THE PROTOCOLS OF

THE LEARNED ELDERS

OF ISLAM

In the name of Allah, the minutes of this meeting belongs to the guesthouse. 1 Please do not remove it from the house
except with permission as it documents the masterplan of Islam to rule the world.

PROTOCOL 1

In the name of Allah, The Most Gracious and Most Merciful, Cherisher and
Sustainer of the Worlds, Master of the Day of Judgment, Whom we worship and Whose
aid we seek, we, the Learned Elders of Islam, the Ulama Al-Imama al-Oliya, welcome
you to this meeting the purpose of which is to ensure that the Ummah2 adopts the Al-
Sah’wa Jihadi,3 for God has created man in order to bring His word, His law, to the
world to rule the world, to defeat the international strategies on the part of the hateful
Crusaders, sneaky Zionists and backstabbing Communists to destroy Islam. The
Prophet’s [Peace Be Upon Him] words are clear - “I have been commanded to fight
against people until they testify that there is no god but Allah.” The days are pregnant
and giving birth to new events with Allah's permission and guidance. Today, Muslims
are truly mutashahadah, witnesses to some most extraordinary events, as we live in
times when His plans are coming to fruition, frustrating the kuffar’s4 machinations and
schemes.

Ours’ was a faith of warfare from its inception. The Final Messenger taught by
example that, to put it simply, the non-believers in the world don’t know what is good for
them and must be forced at the peril of their lives, to take the path of submission to
Islam. “And fight them until there is no more fitnah [disbelief and polytheism] and the
religion will all be for Allah alone.” 5 To accomplish this we will first remove infidel rulers
and replace them with God’s law; fight the groups who do not accept Islam’s tenets;

1
. The Islamist term for “safehouse.”
2
. The pan-Islamic nation
3
. The Jihadist Awakening to the belief that Jihad is a pillar of Islam.
4
. Kafir or Kuffar (plural) is an Arabic word meaning a person who hides, denies, or covers the truth. In cultural terms, it is a
derogatory term used to describe a non-Muslim, a Muslim of a differing sect, or an apostate from Islam.
5
. Holy Qu’ran Sura 8:39

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establish a caliphate6 and name a caliph; liberate land and prisoners and spread
religion.7

Oh fighters for God, the confrontation that we are calling for with the polytheist
regimes of the West knows no Socratic debates, Platonic ideals, or Aristotelian
diplomacy. But it knows the dialogue of bullets, the ideals of assassination, bombing,
destruction, and the diplomacy of the cannon and machine-gun. We shall restore Islam
to its rightful position, first robbed from us by the kufr8 Crusaders, whose bible says:
“Take my enemies, who would not have me rule over them, bring them here and slay
them before me.”9 I declare that there is no god but Allah alone; he has no partners. I
also declare that Mohammed [PBUH] is his servant and prophet. Allahu Akbar! 10

Brothers, let us turn now to the events we have witnessed in the past half-century
and thank Allah [subhanahu wa ta’ala11] and His last messenger for these miracles, the
primary one being that for decades the United States Government refused to admit that
so-called “international terrorism” was responsible for attacks within its borders. This a
fulfillment of the Prophet’s [PBUH] words, “Then fight in God's cause--Thou art held
responsibly only for thyself--and rouse the Believers. It may be that God will restrain the
fury of the Unbelievers; For God is the strongest in might and in punishment.”

America’s having gone into a state of denial could only be an act of God because
the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood, the American branch of a once militant jihadi
organization, was formed as far back as 1960 after hundreds of young Muslims came to
the U.S. to study, particularly at large universities, such as those in California and
Michigan. Some belonged to the Brotherhood in their homelands and wanted to spread
its ideology here. Leaders scouted mosques, Islamic classes and Muslim organizations
for those with orthodox religious beliefs consistent with Brotherhood views. The leaders
then would invite them to join a small prayer group, or usra.12 Brothers initially would not
reveal the purpose of the prayer groups, and mureeds13 were asked not to tell anyone
about the meetings. If a mureed asked about a particular meeting to which they were
not invited during which our plans were discussed, the Imam would respond, "Make it a
habit not to meddle in that which does not concern you and focus on fundamentals,
including the primary goal of the Brotherhood: setting up the rule of God upon the
Earth."14

The Muslim Brotherhood and its antecedents existed in America for almost fifty
years yet the FBI and CIA denied that so-called terrorist groups were active in the
6
. A government led by a successor to Mohammed.
7
. The Inevitable Confrontation by Sheik Rahman attributed to the Islamic Group
http://www.alwasatparty.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=313
8
. Showing Allah ungratefulness, and not believing in Him, and the Muslim religion.
9
. Luke 19:27 - The Qu'ran testified to the truth of the Bible. It declared it to be given by God, and it even exhorted Muhammad
himself to read it in order to be convinced that the message he received was from God. As time went on, many differences were
found between the accounts in the Bible and those in the Koran, not only in historical accounts, but also in cardinal doctrines. There
were only two choices left: either to declare that the Qu'ran was wrong and forsake it at the risk of being killed, or declare that the
Bible has been changed.
10
. God is Great!
11
. Praised and Exaulted is He
12
. Arabic for "family”
13
. Followers.
14
. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/specials/chi-0409190261sep19,1,3910166.story?coll=chi-news-hed

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United States. Any Islamic or Islamist events were attributed to lone, unconnected men.
Then al-Qaeda (“The Base of God’s Support”) launched a spectacular Jihad in
Afghanistan against the Godless Soviet Communists. During this period when we
enjoyed this lonewolf status, we were actually granted immunity from prosecution – until
the al-Qaeda’s15 Transnational Jihadi Network subsidiary, Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya (the
Islamic Group), damaged the World Trade Center. After that Praise God, thanks to
Republican neo-conservative American Politician-Crusaders like Newt Gingrich and
William Bennett America’s law enforcement and intelligence community became so
fixated on the War On Drugs al-Qaeda was able to prepare for a war on America with
only a few minor problems here and there such as Brother Zacarias Moussaoui. And so,
on September 11th al-Qaeda pulled the prayer rug right out from under the United
States. We must also thank Clinton Democrats like the Jew United States Deputy
Attorney General Jamie S. Gorelick, who was intent on making sure no exposure of
Islamist groups operating within the U.S. interfered with the Oslo Palestinian-Israelian
Peace Accords.16 She prepared a 1996 memo that quashed any pro-active investigation
of our Brooklyn-Jersey City Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya cell, despite that fact that it had
already effectuated the first World Trade Center attack. Had this cell been thoroughly
investigated the name of September 11 th Shaheed Mohammad Atta might have popped
up and our plans might have been thwarted. After all, a team hired by the American
Army known as ABLE DANGER made the connection to Atta many years later, but prior
to September 11th. Americans who are men, not simpering wimps, should blame both
the Republicans and Democrats, not al-Qaeda, for September 11 th because we couldn’t
have done it without their stupidity. When Bush the Younger replaced Clinton the
Degenerate the situation remained the same. America was arrogant, and walls of
arrogance and overconfidence are high and wide. Usama bin Muhammad bin Awad Bin
Ladin summed it up: “After the collapse of the Soviet Union in which the U.S. has no
mentionable role, but rather the credit goes to God, Praise and Glory be to Him, and the
Mujahideen of Afghanistan, this collapse made the U.S. more haughty and arrogant and
it started to look at itself as a Master of this world and established what it calls the New
World Order. It wanted to delude people that it can do whatever it wants, but it cannot
do this.”

THE LIFE OF SHEIK OMAR ABDEL RAHMAN

1938 to 1970

We shall now pay tribute to His Eminence Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, also
known as The Blind Sheik, our undisputed Emir.17 He is the Elder of the Elder’s, master
15
. The Base of God’s Support
16
. Gorelick believed that it might be in our interest to allow a member of a so-called terrorist organization such as Hamas to enter
the U.S. in some circumstances. Controversy has especially arisen from time-to-time on whether to waive terrorism inadmissibility
for certain Palestinians. International Terrorism: Threats and Responses, Hearings on H.R. 1710, the Comprehensive Antiterrorism
Act of 1995, Before the House Comm. on the Judiciary , 104th Cong. , 1st Sess., 243-244 (1995) (testimony of Jamie S. Gorelick,
Deputy Attorney General)
17
. The FBI still could not fathom this. Agent Samit, one of the FBI’s best, was asked in Spring 2006,
Q. Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya, what was the relationship between that group and al- Qaeda?
A. Like EIJ, or Egyptian Islamic Jihad, el Gamaa also fell under the al-Qaeda umbrella.
Q. And Abdel Rahman was a spiritual leader of that group?
A. That's correct.
Q. What was his relationship with Bin Laden, and did he have a position within al Qaeda?

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of all Sunni sheikhs, the Imam of Imams and the greatest Islamist thinker of our time.
Omar Abdel Rahman’s PhD. thesis, now a classic of Islamist literature, was an exegesis
of the Qu’ran in which put forth the thesis with the help of Allah [subhanahu wa ta’ala] -
that Jihad, like Hajj, Faith, Prayer, Fast and Charity is a pillar of the Islamic faith
incumbent on every Muslim capable of it. This is the basis of the Islam of the Jihadi.

The life of the Sheikh, may he someday be free from his

prolonged nightmare in solitary confinement in an American
maximum security prison, is so intertwined with the history of
modern Islamism, that it is impossible to tell one story without
telling the other! The name “Rahman” means “Servant of God” in
Arabic and nothing could be more appropriate. Islamism’s spiritual
leader was born into poverty in the small village of Al-Mansoura, in
the Nile Delta of Egypt, on May 3, 1938. 18 When he was ten
months old he became blind and, like many Egyptian youngsters
who lost their sight because of parasites or disease (in the Sheik’s
case, congenital19 diabetes), he was taken to the mosque so that
he could become a preacher. His uncle, a devout Muslim, raised him and forced him to
rise before the morning prayers at 4:00 a.m., in order that he memorize the Qu’ran in
Braille. By age eleven he was a hafiz.20 He did his elementary, preparatory, and
secondary education in the nearby town of Damietta at schools associated with Al-Azar
A. Well, I'm not sure if he personally had a position within al-Qaeda, but the group did.
18
. Other reports have him born in the village of al-Jamaliyah, in the province of al-Daqhaliyah, 120 miles from Cairo.
19
. Extensive in-breeding played a part in causing the Sheik to become blind as evidenced in this transcript of a conversation
between Yousry, the Sheik’s translator-operative and Lynne Stewart the Sheik’s attorney-operative in regard to whether the
daughter of the Sheik should marry someone already related to her:
ABDEL RAHMAN: [Laughing] I saw the Hadith, “Marry a stranger, don’t get weak,” marry a stranger....
Yousry: [As he writes] Marry a stranger-
ABDEL RAHMAN: Don’t get weak.
Yousry: -don’t get weak.
ABDEL RAHMAN: Meaning, the Prophet advises that we marry strangers,
don’t marry the daughter of your paternal uncle or aunt,your maternal uncle or aunt or the daughter of eh, hah....
Yousry: Right, Sir.
ABDEL RAHMAN: So, you marry a stranger, don’t get weak, in order not weak.
Stewart: Ask the Sheikh, how old is his daughter.
Yousry: She is asking, Sir, how old is your daughter?
ABDEL RAHMAN: She is about eh, about twenty-five.
Yousry: About twenty-five.
Stewart: Mmm hmm.
ABDEL RAHMAN: You see?
Yousry: Yes, Sir.
ABDEL RAHMAN: The word means, “so you don’t get weak.”
Yousry: [Repeating] In order not to get weak.
ABDEL RAHMAN: Yeah, because of the heredity factor. If the sense of hearing
in a family is fifty per cent...
Yousry: Yeah.
ABDEL RAHMAN: ...the hearing of the son they will have will be twenty-five
cent.
Yousry: Exactly, Sir.
ABDEL RAHMAN: If the sight is seventy-five percent, the son will be twenty-per cent and so on. Sugar can also be passed through
heredity, the son will be diabetic. The Hadith says, “Marry strangers, don’t get weak.”
Yousry: [Repeating] Marry strangers, don’t get weak.
It was determined that the marriage should take place as one the Sheik’s sons who had been given this responsibility had previous
arranged and approved it.
Dr. Zawahiri the Elder wrote: You are a nation that permits acts of immorality, and you consider them to be pillars of personal
freedom. You have continued to sink down this abyss from level to level until incest has spread amongst you, in the face of which
neither your sense of honour nor your laws object.
20
. Someone who has memorized the entire Qur’an.

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University. The Sheik had this to say about his humble origins: “And here is Omar Abdel
Rahman, who was sleeping on a pile of rice straw, on top of a bakery that belonged to
one of his relatives, whereas he had no home and no parents, and had nothing on him
except the clothing he was wearing. And during his studying he used to take half a
dollar from his brother as his weekly expenses and now the United States is spending
millions of dollars to imprison him.” Despite the fact he could neither read nor write in
Arabic or English Sheik Rahman studied at Al-Azar University School of Religious
Studies21 in Cairo, once Egypt’s most prestigious Islamic university and the oldest
university in the world. He graduated in 1965. During his university education, he
became exposed to the ideology of the Muslim Brothers, but he did not join them.

The Sheik was sent to preach in the Egyptian town of Fayoum, a

small village of about twenty thousand people, on the Nile. In 1967, at age
21, radicalized by the disastrous June 1967 Six Day War with Israel, he
returned to Al-Azar to study for an advanced degree. Sheik Rahman was
arrested in 1968 and dismissed from Al-Azar in 1969 for his Islamically
correct ideas. His Eminence protested, “The State organizes nightclubs
and prepares special police to protect adulterers and prostitutes. Liquor
factories are built by the State. Doesn’t this deny God’s laws?” Within weeks of making
this statement he was arrested, banned from preaching, his pay cut in half and placed
under military house arrest by Gamal Abdel Nasser’s Interior Ministry.

PAN-ARABISM vs. PAN-ISLAMISM

Gamal Abdel Nasser, a communist sympathizer, was a dangerous enemy of the

Muslim Brotherhood and Islam who wanted the Ummah to unite along ethnic rather than
religious lines. He accepted military support from godless Communist Bloc nations and
nationalized Egyptian farmlands and banks. The U.S.S.R. provided the money and
know-how for the Aswan dam. To repay the loan from the U.S.S.R., Egypt was required
to turn over all revenues from the Suez Canal to the U.S.S.R. This is what Ahmed Abdel
Sattar, the leader of the Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya cell within the United States from 1994
to 2001, said of Nasser:
He imposed socialism on us. Sometimes he imposed some kind of
communism, when his relationship was good with the Soviet Union. But
these were all foreign ideas. This all imported ideas. This is all wrong, so
let’s just put capitalism in effect.22

Islam is the religion of compassionate capitalism as it is written in the Qu’ran:

“Allah hath permitted trade and forbidden usury.” 23 Muslim Brotherhood jihadi Abdul
Munim Abdul Rauf attempted to assassinate Nasser in 1954. As a result the
Brotherhood was made illegal in Egypt. Following this Rauf and five other Brothers were
executed, and four thousand Muslim Brotherhood members were arrested. President

21
. The Oldest Islamic University that concerns itself with the religious syllabus, which pays special attention to the Quranic sciences
and traditions of the prophet, on the one hand, while on the other, the university teaches all the modern scientific fields of science.
22
. PBS “Hunting Bin Laden” Ahmed Sattar Interview
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/binladen/interviews/sattar.html
23
. The Holy Qur'an Surah Al-Baqarah Verse 275

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Nasser would be exposed to three more assassination attempts before he died of a
heart attack on September 28, 1970.

RAHMAN: 1970 to 1980

On October 15, 1970 Sheik Rahman advised his followers not to pray for Gamal
Abdul Nasser because Nasser was a “pharaoh” and “a kafir and unbeliever.” This strict,
by-the-Qu’ran line of thought culminated with a fatwa24 the Sheik
issued that it was a sin to perform prayers for the dead on the
corpse of Gamal Abdel Nasser, since Nasser was headed straight
for a Siberian Gulag-style hell. As punishment for his anti-
Communist, anti-Nasserite remarks, beginning on October 17,
1970 Rahman spent eight months in Cairo’s vast 12th Century
Citadel Prison, now a museum, where he was detained without charges. The Sheik
stated:
The secret security police in Egypt arrested me in my apartment in
Fayoum after the house was searched and some books and money was
taken from the house, they dragged me by force to the fortress prison. In
the fortress prison, I stayed for eight months. The security officials of the
state - the state security officials were asking me all the day about my
activities, about the books I read, and things like that. Which books I read,
yes, yes. I would stay in my cell, the door of which was closed for 24 hours
a day. I had only two containers, one for drinking and the other for
urinating. And I didn’t have access to the proper food or medicine you see,
with my health situation. I was tortured and beaten by beating in the
middle of the night. I was not accused of any crime and I was not brought
before the justice.

Upon his release an even more determined Sheik Rahman returned to school, to
earn his doctorate by writing a dissertation the Qur’an’s teachings about political
violence and whether the scriptures banned Jihad during the holy month of Ramadan.
Verse 9:5 commands Muslims not to slay pagans until the sacred months have passed
and verse 9:36 tells Muslims to fight pagans during those same months. At the core of
his beliefs was the teaching of Ibn Taymiyyah a fourteenth-century scholar who ruled
that Muslims have the duty to kill leaders who fail to rule by Islamic law. The Sheik
became a teacher in the Al-Minya Academy and later in Asyut University.

AL-GAMA’A AL-ISLAMIYYA (THE ISLAMIC GROUP)

In 1972 Sheik Rahman settled in Menya, the southern

Egyptian town where he was assigned to preach. On June 22, 1972
Sheik Rahman married his first wife – Aisha. They had ten children:
Abdullah, Fatima, Abdul Rahman, Osama, Hassan, Ammar, Khaled,
Ibrahim, Khadija, Asmaa, and Sumaya.

24
. Binding religious edict often formulated in respone to a question.

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 The Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya, in the 1970s, was the name of the Islamic
fundamentalist intellectual current in Egyptian universities that was not attached to any
jihadi organization. Its name was first al-Jama’a al-Diniyya (The Religious Group) and it
was active among university faculties. The religious young people of the time changed
the name to Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya. The current began to grow in universities in al-
Sa’id, particularly in al-Minya and Asyut, calling for change by force. However, a
majority opposed such a call, until a number of important figures of the independent Al-
Gama’a al-Islamiyya became linked in the 1970s to the more radical elements of the
Muslim Brotherhood, specifically in 1979. This took place in
covert fashion and when some of the Al-Gama’a al-
Islamiyya leaders in al-Sa’id learned of this development, they
began to form a special organization for themselves,
calling for change through force. They sought to form an
organization, prepare cadres for it and train them in
weapons. This began to emerge clearly at the beginning of
1981 and during this period the first armed robbery took place, of a gold store belonging
to a Copt in Naja’ Hammadi, to fund the organization. This operation was only revealed
during judicial investigations of al-Jihad at the end of 1981, after President Anwar
Sadat’s assassination and the Asyut insurrections.25

DOCTOR AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI & EGYPTIAN ISLAMIC JIHAD

The Sheikh was one of the approximately nine men who started the Al-Gama’a in
al-Minya, as they were dissatisfied with most of the Muslim Brotherhood. In his book,
Al-Hisad Al-Murr (The Bitter Harvest) Egyptian Islamic Jihad founder Dr. Ayman Al-
Zawahiri summed up the feeling of many jihadi at this time when he stated that the
Muslim Brotherhood was more interested in the ballot than the bullet and that this was
in his opinion a violation of Shari’ah, Islamic Law, as he understood that democracy was
a new religion that must be destroyed by war. He accused the Muslim Brotherhood of
having sacrificed Allah's ultimate authority by accepting the notion that the people are
the ultimate source of authority. He justly condemned the Muslim Brotherhood for
renouncing Jihad as a means to establish the Islamic State. Al-Zawahiri characterized
the Muslim Brotherhood as kuffar. Their adherence to democracy to achieve their
political goals meant giving the legislature rights that belonged to Allah. Thus, he who
supported democracy was, by definition, an infidel. "For he who legislates anything for
human beings, would establish himself as their god" wrote Al-Zawahiri. He criticized the
Muslim Brotherhood for extending bridges of understanding to the authorities that rule
them. These bridges became part of a package or a quid pro quo: the rulers allowed the
Brotherhood a degree of freedom to spread their beliefs 26 and the Brotherhood
acknowledged the legitimacy of the regime. For him, those who endorsed this
philosophy could not be trusted even if they split from the Brotherhood. Their minds
were forever polluted and set in stone. Al-Zawahiri drew attention to the enormous
financial wealth of the Muslim Brotherhood. This "material prosperity," he argued, is the

25
. http://www.alwasatparty.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=313
26
. In 2005 the Egyptian government permitted members of the Muslim Brotherhood to participate in the political arena but Mubarak
has continued the ban on the Gama’a al-Islamiyya and Dr. al-Zawahiri’s Egyptian Islamic Jihad Organization, athough certain
surrogate parties have been formed.

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result of the Brotherhood's leaders who escaped Gamal Abdul Nasser's oppression and
took over regional and international banks and businesses. 27

Doctor Ayman al-Zawahiri was born June 19, 1951 descendent from a deep-
rooted wealthy Egyptian family. His grandfather was one the Imams at the Al-Azhar
mosque, and his other grandfather from his mother’s side, Doctor Abdul Wahab Azzam
was president of Cairo University then was the ambassador of Egypt to Pakistan, Saudi
Arabia and Yemen. His father was doctor Mohammad Rabi’ al-Zawahiri, a professor at
the medical school Ain Shams University, one of the most famous doctors before he
died in 1995. Ayman was a member and leader of the banned Muslim Brotherhood
starting at age fourteen, thanks to his great uncle Mahfuz Azzam, who brought Ayman
and his brother Muhammad in the fold. Al-Zawahiri recalled,

The purpose of this cell was to establish an Islamic government…

Jihad means removing the current government through and changing the
current regime to establish an Islamic Government instead. This was to be
done through a military coup. We were convinced that civilians and the
military should cooperate to achieve this end.

Al-Zawahiri graduated from medical school in 1974, then spent three years as a
surgeon in the Egyptian Army. During Rahman’s American deportation hearing he was
asked about his affiliation with Egyptian Islamic Jihad:

Q. Okay. Now, sir, were you a founder or ever a member of an

organization al-Jihad in Egypt?

A. No. The-the Egyptian court in the case of 1983 denied that there is an
organization called al-Jihad.

Q. Sir, please, were you ever yourself a member of the organization or did
you found this organization?

A. This didn't happen and the Egyptian courts dealt with this question.

Q. All right. Are you aware, sir, that you've been named in Country
Reports on Human Rights as a former member of the al-Jihad? I'm going
to introduce this in evidence, one copy.

A. No, I don't. I don’t know that, but I know that the human rights
organization mentioned my name among those who have been arrested,
imprisoned, and tortured.

Q. Okay. But you were never a member of this organization, is that what
you're saying?

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. http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=subjects&Area=jihad&ID=IA12703

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 A. That's correct.

Both Egyptian Islamic Jihad and Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya gave priority to Jihad
over the religious social Islamic revolution of the modern Muslim Brotherhood. Both
groups gave Islamic religious legitimacy to the duty of maintaining Jihad against Arab
secular regimes. According to Sheik Rahman the Qu’ran should rule Muslim states, and
all other forms of rule were a negation of the Qu’ran and a blasphemous challenge to
the laws of God. There could be no compromise between the two systems, the two
sorts of societies. Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya’s different geographical areas were divided
into anquds28 that were self-contained. If one bunch were plucked from the vine by the
Egyptian secret police, the others would remain intact. 29 During Rahman’s American
deportation hearing he was asked:

Q. Okay. Did you ever hear of an organization Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya in

Egypt?

A. No such thing. The Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya is the al-Azar - University of

al-Azar.

Q. Were you ever a member or a founder of this group, Al-Gama’a al-

Islamiyya? Were you ever associated with the organization, sir?

A. No.

Under Sheik Rahman’s guidance Al-Gama’a would gain the reputation as the
Islamic group that focused primarily on tourists visiting Egypt. The idea was to cripple
Egypt’s biggest industry, cause economic collapse and replace the Egyptian
Government with Islamist rulers. The Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya advocated the closing of
Pharaonic tourist sites, places that glorified pagan gods. Dr. Rahman repeatedly warned
that foreigners who visited sites like the pyramids may be harmed by the group's
militants. The Al-Gama’a eventually merged with Egyptian Al-Jihad or Holy War Group.

SHEIK RAHMAN: SAUDI ARABIA 1977

After receiving his PhD. in Qur’anic exegesis and Islamic theology in 1977 the
Blind Sheikh Rahman was appointed as an instructor in the school of religious studies
of the al-Azhar University branch in the province of al-Fayyum, despite his Islamist
views. He was also appointed as the Imam of the mosque in the nearby village of
Fidmin. He used the mosque pulpit to continue to instigate against the ruling regime. In
1977 sensing that another prison term was imminent Sheikh Rahman went to Saudi
Arabia where he taught at a girls’ school (he was allowed to do so because he was
blind). In Saudi Arabia he made contact with other Islamists, as well as wealthy Saudis
who later provided our movement with money. He traveled throughout the Middle East,
and met with other leading Islamist scholars and politicians including the Sorbonne-
educated scholar Dr. Hassan Abdullah al-Turabi (left), leader of Sudan’s National
28
. Stems of grapes
29
. John K. Cooley Unholy Wars Pluto Press 2000

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Islamic Front (NIF). During his annual leave, he was always invited to lecture at the
camps and panel discussions of the Islamists. These discussion groups were organized
under the guise of "student unions" that were under the control of Islamists. The Sheik
subsequently returned to Egypt in 1980 where he became a professor at the faculty of
Osoul al-Deen (Fundamentals of Islam) at the Asyut branch of Al-Azhar University. After
his return, he met with members of the Shura Council 30 of the Islamic Group in the town
of al-Fayyum who asked him to be their leader because they were determined to have a
legitimate point of reference. He declined the offer at first, but then accepted it and
submitted to their viewpoint. When the Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya entered into an alliance
with an al-Jihad organization (that was then led by engineer Muhammad Abdel Salam
Faraj) the two sides accepted Abdel Rahman as leader, emir, and mufti of the alliance
that engineered the assassination of Anwar al-Sadat.

RAHMAN: 1981 to 1987

The Egyptian Pharaoh Anwar Sadat, against the wishes of his internal security
service, thought he could use Sheikh Rahman to enlist Islamic support in his contest
against the Egyptian left. Sadat was once a devout Muslim before he capitulated to the
West - he had invited El-Banna the Elder, who founded the Muslim Brotherhood in
1928, to speak at the army camp where he was stationed. Sadat hated the Reds and
had been a member of the Green Shirts, a group of young Egyptian Nazis, during World
War II. When he was a lieutenant in the Egyptian Army he was tried and imprisoned as
an Axis spy.31 Sadat continued to express his admiration for Hitler after the war ended. 32
Once in power the American puppet Sadat encouraged King Faisal of Saudi Arabia to
finance a crusade against communism and atheism in Egypt. Faisal sent more than
$100 million to the Sheik Abdel Halim Mahmoud, the director of Al-Azar University.
Mahmoud ordered Sheik Rahman to head the campaign in Upper Egypt and at the
University of Asyut.

Our ties to Allah [subhanahu wa ta’ala] eclipse both wealth and power and in
1981, The Blind Sheik Rahman issued a fatwa sanctioning the assassination of Sadat.
The fatwa ordered those chosen to carry out the deed “not to try to commit suicide after
the incident because then they would die as kuffar. Instead they should try to escape
and if gunned down by soldiers would die as martyrs.” 33 The Sheikh had this to say
about Sadat:

The Islamic laws say that those - that any person who rules against
the word of God is an oppressor, a corrupt person. This justifies the rise of
the people against such a ruler. Sadat, who didn’t rule by what God has
sent, is an atheist, according to the text of the Qu’ran. He is unjust and a
sinner and we must revolt against him, and he should be eliminated. And if
30
. Consultive Council. The Shura Counsel at Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya is not a Board of Directors or a war operations room. It is an
advisory board for Sheik Rahman unlike what you have in the West. For you ruling of votes at is by the majority. However, if the
Shurah council at Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya, the highest authority in the organization, had a majority of 98 percent on a resolution and
it is opposed by Rahman, he has the right to cancel the resolution, because it is only consultative to him and not binding.”
31
. Arie Stav Nativ November 1995.
32
. Letter to Egyptian Daily Al Mussawar September 18, 1953.
33
. William E. Farrell “Egypt Reports Plot to Kill Aides at Sadat’s Funeral.” New York Times October 31, 1981 page 3, 1

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 he should not be eliminated, except by killing, then he should be killed.
God has ordered us to eliminate this oppressor by saying do not depend
on those who are unjust. And so you will be touched by fire. He made it
our duty, unless you [wish to] see a flagrant atheism. It is our duty to
eliminate him from his position, even if this has to be done by killing him.
But regarding that someone who is worse will succeed him; are you
listening? We are not charged with knowing the future.

Our Brothers cased Sadat's palatial home in Cairo, the home of Coptic leader
Pope Shenouda, along with the residences of the National Guard and Security Police
commanders, and the Ministry of the Interior. They were all heavily guarded so an
alternative assassination plan was put in place:

Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya Brother Khalid al-Islambouli (right) was

assigned to participate in the October 6, 1981 military parade in
commemoration of the 1973 “victory” against Israel. He allowed the
squad he commanded to go on leave and brought in three
Egyptian Islamic Jihad34 members willing to die for Allah. As the truck
carrying his crew approached the reviewing stand, it stopped and the
Brothers dismounted then jihadi justice was meted out. “My name is Khalid Islambouli, I
have slain Pharaoh, and I do not fear death!” declared Brother Islambouli. And so, on
that historic day, two years after Sadat went to Camp David and signed the peace treaty
with Israel, members of Islamic Jihad within the Egyptian military along with Brothers
from Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya had executed Anwar Sadat. Brother Mohammed Yousry
described the rest of the plan, “It was devised to emulate the plan that the Egyptian
officers carried out in 1952 to topple the king. So they tried to do something similar,
even though they claim that the 1952 revolution was a product of a conspiracy with the
United States government. They tried to do the same. They basically tried to
assassinate the president in charge, take over the media centers, take over some parts
of the country basically in the south where the government is not able to represent it,
and they failed. They did as part of that attempt, control for a period of time, the
province of Asyout. And the government had to bring in heavy artilleries and I think the
fight took about four or five days in order for the government to go in, if memory serves
me right. Something in excess of a hundred police officers were killed in the fighting that
followed I think…” After this coup attempt failed Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya planned to kill
senior government officials at Sadat’s funeral by detonating a large explosive device
after which Sheik Rahman would be installed as the interim leader of the Egyptian
Islamic Republic.35

We cut the head off the snake but it still wiggled through the sand. Twenty-four
soldiers were accused of carrying out the assassination plot, and four were hanged.
Five of Rahman the Elder’s mureeds were charged with having assassinated Sadat, so
in October 1981 Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman faced a murder charge and execution for
inciting the God-sanctioned act because the organizers of the assassination confessed
to the military tribunal that their leader had issued a fatwa legalizing the murder of al-
34
. At this time Egyptian Islamic Jihad was a faction of Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya.
35
. William E. Farrell “Egypt Reports Plot to Kill Aides at Sadat’s Funeral.” New York Times October 31, 1981 page 3, 1

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Sadat stating that Sadat was "kafir." Sheikh Omar's coy response was, "I did not issue a
fatwa permitting the killing of al-Sadat. Does al-Sadat need such a fatwa?"

