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To: Sully- who wrote (24322)	1/14/2004 3:18:37 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793905

Junk Yard Blog - Back to the Tim McViegh "Conspiracy theory." BENEVOLENCE-LINKED PALESTINIAN CHARGED IN FLORIDA Let me lay a little groundwork. Al Qaeda, in the early 90s, recruited US soldiers to fight on their side. This effort started in the first Gulf War, as reported on Intelwire a couple weeks back. It was a Saudi-funded effort. The man in charge of that effort was Clement Rodney Hampton-El, and he has been caught and charged with plotting to blow up New York City landmarks in a 1993 plot. Now, Adham Hassoun, a Palestian who opened up the south Florida office of Benevolence International Foundation, has been arrested and charged with illegally possessing a firearm. BIF has already been shut down by the US government--it's a known al Qaeda front. Hassoun has been linked to alleged dirty bomber Jose Padilla, who himself has been linked to BIF. Hassoun has also been linked to another terrorist outfit: According to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, in a separate proceeding "Immigration Judge Neale Foster found Hassoun participated in an assassination plot, recruited a "jihad fighter," donated money to charities under investigation for possible links to terrorism and belonged to an international terrorist organization called Al-Gama Al-Islamiyya, according to Hassoun's petition for release to a federal district judge. That petition was denied." Al-Gama Al-Islamiyya, also known as the Islamic Group, was led by Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, the spiritual leader of a New York City-based al Qaeda cell. One member of that cell, Clement Rodney Hampton-El, recruited U.S. military veterans for al Qaeda, as reported in an investigative report exclusive to Intelwire. The al Qaeda recruitment plot corresponds closely to the movements of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols in key time frames. So what we have here is a circumstial case building up the thought that OKC was in fact an al Qaeda operation. Bullet points: Tim McVeigh served in the Army during Gulf War I, at a time when al Qaeda was recruiting US soldiers for jihad. He inexplicably returned from that war forever changed--from a run-of-the-mill patriotic soldier to an anti-government agitator. Their movements in the year or two leading up to OKC match well with the known movements and activities of a variety of terrorists, alleged terrorists and terrorist fronts. It is, at this point, impossible to rule out actual contact between Jose Padilla, the alleged dirty bomber arrested on a tip from an al Qaeda operative in captivity in the US terrorist prison in Cuba, and the OKC bombers. Padilla resembles FBI sketches of John Doe #2, one of the never found possible "others unknown" of the original OKC bombing indictments. Links from Padilla to Hassoun go through BIF and to New York City, to the cell that attacked the World Trade Center in 1993. That cell is linked to Ramzi Yousef (he was the principal WTC bomber), who operated an al Qaeda cell out of the Philippines prior to that attack. Terry Nichols traveled to the Philippines numerous times in 1993 and 1994, when Yousef and his cell were most active. Nichols' wife was from the Philippines, yet she seldom accompanied Nichols on his travels to her home country. An unknown American figured called "the farmer" was seen by several informants meeting with Yousef's terrorist cell, and was allegedly trained by that cell in bomb making in 1993 and 94. The identity of "the farmer" remains unknown. It's not even known whether or not he actually existed--the principal witness placing "the farmer" in the company of al Qaeda terrorists, Edward Angeles, is dead. Is Terry Nichols "the farmer?" Were Nichols and McVeigh recruited during the Gulf War to become American jihadis? Was Padilla their link to the more extensive terrorist network in operation around the country, plotting attacks against us? I don't know. But I can't resist the path the evidence seems to be taking. junkyardblog.transfinitum.net