 1: Terrorism, Al Qaeda, And The Muslim World. Testimony of Dr. Mamoun Fandy: "Prince Nayef of Saudi Arabia finally admitted that the Muslim Brotherhood is the mother of all problems in the Arab world. And Saudi Arabia hosted the Muslim Brotherhood during the Arab Cold War that was between Nasser and King Faisal in the '70s. And, in fact, the Muslim Brotherhood, one can argue that they hijacked the total educational Saudi system and turned it around to produce what we know as al Qaeda. The Muslim Brotherhood was the first Islamic organization with global reach, in fact. With its headquarters now next to CENTCOM in Qatar, under Sheikh Qaradawi, practically the Muslim Brotherhood has global reach. It has offices in Germany. It has offices in Virginia next door. It has offices in Yemen and other places. So unless we really consider the Muslim Brotherhood as part of that larger network, we fail to understand this whole organization. The Muslim Brotherhood is responsible for the civil war in Algeria, responsible for its civil war in Yemen, and responsible for the current situation that we see in Egypt and in Saudi Arabia." 7 See Marc Erikson, "Islamism, fascism and terrorism (Part 2 of 3)," Asia Times, November 5, 2002: "During the 1936-39 Arab Revolt, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, head of German military intelligence, sent agents and money to support the Palestine uprising against the British, as did Muslim Brotherhood founder and "supreme guide" Hassan al-Banna. A key individual in the fascist-Islamist nexus and go-between for the Nazis and al-Banna became the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin el-Husseini - incidentally the later mentor (from 1946 onward) of a young firebrand by the name of Yasser Arafat. "Having fled from Palestine to Iraq, el-Husseini assisted there in the short-lived April 1941 Nazi-inspired and financed anti-British coup. By June 1941, British forces had reasserted control in Baghdad and the mufti was on the run again, this time via Tehran and Rome to Berlin, to a hero's welcome. He remained in Germany as an honored guest and valuable intelligence and propaganda asset through most of the war, met with Hitler on several occasions, and personally recruited leading members of the Bosnian-Muslim "Hanjar" (saber) division of the Waffen SS. "Another valued World War II Nazi collaborator was Youssef Nada, current board chairman of al-Taqwa (Nada Management), the Lugano, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and Bahamas-based financial services outfit accused by the US Treasury Department of money laundering for and financing of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda." For links between Ptech's board member Yassin al Qadi, Soliman Biheiri, and al Taqwa / Nada, see Glenn R. Simpson, "U.S. Tries to Tie Maze of Firms, Charities Based in Herndon Into a Global Network; Bin Laden's 'Golden Chain,' Wall Street Journal, June 21, 2004. http://www.hatefreeamerica.com/062104.htm; John Loftus, "The Muslim Brotherhood, Nazis and Al-Qaeda,"Jewish Community News, October 4, 2004: http://frontpagemag.com/articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=15344; Marc Perelman, "Terror Fund Trail Leads To Alpine Kingdom," Forward, October 17, 2003: http://www.forward.com/issues/2003/03.10.17/news4.terror.html. 8 "For excellent published works on the CIA/Nazi connection read: Trading With The Enemy by Charles Higham; The Secret War Against the Jews by Loftus and Arrons; Blowback by Christopher Simpson." From Robert Lederman, "CIA Admits Nazi Connection," September 23, 2000: http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/cia-.htm. 9 John Buchanan and Stacey Michael, "Bush - Nazi Dealings Continued Until 1951 - Federal Documents," The New Hampshire Gazette Vol. 248, No. 3, November 7, 2003: "After the seizures in late 1942 of five U.S. enterprises he managed on behalf of Nazi industrialist Fritz Thyssen, Prescott Bush, the grandfather of President George W. Bush, failed to divest himself of more than a dozen "enemy national" relationships that continued until as late as 1951, newly-discovered U.S. government documents reveal. Furthermore, the records show that Bush and his colleagues routinely attempted to conceal their activities from government investigators. Bush's partners in the secret web of Thyssen-controlled ventures included former New York Governor W. Averell Harriman and his younger brother, E. Roland Harriman. Their quarter-century of Nazi financial transactions, from 1924-1951, were conducted by the New York private banking firm, Brown Brothers Harriman. The White House did not return phone calls seeking comment. Although the additional seizures under the Trading with the Enemy Act did not take place until after the war, documents from The National Archives and Library of Congress confirm that Bush and his partners continued their Nazi dealings unabated." 10 Stephen Schwartz, "Wahhabis in the Old Dominion: What the federal raids in Northern Virginia uncovered,"Weekly Standard 04/08/2002, Volume 007, Issue 29 [EXCERPT: ] The keystone of the Saudi-sponsored Northern Virginia network is the Saar Foundation, created by Suleiman Abdul Al-Aziz al-Rajhi, a scion of one of the richest Saudi families. The Saar Foundation is connected to Al-Taqwa, a shell company formerly based in Switzerland, where its leading figures included a notorious neo-Nazi and Islamist, Ahmed Huber. Subsequently moved to the United States, Al-Taqwa was shut down after September 11 and its assets frozen by U.S. presidential order. But operations continued, as the Wahhabi lobby shifted to its backup institutions here. Saar has also been linked to Khalid bin Mahfouz, former lead financial adviser to the Saudi royal family and ex-head of the National Commercial Bank of Saudi Arabia. Mahfouz has been named by French intelligence as a backer of Osama bin Laden; Mahfouz endowed the Muwafaq Foundation, which U.S. authorities confirm was an arm of bin Laden's terror organization. Muwafaq's former chief, Yassin al-Qadi, oversaw the financial penetration of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Albania by Wahhabi terrorists in the late 1990s. […] A major personality on the ground in Virginia is an individual named Jamal Barzinji, whose office in Herndon was a major target of the raids. In 1980, he was listed in local public records as a representative of the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY), an arm of the Saudi regime with offices in Virginia. WAMY has been deeply involved in providing cover for Wahhabi terrorism. The 2002 entry in the U.S. Business Directory lists the president of the WAMY office in Annandale, Va., as Abdula bin Laden--the terrorist's younger brother. Barzinji serves as a trustee and officer of the Amana Mutual Funds Trust, a growth and income mutual fund headquartered in Bellingham, Wash., conveniently near the Canadian border. Amana's board also includes Yaqub Mirza, a Pakistani physicist who shares Barzinji's Herndon office address and who is widely described as a financial genius. Another board member and tenant in the Herndon office is Samir Salah. He formerly ran a branch of Al-Taqwa in the Caribbean, heads a financial firm linked to Saar, and directs Dar al-Hijra, a mosque in Falls Church, Va., notable for hardline Wahhabi preaching. Salah is also deeply involved with Taibah International Aid Association, a Virginia charity with a Bosnian branch that is being investigated by authorities in Sarajevo. 11 "Another exhibit from the defense motion is an affidavit filed by Edwin Angeles, a founder of Abu Sayyaf, a Filipino terrorist group. Angeles, who was assassinated by former comrades, wrote in 1996 that he was at a 1991 meeting in Davao City, attended by Yousef, Murad and Nichols, at which, they discussed 'bombing activities, providing firearms and ammo' to terrorists and 'training in bomb making and handling' of explosives. Nichols, he claimed, was introduced to him as 'the farmer.'" http://www.okcbombing.org/News%20Articles/oklahoma_mystery.htm 12 For a definition of and information about inference engines, see: http://www.emclab.umr.edu/consortium/Whatis/node17.html; http://www.hyperdictionary.com/computing/inference+engine; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inference_engine. 13 For DARPA's letter of appreciation to ICH, see: http://www.ichnet.org/images/darpa.pdf. 14 For In-Q-Tel, see Rick E. Yannuzzi, "In-Q-Tel: A New Partnership Between the CIA and the Private Sector,"Defense Intelligence Journal, Volume 9 Number 1 Winter 2000. "Yannuzzi was Senior Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Strategic and Nuclear Programs in the National Intelligence Council (NIC). He previously was a member of the CIA's Enterprise - i.e., In-Q-Tel - Start-Up Team and served as its first Director of Business Operations. Mr. Yannuzzi also served as the DCI's Executive Secretary [and] DCI Representative to the White House Science Office." http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/inqtel/#top. 15 "As for the Bush connection, there is Ashcroft. I [Jeffrey Sharlet] discovered in their archives a correspondence between Ashcroft and Coe that began in 1981." Anthony Lappé, Guerrilla News Network, "Meet 'The Family'," June 13, 2003. http://www.alternet.org/story/16167 16 "Senators Don Nickles (R., Okla.), Charles Grassley (R., Iowa), Pete Domenici (R., N.Mex.), John Ensign (R., Nev.), James Inhofe (R., Okla.), Bill Nelson (D., Fla.), and Conrad Burns (R., Mont.) are referred to as "members," as are Representatives Jim DeMint (R., S.C.), Frank Wolf (R., Va.), Joseph Pitts (R., Pa.), Zach Wamp (R., Tenn.), and Bart Stupak (D., Mich.). Regular prayer groups have met in the Pentagon and at the Department of Defense, and the Family has traditionally fostered strong ties with businessmen in the oil and aerospace industries." Jeffrey Sharlet, "Jesus Plus Nothing," Harper's Magazine, March 2003. http://www.harpers.org/JesusPlusNothing.html?pg=1 17 "The Fellowship is now trying to take over government boards in my county of Arlington, VA and are making a major power play in Annapolis, MD. Tom Feeney, Ashcroft, DeLay, Bush (Dubya and Jeb), Cheney, Sean O'Keefe, Condi Rice, John Bolton, Ed Meese, [Charles] Colson, Brownback, Ralph Reed, Frank Wolf, Ernie Fletcher, Katherine Harris, [Newt] Gingrich, JC Watts, Burr, Jindal, Lamar Smith, Zach Wamp, Scalia, Ensign, Kyl, [Kenneth]Blackwell, Bob Ehrlich, Karl Rove, Jack Kemp, James Baker, Clarence Thomas, Tom Coburn, Asa and Tim Hutchinson, Gens. Boykin and Myers, DeMint, Curt Weldon, Grover Norquist, George Allen, [Rick] Santorum, are all in this group. The late Lee Atwater was close to this group. "The Fellowship, which has strong links to the "Rev." Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, operates in cells and not only takes over governments but also local church congregations to further their goals. Two local congegations taken over by the Fellowship are Falls Church Episcopal and Cherrydale Baptist. They also maintain the private Riverdell School, another way to brainwash young children who are not already being brainwashed by home schooling. "The Prime Minister of Norway has just been outed as a member of this group. In fact, most of the so-called "Coalition of the Willing" nations' leaders are members of The Fellowship, e.g., Tonga, Macedonia, Palau, Netherlands, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Solomon Islands, Uganda, Rwanda, Guatemala, El Salvador, Denmark, Romania, Iceland, Fiji, Georgia, Colombia, possibly also Howard of Australia and Blair of Britain."http://jamboi.dailykos.com/story/2004/12/31/175217/25 18 http://www.911truth.org/media/september-hearings.pdf. 19 See Dan Verton, "Feds turn up heat on IT sector links to al-Qaeda," in New Zealand's Unlimited business news magazine (9 December, 2002). "Senior counterintelligence officials familiar with the case said the U.S. Customs Service initiated the investigation of Ptech after a disgruntled employee tipped off the agency to the company's alleged hidden ownership. As a result, Customs and the FBI began investigating Yacub Mirza, a former member of Ptech's board of directors who also manages a number of other businesses in the U.S. 