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One of Mohamed Atta's closest
associates in Florida before the
9/11 attack today carries a chest on
his yacht filled with several
million dollars in new bills,
automatic weapons, passports from a
half-dozen nations, and works for a
major international Mobster.
Wolfgang Bohringer, a
German pilot, identified by Atta’s
one-time girlfriend Amanda Keller as
one of Mohamed Atta’s closest
associates in Florida during the
run-up to the 9.11 attack, and one
of the handful of people the
terrorist ringleader called
“my brother,” recently
resurfaced on a tiny island in the
South Pacific, in the Republic of
Kiribati.
There
he announced his intention to set up
a flight school on Fanning
Island, almost a thousand
miles south of Hawaii and one of the
most remote places on Earth.
Bohringer plans to teach pilots how
to fly DC3’s, the 70-year old
aviation workhorse frequently used
in weapons and drug smuggling.
The island
has no electricity, and a population
of barely one hundred souls. While
it hardly seems an ideal place for a
flight school, the remote location
and lack of official scrutiny may
make it ideal for something.
Bohringer,
accompanied by a woman he reportedly
met over the Internet named
Ana Maria Uhr, almost
immediately
aroused suspicion, after he announced plans for a
flight school training what local
citizens suspected would be an
assortment of smugglers and
mercenaries to fly DC3’s.
Alarmed local
residents contacted The
MadCowMorningNews
about the German
pilot, offering new details which
prompted us to take a closer look at
him as a possible link to the
elusive global network which British
Prime Minister Tony Blair, two weeks
after 9/11, said had assisted the
terrorist hijackers.
Mohamed Atta &
the 'Pirate of Prague'
During
the same period
Wolfgang Bohringer
was hanging out with Mohamed Atta,
Bohringer was the personal pilot of
a notorious Czech Mobster named
Victor Kozeny, who is known as the ‘Pirate of
Prague.'
Kozeny owns a private island in the
Bahamas, travels on an Irish
passport, and is currently fighting
extradition to the U.S. on charges
of massive financial fraud and
allegedly paying multi-million
dollar bribes to government
officials in the Republic of
Azerbaijan in an effort to take-over
that oil-rich country’s State Oil
Company.
After defrauding
thousands of people around the world
while traveling on an Irish
passport, including the chairman of
the Northern Ireland peace talks,
Senator George Mitchell,
Kozeny sought refuge in the Bahamas.
Bohringer had
opened a flight school in Naples,
Florida in 1996, illegal for a
foreigner. But he hadn't gotten in
any trouble with the FAA.
Perhaps his association as the personal pilot for a
major Eastern European Mafia figure
named Victor Kozeny had
helped. Kozeny is the
subject of investigations by the FBI
and US Customs, and was recently
charged in the U.S. with stealing
$182 million dollars by the
Manhattan District Attorney.
Bohringer moved
to Atlanta to began a position as
corporate pilot in February 1, 2001,
according to his online bio, for a
software company called HBOC.
No doubt it is just a coincidence,
or dashed bad luck,
but Bohringer's new employer was
involved in a major accounting
scandal which cost shareholders
$9
billion of lost value in a single
day.

A Czech Mobster
with an Irish Passport in the
Bahamas
“HBOC was found to be
a mob bust-out,” a financial analyst
emailed us.
Kozeny, we were shocked to discover,
had at some point in the mid-90's
controlled one-third
of the entire Czechoslovakian
economy.
"Kozeny bought factories and 'rides'
on pipelines, meaning they crossed
land he owned and paid big for the
privilege."
With his ill-gotten gains, Kozeny
tried to buy off top officials in
the former Soviet Republic of
Azerbaijan to gain control of that
country's state-owned oil company.
One man already convicted in the
scheme, Hans Bodmer,
belonged to a network of Russian
oligarchs, one of whom, Pyotr
Aven, has been accused by a
Russian corruption task force of
being engaged in drug
trafficking.
Kozeny's
partners in the Azeri scheme
included a managing director of Hank
Greenburg's
American Insurance
Group (AIG).
Greenberg was forced to step down
amid the Eliot Spitzer probe, a
scandal, it is rumored, which
involved a major Bush family
and
associates' international
money-laundering operation that has
spanned more than a generation
and has been
used to illegally fund
US elections
since the Nixon era.