In 1982 Sheik Rahman was put on trial for having met with many of the suspects
in the months before the execution. Brother Abud Zurnor testified Rahman had given his
approval in principle, but had never known about the actual plan to murder the
president. “Rahman said it was right to shed Sadat's blood, unless he obeys God's law,
but as regards the assassination at the October 6 th parade, the Sheik's advice was not
asked. We had lost touch with him.” When the Sheik testified he sermonized: “Man-
made laws are complete infidelity. It’s either Islam or the state of ignorance. It’s either
faith or infidelity. Those who don't rule according to God’s orders are kuffar, oppressors,
wrongdoers.” Sheikh Omar defended himself before the court for eight hours and he
and a second defendant, Sayyid al-Salamuni, a professor at the Faculty of Education,
Ein Shams University, out of 24 defendants, were acquitted for lack of evidence. Dr.
Ayman Al-Zawahiri recalled this trial,

The prosecutor sent 302 defendants to court. The proceedings of

the trial started approximately two years after the assassination of Al-
Mujahideen [Sadat]. The trial was unique and full of surprises. But the
most important events in the trial were 1) the delivery by Dr. Omar Abdel
Rahman of his famous testimony for three days, and 2) the historic
testimony by Shaykh Salah Abu-Isma'il 36 (may God have mercy on him).
Shaykh Omar Abdel Rahman later on published his testimony in a book
entitled A Word of Truth. Dr. Rahman reviewed the issues of Shari'ah and
Jihad (holy war) in detail, citing the Koran and the Sunnah (sayings and
doings of Prophet Muhammad) and the consensus of the nation's religious
scholars. He responded to the prosecutor's indictment and the AI-Azhar
report that the prosecutor has used. This testimony jeopardized Dr.
Rahman's legal position because it contained evidence of his support for
Jihad and establishing the Shari'ah. The judge warned him that his words
were very dangerous because the words of his lawyers could be retracted
but his words could not. However, Dr. Rahman insisted on defending the
cause of Islam during the trial even if this led to his conviction. Not only
that, he put the judge in the dock, holding him responsible for the injustice
which he might mete out on Muslims, warning him of God's wrath and
punishment, and urging him to judge in accordance with the Shari'ah. Dr.
Rahman's opinion was that this was an opportunity that should not be
missed to inform the regime of God's teachings. His testimony was the
best defense he could offer to his brothers (co-defendants) - especially as
the verdict was expected to be the death sentence -- by showing the
justness of their cause and their noble intention. Indeed, the judge did not
issue any death sentence in that case. He cited extenuating
circumstances, such as the defendants' just cause and noble intention. I
cannot conclude the talk on Rahman's statements at the trial without
mentioning some of them that were strong in their justness and
36
. The late Shaykh Salah Abu Ismail was elected to the Egyptian parliament circa 1976

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 straightforwardness. This put him in a very difficult position because the
prosecutor could have used these statements against him and demanded
the death sentence for him. But he was the scholar of the mujahideen and
the mujahid of the scholars.

Rahman said this during the trial:

The prosecutor's office has defended the sulh (conciliation) treaty

between Egypt and Israel. I will not reply to the prosecutor's office. My
reply to the committee formed by the Shaykh of Al-Azhar is enough. I will
reply to the great scholar (sarcastically) -- the prosecutor who testified that
the treaty is valid on the basis of God's words: "As long as these stand
true to you, stand ye to them, but if the enemy incline towards peace, do
thou (also) incline towards peace." (Qur’anic verses) Did the Jews stand
true to us? Did they incline towards peace? Is it not we who inclined and
stood true? My crime is that I have criticized the state and shown the
corruption of the society and its hostility to God's religion. I have stood up
everywhere saying the words of truth, which are the very basics of my
religion and belief. My religion and conscience prompt me to fight injustice
and tyranny, refute misconceptions and doubts, and expose the tyrants,
even if this costs me my life and possessions. I am not afraid of prison or
execution. I am not happy if I am pardoned or acquitted. I am not sad if I
am sentenced to death -- it will be martyrdom for the sake of God. Then I
will say: I have won, Oh God of the Kaaba. I am a Muslim who lives and
dies for his religion. I cannot remain silent while Islam is being attacked
everywhere. Oh President of the Higher State Security Court: I have made
my argument and said the truth. You must judge in accordance with the
Shari'ah and you must apply the rules of God. If you do not do this, you
are an unbeliever, a wrongdoer, and a rebel.

After he was acquitted he became a folk hero in Egypt and he became more
active moving from one Egyptian province to another sermonizing and instigating. The
authorities barred him from leaving his place of residence in al-Fayyum and prevented
him from delivering sermons and meeting with his followers. This is because article 201
of the penal code says:

No one in a house of worship--even if he is a man of religion and is

delivering a religious sermon--can say something that opposes an
administrative decision or an existing law or regulation. Anyone who does
this faces imprisonment and is fined 500 pounds. If he resists, the fine and
imprisonment are doubled. Further, the only people who are not allowed to
form trade unions--a right that is guaranteed even to belly dancers in
Egypt--are the religious preachers and scholars.

When another three hundred and two civilians were accused in a separate case
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more than 100 policemen were killed, the Sheik was put on trial for a second time.
Beginning October 1981 Sheik Rahman was imprisoned and tortured for three years
simply as a result of opinions he expressed in a fatwa: “Police surrounded the house
and the people from the state security approached me. They took me from the house of
my sister in Jiza to the prison known as Lemantourra. When they arrested me, they
didn't inform me [of the charges against me]. In Lemantourra Prison, the receiving
prison, I stayed for 15 days. And the war prison after that, five months. I was charged
with two cases during my imprisonment. The first case is the fatwa, which means in
Arabic, a religious opinion, regarding the murder of Anwar Sadat. The second case was
participating in the overthrowing of the existing rule. I was severely tortured. Various
torture techniques were used. Whipping on and around the genitals; electric shocks to
the genitals until I would faint; hanging me upside down from the ceiling for several
hours and simultaneous beatings; releasing starved dogs into the cell so they could bite
at me; dipping my unclothed body alternatively in boiling and freezing water till I would
faint; tying me unclothed under an extremely bright light that would attract certain kinds
of mosquitoes; denying me medicine for my diabetes condition; and burning me with
cigarette butts and hot iron bars. The court vindicated me of these charges in both
charges in both cases. The charges were dismissed against me.” Dr. Rahman later
sued the Egyptian Government for having tortured him during the period he was in
prison while awaiting trial, and he was paid about $10,000 in compensation. In October
1984 Sheik Rahman was freed and preached in Embaba. On October 22, 1984 he took
a second wife – Faten. He had three children with her including Mohammed Omar
Abdel Rahman. It would not be long until the Blind Sheik, born into poverty, would meet
with his Islamist military counterpart, born into great wealth – both men united by Islam!

USAMA BIN-LADEN & GULBUDDIN HEKMATYAR

In 1984 in Peshawar, Pakistan, Usama bin Laden co-founded the Afghan Service
Bureau. Also known as MaK (from its Arabic name Maktab al Khidmat lil Mujahadeen
al-Arab), this organization established guesthouses and training camps for foreign
fighters who wished to overthrow the Communist Government of Afghanistan. It also
distributed hundreds of million dollars in Middle Eastern and Western (mainly American
and British) aid to those involved in the anti-Soviet effort. MaK worked closely with
Pakistan, especially with its Inter-Services Intelligence, the Saudi government and
Egyptian governments, and our early Islamist network. But to admit to this now would
make us look like collaborators with the Americans. Ayman Zawahiri wrote, “If the Arab
mujahideen are mercenaries of the United States who rebelled against it as it alleges,
why is it unable to buy them back now? Are they not counted now with Usama Bin Ladin
at their head as the primary threat to US interests? Is not buying them more economical
and less costly that the, astronomical budgets that the United States is allotting for
security and defense? The Americans in their usual custom of exaggeration and
superficiality are trying to sell off illusions to the people and are ignoring the most basic
facts. Is it possible that Usama Bin Ladin who, in his lectures in the year 1987, called for
boycotting US goods as a form of support for the intifadah in Palestine, a US agent in
Afghanistan? I remember that he visited us in those days at the Kuwaiti-funded AI-Hilal
Hospital in Peshawar and talked to us about those lectures of his. I remember that I told

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him: 'As of now, you should change the way in which you are guarded. You should alter
you entire security system because your head is now wanted by the Americans and the
Jews, not only by the communists and the Russians, because you are hitting the snake
on its head. Furthermore, is it possible that the martyr - as we regard him -Abdallah
Azzam was a US collaborator when in fact he never stopped inciting young men against
the United States and used to back HAMAS with all the resources at his disposal? Is it
possible that the jihadist movement in Egypt can be a collaborator movement for the
United States when Khalid al-Islambuli and his comrades killed Anwar al-Mujahideen,
even before the phenomenon of the Arab mujahideen in Afghanistan emerged? Is it
possible that the jihadist movement in Egypt can be a US collaborator movement when
in fact it brought up its children, ever since the movement started, to reject Israel and all
the agreements of capitulation to it and to consider making peace with Israel as a
contravention of Islamic Shari'ah?

The United States was taken aback by the fact that its scheme in
Afghanistan was spoiled by the "Arab Afghans" and by the Afghan
mujahideen themselves who had true hearts. The United States wanted
the war to be a war by proxy against the Russians, but, with God's
assistance, the Arab mujahideen turned it into a call to revive the
neglected religious duty, namely Jihad for the cause of God. 37

Despite what would be considered by America to be militant anti-Communism,

the Western media ignored bin Laden. The first time he appeared in the press was on
March 28, 1993 in a New York Times article entitled “Muslim Militants Share Afghan
Link.”38 The caption under a smiling bin Laden read, “Yemeni officials contend that
Osama Binladen, a wealthy Saudi militant and former Afghan guerilla financed several
attacks including two bombs in Aden hotels last year that killed an Australian tourist.”
The next time Usama bin Laden appeared in the Times was on April 10, 1994, after his
citizenship was revoked and his bank account frozen. 39 The Islamists who carried out
the December 1992 attempted bombings against some 100 U.S. servicemen in Aden
(billeted there to support U.N. relief operations in Somalia) were trained and financed by
bin Ladin.40 The Washington Post’s first mention of Usama bin Laden was not until
August 1996.41 This article quoted a 12-page fatwa received by the al-Quds al-Arabi
newspaper in London from Usama bin Laden. The fatwa was called “a letter” and
Usama bin Laden’s was described as a behind-the-scenes bankroller of Islamism,
“rather than someone who controls his own group.”

The CIA secretly gave at least $1 billion to Gulbuddin

Hekmatyar Islamist militia through MaK. Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a
Pashtun civil engineering graduate of Kabul University and former
Marxist who had been imprisoned for ordering the assassination of a
Maoist student42 was one of the most vehement opponents of secular
37
. Laura Mansfield translation from “In His Own Words.”
38
. Chris Hedges The New York Times.
39
. Youssef M. Ibrahim “Saudis Strip Citizenship From Backer of Militants.”
40
. http://www.usembassy-israel.org.il/publish/press/state/archive/august/sd4_8-15.htm
41
. “Saudi Dissident Reportedly Calls for War on U.S. Troops.”Associated Press, Washington Post August 31, 1996.
42
. Jason Burke Al-Qaeda Casting A Shadow of Terror Page 63 I.B. Tauris September 2003.

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regimes - including that of the United States – and, ironically, it was his group that
received the lion’s share of aid from the United States via Pakistan in the 1980’s. Saudi
Arabia matched America’s total contributions and gave the Mujahadeen an additional 10
billion American dollars.43 The FBI reported

A cooperative witness (CW-3) [Sergeant Ali-Mohamed] has been

involved in extensive terrorist activity and has provided false information to
investigators in the past. CW-3 has pleaded guilty to terrorism charges
and entered into a co-operation agreement with the Government and has
provided information to the Government, which has been corroborated.
CW-3 advised being familiar with Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. CW-3 advised
meeting with Hekmatyar in 1989 in New York. CW-3 said that Gulbuddin
Hekmatyar was based out of Jalalabad, Afghanistan, and that Gulbuddin
Hekmatyar provided land in the territory that Hekmatyar controlled for the
training camps of Usama bin Laden and al-Qaeda. According to CW-3,
Usama bin Laden paid Gulbuddin Hekmatyar for the right to use
Hekmatyar's land.44

Robert Oakley, the then Ambassador to Pakistan had aligned the United States
with Hekmatyar.45 Oakley served as a U.S. Naval Intelligence Officer in Japan from
June 1953 until December 1955 then joined the Foreign Service in 1957 and was
assigned to Khartoum, Sudan in 1958. Robert Oakley was formerly Ambassador at
Large for Counter-Terrorism at the Department of State and is presently on the staff of
the National Security Council. He had close ties to the CIA and carried out its strategy. 46
The Reagan Administration, with the help of the anti-Communist think tanks known as
the Hoover Institute and the Heritage Foundation, formulated the policies Oakley put
into practice, and as was the will of Allah [subhanahu wa ta’ala], these “patriotic
Christian American” institutions advocated the indirect transference of funds to Usama
bin Laden!

Oakley would later claim that Gulbuddin Hekmatyar’s CIA funding was cut
however, the journalist Kurt Lohbeck, who extensively covered the Afghani Mujahedeen
scene reported:

I mentioned [to Oakley] the havoc that Gulbuddin Hekmatyar was causing.
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar had gained a reputation for doing battle against
more mujahedeen groups than against the communist Afghan regime. He
was virulently anti-American and supported the extremist Pan-Islam
movement. I spoke of the concern of numerous other mujahedeen leaders
concerning Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's growing power among the refugee
population, which was a direct result of American largesse. Oakley
assured me that the situation would change…

43
. Sleeping with the Devil - Robert Baer Crown Publishers, Yousef M. Ibrahim “Saudis Try to Curb Money Aiding Islamic Militants”
New York Times May 1, 1993 Page 4, 1.
44
. USDC District of Ilinois Eastern Divison 02Cr892 FBI Affidavit of SA Robert Walker
45
. Colin Miner “CIA Trained WTC Bombing Suspect.” New York Post January 24, 1994.
46
. http://www.msstate.edu/chair/radvanyi/2002/bio-oakley.html

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 [Later, in 1989] Oakley was asked by a British reporter why the United
States was providing so much money and support to Gulbuddin
Hekmatyar, particularly since Gulbuddin Hekmatyar fingered the U.S. as
the number one evil to the Islamic world. Oakley stated unequivocally that
American support of Gulbuddin had been stopped completely. Gulbuddin
Hekmatyar, for his part, was quoted as saying that the Americans could
not cut him off from supplies because they had never given him anything
in the first place. About a week later, I was awakened around two o'clock
in the morning by aircraft flying low over my house. I lived about a half
mile from the Peshawar airport, which was closed at night except for an
occasional military flight - because there were no radar or other
instruments for night landings and takeoffs. Several planes were flying low
overhead.

I got into my car and drove down the road to the fence at the back of the
airport. Through the fence, I could see several large, dark green, military
transport aircraft, with engines running, on a tarmac on the military side of
the airfield. Pakistanis were unloading large boxes to put into Bedford
trucks. Western men in trousers and jackets, some wearing baseball caps,
were directing the operation. The planes, clearly visible in the moonlight,
had no markings. Conspicuously missing on their tails was the green and
white crescent and star of the Pakistan air force. As each plane was
unloaded, it taxied to the runway and took off. After about an hour, the
convoy of fifty or so Bedford trucks left through a back gate in the fence. I
got into my car and followed the convoy. Close to an hour later, the
convoy came to a large encampment surrounded by a tall fence. It was
the training camp of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. I could clearly see what was
being unloaded-rocket launchers, boxes I recognized as the type
containing rocket-propelled grenades, 107 mm shells, and thousands of
small arms ammunition.47

Sometime in the 1980’s Sheik Rahman sent two of his own sons to fight in
Afghanistan as Taliban mujahedeen. In Persian language the world "talib" means
"seeker" which in its common meaning is used for every "student of religion.” Taliban is
the plural of the world Talib. Ahmed Abdel Rahman, (born 1964), ran a key training
camp in Afghanistan. His nom de guerre was Seif Allah, which means God's sword. The
Northern Alliance militia captured him on November 8, 2001 fleeing Kabul. Muhammed
Omar Abdel-Rahman (born 1978 also known as “the Lion of God”) the Sheik’s younger
son was an Afghan mujahedeen and an Al-Qaeda functionary captured in Pakistan on
February 14, 2003. In early 1985 the Sheik visited his sons and met with the
mujahedeen of Afghanistan including Usama the Elder and Hekmatyar the Elder. The
Sheik wept when he heard the sounds of combat that he could not see.

WOMEN MUST NOT BE EDUCATED

47
. Kurt Lohbeck Holy War Unholy Victory: Eyewitness to the CIA’s Secret War in Afghanistan Regnery Gateway 1993.

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 Brother Hekmatyar, who has the great honor of being named a Specially
Designated Global Terrorist48 is now providing leadership to former Taliban units and
has formed allegiances with Mullah Muhammad Omar of the Taliban and al-Qaeda
commanders in a war of attrition against the over-extended United States now being
waged in Afghanistan. He has begun a campaign against education of girls 49 after
Hamid Karzai, with help from Western aid organizations, opened hundreds of girls
schools, reversing Taliban policy that outlawed most forms of education for girls and
women. Handwritten letters found in Afghanistan near four girls’ schools that were badly
damaged by vandals came from Hekmatyar activists. 50 In the Afghani Islamist provinces
of Paktika and Zabul, the number of girls going to school has plummeted as Islamists
have forced the closure of nearly all schools there. 51 In 2006 there were nearly 100
attacks on schools in the first half of the year, a sixfold rise from the same period in
2005 including 11 explosions and 50 school burnings, that have led to the deaths of six
children.52 When he attended Kabul University Hekmatyar was greatly admired for his
acid attacks on unveiled dissolute women. 53

JIHAD INCORPORATED

MaK ran the Al-Kifah Refugee Center (also known as the Afghan Bureau, the
Service Bureau, the al-Jihad Office, or more accurately, the Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya
Recruitment Center) in Brooklyn, New York to raise funds and funnel aid to our
mujahideen fighters in Afghanistan. Mustafa Shalabi, an Egyptian who had been
recruited into an Egyptian Islamic Jihad - Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya cell by Doctor Ayman
Zawahiri,54 was a high-ranking MaK official and the director of the Al-Kifah Refugee
Center. Aside from acting as a conduit for CIA aid to the mujahideen the Al-Kifah
Refugee Center also recruited young American Muslims who were willing to join the
ranks of those United States President Reagan called “freedom fighting Afghanis [who
are] an example to all the world of the invincibility of the ideals we in this country hold
most dear, the ideals of freedom and independence.” 55 Before making the journey some
were sent for paramilitary training at a private camp in Connecticut. Although the
Neutrality Act barred United States citizens from staging military expeditions against
countries not at war with the United States, President Reagan did not make the same
mistake that President Kennedy did when he arrested Cuban exiles under this law, and
- at the behest of the CIA - the so-called “Justice” Department looked the other way
48
. Richard Boucher “U.S. Designates Gulbuddin Hekmatyar a Terrorist” US DOS February 19, 2003.
http://usinfo.state.gov/regional/nea/sasia/afghan/text2003/0219tr.htm
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. In Jordan, a group led by Muhammad Ahmad al-Chalabi that staged a rally in support of Usama bin-Laden after the September
11th attacks has shot at a dormitory of a university where women are enrolled. Al-Chalabi was affiliated with our movement in
Jordan, al-Tawhid. None-the-less during the trial of Jordanian-American Raed Hijazi for conspiring to carry out poison gas attacks
on American and Israeli targets in the kingdom of Jordan during the year 2000 a military court dismissed charges that Hijazi
belonged to al-Qaeda - Ian Fisher “Broad Manhunt in Jordan Angers and Isolates a Town.”New York Times November 16, 2002
Section A Page 3, 1. The judges found no evidence of any al-Qaeda presence in Jordan. Associated Press Dispatch Aman Jordan
January 5, 2003.
50
. Kylie Morris “Afghan Girls School Defiant” BBC November 10, 2002.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2436923.stm
51
. Nicholas D. Kristof “A Scary Afghan Road” New York Times Section A Page 13, 1 November 15, 2003.
52
. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E7DF1E3FF936A3575BC0A9609C8B63
53
. Anne E. Brodsky With All Our Strength: The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan from Back Matter Routledge
April 1, 2003. “As for torturing men, they [the Americans] have used burning chemical acids and drills on their joints. And when they
give up on (interrogating) them, they sometimes use the drills on their heads until they die.” – Usama Bin Laden January 19, 2006.
54
48. Zawarhiri’s confession Case No. 462 of 1981, Higher State Security Court
55
. Proclamation 5034 - Afghanistan Day March 21, 1983

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when it came across our activities. It had to – the Vietnam War fiasco had made it
impossible for America to send military advisors to Afghanistan and al-Qaeda was
America’s only hope of overthrowing the Evil Soviet Empire. 56 An “Afghan Media
Project” was set up by the United States Information Agency to train mujahedeen as
“journalists” in Peshawar but relatively little money was allotted to this effort. 57

Mustafa Shalabi became overwhelmed by the American dream and one million
dollars in donations went unaccounted for! Many righteous Brothers were unhappy with
Shalabi’s corrupt ways and one of his assistants, Brother Mahmud Abouhalima called
Sheik Rahman, who was in Egypt and complained. Abouhalima, who was a member of
Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya since his student days in 1980 at Cairo University, made a tape
of this telephone call and gave it to Brother El-Sayyid A. Nosair (right). The Sheik said
that if Shalabi didn’t come to his senses, and follow his orders, “I will take a different
stand with him.”58 In late 1986, the CIA paid for Hekmatyar to visit the United States.
During the visit, Hekmatyar spent time at the center meeting with Director Mustafa
Shalabi. He also met with Brothers Mahmud Abouhalima and El-Sayyid Nosair.

MAHMUD ABOUHALIMA

After the Sadat assassination Mahmud Abouhalima, a native Egyptian with red
hair and a red beard, immigrated to Germany. Soon thereafter the Egyptian newspaper
and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak mouthpiece Al-Ahram published Abouhalima’s
name as one of the Brothers wanted for questioning in connection with the Sadat
assassination. As a result of this, during the Brothers’ 1980 German immigration
hearing, Abouhalima falsely confessed to being a member of the Muslim
Brotherhood, but he denied taking part in acts of Islamist violence on
behalf of Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya. Abouhalima asked for political asylum,
but it was denied, so he married Marianne Weber, a German citizen and
convert to Islam, in order to avoid deportation. Later, Mubarak would claim
Abouhalima tried unsuccessfully to get political asylum “as a man who is
not wanted in Egypt because he is a Nasserist.” 59 Abouhalima entered the
United States on October 4, 1986, with a German passport and a tourist visa, along with
his wife, and became a New York cab driver. After overstaying his American visa by
years, he received legal permanent residency on December 1, 1990, by falsely claiming
to be an agricultural worker under a 1986 amnesty measure. Mahmoud found a lawyer
to affirm that he had worked seven months on a South Carolina farm. His wife would
later testify that they had only left New York to visit a friend in Michigan, but the INS
never questioned his veracity nor did it conduct a through investigation of his petition.
Mahmoud’s brother, Muhammad, also illicitly received amnesty under the same
program.

56
. Post Wire Service “Report of U.S. casualty denied” New York Post December 29, 1987 page 22
57
. “Boston University: Silber’s Mullah ‘Journalism’ Project” Worker World December 5, 1986.
58
. USA v Rahman USDC SDNY 93CR181 (Trial Transcript) TT 18560
59
. Elaine Sciolino “Egypt Warned U.S. of Terror” New York Times April 5, 1993 Page A1, 2.

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 Mohmoud Mohmoud, whose name appeared on the Rahman list of unindicted
so-called “terrorist” co-conspirators generated by the American Department of Justice,
aided Abouhalima in this endeavor. In 1992 Mohmoud would be charged with running
an ancillary business from the backroom of his Medina Halal Meat Store in Jersey City,
New Jersey, that was facilitating illegal immigrants gaining residency under the SAW
(Special Agricultural Workers) program. Mohmoud had farmers falsely document the
illegal aliens sworn statements that they had worked for at least 90 days tending and
harvesting crops for human consumption. Mohmoud, who charged $2,000 for his
services, told his customers the details about the farms upon which they supposedly
worked. He took them to the farms to ask the farmers questions. The law required that
an Immigration official interview the undocumented alien to make sure that the alien had
worked for the 90-day period on the farm as an agricultural laborer. The official would sit
down with the alien and go over the application and go over the supporting documents
and ask questions. “Tell me about life on the farm. Tell me about how to grow tomatoes.
Tell me about how to harvest corn.” Once the alien passed the interview, he or she
submitted all the supporting documents, and the undocumented alien would become a
permanent legal resident of the United States. In 1992 an undercover agent posed as
an illegal and Mohmoud was convicted of immigration fraud and sentenced to 34
months in prison.60

EL SAYYED A. NOSAIR

El-Sayyid Nosair was born in Port Said, Egypt, on November 16,

1955. When he was fourteen, the Zionists bombed his home during the
War of Attrition, forcing his father to move to a suburb of Cairo. Nosair
earned a degree in industrial engineering then served in the Egyptian
Army Air Defense Corps for thirteen months. It was here that covert
members of Gama’a al-Islamiyya recruited El-Sayyid Nosair. Dr. al-
Zawahiri believed a military coup was the way to establish an Islamic State,

Our objective for the first phase was to recruit the biggest possible
number of civilians, as well as cooperating with the military people. But the
coup is a technical issue that should be planned by one of the military
people who will join our cell.

On July 14, 1981 Nosair traveled to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he married

a blue-eyed Irish Catholic convert to Islam, Caren Ann Mills Sweeney, to avoid
deportation for having overstayed his visa. Caren invited other female converts to Islam
to the Nosair home, where one houseguest accused Brother Nosair of sexually
molesting her. He was falsely arrested for sexual harassment but the woman agreed to
allow the mosque Elders to try the case and Nosair was acquitted. Nosair explained:
“She gave me compensation which I donated to the mosque. The woman had to
apologize or face severe consequences.” Nosair had also been falsely accused of being
a rapist. When the FBI searched his apartment it found: “Legal papers indicating an
arrest for rape in Pennsylvania in 1985” and legal research notes entitled “Evidence of

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Victims Sexual Misconduct.” In 1986 Nosair lost his job as a diamond cutter due to his
proselytizing for Allah [subhanahu wa ta’ala] and the Nosair’s moved to New Jersey
where he found a job as an electrician’s helper, but he was almost electrocuted to
death.

SHEIK ABDALLAH AZZAM

During his 1985 trip to Afghanistan Sheik Rahman was reunited

with his Al-Azar University classmate Sheik Abdallah Azzam. Azzam, a
Palestinian Muslim Brotherhood leader, was the spiritual mentor of
Usama bin Laden during the period when he was active in the Afghan
Jihad against the Soviet Union. Bin Laden adopted Azzam’s ideology
with regard to the Jihad, and extended it to encompass the struggle
against the kuffar, first and foremost the United States. Azzam was the
father of the theory of al-Qa’idah al-Sulbah61, which formed the doctrinal foundation of
bin Laden’s group al-Qaeda, or ““The Base of God’s Support.” In circa 1982 Azzam co-
founded MaK. As MaK’s principal financier, bin Laden was considered the deputy to
Azzam. During 1988 to 1989 Azzam operated throughout the U.S. preaching Daawa62
about Jihad wearing traditional Afghani dress. His sermons included anti-American
incitement, calls for assistance in the fighting in Afghanistan, and encouragement of the
armed struggle against the Zionist entity. Azzam’s theology was a sea, his words were
jewels, and his thoughts were a light for those who held the smoldering embers. He
lived the Jihad experiences of the 20th century in Afghanistan and Palestine, and
produced a new theory for saving the Ummah from disgrace, shame, weakness, and
submission to others.

Bin Laden and Azzam shared MaK’s pan-Islamic

ideology, as opposed to pan-Arab ideology, however
Azzam foolishly supported Ahmad Shah Massoud, the now
deceased leader of the Northern Alliance, who opposed the
Taliban. Bin Laden preferred Hekmatyar, who was both
anti-communist and anti-Western.63 Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya
leader Usama Rushdie recalled, “Even Sheikh Abdullah
Azzam, the imam of the mujahideen, was criticized by Ayman al-Zawahiri and by his
brother. They accused him of being an agent for the Saudis one time and of the
Americans another time, among other accusations. I still remember a heated discussion
between al-Zawahiri and me when we ran into each other on the street in Peshawar, a
couple of days before Azzam was assassinated. Zawahiri criticized the Al-Gama’a al-
Islamiyya for its good relationship with Azzam, and tried to convince me that Azzam was
an agent. When the latter was assassinated along with his two sons, I met al-Zawahiri
at the funeral, where he was praising the martyred sheikh. This is exactly what they did
with Dr. Omar Abdel Rahman when he was imprisoned! 64
61
. The solid base.
62
. Daawa - (political) proselytization.
63
. In May 1999 the 13-year-old grandson of Sheikh Abdallah Azzam, was kidnapped, apparently by Takfiris. The boy was released
and Abu Musa, the activist believed to have abducted him, was found unconscious with bullet wounds. He disappeared from a
prison hospital. http://www.rd.dgu.ru/enews18.html
64
. Zayyet, Montassair The Road to al-Qaeda p88

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 In Pakistan, in 1989 a lethal amount of TNT explosive was placed beneath the
pulpit from which the Sheik Abdallah Azzam was to deliver his Friday sermon. 65 It was
such a formidable quantity that if it had exploded, it would have destroyed the mosque,
together with everything and everybody in it. Hundreds of Muslims would have been
killed, but the bomb did not explode. Some Elder’s believed that Khalid Shaikh
Mohammed’s (also known as “Muktar” or “the brain”) brother Abed Mohammed was
behind this failed assassination attempt. In the spring of 1989 Abed Mohammed was
killed by a bomb in Peshawar66 in retaliation for the attempted assassination of Abdullah
Azzam. Azzam was later killed with his two sons on November 24,1989 in a car bomb
attack in Pakistan. Three bombs planted along the route that Abdullah Azzam regularly
traveled to the mosque he preached at detonated as he passed, an attack al-Qaeda
attributed to the FBI and CIA but we can now tell you without shame that Usama bin
Laden himself was responsible for this act as it was carried out on his orders by Dr. al-
Zawahiri’s bother Mohammed al-Zawahiri!67

KHALID SHAIKH MOHAMMED

Although his family came from the Balochistan, Khalid 68 Shaikh Mohammed was
born in Kuwait on April 24, 1965, where his parents had moved, drawn by the petroleum
boom. The oil wealth remained with a small number of privileged families and Khalid
Shaikh Mohammed grew up in poverty. His father, Shaikh Mohammed Ali Doustin
Baluchi, who died decades ago, was an Imam at a mosque in the Ahmadi municipality,
who was stripped of Kuwaiti citizenship after a row with a wealthy Kuwaiti family.
Mohammed’s mother, Halema, worked cleaning women’s bodies for burial, a
prestigious but low-paying job. Khalid Shaikh Mohammed’s sister was the mother of
World Trade Center mastermind Ramzi Ahmed Yousef.

