About That $100,000 Wired to Mohamed Atta Shortly Before the Attacks
Apart from the fact that it was approved by the Pakistani ISI Chief, I always thought it was suspicious that so much money was wired just before the attacks.
Why would Atta need so much money if he was going to die shortly? He certainly wouldn't care about paying off bills and he would be hard pressed to spend that much in so little time.
Today I had the idea that this money was actually to help Atta disappear for a while. In other words, he wasn't on flight 11 at all, but rather he had fulfilled his duty of acting to be a terrorist hijacker (taking flying lessons, having links to Al Qaeda, being generally noticed, asking government agents about crop dusting, ostensibly orgainzing the attacks and meeting with other hijackers, etc), and now he had to act as though he had died on the plane.
This would fit well with the story that Atta's father said Atta called him AFTER the 9/11 attacks and Atta said he had to lay low.
Why would Atta need so much money if he was going to die shortly? He certainly wouldn't care about paying off bills and he would be hard pressed to spend that much in so little time.
Today I had the idea that this money was actually to help Atta disappear for a while. In other words, he wasn't on flight 11 at all, but rather he had fulfilled his duty of acting to be a terrorist hijacker (taking flying lessons, having links to Al Qaeda, being generally noticed, asking government agents about crop dusting, ostensibly orgainzing the attacks and meeting with other hijackers, etc), and now he had to act as though he had died on the plane.
This would fit well with the story that Atta's father said Atta called him AFTER the 9/11 attacks and Atta said he had to lay low.
posted by spooked at 1:24 PM
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from "The New Pearl Harbor" by David Ray Griffin, page :
The suspicion that US officials wanted to conceal the ISI connection is also suggested by the evidence, raised by Chossudovsky, that the FBI, in reporting on the connection with Pakistan, did not specifically mention General Ahmad, Saeed Sheikh, or the ISI. For example, Brian Ross
of ABC News reported that he had been told by federal authorities that they had "tracked more than $100,000 from banks in Pakistan." Ross also reported that according to Time magazine, "some of that money ... can be traced directly to people connected to Osama bin Laden." The
FBI's way of reporting the story, saying that the money came from "people connected to Osama bin Laden," diverted attention from General Ahmad, Saeed Sheikh, and the ISI. Indeed, thus laundered, the potentially embarrassing discovery about the transfer of money was used to confirm the official account—that primary responsibility for the attacks belonged to Osama bin
Laden.
Later evidence suggested that Saeed Sheikh had transferred even more money to Atta. Thompson says that evidently $100,000 was transferred in 2000 and another $100,000 on August 11 of 2001, and that it is not clear to which of these transfers the story that broke in October referred. Also, the New York Times suggested that a total of about $325,000 was transferred
to Atta's Florida accounts by one "Mustafa Ahmed," and this name was thought by some, including the Guardian and CNN, to be an alias for Saeed Sheikh. This individual's final transfers to Atta's account occurred on September 8 and 9. "These last-minute transfers,"
Thompson reports, "are touted as the 'smoking gun' proving al-Qaeda involvement in the 9/11 attacks, since Saeed is a known financial manager for bin Laden." However, Thompson asks, "since Saeed also works for the ISI, aren't these transfers equally a smoking gun of ISI involvement in the 9/11 attacks?"
He's alive? :O
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