Worse, they allowed him to dine at the Pentagon and preach to Muslims on Capitol Hill (h/t Jihad Watch). via Docs Indicate FBI Knew Terrorist Anwar al-Aulaqi Purchased Airline Tickets for 9/11 Hijackers | Judicial Watch.
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it has received documents from
the U.S. State Department indicating that the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI) was aware on September 27, 2001, that Anwar
al-Aulaqi, the U.S. born terrorist assassinated by a U.S. drone in Yemen
on September 30, 2011, had purchased airplane tickets for three of the
9/11 terrorist hijackers, including mastermind Mohammed Atta. Subsequent
to the FBI’s discovery, al-Aulaqi was detained and released by
authorities at least twice and had been invited to dine at the Pentagon.
According to a September 27, 2001, FBI transcription, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State and Federal Bureau of Investigations (No. 1:12-cv-00893)), al-Aulaqi purchased airline tickets for the following 9/11 hijackers:
- Mohammed Atta, America West Airlines, 08/13/2001, for a flight from Washington, DC, to Las Vegas, Nevada, to Miami, Florida.
- S. Suqami, Southwest Airlines, 07/10/2001, for a flight from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, to Orlando, Florida.
- Al-Sheri, National Airlines, 08/01/2001, for a flight from San Francisco, California, to Las Vegas, Nevada, to Miami, Florida.
The documents also include material
showing that al-Aulaqi was uncooperative with FBI agents investigating
the 9/11 attacks and was seemingly a central focus of the FBI
investigation and monitoring related to 9/11.
But records previously uncovered by
Judicial Watch, subsequent to the September 27, 2001, FBI transcription,
show that al-Aulaqi was arrested and released by authorities. Two
documents uncovered by Judicial Watch include “Privacy Act Release Forms”
issued by the U.S. Embassy in Sana’a, Yemen, and signed by al-Aulaqi.
One was dated November 14, 2006, and the other July 2, 2007, indicating
that al-Aulaqi had been arrested by authorities. The documents do not
indicate how long al-Aulaqi was detained or why he was released.
In addition to the arrests noted by the
documents in 2006 and 2007, al-Aulaqi was detained and questioned at New
York’s JFK airport on October 10, 2002, under a warrant for passport
fraud, a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison. However, the FBI
ordered al-Aulaqi’s release, even though the arrest warrant was still active
at the time of his detention as reported by Fox News Channel’s
Catherine Herridge. Once released al-Aulaqi then took a flight to
Washington, DC, and eventually returned to Yemen.
On February 5, 2002, four months after the
FBI discovered his connection to the 9/11 terrorists, al-Aulaqi was
invited to dine at the Pentagon on February 5, 2002, “as part of the
military’s outreach to the Muslim community in the immediate aftermath
of the attacks,” reports Herridge.
…
In 2010, President Obama reportedly
authorized the assassination of al-Aulaqi, the first American citizen
added to the government’s “capture or kill” list, describing the radical
Muslim Cleric as “chief of external operations for al-Qaeda in the
Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).” The Office of Legal Counsel in the Justice Department has reportedly determined that targeting and killing of U.S. citizens overseas was legal under domestic and international law.
Unfortunately, the precedent of killing any American any where in
the world for just about any reason is now set. Disagree with
government propaganda, oppose taxes, gun confiscation, illegal wars, the
Fed, financial policy or lack thereof, blaspheme the prophet of Islam,
believe in the Constitution – they consider you a terrorist too.
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