Others in the Baluchi clan heard the call: Mohammed’s oldest brother, Zahed
Shaikh Mohammed, attended Kuwait University in the 1980s and was a leader of the
Muslim Brotherhood. Zahed convinced Khalid Shaikh Mohammed to join it. At this time
the precursor to Hamas, the Islamic Association of Palestinian Students was formed on
campus, and it also had an influence on Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who went on to
study mechanical engineering at Chowan College, a small Baptist school in North
Carolina, along with Abd al-Karim Yousef, Ramzi Ahmed Yousef’s older brother. Khalid
Shaikh Mohammed was forced to attend a once-a-week Christian chapel service. He
got his degree in Mechanical Engineering from North Carolina Agricultural and
Technical State University, a small black school located in Greensboro, North Carolina.

In the mid-1980’s Khalid Shaikh Mohammed left America for Afghanistan, to fight
the Soviet occupiers, where his brother Zahed was regional director of a Kuwaiti charity
65
. Jonathan Fighel “Sheikh Abdullah Bin Laden’s spiritual mentor” International Center Terrorism Research September 17, 2001
http://www.ict.org.il/articles/articledet.cfm?articleid=388
66
. Ahmar Mustikhan Albion Monitor March 5, 2003 “Khaled Shaikh Mohammed's Family Ties.”
http://www.monitor.net/monitor/0303a/alqaedamohammed.html
67
. In Peshawar, Pakistan, Abdulla Yusuf Azzam, a Palestinian intellectual, was assassinated in a car bombing reportedly ordered
by Osama bin Laden for suspected CIA ties. San Francisco Chronicle August 19, 1998 p.A16
68
. Arabic for “Man of eternal life.”

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called Lajnat al Dawa al-Islamia, the Committee for Islamic Appeal. The charity had
over 1,000 agents in Pakistan and spent $4 million a year in the region. Their money
came indirectly from the CIA. The two brothers were joined by a third, Abed and
became part of the jihadi community that included Sheik Azzam, Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri
and Usama bin Laden, who came and went with his wives and children in his own
airplane. Hekmatyar, perhaps the leading member, would become a short-term Prime
Minister of Afghanistan as leader of the Hizb-i-Islami Party. 69

Because of Azzam’s immense popularity, Usama bin Laden never revealed his
part in Azzam’s termination and dealt with it by proclaiming: “And so the Crusader-
Jewish alliance killed and arrested the symbols of honest scholars and active advocates
– and we sanctify no one but Allah. The Crusader-Jewish alliance had killed the Mujahid
Sheikh Abdullah Azzam; and arrested the Mujahid Sheikh Ahmed Yassin in the land
where the prophet, peace be upon him, ascended to heaven; and the Mujahid Shaykh
Omar Abid-al-Rahman in America.”

DEATH TO COPTIC CHRISTIANS

In July 1985 Sheik Rahman was arrested for a third time. The Sheik commented:
“The secret police arrested me. I was held three months. I was never accused officially
of any crime. I do not know why I was released.” Sheik Rahman was discharged from
field prison on October 5, 1985. It was on that very day Soliman Khater, an Egyptian
army conscript, shot dead seven Israeli tourists in Ras Burka, Sinai, to commemorate
the Sheik’s release. Khater was a sleeper agent and had no apparent connection to us.
A few years later Khater, who the Egyptian government said suffered from mental
illness,70 was found hanged in his jail cell.71

Sheik Rahman was imprisoned for one month in Awan prison in August or
September 1986 for a lecture regarding the question of how the Christian Coptic
minority in Egypt should be treated as second class citizens, or Dhimmis: “I was
prevented from delivering my lecture. I was arrested and so were about seventy of the
people who came to attend my lecture. The authorities also threw tear gas bombs in the
masjid. I was taken to and detained in Quina town prison. During my detention I was
questioned like before, deprived of necessary medication and given very little food. After
one month I was released.”

After the Sheik was freed from detention the CIA sponsored a two-week trip he
made to the United States to attend a 1986 Islamist conference. He returned to the
United States in 1987 for an additional two weeks. Between 1986 and 1990 Sheik
Rahman made seven applications to enter the United States, all over which were
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. Islamic Party.
70
. The Egyptian Government often casts Islamists as insane - Copts who were present at the churches attacked in Alexandria,
Egypt on April 14, 2006 quickly poked holes in the version of events presented by the Interior Ministry and state media, which had
the perpetrator, Abd al-Raziq -- described as the “mentally ill” and diagnosed with schizophrenia -- following his grim itinerary
unaided, using public transportation in Alexandria’s dense traffic to reach churches miles apart within a span of two hours. Angry
Copts protested what they saw as a cover-up, casting doubt on the security services’ assertion that the attacks had been the work of
a lone madman.
71
. Esmat Salaheddin “Militants reconsider truce” Middle East Times (Reuters).
http://www.metimes.com/2K/issue2000-25/eg/militants_reconsider_truce.htm

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reviewed by CIA Officers under diplomatic cover. The Blind Sheik Rahman was turned-
down only once for security reasons, although on two other occasions he was refused
entry because he failed to purchase a round-trip ticket or refused to list the name of his
sponsor. Two of his visa applications were approved despite the fact he was on the
Watch List of 2.7 million foreigners. CIA officers granted the Sheik a visa in Cairo in
1986 and 1987 and in the Sudan in 1990. In 1987 another visa application was
approved in Cairo, but the State Department claimed it could not determine if the visa
was actually issued. In July 1987 he was turned down for one visa. 72

RAHMAN: 1987 to 1989

The year 1987 was a slow one for the Sheik, “We have found no one who will
listen or pay attention to us,” he said. One rival group in Fayoum, led by Shawki al-
Sheikh declared Sheik Rahman a kafir. Shawki was killed in 1988. In September 1988
Rahman was placed under house arrest until April 1988. After his release the Sheik was
rearrested while he was preaching at Masjid al-Rahman in the southern city of Aswan,
when security forces encircled the masjid, attacked and entered with automatic rifles
drawn and their boots on:

The police in Aswan arrested me, because I made a speech in the

mosque. It was a religious speech. They arrested about seventy persons.
The police take me to Kina Prison. It's a district near Aswan. I was brought
before the justice in charge of aggrieved persons, aggrieved because of
the detention, and he decided that I should be released. And the Minister
of Interior objected to this decision. And the judge again decided to
release me. I was detained more than a month.

THE BROOKLYN / JERSEY CITY ISLAMIST CELL

While the Sheik was being persecuted to death in Egypt things

were going smoothly in the United States with little interference from law
enforcement. The Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya’s Brooklyn / Jersey City cell
was comprised of the Recruitment / Refugee Center and the Al-Farooq
Mosque in Brooklyn and the Masjid al-Salaam, the "mosque of peace,"
in Jersey City. Despite the fact that there was ample basis for an FBI
investigation of the first Islamist cell to operate in New York and New
Jersey area in 1988, it took the February 26, 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center
before the FBI took us seriously. True, they took some photos of us training, but that
was about it. Even after the 1990 assassination of Rabbi Meir Kahane by Brother El-
72
. Classified Report from the Office of the Inspector General Sherman Funk, USDOS cited by Douglas Jehl, New York Times “CIA
Officers Played Role in Sheik Visas” July 22, 1993 Funk would eventually determine that there was no CIA involvement, just
disorganization – Doug Jehl, “Inspector Doubts CIA Role in Sheik’s US Entry” New York Times April 28, 1993.

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Sayyid Nosair there was very little “heat” on Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya’s Brooklyn / Jersey
City cell.

The Justice Department reported: “Mahmud Abouhalima and other men in the
New York City area were then involved in military training activities and were covertly
involved in domestic terrorist activity including several conspiracies to murder and
attempted murders and bombings which took place in the New York City area from
1988 to 1990. These activities included the attempted murder of Mikhail Gorbachev in
New York in December 1988 which was frustrated by a grenade which failed to explode,
several surveillances of Rabbi Meyer Kahane in 1988 and 1989, a failed effort to murder
President Mubarak of Egypt during a visit to the Waldorf Astoria hotel in 1989, and the
planting of pipe bombs at a gay bar in Greenwich Village on April 28, 1990, the
Sheraton Hotel where Vice President Dan Qualye was speaking on May 20, 1990 and
the Hilton Hotel where then-U.N. Ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick was speaking on May
23, 1990.”73

GORBACHEV AND MUBARAK PLOTS

The attempted murder of foreign leaders is usually a front-page story in the

American media, however the attempted assassination of Mikhail Gorbachev in
December 1988 and the attempted assassination of Hosni Mubarak in 1989, (from April
1, 1989 to April 4, 1989 Mubarak made an official visit to Washington and a private visit
to New York City on April 5, 1989) did not merit even one line or news report anywhere
in the media. The FBI covered up the existence of these activities at the request of the
CIA since the Agency was supporting our efforts to expel the Soviets from Afghanistan
and put an end to the expansion of Communism.

While we almost “got away with murder” in the U.S., the story
was much different in Egypt. In April 1989, Sheik Rahman was placed
under arrest then put on trial along with 59 other defendants after a
rebellion at El Shohada Mosque in Fayoum, where he was preaching
during regular Friday prayers. Sheik Rahman was accused of inciting
the worshippers to commit sabotage and to demonstrate and attack the
police. This so-called riot involved 1,500 men. 74 The Sheik: “The police
attacked the house in Fayoum, raided the house in Fayoum. They then raided the
mosque after I delivered the Friday prayer speech and they threatened to fire if I don't
surrender. As I refused to go out they came in, shot some people and arrested me. I
was thrown on the ground and dragged quite some distance to their truck. They took me
to Alazab Prison in Fayoum where I was kept locked in a cell that had no light or air. I
was held four months. I was charged with arranging a demonstration in the street. And
the court also ordered that the charges against me be dismissed. I left Egypt before the
judge ordered my release, my dismissal, sorry. Before the judge ordered my dismissal.”

73
. Affidavit of FBI SA Daniel Coleman September 1998 Daniel J. Coleman changed his mind about his plan to work for the New
York Police Department's Intelligence Division after a meeting in December 2005 with several officials, including a Police
Department deputy commissioner, David Cohen. At the meeting, the F.B.I. and more particularly, one of its officials, a former boss
of Mr. Coleman's was criticized in ways that Mr. Coleman found offensive.
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. Alan Cowell “Egypt Seizes 1,500 In Crackdown on Fundamentalists” New York Times April 27, 1989 Page A3, 1

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 The city where Sheikh Rahman preached, Fayoum, located southwest of Cairo,
has one of Egypt’s largest Coptic Christian communities, and Rahman issued a fatwa
that justified the killing of Christians, especially Coptic jewelers and goldsmith’s whose
wealth was to be used to finance Jihad. After this there were several Muslim attacks in
Fayoum during which Christian shops were burned down by Sheik Rahman’s followers.
At this time the Egyptian Government, frightened by the rise of Islamists, began a crack
down, and Sheik Rahman was one of its victims.

In August 1989 the al-Noor newspaper reported:

State Emergency Supreme Court announces tomorrow its decision

regarding the demand of defense lawyers to set Omar Abdul Rahman and
59 people free. The trial revealed a surprise: One of the defendants is
mentally retarded and was passing by El Shohada Mosque at the time of
police arrests. One of the most prominent communist lawyers, Ahmed
Nabil Al Hilaly, and Nasserist Lawyer, Farid Abdul Kareem shared defense
for Dr. Omar. Both lawyers described Dr. Rahman as revered Sheik and
honorable scholar. The lawyers asked the court to release Dr. Rahman
and the other defendants immediately. The defense lawyers expressed
their astonishment about calling those who perform their Friday prayer as
unlawful overcrowding demonstrators.

This was not the last time the Sheikh would have communists representing him –
his Eminence knew that their hatred of the Egyptian Government eclipsed their hatred
of Islamists and though they thought they were using the Sheikh, ultimately the opposite
would prove true. The court ruled:

Dr. Rahman confirmed that he gave the sermon of Jumma prayer at Majid
El Shohada on the day of the incident, and that he followed it with a
religious lecture, which is a legal act, and in accordance with the nature of
the religion Islam. That does not show any proof as to the accusations
against him. Defendants two to six did not confirm that the others crowded
and started throwing stones at the police so this doesn’t necessarily make
them perpetrators…for it is possible that the stone throwing was an act of
self defense to deter the aggression that befell them from the part of the
police force. In addition none of these defendants mentioned that Sheik
Rahman was their organizer.75

He was acquitted again but the military governor refused to ratify the court verdict of
acquittal based on the powers vested in him by the emergency law. This case was then
referred to another court. Sheik Rahman was released on August 10, 1989 but re-
arrested shortly thereafter. The authorities had found some books inciting people to
hate the current Egyptian regime and it was claimed that these books carried Dr.
Rahman's signature along with words of support. Among these books was one about

75
. Translated by Sidig Ali Sidig Quick International Translators 2823 Kennedy Boulevard. Jersey City, NJ

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the religious legality of allowing ordinary Muslims to use force to change munkkar,76
which would allegedly lead to disorder.

In less than a month the Sheik was placed under house arrest.

The house arrest in this case started August or September 1988,

until April 1989 and from August 1989, until April 1990. I cannot leave the
house or get out of the house and no relatives or friends can visit me. If a
friend tried to come to my house, he would be arrested and detained.
Even those who repair furniture or electricity cannot have access to me.
Not even my doctor. It must be by order of the Minister of Interior. Such
matters do not go according to written orders. But when I tried to leave the
house, then the police would prevent me from doing that by force. My
lawyer tried to end it. He submitted, he started a case, a lawsuit at the
administrative court, and an order was issued by the Minister of the
Interior that nobody should do me any harm, whether inside the country or
outside the country. The court issued its verdict, but this verdict was not
carried out. The court issued an order by the Minister of Interior that I
should be allowed to move freely inside Egypt and outside and during my
travel. The Minister of Interior acted against the court order and did not
carry the court’s order. The court said I should not be placed under arrest.
They said that about the beginning of 1989, I presented to my lawyer a
copy of that document. As far as I remember, it was in February or March
1989.

Later, the Egyptian government, finding the verdict unacceptable, because many
provincial judges were afraid of reprisals from the followers of the Sheik, would retry and
convict him in absentia after his departure to the United States; on April 28, 1994, he
was sentenced in absentia to a seven year prison term.

The FBI was aware of our activities in America around this time. A document
author by the United States Department of Justice stated,

From at least the early 1990s until the date of the filing of this Indictment,
Gama’a al-Islamiyya has operated in the United particularly in the New
York City metropolitan area. As Gama’a al-Islamiyya developed, it
pursued various objectives in the United States, including the following:
the establishment of the United States as a staging ground for violent
actions against targets (both persons and structures) located in the United
States and abroad; the recruitment and training, including paramilitary
training, of new members; and fund-raising for Jihad events in the United
States and abroad. A principal objective of Gama’a al-Islamiyya was to
carry out, and conspire to carry out, acts of terrorism including bombings,
murders and the taking of hostages against various governments and

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. lslamically deniable acts.

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 government officials, including the United States government and its
officials.77

In July 1989, on three successive weekends, FBI agents observed and

photographed members of our Gama’a al-Islamiyya Brooklyn / Jersey City cell,
including (at different times), Brother El-Sayyid Nosair, Brother Hampton-El, Brother
Mahmud Abouhalima, Brother Mohammad Salameh, and Brother Nidal Ayyad, the latter
three of whom carried out the World Trade Center bombing, 78 shooting weapons,
including AK-47's, at a public rifle range on Long Island. At the trial of Rahman the
government told the jury: “Why don’t we start at the very beginning which is the training,
in late 1989 and 1990. There the photographs show the story. If you look at 261B you
see Mahmud Abouhalima looking on as Clement Hampton-El fires a rifle at the training
range. Looking at 218B you see the people at the training include Mohammad
Salameh…Sayyid Nosair…Mikhail Abdur Rahim, the person Hampton-El spoke about in
May 1983 when he said he was going to look for someone in Baldwin, Long Island, to
get detonators.”79

In February 1990 Rahman’s followers were responsible for the death of nine
Jews and one Egyptian when masked Religious Holy Warriors, firing semi-automatic
weapons and hurling hand grenades attacked a bus carrying 31 Jewish tourists 25
miles east of Cairo. Nearly all of the 31 passengers who were not killed were
wounded.80 Sheik Rahman has stated: “There is no greater shame seeing the Israelis
roaming freely around Egypt, while the Palestinians are prohibited and their visits
restricted.” In April 1990 the public prosecutor and the Attorney General of Al-Fayoum
Providence courts decided to release Dr. Rahman from house arrest. Rahman had
negated his advocation of the books he had been charged with possessing and refuted
shown signatures on them as not his. The Egyptian Ministry of the Interior overturned
his decision.81

In 1990 Ala Mohieddin, the official spokesman of al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya was

gunned down with a silence-equipped pistol in al-Haram. Afterward, al-Gama’a al-
Islamiyya released a statement in which it accused the security agencies of killing him,
especially after they threatened him to force him to leave Cairo and return to his home
town of Suhaj. The statement mentioned that the time for talk had ended and now it was
the turn of bullets to do the talking. On October 12, 1990 the Islamic Group arranged the
assassination of the Interior Minister Abdel-Halim Moussa, during which the former
head of the Egyptian Parliament, Dr. Rifaat El-Mahgoub, was killed, due to a mix-up
over motorcades. Moussa had succeeded Zaki Badr 82, who had ordered that Ala

77
. USA v Sattar 02cr395 Indictment April 8, 2002
78
. USA v. Rahman Docket Nos. 96-1044L, -1045, -1060, -1061, -1062, -1063, - 1064, -1065, -1079, -1080 Salameh, 152 F.3d at
161
http://csmail.law.pace.edu/lawlib/legal/us-legal/judiciary/second-circuit/test3/96-1044.opn.html
79
. USA v Rahman TT p18559
80
. Jewish Press February 9, 1990.
81
. Al-Wafd February 18, 1990 or March 18, 1990 as translated by Siddig Ali Sidig.
82
. Zaki Badar was sacked from his post because he was too harsh and inhumane in this torture methods, and many people died
under his custody. The Saudi Interior Ministry duly hired him and he helped to organize the various torture methods on the brothers.
He was Prince Naif's personal advisor on how to deal with Islamists. Praise be to Allah that he died whilst on a visit to the USA.
http://mailgate.supereva.com/soc/soc.culture.pakistan.religion/msg02260.html

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Mohieddin be assassinated. Badr had a famous saying “strike in the heart” which meant
the police have the power to open fire and assassinate some of the organizational
leaders during the day and in the middle of the street when it is convenient. Zawahiri the
Elder explained,

The Islamic Group responded to the killing of Alaa Ala Mohieddin by

ambushing Interior Minister Abdel Halim Moussa, but God willed that
People's Assembly Speaker Rifaat al Mahjoub's motorcade happened to
pass by the ambush, and he was killed. Thus, the Islamic Group shifted its
policy from long-term call activity to violence by fighting and resisting the
government's aggression. In the early 1990’s another important
development took place. A large number of our brothers in the Al Jihad
Group were arrested. More than 800 of them were put on iral in what
came to be known as the Tala'i Al-Fath cases. The court sentenced to
death four of the defendants. The government newspapers were elated
about the arrest of 800 members of the Al Jihad Group without a single
shot being fired. We decided to enter the battle of confrontation with the
government, although our policy has always been to spread out and
recruit elements in preparation for the battle of change. Our response to
this was to attack the convoy of Interior Minister Hasan al Alfi with a
boobytrapped motorcycle. The Minister escaped death, but his arm was
broken. A pile of files that he kept next to him saved his life from the
shrapnel. This was followed by an attack carried out by the Islamic Group
against Information Minister Safwat al Sharif, who survived the ambush.
This coincided with the Islamic Group's attack on the Commander of the
Central Military Zone in his capacity as the commander who sanctioned all
the verdicts issued by military courts. The attack failed because his car
was bulletproof.

This was followed by a period when Islamists and security personnel engaged in
tit-for-tat killings on the roads. The most famous of those killed were al-‘Utayfi in Jala’
Street, Tal'at Yasin Hammam in the Qibba Gardens, and some escapees at the wall of
the Engineering Faculty at the University of Cairo, and others. Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya
killed many police officers, the most famous of them being Major General Ra’uf Khairat,
responsible for “religious extremists” at State Security, and Major General Ghabara and
Major General al-Shimi and many other State Security officers in al-Fayyum, Asyut,
Suhaj and Aswan, as well as policemen, informers, those who worked with the police,
and Copts. While the al-Jihad Group was characterized by using explosives and car
bombs, the al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya’s jihadi faction used direct confrontations with
automatic weapons.

RAHMAN’S KAHANE FATWA

Before these events, in the year 1989, Sheik Rahman had issued a fatwa to kill
Rabbi Meir Kahane and El-Sayyid Nosair, of course, was obligated to obey his Imam.
The Americans reported, “In an uncorroborated post-capture claim that may be mere

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bravado, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed has stated that he considered assassinating Rabbi
Meir Kahane when Kahane lectured in Greensboro, North Carolina at some point
between 1984 and 1986.”83 At the Abu Bakr Mosque Rahman had taught his followers:
“There is an individual Jihad when the Prince orders him, then he goes and does it. This
is a single work. As for the assassinations, the assassinations for the sake of rendering
Islam triumphant is a legitimate matter.” Cell member Mohammed Saleh learned this
well and was overheard by the FBI saying,

I was with the guys once and I was saying, sometimes my Brother,
this matter of assassination needs to be thought out. Us as Muslims, if you
do not have the willingness to do these deeds, hiring some people is very
easy. I mean the best one, one can give him $200 or $300 and he can get
the biggest one and without knowing who you are. 84

Although the Blind Sheik Omar Rahman resided in Egypt when the Brooklyn /
Jersey City Jersey cell was established, El-Sayyid Nosair and Mahmud Abouhalima
telephoned him there to discuss various issues including the progress of their military
training, tape-recording these conversations for distribution among the Brothers in the
United States. El-Sayyid Nosair told Rahman, “We have organized an encampment, we
are concentrating here.”85 They talked about a newspaper that El-Sayyid Nosair was
publishing in the United States, among other things. The United States Government
showed a passive interest in the Brooklyn-Jersey City cell and recorded this
conversation:

Nosair: In New Jersey, the mosque board of Directors election is due. It

will be held on March 16, [1989]. We tried to talk to the Brothers to
nominate some of the Brothers who are in charge of the office, God
willing. Yes, that is necessary, God willing. God willing.

ABDEL RAHMAN: They are the most worthy to be elected.

Nosair: Do you have any instructions to the Brothers of the Al-Salaam

Mosque here?

ABDEL RAHMAN: Yes, tell them to fear God and seek his help…the goal
of the election and the nomination should be God. So you select the most
qualified and the most useful for the Islamic Call. Of course, you have to
support the Jihad people, and those who are in charge of it. They are the
most deserving. No work will succeed without Jihad in God’s ways. Jihad
should be implemented in its essence as well as in purpose towards this
subject. Therefore, the Jihad people are the most worthy of this. 86

83
. Intelligence report, interrogation of KSM, July 12, 2003
84
. FBI transcript of conversation between Salah, Siddig and Emad Salem June 4, 1993 found in USDC SDNY USA v. Hampton-El
et. al. 93 Cr569.
85
. Cited at footnote USA v. Rahman Govt. Ex. 851 at 2-3.
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. USA v Rahman TT 19095

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 The mosque must function to further the work of the Islamist cell or Islamist call.
The leaders of the mosque must be militants. This was Sheik Rahman’s message to El-
Sayyid Nosair, who would become head of the Jihad Organization of the Islamic Group
at the Al-Salaam Mosque in Jersey City, New Jersey.

In early 1990 El-Sayyid Nosair called up Sheik Rahman in Peshawar, Pakistan,

and again asked if he had any instructions for the Brothers of Al-Salaam Mosque? He
reported they had organized a weekly jihadi training camp, and he asked “Are there any
orders for us, Sheik?” El-Sayyid Nosair said that he would call back in a week. When he
did he said that the camp went from Friday to Monday and he said there would be very
good results. Sheik Rahman, who had returned to Egypt, said he should call more often,
at least once a week. The Brothers also discussed the fate of Hosni Mubarak.

Speaking in code, Sheik Rahman told Mustafa Shalabi that Rabbi Kahane must
be assassinated. The first step was to test Kahane’s security. El-Sayyid Nosair spoke of
these surveillances to a New York Post reporter as if they were friendly meetings:

I asked for a meeting with Kahane to tell him that Islam is not a
threat to Judaism. I wanted him to understand that we could be friends.
One meeting took place after the rabbi spoke in a Brooklyn synagogue in
November 1989. I approached his security guards and when they were
sure I had no weapons they let me talk with him. We spoke in his car on a
little used road between Brooklyn and Nassau County for about an hour.
He was happy with a religious discussion. I learned he could put scripture
above racism. I did not wish to see the rabbi dead. Mine was a mission of
peace, of understanding, not violence, not murder. Mustafa Shalabi had
ordered me to meet with Kahane. The second meeting took place in
September 1990 at a Nassau County, Long Island, synagogue. Before the
rabbi spoke I went to his security people, reintroduced myself and said I
wished to speak to him. I was told to follow Kahane after the left the
synagogue. There were four cars, mine, the rabbis; his security guards
followed in two others, one on each side. We drove for a little while then
pulled over on a dark abandoned road. The guards helped me out of my
car and made sure I had no weapons then brought me to the rabbi. I did
most of the talking. Sheik Rahman believes in fighting more than anyone
else [but] I do not know if he would have wanted Kahane murdered. 87

El-Sayyid Nosair commented on this so-called interview,

I did not give any of the statements they wrote. It is impossible that the
newspaper came out with such lies statements unless it came from the
U.S. Attorney’s office with the intention of causing harm and danger to me
by my own Muslim Community. The U.S. Attorney’s office also had put lies
about me in the media connecting me in terrorism activities in New York.

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. Colin Miner New York Post August 3, 1993 page 1 “Sheik Blessed Plot.” Also “Nosair, I Secretly Met with Kahane.”

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 The U.S. Attorney has tried to force other inmates to testify against me, so
they can indict me on new charges.88

SHEIK GILANI & JAMAAT-UL-FUQRA

Before Sheik Rahman arrived in the United States to

preach and ferment Jihad, Sheik Mubarak Ali Shah Gilani, a direct
descendant of the Prophet Muhammad [PBUH] had already
initiated our operations in the United States when he arrived at the
Islamic Center in New Jersey in 1978. Gilani the Elder had been
the spiritual leader of a Sufi Congregation in Afghanistan and
introduced his American followers to the practice of zikhar. 89 He
left after the coup staged by the Communists, then established the National Islamic
Front of Afghanistan that fought against the Soviet soldiers and their atheistic puppet
government. His party was the smallest of the great seven Afghan parties in Peshawar,
and advocated the return of ex-Afghan king Zaher Shah. Gilani was part of the interim
Islamic government that was established in Peshawar after the fall of the Communists in
1992. However, he withdrew his support from them, and aligned himself with the
thinking of the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence Agency.

The structure of the Inter-Services Intelligence Agency was conceived during the
Afghan war. Working closely with the C.I.A, the Inter-Services Intelligence Agency
established close ties with Islamists in Afghanistan during the 1980s, at the time of the
U.S.-backed effort to support the mujahideen forces fighting to oust the Soviet
occupation force. Large amounts of money and arms were funneled through the Inter-
Services Intelligence Agency to such notable Learned Elders of Islam as Usama bin
Laden90, Sheik Rahman the Elder and Sheik Gilani. The CIA denies having given
money to these holy men, but does not deny having given money to the Inter-Services
Intelligence Agency. To launch operations in Afghanistan, the CIA also gave the
concerned Inter-Services Intelligence Agency officials independence to generate funds
through any means, because official funds were insufficient to finance a major guerrilla
war in Afghanistan. The Inter-Services Intelligence Agency raised funds through opium
and arms dealing, not because they wanted to, but because they had to. Sheik Gilani
recounted how his organization Jumaat-Ul-Fuqra 91 was born:

I had planted the flag of Pakistan in Srinagar, Kashmir on August

th
15 1947. My back still carries the signs of the lashes I received from the
state police for that act. My family (the Gilanis) has a lot of followers in
Kashmir. In 1947 Nawab Mamdot had made me commander of the junior
National Guard; in 1948, when Kashmir was attacked, I was Air Raid
Commander. Later, I met President Ayub Khan. President Ayub had
88
. USDC SDNY 92 Civil 8274 (JSM) Letter August 11, 1993.
89
. Rythmic Chanting. Robert Danin Black Pilgrimage to Islam Page 74 - Oxford Press March 2002
90
. In January 2003 Pakistani Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri said that there are no al-Qaeda or Taliban supporters
within the ranks of the Inter-Services Intelligence Agency. “Such reports are absolutely wrong and being spread by the people who
want to harm Pakistan’s close and friendly relations with the United States,” he added.
http://www1.infopak.gov.pk/public/news/news2003/pid2003/pid_february01022003.htm
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. Arabic word for “poverty.”

