Edited on Thu Oct-05-06 12:29 PM by John Q. Citizen
Keller.
Hopsicker found out about the Atta/Keller connection because of the stories written by Sarasota Herold Tribune reporter:
WELCOME TO TERRORLAND -- MOHAMED ATTA & THE 9-11 COVER-UP IN FLORIDA
CHAPTER SIX: LOOKING FOR AMANDA
Our first stop in the search for Amanda was at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune's local Venice bureau, where reporter Earle Kimel helped break the story of Atta's American squeeze
http://www.american-buddha.com/911.welcometoterrorlandhop4.htmHopsicker first interviewed Keller after she had already changed her story to living with some other vague 5th hijacker also named Mohammed, not before. So she didn't flip flop on Hopsicker. And he videoed her after she had said what the FBI said.
In fact, Hopsucker wanted to interview Heller because she had changed her story. He interviewed her after finding this piece published in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune
The headline offered a clue to the contortions somebody was going through to offer this news to the world. The paper, as we've seen, was counting the ever-increasing number of terrorists said to have passed through Venice in its headlines ...
They were up to five: 'FIFTH PILOT TRAINEE VANISHES.' "Mohammed" slept on her couch, a Venice woman says."
"Investigators have identified a fifth man of Middle Eastern descent who trained to fly in Venice, but they don't know if he was involved in the September 11 attacks because they can't find him. He told the people he lived with in Venice earlier this year that he was moving to Paris," the paper reported.
"The man, known as Mohammed, stayed at Amanda Keller's unit in the Sandpiper Apartment complex on Airport Avenue in April. Authorities would not release the man's full name, and Keller would not divulge it, citing instructions from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement."
Later Hopsicker has this to say about the "other" Mohammed.
We knew one thing. We still wanted to find Amanda Keller.
Because the 'Fifth Pilot' was the 'Unknown Terrorist.' His entire existence, for the record, consisted of his stay with Amanda. There were no follow-up stories about him.
No "Fifth Pilot Identified" headlines.
Even his name remained a mystery. He was Mohamed No Last Name. He went totally unmentioned in later in-depth news accounts about the Hamburg cadre's key members.
He was The Man Who Was Not There.
After serving the purpose of disabusing the public of the notion that Mohamed Atta had lived with Amanda Keller in March and April of 2001, he retired from earthly existence, was immediately forgotten, and has never been mentioned again by the press or by authorities.
Except for Amanda Keller saying so in her retraction, there was absolutely no evidence that he had ever existed at all. And yet this transparent ruse was somehow strangely successful in keeping the press from going after the story.
http://www.american-buddha.com/911.welcometoterrorlandhop4.htmAlso, Hopsicker has half a dozen other corroborating witnesses, such as Keller and Atta's neighbors, friends, family and co-workers who saw them together, and the fact both Atta and Keller happened to both live at the same apartment house in Venice, FL.
We know what Keller told Hopsicker because you can download the clip and watch it. Is she telling Hopsicker the truth? I think so, as much as anyone anytime can tell the truth.
Also, just because Hopsicker was curious enough to seek out and interview Keller shouldn't invalidate his main thesis that the flight schools the hijackers attended in Venice were connected to drugs, US Intel, and the mob. This remains the thesis whether Keller is telling the truth or not.
You can also see Hopsicker's interview with the Yellow Cab Driver who places Atta and Flight School front owner operator Rudy Drukker together in Venice when the FBI says Atta was long gone. That's a great interview. One can decide that Hopsicker is clever at presenting complete rubbish and the whole entire book is made up, or one can decide that he's pretty well demonstrated his thesis, that their was a much greater connection between those flight schools and the hijackers than is commonly believed.
I tend toward the second conclusion. And it's not dependent on the truthfulness of Keller. It's based on the weight of a lot of documentation. I think Keller is basically truthful on the tape, as I think she was basically truthful in her initial assertions.
One thing is certain, there are two diametrically conflicting stories out there originating from the same source. We have the first story (Sarasota Herald-Tribune's local Venice bureau, Earle Kimel) and the third story (Hopsicker's)that match up. Then we have the second story written by a different Herald Tribune reporter that doesn't match the other two stories. This second story appears about when Keller is in the process of moving to Ohio, trying to get her kid back, and trying to put her life back together. Or maybe she's pys-opts. But probably not.
In any case, we have here a classic disinformation pys-opts technique. We have two competing stories. The original points against the OCT and for the CT. The middle (2nd story) points away from CT and toward the OCT.
Remember the credible threat against Air Force 1 on 9/11?
It ended the same way. First it was a major threat, confirmed and reconfirmed numerous times by high White House officials and various other people on 9/11 and just after. Then it was just all a big mistake. Even the same officials who had originally given out the story all agreed it was just a big mistake. Go figure. Two stories, same pattern.
If you have read the 9/11 Commission's report on the hijackers, you know it's about as skeletal of a document as has ever been published. The point seems to be to provide as little information about the hijackers and their lives as possible. It's like they vacuumed and sterilized the histories of these people. They paint an entirely two dimensional picture of the named suspects for this maximum crime,
provide no background on why they went where they went, who they were.
My criticism of Hopsucker is that at times he gets too personally involved with his story and investigation. He puts too much flesh where maybe there isn't quite that much sometimes, and would benefit from a more hands on editor. He undermines his own credibility by becoming so personally involved in the narration of the investigation, at times, it almost becomes a blend of crime noir and investigative journalism, and both suffer for it.
The facts uncovered and the interviews are well worth the drawbacks, in my opinion. Hopsucker brings an insight to the Venice operation that we have seen reported and repeated about other hijackers having close access to other US Intel assets, such as the hijacker roomies of the FBI informant, the Able Danger operation, and various other US Intel and foreign intelligence agencies that had contacts with the hijackers here and around the world. Hopsucker convincingly ties one Venice hijacker flight school to 43 pounds of heroin seized in a plane flying weekly runs to Venezuela
for cash and piloted by a CIA asset who apparently walked away without any further legal problems. That seems like pretty big news to me.
Or do you think that Heller changing her story to the papers makes the heroin/CIA connection go away?
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