Reply #2: One thing and another

[Kevin Fenton]

"So, for instance, in Yousef's 1997 trial, not a word of the second wave plot was mentioned, and the people who had gotten that information from Murad weren't asked to testify at the trial."
According to Simon Reeve (who wrote The New Jackals, this is in chapter 12 Supermax), the 1997 trial was for the WTC bombing, so the second wave of the Manila Air Plot wouldn't be particularly relevant to it. The 1996 trial was for the Manila Air Plot (plus other things like PAL 434, although I've no idea how they could try him for that in the US). As for them not including it in the Manila Air Plot trial, I don't thing that's a particularly big deal. They had plenty of evidence to get a conviction on the other counts (11 of them), so why bother with it?

Reeve, who published his book in 1999, goes into a lot of detail about Bojinka (for example he lists the codenames of the five bombers and says which flights each of them was supposed to bomb) and mentions the CIA-Murad plot (pp. 87 and 97), but I can't find anything about the second wave in there (although I thought he mentioned it somewhere).