'Mirza was acting on behalf of Yassin Qadi, the Saudi financier who was on the U.S. [terrorism] watch list and whose accounts here are frozen,' said Vince Cannistraro, the former chief of counterterrorism at the CIA. 'Qadi is the guy behind Ptech.'" http://unlimited.co.nz/unlimited.nsf/0/496994074071EE0FCC256C890078E951?OpenDocument. See Mirza investigation at:http://www.sptimes.com/2002/03/21/news_pf/Worldandnation/Terror_raid_warrant_n.shtml. See also: David Lytel, "The War at Home: Federal Law Enforcement Officials Follow International Terrorism's Money Trail from Northern Virginia to Saudi Arabia, but President Bush Says That's Far Enough."http://www.john-loftus.com/saudis.asp#enough 20 Youssef Nada is "an Egyptian exile based in Switzerland who has served for decades as the longtime foreign liaison of the Muslim Brotherhood." From Glenn R. Simpson, "U.S. Tries to Tie Maze of Firms, Charities Based in Herndon Into a Global Network; Bin Laden's 'Golden Chain,' Wall Street Journal, June 21, 2004. http://www.hatefreeamerica.com/062104.htm. 21 DAMA International Symposium and Wilshire Meta-Data Conference in San Antonio.http://wilshireconferences.com/MD2002/index.htm. 22 Search for International Terrorist Entities is a 501©(3) non-profit organization that provides information related to terrorist networks to the government, news media, and general public. http://www.siteinstitute.org/ 23 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/801901/posts 24 Myers' retreat from the story is summed up here: "NEVER MIND… Remember the Massachusetts software company which the feds raided in search of terrorist ties? NBC's Lisa Myers found that Ptech's suspicious Saudi backer Yassin al-Qadi 'sold his interest at least three years ago' and then offered $500,000 to Bush's 2000 Presidential campaign. The GOP rejected al-Qadi 'because it is illegal to take contributions from foreigners.'" January 11, 2003: http://www.tyndallreport.com/tw0302.html 25 "Software firm mired in terrorism probe," Associated Press, January 5, 2003http://www.seacoastonline.com/2003news/01052003/biz_nati/6299.htm 26 "U.S. probes terror ties to Boston software firm," by Jerry Guidera and Glenn R. Simpson, Wall St. Journal, December 6, 2002 http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/index.jsp?section=static&page=ptech 27 Dan Hopsicker interview with Indira, "Conspiracy Tonight" online TV program at www.madcowprod.com PTECH, 9/11, and USA-SAUDI TERROR PART II PROMIS Connections to Cheney Control of 9/11 Attacks Confirmed
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Ptech, the CIA, FBI, SS, 911, PROMIS, Terrorists-R-US - Peter Lemkin - 24-12-2016 Ptech and the Journey of a Wall Street Whistleblower Accountability, Begin Questioning The Journey of a Wall Street Whistleblower A 911truth.org Exclusive Report By Michael Kane "Ptech had all the markings," said Indira Singh. All the markings of a CIA front company.
March 2, 2005 (911truth.org): Wall Street whistleblower Indira Singh has had her professional life ripped away from her because of keeping the promise she made to some 3,000 victim's who died at Ground Zero on 9/11. She made that promise at Ground Zero on 9/11 as a civilian EMT. Indira was supposed to be on the 106th floor of the World Trade Center that morning, but she was late. "I made a promise," said Indira during a lengthy FTWinterview, "that if anything fell into my lap, I wouldn't look the other wayand I'm keeping that promise.""I think there is a CIA within the CIA," Indira told From the Wilderness (FTW). "I think there is a Shadow CIA that does the Iran-Contra type of thingsthey get funding from illicit methodsand that the Saudi's are in on it. They might have trained some operatives, and later it backfired it was blowback within blowback, perhaps." "What I do know, what the money trails do show, is that the Saudi's are complicit. In other words, the ones that are extremely fundamentalist, the ones that promote Wahabiism-I'm not saying it's all of them, but parts of themare working hand-in-hand, lock step with elements within American intelligence whether it's official or unofficial. There's proof of that." Something did fall into her lap . . . something big. Editor's Note: In this special report, Michael Kane recounts the story of JP Morgan IT professional, Indira Singh, a heroic 9/11 whistleblower who was fired, harassed, and physically threatened for exposing the Saudi/terrorist-linked origins of one of the government's most pervasive software systems, and thereby offering the 9/11 Commission more truth than it ever wanted to know. Indira is an IT professional who started First Boston's Information Technology Group in 1970 and had worked on Wall Street up until 2002. She has been an IT consultant for Bank Trust, the U.N., JP Morgan, and American Express. In 1988 she started TibetNet, a derivative of the Defense Advanced Research Project (DARPA) Internet, the service on which you are likely reading this report at the moment. On 9/11/2001, Indira worked for JP Morgan in a field called Risk Management, involving computer systems and programs designed to keep JP Morgan's entire information and financial structure safe. She had also worked with a Defense Advanced Research Project DARPA-funded technology group, with close ties to the CIA. This provided her with contacts deep within the government and corporate America. She was working on a program for JP Morgan the next generation of risk software whose function was to think about all the information going on throughout the enterprise as bank business was being conducted worldwide. It would detect money laundering and other crimes in real time and then do something about it; perhaps alert an "intelligent" software agent or a person, or shutdown the transaction immediately. This capability could be accomplished by using an evolution of PROMIS software. FTW has extensively covered the PROMIS software controversy, the software stolen by the Justice Department from Inslaw which over the past two decades has evolved and merged with artificial intelligence. "We were moving into the realm of much smarter software next generation software that would collect information on the fly and sort of think about it," said Indira. The CIA was interested in the technology behind Indira's risk application at one point. So was the Defense Department. Indira's vision was to create software that could respond to "extreme event risk." 9/11 was an extreme event. Risk Management involves devising ways to stop big problems from happening throughout the enterprise. She needed a company to provide a key piece of this enterprise software "All the industry gurus recommended Ptech." Indira was unsure whether Ptech was right. After all, they were a small company, and with software this expensive you couldn't afford to choose wrong. But everywhere she looked boosted her confidence in Ptech, especially when viewing their list of prominent clients. The White House, Treasury Department (Secret Service), CIA, FBI, both houses of Congress, Air Force, Navy, Department of Energy, IRS, Booze Allen Hamilton, IBM, Enron and even NATO all used, and as of this writing, some still use Ptech software. IBM, a global strategic partner with JP Morgan, had selected Ptech for their Preferred Vendor program. All of this convinced Indira that Ptech was the right choice. After getting the extensive site clearance JP Morgan required, Indira invited Ptech to the premises for a one-day evaluation of their software. But according to Indira, everything was wrong that day. They didn't come with anything needed to do the one-day evaluation, but Ptech's chief scientist, Dr. Hussein Ibrahim, suggested to Indira that they develop the software on his laptop. "If you know how these things are conducted, that was a show stopper," says Indira. Ptech would have been able to walk away with the blueprint to Indira's program on their laptop, and JP Morgan would have been left with nothing. Indira decided Ibrahim's proposition was a definite deal breaker. Risk blueprints worth millions of dollars aren't given away at an introductory meeting; the industry doesn't work that way. To this day Indira is unsure of why Ibrahim would have even suggested this. "He's not a stupid man," she said, "he knows this is not how business is conducted." Her Investigation Begins With Ptech's people still in the office, Indira called Roger Burlton, who runs Business Process Renewal in Vancouver. Roger told Indira, "Don't let them out of your sight and don't let them leave with anything." This was coming from one of the men who recommended Ptech to Indira in December of 2001, and was using them himself. But a lot had transpired since then. This was now May of 2002; just two months earlier Yaqub Mirza, who was on the board of Ptech, was the target of a terror-financing raid. Indira tells this reporter that she felt Roger knew more at the time than he let on to. Roger recommended Indira speak to Jeff Goins, a former Ptech employee. This is where Indira first heard of Saudi terror financier Yasin Al Qadi and that he had been (and may have continued to be) an investor in Ptech. Al Qadi said he met Dick Cheney in Jeddah before he became Vice President, and that they still maintain "cordial relations." Indira confirmed that Jeff had taken his concerns to the FBI. In short order, Indira was talking to the FBI agent Jeff had spoken with. "If there is an ongoing investigation that is fine," Indira told the FBI, "but you have to give me something to hang my hat on to pass on to my superiors. Otherwise I'm just passing on propaganda and I won't be caught dead doing that." The FBI agent sent her a video produced by Joe Bergantino' for CBS in Boston, on Care International. "The people in the video that the FBI were looking for right after 9/11 were Ptech employees." Muhammed Mubayyid and Suheil Laheir, who were both Ptech employees, formerly worked for Care International. But this is not the Care everyone knows. This Care listed its corporate office in the same suite as Al Kifah's Boston office. Al Kifah was a Muslim organization whose Brooklyn office was named as the locus of the 1993 conspiracy to bomb the World Trade Center. Muhammed Mubayyid, who is still employed by Ptech and used to be the treasurer for Care, once made a donation to Al Kifah's Brooklyn office. We should not forget the FBI had completely infiltrated the terrorist cell responsible for the '93 bombing with Egyptian informant Emad Salem. The FBI had dropped him from their payroll right when the informant himself was designing the bomb used in the WTC bombing. Before it was Al Kifah, Indira says, Care was part of Maktab al-Khidamat (MAK), the accounting mechanism put in place by the CIA in 1988 to pass BCCI money through to the Pakistani ISI when bin Laden was the U.S.