Mohamed Atta Protected From Scrutiny Cause Of Coke/Heroin Network?

[KittyWampus]

from Hopsicker and Madcow, since maybe Atta helps tie some loose ends-

Mohamed Atta was protected from official scrutiny as part of an officially-protected cocaine and heroin trafficking network with ties to top political figures, including Republican officials Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris, and it was this fact—and not the “terrible lapses” of “weak on terror” Clinton Administration officials cited by Republican Congressman Curt Weldon—which shielded him from being apprehended before the 9.11 attack.

Weldon alleges that Pentagon lawyers rejected the military intelligence unit’s recommendation to apprehend Atta because he was in the country legally, and therefore information on him could not be shared with law enforcement.

But the “terrible lapses” cited by Weldon do not stem from the nonsensical assertion that Atta had a green card (he did not) which rendered him immune from military investigation but were the result of an officially-protected heroin trafficking operation being conducted on planes like those of Wally Hilliard, whose Lear jet flew "milk runs" down and back to Venezuela every week for 39 weeks in a row before finally running afoul of local DEA agents not been clued-in on the 'joke.'

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A two-year investigation in Venice, Fl. into the flight school attended by Atta and his bodyguard Marwan Al-Shehhi and which provided them with their “cover” while in the U.S. unearthed the amazing fact that during the same month the two men began flying lessons at Huffman Aviation, July of 2000, the flight school’s owner’s Lear jet was seized on the runway of Orlando Executive Airport by Federal Agents who found 43-pounds of heroin onboard.

43 pounds of heroin is known in the drug trade as “heavy weight.”

In a story in the August 2, 2000 Orlando Sentinel authorities called the bust “the biggest drug seizure in central Florida history.”

“It confirms the sad fact that a massive amount of heroin is coming through Central Florida,” U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration special agent Brent Eaton told the paper. “It’s very disturbing to the DEA that more and more high quality heroin is coming from Colombia and at a cheaper price.”

[drm604]

1. Link? n/t

[Aimah]

2. Did a Google Search and this is what I found..

http://64.70.236.57/08172005.html

[bananas]

5. on the Mad Cow website - August 17,2005

I googled too, here's the url on the madcow website.
Dated August 17,2005
http://www.madcowprod.com/08172005.html

[savemefromdumbya]

7. LOL!

vol 1 & 2

[wiggs]

3. Sounds similar to Sibel Edmonds story

She hinted at drugs, money laundering, foreign country involvement, US official involvement.

[KittyWampus]

4. yes, it certainly does

[stop the bleeding]

6. What better way to launder that money than thru the SunCruz Casino's

and trips to Vegas. I remember hearing a few times here on DU that the FBI thought that Atta and his boys were laundering money but they did not say why. This is a good piece of research and that is why I nominated this thread.

Anymore ideas on this Drug/money laundering connection??

[pberq]

12. See "Crossing the Rubicon" by Micheal Ruppert

There is much, much more to this subject.

See Rupert's website for more:
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/index.html

[savemefromdumbya]

8. Atta is still alive though

which Atta are we talking about, Atta of the magic passport that was found remarkedly unscathed at the WTC ruin?? One CANNOT believe all this cr&p!

[mirandapriestly]

10. Atta's dad told CNN he had spoken to him after 911

but the amazing, surviving passport belonged to Satam Al Suqami. It is difficult to know what is the truth with those hijackers, I agree.

[Flying Dream Blues]

9. Kicked and recommended.

[AnnieBW]

11. Venice Airport?

Who'd have thought that this dinky little airfield near the Gulf of Mexico would generate so much interest? Probably because the town is full of retirees who all vote Republican. I'm not surprised that Cruella DeVille's name is popping up in connection with this. It's her neck of the woods.

[kitty1]

13. Interesting that the Saudi's that were flown out post 9/11

were flown out of Florida on a 747 belonging to Wally Hillier. The same financier/owner of Huffington air, which was seizd by Feds with 43 lbs of heroin on board.
"In the days following 9/11, a number of Saudis fled the country from Florida after the attacks. They flew on Wally Hillier’s charter aircraft to private fields of military contractor Raytheon, and departed on a 747."
I'm guessing from the fact that some very affluent Saudis were wining and dining around Venice florida during this time a lot, that the Saudis were very much involved in this international narcotic trafficing.
Wasn't there also a story about a huge crate of gold supposedly being shipped out of Orlando airport to somewhere in California by some Saudi visitors. About 200 lbs worth. I vaguely remember some tie with this incident to Mohammed Atta and the whole 9/11 scenario. I can't remember the details.
Osama Bin Laden's drug cronies were also players in the Florida drug connection and had people operating out of this area. I think all trails lead to good old boy Jeb and Katherine Harris as they've stated already.

[Octafish]

14. That's dynamite, kitty1!

Didn't know Wally provided the 9-11 getaway plane.

All roads lead to the BFEE.

PS: A most hearty welcome to DU, kitty1!

[Octafish]

15. Minstrel Boy and DUers shed light on this...

...back in March 2004:

"Heroin, Al Qaeda and the Florida Flight School"

Interesting stuff here from Sander Hicks:

...what makes Ben-Veniste such an intriguing player on the 9/11 Commission (The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States) is his experience with rogue drug-running CIA operatives. Ben-Veniste defended Barry Seal, the notorious smuggler who flew C-123 military cargo planes filled with cocaine into Mena, Arkansas on behalf of the contras.