AIG
was founded from Asia Life/CV Starr,
a Shanghai-based international
import/export and
insurance
firm founded in 1919 by Cornelius V.
Starr, an Office of Strategic
Services (OSS) operative in
Southeast Asia during World War II.
Clinton antagonist Kenneth Starr is
his nephew.
Currently Kozeny is awaiting
extradition to the U.S. from the
Bahamas. A prosecutor there
revealed in court that Kozeny
possesses an astonishing number of
passports, including six from
Ireland alone. "He appears to be
able to produce foreign passports at
will," stated the prosecutor.
The Atlanta
Connection?
Atta and Al Shehhi flew or drove to
Atlanta on several occasions during
the month of February 2001. To meet
with Wolfgang? On two of those
visits, Atta rented a plane, the
first with a pilot, the second
unescorted, and visited an area of
Tennessee where he observed a dam,
and several nuclear fuel production
facilities.
On his yacht, the “Argos,”
Bohringer was carrying a chest
filled with “stacks of brand
new hundred dollar bills,
more money that I have ever seen in
my life,” wrote one local resident.
Like his former boss,
Bohringer is no slouch in the
passport department...Aboard
Wolfgang's yacht were
passports from a half-dozen nations,
and
a cache of firearms, including a
Glock. He claimed to be an arms
dealer, and acknowledged his
involvement with Eastern European
Mobsters. Bohringer also reportedly
admitted knowing Mohamed Atta, but
stating to several islanders that
another German pilot in Naples, Rex
Gasteiger, was to blame for linking
him to 9/11.
Soon several
residents quietly reported
surprisingly-deep suspicions to
local authorities. "To me Wolfgang
is carrying dirty money, lots of
it,” wrote one.
"If he can gets a flight school
going it does not take a stretch of
the imagination to see he would sell
it to some else who sells it to
someone else and Honolulu gets
vaporized. He seems to know the
money tree and could be working to
set things up for others to do so
and so has been funded to do so.”
Locals on Fanning
Island sent us the pictures of
Wolfgang in this story.
Worried about "the 9/11 thing"
"A month before Wolfgang left with
his boat he met Ana on the internet.
He sent tickets and credit card for
her to meet him in Paris. He would
take her as crew on a round the
world trip. First stop Hawaii. But
when they were a day out of Hawaii
he informed her they were sailing to
another island and not stopping at
Hawaii."
“My
friend crewed with them to Samoa,
and on the trip he found Wolfgang
liked having his picture taken,” one
local resident wrote us.
On the trip Ana confided she was
really worried about Wolfgang. He
seemed to running from something. So
she told him what she’d read about
him on the internet about the 9/11
thing."
"Wolfgang alleviated my concerns
with simple explanations about an
unhappy business partnership with
the guy who bought his flight
school,” the resident wrote. “But,
it was clear he hated Jews. He told
some very bad jokes about ovens,
Jews, bread, and blacks."

We compared the new
pictures with what Amanda Keller had
told us about Wolfgang. She called
Bohringer “The Iceman,” she said,
because of his resemblance to a
character in the movie “Top Gun,”
the rival to Tom Cruise played by
Val Kilmer. And indeed, the
resemblance is remarkably close.
Keller also said
Wolfgang won a lottery to get his
green card. The locals on Fanning
Island report that Bohringer told
them that story too. So clearly
Amanda Keller had known Bohringer.
Her testimony has once again proven
correct, as it also was when she
told of helping Atta move from Deep
Creek, part of the
recently-incorporated town of North
Port. Documents made public after
the Moussaoui trial show Atta was
sending faxes from a Postal Express
in Deep Creek on March 11, 2001,
at exactly the time Amanda Keller
says he was there.
Fibbers Bureau of
Investigation
The Moussaoui trial
produced the largest trove of
government documents about the
hijackers' South Florida movements.
The Reporters Committee for Freedom
of the Press was instrumental in the
release of many of those court
documents. The FBI fought them every
step of the way.
Now we know why. The
documents prove they’ve been lying.
“Him (Atta)and Wolfgang
drove around in the red convertible
a lot,” she said. “Their favorite
place to eat was Hooters in
Sarasota. They got kicked out of
Hooters for grabbing their boobs.”
“He spoke German with
Wolfgang, who was in his thirties.
Wolfgang was with Mohamed when he
came by the nursing home to see me
one time. Mohamed called certain
people—Arabic people—‘my brother.’