-Intel "fair-haired boy." In late 1993, Care and Al Kifah both launched efforts to make the Islamic religious movement more high-tech. A Care document announcing the project says, "It is the duty of every Muslim, especially those with the latest technical expertise from the U.S., to contribute this knowledge that Allah has bestowed on them." So is that why MAK was being run out of Ptech under its new co-opted name, Care International? "Your country is not the country you think it is," says Indira. She took Joe Bergantino's report down to Virginia and interviewed Ptech employees herself to get it straight from the horse's mouth. Having further confirmed her worst nightmares, she demanded the FBI agent who gave her Bergantino's report re-open an investigation into Ptech. He said he couldn't. She told him to tell his supervisor. He already had, and was told there was nothing they could do. Remember, the FBI was one of Ptech's clients or was it the other way around? "What do you do when the FBI tells you, Indira, you're in a better position to investigate this than we are'"? Sent to the Principal's Office Indira brought all of her information to Mark Coughlan, Chief Information Officer (CIO) at JP Morgan. Instantly he called Security, the General Auditor, and the CEO of JP Morgan/Chase. The next day Mark told Indira he had nightmares. "A CIO will know the type of damage that an enterprise architecture firm with that kind of software can do," says Indira. They contacted the FBI. Mark informed her the FBI had confirmed everything she had put on the table. "Everything!" exclaimed Indira in shock. "Even all the bits and pieces I wasn't sure about?" Mark sent Indira to the General Auditor. Before the General Auditor would meet with her she was sent through his security people. "They treated me like I was crazy, like I was a terrorist." She finally met with Bill Moran, General Auditor of JP Morgan/Chase who, in no uncertain terms, threatened her. He asked where she had gotten her information. As she named her individual sources Moran said, "That person should be killed," to each name she mentioned. According to Indira, the Chase mentality was, "Shut up and stay in your place." Indira told this reporter that JP Morgan was a great corporation which encouraged individuality and creativity until it merged with Chase. However, Senate Investigations headed by Carl Levin revealed JP Morgan was one of the main banks involved in laundering drug money, as was Chase. Corruption was no stranger to JP Morgan, nor to Chase. Bill Moran told Indira if she shut up about Ptech, she would have a long and prosperous career at JP Morgan/Chase. Indira no longer works there. "But Indira, everyone knew what Ptech was about!" The same industry gurus who told Indira to use Ptech were now telling her, "But Indira, everyone knew what Ptech was about." "Well I didn't!" yelled Indira during her testimony to the first 9/11 Citizens Commission on September 9, 2003, in NYC, "and neither did the 3,000 that were murdered on 9/11." What exactly does that mean? Everyone knew what? When Ptech first popped up on the scene in 1994 they were a very small company but incredibly well funded. They put up huge hospitality booths at industry trade shows and at the time they had only one client RJ Reynolds. They started to get very prestigious clients that other, more experienced and reputable American software firms were going after. So who's playing who here? That was the question Cynthia McKinney had for Indira at the 9/11 Citizens Commission hearings. Are we really to believe every major government and military agency in America has been duped into opening their informational barn doors to Saudi terrorists? "It had all the markings," said Indira. All the markings of a CIA front company. "I think there is a CIA within the CIA," Indira told FTW. "I think there is a Shadow CIA that does the Iran-Contra type of thingsthey get funding from illicit methodsand that the Saudi's are in on it. They might have trained some operatives, and later it backfired-it was blowback within blowback perhaps." "What I do know, what the money trails do show, is that the Saudi's are complicit. In other words, the ones that are extremely fundamentalist, the ones that promote Wahabiism-I'm not saying it's all of thembut parts of them are working hand-in-hand, lock step with elements within intelligence, whether it's official or unofficial. There's proof of that." Ptech is the information architecture extension of that hand-in-hand relationship. The CEO of Ptech is Oussama Ziade. Al Qadi visited Ptech in 1994 and provided $5 million to start up the company, a quarter of the $20 million Ptech raised from about 50 "angel" investors, according to CNN. Al Qadi was introduced to Ziade through BMI, Inc. of New Jersey, a critical component of this nexus that will be discussed later in this report. "What we tried to do is keep (Al Qadi) interested, because he's connected to a lot of VCs (venture capitalists) in Saudi Arabia," Ziade said. "He's known as an international businessman that has connections." CNN says according to "all accounts," Al Qadi showed little interest in the company and never invested in Ptech again. But according to Indira, Al Qadi funded Ptech well into 1999, and beyond that funded the 2001 Horizons Software venture, the Arabic version of the Ptech software. Hussein Ibrahim spent most of 2001 setting up Horizons in Cairo, Egypt. Additionally, Al Qadi's lawyer said he had "sold his stake" in Ptech by 1999, but if this is true, how can CNN say he "showed little interest" and "never invested in Ptech" after 1994? While CNN may technically not be lying, their reporting is askew. Beyond this, Al Qadi is linked to the Saudi royal family. Al Qadi's wife is part of the Jamjoom family, and her father,Qadi's father-in-law,is a former high-ranking Saudi finance minister. This is the same Royal family with whom the Bush family and Dick Cheney are certainly no strangers. This comes from a Department of Treasury report produced on July 14, 2003. Indira was able to get her hands on a copy of the report, which this reporter reviewed on January 21, 2005. The BMI Octopus At the same time Indira had stumbled onto Yasin Al Qadi, Robert Wright was on the stairs of the Capitol in tears apologizing to the 9/11 victim's' family members for a fouled up investigation into Yasin Al Qadi, and much more. Indira didn't know of Agent Wright until seeing him on television. "When Agent Wright said he was investigating a company with 26 subsidiaries, it was BMI, and Ptech was their crown jewel." Though Ptech wasn't a direct subsidiary of the New Jersey Islamic banking firm BMI, Dr. Hussein Ibrahim, Ptech's chief scientist who inexplicably asked Indira to develop JP Morgan's software on his laptop, was vice president of BMI from 1989 to 1995. BMI had also leased computer equipment to Ptech, and as mentioned earlier, it was BMI that introduced Ptech to Yasin Al Qadi. Al Qadi was an investor in BMI. The FBI says other BMI investors include Mousa Abu Marzouk, who operates openly as a top Hamas leader based in Damascus, Syria, and is designated by the Treasury as a terrorism sponsor. In 1999, a BMI employee told the FBI that the company might have financed the bombings of U.S. embassy in East Africa in 1998, according to a sworn FBI statement. Agent Wright had been investigating the president of BMI, Inc., an Egyptian citizen named Soliman Bihieri, who was later convicted of lying about his ties to terrorist leaders. Wright was working with Gamal Abdel-Hafiz, an FBI Agent born in Egypt. The code name of the operation was "Vulgar Betrayal." Agent Abdel-Hafiz, by what may be more than just coincidence, was a friend of one of BMI's accountants. Because of this, he was asked by Agent Wright to have a meeting with Bihieri and wear a wire, but Hafiz refused. "It's hard to emphasize how odd it was for an FBI agent to refuse to cooperate with an investigation when he had been approached by a grand jury subject," said Mark Flessner, the former prosecutor involved in the Vulgar Betrayal investigation. "It was surreal. I've never heard it happening in the history of the FBI." When this hit the news, FBI Agent Carmody from Tampa, Florida alleged Abdel-Hafiz had also refused to record a phone conversation with Sami Al-Arian in 1998, a claim Hafiz denies. Agent Abdel-Hafiz claims he feared for his life and felt the FBI could not protect him if he wore a wire on Soliman Bihieri. He referenced threats made to him when he first started working for the FBI as a translator in 1995, saying he felt the FBI didn't take adequate steps to ensure the safety of his ex-wife. But that was before Hafiz became a full-fledged FBI agent in 1996. Astonishingly, after this occurred Agent Abdel-Hafiz was promoted to one of the FBI's most important anti-terrorism posts, the American Embassy in Saudi Arabia. The day he arrived, the USS Cole was bombed in Yemen. He quickly became involved in that investigation, and was later promoted to Assistant Legal Attach? in Riyadh with a GS 14 ranking-the second highest level an agent can obtain. He was at that post on September 11, 2001. Sound Fishy? We can add FBI Agent Gamal Abdel-Hafiz to our list of those inexplicably promoted for so called "failures" around terrorism investigations and 9/11. This list includes General Richard B. Myers, General Ralph "Ed" Eberhart, and FBI Special Agent Dave Frasca. Ultimately, the Vulgar Betrayal investigation was discontinued. Agent Wright spoke out about how his investigation was blocked and thwarted, writing a manuscript titled, "Vulgar Betrayal." Attorney Larry Klayman of the conservative legal watchdog group Judicial Watch has said the "Vulgar Betrayal" manuscript hits Bush and Cheney "hard," and former Attorney General John Ashcroft is not spared, either. This leaves little doubt as to the origins of the obstruction of Wright's investigation. Wright was eventually barred from speaking to the media. But it gets murkier. According to Indira Singh, Governor Kean, who headed the 9/11 Commission, sold a piece of property in New Jersey through BMI, Inc. This was revealed in the same Treasury Department report referenced earlier, from July 14, 2003. Regardless of whether Kean knew the extent of BMI's ties to funding terrorism, this is a direct and unacceptable conflict of interest. Imagine how embarrassed Governor Kean would have been if his own Commission revealed he had sold land through a terror-linked organization. He should have immediately recused himself from the Commission or publicly promised to get to the bottom of what BMI really was. It's not surprising that neither BMI nor Ptech are mentioned in the final 9/11 Commission report. Michael Kane is a New York-based author, musician and investigative journalist currently working on real world national security issues with the From the Wilderness team. See also Michael's earlier groundbreaking expose: [URL="http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/012705_ptech_pt2.shtml"] PTECH, 9/11, and USA-SAUDI TERROR Part II: PROMIS Connections to Cheney Control of 9/11 Attacks Confirmed[/URL]. Ptech, the CIA, FBI, SS, 911, PROMIS, Terrorists-R-US - Peter Lemkin - 24-12-2016 About…This SiteMichael Corbin [1955-2008] was a Denver Radio Talk Show Host who ran a show called 4ACLOSER LOOK (4acloserlook.com).Mike and I were in the middle of a number of projects covering current stories linked to my own ongoing 9/11 investigations when he passed away, suddenly, on March 16, 2008. This site will present some key aspects of those updates planned for 2008. The post on the Home Page pretty much covers all the angles of those updates. Mike involved me when he smelled a connection to 9/11 and he was never wrong. Mostly however, I passed along my findings to him. Around Thanksgiving 2007, Mike began confiding some troubling items of a personal nature to me. I tend to consider this "blowing off steam" and didn't pay attention. Perhaps I should have. Circumstances of his deathOne of his guests had remarked that when new material had been discovered and Mike did a show on the new material, that was always a time Mike faced new security challenges.I was not that particular guest, but whenever I got on air, I would be subject to the same, and so would Mike. Needless to say, before we got on air, we did a "security check" to ensure we felt "covered". In January 2008, Mike was not covered, and he knew it and told me about it, and felt he was under attack. Less than 8 weeks later he was dead. None of us who really knew what he was working on, are yet convinced all questions have been answered concerning his demise. The controversy is covered at rememberingmichael.blogspot.com. On March 17, 2008, I had few choices regarding memorial websitearrangements at the time the days immediately following his death were more importantly spent on chasing down the facts surrounding his sudden and strange demise before any cover stories, if applicable, could gel. My work with Mike at 4ACLOSERLOOKMike and I had worked in three ways:
