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7th April 2011, 16:39
The 9/11 Indictment and Unanswered Questions About Saudi Prince Bandar
April 7, 2011 • 11:16AM
At the request of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, when the trial of the 9/11 conspirators was shifted from a civilian court to a military tribunal, the Federal indictment was dismissed and the indictment was unsealed. As Lyndon LaRouche stated on Tuesday night, if the trial had taken place in New York City it could not have been controlled, and questions about the role of the British and the Saudi governments' role in the 9/11 attack might well have surfaced.
The indictment, "United States of America v. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed et al.", which was dismissed at the request of the Obama administration, features prominently two hijackers who were funded directly by Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi Ambassador, and his wife, Princess Haifa, at the inception of the operation. In April 1998, Prince Bandar wrote a check for $15,000 to Osama Basnan. Then, beginning in Dec. 1999, the princess began sending regular monthly cashier checks to his wife Majeda Dweikat. Many of these checks were signed over to Manal Bajadr, the wife of Omar al Bayoumi. The Basnans and the Bayoumis were all Saudis.
When two other Saudi nationals, Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid Almihdhar, arrived at Los Angeles International Airport, they were greeted by al-Bayoumi, provided with cash, an apartment, Social Security ID cards, and other financial assistance. Al Bayoumi helped the two Saudi men to enroll in flight schools in Florida. Two months before the Sept. 11 2001 attacks, al-Bayoumi moved to England and then disappeared altogether. Within days of the 9/11 attacks, agents of New Scotland Yard, working in conjunction with the FBI, raided his apartment in England and found papers hidden beneath the floorboards that had the phone numbers of several officials at the Saudi Embassy in Washington. Basnan was arrested for drug possession in southern California, and the Saudi government intervened to get the charges dropped; Basnan also befriended Alhazmi and Almihdhar prior to their deaths on American Airlines Flight 77. At one point the Basnans, the al-Bayoumis, and the two 9/11 hijackers all lived at the Parkwood Apartments in San Diego. The indictment reads as follows in respect to Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid Almihdhar:
17. From in or about December 1999 through in or about June 2000, al Qaeda selected operatives to pilot the airplanes to be hijacked and dispatched the operatives to the United States to obtain flight training and otherwise carry out the plot. Of this group of prospective pilot hijackers, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi were the first to arrive in the United States, on or about January 15, 2000.
18. From in or about June 2000 through in or about January 2001, Marwan al-Shehhi, Mohamed Atta, and Ziad Jarrah successfully completed pilot and jet-simulator training at flight schools and training centers in Florida. Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi did not acquire the necessary pilot skills.
24. On September 11, 2001, co-conspirators Hani Hanjour, Khalid al-Mihdhar, Nawaf al-Hazmi, Salem al-Hazmi and Majed Moqed hijacked American Airlines Flight 77, bound from Virginia to Los Angeles, and flew it into the Pentagon.
41. On or about the same day, April 3, 1999, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Nawaf al-Hazmi (AA 77) applied for a U.S.-entry visa, which application was granted.
42. On or about April 7, 1999, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Khalid al-Mihdhar (AA 77) applied for a U.S.-entry visa, which application was granted.
49. On or about January 8, 2000, Walid Bin attash, using the name Salah Saeed Mohammed; Nawaf al-Hazmi (AA 77); and Khalid al-Mihdhar (AA 77) flew from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Bangkok, Thailand, on the same flight, seated in the same row of the airplane.
50. On or about January 15, 2000 Nawaf al-Hazmi (AA 77) and Khalid al-Mihdhar (AA 77) flew on the same United Airlines flight from Bangkok, Thailand to Los Angeles California, through Hong Kong.
51. On or about January 20, 2000, Walid Bin Attasch flew from Bangkok, Thailand, to Karachi, Pakistan, under the name Saleh Saeed Mohammed Binyousaf.
75. On or about April 16, 2000, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, using the name Ali, wired $5000 to a bank account in California.
103. On or about July 4, 2001, Khalid al-Mihdhar (AA 77) flew from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to New York.
104. Before July 4, 2001, in an overseas location, Walid Bin Attash videotaped Khalid al-Mihdhar (AA 77) reading a martyr will.
Las Vegas Meeting
136: In summer 2001, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed instructed some of the hijackers to meet in Las Vegas to make final preparations.
138. On or about August 13, 2001, Hani Hanjour (AA 77) and Nawaf al-Hazmi (AA 77) flew together from Virginia to Las Vegas, Nevada.
Purchase of Knives
143. On or about August 27, 2001, in Laurel, Maryland, Nawaf al-Hazmi (AA 77) purchased a Leatherman-type short-bladed knife set.
Hijackers Return Excess funds
155. On or about September 10,2001, Nawaf al-Hazmi (AA 77) mailed the ATM card for the First Union bank account of Khalid al-Mihdhar (AA 77) to a post office box used by Mustafa al-Hawsawi in the United Arab Emirates. Al-Mihdhars account had a balance of approximately $10,000 at the time.
