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Cleric may have booked pre-9/11 flights
for hijackers, FBI documents show
Fox News, by Catherine Herridge
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Posted By:Pluperfect, 1/4/2013 6:44:45 AM
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| The FBI suspected within days of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that the American Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki may have purchased tickets for some of the hijackers for air travel in advance of the attacks, according to newly released documents reviewed exclusively by Fox News. The purpose of these flights remains unclear, but the 9/11 Commission report later noted that the hijackers had used flights in the lead-up to the attacks to test security and surveillance. The heavily redacted records – obtained by Judicial Watch through a Freedom of information Act request – suggest the FBI held evidence
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
so_free_me, 1/4/2013 7:50:41 AM (No. 9097849)
Another crucial piece of the 9/11 puzzle is handed to us by Judicial Watch and these reporters. This "Cleric" was killed in a drone strike in 2011 in Yemen, so he lived a full decade after his part in the 9/11 attack no doubt committing heinous acts all along the way. I hope the FBI left him untouched for intelligence reasons and not from politically correct reasons.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
mrduc, 1/4/2013 8:07:55 AM (No. 9097874)
Despite the work by FoxNEWS, Catherine Herridge and Judicial Watch, this information regarding the muslim cleric WILL sit on a shelf and continue to gather dust. Americans elected a muslim to the WH 5 years ago my friends, easily bought off by freeloader handouts courtesy of the American Taxpayer. 50% of us, (but not those of us who do pay taxes) have stunningly short memories.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Judith, 1/4/2013 8:21:43 AM (No. 9097898)
A year or two before 9/11, two private security men checked out the "security" at logan airport. They filmed the weakness of that security, even bringing weapons onto planes. They gave the information and video to jfkerry and it died there. And HE will be our next secretary of state?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
jackburton, 1/4/2013 8:32:39 AM (No. 9097927)
Thanks for the bad mental image. That smug face. It should be painted on the side of a drone a la WWII bombers.
I didn´t know about this connection and actually, it makes me feel better to know that the circle of conspirators was that small...
...and has gotten smaller.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
pineledger, 1/4/2013 9:13:07 AM (No. 9098033)
Cat is a real terrier. She´s got her teeth into this one.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
veritas, 1/4/2013 9:46:19 AM (No. 9098113)
No worries.
Jamie Gorelick [now, how big was her bonus from our pockets via Fannie-Freddie?] has ´em all in her cross-hairs....
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna, 1/4/2013 9:57:54 AM (No. 9098130)
....something about an "Information Firewall" between domestic and off-shore operations which prevented the puzzle pieces from revealing an image.
In bloated, incestuous bureaucracies only those at the top are allowed to have big ideas. Risk avoidance is the game. The only game. Still is. See: Benghazi
Unintended consequences strike again.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Rumblehog, 1/4/2013 10:01:09 AM (No. 9098139)
Why can´t we just deport all muslims from this country and be done with them?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
stablemoney, 1/4/2013 10:13:02 AM (No. 9098171)
Awlaki was at the least in communication with the Fort Hood terrorist. So what was the FBI doing? It looks like nothing.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
TheMotherCO, 1/4/2013 10:26:33 AM (No. 9098197)
#8 - save the plane fare for deporting them and shoot them all. The FBI had warning much earlier when slick willy was in office. Just get all mooslims out of this country, they are nothing but animals and snakes.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
J F Ackerman, 1/4/2013 10:45:05 AM (No. 9098250)
God Bless and keep Catherine Herridge... a reporter who actually does her job.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Democracy First, 1/4/2013 11:04:30 AM (No. 9098314)
Nab his bony @r$e and put him oN trial for
3000+ counts of capital murder. Put him
In solitary. Black Muslims have infected our prisons and they´ll love it if they can listen to his islamic extremist hatefully insane rantings. Put a muzzle on this dog.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Calico Al, 1/4/2013 11:15:14 AM (No. 9098334)
Here´s info on John Kerry and Logan---http://www.wnd.com/2004/03/23792/
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy, 1/4/2013 7:54:52 PM (No. 9099197)
I looked through he documents attached to the article. Anything useful has been redacted. Waste of time. Great that we now know Awlaki had booked some of the flights, but he´s off the planet now.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Charactercounts, 1/4/2013 9:53:24 PM (No. 9099325)
I recall the actor James Woods, on a television show, speaking about terrorists on a coast-to-coast flight he took. He noted that the men behaved strangely, and said he had reported it to the FBI.
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Mark Kelly, the husband of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), is threatening to back an election challenge against Sen. Jeff Flake if the Arizona Republican votes against legislation to expand background checks. At a Christian Science Monitor breakfast on Tuesday, Kelly said he would back an opponent to Flake if the "right candidate" was available and if the senator failed to support a background check bill, according to reports. Flake, who is not up for reelection until 2018, has been close to Kelly and Giffords. But Kelly said the issue of control trumped their ties.
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National Republicans are pulling the plug on Mark Sanford’s suddenly besieged congressional campaign, POLITICO has learned — a potentially fatal blow to the former South Carolina governor’s dramatic comeback bid. Blindsided by news that Sanford’s ex-wife has accused him of trespassing and concluding he has no plausible path to victory, the National Republican Congressional Committee has decided not to spend more money on Sanford’s behalf ahead of the May 7 special election. “Mark Sanford has proven he knows what it takes to win elections. At this time, the NRCC will not be engaged in this special election,”
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/17/2013 4:11:03 PM
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WASHINGTON -- A senior Democratic senator who helped write President Barack Obama´s health care law stunned administration officials Wednesday, saying openly he thinks it´s headed for a "train wreck" because of bumbling implementation. "I just see a huge train wreck coming down," Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., told Obama´s health care chief during a routine budget hearing that suddenly turned tense. Baucus is the first top Democrat to publicly voice fears about the rollout of the new health care law, designed to bring coverage to some 30 million uninsured Americans through a mix
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/16/2013 5:59:35 PM
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"I think we’ve got a good chance of seeing it pass if members of Congress are listening to the American people," President Obama said in an interview on NBC´s "Today Show" that aired on Tuesday. "The notion that Congress would defy the overwhelming instinct of the American people after what we saw happen in Newtown, I think, is unimaginable." Obama was then asked by Savannah Guthrie how he could expect Democrats in red states to vote on this bill when he, as a Senator, didn´t have to himself.
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