Patrick Fitzgerald misrepresentation of Ali Mohamed's FBI relationship

[seemslikeadream]

I heard this watching the September 11 Commission Report Results, Pt. 2 chaired by Cynthia McKinney

Any comments on Fitzgerald?

I'm concerned now we may not get to the truth on the Plame outing



http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=SCO20050729&articleId=759

Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald, misrepresented Ali Mohamed’s FBI relationship. He told the Commission that, "From 1994 until his arrest in 1998, lived as an American citizen in California, applying for jobs as an FBI translator and working as a security guard for a defense contractor."<26>

Ali Mohamed was not just an FBI job applicant. Unquestionably he was an FBI informant, from at least 1993 and maybe 1989.<27> And almost certainly he was something more. A veteran of the CIA-trained bodyguards of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, he was able, despite being on a State Department Watch List, to come to America around 1984, on what an FBI consultant has called “a visa program controlled by the CIA”, and obtain a job, first as a security officer, then with U.S. Special Forces.<28> In 1988 he took a lengthy leave of absence from the U.S. Army and went to fight in Afghanistan, where he met with Ayman al-Zawahiri (later bin Laden’s chief deputy in al Qaeda) and the “Arab Afghan” leadership.<29> Despite this, he was able to receive an Honorable Discharge one year later, at which point he established close contact with bin Laden in Afghanistan.

Ali Mohamed clearly enjoyed U.S. protection: in 1993, when detained by the RCMP in Canada, a single phone call to the U.S. secured his release. This enabled him to play a role, in the same year, in planning the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Kenya in 1998.<30>

Congress should determine the true relationship of the U.S. Government to Ali Mohamed, who was close to bin Laden and above all Zawahiri, who has been called the “main player” in 9/11.<31> (Al-Zawahiri is often described as the more sophisticated mentor of the younger bin Laden.)<32> In particular Congress should determine why Patrick Fitzgerald chose to mislead the American people about Mohamed’s FBI status.

[DrZeeLit]

1. You're just getting concerned NOW? Helloooo... we can start a pool...

who thinks we ever will get to the truth about it?

And then.... let's guess the date?

I'd say... when somebody with balls decides to write a "tell all" book (and make zillions) soon after * leaves office.

Do you really think a Republican Congress will allow a fair hearing? Do you really think an investigation that has oversight by Pres appointment will ever come to light?

Oooh... if so.... maybe there is a Santa Claus?

I just do not believe much these days about the TRUTH being a real commodity.

[seemslikeadream]

3. I wasn't relying on Congress for a fair hearing

I was hoping on the prosecutor and the courts

[DrZeeLit]

4. Yes, I was once hoping for a "watergate" type of prosecutor, but

how long does this investigation need to go on before the prosecutor DROPS the DIME on somebody???

Cuz sure enough... SOMEBODY did this.

So, I just don't see ANYBODY doing ANYTHING at ANYTIME.

And isn't that another sad indictment of this government?

You are right to bring it to light.
Thanks for that.

[wli]

2. It only confirmed conclusions I'd arrived at by other means. n/t

[H2O Man]

5. I do not think

that he misrepresented the guy's status. I think that most people will be pleased with the results of the Plame investigation. Even when indictments are handed down, some might think they do not go far enough. Wait until trials get underway ..... some will become willing to cooperate in order to avoid long prison sentences.

[seemslikeadream]

6. Thanks H2O Man

I appreciate your thoughts. I wonder why he would say that?

:hi:

[H2O Man]

8. It would be

important to review the transcripts of the entire trial. It is also important to remember that a prosecutor is bound by a wide range of laws of evidence. The person's actual background may have been partly classified. Any number of possibilities exist.

One thing is true, however, and that is that the actual truth in any situation that is heard within the context of a courtroom -- be it a criminal case or a civil case -- is distorted. The truth rarely comes out in the sense of "the whole truth and nothing but the truth."

It is also true that people do not stay at a specific level all of their lives. Each of us has opportunities to stand taller, and to do the right thing, every so often in our lives. No accurate biography of Mr. Fitzgerald is going to claim he was always a knight in shining armor. But I believe that he is rising to the occassion today.

[reprehensor]

7. Plenty of truth disseminated last night.

Cynthia McKinney for president.