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 patronized me in establishing the Climbers Club of Pakistan. For fifty
years, I trained students from all the colleges of this country, including
cadets from the Pakistan Military Academy and cadets from military
college, Jehlum, and some of them later were to become Special Services
Group Commandos. The governments of Pakistan had requested I
mobilize my Islamic university students to project the cause of Kashmir in
America through media by holding rallies and informing the public. So the
Kashmir-American Friendship Society was formed but the American
government did not like its activities.92

In the early 1980’s the Kashmir-American Friendship Society was transformed

into Jamaat-ul-Fuqra and by 1992, Gilani had recruited about 3,000 American inner-city
blacks, some recruited in prison, and sent them to an Islamist commando training camp
in Sudan. A cadre of such trainees was created, and sent back to the United States to
set up Jamaat-ul-Fuqra there - mostly based in Brooklyn with several camps in the rural
United States, including a 55-acre property in Deposit, New York, Islamville. Jamaat-ul-
Fuqra’s targets reflected its Pakistani sponsorship. It has killed Hindus, Hare Krishna
members, and Indians.93

RASHAD KHALIFA MEETS UL-FUQRA AND HIS NUMBER WAS UP

Dr. Rashad Khalifa was a Westernized intellectual who turned the

Holy Qu’ran into a parody of the DaVinci Code. In February 19, 1989 a
group of scholars met in Saudi Arabia to discuss the issue of Khalifa. Dr.
Khalifa had received a doctorate in biochemistry from the University of
California then became a science adviser to Muammar Qaddafi. Khalifa
moved back to the United States where he worked as biochemist. He also
became a self-appointed “Imam” in Tucson, Arizona. He let men and
women pray together at his “mosque.” The Qur’anically Correct way94 is to separate the

92
. Arshad Sharif “Gillani threatens to sue minister on allegations of links with India” Dawn: The Internet Edition February 23, 2002.
http://www.dawn.com/2002/02/23/top5.htm
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. On August 31, 1979 a Hare Krishna temple was attacked in San Diego, California. On September 1, 1982 the heretical Islamic
Cultural Center of Tempe, Arizona was hit. In July 1983, Jamaat-ul-Fuqra firebombed a Portland, Oregon, hotel owned by the dead
Indian cultist Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. Stephen Paster of Englewood, Colorado, one of the organizers of Jamaat-ul-Fuqra in the
United States, placed three pipe bombs in a room on the fourth floor of the hotel. In October 1984 Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh’s
followers poisoned over 700 Americans with salmonella by spiking food at local restaurant buffets in a plot to corner an upcoming
local election. On August 8, 1983 in Canton, Michigan, a leader of the Muslim heretical Ahmadiyya sect, Dr. Mozaffar Ahmad, was
shot to death. The Ahmadiyya Center of Detroit was set on fire shortly afterward. William Cain, a Jamaat-ul-Fuqra follower from
Akron, Ohio was Ahmad’s executioner. Both he and Jamaat-ul-Fuqra member Calvin Jones were killed in the fire. On June 16, 1984
the Hare Krishna Temple in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was firebombed. On June 17, 1984 in Seattle, Washington the Integral Yoga
Society, a Hindu religious institution, and the Vendanta Society, a Sikh religious institution, were bombed. Stephen Paster was later
arrested in connection with the bombing. After searching his car, police found a .12 gauge shotgun and a shopping list of the
materials required to build a radio-controlled explosive device. On August 1, 1984 in Denver, Colorado, a Hare Krishna temple was
firebombed, causing $150,000 in damage. James Williams and Edward Hinton, two members of the Jamaat-ul-Fuqra sect, were
charged with conspiracy to commit murder in March 1993 in relation to the incident. On August 1, 1984 in Overland Park, Kansas,
Srinivasu Dasari, a Hindu physician, was kidnapped and is presumed dead. On August 1, 1984 in Tacoma, Washington, three East
Indians were shot to death in a suburb of that city. An incident in 1989 introduced Jamaat-ul-Fuqra to federal agents. Police with a
search warrant raided a Colorado Springs storage locker registered to a Jamaat-ul-Fuqra member. Inside they found information on
a plan that had liberated some $355,000 over several years from the state of Colorado. The locker’s other contents were ten
handguns and silencers, 30 pounds of explosives, and target-practice silhouettes pierced with bullet holes and labeled “FBI
Antiterrorist Team” and “Zionist Pig.” Police also found information on local military installations and electrical power lines, plus
attack plans against various targets. ADL Amicus Curiae (Friend of the Court) Briefs http://www.adl.org/extremism/moa/al-fuqra.pdf
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. In 2001, a survey by the Council on American-Islamic Relations of more than 1,200 mosques found that 66 percent of them
required women to pray behind a partition or in a separate room, up from 52 percent in 1994.

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women, if not bar them entirely. Women did not wear traditional Islamic dress. Khalifa
was an unpopular figure in Muslim countries after he made false claims that he had
discovered a secret mathematical system in the Qu’ran via computer analysis in the
early 1970s that indicated the Qu’ran was written by man and not by God. The
distinguished Islamic Scholars deemed him apostate and issued a fatwa calling for his
assassination.

On January 30, 1990 Rashad Khalifa was executed. He was stabbed to death in
his Masjid before dawn prayer. Jamaat-ul-Fuqra members carried out their duty to purify
Islam. Edward Flinton, who admitted writing the plan to murder Khalifa, was arrested at
a Muslims of the Americas community in South Carolina. He pleaded guilty to
conspiracy to murder but no actual shooter has ever been convicted. The Brooklyn /
Jersey City cell also had a hand in this execution.

WADIH EL-HAGE

Cell member Wadih el-Hage was living in Tucson, Arizona

at the time of Khalifa’s execution. Wadih el-Hage, a naturalized
American citizen, was born in Lebanon on July 25, 1960 into a
Roman Catholic family, but converted to Islam after arriving in the
United States in 1978. He suffered a disability at birth that left his
right arm withered and weak. Wadih el-Hage was a founding
member of MaK and in 1982 he traveled to Pakistan to help Sheik
Azzam with our Jihad against the Soviet puppets and had contact with CIA agents at
the American Consulate in Peshawar. When he returned to the United States an Iman
arranged his marriage to Muslim convert April Ray. In September 1987, he was driving
a Van Tran vehicle that collided with a motorcycle, crippling a young military veteran
who was riding on the back of the bike. 95 While he was in Tucson, El-Hage lived in a
trailer park and was a city janitor and a custodian for the Parks and Recreation
department between 1988 and 1989. During a September 24, 1997 Grand Jury session
el-Hage was asked about a visitor who came to see him shortly before the elimination of
the heretic Khalifa:

A. Someone called me and said he is a visitor from New York and is

waiting at the mosque and would like to see me. He said his name was
Abu something, I can’t remember.

Q. Did this person seem like he was upset with Khalifa?

A. Yes, yes, I remember now. I saw him and he said he came to see
Khalifa and investigate the things he heard about Khalifa and his
teachings. He said he went to pray to the Friday prayer and they wouldn’t
allow him in because he had a long beard and so he just looked from
outside and saw men and women sitting together. He wasn’t angry, just

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. Chris Limberis “Terrorists in Tiny Town” http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tw/2001-09-20/curr2.html

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 like all the Muslims were saying that this is something that’s contradicting
the teachings of Islam.

Q. And that is very un-Islamic to keep a Muslim out of a mosque on

Friday, the prayer day, right.

A. Right.

Q. Did he have a gun?

A. I don’t know.

Q. Did he give you a name, a phone number? Did you ever call him after
that? Did you ever see him after that? Did he ever call you after that? You
never asked him how he got your phone number?

[El-Hage replied “No” to all these questions.]

Q. Did it cross your mind that maybe the guy that came to visit you for
lunch who came to check out Khalifa could have been there to kill him?

A. Yes.

Q. Did you tell the police, the FBI, did you go to you local mosque and tell
the Iman of your mosque you may know who could have killed Khalifa?

A. No. I was overseas when this happened. In Pakistan. I heard about it

on the news. I called Tucson, got the news and someone told me this
happened. It is possible it was Mubarak al-Douri. [Al-Douri had lived with
Usama bin Laden in the Sudan and was bin Laden's personal physician
and principal procurement agent for weapons of mass destruction] I got
back after a year.

Q. And he was still dead?

A. Excuse me.

Q. And he was still dead, right, Rashad Khalifa? Did you tell anyone when
you got back that you may know someone who could have been involved
in the murder? Did it strike you odd someone who went there to kill
someone went by your house for lunch?

A. I forgot about that visit. I have other things to think of other than
someone visiting me to check up on someone else.

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 Q. The guy who came to your house, did you ever hear whether or not he
later ever worked for Usama bin Laden?

A. No, I never seen him after that or heard anything about him.

Q. Did you discuss the fact that Khalifa was killed with the people in
Pakistan working at Mektab al Khidemat [MaK]? Were they happy he was
dead?

A. I might have or we were discussing it with different people. Some were

happy he was dead.

Q. How did he leave your house?

A. I don’t remember. Either I took him back to the mosque or he left

walking. I took him back.

Q. When you were in Pakistan you worked for an organization called Al

Bunyan al Marsous?

A. Yes.

[Brother el-Hage was shown what we believe to be a picture of Sergeant

Ali A. Mohamed]

A. No, that is not him. I remember the face of that guy very well.

Q. How does that guy’s face differ from the guy in Grand Jury Exhibit No.
9?

A. I don’t know. But it is very close. This guy is the same thing, white with
long beard and I think he is Egyptian. He looks like Egyptian but I am not
sure if this is him or not. If I see the picture of that person, I am sure I can
recognize him.

Q. Do you know if Grand Jury Exhibit 9 is or is not the person that came to
your home?

A. No it is not.

Q. The guy who came to your house, did you ever hear whether or not he
later ever worked for Usama bin Laden?

A. No. I never seen him after that or heard anything about him.

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 Q. In New York, you met Sayyid Nosair, who had gone to jail for
murdering a rabbi, correct?

A. Yes.

Q. And you met Sheik Abdallah Azzam in Peshawar on your various trips
and he was murdered in or about 1989, correct?

A. Yes.

Q. And you were invited to go to the Services Office in New York in the
early 1990s to see Mustafa Shalabi, and the day you showed up he was
murdered, correct?

A. Yes.

Q. And you had said that someone left New York to come out to Arizona
to have lunch with you to check out Rashad Khalifa, and shortly after
Rashad Khalifa was murdered, correct?

A. Yes.

On February 8, 1999 the Assistant United States Attorney had this to say during
a bail hearing before the Jewish Judge Leonard B. Sand: “El-Hage’s name first arose in
relation to the Khalifa homicide based upon a terrorism investigation being conducted
by federal authorities in New York. Source information developed in the New York
investigation indicated that an identified person [redacted] was dispatched by the late
Mustafa Shalabi to travel from New York to Tucson, Arizona, to surveil Rashad Khalifa
for the purpose of later killing him. The source information further indicated that
[Redacted] stayed with el-Hage, who was known to be married to an American woman.”

Based upon this lead, the Government questioned el-Hage about the
incident in the Grand Jury in 1997. When questioned, el-Hage admitted
that a person from New York made contact with him and visited el-Hage at
his home, telling el-Hage ‘he came to see Rashad Khalifa and investigate
things he heard about Khalifa.’ El-Hage further admited that sometime
after that visit, he learned that Khalifa was killed and thought ‘it was a
good thing.’ Moreover, el-Hage perjured himself in his testimony
concerning [redacted]. El-Hage claimed he did not know the person’s
name who visited him (nor did he ask), nor the identity of the person who
had sent him and given el-Hage’s name as a point of contact.

Yet, el-Hage described [redacted] consistent with his true appearance: an

Egyptian male with a long beard, black hair and glasses. When shown a
photograph of [redacted] el-Hage stated that [redacted] was not the

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 person who visited him, though he could not describe how the two
differed.

El-Hage further testified under oath that he only met Sayyid Nosair one
time at a particular office in Brooklyn, New York. It bears note that a
search of Nosair’s work locker at 100 Center Street recovered a pamphlet
discussing the January 1990 murder of Rashad Khalifa. The pamphlet
was entitled: Who Killed This Believer? [Redacted]

The Government does not allege – and has not alleged – that el-Hage or
even for that matter [redacted] participated in the actual murder of Khalifa.
El-Hage makes much of the fact that other persons have been charged in
connection with the Khalifa murder. As the Government understands it,
the Colorado charges arising out of the search of the Jamaat-ul-Fuqra
compound concerned a conspiracy to kill Khalifa, not the actual murder.
Whether the surveillance effort by [redacted] was related to the murder
conspiracy by the Jamaat-ul-Fuqra sect, which, upon information and
belief is headquartered in Pakistan, or the actual murder, for which no one
has been charged to the Government’s knowledge, remains unclear.

What is important is that el-Hage thought so little of hosting a person at his

house who came from New York to surveil a radical Islamic Imam – who
was then later killed – to even report such information to authorities. Still
worse, el-Hage then lied about the circumstances under oath, falsely
denying his association with [redacted] and the extent of his association
with Nosair…During this same Grand Jury testimony, el-Hage did not
volunteer information to the Government concerning the weapons
purchase of Mahmud Abouhalima, as el-Hage now asserts. Rather,
source information developed by the New York investigation indicated that
Mahmud Abouhalima had obtained weapons for use in New York from el-
Hage in Texas.

El-Hage first indicated he met Abouhalima three times ‘and we

never had any special discussion together.’ Only after having been
warned that he needed to give full and complete answers el-Hage
admitted to the Grand Jury that he purchased the weapons but he never
delivered the weapons. Instead he testified that he sold them – but could
not remember to whom…96

These assault weapons were to be used against Meir Kahane.

WHO WAS “REDACTED”

What have we been told about redacted? He worked for Usama bin Laden, was
dispatched by the late Mustafa Shalabi which means he worked for him too, had some

96
. El-Hage Bail Hearing. USA v UBL et. al.

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connection to Nosair – “el-Hage then lied about the circumstances under oath, falsely
denying his association with [redacted] and the extent of his association with Nosair”
and was an Egyptian male with a long beard, black hair and glasses.

Kahlid Ibrahim, an Egyptian born Islamic fundamentalist in New Jersey had run a
fundraising operation for Osama bin Laden's various organizations since 1989. Ibrahim
had become active in MaK while Shalabi was running the show 97 and Ibrahim and
trained with Nosair and was close to him. Ibrahim was Egyptian, with a long beard,
black hair and glasses. The reason he has been redacted was due to his having been
trained in reconnaissance by Sergeant Ali-Mohamed, while Ali-Mohamed was working
for American intelligence. It was not coincidence that Ali Mohammed came to Brooklyn
after the assassination and was entrusted with moving Shalabi's family back to the
Middle East and with safekeeping Shalabi's documents that have never surfaced since
Shalabi's death.

THE FATE OF COLLABORATORS: DR. ISMAIL FARUQI

Sheik Mubarak Ali Gilani’s Jamaat-ul-Fuqra existed to eliminate heretics and

keep Islam as pure as the desert sand. This was well known. As a result when an
impure Muslim named Ismail Faruqi and his wife were slain ul-Fuqra came under
suspicion. Sheik Gilani addressed the media about these accusations: “Muslims are
being projected as terrorists whereas they are not. They think the increasing population
of Muslims is becoming a threat to America. When the Afghan Jihad came, General Zia-
ul-Haq encouraged me and at that time the Americans accepted the fact that I hold
Jihad conferences in America and in other countries. So I participated in that process.
The Jewish Defense League was able to do many things and frame us wrongfully. U.S.
authorities tried to involve my university in every incident that had happened on the U.S.
soil. A very famous scholar of Islam, Dr. Ismail Faruqi, had been shot dead in 1984 in
Pennsylvania and they blamed us, alleging we did not like him. But when the murderer
was caught it was revealed that the Jewish Defense League hired the assassin.”

Dr. Ismail Faruqi was born in Jaffa, Palestine and was governor of Galilee and a
former mayor of Ramallah before coming to the United States. Faruqi attended Harvard
University and received a doctorate from the University of Indiana in 1952. He was the
first President and founder of A&M College in Chicago, as well as being the head of
Temple University Department of Middle Eastern Studies. Dr. Faruqi and his wife Lois, a
convert to Islam, were assassinated in on May 27, 1986 when a five foot nine two
hundred pound male wearing a black jacket, black pants and wielding a 10-inch survival
knife with a compass in its handle broke into the Faruqi home in Cheltenham,
Pennsylvania, and attacked al-Faruqi, his wife, and their pregnant daughter, Anmar al-
Zein. Faruqi and his wife died from their wounds and the daughter survived, but
required 200 stitches to close her wounds. Two months before the attack one of the
Faruqi’s children had died of an illness in Mexico. Police said that they had no reason to
believe the killing was political and believed the family had confronted a burglar. Nothing
was missing from the home.98
97
. Steve Emerson http://www.iacsp.com/itobli3.html
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. Ginny Wiegand, Paul Scicchitana “Islamic Scholar and Wife are Slain.”The Philadelphia Inquirer May 28, 1986.

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 Why did Jamaat-ul-Fuqra commit this act? Faruqi was a
deviationist who tried to bring Jews, Christians and Arabs together. He had received a
Rockefeller Foundation fellowship and he studied Christianity and Judaism at McGill
University in Canada. We must remember these words of Sheik Rahman: “Our enemies
surrounded us in all countries of the earth when we abandoned Jihad. And we see
those who are discouraging and dissuading people from performing Jihad. They are
telling them that this is not the time for Jihad because we are not ready. Those
discouragers and impeders we must watch out for their tactics and fight them
everywhere.”

It was reported that Attorney General Edwin Meese ordered a special FBI task
force to take over the Fuqra investigation from the local police however within 48 hours
the order was reversed.99 The Jewish fools in the Clinton Administration followed the
same path and never declared Jamaat-ul-Fuqra a foreign terrorist organization,
because it was afraid to alienate American blacks. Jamaat-ul-Fuqra was included in
several recent United States Department of State annual terrorism reports under other
terrorist groups. However, because of the group’s apparent inactivity during 2000,
Clinton’s Jewish-dominated State Department did not include it at all that year. Jamaat-
ul-Fuqra members carried out 13 fire bombings and 17 murders in the United States.
Jamaat-ul-Fuqra was not prosecuted under the Rico Act, as so many drug gangs were,
because God willed it. The U.S., after the September 11 th victory, is investigating the
association of Jamaat-ul-Fuqra with Usama bin Laden and al-Qaeda but little action was
taken against these Brothers, thank God. The only reprisal against them was the arrest
of three suspected Jamaat-ul-Fuqra members on weapons charges in the year 2001,
including Vicente Rafael Pierre, a 44-year-old native of Brooklyn and his wife Traci
Upshur. Pierre had been arrested for laundering money for ul-Fuqra in 1993 but was
sentenced to probation. They were convicted on November 30, 2001 for this offense
that had taken place 2½ years ago.100

WE TEACH THE FAGS A LESSON

Returning to the activities of our Brooklyn / Jersey City cell: On April 28, 1990 a
homemade pipe bomb exploded in Uncle Charlie’s, a popular nightclub for perverts
located in Manhattan. This event prompted a demonstration by several hundred other
abominations. The bomb exploded 2:10 a.m. in a garbage can situated by the back wall
of this “fag” bar. Our Brothers fashioned the bomb by stuffing M-80 firecrackers in a six-
inch pipe and capping both ends. The bomb had no timing device and was placed in a
garbage can moments before the blast. Two homos standing near the can received
minor cuts on their faces from flying broken glass. Three people suffered minor injures.
Although the police said the blast was not bias related Mayor David Dinkins said it was
99
. Warren Hough “Alien-Linked Terrorists Suspected in Assassination of Islamic Scholar” - Spotlight article reprinted in The Black
American Vol. 26, No. 23.
100
. Jen McCaffery “Purchase was illegal for convicted felon” The Roanoke Times, Virginia December 1, 2001.

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anti-homosexual attack and probably believed that Christian Fundamentalists carried it
out.

DAN QUALYE & JEANNE KIRKPATRICK

On May 20, 1990 smoke bombs and firecrackers were set off in lobby of
Sheraton Hotel two hours before Vice President Dan Qualye was to address a Jewish
group there. Quayle had not arrived when the incident occurred. A New York City Fire
Department spokesman said there was no evidence linking the explosions to Quayle’s
visit.

On May 23, 1990 a small crudely made explosive device went off in an empty
ballroom of the hotel Hilton while Yeshiva University and the Jewish Reclamation
Project were holding dinners there. U.N. Ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick addressed the
Yeshiva University fund-raiser. One device exploded in an empty ballroom at 9:25 p.m.
and a second device exploded near 2 nd floor escalator. Police Department spokesman
Fred Weiner said devices were made of cardboard tubes holding M-80 firecrackers and
b.b.’s. There were no injures or damage and no group claimed responsibility, none-the-
less, the attack was classified as bias incident.

No one was arrested for any of these activities, yet the FBI reported:
“Confidential Source Three (CS-3) is a person who was intimately familiar with various
persons involved in Jihad in the New York area in the period from 1988 to 1990 and
participated in criminal activity.” 101 The Intelligence Community knew exactly what
Gama’a al-Islamiyya’s Brooklyn / Jersey City cell was up to but intentionally did nothing.
The explanation for our grant of immunity from criminal prosecution can be summed up
in one word - COMMUNISM. From its inception the CIA’s main goal was to destroy the
Soviet Union. Sixty-percent of its budget was utilized for this purpose. This was
precisely what Gama’a al-Islamiyya and al-Qaeda were doing at this time with the hot
war in Afghanistan. The CIA instructed the FBI not to interfere with us, and the FBI
passed this information to the New York City Police Department though the Joint
Terrorism Task Force. News of the assassination attempts were not made public by the
law enforcement community, who felt our efforts, would never amount to more than a
hill of hummus. Another reason al-Qaeda had immunity was because the American
government had men like Sergeant Ali-Mohamed working for it training jihadi to fight the
Communists in Afghanistan. These same jihadi used their training to carry out actions
such as the Rashid Khalifa and JDL Devil Rabbi Meir Kahane assassinations and this
blowback would not have looked good on the agents’ resumes.

SERGEANT ALI A. MOHAMED TRIPLE AGENT

At the time our Brooklyn / Jersey City cell was first forming, the CIA,
under the cover of the U.S. Army Special Forces, sent Sergeant Ali-
Mohamed to Jersey City to provide training for Mujahadeen recruits. 102
101
. Affidavit of FBI SA Dan Coleman September 1998.
102
. Peter Waldman and Frances A. McMorris “The Other Trial: As Sheik Omar Case Nears End, Neither Side Looks Like a Winner
”Wall Street Journal, September 22, 1995.

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Sergeant Ali-Mohamed’s life illustrated how the United States betrayed Egypt, its
purported ally, because of its obsession with anti-Communism, and how the FBI’s
reticence to investigate a CIA operation allowed us to carry out many devastating
actions.

Born in Alexandria in 1952, the son of an Egyptian soldier, Ali-Mohamed joined

the Egyptian military and became a major in Egypt’s intelligence service. 103 A
psychologist and a linguist, he protected Egyptian diplomats overseas, and participated
in the U.S. Army’s Operation Bright Star, a bi-annual military training exercise held in
Egypt.

OPERATION BRIGHT STAR

Zawahiri the Elder described Bright Star:

In Bright Star 99, nine countries participated in addition to the United States,
Egypt, and observers from 33 countries. A total of 73,000 soldiers, 210 combat aircraft,
55 warships, and the aircraft carrier Kennedy, with its full naval and aircraft
complement, took part in those exercises. This exercise was described as the largest
military maneuver in the world and, according to the commander of the French forces
General Harve, "the most important multinational maneuver in the world.” The aim of the
maneuvers was a practice run in landing invading forces on Egypt's western coast and
then marching southeast towards Cairo, namely, the same route followed by Napoleon
Bonaparte during his Egyptian campaign. The Egyptian forces are not training at this
time to repel a likely attack by the Israeli enemy on the Egyptian border as much as they
are training to liberate their capital from a likely seizure by a fundamentalist regime.

The Egyptian army sent Ali-Mohamed to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, for Special
Forces training where he received a diploma with a Green Beret insignia on it.
Returning home, he served in the Egyptian army for three more years. In 1984, he left
to work as a security expert for EgyptAir -- and started to make contact with the CIA. In
1984 Ali-Mohamed was forced out of the Egyptian military because he was discovered
to be a secret member of Gama’a Al-Islamiyya. Ali-Mohamed was apparently placed on
the State Department Watch List in 1984 but was still able to get a visa to enter the
United States. The CIA ignored the findings of the Egyptian government because it felt
Ali-Mohamed would be valuable in its fight against Communism, and in 1985 Ali-
Mohamed was given a visa from the American Embassy in Cairo to enter the United
States. Ali Mohamed became an American citizen in 1985 after marrying a medical
technician he met on a plane trip from Egypt to New York. Recently divorced, Linda Lee
Sanchez (born 1943) wed Ali-Mohamed in Reno, Nevada after a six-week courtship. Ali-
Mohamed had Linda’s name listed under the address 720 Harvard. 104 There is a Laura
Sanchez born 1943 at 1720 Halford Avenue in Santa Clara.

103
. Judy Aita “Ali Mohamed: The Defendant Who Did Not Go to Trial” USDOS International Information Programs May 15, 2001.
http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/pol/terror/01051502.htm
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 After Ali-Mohamed’s betrayal of America became public, the CIA claimed that it
did not trust him back then: “This individual approached the CIA to offer information.
Some time later, we found out he was talking to known terrorists and had identified
himself as a CIA agent. We felt him to be untrustworthy, and we put him on the State
Department Watch List,” said an unnamed CIA agent who was trying to save the
tarnished reputation of the Agency. The unnamed CIA agent also claimed that he
warned other U.S. government agencies about Ali-Mohamed and urged them to detain
him. Exactly the opposite was true.

In 1986, the CIA established a Counterterrorist Center (CTC) at CIA

Headquarters after a task force concluded that U.S. government agencies had not
aggressively operated to disrupt terrorist activities. The Counterterrorist Center's stated
mission was to preempt, disrupt, and defeat so-called terrorists by implementing a
comprehensive counterterrorist operations program to collect intelligence. It was no co-
incidence that in 1986 the CIA facilitated Ali-Mohamed’s enlistment as a regular soldier
in the U.S. Army at the age of 34, unusually old for a new recruit. His cover was Army
Supply Sergeant and lecturer on “Islamic Culture” at the U.S. Army’s Special-Warfare
School at Fort Bragg, in North Carolina. By 1986, Ali-Mohamed was active in the CIA’s
proxy war against the Soviets in Afghanistan. He was also an active source for the CIA
and FBI, who were convinced that he was a double agent working on their behalf. But
Ali was smarter than these pagans, and was a triple agent, so the information he gave
to the Americans about us was carefully filtered and orchestrated on our behalf.

Ali temporarily abandoned his U.S. Army cover in 1989. He told Federal Court
Judge Leonard Sand: “In early 1990s, Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri made two visits to the
United States, and he came to United States to help raise funds for the Egyptian Islamic
Jihad. I helped him to do this.” Al-Zawahiri received important intelligence information
from Ali-Mohamed concerning the American’s degree of penetration of our organization.
The Americans mistakenly thought that Ali-Mohamed was spying on Dr. Al-Zawahiri on
their behalf, but, as usual, the opposite was true.

DR. AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI

In 1981 Dr. Al-Zawahiri was thrown in jail as an accessory in the Sadat

assassination due to his connection to Gama’a al-Islamiyya. He was sentenced to three
years for carrying a weapon without a license. There he witnessed his jailers’ torture to
death the founder of the Afghan refugee clinic where he had previously worked. The
Egyptian authorities claimed that the man had committed suicide. The legend goes that
this was what totally radicalized al-Zawahiri, however, if al-Zawahiri weren’t already a
radical, he would not have participated in the Sadat execution in the first place. Brother
Issam (Essam or Isam) Al-Qamari was another of aI-Zawahiri’s fellow prisoners, who
was at one time an active officer in the Egyptian army waiting for a chance to affect an
Islamist military coup, however he left the Army in 1981 after his jihadi tendencies were
discovered. Later Dr. Al-Zawahiri would publicly write, “The Islamic movement's
infiltration of the Army will always be countered by purging operations. It is difficult for
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 discovered, in view of the tight security measures within the
ranks of the Armed Forces.” Al-Qamari was a charismatic figure
who organized and led Islamist cells within Egypt's Tura Prison and it was during their
incarceration and interrogation in 1981-1982, that the idea occurred to them of splitting
from the Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyyah and forming Egyptian Al-Jihad. Basically Al-Gama’a
al-Islamiyyah would shoot infidels; Egyptian Islamic Jihad would blow them up.

While al-Zawahiri was in prison, he came face to face with his Emir Sheikh Omar
Abdel Rahman, who had also been charged as a conspirator in the assassination of
Sadat.105 During this time a struggle took place between the members of the Al-Gama’a
al-Islamiyyah and the many splinter jihadi elements in the Tora Prison over whether
Sheikh Rahman was capable of leadership of the group despite his blindness. Al-
Qamari’s voice was the loudest, wholeheartedly opposing Abdel Rahman's leadership
on account of his poor eyesight. Al-Zawahiri wanted the Sheikh to resign for the sake of
unity. This issue led eventually to the demise of the coalition between the various jihadi
groups under the leadership of Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyyah. Al-Qamari was a courageous
man who did not fear anyone in his struggle to follow the path of God, even to the extent
of rashness. It was the rashness that caused him a lot of problems with his brethren
from the Islamist movements in prison, especially regarding the debate over Abdel
Rahman's leadership of the newly unified Islamic group. 106 In 1991 al-Zawahiri
published a book in which he said that a blind person should not be Ameer. In the book
he said that in books of Shari'ah there are a number of conditions that have to be met
by any great Imam, including having sound senses. Throughout this book he said that
Sheikh Rahman, as the Imam of Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya was in violation of Islamic Law.

During his trial al-Zawahiri pulled off his shoes and raised his robes to expose the
marks of torture while denouncing the torture that took place in the "dirty Egyptian jails,
where we suffered the severest inhuman treatment. There they kicked us, they beat us,
they whipped us with electric cables they shocked us with electricity! They shocked us
with electricity! And they used the wild dogs! And they used the wild dogs! And they
hung us over the edges of the doors"— he bent over to demonstrate—"with our hands
tied at the back! They arrested the wives, the mothers, the fathers, the sisters, and the
sons!" The other defendants chanted, "The army of Muhammad will return, and we will
defeat the Jews!"

Unable to endure this kind of torture AI-Zawahiri gave depositions and served as
a witness implicating Al-Qamari: “He occasionally visited me in my clinic. I also found a
flat for him and gave him money and the seized pistol, along with other weapons
including five pistols, two machine guns and a number of bullets, I do not remember
how many.”

After he was arrested on October 15, 1981, al-Zawahiri informed the authorities
of Al-Qamari's whereabouts. He had taken refuge in a small mosque where he used to
pray and meet al-Zawahiri and other members of the group.

105
. http://www.lawrencewright.com/art-zawahiri.html
106
. The Road to al-Qaeda Montasser al-Zayyet

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 The police asked me to go this mosque to meet him so that they could
arrest him because they were worried that there would be loss of lives. I
went with them to the mosque and sat there under their eyes until he
arrived and while he was performing the mosque greeting prayers he was
arrested.