Some of the last cases we worked on will be referred to here, so that his supporters and listeners may have some idea of what actually went on behind the scenes regarding the content of Mike's life's work, especially the material he was working on with his guests, when he suddenly died. The post on the HOME PAGE touches on many of the angles. Mike knew, as almost few others do, how to tread the fine line between putting a story out, and holding back litigation quality evidence to preserve it for a courtroom. MORE…The 2008 Shows that never airedA Come to Jesus Lesson Just Ask The latest nail in the coffin for 9/11 justice606 2008June 5, 2008REFERENCE: MICHAEL CORBIN, Denver Radio talk Show host [1955-2008]Today, Mike's 4 A Closer Look would have covered this topic and we would have invited these to participate:
The gist of the radio show with the late Michael Corbin would have been this: These guys set free yesterday are connected with PTECH they were jailed in JANUARY 2008 for indictments stemming from terrorism financing (9/11) charges. The first thing they did was praise the US Constitution for setting them free. It is my contention, and also Mike's, that the Constitution would have seen them hung for treason; it was a Purchased Court, Judge, and Corrupt Lawyers that set them free. JUDGE SAYLOR in Massachusetts decided that none of the exhaustive and compelling evidence linking these men to 9/11, or Osama Bin Laden or any other Specially Designated Global Terrorist Entity could be admitted in his court. Therefore these alleged 9/11 terrorists were set free. The first time something like this happened, in 2003, Judge Leonie Brinkema in Virginia, had just given their other compadre of the complex terror financing network, Enaam Arnaout (Head of Benevolence International Foundation), a slap on the wrist, a very light sentence. Judge Brinkema also refused to connect the Arnaout case to 9/11, although the evidence was overwhelming. Once again, no 9/11 related evidence was allowed in her courtroom. And there were reams of it, indisputable, indictable evidence, going back at least a decade. In 2004, using similar twisted legal and political machinations directly from the White House, the 9/11 Commission (headed by Governor Kean, also a business compadre with the same network of people let go yesterday) was permitted to exclude terrorism financing evidence until their hotly contested final report was amended in August 2004 with a weak essay that wasn't worthy of grade school. When I questioned the FBI in 2003 about that miscarriage of 9/11 justice, Eanaam Arnout's Benevolence International Foundation, the response was that until people woke up and saw what was going on, it would be all over for America. I disagreed and exhorted them to be more aggressive about prosecuting, to fight through the corruption in their own organizations which made that task disheartening and almost impossible. After all, 3,000 people were murdered and it didn't just happen because of a few disgruntled Islamo-fascist terrorists, each case they won would lead to the next, all the way up the ladder. There is no Statute of Limitation on murder, they had time on their side, I said. With this latest nail in the coffin for 9/11 justice, I see how right they were. But that is not why I am writing this … I'm writing because of another kind of fraud that speaks of a bigger miscarriage of justice in this country the fraud of the alternative press. The last time we had a miscarriage of 9/11 justice was in December 2007, when the HOLYLAND FOUNDATION of RICHARDSON TEXAS trial was dismissed. This group in BOSTON is linked with the HOLYLAND FOUNDATION in RICHARDSON TEXAS. This was revealed on air with MIKE. PRIOR TO THE SHOW I REVEALED THE EVIDENCE AND TOLD HIM TO KEEP A COPY, BECAUSE THAT EVIDENCE WAS "golden". Somewhere, the pay-meisters behind the shadowy, strange 9/11 truth out disinformation movement must be gloating. Mike is suddenly dead and all his files gone. This miscarriage of 9/11 justice is a classic case of how and why people get the government and the country they deserve, and not for lack of trying to be aware citizens, and not for lack of a free press. From what I've experienced in most of the alternative press these past 5 years that amorphous body that claims independence to cover "the truth and nothing but the truth" on all matters from 9/11, Iraq to the tooth fairy is for the most part easily "manipulated" by the same forces that handle the Mainstream Press. In fact, most are even more compromised than the oft-maligned corporate funded Mainstream Press. In the cases where I've experienced this, it's all about greed and power, and occasionally, pure insanity. So many of those "fighting-the-good fight to be free press" will drop their ethics for that quickie-but-dirty dime. Those that never did, e.g., Michael Corbin, the Denver radio show host are always aware they may end up "suddenly dead" at a relatively young age. (ref:http://rememberingmichael.blogspot.com) One would think the alternative media would not be the ones to malevolently characterize well-researched, and curiously, still current links to their White House buddies on both sides of the political aisle, not to mention their Chicago political mob pay-meisters, where so much of this disinformation was coordinated for so long. Yet none other than the very alternative press, many of whom stole from Michael Corbin, characterized such links as paranoia'. Cui bene? Perhaps the people who really lost on 9/11, family members and friends, would be interested in the 9/11 and Osama Bin Laden evidence against this street-level, low-layer of the 9/11 terrorist plot that got set free yesterday? But they and I mean the Four Jersey Girls (now three?), that bastion of courage and 9/11 morality somehow managed to "look the other way" on exactly this evidence. Predictably, they got nowhere, and are back at the litigation table, looking for terrorism financing pay dirt. Where? Once again, as of April 2008, nothere. This is what the citizens and all the 9/11 families get for not paying attention for not "following the money"..for not understanding that all the evidence they ever needed all this time was right in the NY and Boston and Chicago law enforcement files. But no, "let's start yet another investigation" (where now, Mars perhaps?) useless, unending and unyielding churn. The 9/11 evidence always was, is and will be right here, right here at home. Already on file. And this overturned 9/11 terrorism financing case proves it. We must be realistic, there are many reasons those flogging for latter-day 9/11 limelight don't "follow the money". You can't get most people to follow two dimes rolling on a sidewalk, they're more interested in televised pictures of big explosions, and what all those images prove, or not, instead of focusing on the real, litigation quality evidence at hand right under their noses in Boston and New York and Chicago and Richardson, Texas all linked already exposing "the King's key players" behind 9/11. EATING YOUR CAKE AND HAVING IT TOO:And, this is precisely why Ms. Bonnie Faulkner, would have been invited to have her say, if Mike were alive and this played out on air: KPFA, the flagship of American Public (free?) Radio, decided to take hours of 9/11 terrorism financing evidence and instead of a compelling case for terrorism financing involving the American political elite, their MENA, Asean, and European power-mongers KPFA decided to focus on just my paltry experience as a miserable volunteer EMT at Ground Zero, where I knew something about Building 7 being pulled.Someone might remember all this has something to do with FISA, a four letter word beginning with F far more vulgar than the other one associated with George Carlin. I have my 7 unmentionable words that will get you under surveillance, and one of them is outing the truth behind FISA that protects the 9/11 terror financiers, both 2004 Kerry, his latter day equivalent (oh wake up, get over it), Bush and their band of merry thugs all the way back to BCCI even further. No one in this country has been treated to a proper rendition of the bogus FISA flag applied to terrorism financing litigation in this country, what the controversy is really all about, WHO IT WAS DESIGNED TO ULTIMATELY PROTECT… and why no litigation for 9/11 will ever hit and stick in a courtroom in these United States. … we see the people kept stupidly mesmerized on the one hand with fears of rights taken away. So cleverly exploiting all those fears is nothing less than a bogus application of the FISA argument, which DOESN'T APPLY at all. In the mean time, rights are stripped and it's got nothing to do with FISA. You lose again. The Administration on both sides of the aisle have vested interests in keeping the FISA argument alive, in play, and partisan politics all in a rage over it, as though it has ANYTHING TO DO WITH CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS, GIVEN THE EVIDENCE AND PROOF AVAILABLE. It's a bogus argument, and the entire body of ALTERNATIVE PRESS, and MOVIE MAKERS, and DOCUMENTARIANS could NOT hold forth a single intelligent discourse on WHY IT DOES NOT APPLY. FEW of the illustrious and dedicated 9/11 Truth Out movements or the Alternative Press outlets who speak of 9/11 to this day, can wrap their brains around the bogus nature of the FISA argument, they settled for the "Demolition Derby" avenue. So, KPFA like most everyone else from the Mainstream and Alternative Press, participated another "smoke and mirror" exercise: "Where's the beef" it's all been carted off by now, you're likely buttering your toast and stirring your coffee with material from the 9/11 crime site's physical evidence. Where's the Beef?It's like this: You know someone was murdered, and you have the primary weapon/mechanism of injury, but you think the deed was done with more than one weapon. Additionally, you have "confessions in writing", a "diversity of written evidence regarding the plot", from the perps and all their accomplices, not to mention the corroborating testimony of several "eye-witnesses" to these "confessions in writing" and "diversity of written evidence". Here are my questions:
