A Mystery - Deep Capture, Osama bin Laden and the Russian Mafiya

[David Guyatt]

The below extract is from Deep Capture, pages 63-64

http://www.deepcapture.com/the-story-of-...-mitchell/

In January, 2007, Patrick accepted an invitation to meet an offshore investor in a greasy spoon diner in Long Island. They had never met, but over the previous year the man had fed Patrick bits and pieces of
information about the workings of the phantom stock scam, and the hope was that he might have something more to say in person. But that day at the diner, all he had was a message.

“I’ll make this quick,” he said, with two other witnesses present. “I have a message for you from Russia. The message is, ‘We are about to kill you. We are about to kill you.’ Patrick, they are going to kill you. If you do not stop this crusade, they will kill you. Normally they’d have already hurt someone close to you as a warning, but you’re so weird, they don’t know how you’d react.”

*In a later phone conversation with an associate of Patrick’s the man described how he received this message. He said he returned home one night and his wife told him there was a package on his desk.

“And there was a beautiful little box, and inside was a matryoshka.”
Matryoshkas are those lacquered Russian dolls - the kind with multiple dolls of decreasing size inside of them.

“And I opened up the last matryoshka,” said the man, “and inside is an `F’ with a cross on it — which is from Felix.”

That’s Felix Sater, a Russian immigrant described in a federal complaint as an “unindicted co-conspirator” in a money laundering and stock fraud ring involving organized crime figures from four Mafia families. The New York Times has reported that Sater was once also “embroiled in a plan to buy anti-aircraft missiles on the black market … in either Russia or Afghanistan….” Apparently, Sater offered to buy the missiles from Osama Bin Laden in exchange for amnesty in his Mafia fraud case.

Can someone explain to me how Osama bin Laden has the “juice” to arange an “amnesty” for a Russian mobster in a Mafia money-laundering and stock fraud case in the US? It seems evident that Felix Sater has good reason to know that Osama can fix the case, as Russian Mafiya types are not known to to hand over substantial sums of money on vague promises based on hopes, wishes and desires?

Might this tidbit offer further insights into 911, I wonder?