Al-Zawahiri’s relative, Mahfouz (Mahfuz) Azzam, had a different version of

events:

On October 21, 1981, after the Menassa (the place of assassinating late
President Sadat) event, he was in a car driven by his brother, in his way to
the air port, after visiting his aunt he found State Security surrounded him
and was arrested. He was able to travel before October 21 if he committed
a crime, but he had a relation with Essam al-Qamari and the State
Security had a problem with capturing him, so when they wanted to
captured him waited until Essam speaks in telephone. They broke into
Ayman's house and destroyed walls in order to find any clues, and when
he said to them in the telephone: "tell Ayman we will meet after Salat al
Maghreb (sunset prayer) in the mosque near Ket-Kat” - they knew him as
Essam al-Qamri. If it were not for that call, all security forces will not catch
him because Essam was a professional fighter, and he traveled to
Russia.107

Al-Zawahiri has a different version of events:

After intensive pursuits, I was arrested. An attack was conducted on the

hideout of Essam al-Qamari, at the Cairo neighborhood of Al Jammaliyah,
where an interesting battle took place. This battle occupied an important
place in the history of the movement because of the serious facts that it
demonstrated about the confrontation between the Islamists and
government troops. It also proved the validity of Essam's theory and his
farsightedness. This battle took place in the Manshiyat Nasir area in the
Al-jammaliyah neighborhood. It is a poor area where poor homes are
stacked next to each other, divided by narrow alleys and paths. Essam
was hiding in a turner's workshop built by Muhammad Abdal Rahman al-
Sharqawi108, along with Ibrahim Salamah Iskandarani and Nabil Na'im
(detained since 1991), to serve as one of our bases. This workshop was in
a modest house consisting of a roofless hallway, with two fastened a few
centimeters away from the iron door. They had two old short machine
guns, two revolvers, and a number of hand grenades in their possession.
When the break-in troops tried to storm their way into the gate they were
jolted, and they immediately retreated in shock. Essam seized the
opportunity and hurled a hand grenade over the door. It landed in the
middle of the break-in team, killing or wounding the team members. The
107
. http://ikhwanweb.com/Home.asp?zPage=Systems&System=PressR&Press=Show&Lang=E&ID=5180
108
. Al Sharqawi received a 7-year prison sentenced in connection with Anwar Sadat Al-Mujahideen's case then a 15-year term in the
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 battalion officers and soldiers panicked when they heard the screams of
the break-in team. There was complete silence in the air. Essam and his
companions climbed to the roof of the workshop and started hailing the
neighboring rooftops with bullets from their two machine guns, which soon
stopped working. But Essam and his companions did not stop. They
rained the force with 10 hand grenades, nine of which exploded. The
resistance by the force stopped, and here Essam realized that it had been
weakened. The brothers emerged from the workshop. They found a
soldier in front of them pointing his weapon at them. However, he turned
his back on them. Brother Nabil Na'im shot him in the head.

Essam asked them to sit still and wait for him to throw a hand grenade
then start running in the direction of the grenade. The brothers started
running through the cordons of the siege. It was as if they were running
amidst dead people and ghosts. They continued to run until they reached
the neighboring hills of Al-Muqattam. From a distance, they sat down to
watch the badly hurt troops as they gathered their wounded men and
moved back to their vehicles. Ibrahim Salamah suggested that this was
the best opportunity to attack the battalion with what was left with the
brothers in terms of ammunition, but Essam decided it was enough. The
brothers continued to walk on the hills of Al-Muqattam. Ibrahim Salamah
had a hand grenade in his hand. He had removed the pin from it then
returned it again. However, it seemed that the pin shifted out of place
when he was running. The brothers stopped for a while near one of the
caves.

Ibrahim Salamah wanted to urinate. He turned around and faced

the entrance of the cave. Essam and Nabil sat a few meters away from
him with their backs to Ibrahim. The grenade dropped on the floor, causing
the pin to shift a little. The brothers heard the capsule exploding. Ibrahim
immediately threw himself on the bomb to protect his brothers. The
explosion of the bomb, which ripped Ibrahim apart, broke the silence of
the night. He took the full power of the explosion. It was an act of destiny
that was beyond any expectation. After escaping safely from over a 100-
man force from the Central Security Forces, Ibrahim met his fate. Isam
and Nabil were astonished by the gravity of the surprise. Isam was
arrested and put on trial in the Al-Jihad case. The prosecutors, colluding
with the intelligence department, did not take him to attend the first
session of the trial. They brought him along with Rifa'i Taha (a military
official of the Islamic Group) on the second session from their place of
detention in Al-Qal'ah Prison.

Some say al-Zawahiri as leader of Al-Jihad should have faced martyrdom to

protect the organization, as he expected others to do as in the case of an Arab-Afghan
fighter and Egyptian Islamic Jihad member named Mohamed Abdel Aleem, better
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worked in an orphanage in Peshawar in Pakistan. Although he was only 25 at the time,
he was very active. Before joining and working with Zawahiri in Afghanistan, he was a
good friend of Abu Ubaidah al-Banshiri ('Ali al-Rasheedi) martyred by drowning in Lake
Victoria. In Afghanistan, Abu Khadija joined Islamic Jihad and worked directly with
Zawahiri himself but he had to leave behind a wife and children. He expressed to
Zawahiri his wish to go back to Egypt to see them and try to bring them to Afghanistan.
Zawahiri tried to talk him out of traveling for fear that he would be arrested by the
Egyptian authorities, but his resolve was firm. The Security Committee made a plan to
return him to Egypt on a forged passport with an itinerary that passed through a number
of countries before arriving in Egypt, in order to make it difficult for the Egyptian
authorities to track him. Despite these measures, as soon as he arrived at the airport,
he was arrested by the Egyptian authorities who tortured him terribly until they extracted
information about the activities of the group. Abu Khadija told the authorities about the
hiding place of Esam Abdel Gayyid, who had infiltrated into Egypt to achieve certain
aims. Soon thereafter, Abdel Gayyid was arrested. He is still in prison today. The
Egyptian authorities eventually released Abu Khadija, and after lengthy judicial
procedure, he received his passport.

Abu Khadija insisted on joining his family in Saudi Arabia, where he bumped into
Zawahiri in the Holy Mosque. He explained to Zawahiri that what was revealed was
done under the pain of torture, and that he did not mean to cause the arrest of Abdel
Gayyid. Zawahiri treated him coldly but was forgiven and was assured that since he was
under torture he could not be held responsible. Abu Khadija returned to Afghanistan to
work for the same orphanage. A few weeks after Abu Khadija’s arrival, aI-Zawahiri’s
returned to Afghanistan. Abu Khadija then traveled to Islamabad en route to Jeddah to
bring his family to Afghanistan. Abu Khadija was hosted by Pakistan's Islamist group
Harakat ul-Ansar (aka HUM or Harkat-ul-Mujahideen).109 He then disappeared in
Pakistan. Islamic Jihad spread rumors that he died in a car accident, that he had a car
that he used for his travels between Islamabad and Peshawar. There was no accident.
Members of the Security Committee in Islamic Jihad pretended they wanted to have him
meet someone away from where he was hosted by Harakat ul-Ansar. He disappeared
soon after this executed on the orders of Doctor aI-Zawahiri. 110

Dr. Al-Zawahiri identified his brother Muhammad al-Zawahiri as a member of the

same militant cell, according to the transcript of his 1981 Higher State Security Court
confession, as reproduced by the jihadi house counsel Egyptian Montassar al-Zayyat
(also spelled Zayat) in his The Road to Al-Qaeda: The Story of bin Laden’s Right-Hand
Man.111

AI-Zawahiri’s cooperation with the authorities along with the CIA’s desire to
destroy Communism perhaps led to his quick exit from Egypt to Saudi Arabia. Al-
Qamari met a heroic death at the hands of the Egyptian security forces while lobbing
grenades at them and holding them off until fatally wounded during a jailbreak. The
Learned Elder Montassar al-Zayyat visited AI-Zawahiri in the Ibn al-Nefees hospital,
109
. The HUM changed its name to Harakat ul-Ansar in October 1993
110
. http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc//awcgate/cpc-pubs/aboul-enein.pdf
111
. The Road to al-Qaeda Montasser al-Zayyet London: Pluto Press, 2004), pp. 36-45

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where he was working in Jeddah. He looked very sorrowful. The scars left on his body
from the indescribable torture he suffered caused him no more pain, but his heart and
soul still ached from it. The torture he suffered was not proportionate to his
comparatively minor role in the assassination of Sadat and under the pain of torture he
gave testimony to the Higher Military Court against other jihadi members from the army.
Under these conditions, he admitted that they formed a movement inside the army to
topple the regime and institute an Islamic government.

From Saudi Arabia it was on to Afghanistan in 1986 where he joined Usama bin
Laden in his struggle against the Soviets. In 1987 Ayman al-Zawahiri founded the
Peshawar bureau of Egyptian Islamic Jihad and started a monthly magazine called The
Conquest. He also started Tanzeem al-Jihad (Jihad Organization) and in 1988 merged
it with Islamic Jihad. Ayman al-Zawahiri led the Egyptian Islamic Jihad throughout the
1990s and planned numerous attacks against Egyptian officials.

THE INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC FRONT

FOR THE JIHAD AGAINST JEWS AND CRUSADERS

Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri rejoined bin Laden in Afghanistan in 1997 and signed a
May 1998 declaration calling on Muslims to kill Americans and Jews all over the world,
to wage Jihad against the US and its interests. Bin Laden formed The International
Islamic Front for the Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders - a coalition of Islamist groups
which included Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya and Al-Jihad as major players. In bin Laden's
May religious pronouncement he told American news correspondent John Miller that,

We don't differentiate between those dressed in military uniforms and

civilians. They are all targets of this fatwa…We also hold them (American
government) responsible for its attacks on Islamic symbols, Sheikh Abdel
Rahman, who is considered one of the most prominent Islamic scholars
who Allah gave the courage to speak the truth. We hear that he is in a bad
health condition and he is a man beyond 60 years of age and is blind and
America treats him badly. The imprisonment of Sheikh Omar is an attack
on the Muslim religion and countries. We hold it completely responsible for
the imprisonment of Sheikh Omar and the imprisonment of other Muslims
in America.

Ali-Mohamed brought Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri into the United States in 1993
without leaving any traces of his entry. Later in 1993 Ali-Mohamed was not as
successful and told agents of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police that he “had provided
intelligence and counter-intelligence training in Afghanistan to a particular identified
individual [Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri]. Ali-Mohamed indicated that he met [Dr. Ayman al-
Zawahiri] in 1988 and last saw him in Afghanistan in 1991. Ali-Mohamed admitted that
he had traveled to Vancouver, Canada, in the spring of 1993 to facilitate the entry of [Dr.
Ayman Zawahiri] into the United States. [Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri] had been stopped by
Canadian customs officials and was found to be in possession of a false passport and
the driver’s license of Ali-Mohamed. Ali-Mohamed further admitted that he and [Dr.

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Ayman al-Zawahiri] had transported Usama bin Laden from Afghanistan to the Sudan in
1991, at which point Ali-Mohamed had left his driver’s license with [Dr. Ayman al-
Zawahiri]. Ali-Mohamed told the RCMP that he was in the process of applying for a job
as an FBI interpreter and did not want this incident to jeopardize the application. (In fact,
Ali-Mohamed then had such an application pending though he was never hired as a
translator.)” Some Western analysts believe the man with Ali-Mohamed’s ID was
Ahmed Salama Mabruk Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri’s right-hand man, however, Mabruk had
Canadian citizenship.

Ahmed Salama Mabruk, head of military operations for Egyptian Islamic Jihad
was jailed for life in April 1999 after trying to buy chemical and biological weapons in the
former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan along with Mohamed Saeed al-Ashri (aka Abu
Khaled) and Ahmed Salama Mabruk.112 His laptop computer contained plans to produce
anthrax along with many names and addresses of the members of Egyptian Islamic
Jihad including those living overseas who were unknown to the Egyptian authorities
including jihadi Mohamed Atef. The hard drive listed over 100 targets in the United
States, Israel and also in India. This led to the arrest of nearly one hundred members,
who were tried in one case entitled, “The Returnees From Albania.” 113 The San
Francisco Chronicle reported,

A Silicon Valley physician and civic leader told The Chronicle that in 1989
or 1990 he had been introduced to al-Zawahiri and accompanied him to
local mosques. The civic leader, Dr. Ali Zaki, said he had been duped into
assisting al-Zawahiri and had not been told his real name or the true
purpose of his fund raising.114

ALI-MOHAMED AND KAHANE’S ASSASSIN

On November 6, 1990, when authorities searched the home of El-Sayyid Nosair

after he assassinated the Judaist Rabbi Meir Kahane, they found evidence of a close
association between Nosair and Ali-Mohamed that included U.S. Army training
manuals, videotaped talks that Ali-Mohamed delivered at the Kennedy Special Warfare
Center at Fort Bragg, an operational plan for Operation Bright Star, military training
schedules, U.S. intelligence estimates of Soviet forces in Afghanistan, a “Manila folder,
unmarked which contains documents, some entitled ‘The Eighteenth Airborne of Non-
Commissioned Officers Navigation, Map Reading, Compass Course, Patrolling’ and
with a typographical map showing the Fort Bragg Military Reservation,” U.S. Central
Command data and intelligence estimates of Soviet force projection in Afghanistan. The
FBI also found “One manila folder with documents, some in Arabic writing.”

These documents included some that originated with the: “Joint Chiefs of Staff,
Washington, D.C.” Another was from the Commander-in-Chief, United States Central

112
. Nato Headquarters, Brussels, December 19, 2001 statement by Serj Sargsyan Minister of Defense of the Republic of Armenia.
http://www.nato.int/docu/speech/2001/s011219u.htm
113
. Al-Zayyat, Montasser The Road to Al-Qaeda p66
114
. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/10/11/MN119457.DTL

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Command Air Force Base. A document from the McGill Air Force Base contained a
communication at the bottom of which read “Top Secret for Training otherwise
Unclassified.” Other documents were marked “Sensitive.” Appended throughout the
documents were the Arabic markings and notations of Ali-Mohamed. 115 The FBI also
found “Various documents in Arabic which appear to be Xeroxed copies with diagrams,
appear to be some type of bomb making manual.” (Ali-Mohamed is widely regarded as
having written al-Qaeda’s jihadi handbook detailing how to pick targets and operate in
the West without detection).

Long before this evidence was unearthed, the CIA and FBI were well aware that
Ali-Mohamed often stayed in New Jersey with Nosair, and was closely associated with
him. Why? Because the intelligence community had sent Ali-Mohamed there to work
with El-Sayyid Nosair! How much simpler an answer can we provide?

As a result of this, these training manuals and government documents did not
surface during El-Sayyid Nosair’s 1991 trial (when Nosair was acquitted of killing
Kahane) because neither the FBI, the CIA, the New York City District Attorney’s office
nor the defense wanted to make the killing look like it was part of a wider conspiracy.
Ali-Mohamed told his handlers that he had given Nosair the documents to gain his trust
and help in the struggle in Afghanistan and that he knew nothing about the Kahane
conspiracy. American intelligence believed he was working on behalf of American
interests, and there would be no violations of United States law within America’s
borders that would not be reported to the FBI. The Americans thought they had bought
Ali-Mohamed’s loyalty with material wealth so they protected him, and believed that his
failure to report his foreknowledge of the Kahane execution was a result of his having
no need to know. But you cannot buy our loyalty with expensive homes or cars; our
loyalty is to Allah [subhanahu wa ta’ala], the supreme ruler of the universe.

At El-Sayyid Nosair’s World Trade Center - Second Kahane assassination trial,

where he was accused of being part of a conspiracy, his defense was that he had
received training materials from an Egyptian person named “Ali-Mohamed” who was
known to him as an American agent that was assigned to help and train those who were
assisting the Afghani’s struggle against Russia. When he received these military
manuals from Ali-Mohamed, Nosair was under the impression that he (i.e. El-Sayyid
Nosair) was cooperating with the American government
and following its policy through one of its agents. To
prove his point, El-Sayyid Nosair’s lawyers sent a
subpoena to Ali-Mohamed to come and testify. Despite
the fact that the subpoena was sent to Ali-Mohamed,
mysteriously, Ali-Mohamed never came to testify. El-
Sayyid Nosair’s cousin, Brother Ibrahim A. El-Gabrowny
explained:

Upon arrival to the Manhattan Correctional Center on October 1999, I was

put in 9 South Unit in a single cell right beside the cell that was occupied
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. Steven Emerson - “Abdullah Assam: The Man Before Osama Bin Laden” International Association for
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 by Ali-Mohamed, which he was there as a suspect in the bombing case of
the American Embassy in Nairobi. During the period of being neighbors, I
engaged in several conversations with him and asked Ali-Muhamed about
the fact that he used to train people for the Afghan struggle against
Russia, and whether or not he ever received the subpoena that Nosair’s
lawyer sent to him and if he did receive the subpoena, why did he not
come to testify? Ali-Mohamed told me that he used to work for the
American army and it’s true he trained people here and in Afghanistan to
assist the struggle against Russia and further added that he had briefly
trained El-Sayyid Nosair and provided him with military manuals and
instructions as part of the brief training. Ali-Mohamed further added that
regarding the subpoena that was sent to him by Nosair’s lawyer, he
actually received it and was prepared to abide with the order and come to
testify on Nosair’s behalf. But before he could come to testify, Mr. Andy
McCarthy, the A.U.S.A. came accompanied with an FBI agent and paid
him a visit, Ali-Mohamed further added. During the visit Mr. McCarthy told
him that he i.e. Mr. McCarthy knew about the subpoena that was sent by
Nosair’s defense lawyer, then Mr. McCarthy advised Ali-Mohamed to
ignore the subpoena order and not go to testify on Nosair’s behalf and that
Mr. McCarthy will cover up for him regarding that.

The soul and heart of the seditious conspiracy that was alleged by the
government against El-Sayyid Nosair and myself and the rest of the
defendants was the existence of the one over all Jihad organization and
the proofs of its terrorist activities. Ali-Mohamed’s testimony was crucial to
refute a major part of the Government’s allegation, and that would
substantially effect the case for Nosair, myself and the rest of the co-
defendants.

Accordingly, if my claim is true, this will represent a severe Brady violation,

since the Government, through its representative, Andy McCarthy acted
maliciously to destroy evidence and withhold exculpatory information from
the defense that if they were revealed they would substantially effect the
jury’s mind and change the whole outcome of the trial.

Prior to his arrest in 1993, El-Gabrowny had been in touch with Usama bin
Laden.116

ALI-MOHAMED AND USAMA THE ELDER

The FBI was aware of Ali-Mohamed’s connection to Usama bin Laden in 1990 or
earlier: “In 1990 Confidential Source 3 met an ‘Omar’ in a mosque in Santa Clara
California – the town in which Ali-Mohamed resided in 1990. CS-3 described ‘Omar’ as
someone who received American military experience in bomb making, who served as
bin Laden’s bodyguard and who then lived in California. CS-4 indicates that in 1992, Ali

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 Abdelseoud Mohamed aka ‘Abu Omar’ AKA ‘Omar’ was training
mujahideen in Afghanistan and was also translating training manuals from
English into Arabic.”117 This was just one of Al-Mohamed’s
accomplishments. When Rashed Daoud al-‘Owhali, a would-be al-Qaeda
Shaheed who chickened out at the last minute, was questioned by the FBI
he advised “that the [al-Qaeda] cell is made up of the Administrative
Section, the Intelligence Section, the Preparation Section and the Execution
Section. The person in charge of the Intelligence Section is the top person in the cell.
Upon the selection of the cell’s target, also called the station, the Intelligence person
assigns deputies and case agents to oversee and conduct the variety of tasks needed
to complete the cell’s mission. The training also consisted of methods of recruitment,
surveillance, counter surveillance, site surveys and the use of photography to include
still photographs and video. Subject further advised that he believes his type of “cell”
training was at one time taught in the bin Ladin camps by an Egyptian male, who was
trained by either the American military or intelligence agency. Subject does not know
this Egyptians name but added that he is no longer a part of bin Ladin because he was
labeled untrustworthy. Subject believes this person lives in the United States.” 118
Al-‘Owhali, a citizen of Saudi Arabia, was born in 1977 in Liverpool, England, while his
father was enrolled in a Master’s Degree program there. His family had considerable
wealth and prominence. His mother had a profound effect on his strong religious
upbringing and he began to read magazine such as Al-Jihad, Al-Muhahidin and Al-
Mujahad, many of which were published by Azzam Publications, our in-house press. In
1996 Al-‘Owhali traveled to Afghanistan to train and make Jihad. It was there that he
was exposed to Sheik Rahman’s fatwas that stated unequivocally, “that if a ruler used
his power to change things in contradiction to Islam, then the ruler had blasphemed and
it was your right and duty to kill him.” In 1993 Ali-Mohamed told Special Agents of the
FBI that,

Usama bin Laden ran an organization called al-Qaeda and was building
an army that may be used to overthrow the Saudi Government. Ali-
Mohamed further stated that bin Laden was operating camps in the Sudan
and that Ali-Mohamed himself was training people in the Sudan. Ali-
Mohamed also advised the FBI that he had provided anti-hijacking and
intelligence training in Afghanistan to [al-Zawahiri].

Ali-Mohamed handled Usama’s security, and after a failed 1994 assassination

attempt on bin Laden, trained his bodyguards, and conducted surveillance for him. He
also became an FBI and INS informant regarding the illegal entry of Mexicans into the
United States, and this provided him with additional immunity for his activities on our
behalf.119

At Ali’s sentencing hearing he stated: “At about this time, late 1994, I received a
call from an FBI agent who wanted to speak to me about the upcoming trial of United

117
. Affidavit of FBI SA Daniel Coleman September 1998.
118
. USA v Moussaoui Defendant’s Exhibit 767
119
. Steven Emerson - “Abdullah Assam: The Man Before Osama Bin Laden” - International Association for
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States v. Abdel Rahman. I flew back to the United States, spoke to the FBI, but didn’t
disclose everything that I knew. I reported on my meeting with the FBI to Abu Hafs
[Muhammed Atef aka Abu Hafs, Abu Hafs El-Masry El-Khabir, Taysir, Sheikh Taysir
Abdullah, Abu Khadijh] and was told not to return to Nairobi.”

Abu Hafs Masri is a former Egyptian policeman who was co-founder of the MaK
then joined Egyptian Islamic Jihad and went on to become the military commander of al-
Qaeda. His daughter is married to one of Usama bin Laden’s sons and was widely
regarded as Bin Laden’s successor before he was killed during a United Snakes air
strike on Kabul in November 2001. The FBI reported:

In December 1994, Ali-Mohamed, who was listed as a defense witness in

the then pending trial of Sheik Rahman was interviewed by Special Agent
Harlan Bell. Ali-Mohamed then indicated he was then working in Kenya in
the scuba diving business and admitted that he made two prior trips to
Pakistan; one in 1998 as an observer; the second in 1991 in response to a
request by the late Mustafa Shalabi to move Usama bin Laden out of
Afghanistan.120

The United States Attorney’s office reported:

On December 9, 1994 Mr. Ali-Mohamed was interviewed by Assistant

United States Attorney Andrew McCarthy and FBI Special Agent Harlan
Bell. The prosecutor questioned Mr. Ali-Mohamed about whether he
provided certain military manuals to El-Sayyid Nosair and whether he had
trained any of the World Trade Center bombing defendants in military
skills. Mr. Ali-Mohamed denied furnishing these manuals, but admitted
knowing and visiting several purported Islamic militants in the New York
metropolitan area. The government’s questions to Mr. Ali-Mohamed
clearly show that the government had information tending to demonstrate
that military manuals, traceable to Mr. Ali-Mohamed, were found in
possession of Nosair and other World Trade Center bombing defendants.
This information could only have originated from a well-placed informant in
the New York Islamic militant community [The traitor Jamal Ahmed al-
Fadl? The spy Emad Salem] who may have provided the government with
information that led to a search warrant. The nature of this questioning
indicates that the government considered Mr. Ali-Mohamed a target for
criminal prosecution.

But there was no such prosecution: All that transpired was that Ali-Mohamed was
added to the Rahman Unindicted Co-Conspirator List in the U.S.A. v. Rahman case.
With the help of the Almighty and with the immunity Ali-Mohamed had acquired from
acting as an informant for the inexperienced American intelligence community, Ali-
Mohamed was able to again leave the United States and train fighters in surveillance
techniques and unconventional warfare at al-Qaeda camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan

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while simultaneously serving in the United States Army Reserves. For nine years after
he left active duty, until his arrest in 1998, Ali-Mohamed shuttled between California,
Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, Morocco, Oman, Egypt,
Niger, Tanzania on al-Qaeda business.

In 1995 Ali-Mohamed sought a security clearance to work as a security guard at

a classified area within a facility maintained by a private company that did business on
behalf of the Department of Defense (DOD). In a January 1995 DOD questionnaire, Ali-
Mohamed stated that in the last five years that he traveled to Egypt, the United Arab
Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Kenya as part of his import – export business. Ali-Mohamed
did not mention travel to Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Sudan or Somalia. Ali-Mohamed did
not even list his overseas employment, later admitting that he did so deliberately
because he had been advised that recent overseas employment would disqualify him
for consideration. In the same statement he stated that “My brothers are the only people
I have contact with outside the United States” after discussing his two blood brothers
living in Egypt. He further stated that

I have never had any contact such as personal meetings, written

correspondence, telephonic contact or any other such form of
communication with anyone representing a non-US intelligence/security
service or group, movement or association that advocates or practices
violence against the U.S. government, its citizens or allies. I have never
been asked to work for a non-U.S. intelligence-security service or group
that advocates or practices violence against the U.S. government, its
citizens or allies. I have never worked or volunteered to work for any non-
U.S. intelligence security service or group that advocates or practices
violence against the U.S. government, its citizens or allies. I have never
belonged to a terrorist organization but I have been approached by
organizations that could be called terrorist. I would prefer to call these
organizations ‘opposition groups’ because they were opposing terrorist
governments.121

In 1996 bin Laden threatened to wage an Islamic holy war against the United
States and its allies if Washington did not remove its troops from the Gulf region. In
1996 a Grand Jury was convened to investigate Gama’a al-Islamiyya, Al-Qaeda et al
and by September 1997 it had determined that Ali-Mohamed had trained the forces that
attacked kafir soldiers in Somalia in 1993 and 1994. In June 2006 this training paid off
and Somali Islamists defeated the CIA-backed militias taking control of Mogadishu and
establishing Shari'ah law. An Italian nun was gunned down in front of a Mogadishu
hospital where she had served for years. Leonella Rose Sgorbati, 65, was shot by
Islamic gunmen in revenge for Pope Benedict XVI's remarks on Islam. 122 The Islamists
have been temporarily driven into hiding by surrogate troops from Ethiopia on the orders
of Bush but have vowed never to surrender. In October 1997 Assistant United States
Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald, Agent Bell and at least one CIA agent traveled to

121
. Affidavit of FBI SA Daniel Coleman September 1998.
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California to interrogate Ali-Mohamed about his involvement with Usama bin Laden and
the various acts of Jihad that were the focus of the Grand Jury investigation.

During the interview Ali-Mohamed admitted that he had helped move bin
Laden from Pakistan to the Sudan under cover, and had trained bin
Laden’s bodyguards there following an unsuccessful assassination
attempt. He advised that the Sudanese intelligence service provided
perimeter security for bin Laden but that he had trained the guards who
provided the inner security. Ali-Mohamed stated he lived in bin Laden’s
house in Khartoum at the time of such training. He expressed a deep
admiration for Mr. bin Laden, familiarity with bin Laden and other
purported associates in the United States and abroad, and indicated an
unwillingness to co-operate with the government’s investigation. He also
advised that he was in Somalia during the United States intervention
overseas and knew that Bin Laden’s people were responsible for the
killing of the United States soldiers in Somalia. Ali-Mohamed further
confirmed that in or about 1991 he went to Afghanistan to take bin Laden
to Pakistan, then India, then on to Sudan. He stated he did this because
he loved bin Laden and believed in him. Ali-Mohamed admitted that he
trained people in ‘war zones’ and added that war zones can be anywhere.
He indicated that he knew lots of people and was well trusted and could
put people together with people that they need. He further stated that he
did not need a fatwa to go against the United States since it was obvious
that the U.S. was the enemy.” Clinton the Degenerate had not gotten the
message from the FBI: “And I think it's very interesting that all the
conservative Republicans, who now say I didn't do enough, claimed that I
was too obsessed with bin Laden. All of President Bush's neo-cons
thought I was too obsessed with bin Laden. They had no meetings on bin
Laden for nine months after I left office. All the right-wingers who now say
I didn't do enough said I did too much, same people. They were all trying
to get me to withdraw from Somalia in 1993 the next day after we were
involved in "Black Hawk down," and I refused to do it and stayed six
months and had an orderly transfer to the United Nations. OK, now let's
look at all the criticisms: Black Hawk down, Somalia. There is not a living
soul in the world who thought that Usama bin Laden had anything to do
with Black Hawk down or was paying any attention to it or even knew Al
Qaeda was a growing concern in October of 1993. 123

Ali-Mohamed also admitted he was actively studying computers. This confirmed

the government’s view that he was continuing to work with al-Qaeda and was planning
to learn to communicate in unbreakable encryption codes. Agents interrogated Ali-
Mohamed about our activities. On August 8, 1998 the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in
Nairobi was carried out. During telephone calls with the FBI after the bombing he
advised Agent Harlan Bell that he formerly lived in Kenya where he worked for Usama
bin Laden and was shown a file concerning a plan to attack the United States Embassy

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in Nairobi and that he knew who had carried out the recent bombings but would not
provide the names to the FBI. From August 11, 1998 through at least August 25, 1998
agents tapped Ali-Mohamed’s phone pursuant to the Foreign Intelligence Security Act
(FISA). The agents then executed warrants and seized the Brother’s computer and
documents. They found documents concerning the planning of our operations and the
structuring of al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya into different cells; documents concerning how
intelligence agencies operate; documents regarding various explosives, including
documents concerning planting of explosives in buildings; documents regarding
assassination techniques; documents regarding the firing of various weapons including
rocket propelled grenades (RPG); documents concerning a military style training
program; documents concerning codes; copies of a document which had been
forwarded to Usama bin Laden, i.e. the co-conspirator list from the Rahman trial along
with papers “concerning techniques of surveilling various targets, including military,
diplomatic and government targets.” Now America’s Surveillance Detection Program
utilizes plainclothes security agents to provide surveillance detection measures around
U.S. embassies, consulates, and residences of embassy employees. The program is
used to identity suspicious activity, such as our member’s casing embassy facilities or
personnel, and includes capabilities intended to resolve all suspicious activity.

KHALID ABU-AL-DAHAB
THE FBI DID NOT KNOW OUR OPERATIVES FROM ADAM

Khalid Abu-al-Dahab’s father, an EgyptAir pilot, had been among

108 people killed in the 1973 crash of a Cairo-bound Libyan Arab Airlines
plane that was shot down by Israeli fighter jets when it strayed over the
Sinai Peninsula, which at the time was occupied by Israel. While a
medical student in Alexandria in about 1984 Dahab met Ali-Mohamed,
who then was an officer in the Egyptian commando forces and a Gama’a
al-Islamiyya operative planning to immigrate to the United States and was
recruited by him. Ali-Mohamed gave him military training and taught him how to make
letter bombs and told him that he had worked as an al-Qaeda communications
specialist, aiding Brothers inside Egypt by patching through their calls to other
operatives in Afghanistan and the Sudan. This helped the Brothers plan operations
while avoiding electronic surveillance by Egyptian security forces who routinely
wiretapped their calls between Egypt and countries that harbored jihadi. In 1987 Khalid
Abu-al-Dahab immigrated to America and became a Silicon Valley car salesman who
was known in Santa Clara as Khaled Mohamed and also used the codename Adam.
Adam, the son of, was also instructed to get flight training.124

In 1998 it was discovered by Egyptian intelligence that one operative with

American citizenship, codenamed Adam, had been planted in the United States and
had co-ordinated communications facilitating communication between Egyptian Islamic
Jihad leaders in Egypt and those in training camps in Afghanistan, dispatched forged
documentation and helped to finance Al-Qaeda by transferring funds raised in the Bay
Area to Egyptian Islamic Jihad cadres abroad. In August 1998, while Khalid Abu-al-

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Dahab was in Egypt, Al-Qaeda mounted attacks on the American embassies in East
Africa. In October 1998, the Egyptian military moved to crush Egyptian Islamic Jihad by
arresting more than 70 of the organization's leaders. Dahab decided to flee, and on
October 28, 1998 booked a flight to the United States. Egyptian security police boarded
the plane shortly before takeoff and took him away in handcuffs. Khalid Abu-al-Dahab
confessed his involvement with al-Qaeda and was sentenced to 15 years in prison
meted out by a military court. 125 In October 1998 the American intelligence community
obtained information that al-Qaeda was “trying to establish and operative cell within the
United States. The information suggested an effort to recruit U.S. citizen Islamists…”
“Trying to establish.” This was an affront to our Brooklyn / Jersey City cell that had been
in existence since the late 1980’s.

