A real-life Third Man mystery from the Washington Post, with thanks to Mrs. Obelix:
The FBI has never found the individual who allegedly asked two Yemenis to take photos of federal buildings in downtown New York in May 2001, an episode that was mentioned in an intelligence report given President Bush little more than a month before the attacks on the World Trade Center, according to government officials. The two Yemenis were questioned on May 30, 2001, by Immigration and Naturalization Service agents, and their camera was confiscated after guards saw them taking photos of 26 Federal Plaza and surrounding buildings, including one that housed the FBI's counterterrorism unit in New York.Federal officials developed the film and found the images showed the plaza and surrounding buildings, plus the street. When FBI agents subsequently questioned the two men, they said they took the photos for a friend in Indianapolis who had never visited New York. The FBI has never located the Yemeni friend, who was in the United States under an assumed name with false documents.
Federal officials at the time were on alert because one day earlier, in one of the courthouses photographed, six men had been found guilty on a number of counts in connection with the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, an attack linked to al Qaeda. A terrorist alert had been put out that day by the State Department, although the government said at the time it was not aware of any specific threat in response to the verdicts.
The President's Daily Brief (PDB) for Aug. 6, 2001, the highly classified intelligence report prepared by CIA for President Bush and top officials, contained a short section titled, "Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US." Along with some past material about previous threats by the al Qaeda leader, the report referred to the FBI investigating "suspicious activity in this country consistent with the preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York."
At the time of the public release of the briefing document last month, a White House fact sheet said the FBI had "interviewed the men and determined that their conduct was consistent with tourist activity and the FBI's investigation identified no link to terrorism."
Neither the fact sheet nor two White House officials who briefed reporters April 9 mentioned that a third Yemeni was involved.
Within a few weeks of the May 30, 2001, incident, the FBI concluded that the two Yemeni men had no connection to terrorists and appeared to be taking tourist photos, according to a senior FBI official, who declined to be identified because he was discussing an ongoing investigation.
But the official also acknowledged that the third man, who had been working in the Indianapolis area under the assumed name Mohammed Hassan Abadi, has never been located or interviewed. The FBI does not know the man's real name, but it does have a photograph of him and has found no links between his assumed name or photograph and terrorist groups or individuals, the official said.
The Great Orson would be delightful to have a chance to build another stuning career based upon todays' stories. Rest In Peace Master...
What about the "dark-haired man" that was seen with Timothy McVeigh? There are too many mystery men wandering around this country.
What used to be a mechanism for reinventing yourself is now too dangerous for the whole of society to be permitted. What as shame. Another way these "darn" terrorists have changed our lives.
To say that the FBI are all that squared away think again Look at Burg Was he or wasn't he REmember all the stupid jews who went as human sheilds to proyect Saddamn and arafat well that is dumb for the FBI to say he is not in with the terrorist because he was jewish. there have always been tratiors and will always be we just have to keep them the FBI on the job to help prevent more terrorism
Part of the American Tribe
God Bless the USA and her Fighting Forces and All who Fight with her give them Strength and Courage to stay the course to Victory Amen
The jews loyalty lays with Israel. It is Israel his tribe looks out for, and out of all the spies we ever caught, the most came from Israel.
"Whenever someone says Israel is our only friend in the Middle East, I know that before Israel, we had no enemies at all there."
epq,
I also feel ashame and sad on how the terrorists are trying to change the meaning of words but let's not forget what happened at the end to Harry Lime... He was dead! shot by his best friend! nothing can escape the justice. terrorists can double and triple themselves but they can not escape their terrible end episode.
Re Conspiracies:
Imagine that there's a clinical arch-paranoid, of unlimited wealth and with scads of time on his hands, who fancies that a conspiracy's being schemed against him.
He covers all of his known vulnerabilities, then seeks to protect against attacks from every angle he can conceive.
Since these are without limit, he turns to the offensive, endeavouring initially to stymie the plots he perceives, then to actively scuttle the alleged plotters, having assembled the assets and constructed a great, convoluted mechanism and network of "COUNTER-CONSPIRACY" for the purpose.
However, objectively, it's all in his head - the conspiracy he fancies is a fiction, a figment of his own fevered mind.
Accordingly, though there's NO original conspiracy, in reality, but there IS the grand and concrete "counter-conspiracy" he's built up.
In all logic, with no authentic conspiracy anywhere in the first place, then doesn't his genuine, standing "counter-conspiracy" become the one and only CONSPIRACY that's in existence?
See where I'm driving?
What I mean is that the Arab and Moslem sphere, instead of accepting their own basic negligence and deficiencies as the major reasons for their plight, has in preference cooked up and assimilated a "Conspiracy" by the "Great and Small Satans" (America and Israel).
This casts them as "innocent, helpless victims", bearing not the slightest culpability for their fix they're in and absolving them of any responsibility whatsoever for it. The USA and the Jewish State are to blame - never themselves.
Accordingly, though it's not their fault, there's nothing to preclude them from taking steps to quash the "Conspiracy", and they've been busy doing so....
The goverment has no official interest in the civilian know as Erik.
Carry on.
Hg dude
you said something about the Arab and Moslem sphere as though they were one - theya re not if you took the time to think about it the Arab peninsula includes Israel and thusly Israeli's are also arab
you said america and israel were seen as the small satans according to the opinion of many muslims or "MOSlems" as you said what about all the Muslims who are american what about all the MUSLims who are born and bred american it would be a contradiction to say that they hate themselves and strive to kill themself.
and one more thing you are preprejudicing yourself
this may be seen when you say
"This casts THEM as "innocent, helpless victims", bearing not the slightest culpability for THEIR fix THEY're in and absolving THEM of any responsibility whatsoever for it. The USA and the Jewish State are to blame - never THEMselves."
what about all the muslims who are NOT arab what about all the muslims who are AMERICAN?
you are acting prematurely when you so fluidly generalize the whole of a race into a few words- it is impossible to have a group of people -constisting of more then three people - with the same qualities
you make it sound as though MUSLims are not human and live only to hate
before you think of criticizing others and generalize the whole of a religion and race- you mentioned arab - underestand that hate breeds hate and to stop hate dont spread it- you dont fight fire with fire -