171: On September 11, 2001, Hani Hanjour, Khalid al-Mihdhar, Majed Moqed, Nawaf al-Hazmi, and Salem al-Hazmi hijacked American Airlines Flight 77, a Boeing 757, which had departed from Virginia bound for Los Angeles at 8:20 a.m. They few Flight 77 into the Pentagon in Virginia at 9:37 a.m., causing great damage and destruction to property and injury and death to hundreds of persons.
Source: http://www.larouchepac.com/node/17914
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Attorney General Holder Defends Decision to Try 9/11 Defendants in Federal court
April 7, 2011 • 11:17AM
Even as he was forced by Barack Obama to abandon a civilian trial in the U.S. Federal Court in Manhattan, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder defended his original decision. We present excerpts from his press conference below:
"As I said then, the decision between federal courts and military commissions was not an easy one to make. I began my review of this case with an open mind and with just one goal: to look at the facts, look at the law, and choose the venue where we could achieve swift and sure justice most effectively for the victims of those horrendous attacks and their family members. After consulting with prosecutors from both the Department of Justice and Department of Defense and after thoroughly studying the case, it became clear to me that the best venue for prosecution was in federal court. I stand by that decision today.
"As the indictment unsealed today reveals, we were prepared to bring a powerful case against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his four co-conspirators—one of the most well-researched and documented cases I have ever seen in my decades of experience as a prosecutor. We had carefully evaluated the evidence and concluded that we could prove the defendants' guilt while adhering to the bedrock traditions and values of our laws. We had consulted extensively with the intelligence community and developed detailed plans for handling classified evidence. Had this case proceeded in Manhattan or in an alternative venue in the United States, as I seriously explored in the past year, I am confident that our justice system would have performed with the same distinction that has been its hallmark for over two hundred years.
"Unfortunately, since I made that decision, Members of Congress have intervened and imposed restrictions blocking the administration from bringing any Guantanamo detainees to trial in the United States, regardless of the venue.... We will continue to seek to repeal those restrictions.
"But we must face a simple truth: those restrictions are unlikely to be repealed in the immediate future. And we simply cannot allow a trial to be delayed any longer for the victims of the 9/11 attacks or for their family members who have waited for nearly a decade for justice....
"So today I am referring the cases of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Walid Muhammad Bin Attash, Ramzi Bin Al Shibh, Ali Abdul-Aziz Ali, and Mustafa Ahmed Al Hawsawi to the Department of Defense to proceed in military commissions. Furthermore, I have directed prosecutors to move to dismiss the indictment that was handed down under seal in the Southern District of New York in December, 2009, and a judge has granted that motion...."
Source: http://www.larouchepac.com/node/17915
April 7, 2011 • 11:16AM
At the request of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, when the trial of the 9/11 conspirators was shifted from a civilian court to a military tribunal, the Federal indictment was dismissed and the indictment was unsealed. As Lyndon LaRouche stated on Tuesday night, if the trial had taken place in New York City it could not have been controlled, and questions about the role of the British and the Saudi governments' role in the 9/11 attack might well have surfaced.
The indictment, "United States of America v. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed et al.", which was dismissed at the request of the Obama administration, features prominently two hijackers who were funded directly by Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi Ambassador, and his wife, Princess Haifa, at the inception of the operation. In April 1998, Prince Bandar wrote a check for $15,000 to Osama Basnan. Then, beginning in Dec. 1999, the princess began sending regular monthly cashier checks to his wife Majeda Dweikat. Many of these checks were signed over to Manal Bajadr, the wife of Omar al Bayoumi. The Basnans and the Bayoumis were all Saudis.
When two other Saudi nationals, Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid Almihdhar, arrived at Los Angeles International Airport, they were greeted by al-Bayoumi, provided with cash, an apartment, Social Security ID cards, and other financial assistance. Al Bayoumi helped the two Saudi men to enroll in flight schools in Florida. Two months before the Sept. 11 2001 attacks, al-Bayoumi moved to England and then disappeared altogether. Within days of the 9/11 attacks, agents of New Scotland Yard, working in conjunction with the FBI, raided his apartment in England and found papers hidden beneath the floorboards that had the phone numbers of several officials at the Saudi Embassy in Washington. Basnan was arrested for drug possession in southern California, and the Saudi government intervened to get the charges dropped; Basnan also befriended Alhazmi and Almihdhar prior to their deaths on American Airlines Flight 77. At one point the Basnans, the al-Bayoumis, and the two 9/11 hijackers all lived at the Parkwood Apartments in San Diego. The indictment reads as follows in respect to Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid Almihdhar:
17. From in or about December 1999 through in or about June 2000, al Qaeda selected operatives to pilot the airplanes to be hijacked and dispatched the operatives to the United States to obtain flight training and otherwise carry out the plot. Of this group of prospective pilot hijackers, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi were the first to arrive in the United States, on or about January 15, 2000.
18. From in or about June 2000 through in or about January 2001, Marwan al-Shehhi, Mohamed Atta, and Ziad Jarrah successfully completed pilot and jet-simulator training at flight schools and training centers in Florida. Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi did not acquire the necessary pilot skills.