The FBI got a FISA tap on Ali-Mohamed and overheard him discussing a
bombing that was to take place at an Embassy in Africa. This was too much even for his
FBI handlers. Ali-Mohamed was subpoenaed to appear before a Grand Jury on
September 10, 1998. He was arrested for perjury and for conspiring with Usama bin
Laden to murder United States nationals as he left the Grand Jury room. On September
11, 1998 Ali-Mohamed appeared before U.S. Magistrate Andrew Peck and at the
request of Ali-Mohamed and the Government both the complaint and the presentment
were sealed. Between October 13, 1998 and April 19, 1999, the Government, with Ali-
Mohamed’s consent, was granted seven additional continuances in the time by which
Ali-Mohamed was to be indicted. The case caption was changed to United States v.
John Doe and all the papers were sealed. After the New York Times complained about
all this secrecy, the Government submitted a sealed letter stating that the basis for Ali-
Mohamed’s arrest and the nature of the posture of the case thereafter, would
compromise the Government’s compelling interest in continuing the extremely sensitive
investigation. The Government refused to release the submissions in redacted form and
asked that the docket sheet itself be sealed and the sealing order sealing the docket
sheet be sealed. Judge Peck agreed. The Times then wrote to Judge Shira A.
Scheindlin, asking her to unseal the submissions and proceedings. Judge Scheindlin
unsealed the docket sheet but kept everything else sealed. The U.S. Attorney, and the
federal judges kept the arrest secret for almost a year. Much of the case remains
sealed.126

The reason for doing this was not that information might fall into the hands of the
enemy – so-called national security concerns – because Ali-Mohamed had already told
al-Qaeda everything he knew. The reason was to not embarrass the CIA or implicate it
in aiding us in our rise to power. Ali-Mohamed pleaded guilty to five federal counts of
conspiracy, which included plotting to kill U.S. citizens, destroy U.S. facilities, and
murder U.S. soldiers in Somalia and Saudi Arabia. U.S. District Judge Leonard B. Sand
first said the agreement guaranteed a minimum of 25 years in prison, but after an
objection by defense attorneys, the judge did not specify the length of the potential
prison term. His actual sentence, nor the facility he is housed in, has yet to be revealed.
The Egyptian government requested the extradition of Ali-Mohamed (who El-Ahram
125
. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/11/21/MN155311.DTL&type=printable
126
. Joseph Neff and John Sullivan “Al-Qaeda terrorist duped FBI, Army ”The News & Observer October 21, 2001.
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calls Mustafa) after he was sentenced to death in absentia by an Egyptian military
tribunal in a case known as "the returnees from Albania." 127 Ali-Mohamed was debriefed
prior to the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan.

CLEMENT RODNEY HAMPTON-EL

Hampton-El, another Brooklyn / Jersey City Cell member, is an

unsung hero of Islamism. Hampton-El was originally from New York
where he grew up in a family that was affiliated with the Moorish
Islamic Temple, the precursor to the Black Muslims. Hampton-El
joined the Army where he first began to understand that racism was
as American as apple pie:

I had encounters with officers who addressed you out of your name, you
know, nigger and stuff like that. I said, ‘Hey, you know what’s
happening? This is the Army, I though we are in the same thing?’ And I
think my problems started to develop at that time. So I started seeing
whom I can speak to about this. And my efforts directed to the officers at
the camp, it was like a joke you know. ‘I’ll look into it’ and ‘Don’t waste
my time.’ So I start writing people here in New York, Senator Keating,
Adam Clayton Powell. I wrote the President. I wrote the Inspector
General. And people got a little pissed off with that. So I started getting a
petition together and getting people to sign this who had experienced the
same encounter. It wasn’t only blacks; it was white people too. Because
they say they didn’t want blacks and whites to hang out, especially in
places like Georgia. People were riding in the back of the bus, and in the
front of the train to where all the smoke would come back in the
window…Finally some guys came into the barracks and they said, ‘You
know you’re a dead nigger.’ I thought they were just saying a lot of crap,
you know. I was staying the barracks myself. I was attacked and some
people got hurt. And they called for reinforcements and these came out
of nowhere. Somebody finally got behind me and hit me in the head. So I
woke up in the stockade you know…They told me that they were going
to bring a general court martial, dishonorable discharge, that I had tried
to kill three people and a lot of garbage…I did like three months then
they let me out.

After I was removed from the service the first job I got was at Goldwater
Memorial Hospital for Chronic Disease. This place consists of polio
victims, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, and chronic syphilis. Anybody
who had a disease that was going to take him away from this world, that’s
what it was all about…So I started working with polio patients, moving
them about, counseling them, because when death is approaching
someone they go through a lot of changes, and people need somebody to

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 talk to, let them know that this is a phase that everybody is going to go
through. Everybody is going to die. I even helped with the dressings. You
know, like, when people are bedridden, their body breaks down rapidly,
and you clean the people up, you know. Some of them laid up in feces for
long periods. And sometimes people become hard when they work on a
job for a long time, and maybe their sense of caring diminishes to some
degree. So you see this person who needs help and you go help them…

Then, I went to Manhattan State, where they had a variety of people who
were mentally ill. They had the criminally insane. These were people that
they kept there just before they sent them to Matawan [Institute for the
Criminally Insane]. And then they had a geriatrics unit there for older
people. They had a unit there for people who were not only mentally
disturbed but were physically ill. And they had a school there. So I was
going though the school to learn how to deal with people who are mentally
disturbed, how to deal with their physical illnesses, electro convulsive
shock therapy. And the different medications they dealt with and how one
would deal with a person who has schizophrenia, because sometimes
they would become extremely violent, and to restrain them you would not
want to be violent back with them, you would want to restrain them in the
best way you could without hurting them and without being hurt. Some
people become very rigid when they are fighting, and if you are too
forceful with them, then you are loosing focus as to the person, their
perspective, you can break the extremities. A guy walks up to you and
spits in your face, you don’t jump on him and beat him up, you know. You
might want to, but you shouldn’t...

I became an emergency medical technologist. The Police Commissioner,

Patrick Murphy, even gave me a PBA card because there was a couple of
cops that got shot up pretty bad, and it was so bad that they did request a
physician, and no reflection on physicians but when they run into such
trauma, sometimes it shocks them because they are used to dealing with
operations etc. The guys arm was like shot off…I took care of business
and helped shave his arm without panicking and brought him in, and they
were very thankful and so was the Police Department and the Mayor.

During the Afghan war, Hampton-El was recruited as a member of Gulbuddin

Hekmatyar’s Islamic Party and made Jihad in Afghanistan. After he was wounded as a
combatant in November 1988, Hampton-El returned to the United States in order to
recuperate. He wished to return to the battlefield so that he could have another chance
at martyrdom and paradise. Hampton-El was well regarded in his Flatbush-Brooklyn
neighborhood where he offered medical advice and fought the drug dealers. Hampton-
El only opposed black-on-black crime and was connected with a group of African-
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post office and bank robberies in 1991 and 1992 from Atlanta, Georgia to New York
City.128

Hampton-El attended an ul-Fuqra camp near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to

practice combat training and target shooting. The camp was on a farm owed by Abdul
Muhaimin (Kelvin Smith), a U.S. Fish and Wildlife officer. In 1995 Muhaimin was put on
the Rahman Unindicted Co-Conspirator List but it was not until 1999 that he pleaded
guilty to three counts of making false statements and one of destroying evidence, and
was sentenced to a year and a day in federal custody. 129

Hampton-El expressed his intolerance of apostate interpretations of the holy

Qu’ran by participating in a demonstration, which decried the publication of Salman
Rushdie’s Satanic Verses. Even when Hampton-El, who was a member both of Jamaat-
ul-Fuqra and the Brooklyn / Jersey City Islamist cell, was alleged by FBI informant
Emad Salem to have been a part of the World Trade Center bombing by assisting in the
testing of explosives, the authorities did nothing, and he continued to work with Sheik
Rahman on the plan to blow up the bridges and tunnels of New York City. Hampton-El
was a mureed of Sheik Mubarak Ali Gilani who had recruited him and paid for his travel
to Pakistan for training in explosives and weapons. Brother Hampton-El was heavily
involved in the first World Trade Center explosion so the Sheik left the United States
shortly after the first attack on the World Trade Center in New York in 1993 for Lahore.
Out of sight, out of mind! When asked about his complicity in the WTC-1 Attack Sheik
Gilani stated, “After 1990 I had never gone to the U.S. because for the enemies of
Islam, the holy Qu’ran is a book of terrorist. Islam is a religion of terrorism. Muslims are
terrorists. It is a Zionist conspiracy and for that they want computerized ID cards so that
they have data on each and every person. I stayed away.’”

Hampton-El was arrested in June 1993 along with Rahman the Elder. Hampton-
El had conspired to do battle, often on the orders of his Eminence: “Let me just say
what me and the Sheik, we haven’t talked in awhile but there’s a whole lot we discussed
previous, there is a lot that I can’t blah, blah, blah, unintelligible. I’m not at liberty to get
into this kind of talk. [I can say that we discussed] the Mossad training people to speak
Arabic and become Imams.”130

On August 3, 1993 the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF)

arrested ten gun and explosives dealers in New York. The dealers, who were African-
American Muslims, claimed inspiration from Sheik Rahman, and admitted they had
attempted to obtain explosives in the form of pipe bombs from a friend of Hampton-El.
One of them reportedly told a BATF undercover agent that with Hampton-El’s arrest, the
group could no longer procure pipe bombs. One of these African-Americans invited
Sheldon Wengrovsky, the BATF undercover agent, to listen to one of the Sheik’s

128
. USA v. Rahman TT 18093
129
. Rhoads & Sinon LLP http://www.rhoads-
sinon.com/newsandevents/archives/headlines/Sept2002/ESPNMAG_com_The_Good_Son.htm
130
. USA v Rahman TT 15751

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speeches and offered to introduce him to Dr. Rahman. As was the will of Allah
[subhanahu wa ta’ala], Sheikh Rahman’s speech was canceled. 131

Before Islamists blamed the Jews for the destruction of the World Trade Center
Hampton-El had devised the same strategy. He said; “The best way to be successful,
because (unintelligible) so we will make them ready for everything. What would be
fantastic is to do it and leave them in a ball of confusion not knowing who did it. Yes,
yes. You see, I have done things and left evidence to make them think it was done by
kuffar…the drug dealers…I leave something for them to throw them off completely.
Have them think somebody else did it. I let them think the Jews did it. You see what you
have to do, Brother? Distraction, deception, cool…Deception is the key. It’s Kufars,
(unintelligible) or drug dealers. Got to leave something to let it, to throw them off
completely, have them think somebody else did this or make them think Yahood 132 did it.
You know some er ah, you throw that there in too, you know what I’m saying? Curse in
Hebrew or Yiddish then hang up.” 133 During his trial Hampton-El was asked: “You
weren’t indicating here you wanted to leave them in a ball of confusion to make them
think the Jews were responsible for the bombing?” He responded simply, “No.”

MOHAMMAD SALAMEH

Brother Mohammad Salameh was a twenty-six year old Palestinian who

descended from a long line of heroes and was a member of the Brooklyn / Jersey City
Cell. His maternal grandfather fought in the 1936 Arab revolt against British rule in
Palestine, and even as an old man joined the Palestinian Liberation Organization and
was jailed by the Zionist dogs. A maternal uncle was arrested in 1968 for fighting
against the occupation and served eighteen years in a Zionist prison before he was
released and deported, making his way to Baghdad where he became number two in
the Western Sector, a unit of the Arab Liberation Front. From 1996 until 2001 Iraq and
Iraqi intelligence, created, supplied and operated at least five training camps in order to
create an “Arab Liberation Front” capable of attacking Israel. These camps trained men
from 15 nations in guerrilla warfare, paramilitary activities, rocket warfare, demolition
and bombing including the use of mines, grenades, TNT, nitroglycerine and plastic
explosives. Hamas appreciated this and opened an office in “secularist” Baghdad in
1999. Iraq also hosted conferences attended by Palestinian Islamic Jihad, whose main
sponsor was Iran.134 Fuad Shubaki, the finance officer of the PLO-controlled Palestinian
Authority, was in close touch with the Arab Liberation Front and received arms and
money from Iraq for it, along with $25,000 for the families of those martyrs who have
taken the battle to innermost sanctums of occupied Palestine. While in operation, the

131
. Joseph B. Treaster “U.S. Arrests 10 After Weapons Inquiry” New York Times August 4, 1993 Page A1, 2.
132
. The Jews.
133
. USA v. Rahman page 16035 to 16038
134
. Middle East Newsline September 23, 2003.

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 Arab Liberation Front distributed $35 million from Saddam to the
Palestinians.135 Arafat fully backed Saddam Hussein in the Gulf War of
1990.136

Mohammad Salamah lived in Jordan during the Black September massacre of

Palestinians then obtained a degree from a Jordanian university in the Shari'ah. He
immigrated to America and applied for the same amnesty as Brother Mahmud
Abouhalima and was denied residency in the United States. But, because there was no
mechanism in place to force people who were denied permanent residency to leave the
country, he continued to live and work in the United States illegally. While he was
involved with our cell in the United States, Salameh called his uncle in Iraq many times,
running up a large phone bill that resulted in his phone service being terminated,
however these calls were of a personal nature and bore no relation to the first World
Trade Center Event.137

RAHMAN LEAVES EGYPT

In April 1990 his Eminence made a legendary escape from house arrest when
the Sheik was smuggled past his guards in a washing machine that was being taken out
of his home. Had this plan failed there was an alternative one that involved stun guns
that had been supplied to our Brothers by Egyptian intelligence agent Abdo Haggag.
The Sheik wisely never mentioned his escape nor the fact that he was a fugitive and the
Egyptians were pressing for his extradition to the INS: “The applicant testified that he
last departed from Egypt in April 1990, by obtaining a visa to travel to Saudi Arabia for
pilgrimage. Although he stated that he was under house arrest at this time, the police
allowed him to leave for Saudi Arabia and he was escorted by four cars from his house
to the airport.” The Blind Sheikh Rahman was in Great Britain on May 1, 1990 because
on that date he was granted a B-2 Tourist Visa to visit the United States. 138

JULY 18, 1990: RAHMAN ESCALATES JIHAD IN AMERICA

In May 1990 the Sheik fled Egypt for the Sudan where he stayed for one month.
From there he went to Pakistan for one month and then to Afghanistan where he
preached the word of God, raised money for the war against the Soviets and
enthusiastically endorsed the merger of Gama’a al-Islamiyya with the International
Alliance Against Christian and Jews which came to be known as al-Qaeda. It was on to
Saudi Arabia for ten days then back to the Sudan and on to America! Judge Daniel
Meisner, who presided over the Sheik’s immigration hearing wrote:

135
. Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs Jerusalem Issue Brief February 6, 2002 “Arafat's Iraqi Connection.”
http://www.jcpa.org/art/brief1-18.htm
136
. Yassir Arafat in Al-Manara, Lebanon, Saut Falastin Beirut, February 8, 1981.
137
. Laurie Mylroie “The World Trade Center Bomb: Who is Ramzi Yousef? And Why It Matters” National Interest, winter, 1995/1996
Mylroie believes that these calls did pertain to the first World Trade Center bombing.
138
. USDC White Plains Rahman v. Reno 93-Civ-4683-CLB page 407.

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 In addition to his testimony regarding his six arrests, the applicant testified
regarding his travel outside of Egypt between 1970 and 1991. It appears
that since 1970, applicant traveled to Saudi Arabia, the United States,
Denmark, London, Sudan and Pakistan for ‘pilgrimage’ and to attend
conferences. The specific facts regarding applicant's travel outside of
Egypt are not clear from testimony or the documents of record. The
applicant testified that he last left Egypt in April 1990, by obtaining a visa
to enter Saudi Arabia. The applicant's states: ‘I intended to leave for Saudi
Arabia on an omra139 but was not permitted to leave within the time
provided for in the visa. Therefore, I went to Sudan and remained there for
about one month. From there I went to Pakistan for one month, then to
Saudi Arabia for ten days pilgrimiage (sic) and then came to the United
States on July 18, 1990.’

Judge Meisner asked the Sheik why he did not file a request for asylum in Saudi
Arabia rather than returning to Egypt, the applicant stated, ‘Saudi Arabia is more
oppressive than Egypt.’” The Sheik had omitted his visit to Afghanistan.

On July 18, 1990 His Eminence Sheik Rahman immigrated to the United States
“at the invitation of a conference” then went to London and returned in or about
November 1990, then left for a short trip to Denmark in December 1990 after which he
returned to the U.S.

I came to the United States in the summer of 1990 on a valid visa, to

escape my unjustified persecution by the Mubarak government. Having
been identified by the government earlier as an Islamic scholar and Sheik
who spoke fearlessly about the injustices and corruption in Egypt and who
proposed the installation of a government by Islamic law, I was placed on
trial for the assassination of Sadat (twice) and also for inciting to riot etc. In
all cases I was acquitted completely. Nonetheless, I was subjected to
house arrest and vigorous, rigorous disruptions of my daily life, in the
name of State, Mubarak’s Security. 140 I came to the United States because
I believed that here it was guaranteed that one could speak freely and
preach and follow Islam without government interference.

How did Sheik Rahman go in and out of America like it was a revolving door
when his acquittal in a case of attempting to kill two policemen and inciting violence
during a protest outside a mosque in Fayoum, southwest of Cairo had been overturned
by the Mubarak regime? How did he enter a Christian country after issuing a fatwa
calling for the death of Christians? With the help of Allah [subhanahu wa ta’ala], we
used America’s hatred for Soviet Communism as a means of manipulating the CIA and
FBI into allowing Islamists to gather in our mosques and safehouses to plan our anti-
Communist activities, and drive the Reds from Afghanistan. There came a point where
139
. Pilgrimage.
140
. Military officers and members of the police forces have been appointed to governorships in the troubled regions, execution of
Islamists sentenced by special courts was commonplace and in March 2003 the state of emergency was extended for three more
years. This despite the fact that the Constitution approved by president Anwar Sadat in 1971 claimed Egypt is an Islamic state.

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those activities were also aimed at another enemy of Islam, the United States. Once we
reached this stage we felt confident enough to bring the Prince of Jihad into the heart of
the beast.

The CIA believed it was in America’s long-term interest to protect the Sheik. It
knew that al-Qaeda had the dedication and capability to defeat the Soviets, but it did not
foresee that the Islamist, largely Pashtun Taliban would replace the Communists by
virtue of the fact that they were the single most powerful militia amidst a power vacuum
created by years of warfare and were powerful enough to overthrow President
Baharuddin Rabbani in 1996. Siddig Ibrahim Ali Siddig spoke of how the leaders of the
Taliban were once honored by America:

They used to go to the United Nations. Sheik Rahman was present of

course so there were special sessions between them and these people,
okay? I am telling you they let the Sheik attend but when these people
come here and they go to the United Nations, Sheik Burhan Al-Din
Rabbani went to Reagan and invited him to convert to Islam, he told him,
convert to Islam. If you don’t become a Muslim you will die like a dog,
what did you do? Nothing, I mean they are good people. America used to
do for the Brothers. Yes, it is known, normal, ask anybody, why? Because
there were certain reasons, America was fighting the Russians. Who
messed up Russia and its economy? Who finished Russia? Because the
Red Army lost hundreds of thousands in Afghanistan, thousands of fighter
planes, all of it was done by the Brothers, they use to send them Stinger
missiles, the Brothers use to take Stingers Brother. And the most modern
weapons, they use to receive them, by the Brothers, got training on them,
it is not a secret, it is known.

To the CIA, which pumped more than $2 billion into the fourteen-year Afghani
resistance effort, Sheik Rahman was invaluable 141 for Rahman was one of the main
operatives the CIA utilized in its proxy war against the Soviets, although he now must
deny any such association. The Sheik had established himself as an important U.S. ally
by helping the CIA channel money, weapons, and men to mujahedeen training centers
in the U.S. supported countries of Egypt and Pakistan. Peshawar, Pakistan, nearby
Afghanistan, became the staging area for tens of thousands of radicals, many of whom
went on to form smaller cells around the world, including inside the U.S. and England.

The Egyptian security and intelligence services made a major

mistake from 1985 to 1987 when, at the behest of the CIA, it allowed
several Al-Gama’a Islamists leaders who had taken part in the 1981
assassination of Sadat, and the attempted coup that followed it, to leave
the country. The most prominent were Mustafa Hamza (left) and
Muhammad Shawqi Islambouli, whose brother, Khaled, shot President
Anwar Sadat dead. Muhammad Shawqi Islambouli, a leader of the Islamic Association
at Asyut University had been arrested in an anti-Islamist sweep on September 3,

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. Mary Ann Weaver “Blowback” The Atlantic Monthly - May 1996.

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1981.142 Around the end of 1984 to early 1986 al-Gama'a leaders decided to send some
of their leaders who were not fugitives there to gain military experience to help train and
organize a military wing in Egypt. Rifa'i Ahmad Taha Musa played a major part in
organizing training camps for the movement in Afghanistan and for rebuilding its military
wing in Egypt. The following leaders were able to go to Afghanistan between 1987 to
1989: Tala't Fu'ad Qasim, Abdel Akher Hamad, Usama Rushdie and Yaseem Hama.
The other leaders divided on a mental and physical level, Tala't and Rushdie to produce
al-Mourabeton, Rifa'i Taha, Mustafa Hamza, Adli Yousef and Talaat Hamam military
training. Sheik Rahman’s words also had become an inspiration for thousands of rank-
and-file Muslim heroes in the crusade for the Holy Afghani Jihad. These men received
top-notch para-military training Afghanistan and a chance at eternal bliss.

This was why the CIA brought Sheik Rahman into the U.S. via Saudi Arabia,
Peshawar, and the Sudan on a tourist visa issued by an undercover CIA agent using
diplomatic cover.143 His followers were playing a major role in defeating the
Communists. The Sheik received his visa at the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan,
even though his name appeared on the State Department’s official “terrorist” list. The
State Department said the CIA officer approved the visa application after being assured
incorrectly by a Sudanese employee that Rahman was not on the “undesirable” list.
However, three days after granting him the visa, the embassy informed the State
Department that it had made a grave error. The State Department, however, at the
request of the CIA refused to alert the INS, so the INS did not place him on its Watch
List of people to be turned back if they attempted to enter the United States. During
Sheik Rahman’s trial in early 1995 the Sheik’s attorney sent this letter to the State
Department of the United States:

Dr. Abdel Rahman received a visa to enter the United States in 1990 from
the United States consular office in Khartoum, Sudan. Upon information
and belief there may have been correspondence surrounding the issuance
of this visa. One or more of the aforementioned agencies [the CIA, the
State Department] may have contacted the consulate in that regard. To
the extent that this correspondence, including but not limited to written,
telephonic, cybernating, is exculpatory, it must be produced…[as] media
reports have alleged that one of the defendants, Omar Ahmad Ali Abdel
Rahman, has close ties to the Central Intelligence Agency, may have
assisted the United States during the war in Afghanistan, and may have
been permitted to enter the United States with the assistance of State
Department employees…

The Assistant United States Attorney, knowing that the CIA would never admit to
aiding Dr. Rahman agreed to this request: “Dr. Rahman received a visa to enter the
United States in July 1990 from the United States consular office in Khartoum Sudan.
Upon information and belief there might have been correspondence surrounding the
issuance of this visa between one or more of the aforementioned agencies and
intelligence agencies referred to above. In light of this we would ask that you provide
142
. Caryle Murphy Passion for Islam Page 62 Scribner October 1, 2002.
143
. Douglas Jehl “CIA Officer Signed Visa For Sheik U.S. Says ”New York Times July 14, 1993 Page B6, 1.

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any such foreign intelligence information to us, so that we may determine if we are
obligated to disclose any of it pursuant to Brady v. Maryland.”

During this trial the question whether Rahman possessed classified material
originating with the CIA arose. Rahman’s lawyer stated:

Moore: At a previous conference, I originally indicated to your Honor Dr.

Rahman did not have any classified information to raise…Dr. Rahman has
now said to me today, and I think he should put it on the record, that he
does not intend to raise any classified information.

THE COURT: I should point out to him and to you, so that both of you can
take some comfort in this, that whatever knowledge he may have of his
own activities I don’t think he can be barred from introducing based on its
being classified. Do you [Assistant U.S. Attorney] McCarthy?

McCarthy: I do your Honor. Well I think that at the very least if he is the
source of the classified information, I don’t think we can prevent him from
testifying at trial… I think the public authority statute has a specific
provision in it saying that nothing in the statute should be construed as
barring the defendant from testifying at trial. The Classified Information
Procedure Act doesn’t have a similar provision, so I don’t want to be
deemed at this point to have waived any claim he can be barred from
testifying as to classified information.

During this trial Sheik Rahman pointedly asked:

When I entered the United States of America in July 1990, how come you
did not arrest me while I am the Prince of Jihad Organization in United
States of America from the beginning of the year 1989 and a principal
leader in that international Jihad Organization, from the beginning of the
year 1980? Yassir Arafat was forbidden from entering America at a time
when he was the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization. What
do you think of me, then? And I am being a principal leader, and I am the
Prince of the Jihad Organization in America. Why was it not forbidden?
Why was I not forbidden? How did I get the entry visa at a time when I am
principal leader in this international organization of Jihad, and I am the
Emir of Jihad in America? How did I come to possess the Green Card
within two or three months’ time, and the interview for possessing the
green card was done within two or three minutes? And even after the
Green Card has been taken away, the FBI agent did not tell me at the
airport that the green card is being taken away from you because you are
the Emir of the Jihad Organization in America. And the immigration judge
even did not tell me that, and he is one of the meanest judges on the
surface of this earth. Then how did I enter America? Isn’t that a weakness
in the system? Is it a weakness in the computer system? Or is it a

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 weakness in the minds, or the brains? How could the Prince of the Jihad
Organization in America come to enter America and then exit America a
number of times without somebody stopping him? Then to Denmark, then
to Saudi Arabia, and in every time I return to America. How come I was
not stopped from exiting so that I may run away? And how come I was not
arrested when I re-entered, so that I may be right at a time when I am a
principal leader in an international Jihad Organization? Were the systems
in America asleep? Or were they awake? If they were asleep, then they
should be fined, and if they were awake and I have committed the crimes
and they have not arrested me, they must be stupid, they have no brains.
Since nothing like that happened, therefore I am innocent.

FBI snitch Emad Salem’s FBI handler John Michael Anticev tried to dissuade
Salem from his belief that Sheik Rahman was a CIA asset:

Salem: Dr. Omar Rahman comes to Abu Bakr mosque and, you know,
gets his way. The new Imam is a balanced person he is not fundamental.
So he said, “I am the Imam here. My word should be the first and the last.
And I want have the authority to say who will come to my mosque and
who shouldn't come.” So, of course, Omar Rahman's people heard that
they said “No.” Because they know that the minute they will give him this
authority, and he wanted [it] on his contract. They heard that, they said no.
Because they know that the minute they will sign this contract with him, he
will refuse to let Omar Rahman to come. So, they fought each other, and
you know the Imam is going to Egypt on April 30 th and from there he is
going to Hajj in Saudi Arabia. And the people in the mosque were just
waiting to see what the final decision would be. But he is not happy about
Dr. Rahman's thing. Dr. Rahman's lately getting [giving] the impression
that he is cooperating with the CIA.

Anticev: Hmm.

Salem: Do you think it's true that he have something to do with the CIA?

Anticev: No, I am telling you the truth, I have no information regarding that
and I really don't think so.

Salem: Yeah.

Anticev: I really don't think so. I think that was put, on uh, put together by
reporters.

Salem: No, that's his words. I mean, he said “We'll how do you think I
came with Sudan?”

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 Anticev: Yeah, but I thought, uh, we said, uh, in the beginning, when he
saw that article about the CIA connection, he rejected that.

Salem: He rejected that but it seems to be now he's trying to...

Anticev: And he wanted to...

Salem: ...confront.

Anticev: He wanted to show that he had connections to the FBI and the
CIA...

Salem: The CIA, not the FBI.

Anticev: The C, uh, the CIA to confuse the, uh, Mubarak...

Salem: Right.

Anticev: It's just that he's playing a trick. To show that, uh, he's going
along with what the paper's saying.

Salem: Right. Could be. Could be.144

But perhaps the most compelling testimony of Sheik Rahman’s CIA connection
came from Sayyid Nosair who told the New York Post, “Months before Abdel-Rahman
ever set foot in the United States the Brothers were bragging that he would face no
immigration obstacles because the Sheik was working with the CIA and the CIA was
even financing his activities. It was a CIA officer who approved his visa in the Sudan.” 145

After the Sheik was arrested in the United States Al Gomhuriya, a semi-official
Egyptian newspaper published a story saying that the Sheik's CIA links had allowed him
to repeatedly enter and exit the U.S. unquestioned. By the following day, most major
U.S. media had picked up the story for publication. A few days later, Al Gomhuriya
editor Mahfouz al-Ansari, in a front-page article, retracted the story. 146 The State
Department conducted its own investigation into possible CIA assistance to Dr. Rahman
in obtaining his visa. On July 2, 1993 the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on
international security said, in a closed hearing, that the results of the investigation,
which had begun in April, were that Dr. Rahman had received no such assistance from
the CIA.147 The Sheik, questioned about the allegations, replied, “I would not be sitting
here in the MCC [Metropolitan Corrections Center, Manhattan] if I worked for the CIA.”

In January 1991 Dr. Rahman was granted a Green Card as an Islamic

clergyman, allowing him to live in the United States permanently, even though
144
. FBI Transcription Source 31-14 [1205-1653 E]
145
. Colin Miner “Sheik Blessed Plot” New York Post August 3, 1993.
146
. New York Times, “Egyptian Paper Says It Misquoted Mubarak on Sheik and the CIA,” May 31, 1993 Page 2, 1.
147
. Douglas Jehl “Flaws in the U.S. Visa System” New York Times, July 3, 1993 Page 1, 2.

