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MOUSSAOUI TRIAL DOCUMENTS SHOW
FBI WITHHELD EVIDENCE IN 9/11 COVER-UPS
WORLD EXCLUSIVE
Oct 04, 2006--Venice,FL.
by Daniel Hopsicker
Recently-released court documents
from the trial of Zacharias
Moussaoui show clear evidence of the FBI
attempt to cover-up the
whereabouts and activities of lead 9.11 hijacker
Mohamed Atta in Florida between
January and May of 2001, confirming
reports which have appeared
exclusively in the
MadCowMorningNews.
Released over government objection
through the efforts of The Reporters
Committee for Freedom of the Press,
the documents illustrate the pattern
of omission and selective editing
through which the Bureau has
deflected attention from the
terrorist's conspiracy's base of
operations in Venice FL.
Four months after the FBI's official
chronology states Mohamed Atta left
Florida's Gulf Coast for the Miami
area, Atta was still using a
Venice-area cell phone.
And these four
months worth of Atta's phone calls
are not listed or included in the
released cell phone records.
The documents
also give the lie to continuing
attempts by the terrorists’ hometown
paper, the New York Times-owned
Sarasota Herald-Tribune, to salvage
its lackluster record in
covering the story of the dozens
of suspected terrorists living
cheek-by-jowl in its midst by invalidating the
testimony of a key witness, uncritically presenting her
recantation as if witnesses being
pressured to change their stories
were not a daily fact of life.
It's a
brief piece, but that's
not the point. A search for "Amanda
Keller" in the Lexis-Nexis database
today yields only these two rebuttal
stories from the Sarasota Herald
Tribune.
The paper reports that Amanda Keller
now says she never lived with
Mohamed Atta. Despite numerous
published reports (including their
own), the corroborated testimony of
other eyewitnesses to the same
events, as well testimony by these
same witnesses of being victims of a
systematic campaign of intimidation
by the FBI...that,
apparently, is supposed to be
that.
“It was ‘my bad’ for lying,” Mohamed
Atta’s erstwhile girlfriend Amanda
Keller supposedly told a
Herald-Tribune reporter. “I
really didn’t think about it until
after I did it.”
Heather does
9/11
Events, however, continue to prove
Keller's earlier testimony correct
and right on the money. The most
recent was the release over the
weekend
of the soundless suicide video of a
bearded Mohamed Atta
and Siad Al Jarrah at a camp in
Afghanistan with Osama bin Laden.
“Mohamed Atta had a beard when
I met him,” said Atta’s
erstwhile girlfriend Amanda Keller
over four years ago.
Despite the denial of Atta's father,
who has previously proven to be an
inveterate liar (and who was in
Florida less than two weeks before
the attack) that was
Mohamed Atta in the suicide video.
And he was wearing a
beard. Advantage Keller.
By neglecting to mention the
numerous witnesses who insist-- for no visible reason other than
it happens to be the truth--that
Mohamed Atta and Amanda Keller lived together
for several months at the Sandpiper
Apartments across the street from
the Venice Airport, the Sarasota
Herald-Tribune made their
second attempt to refute it on the
5th anniversary of the attack.
Providing yet another good reason
why people are turning away from the
mainstream press in droves,
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune also
neglects to mention that it was the
Sarasota
Herald-Tribune itself, along with
several other newspapers, which
first reported Atta
lived with Keller at the Sandpiper.
The article now attributes the
report to
“conspiracy theorists."
No
need to wonder just who they meant
by that.
Unnamed FBI
Official: "Nothing to see here. Move
along."
The obvious question would be: What
possible motive would
anyone have for lying
about being a former girlfriend of
the most reviled man on the
planet?
The question must not have occurred
to either Tribune reporter
Heather Allen or editor David Hackett. The
article offers no explanation for
why Keller supposedly lied, then left town to avoid publicity.
Nor does it offer the reason
numerous other eyewitnesses to the
liaison also presumably lied, a list
that includes two apartment
managers, the woman who owned the
apartment building, several
next-door neighbors, and even the
postman. All remain unmentioned.
Nor does the story quote the
original reporter on the Sarasota
Herald Tribune story, Earle Kimel,
although this omission is slightly
less surprising in an article which
neglects to inform its readers that
it was one of the newspapers which
originally reported the story it is
now taking pains to refute.
Who does get quoted?
You'll never guess...
An
unnamed federal
official. What a surprise.
The story relies solely and
completely on
anonymous sources, just as the
paper’s first story had, quoting
statements from unnamed persons
variously labeled
“investigators” and “authorities.”
The government had checked Atta’s
phone records, the story stated, and
found Atta and Keller had never called
each other.
An unnamed FBI
agent states, “There’s nothing
there to corroborate the
relationship between the two.”
