9/11 Funds Traced to Pakistan Accounts

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9/11 Funds Traced to Pakistan Accounts

By JOHN J. LUMPKIN, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - Investigators have traced the funding for the Sept. 11 attacks to al-Qaida accounts in Pakistan, a top FBI (news - web sites) counterterrorism official told a Senate panel Thursday. Officials did little to clarify the Saudi role in the funding.

John S. Pistole, deputy assistant director of the FBI's counterterrorism division, said that investigators have "traced the origin of the funding of 9/11 back to financial accounts in Pakistan, where high-ranking and well-known al-Qaida operatives played a major role in moving the money forward, eventually into the hands of the hijackers located in the U.S."

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=3&u=/ap/20030801/ap_on_re_mi_ea/attacks_intelligence_3

Didn't we just give a great deal on money to Pakistan for supporting us?

I thought the FBI was "confused"....looks like they knew what was going on....who know IF they tried to stop them.

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1. how did the money get into Pakistan...?

"Pistole did not specify in his testimony to the Senate Governmental Affairs committee (news - web sites) how those accounts in Pakistan were funded.


The FBI has estimated the Sept. 11 attacks cost between $175,000 and $250,000. That money, which paid for flight training, travel and other expenses, flowed to the hijackers through associates in Germany and the United Arab Emirates. Those associates reported to Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who managed much of the planning for the attacks from Pakistan, U.S. officials said. "

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2. Cost a lot more than that.

Bush had to pay Freeh his cut. And all the rest of those in the Intelligence Community Nazi Industrial Complex who were aware of an imminent Al Qaeda attack, but did nothing to stop it, had to get paid something big, too. I can't wait until there's a new Attorney General.

EDIT: Remember the Chicago FBI agents who were ordered to stand-down from their investigation of the Saudi terror-funding network? I wonder if we'll ever get their side of the story. From our own Will Pitt:

The Politics of Treason

EXCERPT...

On May 30th, Klayman emerged from the mists of anti-Clintonism and fired a stupendous broadside across the bow of the Bush administration and the FBI. Appearing before members of the press in a conference broadcast by C-SPAN, Klayman introduced an 11-year veteran FBI agent named Robert Wright. Judicial Watch has claimed Wright as a client, and intends to defend him against what Klayman describes as a serious campaign by the FBI and the Department of Justice to intimidate and destroy him.

Why?

According to Klayman, Wright has been sounding an alarm within the FBI for years about terrorist activities within the United States. Rather than heed Wright's warnings, the FBI has deflected and obstructed his efforts to curtail dangerous movements by agents of Hamas and Hezbollah. Wright's activities within the FBI were geared towards thwarting money-laundering activities by these agents, and he is claiming that his efforts were stymied because important government officials like Colin Powell have been coddling these pro-Palestinian groups to protect the reputation of Yasser Arafat. One can only assume the higher purpose of this coddling was to preserve tattered hopes for a negotiated settlement in the Mideast.

Klayman leaned across the podium at the press on Thursday and claimed that the FBI "did not do its job" regarding 9/11, that Wright had been trying since 1999 to get the FBI to clean house before disaster struck, and that his reward for doing so was threats of civil suits, loss of employment and criminal charges. Klayman juxtaposed this against the recent praise heaped upon Colleen Rowley, the Minnesota FBI agent whose whistleblowing memo to FBI Director Robert Mueller outlining all of the agency's failures to see 9/11 coming was lionized by the Director as he announced the dawn of a new improved FBI. Wright was threatened while Rowley is praised, said Klayman. The comparison was devastating.

http://truthout.com/docs_02/06.01A.wrp.treason.htm