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technically he was in the United States illegally. He began to teach in Jersey City, New
Jersey, at the Al-Salaam Mosque. Dr. Rahman’s primary purpose in coming to America
was to set up a U.S. infrastructure, a funding mechanism, and an organizational base
for Gama’a, an undertaking that he had largely accomplished by the time of his arrest in
1993.148 At his appellate immigration hearing Sheik Rahman was asked about his
funding mechanism mission:

Q. Okay. Now let me ask you this, do you collect money to send back to
Egypt for any particular cause or organization?

A. This didn't happen.

Q. All right. Let me ask you this, sir, did you recently send a total of
$140,000 in two checks to your wife in Egypt?

A. I tried to defend myself about these charges and the judge said no.

JUDGE TO MR. RAHMAN

Q. Mr. Rahman, is the answer yes or no?

A. No. No, I did not send. Can I explain a little more.

Q. You just said no. That's enough. Did your wife tell you that she received
two checks were confiscated by the Egyptian government? Yes or no, sir?

A. No, she didn't inform me because I didn't send anything.

Despite the Sheik’s absence from Egypt out activities were moving right along -
in 1991 thirty Coptic kuffar were killed there!

RAHMAN THE ELDER AND USAMA BIN LADEN

Sheik Rahman used a fax machine to command anti-

Communist Muslim rebels, moving forces from Pakistan to
Afghanistan and dealing with a code-named agent. FBI
informant Emad Salem reported this to FBI Special Agent
John Anticev:

There is an order came from Dr. Rahman to his troops in Pakistan to

move them from Pakistan to Afghanistan. I was there when he was given
these orders. So I got notes of it and I informed John [FBI Special Agent
John Crouthhamel]. I said John please check Dr. Rahman’s phone
numbers bill and see at 9:00 a.m., the date so and so, which is yesterday,
there is a phone call, he dialed number to Pakistan. Get this number.
148
. Mary Ann Weaver “Blowback” The Atlantic Online May 1996
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/96may/blowback.htm

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 There is somebody with an undercover name, what you call it? A code
name or something…it has a specific term…whatever. His code name is
Abdullah. Anyways he ordered him to move his people from Pakistan to
Afghanistan. So he don’t know the number, I give him the number and of
course, he will go and then I told him and afterwards he contacted
somebody from Hamas, his name is Agnan (Adnan), Dr. Rahman dialed
this number so look at the bills, look at the New Jersey phone bill and get
these two numbers and then you can get the address of them – Agnan –
cause this guy’s Hamas and these guys in charge of Rahman now. And I
made this guy…so I give him that’s serious information. And Rahman
never received his communication through the phone he received it
through the fax. He said ‘What’s the fax number?’ I give to him the fax
number. They even don’t know before that his guy even have a fax
number.149

Faxes played an important part in the communication network of Gama’a Al

Islamiyya. Gamal Fahmy, who was the deputy editor of the now-banned weekly al-
Dustour, was sent to prison for criminal libel after Al-Dustour published a fax from Al
Gama’a Al Islamiyya, reprinted with full-page coverage, including a commentary by
Egyptian intellectuals and legal and security experts that carried a death threat against
three leading Coptic businessmen in Egypt. According to Fahmy, the Gama’a accused
the Coptic businessmen of “sabotaging the Egyptian economy and fronting for the
CIA.”150

Blessed is Allah who caused the FBI to ignore this most important information
that was supplied by Salem. “Abu Abdullah” was the code name of Usama bin Laden 151
and had the FBI and the CIA tracked him down and put an agent close to him, the
United States Government might have been able to later arrest him or assassinate him
after they concluded, with good reason, that he was a grave threat to their National
Security. It was not until 1997 that the Americans appreciated that Usama bin Laden
was a planner not just a financier of our activities. 152 In the U.S. Congress’ September
11th Failure Report it was revealed: “The CIA never had anyone in position to tell us
what was going to happen in advance, or even where bin Laden was going to be in
advance [deleted] we never knew where he was going to be in advance, And usually we
were only informed about his – where he was after the fact…And [deleted] where they
were able to tell us where they thought he was at the moment, [deleted] the CIA itself
recommended against action, because they said their sources were not very good, or
not good enough to recommend military action.” Even the American intelligence failed to
appreciate the importance of this Muslim military leader and his followers, in fact it was
not until October 8, 1999, by publication in the Federal Register, that the Jew Secretary
of State Madeleine K. Albright designated al-Qaeda as a foreign terrorist organization
pursuant the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996. It was in 1996 that

149
. USA v Rahman Misc Files Transcript of Salem - Anticev page 3 and 4. Document in Authors possession.
150
. http://www.ibnkhaldun.org/newsletter/1998/sep/civil.html
151
. USAMA BIN LADEN, INDICTMENT a/k/a "Usamah Bin-Muhammad Bin-Ladin," a/k/a "Shaykh Usamah Bin-Ladin,"
a/k/a "Mujahid Shaykh," a/k/a "Abu Abdullah" a/k/a "Qa Qa,"
152
. http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/911rpt/32404intel.pdf

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the FBI recognized the increased threat to the United States posed by Usama bin
Laden and created the Usama bin Laden Unit to handle al-Qaeda-related matters.
Michael Scheuer headed the Unit. Scheuer received his law degree from Harvard Law
School, a master's degree in international relations from Cambridge University, and a
bachelor's degree in government from Harvard University. Scheuer holds a B.A., two
M.A.'s, and a Ph.D. He is an Adjunct Professor of Security Studies at Georgetown
University, and is a regular contributor to the Jamestown Foundations Terrorism Focus,
an organization with accurate information on our activities. He was transferred out of the
UBL Unit in 1999 and he resigned from the CIA in 2004. Scheuer published two books
blaming others for his failure to kidnap or murder Usama bin Laden. According to CIA,
nine Counter Terrorism Center analysts and eight analysts in the Directorate of
Intelligence were assigned to Usama bin Laden in 1999. 153 In May 2000 His Eminence
had this to say about Usama bin Laden:

General Usama bin Laden went through hundreds, even thousands

of battles. Hah? He was an essential element in the collapse of the Soviet
Union...and his reward from America is what you see. My friendship
reward was a life sentence. And the reward of the General Usama bin
Laden - [Laughs] - hah, it is asking... it is going to pay millions to whoever
will get him dead or alive.154

Usama bin Laden stated: “Rahman is a Muslim scholar well-known all over the
Muslim world. He represents the kind of injustice that is adopted by the U.S. A baseless
case was fabricated against him even though he is a blind old man. We ask Allah, The
Almighty, to relieve him. The U.S. sentenced him to hundreds of years just to please its
caprice and the whims of the Egyptian regime. He is now very badly treated and in no
way fit for an old man like him or any Muslim scholar.”

RAHMAN AND HAMAS

Sheik Rahman’s organization was not the only Islamist network operating in
America. Hamas had been doing so for many years. Of course the Sheik had a very
close association with this Palestinian Islamist group and when the FBI searched the
home of Mohamed Nabeel El-Masry, who had been entrusted with Sheik Rahman’s
possessions after the Sheik’s arrest it found a tape of the Sheik speaking at a Hamas
conference. Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew McCarthy, the devil who prosecuted the
Sheik, threatened to introduce evidence that linked Rahman to Hamas. 155

THE KAHANE EVENT

153
. Report of the Joint Inquiry into the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001 – by the House Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
154
. http://www.lynnestewart.org/5201.pdf
155
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 Some kuffar and heretics have said that Sheik Rahman is nothing more than an
Islamist Nazi preaching racial and religious hatred. This is false. The Sheik has never
been censured or reprimanded by any bona fide Islamic group for his sermons. On the
other hand Judaist Rabbi Meir Kahane was expelled from the Zionist entity’s parliament
for racism. Kahane, the founder of the Jewish Defense League, was asked: “Do you
consider yourself a racist?” He answered: “I am a man of Halacha. 156 If you want to call
that racism, then I am a racist. But labels are the last refuge of non-thinkers. To me, a
racist is someone that says, ‘I’m better than you and you can never be as good as me.’
But an Arab, a goy, can become a Jew and become as good as Meir Kahane. Are we
better than the goyim? Yes, we are. Are we sanctified above the Goyim? Yes we are.
But Goyim can become Jews.” Goyim can also convert to Islam and be as good as
Sheik Rahman. In fact there are Jewish converts to Islam who have been Brothers in
the struggle for Islamic hegemony.

On November 5, 1990 Kahane gave a speech at the Marriott East Side Hotel in
New York City. The content of his speech on the night of his elimination was a plea to
American Jews to emigrate and settle in the Zionist entity. That evening members of our
Gama’a al-Islamiyya’s Brooklyn / Jersey City cell assassinated Kahane. Brother Nosair,
Brother Bilal Alkaisi, and Brother Mohammad Salameh attended the speech. After the
speech, as Kahane stood talking with the crowd, Nosair fired two shots and, Al-humdul-
allah157 Kahane was hit in the neck. Mahmud Abouhalima waited outside the hotel in a
taxicab that was to serve as the getaway car. After shooting Kahane Nosair, whom
witnesses observed with a gun in hand, then ran toward the rear door of the room,
trailed by one of the onlookers. At the door, a 70-year-old Jew named Irving Franklin
sought to impede Nosair’s flight. Nosair had mercy on the old man and shot Franklin in
the leg, and fled the room. Mahmud Abouhalima, was supposed to have driven the
getaway car, a taxicab, but parked it in the wrong spot, so the overexcited Nosair
jumped in the wrong cab, and when he became aware of what he had done, he put a
gun to the driver’s head then got out. Hampton-El told Egyptian intelligence agent Abdo
Haggag that Abouhalima was to be killed for this mistake, until it was found out that it
was an honest one.

During the trial of Sheik Rahman Hampton-El was asked about his role in the
Kahane assassination:

Q. Let me direct you attention ahead from 1989 to the day of November 5,
1990, the day Rabbi Meyer Kahane was killed. Do you recall that day?

A. The date no, but the day he was killed, yes, I recall.

Q. Did you have a discussion whereby you agreed that Muhmud

Abouhalima rather than yourself would drive a taxi outside the hotel the
night Rabbi Kahane was murdered? Did you ever tell anyone that
Muhmud Abouhalima rather than yourself would drive a taxi outside the
hotel the night Rabbi Kahane was murdered?
156
. Jewish law.
157
. Praise Be to Allah

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 A. Absolutely not.

Q. You told us the other day that on May 30, 1993, you were discussing
with Siddig Ali and Emad Salem how it was that you were supposed to be
there the night that Kahane was killed. Do you recall that?

A. Yes I do.

Q. You are telling us that the only time in your life that you that you ever
told anyone you were supposed to be outside the scene of the Kahane
homicide was May 30, 1993 when that tape was running?

A. To the best of my recollection, yes.

Q. You told Siddig Ali and Emad Salem on that occasion that after Kahane
was killed Sheik Omar Abdul Rahman told you not to visit Nosair. You told
us that?

A. I also said that was not true.

Q. But you said it on that tape?

A. I did say it.158

Q. You told us on direct examination that the reason you told Emad Salem
and Siddig Ali that you were supposed to be outside the scene of the
Kahane homicide was that you were trying to impress them; was that your
testimony?

A. I said Siddig Ali thought the situation was good and he spoke about it
many times. So I said, at that time I said it, thinking it would impress them,
yes…

Q. You told this jury that you jumped out a window breaking a leg to save
a suicide victim? You told this jury that you stepped on a land mine in
Afghanistan in 1988? And you told this jury that you were invited down to
meet the prince in the Saudi Embassy, correct?

A. Yes.

Q. And the person you were trying to impress on May 30, 1993, Siddig Ali,
is a person you told us was screaming and crying in the room, ‘I can’t take
it anymore’ on a prior occasion, is that correct?

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 A. That is what I told you.159

After jumping from the wrong taxi, Nosair encountered uniformed postal police
officer Carlos Acosta. Acosta tried to draw his weapon and identify himself, but before
he could fire, Nosair fired two shots at him. The first of these shots hit Acosta in the
chest but was deflected into his shoulder by a bulletproof vest he was wearing, and the
second shot just missed Acosta’s head. Despite being wounded, Acosta returned fire,
hitting Nosair in the neck. Nosair would later say that Acosta

Had an evil smiling face and had a bad problem with his nerves and
should not have been given a gun. Acosta himself was the one who put
the bullets in my pocket. Acosta had the same type of gun. [Much was
done] to protect Acosta because of the political interest against Arabs and
Muslims in America making us look to the people as ‘outsiders’ with a
‘terrorist’ title on our foreheads.160

Nosair fell to the ground, dropping his weapon, a .357 caliber magnum revolver,
at his side. Acosta recovered the weapon and detained Nosair. The sight on this
weapon had been filed down so that when Nosair pulled it out it would not become
entangled in this jacket. It looked like there was a very strong case against El-Sayyid
Nosair who remarked,

God the Almighty facilitated his believers to penetrate the lines no matter
how strong they are, and the greatest proof of that [is] what happened in
New York. God the Almighty enabled His extremely brave people, with His
great power, to destroy one of the top infidels. They were preparing him to
dominate, to be the Prime Minister some day. They were preparing him
despite their assertion that they reject his agenda and that he is a racist. 161

While Nosair was at the prison ward of Bellevue Hospital following the shooting,
he stated in response to a question from a treating physician that he had no choice but
to kill Kahane, and that it was his “duty.” 162 Nosair then made this written statement to
the contrary:

I didn’t shot anybody. Someone else was beside me. He had a Yarmulke
on his head. When he shot I ran from the room trying to escape because I
am only Arab there. I came two times to lecture last year. When I went out
of the hotel I took a cab. I asked the driver after that to take me to a police
station because they will think I shoot, shooted a gun but I didn’t have any
gun with me. After that they found me then I tried to run. The man with the
yarmulke was right behind me. I saw a police officer was hiding in a front
door of a building so I run towards him to ask him to help me. The other
man was right behind me with a silver gun. When I reached to the

159
. USA v Rahman TT 5924
160
. USDC SDNY 94 Civ 0003
161
. Govt. Ex. 163R2 at 1
162
. USA v Rahman TT 9244-46

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 policeman the man behind me shot many shots so the policeman started
to shoot towards us. When I got shot the man with the yarmulke stood
behind me. When I was laying on the ground he put the gun beside me.
Before that I was unconscious and he put something in my pocket. The
skin grafting on my left hand because of electric shock few years ago.
When I was laying down on the ground I saw everybody shouting to me,
as I am the killer. I take a chance about why I came to lecture.

During the trial of Sheik Rahman in early 1995, in which Nosair was a defendant,
Brother Ehteshamul Haque, who immigrated to the United States from Bangladesh,
attempted to alter the events of that fateful night, to match El-Sayyid Nosair’s story.
Haque had been in the United States fifteen years, had a Green Card and a bachelor’s
degree with honors in statistics. He possessed a Top Secret clearance because he
participated in the development of the Patriot missile. He once taught at St. John’s
University but was employed as a yellow cab driver when Kahane was assassinated.

A gentleman flagged down the cab over here” he testified, pointing to a

chart of the area in question on the night of the assassination, “So I pulled
over right near the car. Then I observed one gentleman running straight
across diagonally, empty handed, nothing on his hand, another gentleman
right behind this man number one, another gentleman chasing him with a
gun in his hand [the man with the yarmulke], and there approximately
three to five feet there are three other people right behind man number
two. Man number one was running toward the post office. He was running
particularly for his life, trying to get away from the gunman.”

Q. Was anybody by the post office?

A. The postal police officer, a gun in his hand.

Q. Did man number one ever get to the sidewalk?

A. Yes he did. Then the man number one got shot by the postal police
officer. I saw a flash of light going out, and directly hitting man number one
which was the unarmed person.

Q. Who fired the shot first?

A. The postal police officer. Man number two [the man with the yarmulke]
fired back. Man number one [Nosair] fell on the ground. The postal police
officer, he was also falling to the ground.

Q. Is man number one in the courtroom here today?

A. He is. [Haque pointed to El-Sayyid Nosair].

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 The Assistant United States Attorney reminded Brother Haque that this
contradicted his earlier statement that he gave to the New York City Police Department.
Was this the “potential obstruction of the indicted case of United States v. Rahman, et
al.” also referred to as “the potential obstruction of the Rahman case” in the 1996
Gorelick Memo? The Clinton Justice Department was not focused on Islamism and the
Gorelick Memo stated, “No pro-active investigative efforts or technical coverages are
presently contemplated in any of the ongoing criminal investigations, which primarily
focus on past criminal conduct.” But the DOJ was not happy about the Islamists
tampering with the American judicial system by getting Haque to perjure himself so this
sentence of the Gorelick Memo ended with the words “with the exception of the
obstruction investigation.” Haque was placed on the Rahman Unindicted Co-
Conspirator List and nothing ever came of the obstruction investigation. Haque was
unable to instill reasonable doubt in the jury, but Learned Elders of Islam will always be
grateful to him for trying. Had Haque’s expressed his sympathy to our cause before this
and had the United States Government foolishly issued him a security clearance?

A SEARCH OF NOSAIR’S HOME LINKS HIM TO JIHAD

In early 1990 the FBI had a phone intercept of Sheik Abdel Omar Rahman
speaking to Brother Sayyid Nosair about “attacking big buildings, attack[ing]
skyscrapers.” On November 5, 1990 the Bureau found these words, amid photos of
New York landmarks, including the World Trade Center, written by Brother Sayyid A.
Nosair while executing a search warrant for his home:

We must destroy tourist places that they are proud about and their statues
and their tall buildings that bring them pride, and the buildings that their
leaders meet at. We are as Muslims not to declare any responsibility for
these acts. By this the enemies of Allah will be busy in rebuilding their
civilization from the start and renewing their morals and we will have the
opportunity as Muslims to regain our holy lands from the hands of Allah’s
enemies and traitors who will at that point be very weak mentally after they
see what is going on around them (the power they depended on collapsed
and suppressed).

The FBI also found a book that day entitled, “Method For Forcing An Entry Into
An Airplane,” the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers would still be standing? 163
Additionally, when the FBI searched the home of Brother Nidal Ayyad on April 6, 1993,
after he had helped in the first bombing of the World Trade Center, this was found on
his computer:

Dear…We are, the Liberation Army, fifth battalion, again. Unfortunately

our calculations were not very accurate this time. However we promise
you that next time it will be very precise and the World Trade Center will
continue to be one of our targets in the U.S. unless our demands have
been met.

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 It was as if none of this information was taken seriously at the time. More than a
decade after these items were discovered, United States Congressional searches of
intelligence community databases for information that might have presaged the
September 11th attacks did not produce a single reference to any of these pregnant
early warning signals.

After the Kahane assassination Nosair’s car and work lockers were also
searched. Among the items seized, other than what I have previously mentioned, was a
handwritten notebook, in which Nosair stated that to establish a Muslim state in the
Muslim holy lands it would be necessary

To break and destroy the morale of the enemies of Allah… And therefore
the chance will be available for the Muslims to repossess their sacred
lands from the hands of the enemies of God, the traitors and hypocrites
who will be in this moment in a very psychological weakness from what
they see around them and this is because the forces on which they were
depending were crushed into pieces and are in tragic collapse. 164

There was a document, “listing the entry and departure of ships in various
harbors in the Middle East and other miscellaneous military training material including
Airborne Corp, Academy and Land Navigation, Map Reading, Compass Course,
Patrolling Diagrams, Diagrams on Bomb Making in Arabic and other assorted writings in
Arabic.” There was a fatwa entitled, Assistance from Allah in Afghanistan however the
agents spelled fatwa “fatiha.” There was a booklet entitled Mirror of Afghan Jihad and
Jihad Magazine. The FBI commented: “This folder contains what appears to be Islamic
religious teachings and some information news reports from Jihad.” The ignorant FBI
agents believed Jihad was a city! Al-Banyan Al-Marsous, an operation of
Usama bin Laden, published Jihad Magazine. There was a booklet
entitled Arms in Afghanistan. There was one typed document that read at
the top “In the name of Allah the most Gracious, the most Merciful. It read
‘A communiqué regarding the attempted assassination of Zaki Badr (left),
the Interior Minister of Egypt.’ The document is signed at the bottom ‘The
Brigade of Martyrs and Muslim Egypt.’” It read in part:

The martyrs battalion in Muslim Egypt made an attempt at executing

God’s will, Egypt’s arrogant tribunal. Zaki Bada, who by exercising his
inhumanity turned Egypt into a prison and a big concentration camp. The
man has killed and tortured and left homeless. He made many mothers
grieve when their children died, many women widows, he caused many
women to abort, turned many children to orphans. Many peaceful villages
were attacked an abused by him. He humiliated many people. Even the
unions, establishment judges and the orders were not spared from his
arm. Why not when he never heeds any of God’s laws? He went on
spreading his corruption on earth without accountability to conscious or

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. Cited at footnote USA v. Rahman Tr. 3962-63. Also Trial Transcript 19152

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 law. Therefore, the martyr’s battalion declares that this attempt came as
an answer after it was legitimatised by religious jurors who cry from all the
walks of Egyptian people and its political powers. Take your hand off the
Egyptian Muslims. This is an apology and a warning. Unless you listen
what happened will happen again.165

Badr was the most hated man in President Hosni Mubarak’s government
because of his hard line against Islamists. He came to power in 1986 immediately after
the Interior Ministry’s own security police had rioted. He had a personal animus against
Islamist movements and some 8,000 Egyptian Islamic Jihad activists were imprisoned
and tortured under his rule. In December 1989 an attempt
was made to assassinate Badr. Gama’a al-Islamiyya
member Gamal Abu Rawash carried out this operation.
Rawash was later to be held responsible for the November
1997 massacre of foreign tourists at Luxor, Egypt, and
was sentenced to death by a military court in Egypt. Dr.
Ayman al-Zawahiri was similarly accused in the case of
the attempt on the life of Badr. In 1991Badr ordered the
assassination of Ala Mohieddin a young physician who Sheik Rahman had made a
Gama’a spokesman in 1990. This was what triggered the Rifaat Mahgoub assassination
and the long spiral of violence that followed. 166

The FBI also found “One booklet written in part Arabic with some diagrams of
engineering sketches, some of the English in the booklet pertaining to bases of fuels in
organic substances, essential ingredients of steel, rare earth metals, poisonous reactive
gases in the degasification of light allodes. Its cover has writings in Arabic.”

There were several issues of the Pittsburgh Press pertaining to the Sadat
assassination along with the address of the Egyptian Embassy in Washington and the
U.N. Mission in New York City. The FBI also found a piece of paper which read: “Al-
Kifah Refugee Center Inc. 2824 Kennedy Boulevard, Suite Number 4, Jersey City, New
Jersey.” A typed letter addressed to the Ad Center North American Islamic Trust, 10900
W. Washington Street, Indianapolis, Indiana dated September 22, 1983 and signed by
Nosair was found. The Islamic Trust is closely connected with the Islamic Society of
North America (ISNA) perhaps the most respectable Muslim group in North America.

One book, a hardcover copy entitled By Way of Deception by Victor Ostrovsky

was found as was “One hypodermic (sic) needle and syringe, no trade mark, clear
plastic in color, one white nylon yarmulke, and one two and a half inch knife marked ‘U
Ontario Knife.’” New York City Assistant District Attorney William Greenbaum told El-
Sayyid Nosair’s trial judge,

Your Honor, the people's theory is that the defendant was stalking Meir
Kahane, and that use of firearms was not his only possible means of
murdering his victim. Another possibility was to, under guise of being a
165
. USA v Rahman TT 3979
166
. John L. Esposito Islam and Democracy Oxford University Press May 1966.

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 follower of Kahane, by virtue of wearing a yarmulke, he could use a
syringe to get or get close to his, and use a syringe to inoculate him with
something, perhaps even cyanide.167

There was a handwritten “hit list” that included a “photograph from a newspaper
clipping of Representative Gary Ackerman Queens, New York, taken by Newsday.”

ACKERMAN AND THE ATTEMPTED EXTRADITION OF SHEIK OBEID

Why was Ackerman, a rather obscure Congressman, on the “hit list?” The Jew
Ackerman had attempted to throw a monkey wrench (an appropriate idiomatic
expression as he descended from apes) into some our operations by pressuring the
American Government to extradite Sheik Abul Karim Obeid from Israel to the United
States. Sheik Obeid, a leader of the Hizb’allah, had been kidnapped from his home in
Lebanon in retaliation for the death of Colonel Richard Higgins. Higgins, United States
Marine Corps, disappeared on February 17, 1988, while serving as the Chief, Observer
Group Lebanon and Senior Military Observer, United States Military Observer Group,
United Nations Truce Supervision Organization. A newspaper article was found in
Nosair’s home that attributed Obeid’s attempted extradition to Congressman Ackerman.

THE EXTRADITION OF MAHMOUD ATTA

Assistant United States Attorney Jacques Semmelman (once the pro-bono

attorney for Jonathan Pollard), Chief of Extradition in the United States Department of
Justice Murray R. Stein, and Federal Judges Edward Korman, Jack B. Weinstein and
another name that was not identified appeared on the “hit list.” All of the Jews that were
identified were instrumental in extraditing Mahmoud Atta, who was a member of Black
September168 to Israel despite the fact that his “crime” in the Zionist entity was political.
Sabri Khalil al-Banna or as he is better known, Abu Nidal 169 was the leader of Black
September.

On April 12, 1986 Mahmoud Atta ambushed a passenger bus in the Israeli-
occupied West Bank. Atta (working with another Brother) stopped the bus with a
firebomb then opened fire on it with an Uzi, killing the driver and seriously wounding
three passengers. Atta was arrested in Venezuela a year later, but because Venezuela
had no extradition treaty with Israel, Venezuelan officials deported him for immigration
violations to his country of origin, the United States. Atta was arrested by FBI agents
upon arrival at Kennedy International Airport and held in prison in the U.S. for more than
three years before being extradited to Israel for trial in October 1990. His extradition
was controversial because the nature of the extradition treaty in effect required that the
accused offense must be of a “non-political nature,” and Atta maintained that he had
committed political rather than criminal offenses. Christian Magistrate Judge John L.
Caden agreed with Atta’s attorney. Nonetheless, the Jew Jack B. Weinstein and the
167
. 100 Center Street, Criminal Court docket 90N-099-424-”Nosir,” TT, Pages 2910 and 2911
168
. In September 1970 the Jordanian Government killed thousands of Palestinians who threatened to overthrow the monarchy of
King Hussein. Black September’s emergence was a direct result of this as the PLO wished to distance itself from so-called
terrorism.
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U.S. Appellate courts, despite cogent arguments by Attorney Ramsey Clark, upheld
Israel's extradition request on the grounds that Atta had attacked civilian rather than
military targets and had therefore committed regular criminal acts, not political acts
aimed at the overthrow of a government. The Jew Judge Korman also ruled that Atta’s
extradition from Venezuela was kosher. In October 1991, an Israeli court found Atta
guilty and sentenced him to life imprisonment.

HOWARD ADELSON MUST DIE

Professor Howard Adelson who wrote a column for the Jewish Press was on El-
Sayyid Nosair’s “hit list.” Nosair’s attorney explained his clients’ interest in The Jewish
Press: “He was an avid reader of the Jewish Press before he went to Attica.” In an
intercepted telephone conversation with Sheik Rahman he said: “Talking about the
Jewish migration, Sheik Omar, according to a weekly newspaper called the Jewish
Press, a minimum of 1,000 Russian Jews migrate daily from Russia to Israel…
Meanwhile the heads of our states are like sitting ducks…” 170 Adelson was targeted for
favorably covering the activities of the Jewish Defense Organization, a group of
dangerous Judaists that had organized demonstrations against Sheik Rahman, when
his eminence first arrived in America.

Our investigator, the American convert to Islam, Brother Abu Jihad 171 made a
pretense call to Dr. Adelson and was told:

All I know about Nosair is that he had my name in his book. The FBI came
to me and asked for a meeting with me. They called me while I was
lecturing. It was a Friday. Kahane was killed on a Thursday night. They
said they had to meet with me immediately. I told them I couldn’t meet with
them immediately as I had a luncheon appointment at Ratners Restaurant.
They told me they would meet me there. I said ‘Okay’ but I was
suspicious. They only gave me a telephone number for them to call me
back, and that wasn’t enough for me to know it was the FBI. The FBI
came to Ratners and opened up a notebook and asked: ‘Is this your
name?’ I looked at the handwritten entry and told them it was. And they
said ‘You are in great trouble, they want to shoot you.’ And I said, ‘I don’t
think they want to shoot me, I don’t think they would announce it if they
were going to execute me.’ There were four other names in the book,
including U.S. Representative Gary Ackerman. All of these men were all
given federal protection, because they still worked for the federal
government. I was not given any protection because while I was a reserve
officer I was not on active duty. They told me I should wear a bulletproof
vest. They said, ‘If I were you when I go to the university I would wear one.
You ought to wear a bulletproof vest if people know where you are.’ I said
‘I lecture and my lectures are posted and I have office hours. If people
want to find me they can find me easily enough.’ I asked if they could
provide me with bulletproof vest? They said they would not because I was
170
. USA v Rahman TT 19162
171
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 a civilian and I should go out a get my own bulletproof vest. The result was
that I wore a bulletproof vest for about a year. Then they called me up and
said I didn’t have to wear it any more. Then, after the World Trade center
was bombed, they called me up again and said you better put on your
bulletproof vest. About a year later they called me up and said I could take
it off. Then I never got another call from them. This was after Rahman was
locked up.

Former Brooklyn District Attorney Liz Holtzman came over to me and said,
‘My, isn’t Gary Ackerman brave, he was on the list to be shot by Nosair?’ I
said, ‘No he isn’t particularly brave I was on the list.’ She said nobody ever
heard about you being on the list. There was federal judge in the Midwest
who had something to do with locking them up on the list. I was the only
one who was not in government on that list aside from Kahane. They were
all given federal protection.172

NYPD AND FBI BLIND THEMSELVES TO A CIA OPERATION

The Kahane killing was treated as an everyday homicide rather than a “terrorist”
political assassination. In retrospect this was so unbelievable that it had to be the work
of Allah [subhanahu wa ta’ala] as no one could have been that willfully stupid. The FBI
cited newspaper reports that quoted Chief of Detectives Joseph Borrelli as saying:
“Every indication is that Nosair was a loner. The murder was treated as a homicide at
the precinct level. The higher-ups didn't want to take it further. The police department
stated that they got the gunman and that was it. We're not equipped to investigate
international terrorism.”173 Unnamed police sources pointed out that Sheik Rahman had
denounced the Kahane assassination and so, of course, it was obvious he hadn’t
ordered it. On another occasion, however, Sheik Rahman refused to say if he
condemned the Kahane killing, “This is irrelevant, this is police interrogation.” 174 The
New York City Police Department also cited Islamic leaders who came to Sheik
Rahman’s defense: “He speaks of nothing but religious matters” said Puerto Rican
convert to Islam Khadijah Abdelmoty, who focused on converting Hispanics to Islam.
The NYPD released this statement to the press, “The FBI, Social Services and the CIA
have all been checking to see if Nosair had any links to any anti-Jewish organizations
but haven’t come up with anything yet.” Edward T. Norris, now the Police Commissioner
of Baltimore, Maryland, and then the former New York City Police Department Deputy
Commissioner of Operations, was in charge of the Kahane investigation. He said that
the detective who searched Nosair’s home found four file cabinets (47 boxes) of Arabic
documents then locked them up in the 17 th Precinct at 4:00 a.m. When he returned four
hours later the FBI had taken possession of them. 175 The Bureau did not immediately

172
. Tape Recorded conversation with author May 22, 2003. Doctor Adelson died in December 2003, may he rest in peace.
173
. Newsday November 9, 1990 also Robert I. Friedman The Village Voice March 30, 1993 “The CIA and the Sheik -The Agency
Coddled Omar Abdel Rahman, Allowing Him to Operate in the U.S. Now This Unholy Alliance Has Blown Up in Our Faces.”
174
. Alison Mitchell “Islamic Sheik Says Mubarak Lie and Spies on Americans,” New York Times April 7, 1993 B5, 1
175
. http://www.homelandsecurity.org/journal/articles/displayArticle.asp?article=26

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translate papers found in Nosair’s home.176 Later it would claim this was because the
New York Field Office had no Arabic translator available. When the FBI finally got
around to translating them, the name of al-Qaeda, which had been founded in 1989,
was mangled and mistranslated. When the case came to trial Assistant District Attorney
Greenberg was denied access to much of the evidence seized by the FBI. Since neither
Nosair’s attorneys, nor the Manhattan District Attorney’s office wanted to make this into
a political trial, there were no motions filed to force the FBI to disclose this evidence.

