After
careful deliberation, the SHADOW believes the question regarding the
bombing boils down to the following: Did the FBI do the bombing,
utilizing informant Salem as an "agent provocateur" or did
it fail to prevent an independent Salem and his associates from doing
it? The taped conversations obtained by the SHADOW seem to
indicate the former:
FBI
Informant Edam Salem: "...we was start already building the bomb
which is went off in the World Trade Center. It was built by
supervising supervision from the Bureau and the DA and we was all
informed about it and we know that the bomb start to be built. By
who? By your confidential informant. What a wonderful great case!"
[Listen]
Who
is Emad Salem?
FBI bomber, Arab double-agent or just greedy? Possibly a combination
of all three. Salem is a former Egyptian Army officer who is
currently the U.S. government's star witness against Egyptian cleric
Dr. Omar Abdel Rahman, whom the FBI says was the ringleader in
several bombing plots, including the World Trade Center. Shortly
after the bombing at the Twin Towers (World Trade Center) the U.S.
government moved to take Salem into the Witness Protection program.
According
to attorney Ron Kuby, after Salem was taken into the Witness
Protection program on June 24, 1993, he told the feds about the more
than 1,000 conversations he had recorded sometime between December,
1991 and June, 1993. Kuby says that while some of these tapes are not
significant, others contain substantive dealings with Salem and his
FBI handlers. Salem was actually bugging the
FBI.
The
World Trade Center bombing, along with subsequent alleged plots to
bomb prominent targets in New York City, spawned a number of federal
indictments and trials resulting in the conviction of more than a
dozen men, all of Arabic descent. Salem's exposure as a government
informant who had a year earlier infiltrated the group of men later
charged in the bombing conspiracy caused many to wonder why he and
the FBI failed to provide any warning of the pending World Trade
Center bombing.
The
answer now appears self-evident. According to William
Kuntsler, attorney for Ibrahim El-Gabrowny, one of those accused in
the larger bombing case, the entire conspiracy was the product of
Salem, the government informant. Kuntsler's law partner Ronald Kuby
told the SHADOW that within hours of the World Trade Center blast,
Salem checked into a midtown hospital, complaining of a loud ringing
in his ears. There is a growing belief that
some of the four men charged and since convicted and jailed for the
World Trade Center bombing, Mohammed Aboulihma, Mohammed Salameh,
Nidal Ayyad and Ahmad Ajaj, may be innocent [victims] of a government
frame-up.
Attorneys
for those convicted have maintained that the government's case is
circumstantial at best, with no evidence or motive linking the
accused with the bombing. The FBI and federal prosecutors have not as
yet responded to questions over the lack of warning of the attack on
the Twin Towers, despite the strategic placement of their informant.
Two
possible scenarios emerge. One: Salem is a rogue FBI informant who
created the conspiracy to bomb the World Trade Center for the money
his information about the plot (minus his role) would bring. An
attorney for one of the convicted men told the SHADOW that Salem was
an FBI informant from November of 1991 to the summer of 1992. The
attorney says that the FBI became aware of the World Trade Center
bombing plot through informant Salem during this period, but they
refused to believe his information or pay Salem's exorbitant fees. In
fact, the feds claimed that they dropped Salem as an informant during
the summer of 1992 after he refused or failed a lie detector test.
This left Salem with a bombing plot but no one to sell it to.
According
to the attorney, Salem let the plot that he hatched go forward and
the World Trade Center was bombed so that he could get money and
publicity. The attorney says that within 48 hours of the bombing, the
FBI requested Salem to help them solve the case. Salem quickly
pointed the fingers at the defendants, all followers of Sheik Rahman.
So,
who did it? From the above point of view, Salem constructed the bomb
plot with those whom he subsequently set up. The U.S. government and
its FBI were innocent bystanders who failed to prevent the carnage
due to their unwillingness to take Salem's claims seriously, despite
his close collaboration with Bureau agents for the better part of a
year.
In
one of the taped conversations between Salem and "Special Agent"
John Anticev, Salem refers to him and the Bureau's involvement
in making the bomb that blew up the World Trade Center. As Salem is
pressing for money while emphasizing his value as a Bureau asset, the
conversation moves in and out of references to the bombing and the
FBI's knowledge of the bomb making:
FBI:
But ah basically nothing has changed. I'm just telling you for my
own sake that nothing, that this isn't a salary but you got paid
regularly for good information. I mean the expenses were a little bit
out of the ordinary and it was really questioned. Don't tell Nancy I
told you this. (Nancy Floyd is another FBI agent who worked with
Salem in his informant capacity. The second tape obtained by the
SHADOW is of a telephone conversation between Salem and Floyd -Ed.)
SALEM:
Well, I have to tell her of course.
FBI:
Well then, if you have to, you have to.
SALEM:
Yeah, I mean because the lady was being honest and I was being honest
and everything was submitted with receipts and now it's questionable.
FBI:
It's not questionable, it's like a little out of the' ordinary.
SALEM:
Okay. I don't think it was. If that what you think guys, fine, but I
don't think that because we was start already building the bomb which
is went off in the World Trade Center. It was built by supervising
supervision from the Bureau and the DA and we was all informed about
it and we know what the bomb start to be built. By who? By your
confidential informant. What a wonderful great case! And then he put
his head in the sand I said "Oh, no, no, that's not true, he is
son of a bitch." (Deep breath) Okay. It's built with a different
way in another place and that's it.
FBI:
No, don't make any rash decisions. I'm just trying to be as honest
with you as I can.
WAKE
UP AMERICA!!!....Its "OUR" country!!!
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"Light" and Energy
_Don