24. On September 11, 2001, co-conspirators Hani Hanjour, Khalid al-Mihdhar, Nawaf al-Hazmi, Salem al-Hazmi and Majed Moqed hijacked American Airlines Flight 77, bound from Virginia to Los Angeles, and flew it into the Pentagon.
41. On or about the same day, April 3, 1999, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Nawaf al-Hazmi (AA 77) applied for a U.S.-entry visa, which application was granted.
42. On or about April 7, 1999, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Khalid al-Mihdhar (AA 77) applied for a U.S.-entry visa, which application was granted.
49. On or about January 8, 2000, Walid Bin attash, using the name Salah Saeed Mohammed; Nawaf al-Hazmi (AA 77); and Khalid al-Mihdhar (AA 77) flew from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Bangkok, Thailand, on the same flight, seated in the same row of the airplane.
50. On or about January 15, 2000 Nawaf al-Hazmi (AA 77) and Khalid al-Mihdhar (AA 77) flew on the same United Airlines flight from Bangkok, Thailand to Los Angeles California, through Hong Kong.
51. On or about January 20, 2000, Walid Bin Attasch flew from Bangkok, Thailand, to Karachi, Pakistan, under the name Saleh Saeed Mohammed Binyousaf.
75. On or about April 16, 2000, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, using the name Ali, wired $5000 to a bank account in California.
103. On or about July 4, 2001, Khalid al-Mihdhar (AA 77) flew from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to New York.
104. Before July 4, 2001, in an overseas location, Walid Bin Attash videotaped Khalid al-Mihdhar (AA 77) reading a martyr will.
Las Vegas Meeting
136: In summer 2001, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed instructed some of the hijackers to meet in Las Vegas to make final preparations.
138. On or about August 13, 2001, Hani Hanjour (AA 77) and Nawaf al-Hazmi (AA 77) flew together from Virginia to Las Vegas, Nevada.
Purchase of Knives
143. On or about August 27, 2001, in Laurel, Maryland, Nawaf al-Hazmi (AA 77) purchased a Leatherman-type short-bladed knife set.
Hijackers Return Excess funds
155. On or about September 10,2001, Nawaf al-Hazmi (AA 77) mailed the ATM card for the First Union bank account of Khalid al-Mihdhar (AA 77) to a post office box used by Mustafa al-Hawsawi in the United Arab Emirates. Al-Mihdhars account had a balance of approximately $10,000 at the time.
171: On September 11, 2001, Hani Hanjour, Khalid al-Mihdhar, Majed Moqed, Nawaf al-Hazmi, and Salem al-Hazmi hijacked American Airlines Flight 77, a Boeing 757, which had departed from Virginia bound for Los Angeles at 8:20 a.m. They few Flight 77 into the Pentagon in Virginia at 9:37 a.m., causing great damage and destruction to property and injury and death to hundreds of persons.
Source: http://www.larouchepac.com/node/17914
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Attorney General Holder Defends Decision to Try 9/11 Defendants in Federal court
April 7, 2011 • 11:17AM
Even as he was forced by Barack Obama to abandon a civilian trial in the U.S. Federal Court in Manhattan, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder defended his original decision. We present excerpts from his press conference below:
"As I said then, the decision between federal courts and military commissions was not an easy one to make. I began my review of this case with an open mind and with just one goal: to look at the facts, look at the law, and choose the venue where we could achieve swift and sure justice most effectively for the victims of those horrendous attacks and their family members. After consulting with prosecutors from both the Department of Justice and Department of Defense and after thoroughly studying the case, it became clear to me that the best venue for prosecution was in federal court. I stand by that decision today.
"As the indictment unsealed today reveals, we were prepared to bring a powerful case against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his four co-conspirators—one of the most well-researched and documented cases I have ever seen in my decades of experience as a prosecutor. We had carefully evaluated the evidence and concluded that we could prove the defendants' guilt while adhering to the bedrock traditions and values of our laws. We had consulted extensively with the intelligence community and developed detailed plans for handling classified evidence. Had this case proceeded in Manhattan or in an alternative venue in the United States, as I seriously explored in the past year, I am confident that our justice system would have performed with the same distinction that has been its hallmark for over two hundred years.
"Unfortunately, since I made that decision, Members of Congress have intervened and imposed restrictions blocking the administration from bringing any Guantanamo detainees to trial in the United States, regardless of the venue.... We will continue to seek to repeal those restrictions.
"But we must face a simple truth: those restrictions are unlikely to be repealed in the immediate future. And we simply cannot allow a trial to be delayed any longer for the victims of the 9/11 attacks or for their family members who have waited for nearly a decade for justice....
"So today I am referring the cases of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Walid Muhammad Bin Attash, Ramzi Bin Al Shibh, Ali Abdul-Aziz Ali, and Mustafa Ahmed Al Hawsawi to the Department of Defense to proceed in military commissions. Furthermore, I have directed prosecutors to move to dismiss the indictment that was handed down under seal in the Southern District of New York in December, 2009, and a judge has granted that motion...."
Source: http://www.larouchepac.com/node/17915