From
the people who brought you Judith
Miller & Jayson Blair
When the unnamed agent lied, he or
she may have temporarily forgotten
about the treasure trove of
government documents about the
hijackers released after the
recently-concluded Moussaoui trial.
The records include Mohamed Atta’s
phone records.
The FBI’s official
chronology states that
shortly after Christmas in the year
2000 Atta and bodyguard Marwan
Al-Shehhi left Venice Florida for
the jazzier
precincts of the Miami area.
The
MadCowMorningNews has
been reporting the direct testimony
of numerous credible witnesses--real
people with real names-- who
contradict the FBI, including
everyone from the Sheriff of
nearby Charlotte County to
Mohamed Atta’s erstwhile
American girlfriend, all of
whom said Atta was in the Venice
area during the first five months of
2001.
If
Amanda Keller’s phone number didn’t
appear in Atta's newly-released phone
records, then perhaps--choke!--the FBI
is right.
Keller knew Atta in the Spring
of 2001: March, April, and
into May.
Those would be the phone records to
look at. We held our breath, and
looked them up.
Atta's Venice
phone service ended
when?
We
began by leafing through the
records for Atta’s phone at the
house in nearby Nokomis which he and
Marwan shared while
both attended Huffman Aviation. If
Atta really did leave Venice for
Miami at the end of 2000, the way
the FBI says he did, this would be
the
logical point for his service to be
cutoff.
Instead, Atta's released phone records
clearly expose an FBI
cover-up.
Mohamed Atta got this Verizon cell phone from Wassam
Hammoud, a Lebanese man who
has ties to the cell of convicted
terrorists in Dearborn Michigan, and
who was himself recently convicted
of soliciting the beheading of a
federal agent.
It lists all his calls, or appears
to, between July of
2000, when the FBI says he
arrived in Venice, and January 20th of 2001,
several weeks after they say he
left.
Yet
a second document, the return
of subpoena document from the phone
company, Verizon,
clearly states that Mohamed Atta’s
Nokomis cell phone was in service
until May 21st, four full
months longer than the
period covered by the phone bills
presented by the FBI as complete.
Four months worth of Atta's
phone calls are not listed
or included in the released cell
phone records. Why aren’t the full
phone records included in the
Moussaoui trial documents? Why is
the FBI holding them back?
Only a
'conspiracy theorist' would question
the FBI
Four months after the FBI's official
chronology states Mohamed Atta left
Florida's Gulf Coast
for the
Miami area, Atta was still
using a Venice-area cell phone.
"Atta's Verizon cell phone, a PrePay
account, was active from 7/15/2000
until 5/12/2001 and was listed at
the 516 Laurel Rd Nokomis address,"
he began.
"But you wouldn't continue to use a
cell phone with a Sarasota/Venice
area code if you had already
moved to Ft Lauderdale or
Miami, because all of your calls
would then incur roaming charges,
which were exorbitantly
expensive in 2000 and 2001."
"Mohamed Atta was depicted as being
very frugal with his money. He would
have never continued to pay huge
roaming and long distance charges if
he had actually moved out of the
Sarasota/Venice area by 2001,the way
the FBI says he did," Warner said.
"So he must have still been
here...in Sarasota and Venice,
during this time period."
Amanda and Atta didn’t meet until
near the end of February. He would
have been calling her from then
until two and a half-months later.
Atta’s phone records for this
time period are missing.
What does this say about
the nameless FBI agent
asserting Amanda Keller didn’t live
with Mohamed Atta... because there
weren’t any phone calls to her on
his records? Was this the
reason the FBI
agent felt comfortable lying?
But the Moussaoui records yield one
further document which conclusively
proves the FBI is lying, a fax sent
by Atta to a flight school in Miami.
The fax
is dated March 11, 2001.
It was sent from
a Postal Express store
barely a mile from the house Atta
and Marwan rented while attending
Huffman Aviation at the Venice
Airport, the home they were supposed
to have left for good three months
earlier.
Encountering resistance at the
Cheetah
In a meeting atthe Sarasota Herald-Tribune’s
Venice bureau, which had ironically
been our first stop in our search
for Amanda four years ago, to
check in with reporter Earle
Kimel, who first broke the
story, we had
already pointed out that there was a
big discrepancy in the phone
records.
Sarasota Herald-Tribune reporter
Heather Allen may just live in a
blissful world where statements by
FBI agents can be accepted at face
value. A
willing suspension of disbelief can
be a wonderful thing to have... if
you're on your way to Disney
World.
But its not very becoming in a
reporter. Not a real
one, anyway.
“Atta
may have been in Venice as recently
as April,” Kimel had reported.
“Charles Grapentine, the manager of
Sandpiper Apartments on Airport
Avenue in Venice, said he remembers
seeing Atta at the complex for about
three weeks in April. He said
Atta was living in the apartment of
Amanda Keller.”