Even the missing 9/11 terrorism financing evidence carted out of the FBI by those paid off by that USA "Mr. Keep A Lid on It" out of Sacramento doesn't make a difference. Here's the beef:The money trails already on file are the "confessions in writing" etc. so get a grip and pay attention where you need to, those of you who have lost, you don't also have to be losers. Furthermore, explain this one to me or better yet, yourselves: those waiting for magic to appear wrt. their second weapon bomb theories, other than wasting 7 precious litigative years, understand full well their bomb theories lead to the same places of elite evil the money trails already on file lead. So my question is, who the heck is PAYING YOU for your useless, justice-delaying charades? Hollywood the backbone of the Military Industrial Intelligence Entertainment complex? It proved to be playing a role THEN in 2004, and it certainly proves so NOW in 2008, both election years. By way of some explanation, in following the money behind what passes for "Public Radio" these days, Mike Corbin, a civilian from Texas and I found "Public Radio" more in the pockets of the euphemistic "Boys from Texas" than anyone could imagine. This realization, in 2005, made those very few of us with 9/11 justice on our minds (not selling books, personal enlightenment agendas, or milking Internet hits) a minority destined to either "wait for Godot" or go do it ourselves. With Ptech and this group of alleged terrorism financiers, a political "smarmy army", could always be counted on to play the "anti-Muslim witch-hunt" card. Indeed in this case, we have the presence of two females manning that "gas pump". As with any crime, when a political group resorts to that vulgar strawman of a defense, they are betraying our entire country, not to mention justice for the 3,000 people who were murdered. In my book, murder is still a crime with no statute of limitations. There will never be justice for them, until the police evidence already gathered is litigated somewhere. I always told Michael I would hold one card back. People tend to forget where I had been e.g., the Credit Risk and other Risk areas of the largest banks. It is not understood by many for how long I had been enrolled in writing reports to the Feds on exactly how those irregular activities that escalated with ENRON actually worked. They did leave an indictable trail, and erasing the trail left a bigger mess known as Ground Zero. It has been said that those who can connect 9/11 with Enron will bring down the house assuming of course I, (a human being, not a ghoul), am OK with that- not by poking at Taliban meetings in Texas and DC, or ranting on about Unocal, and Unocal's strange love for Yaqub Mirza of Ptech, nor even Enron's servers being used to serve Eastern European porn including kiddie porn, that Daniel Akamai (a 9/11 victim on AA flight 11), was purportedly "investigating" with Lew Perdue (Mr. Mirza's other business venture) but with hard evidence. The card I withheld connects this sorry mess in Boston to the unholy tangle of financial networks that implicate key politicians in this country at the top, both sides of the aisle. The Government did prevent the political whores comprising the 9/11 Commission from pulling on the string connected to Ptech but not for long. There are other weak points a very specific one involving Enron will expose the same group of people, the same names including this sorry bunch with their newly found love for the US Constitution. And, it includes "Chicago". The alternative press that stole from Mike won't be able to steal that last hope for 9/11 justice and destroy it. Perhaps, it's time to play that 9/11 and Osama Bin Laden and ENRON evidence where it will be heard, judged and tried: in a Consitutionally sanctioned court of public opinion, since we can't get it done right in a Court of Purchased Law of the Land. DISINFORMATION GHOULS will give this topic a wide berth as they forge ahead with their serial mess-making activities. I can only offer this: what goes around comes around and I know you're all feeling a little queasy deep down inside where your truth lies, right about now. Ignore it, it's what you people do best. Comments : Leave a Comment » Tags: 4ACloserLook, 9/11, BIF, bogus alt media, bogus FISA arguments, boston, boston globe, care international, caritas, charity networks, chicago, chicago mob, Corrupt DOJ,Corrupt Intelligence, Corrupt White House, Credit Risk Trail, drugs for weapons, ENRON, Four letter words beginning with F, Ground Zero, guns and butter, holyland foundation, Indira Singh,Jersey Girls, Michael Corbin, miscarriage of justice, Money Laundering, narcoterrorism, new york, Osama Bin Laden, Ptech, russian mafia 9/11, SDGT, Terrorism Financing, terrorist network, viktor bout, white house, whitey bulger boston mob Categories : 9/11, ENRON, Money Laundering, Ptech, Terrorism Financing Ptech, the CIA, FBI, SS, 911, PROMIS, Terrorists-R-US - Peter Lemkin - 24-12-2016 The Right Thing For Michael Originally posted at: http://rememberingmichael.wordpress.com MAY 2008 I counted at least a thousand emails between Mike Corbin and myself this past year, though I was over a thousand miles away. He was my security, even though I was over a thousand miles away. We knew that 9/11 was considered "oh so 7 years ago" and people could care less, though every day, another nail was being pounded in the coffin of America in the name of 9/11. We talked about the National Bucket of Mindless Sand into which so many had firmly planted their heads. We talked about whether I should publish my two books that hold ligtigation quality evidence, or hold the line and have it tried in a Court of Law. We talked about howthe entire legal system had been taken over, "covertly compromised". We had names, dates, events, we had their methodology, their signature. The 1-2 punch we discussed in December was this: first, to expose the "same group"that had systematically taken over the Federal Court system (top down), the DOJ, the police departments, the medical examiners offices. We knew of "good guys" in the system who told us things, and had a list of who the bad guys were. We knew who was next. We knew how they did this in Texas, and we were examining closely the situation in Alabama. Those of you who know Mike well understand the Alabama connection TO MICHAEL, and if you don't, start doing your homework. Once that was on the table, I might have had a shot at bringing a 9/11 case to court. My 9/11 file is "a huge thorn" in the side of those that would destroy the value proposition known as America. Mike and I were in the process of getting licenses that would give the evidence we had more clout in a court of law. Every single conversation we had was about strategy, tactic and information focused on stopping this national nightmare we had the right stuff to do just that. I had the evidence, and one person with immense talents who couldn't be bought. Problem was Mike was beset like so many of us doing this on our own by personal problems. But Mike and I had other conversations, and this is the point of this post. Like Mike I had been threatened, even from within the 9/11 "truth out" movement. E.g., "Indira, you were at GZ I want you to say that you know they pulled building 7." Well, I do know they pulled it, but I'd ask them. "Why?", "Well, Indira if you say that, then we can say, See, Indira Singh sez there were bombs in the building beforehand'". I would always bristle at this sly non-sequitur, and Mike was the only one who'd understand that was pure disinformation at work. Get it? Then, that disinformation group would get nasty, because I didn't go along. We both knew that the "professionals" who intend on a hit, do NOT threaten. If it happened, it would be quiet, cunning and untraceable, and filled with "plausible deniability" and likely involve someone who got CLOSE to the victim. So knowing the threats got close to home, Mike and I had this pact: (1) If either one of us were found dead of "suicide", it was to be considered murder, no if's and's or but's. (2) If either one of us were found "suddenly dead", it would require investigation no matter what. (3) If we had an illness and then died, we would have a chance to discuss this, to remove from the field any painful and hard questions that would have difficult and expensive answers. What I find absolutely reprehensible is that Mike's death needed to be reported to the Medical Examiner's office on two counts according to Colorado State Law: (1) His was an unattended death. (2) His brain death in the hospital occurred within 24 hours, if not sooner. In addition, when I was calling the Denver ME's office, while others were setting up this blog, there was an intersting division of opinion: some said yes, one investigator said that Michael died in the hospital when the plug was pulled. I spoke with a hospital adminsitrator, and when I informed her of Mike's background, the sort of work he did, and the threats against him, she instantly gave me three numbers of Denver investigators, a good invedstigative news person, and another PI type contact. I also asked the ICU to check and run toxicology tests. I asked those close to Mike to do an autopsy, and not just one person. You see, no one is saying that Mike did not suffer a massive stroke… but people, people, get a grip, hypertension, smoking yes we all know, and those of us WITH medical training know for a fact that what Mike was complaining of prior to his death was more symptomatic of something else. No one gets to discuss ad infinitum, and for years, that they are having a stroke. It doesn't work that way. Believe it or not. Therefore my stance is: I HAVE UNANSWERED QUESTIONS. I have passed this on to the family, ostensibly Mike's legal heirs, and to Mike's law enforcement resource who is listed on his website 4acloserlook. [Interestingly, the domain registration was due to expire the day after Mike died. I renewed it, so the PUBLIC would still have access to the files.] MOST ALL of those around Michael are the stuff of which America is made, and the people for whom this fight goes on. Truly I have never met such an amazing group elsewhere in my travels. It has been my privilege to know them, and I think that was Micahel's best legacy. This evil has met its match. But, some IMO are not. Were an investigation to be conducted, they would start with those who had some odd, close, physical access to Michael. I wish to heck this would start happening NOW, if only to lay these questions to rest, before any trail, if such exists, gets any colder. Otherwise, I'll just chalk this up to another win for the National Bucket of Mindless Sand. https://4acloserlook.wordpress.com/1000-emails/the-storms-of-january-2008/ Ptech, the CIA, FBI, SS, 911, PROMIS, Terrorists-R-US - Peter Lemkin - 24-12-2016 After a day of research, I can not find any public interviews or written/internet statements by Indira Singh after Micheal Corbin's death...and this worries me. If anyone know of anything she has publicly stated after 2008, kindly let me know. I respect her highly and think what she had to say and her research is second to none. Ptech, the CIA, FBI, SS, 911, PROMIS, Terrorists-R-US - Peter Lemkin - 25-12-2016 Ptech, the CIA, FBI, SS, 911, PROMIS, Terrorists-R-US - Peter Lemkin - 25-12-2016 BMI and Ptech InvestigationsProject: Complete 911 TimelineOpen-Content project managed by matt, Derek, Paul, KJF, mtuck,paxvector add event | references [COLOR=#313131] 1986-October 1999: New Jersey Firm Investors List Is Who's Who of Designated Terrorists'[FONT=verdana]Soliman Biheiri.