FBI Had Direct Link to Bin Laden — in 1993

[unhappycamper]

http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/russ-baker/54536/fbi-had-direct-link-to-bin-laden-in-1993



FBI Had Direct Link to Bin Laden — in 1993
by Russ Baker | March 1, 2014 - 10:36am
— originally published at WhoWhatWhy

The FBI had a human source in direct contact with Osama bin Laden in 1993 and discovered that he was eager to finance terror attacks on the United States, according to little-noticed testimony in a court case several years back.

The testimony, just reported by the Washington Times, underlines how poorly we understand the degree to which the federal government was interacting with Osama bin Laden and monitoring the activities of a network that came to be widely known as Al Qaeda.

The information, which emerged during an obscure employment dispute case filed by an agent, was provided by Edward J. Curran, who had been a top official in the Bureau’s Los Angeles office. “It was the only source I know in the bureau where we had a source right in al Qaeda, directly involved,” Curran told a nearly empty courtroom in 2010.

The source was credible enough that the Bureau was able to use his information to prevent an attack on a Los Angeles Masonic temple at the time.

[LiberalFighter]

1. The source was not available to thwart the 9/11 attack.

He had been dead for nearly 6 years. And he was no longer controlled by the FBI. The CIA weaseled him from them.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/exclusive-mole-who-met-bin-laden-killed-al-qaeda-bosnia-n39306