"... [Egyptian president] Mubarak was quoted in the Egyptian press as
saying 'the sheikh [Abdel Rahman, 1993 New York 'terrorist mastermind']
has been a CIA agent since his days in Afghanistan. The [US] visa he
got was not issued by mistake. It is because of the services he did.'
"... The U.S. State Department has admitted that it should not have
granted Sheik Abdel Rahman a multiple-entry visa in 1990 since he had
been on the watch list for suspected terrorists since 1987. A
classified report by the department's inspector general concludes that
it was issued by mistake. But Egyptian fears will be fed by one
discovery: sources have told TIME that the U.S. diplomat who approved
the sheik's visa application in Khartoum was a CIA officer working
under cover in the consular office when the sheik's case came up. A
CIA spokesman says the agency found no record of a relationship of any
sort with the sheik. Former CIA official Vincent Cannistraro, who once
chaired the interagency Afghanistan Working Group, also says that 'the
sheik was never an agent, he was never an informant,' and he had no
role in the CIA's Afghanistan operation. Moreover, he backed an
anti-American rebel faction shunned by the CIA. ..."
(Marguerite Michaels, "Martyrs for the Sheik", Time, July 19, 1993,
p.38)
More at
http://us.geocities.com/libertystrikesback/afghans.html#blowback
Ah, the worthy Vincent Cannistraro, who so many quote as revealing the
"real truth" about the CIA's machinations! The CIA has virtually made
an industry out of visas for Islamist terrorists. Enter Ali Mohamed
"al-Amriki" ("the American"), the Egyptian Islamic Jihad affiliate,
Green Beret worker, trainer of anti-Soviet fighters for Afghanistan,
Qaeda informant, and evident CIA asset. The CIA supposedly dropped him
in the 1980s because he was "boasting of his relationship with the
agency". His intelligence career fairly flourished after this. The
Boston Globe reported in 1995 that Mohamed did in fact benefit from a
visa waiver programme for intelligence assets. (Paul Quinn-Judge and
Charles M Sennat, "Figure Cited in Terrorism Case Said to Enter US with
CIA Help ...", Boston Globe, 3 Feb. 1995 ...)
http://www.geocities.com/libertystrikesback/afghans.html#key
And of course, we come to those 15 Saudi 9/11 hijackers. "Saudi"
because they got their US entry visas at the US consulate in Jeddah,
Saudi Arabia. The consulate was, according to ex-head of the visa
section J Michael Springmann, dominated by "the CIA and other US
intelligence services". Asked whether he thought "the CIA could have
had its fingers in a terrorism directed towards the United States",
Springmann replied: "Well, who knows? I've seen it suggested that it
was one way of getting the Americans involved at bases not only in the
Middle East but at bases surrounding Russia".
http://www.geocities.com/libertystrikesback/sept-11.html#hijackers
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