[Source: US Immigrations and Customs]BMI Inc., a real estate investment firm based in Secaucus, New Jersey, is formed in 1986. Former counterterrorism "tsar" Richard Clarke will state in 2003, "While BMI [has] held itself out publicly as a financial services provider for Muslims in the United States, its investor list suggests the possibility this facade was just a cover to conceal terrorist support. BMI's investor list reads like a who's who of designated terrorists and Islamic extremists." Investors in BMI include:[US CONGRESS, 10/22/2003] Soliman Biheiri. He is the head of BMI for the duration of the company's existence. US prosecutors will later call him the US banker for the Muslim Brotherhood, a banned Egyptian militant group. Biheiri's computer will eventually be searched and found to have contact information for Ghaleb Himmat and Youssef Nada, leaders of the Al Taqwa Bank, which is founded two years after BMI (see1988). After 9/11, the US and UN will designate both Himmat and Nada and the Al Taqwa Bank as terrorist financiers, and the bank will be shut down (see November 7, 2001). US prosecutors say there are other ties between BMI and Al Taqwa, including financial transactions. Biheiri also has close ties with Yousuf Abdullah Al-Qaradawi. Qaradawi is said to be a high-ranking member of the Muslim Brotherhood, a shareholder in Al Taqwa, and has made statements supporting suicide bombings against Israel. In 2003, US investigators will accuse Biheiri of ties to terrorist financing. He will be convicted of immigration violations and lying to a federal agent (see June 15, 2003). [WALL STREET JOURNAL, 9/15/2003; FORWARD, 10/17/2003] Biheiri will be convicted of immigration fraud in 2003 and then convicted of lying to federal investigators in 2004 (see June 15, 2003). Abdullah Awad bin Laden, a nephew of Osama bin Laden. He invests about a half-million dollars in BMI real estate ventures, earning a profit of $70,000. For most of the 1990s he runs the US branch of a Saudi charity called World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY). He is investigated by the FBI in 1996 (seeFebruary-September 11, 1996), and WAMY will be raided by US agents in 2004 (see June 1, 2004). The raid is apparently part of a larger investigation into terrorism financing. In 2001, at least two of the 9/11 hijackers will live three blocks away from the WAMY office (see March 2001 and After). [WALL STREET JOURNAL, 9/15/2003; WASHINGTON POST, 4/19/2004] Nur and Iman bin Laden, two female relatives of Osama bin Laden. Abdullah Awad bin Laden will invest some of their money in a BMI real estate project. While their bin Laden family ties are intriguing, neither have been accused of any knowing connections to terrorist financing. [WASHINGTON POST, 4/19/2004] Mousa Abu Marzouk. He has identified himself as a top leader of Hamas. The US declares him a terrorist in 1995 (see July 5, 1995-May 1997). BMI makes at least two transactions with Marzouk after he is declared a terrorist. [WALL STREET JOURNAL, 9/15/2003] Yassin al-Qadi, a Saudi multimillionaire. His lawyers will later claim he has no terrorism ties and had only a passing involvement with BMI and liquidated his investment in it in 1996. However, another company operating from the same office as BMI is called Kadi International Inc. and lists its president as al-Qadi. Al-Qadi is also a major investor in the suspect computer company Ptech (see 1994; 1999-After October 12, 2001). Al-Qadi and BMI head Biheiri have financial dealings with Yaqub Mirza, a Pakistani who manages a group of Islamic charities in Virginia known as the SAAR network (see July 29, 1983). These charities will be raided in March 2002 on suspicions of terrorism ties (see March 20, 2002). Shortly after 9/11, the US will officially declare al-Qadi a terrorist financier (seeOctober 12, 2001). [WALL STREET JOURNAL, 9/15/2003] Saleh Kamel. BMI allegedly receives a $500,000 investment from the Dallah Al-Baraka banking conglomerate, which is headed by Kamel. For many years before 9/11, Omar al-Bayoumi, an associate of 9/11 hijackers Khalid Almihdhar and Nawaf Alhazmi, will receive a salary from Dallah, despite apparently doing no work. Some will accuse al-Bayoumi of involvement in funding the 9/11 plot, but that remains to been proven (see August 1994-July 2001). Kamel reportedly founded a Sudanese Islamic bank which housed accounts for senior al-Qaeda operatives. He is a multi-billionaire heavily involved in promoting Islam, and his name appears on the Golden Chain, a list of early al-Qaeda supporters (see 1988-1989). He denies supporting terrorism. [US CONGRESS, 10/22/2003; WALL STREET JOURNAL, 6/21/2004] The Kuwait Finance House. According to Clarke, this organization is alleged to be a BMI investor and the "financial arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in Kuwait. Several al-Qaeda operatives have allegedly been associated with the Kuwaiti Muslim Brotherhood, including Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Suliman abu Ghaith, Wadih El-Hage, and Ramzi Yousef." In 2003, an apparent successor entity to the Kuwait Finance House will be designated as a terrorist entity by the US. A lawyer for the Kuwait Finance House will later say the bank has never let its accounts be used for terrorism. [WALL STREET JOURNAL, 9/15/2003; US CONGRESS, 10/22/2003; WALL STREET JOURNAL, 4/20/2005] Tarek Swaidan. He is a Kuwaiti, an associate of al-Qadi, and a leading member of the Kuwaiti branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. It is unknown if he has made any denials about his alleged associations. [WALL STREET JOURNAL, 9/15/2003] Abdurahman Alamoudi. For many years he runs the American Muslim Council, a lobby group founded by a top Muslim Brotherhood figure. US prosecutors say he also is in the Brotherhood, and has alleged ties to Hamas. In 2004, the US will sentence him to 23 years in prison for illegal dealings with Libya (see October 15, 2004). [WALL STREET JOURNAL, 6/21/2004; WASHINGTON POST, 10/16/2004] The International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO) and the Muslim World League, closely connected Saudi charities suspected of financing terrorism. They give BMI $3.7 million out of a $10 million endowment from unknown Saudi donors. The Financial Times will later note, "While it is not clear whether that money came from the Saudi government, [a 2003] affidavit quotes a CIA report that says the Muslim World League is largely financed by the government of Saudi Arabia.'" Both organizations consistently deny any support of terrorism financing, but in early 2006 it will be reported that US officials continue to suspect them of such support (see January 15, 2006). [FINANCIAL TIMES, 8/21/2003] In 1992, a branch of the IIRO gives $2.1 million to BMI Inc. to invest in real estate. The money disappears from BMI's books. In October 1999, BMI goes defunct after it is unable to repay this money to the IIRO branch. The IIRO branch gives BMI the rest of the $3.7 million between 1992 and 1998. BMI will use the money to buy real estate (see 1992). Eventually, some of this money will be given to Hamas operatives in the West Bank and spent on violent actions against Israel. This will eventually lead to legal action in the US and a seizure of some of the money. [WALL STREET JOURNAL, 11/26/2002; WASHINGTON POST, 8/20/2003; WASHINGTON TIMES, 3/26/2004; WASHINGTON POST, 4/19/2004] By 1992, BMI has projected revenues in excess of $25 million, based largely on their real estate investments in the US. [US CONGRESS, 10/22/2003] In early 1999, months before BMI goes defunct, the FBI hears evidence potentially tying BMI to the 1998 US embassy bombings (see 10:35-10:39 a.m., August 7, 1998), but an investigation into this will not be pursued (see Early 1999). It should be noted that BMI had many investors, and presumably most BMI investors would have had no suspicions that their money might be used to fund terrorism or other types of violence. Entity Tags: Iman bin Laden, International Islamic Relief Organization,Muslim World League, Kuwait Finance House, Nur bin Laden, Mousa Abu Marzouk, Abdurahman Alamoudi, Richard A. Clarke, Soliman Biheiri, Abdullah Awad bin Laden, Yousuf Abdullah Al-Qaradawi,Tarek Swaidan, Yassin al-Qadi, Saleh Abdullah Kamel [B]Category Tags: Robert Wright and Vulgar Betrayal, Terrorism Financing, Bin Laden Family, BMI and Ptech[/B] [B][/B] [B] Mid-1990s: Al-Qadi Claims Good Relationship with CheneySaudi multimillionaire Yassin al-Qadi will say in an interview shortly after 9/11, "I have also met with US Vice President and former Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney in Jeddah [Saudi Arabia] when he came for a lecture organized by the Dallah Group. I spoke to him for a long time and we still have cordial relations." The US had named al-Qadi a supporter of terrorism and frozen his assets two days before (see October 12, 2001). Oussama Ziade, CEO of Ptech, a US computer company that al-Qadi had invested in (see 1994) and that will be raided for suspected terrorism ties (see December 5, 2002), later will claim that al-Qadi "talked very highly of his relationship" with Cheney. Ziade will claim he only knew al-Qadi for a few years starting around 1994, so presumably the contact between al-Qadi and Cheney happens during the mid-1990s. A newspaper will report later that when a Cheney spokeswoman is asked about his possible ties to al-Qadi, she replies that "she had no reason to believe the vice president had met with al-Qadi". Al-Qadi claims to be a respected businessman who met other important leaders such as ex-President Jimmy Carter. [ARAB NEWS, 10/14/2001; ASSOCIATED PRESS, 1/3/2003; COMPUTERWORLD, 1/17/2003] The US will declare al-Qadi a terrorism financier shortly after 9/11 (seeOctober 12, 2001), and the Dallah Group will be accused of funding al-Qaeda (see November 22, 2002). [B]Entity Tags: Yassin al-Qadi, Dallah Al-Baraka, Richard ("Dick") Cheney [B]Category Tags: Terrorism Financing, BMI and Ptech[/B] [/B][/B] [B][B] 1992: Militant Financial Front Said to Fund Terrorism Through Real Estate Investments in USThe Barnaby Knolls housing development, another Washington, DC, suburb funded by BMI Inc.[Source: Susan Biddle/ Washington Post]BMI Inc., is a New Jersey-based Muslim investment firm. Some of the lead investors have been suspected of supporting terrorism and other types of violence in the Middle East (see1986-October 1999). In 1992, a branch of the International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO), a Saudi charity gives $2.1 million to BMI to invest in real estate. The money disappears from BMI's books. By 1996, the CIA will secretly report that the IIRO supports terrorism financing in many locations around the world (see January 1996). In October 1999, BMI will go defunct after it is unable to repay this money to the IIRO branch. Additionally, the IIRO branch will give BMI over a million dollars between 1992 and 1998. BMI uses some money from the IIRO and other investors to build houses in Oxon Hill, a Washington, D.C., suburb. Many well to do Muslims invest in the housing development because BMI advertises itself as investing according to Islamic principles. Most of the small investors as well as the middle class Americans who buy the Oxon Hill houses do not realize that the profits from the property sales go to Mousa Abu Marzouk, a known leader of Hamas. Marzouk is said to make $250,000 in profits from BMI real estate deals in the early 1990s. In 2004, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement court declaration will assert that significant amounts of cash obtained from BMI by Marzouk is eventually used "in furtherance of Hamas terrorist operations." [WALL STREET JOURNAL, 11/26/2002;WASHINGTON POST, 8/20/2003; WASHINGTON TIMES, 3/26/2004; WASHINGTON POST, 4/19/2004]By the end of 1992, BMI will have projected revenues in excess of $25 million based largely on their real estate investments in the US. [US CONGRESS, 10/22/2003] [B]Entity Tags: Mousa Abu Marzouk, International Islamic Relief Organization, BMI Inc., Hamas [B]Category Tags: Robert Wright and Vulgar Betrayal, Terrorism Financing, BMI and Ptech[/B] [/B][/B][/B] [B][B] 1994: Ptech Founded with Support from Suspected Terrorism FinanciersOussama Ziade.