Al Qaeda's lead 9/11 hijacker, Mohamed Atta, was allegedly partying with CIA-connected pilots while he got his flight training in fall/winter 2000 at Huffman Aviation in Venice, Fla., where two of the other 9/11 hijacker pilots trained. Atta wasn't acting much like a holy martyr: He wore jeans and sneakers, played video games, bought himself a red Pontiac and was said to be a hedonist. The Press posed the question to Ben-Veniste: If Atta belonged to the fundamentalist Muslim group, why was he snorting cocaine and frequenting strip bars?
"You know," said Ben-Veniste, as he smiled a little. "That's a heck of a question."

The source of this information about Atta and cocaine is Amanda Keller, Atta's American ex-girlfriend, according to Daniel Hopsicker, an investigative journalist who has spent two years researching Huffman and its ties to the CIA. It took Hopsicker a year, but he tracked Keller down. Like many other witnesses who knew Atta, Keller says she has been harassed by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. Keller has not been called as a witness by the 9/11 Commission.

http://www.911citizenswatch.org/print.php?sid=82

More on Amanda Keller:

FBI agents harassed and intimidated witnesses to the 9/11 terrorist conspiracy’s activities in Florida, issuing warnings to avoid talking with reporters, say current and former residents in Venice, Florida.

At least one eyewitness, who knew Mohamed Atta because he lived next door for a time, received regular visits for over six months after the attack from FBI agents eager to ensure she continued to remain silent. Several said they felt unfairly singled out because what they saw and heard is at considerable variance with the official story of the terrorist cadre’s time in Florida.

An American girl named Amanda Keller, for example, briefly lived with Mohamed Atta in Venice, according to both local news reports and numerous eyewitnesses.

http://www.madcowprod.com/issue44.html (plus a streaming video interview of Keller)

http://www.madcowprod.com/issue27.html

http://www.madcowprod.com/issue30.html

http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/

Original post:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1294206

[bobthedrummer]

16. Yep, some of us did keep at this

Wallace "Wally" J. Hilliard and the Hilliard family are part of the BFEE crime family that you've kept at over the years, Octafish.

These folks are capable of anything.

[Octafish]

17. Wallace spread the loot Madison-way?

Thanks for remembering, Robert-san.

If it weren't for you and our pals, this crazy shit would've made me permanently nuts.

As it is, I've got to ask: Is Volly, um, Germanic in origin?

Now, in the Middle East, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem was the most
influential Nazi collaborator. Another was Youssef Nada, board chairman of
al-Taqwa on the day the files were impounded by the Swiss federal
prosecutor's office.2 Youssef Mustapha Nada was the president of the al
Taqwa Bank Group.

Nada, a naturalized Italian, according to Paul W. Rasche in Studien von
Zeitfragen, was "a member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and
Jamaa-al-Islamiya, which is directly allied with al-Qaeda through Dr. Ayman
al-Zawahiri." In 1970, Nada relocated to Saudi Arabia. With an assist from
the Muslim Brotherhood, he "established contact with members of the Saudi
Royal family, and founded a construction company in Riyadh, much the same as
the Bin Laden family. He remained active in Riyadh, and soon founded the
first Islamic bank in Egypt, the Faisal Bank."

We've covered some ground since Part I of this Byzantine account, so recall
the connection of Turki al-Faisal to Mr. Adnan Khashoggi: "... in cahoots
with Sheik Kamal Adham, then director of Saudi intelligence (1963-79),
brother-in-law of King Faisal and the CIA's key liaison in the Arab world,
Khashoggi founded Oryx Investments." Oryx was linked by Khashoggi partner
Wallace Hilliard to Huffman Aviation in Florida, home of the flight school
where Mohammed Atta and his fellow terrorists flight-trained (Khashoggi,
part I).

This pulls Zawahiri and Nada and al Taqwa directly into the
Bush-Khashoggi-CIA axis: "The Faisal Islamic Bank of Saudi Arabia is the
head bank of a number of affiliated Islamic Banks under that name across the
Islamic world from Egypt to Pakistan to the Emirates and Malaysia. The head
of Faisal Islamic Bank of Saudi Arabia is former Saudi Intelligence Chief,
Turki al-Faisal . Faisal Islamic Bank is directly involved
in running accounts for bin Laden and his associates, and has been named by
Luxembourg banking authorities in this regard."3

CONTINUED...

http://thewebfairy.com/911/constantine/part15.htm

Seems you and seemslikeadream and more than too few others think like great minds deserve.

Good to read ya, bobthedrummer! A peaceful, prosperous and joyous New Year to you and yours!

[reprehensor]

18. A Drug-related read...

The Global Drug Meta-Group:
Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11
http://lobster-magazine.co.uk/articles/global-drug.htm

Not specifically related to Atta and Co., but this article addresses the FACT of the unofficial nearly Trillion dollar Drug Trade that goes 24/7, and has benefited substantially from the chaos in Afghanistan post-US invasion.

These guys have as much motive to create chaos in Cental Asia as anyone, and they are rarely factored into anybody's 9/11 equation.

The Iran/Contra airport revelations would earn Hopsicker some medals for journalism in a non-bizarro universe.