And I was wondering how he had so
many family members. Like gang
members do, ‘this is my brother,’”
she said.
“But not
all Arabs.
So it wasn’t like just anyone
Muslim was
his brother. He called Wolfgang and
Juergen ‘my brother,’ too. He and
Wolfgang were very tight, they went
everywhere together. When he came
into the picture they were together
all the time.”
Turn left at the
Maldives
The story of Wolfgang’s life to date
is studded, according to people we
spoke with who knew him, with activities considerably
out of the ordinary. While sailing
around the world on a 47-foot yacht,
for example, instead of crossing the
Indian Ocean from the coast of
Africa on a direct line, he took a
“detour” to Bombay, where he met his
wife Sujita.
He was one of the
first of the ‘German element’ to
arrive in Florida, in 1996, when he
opened a flight school in Naples.
Prior to arriving in Naples he was
associated with an organization
called “The Flying Club of Munich,”
in Augsburg, Germany.
In Spring 2002, he
became a naturalized U.S. citizen.
Like Rudi Dekkers,
Wolfgang was notorious in aviation
circles for bad behavior. We found
records of his scrapes in the files
of airport authorities in Florida,
including a
letter sent by a former employee
soliciting to offer private flight
instruction at his Wolf Aero,
Bohringer's flight school, without authority and
in
violation of FAA rules was in the
airport records in Naples.
“Wolfgang showed up
from Munich in the mid-1990’s and
immediately began operating a flight
school illegally,” stated
Naples flight instructor Marcus
Huber, a flight instructor in
Naples. “He’s half Swiss, half
German.”
A "Hall
Pass" from the FAA
Like
Rudi Dekkers, Wolfgang also seems to
have had a “hall pass” from federal
authorities, which embittered other
foreign flight trainers not
similarly well-connected.
“When Wolfgang
applied for an E-2 Visa, he made up
a fake company, a cleaning service,”
Huber told us. “Sometimes it makes
me mad that a criminal gets
preference.”
In the wake of the
Sept 11 disaster, U.S. officials
repeatedly promised explanations.
But it was left to British Prime
Minister Tony Blair to sketch out
the Cliff notes version of the case
against Bin Laden. He said, "Al Qaeda is
a terrorist organization with ties
to a global network."
Almost five years after Tony Blair
first told the world that a “global
network” provided assistance
to the terrorist hijackers while
they were in the U.S., what is
happening on a tiny island in the
South Pacific may point towards the
international organization in
question.
"You have a network
of people who obtain certain
information and... sell it to whomever
would be the highest bidder,"
explained Sibel Edmonds, former FBI
translator, who was muzzled by U.S.
Attorney General John Ashcroft, who
went to the Supreme Court to ensure
her silence about...
something.
"There are certain points where you
have your drug-related activities
combined with money laundering and
information laundering, converging
with your terrorist activities...
Post-9/11 intelligence 'failures'
include the willful quashing by the
Government of investigations tracing
these criminal networks."
Why no push to
find the Germans?
Atta's
German buddy Bohringer works for a global
network. Did it
assist Atta and the terrorist hijackers?
Was there a connection between the
larger organization, or network,
behind gangster financier Victor
Kozeny, and that of the terrorists
in Florida plotting to kill
Americans on the 11th of September
in 2001?
Amanda Keller was not
the only eyewitness quoted
mentioning Atta’s German
associates. Atta’s landlord for a
brief week told reporters about a
wild 3-day weekend Amanda and Atta
spent in Key West, along with
another girl named Linda.
“The two girls were introduced to
two men from Germany that they said
were Mohamed’s friends,” Tony
LaConca told the Charlotte
Sun-Herald.
When we first learned
that all of Atta’s associates in
Florida had not been Arab, we were
understandably eager to learn more
about the terrorist ringleaders’ two
German friends.
Sun-Herald reporter
Elaine Allen-Emrich had apparently
felt the same way...
"The FBI in Tampa would neither
confirm nor deny that any agents
were interviewing people in the
North Port area,” she reported.
“Asked for more
information about Atta’s wild
weekend, an FBI spokesperson
identified only as ‘Pam’ said, “We
recommend that you check in with CNN
for current information. Any press
statements can be found on televised
stations like CNN.”
We went looking for
ourselves. The results are in
“Welcome to TERRORLAND.
We didn’t
feel like “checking in with CNN.”
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