[Source: Beta Consulting]Ptech is founded in 1994 by Oussama Ziade, Hussein Ibrahim, and James Cerrato. Ziade came from Lebanon to study at Harvard University. As the Associated Press will describe it, Ptech's "idea was to help complicated organizations like the military and large companies create a picture of how their assetspeople and technologywork together. Then the software could show how little changes, like combining two departments, might affect the whole." They raise $20 million to start the company. A number of Ptech employees and investors will later be suspected of having ties to groups that have been designated by the US as terrorist organizations: [CNN, 12/6/2002; WALL STREET JOURNAL, 12/6/2002; ASSOCIATED PRESS, 1/3/2003] 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 10:35-10:39 a.m., 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). [WALL STREET JOURNAL, 12/6/2002; WASHINGTON POST, 12/7/2002; ASSOCIATED PRESS, 1/3/2003] Gamel Ahmed, Ptech's comptroller in the mid-1990s. One al-Qadi loan Wright will investigate also involves Ahmed. [ASSOCIATED PRESS, 1/3/2003] Hussein Ibrahim, Ptech vice president and chief scientist. He also serves as vice president and then president of BMI from 1989 until 1995. He has no known direct terrorism finance connections, but it has been reported that al-Qadi brought Ibrahim into Ptech as his representative. [WALL STREET JOURNAL, 12/6/2002; WBZ 4 (BOSTON), 12/9/2002; ASSOCIATED PRESS, 1/3/2003] Soliman Biheiri. He is the head of BMI and a member of Ptech's board. US prosecutors will later call him the US banker for the Muslim Brotherhood, a banned Egyptian militant group. He will later be convicted for lying and immigration fraud (see June 15, 2003). [FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE, 6/17/2005] Abdurahman Alamoudi. He is one of Ptech's founders, as well as an investor in BMI. In 2004, the US will sentence him to 23 years in prison for illegal dealings with Libya (see October 15, 2004). [WASHINGTON POST, 10/16/2004; FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE, 6/17/2005] Muhammed Mubayyid and Suheil Laheir. Neither have any known direct ties to terrorism financing. However, both are longtime Ptech employees whom formerly worked for Care International, a Boston-based suspect Islamic charity (not to be confused with a large international charity having the same name). [WALL STREET JOURNAL, 12/6/2002] In 2005, Mubayyid will be charged with conspiring to defraud the US and making false statements to the FBI. Care International had previously been the Boston branch of the Al-Kifah Refugee Center (see [a0493kifahboston]]) and a recruitment office for Mektab al Khidmat (MAK), the precursor organization to al-Qaeda (see1985-1989). Laheir, Ptech's chief architect, wrote many articles in support of Islamic holy war. He frequently quoted Abdullah Azzam, bin Laden's mentor. [ASSOCIATED PRESS, 5/13/2005; FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE, 6/17/2005] Yaqub Mirza. He is a Ptech investor and on a Ptech advisory board. He directs SAAR, a multi-million dollar network of companies and charities in Herndon, Virginia (see July 29, 1983). In March 2002, US investigators will raid the SAAR network for suspected terrorism ties (see March 20, 2002). In late 2002, the Wall Street Journal will report, "US officials privately say Mr. Mirza and his associates also have connections to al-Qaeda and to other entities officially listed by the US as sponsors of terrorism." [WALL STREET JOURNAL, 12/6/2002; WBZ 4 (BOSTON), 12/9/2002; ASSOCIATED PRESS, 1/3/2003] BMI itself directly invests in Ptech. It also gives Ptech a founding loan, and leases Ptech much of its office and computer equipment. [WALL STREET JOURNAL, 12/6/2002; ASSOCIATED PRESS, 1/3/2003] Ptech president Ziade and other Ptech employees will claim that all of their ties to suspected terrorist financiers are coincidental. By 2002, Ptech will have annual revenues of up to $10 million. [WALL STREET JOURNAL, 12/6/2002] Ptech's potential ties to suspected terrorist financiers will be of particular concern because of its potential access to classified government information (see 1996-1997).[WALL STREET JOURNAL, 12/6/2002; BOSTON GLOBE, 12/7/2002] 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] [B]Entity Tags: Oussama Ziade, Hussein Ibrahim, James Cerrato,Muhammed Mubayyid, Gamel Ahmed, Care International (Boston),Yassin al-Qadi, Al-Qaeda, Yacub Mirza, BMI Inc., Suheil Laheir,Abdurahman Alamoudi, Soliman Biheiri, Ptech Inc. [B]Category Tags: Terrorism Financing, Al-Kifah/MAK, BMI and Ptech[/B] [/B][/B][/B] [B][B] Shortly After March 1994: US Learns Bin Laden Gave Prominent Muslim Activist Money for Blind Sheikh'Alamoudi, center, with Vice President Gore, left, and President Clinton, right. This picture is from a 1997 American Muslim Council newsletter and was presumably taken around that time. [Source: CAIR]Abdo Mohammed Haggag, speechwriter for the "Blind Sheikh," Sheikh Omar Abdul-Rahman, makes a deal and agrees to testify against Abdul-Rahman in an upcoming US trial. [NEW YORK TIMES, 6/26/1994] He soon reveals that bin Laden has been paying for Abdul-Rahman's living expenses since Abdul-Rahman moved to the US in 1990 (see July 1990). This is one of the first things that causes US intelligence to become interested in bin Laden. [MILLER, STONE, AND MITCHELL, 2002, PP. 147-148] Further, Haggag reveals that the money was funneled through Abdurahman Alamoudi and his organization, the American Muslim Council. "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 (see1994). 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). [B]Entity Tags: Osama bin Laden, American Muslim Council, Abdo Mohammed Haggag, Abdurahman Alamoudi, Omar Abdul-Rahman [B]Category Tags: 1993 WTC Bombing, Osama Bin Laden, Sheikh Omar Abdul-Rahman, Terrorism Financing, BMI and Ptech[/B] [/B][/B][/B] [B][B] 1995-1998: Alleged Ties Between Al-Qadi Charity and Terrorist Groups Are Uncovered; No Action TakenBeginning in 1995, evidence begins to appear in the media suggesting that a Saudi charity named the Muwafaq Foundation has ties to radical militants. The foundation is run by a Saudi multimillionaire named Yassin al-Qadi. In 1995, media reports claim that Muwafaq is being used to fund mujaheddin fighters in Bosnia (see 1991-1995). Also in 1995, Pakistani police raid the foundation's Pakistan branch in the wake of the arrest of WTC bomber Ramzi Yousef (see February 7, 1995). The head of the branch is held for several months, and then the branch is closed down. [CHICAGO TRIBUNE, 10/29/2001] A secret CIA report in January 1996 says that Muwafaq is has ties to the Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya militant group and helps fund mujaheddin fighting in Bosnia and at least one training camp in Afghanistan (see January 1996). In February 1996, bin Laden says in an interview that he supports the Muwafaq branch in Zagreb, Croatia (which is close to the fighting in neighboring Bosnia). [GUARDIAN, 10/16/2001] A senior US official will later claim that in 1998, the National Commercial Bank, one of the largest banks in Saudi Arabia, ran an audit and determined that the Muwafaq Foundation gave $3 million to al-Qaeda. Both al-Qadi and the bank later claim that the audit never existed. Al-Qadi asserts he has no ties to any terrorist group. [CHICAGO TRIBUNE, 10/29/2001] In 2003, former counterterrorism "tsar" Richard Clarke will elaborate on this allegation, saying to a Senate committee, "Al-Qadi was the head of Muwafaq, a Saudi relief organization' that reportedly transferred at least $3 million, on behalf of Khalid bin Mahfouz, to Osama bin Laden and assisted al-Qaeda fighters in Bosnia." [US CONGRESS, 10/22/2003] (Note that bin Mahfouz, a Saudi billionaire, denies that he ever had any sort of tie to bin Laden or al-Qaeda and has not been officially charged of such ties anywhere.) [BIN MAHFOUZ INFO, 11/22/2005] Al-Qadi will claim that he shut down Muwafaq in 1996, but it is referred to in UN and German charity documents as doing work in Sudan and Bosnia through 1998. [GUARDIAN, 10/16/2001; BBC, 10/20/2001] Shortly after 9/11, the US Treasury Department will claim that Muwafaq funded Maktab al-Khidamat (MAK)/Al-Kifah (the predecessor of al-Qaeda), al-Qaeda, Hamas, and Abu Sayyaf (a Philippines militant group with ties to al-Qaeda), and other militant Islamic groups. [FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE, 6/17/2005] However, despite all of these alleged connections, and the fact that the US will officially label al-Qadi a terrorism financier shortly after 9/11 (see October 12, 2001), the Muwafaq Foundation has never been officially declared a terrorist supporting entity. An October 2001 New York Times article will say that the reason, "administration officials said, was the inability of United States officials to locate the charity or determine whether it is still in operation." But the same article will also quote a news editor, who calls Muwafaq's board of directors "the creme de la creme of Saudi society." [NEW YORK TIMES, 10/13/2001] [B]Entity Tags: Yassin al-Qadi, United Nations, US Department of the Treasury, Osama bin Laden, Hamas, Muwafaq Foundation, National Commercial Bank, Abu Sayyaf, Khalid bin Mahfouz, Switzerland, Al-Qaeda [B]Category Tags: Al-Qaeda in Balkans, Robert Wright and Vulgar Betrayal, Terrorism Financing, BMI and Ptech[/B] [/B][/B][/B] [B][B] 1996-1997: Ptech Begins to Get US Government ContractsPtech logo. [Source: Ptech]Ptech is a Boston computer company connected to a number of individuals suspected of ties to officially designated terrorist organizations (see 1994). These alleged ties will be of particular concern because of Ptech's potential access to classified government secrets. Ptech specializes in what is called enterprise architecture. It is the design and layout for an organization's computer networks. John Zachman, considered the father of enterprise architecture, later will say that Ptech could collect crucial information from the organizations and agencies with which it works. "You would know where the access points are, you'd know how to get in, you would know where the weaknesses are, you'd know how to destroy it." Another computer expert will say, "The software they put on your system could be collecting every key stroke that you type while you are on the computer. It could be establishing a connection to the outside terrorist organization through all of your security measures." [WBZ 4 (BOSTON), 12/9/2002] In late 1996, an article notes that Ptech is doing work for DARPA, a Defense Department agency responsible for developing new military technology. [GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE, 9/1/1996] In 1997, Ptech gains government approval to market its services to "all legislative, judicial, and executive branches of the federal government." Beginning that year, Ptech will begin working for many government agencies, eventually including the White House, Congress, Army, Navy, Air Force, NATO, FAA, FBI, US Postal Service, Secret Service, the Naval Air Systems Command, IRS, and the nuclear-weapons program of the Department of Energy. For instance, Ptech will help build "the Military Information Architecture Framework, a software tool used by the Department of Defense to link data networks from various military computer systems and databases." Ptech will be raided by US investigators in December 2002 (see December 5, 2002), but not shut down. [WALL STREET JOURNAL, 12/6/2002; CNN, 12/6/2002; NEWSWEEK, 12/6/2002; BOSTON GLOBE, 12/7/2002] A former director of intelligence at the Department of Energy later will say he would not be surprised if an al-Qaeda front company managed to infiltrate the department's nuclear programs. [UNLIMITED (AUCKLAND), 12/9/2002]Ptech will continue to work with many of these agencies even after 9/11. After a Customs Department raid of Ptech's offices in late 2002, their software will be declared safe of malicious code. But one article will note, "What no one knows at this point is how much sensitive government information Ptech gained access to while it worked in several government agencies." [WBZ 4 (BOSTON), 12/9/2002] [B]Entity Tags: White House, US Department of Defense, US Department of the Air Force, US Department of the Navy, US Secret Service,Federal Bureau of Investigation, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, US Postal Service, Federal Aviation Administration, US Department of the Marines, Internal Revenue Service, US Congress,Ptech Inc., John Zachman, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, US Congress [B]Category Tags: BMI and Ptech, Terrorism Financing[/B] [/B][/B][/B] [B][B] April 1998: FBI Agent Stifles Investigation into Ptech FiguresJohn Vincent.