Oliver “Buck” Revell177 accused the New York City Police Department of having
blundered:

The New York City Police Department carried out its investigation of the
assassination of Meir Kahane with the FBI looking over their shoulder to
see if there was anything of interest for the Bureau. I was in charge of
Bureau operations at the time and I never received any information that
El-Sayyid Nosair, the assassin of Meir Kahane, was connected with any
sort of organization that might have a terrorist agenda.

But the FBI should have developed this information on its on – FBI – Famous But
Incompetent. The FBI withheld information from NYPD - when Norris’ detectives located
a shooting range in Naugatuck Connecticut where Nosair had trained they found out the
FBI had been there three weeks ago and had not told them about it. 178 On August 29,
1989, two months before the Kahane assassination, the FBI had learned that our cell
had been using this range for training when several Brothers were stopped by a
Connecticut state trooper and were discovered to be in possession of a small arsenal
supplied to them by a former Waterbury, Connecticut police officer named Raymond J.
Murteza.179 Murteza, an Albanian Muslim whose brother Daniel had fought in the war in
Afghanistan, had been training dozens of men from the Sheik Rahman’s mosque in
police combat tactics. During training, Siddig Ali reported to Rahman, and Rahman
offered his insights into the training. The FBI knew Nosair was no loner! Nosair helped
to plan an armed robbery – on the night of Meir Kahane’s assassination a diagram of a
planned armored car robbery bearing the fingerprints of Bilal Alkaisi and Mohammed
Salameh was entrusted to El-Sayyid Nosair’s possession.

The FBI and NYPD did not want to interfere with a CIA-sponsored operation –
the covert support of Islamists in order to defeat the Communists, the nuclear-equipped
enemy who America had been fighting since 1946. The CIA knew precisely what Sheik
Rahman and his crew were about but left them alone as it had a higher purpose in mind
which Rahman, the Prince of Jihad, could help bring about.

ROBERT I. FRIEDMAN
176
. Now the FBI has instituted a rule where every suspected “terrorist” communication must be translated within 12 hours.
177
. Hart G. W. Lidov, M.D. and PhD. a medical researcher on the faculty of the Harvard School of Medicine whose girlfriend was
killed in the Lockerbie airline bombing made the absurd charge that Revell, then the FBI's counter-terrorism chief, failed to share a
prior warning of the bombing with the American public, but heeded it personally to get his son off the doomed flight.
http://www.dallasobserver.com/issues/2000-07-06/news.html
178
. Ariel Cohen National Review September 24, 2001 “Bureaucratic Failure How things went as wrong as they did.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-cohen092401.shtml
179
. Steven Emerson American Jihad Free Press Page 24 February 2003.

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 Jewish communist journalist Robert I.
Friedman who in the past had attacked Kahane,
Settlers, Judaists etc. disagreed with this official
analysis and reported that El-Sayyid Nosair was part of
Gama’a al-Islamiyya’s Brooklyn / Jersey City cell. Dr.
Mohammad T. Mehdi, an Elder of Islam, had this to
say:

Those of us who have known Robert Friedman’s work expect from him
more meaningful and objective reporting. Regretfully, his personal feelings
(prejudices?) got the better of him. Friedman’s ‘discovery’ that El-Sayyid
Nosair had ‘links to Arab terror groups’ is based on assertions by so-
called, and naturally unnamed, Israeli intelligence sources. Other parts of
Friedman’s investigation are based on whimsical connections or remote
theoretical possibilities or impossibilities. For example: Friedman relates
the story of a preacher in a mosque Nosair attended occasionally, who
was convicted of arms smuggling. Conclusion: Nosair is connected to
Arab terror groups! How illogical!180

Dr. Mehdi was an Iraqi immigrant who studied at the University of California at
Berkeley in 1948 on a full Iraqi government scholarship. There he received a B.A. in
1952 and stayed on to earn an M.A. and a Ph.D., all in political science, with a
specialization in American Constitutional law. Dr. Mehdi was the father of American
Arab political activism, and the first to print a newsletter in English condemning the
Zionist entity. Dr. Mehdi reported, “I was under deportation for eight years from 1964 to
1972. Under the pressure of intolerant politicians, including the senators from New York,
I was charged with having ‘engaged in activities contrary to the best interests of the
United States.’”181

MAMDOUH ZAKI ZAKHARY

The man Mehdi and Friedman referred to 182 was Imam Sultan El-
Galwi (also spelled Al-Gawiiy) a cousin of Ibrahim A. El-Gabrowny who
was entrapped by U.S. Customs and their agent, Mamdouh Zaki Zakhary
(also spelled Zakkary) Girguis, a bearded frail Egyptian Coptic Christian,
blind in one eye, who owned an import-export firm in Jersey City. Imam El-
Galwi came to the United States from Egypt in 1969 and became an
American citizen in 1977. He preached at the Al-Salaam Mosque and was
the leader of the Islamists operating out of there. Many secret meetings
were held in his mosque office. The PLO and Iran funded El-Galwi and often times he
entertained and was visited by officials from Saudi Arabia, the PLO, and Iran. Zakhary
told Abu Jihad,

180
. Mehdi Letter to Village Voice.
181
. Letter to Editor M.T. Mehdi “Egypt of the West?” New York Times July 18, 1993.
182
. Robert Friedman “Behind the Kahane Killing – Voice Investigation Reveals Links to Arab Terror Groups” Village Voice November
5, 1991.

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 I confirmed this information with the INS and U.S. Customs. They knew
about him. But they kept their eyes closed. I see by my eyes that some
people go to meet him and he has those connections. They go back to his
telephone bills from the telephone company to calls to Palestine, Iran. But
I cannot tell you my story exactly unless I see you in Egypt. I am very old
very sick 53½ years.

In June 1985, El-Galwi met Zakhary when he purchased airline tickets from him
at Zakhary’s travel agency. On July 31, 1985, El-Galwi visited him again and asked
Zakhary whether he could assist him in procuring arms for Palestinian revolutionaries.
Zakhary pretended to be familiar with arms sales in order to determine whether he was
serious then met again with him again in August and September 1985 to continue the
discussion. On September 19, 1985, Zakhary informed a Customs Service auditor
about this and agreed to pose as an arms dealer and to tape record his conversations.
In a meeting on November 8, 1985, Zakhary described a supposed liaison with an
American soldier who could provide weapons.

Four days later, El-Galwi introduced Zakhary to Said Hassan, a representative of

the PLO who resided in Saudi Arabia. Hassan told Zakhary that he needed explosives
and detonation devices for the “revolution people” in the Middle East. Hassan and
Zakhary thereafter decided to conduct all further arms discussions through El-Galwi,
who agreed to act as an intermediary. In a meeting on November 15, 1985, Zakhary
quoted prices to El-Galwi for the requested explosives and detonating devices. El-Galwi
agreed to a price of $12,000 for the arms and $13,000 for Zakhary's expenses. When
Zakhary complained of financial difficulties, El-Galwi explained that he himself would be
receiving no remuneration, stating: “I am doing this for the sake of God. I am personally
not going to gain anything out of it.” On December 5, 1985, Zakhary brought a sample
explosive to the travel agency, and El-Galwi called Saudi Arabia to tell the PLO
representative that the explosives were ready for shipment. On December 13, 1985 El-
Galwi and Zakhary met with Hassan to discuss prices, and on December 17, 1985 El-
Galwi and Zakhary met to discuss procuring helicopters. El-Galwi was arrested the
following day. Sultan El-Gawli was convicted of conspiracy to send 150 pounds of C-4
plastic explosives and radio frequency detonating equipment to the West Bank. He was
sentenced to 24 months, but served only 18.

After testifying against the PLO during a two-week trial in Camden New Jersey in
July 1986 Zakhary entered the Witness Protection Program, got married and moved to
New Orleans.

What happened is a very shame. The Saudi government made connection

with American State Department. The State Department contact the FBI
and they sell my Witness Protection Program file to the PLO - Islamic
terrorists in America - for $150,000. The PLO stole or bought it from
Witness Protection. Like they make a deal. There are some connection
happen about El-Galwi and at the time the government was arresting him

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 they send diplomatic car from Emirates to pick him up and take him to
some other secret place. He have meeting with some people. Some
pressure come to me. They stolen my file they sell my file to them. In New
Orleans I cry looking to my officer who was supposed to protect me but he
forget. I say fuck America! America will protect Zakhary. I was sick. I,
without any ID. I can’t go to hospital. They want to kill me many times.
They don’t want me to go hospital.

After he believed the PLO had traced him to New Orleans Zakhary went to Egypt
then returned to America in January 1990. “The people in witness protection very very
bad people. Not honest. I leave America. Then I come back again. I am sick physically
and mentally.” He returned to Jersey City, New Jersey and recommenced his career as
an informant, using gullible cutouts to gather information, mainly on Ibrahim A. El-
Gabrowny, who was a cousin of El-Galwi. “I change my face, my beard. I used the
name of Mubarak. That was my nickname for FBI.” He asked El-Gabrowny, “Why do
you stay here?” and was told “I want to earn their dollars so that I can stab them in the
back!” Zakhary spent a year and a half spying on the local Muslim community and the
worshippers at the Al-Salaam Mosque, beginning on January 10, 1990 reporting to FBI
Agent Kenneth Strange.

Zakhary told the FBI that four days before the Brothers caught up with Kahane, “I
saw with my own eyes the Rahman meeting with Nosair at a Lebanese restaurant on
Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn. It was 7:00 p.m. They were deep in conversation. I saw
them meeting in Jersey City, Kennedy Boulevard. Yes, in Manhattan they went to
restaurants. This is long years, now about twelve years. I still under very bad pressure
with my government I am honest man but they treat me as a terrorist. How did they let
Rahman leave Egypt after he killed Sadat? The Egyptian government is the fairest
godfather for supporting terrorism.”

Kevin McCarthy, the AUSA who prosecuted El-Galwi and who, according to
Zakhary, recommended him to the FBI, thought that Zakhary had not penetrated the
cell, and stated, “At the same time, I didn't have any indications that there was more
stuff going on in the mosque” yet in 1991 Zakhary said he reported to the FBI that he
been informed of a plot to assassinate two United States Senators and destroy the
World Trade Center:

If they believed me they could have stopped the first attempt to bomb
World Trade Center. I told them in 1991 they are going to blow up World
Trade Center. They do not believe me. Then I tell them about plan to kill
Senator D’Amato. I told FBI Agent Kenneth Strange. I go headquarters
there in Newark. There they put me on lie machine. During the summer I
was in car accident. I was under treatment. My wife was in Egypt. I cannot
bring her back to America. I have asylum. I was taking medicine for
depression. The man who gave me test was not expert, he was just agent.
He have to ask me first did you take medicine so so so. I loose many

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 dollars. The money for the insurance for the accident I get nothing. I give
them three cases.

The FBI terminated Zakhary’s employment citing his failure to pass a lie detector
test.183

I hear about Daniel Moynihan from source in 1991 that Rahman wants him
killed. They cannot believe me. They say, ‘If you have loyalty to America,
you don’t lie to us, you have to tell me about your source.’ But my source
is sacred. My source until now he live in Cyprus. But I cannot say much
more information about him. He has a family. I do not like him to get killed.
He Christian. He worked against the PLO and against the Arab
fundamentalists. He is very good boy. ‘Tell us who this man is where he
live, give us this name.’ I cannot give them.

Zakhary ended up being deported:

They deport me on June 7, 1991. They deport me because they now say
you are out of Witness Protection Program and my residence is finished
then they asked me to go out. I had permanent residence as I had political
asylum, yet they forced me to go. I was never convicted of a crime but my
residency had to be re-approved every six months. They make false
charge against me. Sometimes they say I threatened to kill President
Ronald Reagan. And they call me to go to Department of State in
Washington in January 1991, I went there you know and they arrest me
and say you threaten to kill Reagan - some false charge - then they plant
a knife with me. I help your government in its unlimited wars against
terrorist, but your government after winning the case trial, kicked me out of
America, because your government made me scapegoat, for PLO, Muslim
fundamentals in U.S.A. I help your government many many times, but
after all what I done, I get nothing, just my whole life is completely
destroyed. I need hearing for to clear my name. First off all you have know
very good that after I made my last visit to Israel in April 1992 I am on
blacklist. This fucking government put me blacklist won’t let me go out of
Egypt. I am like in jail. My story was published there April 26, 1992 in
Mar’riv newspaper. This triggered an action by government make me
never to leave Egypt, never to go to America, therefore I could not help
stop the bombing of the World Trade Center. Without any trial, every three
years they renew it automatically till I die. My family they are American
citizens. My mother my sister my brother live in New York. My name since
May 11, 1992 is on blacklists. I need help to get out of Egypt, to represent
my official case before foreign committees before the U.S. Attorney
General. Trust the rest of American justice, before it will be too late, so
you got help me.184
183
. Robert Friedman - “The CIA and the Sheik -The Agency Coddled Omar Abdel Rahman, Allowing Him to Operate in the U.S. Now
This Unholy Alliance Has Blown Up in Our Faces” Village Voice March 30, 1993.
184
. Tape Recorded interview with Zakhary October 12, 2003.

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 When I left America in 1991 I went to Lebanon and I sent a letter to
Richard Kennan who works in U.S. Customs service in New Jersey. I
confirm him two things. Let me remember. The CIA Chief in Beirut, who
was kidnapped by the PLO and Islamic Jihad I confirm he dead and
another person too. I send him this letter from the Mosque of Erbot
(phonetic). I don’t keep any records because I believe the Egyptian
government will make trouble for me.

Richard Kennan, a U.S. Customs agent, told the Israelian newspaper Mar’riv
“Zakhary is an honest man with very good intentions, [he] prevented a mass terror
attack on Christmas 1985. Unfortunately, he didn't understand the American system. He
was confused. I'm very sorry about what happened to him. We tried to get him asylum in
the U.S., but his behavior didn't help.”

LEE HARVEY NOSAIR

It is more than conceivable that al-Qaeda would have been unable to carry out
the February 26, 1993 World Trade Center bombing and many other strikes, possibly
even the September 11th Events, if the Kahane assassination had been treated as what
the Americans, the greatest terrorists in the world hypocritically term “an act of
international terrorism,” and not as an isolated case by a lone gunman. Now the FBI has
decided to take “loners” more seriously and a classified FBI intelligence bulletin issued
in February 2003 read: “Lone extremists represent an ongoing terrorist threat in the
United States and may operate independently or on the fringes of established extremist
groups, either alone or with one or two accomplices.” What was amusing was the FBI’s
admission that even lone extremists may have had co-conspirators – accomplices.
Does not that disqualify them from being “loners?”

Oliver “Buck” Revell had to admit Friedman was correct: “As it turns out later, as
we see after the World Trade Center, there was substantial information available that if
it had been properly translated, processed, authenticated and analyzed, would have led
to a direct association between the assassin of Meir Kahane and the group that
conspired and eventually did bomb the World Trade Center, and was conspiring to carry
out a number of other heinous acts of terrorism. A proper analysis of the Kahane
assassination was not conducted. By-and-large the reason it didn’t get done was
because of the political climate and the fact that FBI agents were loathe to undertake
anything that had any appearance of being involved in the political process. That
includes religious activity, free speech, etc., that are obviously protected under our
Constitution. It had become very difficult to assess how to deal with those issues.” 185

The FBI was not “loathe” to undertake the task of destroying the highly political
Black Panther Party through an operation it termed COINTELPRO. This FBI action
185
. Statement of Oliver “Buck” Revell Former Associate Deputy Director for Investigations Federal Bureau of Investigation To the
Committee on International Relations, U. S. House of Representatives Washington, D.C. October 3, 2001.

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caused problems for the Black Panthers with other Black organizations that were
escalated and soon Panthers were involved in shootouts with other revolutionaries.
Through informants, false documents, false information and playing on human
weaknesses, COINTELPRO was able to destroy the Black Panther Party from within
and without.

The FBI might claim that it could not have fully investigated al-Qaeda because of
the Attorney General’s Guidelines that were first created in 1976 by the Jewish Attorney
General Edward Levi. Levi’s Guidelines prohibited investigations into speech activities
where there was no advocacy of violence. The Guidelines specified that investigations
should be limited to exposing criminal conduct and should not involve simple monitoring
of unpopular political views. Investigations could only be brought where “specific and
articulable facts” indicated criminal activity.

But in 1983 Attorney General William French Smith weakened these restrictions
on the FBI. Under the Smith Guidelines, a full investigation could be brought where
information received pointed to a “reasonable indication” of criminal activity. During the
1980s, in an FBI investigation of the Committee in Solidarity With the People of El
Salvador, (CISPES), a group that opposed Reagan administration’s policy in Central
America, numerous people came under FBI scrutiny. The investigation was launched in
Dallas and expanded nationwide before being shut down in 1986 without any criminal
charges. The investigation entailed burglaries, death threats, and infiltrations against the
people and organizations allied with CISPES. In El Salvador, political refugees who
were caught returning to their homeland for their families were picked up by Salvadoran
police or military units, and were often tortured or killed, as a result of information
supplied by the FBI. It was an FBI Airtel signed by Oliver Revell that opened the second
phase of the CISPES investigation, turning it into a full-blown counter-terrorism effort
involving all 59 Field Offices of the FBI. 186

In 1989 Attorney General Dick Thornburgh again amended the Guidelines:

A domestic security/terrorism investigation may be initiated when the facts

or circumstances reasonably indicate that two or more persons are
engaged in an enterprise for the purpose of furthering political or social
goals wholly or in part through activities that involve force or violence and
a violation of the criminal laws of the United States. In determining
whether an investigation should be conducted, the FBI shall consider all of
the circumstances including: (1) the magnitude of the threatened harm; (2)
the likelihood it will occur; (3) the immediacy of the threat and (4) the
danger to privacy and free expression posed by an investigation. 187

Even before the Kahane assassination our activities met all these criteria. After
the Kahane assassination there was some attention focused on our activities, but not

186
. Ross Gelbspan “Breakins, Death Threats and the FBI: The Covert War Against the Central America Movement,” Page 117
South End Press June 1991.
187
. The Attorney General's Guidelines on General Crimes, Racketeering Enterprise and Domestic Security/Terrorism Investigations
http://www.usdoj.gov/ag/readingroom/generalcrimea.htm

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much, for Kahane was universally hated, even by his fellow Jews, and only Jewish
extremist groups tried to pressure the Justice Department to expand its investigation.
Why? Just as Sheikh Rahman and the Islamists are determined to exterminate the
Jews, Rabbi Kahane and the Judaists were determined to exterminate Arabs. His plan
was similar to that of the National Socialists - the Reich Citizenship Law of 1935
stripped German citizenship from Jews, and Jews lost the right to vote and hold public
office; Kahane wanted to make Palestinians living within the Green Line “non-resident
aliens” who could not vote or hold public office. The National Socialists forbade
intermarriage with Jews; Kahane would have forbidden marriage between Jews and
Arabs with transgressors to be punished by prison sentences of up to 50 years. In July
2003 the Knesset passed a Nuremberg-like Kahanist law: Now Palestinians who marry
Israelis cannot become Israeli citizens or residents. Kahane wished to set up a system
of apartheid in Israel to drive out its indigenous population. Ultimately Kahane
advocated expelling Arabs from the Zionist entity - “transfer” - something that would
have temporarily set back our plans to destroy the Zionist entity. “In two years time the
Arabs will turn on the radio and hear that Kahane has been named Minister of Defense,”
Kahane said. “Then they will come to me, bow to me, lick my feet, and I will be merciful
and allow them to leave. Whoever does not leave will be slaughtered.” 188 In June 1987 a
poll indicated that 21% of Israelis agreed with most of Kahane’s views. 189

The guerillas of the al-Fatah Revolutionary Council announced that they had
taken a decision to bear the defense expenses of the heroic Arab struggler El-Sayyid
Nosair.190 Al-Fatah group offered to post bail for Nosair. On November 26, 1990 Egypt’s
President Hosni Mubarak expressed admiration for him, “I hope that...Israel will meet
the same fate,” and further ordered Egyptian police to provide special security for
Nosair’s family. When Caren Nosair and her three children traveled to Egypt a year after
the Kahane Event, they were met at the airport by government officials and driven
through Cairo in a motorcade. Caren's chaperone was Ibrahim El-Gabrowny. The
November 11, 1990 the Jordan Times reported that the Jordanian Bar Association had
set up a committee to defend Nosair. “Members of the Jordanian Bar Association,” said
the organization’s president, Walid Abd-al-Hadi, “will be honored to defend Nosair in
court and consider him as a national hero.” A November broadcast on Saudi Arabia’s
al-Riyad contended that Kahane’s murder was “a profound act,” but the “more important
issue” was that the same fate “extends to major Israeli leaders.” 191

Nosair was charged with Second Degree Murder, Attempted Second Degree
Murder, Second Degree Assault, Unlawful Imprisonment and Criminal Possession of a
Weapon – one count in the Second Degree and two counts in the Third Degree. 192
Nosair was freed on $300,000, but it was revoked after demonstrations by the JDL in
front of Judge Alvin Schlesinger’s Upper East Side apartment.

MONEY FOR JIHAD: NOSAIR’S DEFENSE FUND

188
. Newsday February 1, 1988.
189
. Jewish Press June 12, 1987.
190
. Newsday October 8, 1990.
191
. Jewish Press March 1, 1991 “Mubarak Praises Killer of Kahane.”
192

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 A defense fund was set up for El-Sayyid Nosair, and three hundred thousand
dollars poured in from Islamist sources, such as Usama bin Laden, who had been in
communication with Ibrahim A. El-Gabrowny for quite some time. 193 Nosair would claim
that he was indigent when he filed his Notice of Appeal, so that the remainder of the
defense fund money could be used by his family and by our Islamist cell for jihadi
purposes. In late 1992 Nosair was recorded in Attica speaking angrily about the
handling of finances and complaining that his attorney, William Kunstler was attempting
to drain the funds.

WILLIAM KUNSTLER

William Moses Kunstler was born in New York City, the son of a proctologist,
Monroe Bradford Kunstler, and Frances Mandelbaum Kunstler. He grew up on the
Upper West Side of Manhattan. Kunstler moved to Gay Street in Greenwich Village and
defended homosexuals and drug addicted communist Jews like Abbie Hoffman and
Jerry Rubin. He lived a hippie lifestyle ingesting LSD with Jerry Garcia of the Grateful
Dead and was addicted to marijuana, but often followed the Communist Party line.
Nonetheless he was one of the first Jews to conclude that the Islamists of the 1990’s
were the most potent enemy of the United States, an imperialist country Kunstler hated
with a passion, having witnessed numerous instances of racism during his career as an
attorney. Many of his clients were legally lynched by the justice system, such as those
involved in the case of the rape of the Central Park jogger, whose convictions were
vacated after a prisoner came forward and confessed to the crime, coaxed to do so by
Sister Lynne Stewart. Kunstler shared our hatred for Jews, despite the fact he himself
was a Jew.

Kunstler claimed he knew nothing of the fund or the fund raising activities of El-
Gabrowny, despite the fact he was its chief beneficiary. At the Rahman trial, at which
Kunstler testified as defense witness, El-Gabrowny’s attorney almost accused Kunstler
of false testimony. After discussing the elaborate records El-Gabrowny was keeping for
Nosair, El-Gabrowny’s counsel, Anthony Ricco, stated in summation: “Mr. Kunstler took
the stand and he had amnesia about whether or not he knew there was a fund or not. I
submit to you everybody else knew. He said he was the lawyer, he didn’t know, that’s
between him and whatever.”194

Anthony Ricco, an Afro-American despite his Italian-sounding

name, represented U.S. embassy bomber Mohamed Sadeek Odeh, Al-
Qaeda financier Uzair Paracha and others with connections to Usama bin
Laden. He also represented Cory Arthur who killed the Jewish crack-head
teacher Jonathan Levin, whose father was chairman and CEO of Time
Warner.

Kunstler was not averse to taking part of the blame for the unaccounted for
money as long it was used against America. The Assistant United States Attorney
193
. USDC SDNY 98CR1023 Document #235 page 5
194
. USA v Rahman TT 19357-58

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commented: “The Nosair defense fund was a trove which ultimately raised almost
$300,000. As proof at trial will show, it was used in furtherance of Jihad activities, it was
administered by El-Gabrowny largely at Nosair’s direction, no accounting has ever been
made of it, and Nosair lied to the judge about it in a state court proceeding. The Kunstler
firm has contributed in no small part to the shadiness that surrounds a fund which was
intended to be murky because it was available for criminal purposes, and therefore
people like the firm’s clients El-Gabrowny and Nosair had good reason to want its
existence, locations and size hidden. The Kunstler firm’s response was to joke that if the
money was raised for bombs but used to pay lawyers, ‘this in fact represents the
triumph of capitalism in American life and demonstrates the validity of the bedrock
conservative belief that the market, rather than the government, is the best source of
regulation.’”

There was one major problem that arose during the trial. Usama bin Laden had
visited Sudan in 1984 when Dr. Hassan al-Turabi was adviser to former President Ja'far
Numayri. Since then, he came to know all the leadership of the Islamist movement
especially that this period witnessed the rise of many Islamic financial and economic
institutions in Sudan. In December 1991, at the request of bin Laden, Sudan sent an
emissary to New York to monitor the Nosair trial. After a report was relayed to him
Usama bin Laden was so pleased with the work of Kunstler that he had this man give
him a cash bonus. A court officer saw him hand him this money and told the judge
about it. Since newspaper articles had appeared in the New York Times about how the
Sudan was a staging ground for our operations, Kunstler was afraid this might affect
Nosair’s sentence. Kunstler was also afraid the report might trigger an Internal Revenue
Service investigation. On January 9, 1992 he wrote this letter to Judge Schlesinger:

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 I have just been informed by Ms. Gilbert that, in a conversation with her,
you stated that I had been seen receiving a wad of cash from someone
from the Sudan in the courtroom. I was aghast at such a false and
slanderous statement coming for you as I have never received any cash in
this case from any source whatsoever and no funds from anyone but the
clients wife. I would like to know how you obtained this information, as I
would like to track it down. If you claim that you saw such a transaction, I
would like to know when and where you claim that it took place. If the
information was given to you by someone else, I would like to know that
person’s name and the details furnished thereby to you.”

On January 20, 1992 he continued along the same vein in another letter.

Eleanor Hill, the former Pentagon Inspector General and director of the Senate
Intelligence Committee that investigated the failure of the American intelligence
community to detect the planning for the September 11 thEvents reported in October
2002 the FBI learned that one of El-Sayyid Nosair’s relatives “traveled to Saudi Arabia
to obtain money to pay for Nosair’s defense. He received funds from a wealthy Saudi -
Usama bin Ladin [sic].” Jailhouse snitch Gregory Scarpa Jr. advised the FBI that 1993
World Trade Center bomber Eyad Ismail’s father

Met an attorney who asked him if he is involved in the World Trade Center
case. The attorney stated that he wanted to take the World Trade Center
case with funding from an unnamed organization. The attorney advised
Ismail’s father that the Feds visited him after his conversation with him and
advised him not to get involved with the case.195

195
. FBI 302 265A NY 258172 November 26, 1996

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 In January 1991 one of Nosair’s attorneys, Michael
Warren, offered an insanity defense for Nosair. In July 1991
William Kunstler, withdrew the motion. Kunstler, a Jew, knew
that Jewish law forbids autopsy and as a result, Kahane never
underwent one. Kunstler tried to get the charges against Nosair
dismissed because of this, by suggesting that the court order
Kahane’s body, buried in the Zionist settler state, be exhumed but Judge Alvin
Schlesinger refused, citing the fact that Kahane was hit in the neck and the bullet, now
just a deformed piece of lead, passed through his body. If anybody could get Nosair off
the hook, it was Kunstler. In 1988 Kunstler and Attorney Lynne Stewart convinced a
Bronx jury comprised of ten blacks and two Hispanics to acquit Larry Davis of 17 counts
of assault and attempted murder on New York City Police officers, however, Davis was
convicted of lesser weapons charges. 196 Kunstler commented, “Any black guy that
shoots six cops and puts the fear of God in police officers, I think is great.” The judge in
the Larry Davis trial ruled that Kunstler and Stewart had systematically excluded whites
from the jury but his ruling was overturned on appeal. 197 As a result of this, during
another proceeding, court officers beat and kicked Kunstler during a courtroom melee. “I
got a broken rib and all the cartilage in my knee had to be removed. One of the court
officer told me, ‘This is for Larry Davis.’”198

Co-incidentally, Larry Davis would attest to the fact that El-Sayyid Nosair should
have been granted bail because there was a contract out on his life. Davis wrote:

On the evening of December 14, after coming back from Muslim services,
I said to Officer Pitts shield #4468 that I say to the officer that the man who
is allegedly accused of shooting to death of the man who founded the
Jewish Defense League was at the services too. The Officer Pitts stated to
me that if I knew anyone who would kill the accused, he knows who can
get me the money, moments later I go to thapist of N.I.C. and I say to the
thapist, Dr. Secks, the man who accused of killing the founder of the
J.D.L. was at the services I attended he also stated to me that if I know
anybody who would kill the accused gunman he personal guarenty they
would get the two million from his people. I give this statement to turn over
to the Muslim attorney. Larry Davis, Adam Abdul Hakeem. 199

196
. Pete Moses “Larry Davis Cleared ”New York Post November 21, 1988.
197
. Associated Press, Gannet Westchester Newspapers May 4, 1988 “Bronx Judge Finds Bias in Davis Jury Selection.”
198
. Ron Rosenbaum “The Most Hated Lawyer in America” Vanity Fair March 1992.
199
. New York State Supreme Court Civil Case 1477-1991

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