[Source: Patriot TV]FBI agent Robert Wright will later recall that at this time, he is pleasantly surprised when FBI management provides his Vulgar Betrayal investigation with a 10 year veteran agent to assist with his efforts. According to Wright, the unnamed agent is assigned to "investigate a company and its 20-plus subsidiaries which were linked to a major financer of international terrorism." However, Wright and fellow agent John Vincent will soon become dismayed when they realize the agent is not actually doing any work. He merely shuffles papers to look busy when people walk by. He will continue to do no work on this important assignment until the Vulgar Betrayal investigation is effectively shut down one year later (see August 3, 1999). Wright will claim in 2003, "The important assignment he was given involved both the founder and the financier of Ptech." Presumably these could be references to Oussama Ziade, the president and chief founder of Ptech, and Yassin al-Qadi, apparently Ptech's largest investor.[FEDERAL NEWS SERVICE, 6/2/2003] [B]Entity Tags: Oussama Ziade, Yassin al-Qadi, Robert G. Wright, Jr.,Vulgar Betrayal, Ptech Inc., Federal Bureau of Investigation, John Vincent [B]Category Tags: Robert Wright and Vulgar Betrayal, Terrorism Financing, BMI and Ptech[/B] [/B][/B][/B] [B][B] October 1998: Vulgar Betrayal Investigation Nearly Shut DownMark Flessner.Two months after the US embassy bombings in Africa (see 10:35-10:39 a.m., August 7, 1998), FBI agent Robert Wright and his Vulgar Betrayal investigation discover evidence they think ties Saudi multimillionaire Yassin al-Qadi to the bombings. Since 1997, Wright had been investigating a suspected terrorist cell in Chicago that was connected to fundraising for Hamas. They discovered what they considered to be clear proof that al-Qadi and other people they were already investigating had helped fund the embassy bombings. Wright asks FBI headquarters for permission to open an investigation into this money trail at this time, but the permission is not granted. Wright will later recall, "The supervisor who was there from headquarters was right straight across from me and started yelling at me: You will not open criminal investigations. I forbid any of you. You will not open criminal investigations against any of these intelligence subjects.'" Instead, they are told to merely follow the suspects and file reports, but make no arrests. Federal prosecutor Mark Flessner, working with the Vulgar Betrayal investigation, later will claim that a strong criminal case was building against al-Qadi and his associates. "There were powers bigger than I was in the Justice Department and within the FBI that simply were not going to let [the building of a criminal case] happen. And it didn't happen.… I think there were very serious mistakes made. And I think, it perhaps cost, it cost people their lives ultimately." [ABC NEWS, 12/19/2002] Flessner later will speculate that Saudi influence may have played a role. ABC News will report in 2002, "According to US officials, al-Qadi [has] close personal and business connections with the Saudi royal family." [ABC NEWS, 11/26/2002] Wright later will allege that FBI headquarters even attempted to shut down the Vulgar Betrayal investigation altogether at this time. He says, "They wanted to kill it." [ABC NEWS, 12/19/2002] However, he will claim, "Fortunately an assistant special agent in Chicago interceded to prevent FBI headquarters from closing Operation Vulgar Betrayal." [FEDERAL NEWS SERVICE, 6/2/2003]He claims that a new supervisor will write in late 1998, "Agent Wright has spearheaded this effort despite embarrassing lack of investigative resources available to the case, such as computers, financial analysis software, and a team of financial analysts. Although far from being concluded, the success of this investigation so far has been entirely due to the foresight and perseverance of Agent Wright." [FEDERAL NEWS SERVICE, 5/30/2002] When the story of this interference in the alleged al-Qadi-embassy bombings connection will be reported in late 2002, Wright will conclude, "September the 11th is a direct result of the incompetence of the FBI's International Terrorism Unit. No doubt about that. Absolutely no doubt about that. You can't know the things I know and not go public." He will remain prohibited from telling all he knows, merely hinting, "There's so much more. God, there's so much more. A lot more." [ABC NEWS, 12/19/2002] [B]Entity Tags: Yassin al-Qadi, Hamas, US Department of Justice,International Terrorism Unit, Mark Flessner, Robert G. Wright, Jr., Al-Qaeda, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Vulgar Betrayal [B]Category Tags: Robert Wright and Vulgar Betrayal, Terrorism Financing, BMI and Ptech, Counterterrorism Action Before 9/11, 1998 US Embassy Bombings[/B] [/B][/B][/B] [B][B] Early 1999: FBI Fails to Pursue Possible Connection Between BMI and Embassy BombingsBMI Inc. is a New Jersey-based investment firm with connections to a remarkable number of suspected terrorist financiers (see1986-October 1999). In 1999, a former BMI accountant contacts the FBI and says that he believes BMI is supporting terrorism. He claims that money he "was transferring overseas on behalf of the company may have been used to finance the embassy bombings in Africa."(see 10:35-10:39 a.m., August 7, 1998) US investigators establish a financial link between BMI and an Islamic charity named Mercy International. A Nairobi, Kenya, branch of that charity helped support the embassy bombings. FBI agent Robert Wright's Vulgar Betrayal investigation had recently discovered evidence suggesting a link between Saudi multimillionaire Yassin al-Qadi and the embassy bombings (seeOctober 1998), and al-Qadi is a major investor of BMI. The Vulgar Betrayal investigation begins looking at this new possible link. BMI president Soliman Biheiri hears that FBI agent Gamal Abdel-Hafiz has been told about this, and he asks to meet with Abdel-Hafiz to explain. Apparently, he does not realize that Abdel-Hafiz is an undercover FBI agent. Wright asks Abdel-Hafiz to wear a wire to the meeting, and Abdel-Hafiz refuses to do so (see Early 1999-March 21, 2000). Apparently the meeting with Biheiri never takes place and the possible connections between BMI and the embassy bombings are not fully investigated before 9/11. [WALL STREET JOURNAL, 11/26/2002; WASHINGTON POST, 8/20/2003; FRONTLINE, 10/16/2003] [B]Entity Tags: Gamal Abdel-Hafiz, Mercy International, Federal Bureau of Investigation, BMI Inc., Soliman Biheiri, Robert G. Wright, Jr.,Vulgar Betrayal [B]Category Tags: Robert Wright and Vulgar Betrayal, BMI and Ptech,Terrorism Financing, 1998 US Embassy Bombings[/B] [/B][/B][/B] [B][B][B] Early 1999-March 21, 2000: Muslim FBI Agent Refuses to Wear Wire in Meeting with BMI Head; FBI Infighting FollowsGamal Abdel-Hafiz. [Source: Charles Ommanney]Gamal Abdel-Hafiz, one of only a few Muslim FBI agents in the years just prior to 9/11, becomes involved in FBI agent Robert Wright's Vulgar Betrayal investigation in early 1999. An accountant working for BMI Inc., an investment firm with connections to many suspected terrorism financiers (see 1986-October 1999), tells Abdel-Hafiz that he is worried that BMI funds had helped fund the 1998 US embassy bombings in Africa (see 10:35-10:39 a.m., August 7, 1998). BMI president Soliman Biheiri hears that Abdel-Hafiz had been told about this, and wants to meet with him to discuss it (apparently without realizing that Abdel-Hafiz is an undercover FBI agent). Wrights asks Abdel-Hafiz to wear a wire to the meeting, but Abdel-Hafiz refuses to do so. This leads to infighting within the FBI. On July 6, 1999, Abdel-Hafiz files a religious discrimination complaint, accusing Wright of making derogatory comments to fellow agents. [FRONTLINE, 10/16/2003] On March 21, 2000, Wright makes a formal internal complain Ptech, the CIA, FBI, SS, 911, PROMIS, Terrorists-R-US - Peter Lemkin - 25-12-2016 The 'take home' story about P-Tech [simplifying greatly] is that it was their software which on 911 allowed [or controlled] coordination between the FAA, the Secret Service (and V.P. Chaney), and NORAD. P-Tech was financed by, among others, Bin Laden's banker and someone other parts of the government had labelled as a known financier of terrorists [remember that Sibel Edmonds has stated that she had proof that Bin Laden was working with/for the CIA at least up until the date of 9-11-01]. The nature of P-Tech software architecture was such that it could monitor secretly all conversations and information flow; control it [allow or not allow it - replace 'unwanted' information with 'other' information], and even control operational systems. It seems from the evidence available that P-Tech was a technology 'asset' of the U.S.C.I.A. and was using a more advanced version of PROMIS software, The company also had friends and protectors in the U.S.F.B.I. Not all parts of the complex puzzle have been figured out, and many who have pieces of the puzzle are not allowed to speak what they know. Some have been silenced. Some have been killed. Others have scattered or been scattered to the winds. The list of corporations [ENRON, IBM, Booz-Allen-Hamilton, and many, many others]and government agencies including, but not limited to[B][B]: the White House, Congress, Army, Navy, Air Force, NATO, FAA, FBI, US Postal Service, Secret Service, the Naval Air Systems Command, IRS, and the nuclear-weapons program of the Department of Energy, [/B]the Department of Justice, Customs[B]][/B][/B] that were using P-Tech software to CONTROL their systems is quite amazing, more so when one knows a little about their pedigree and financing (Those systems were designed to monitor in a manner that was invisible to those using them and even to control secretly from OUTSIDE]. Even more disturbing is the cover-up of who/what P-Tech was, was doing, and who they were doing it for. How did P-Tech get the highest security clearances possible? Why was no one involved in or with the company ever prosecuted? - in fact, there were no trials - only some sham 'investigations'. P-Tech is another important piece of the puzzle that is 911 and certainly a very sinister one. Indira Singh was actively speaking out about P-Tech until her main research partner and alternative media host died [she suspects was killed] in 2008. I can not find any trace of her speaking publicly since. M. Ruppert was also very interested in investigating P-Tech, but committed suicide a few years ago - at least partly from despair that the 'bad guys' were winning the 'game' they had rigged. There is even the possibility that P-Tech software [or one of their sister companies doing similar work] provided the software that monitored and/or controlled much of what happened on 911 - even possibly control of the movements of the planes. Those who would know in the government are certainly not telling what they know; instead are trying to resist any information on this and other related subjects coming to public awareness. Ptech, the CIA, FBI, SS, 911, PROMIS, Terrorists-R-US - Lauren Johnson - 25-12-2016 Quote:It is beginning to dawn on me that the same forces that were behind 911 and its coverup were behind Trumpf....so I think the 'fourth reich' as Harry Belofonte so aptly named it recently begins in just 3.5 weeks. Welcome to the abyss. This story ties in directly, I believe, to both 911 and those around Trumpf, generally. The election was rigged. Trump is a continuation of the NWO trajectory, which is the Fourth Reich. Thanks for putting this up. Ptech had drifted out of my mind. I had not heard of Indira Singh before. Her presentation was eye opening to say the least. I really did not understand what PROMIS is until this. |