We
asked him if he had any clue about
what had happened to her. Was she
just a reluctant witness? Or had she
been frightened into silence?
Kimel knew a bit about
recalcitrant witnesses: he’d
found some strippers who had danced
for Atta in a Sarasota strip joint,
the Cheetah, but had then
encountered resistance from the
establishment's management
when he began to ask them a few
questions...
They threw him out of the club.
Kimel’s next story about Atta and
Amanda included a brief phone
interview with her. She spoke to him
from her mother’s house in the
northern Florida town of Lady Lake.
“She said authorities told her
not to say anything at all about
Atta,” reported Kimel.
The story then quoted Amanda
Keller's last eleven words, before
she lapsed into a silence which only
ended after we found her more than a
year later:
“I
can’t really discuss anything. I’m
afraid I’ll get in trouble.”
Thick wad of hundreds guarantees 'a
lot of visitors'
Atta’s stay at the Sandpiper was
only a small part of the initial
local news coverage. Accounts in
three newspapers stated basically the same
thing...
Landlord Charles Grapentine
was quoted saying Atta had been
living in his apartment building in
April, with Amanda Keller, in
apartment 26 on the second floor. A
group of Six Middle Eastern men with
whom Atta was close, including his
bodyguard Marwan Al-Shehhi,
rented an apartment downstairs. Manager Paula Grapentine
said Atta had “a lot
of visitors.”
Maybe that had something to do with
why the story quickly became so politically
sensitive. "A lot of
visitors" opens the door to
questions the FBI didn't want asked.
Mohamed Atta stuck out in a way that
made him hard to forget, even
before the 9/11 attack, said
Paula Grapentine. “He was very
unfriendly; he wouldn’t talk to
women.”
Atta stopped by the Grapentine’s
apartment one time to discuss
something regarding the complex,
Paula stated. “He came to talk about
something and said, ‘I don’t talk to
women and you’re supposed to look
down when you talk to me,’”
Grapentine recalled.
“Atta always carried a fanny pack
around his waist,” Charley
Grapentine said. “I remember Amanda
once telling him that she needed
some new clothes, and he reached in
and peeled off a few hundreds from a
thick roll of cash he had stuffed
inside the fanny pack.”
“He
treated women like they were beneath
him.”
Maytag
repairmen as "conspiracy
theorists"
Her husbandCharlie
Grapentine is a grizzled former marine
in his early 60’s. He remembers when
Amanda performed her informal
eviction. Later we learned from
Amanda herself that she had sought
his counsel on what to do about the
unworkable arrangement.
Amanda’s name was on the lease.
Grapentine told her to kick him out.
Charlie Grapentine’s recollections
of Mohamed Atta were not received
warmly by the FBI. And on the
subject of talking to reporters,
their response was positively
frosty.
“They called me a liar, and told me
to keep my mouth shut,” the
ex-marine told us grimly. "Nobody
likes to hear that; that they didn’t
see something they know they saw."
At
the apartment next door to Amanda
and Atta’s apartment on the second
floor lived a pleasant-looking 50
year-old housewife.
Stephanie Frederickson is nobody’s idea of a
‘conspiracy theorist.’ She cares
during the day for the baby of a
friend needing help.
Her husband is a Maytag repairman. It
doesn’t get any more normal than
that.
She had not sought publicity, nor
had she spoken to the press. And a
good thing too... She believes she would have been
in trouble if she had.
Stephanie confirmed the Grapentine’s
account, then offered new details.
While Atta and Amanda lived
next-door, signs of trouble in their
relationship were hard to miss,
Frederickson said. He had been no
picnic as a neighbor.
Atta’s cheesy taste for
infidel flesh is already well-known.
But when it
came to his own girlfriend, he
balked at sharing
glimpses of it with others. Since
his girlfriend had recently become a
‘lingerie model,’ this created
difficulties.
“That’s when she started dressing
really slutty, and dyeing her hair
pink,” Frederickson said. “She
wasn’t going to let herself be
controlled by him.”
The
Florsheim Bureau of Intimidation
What Stephanie really wanted to talk
about, however--what both she and
Charlie Grapentine were fairly bursting to talk
about--was how she had been harassed
and intimidated by agents of the FBI.
"At first, right after the attack,
they told me I must have been
mistaken in my identification," she
stated. "Or they would insinuate
that I was lying. Finally they
stopped trying to get me to change
my story, and just stopped by once a
week to make sure I hadn’t been
talking to anyone.”
For at least six
months after the 9/11 attack,
Frederickson says, she received
weekly visits from agents from the
FBI’s Sarasota office. "The question
they asked was always the same," she
says.
"You aren’t saying
anything to anybody, are you?"
She shrugs. “Who was I going to
tell? Most everyone around here
already knew."
A
year after the 9/11 attack, both the
Frederickson's and Grapentine's were
angry at having their personal
integrity attacked by FBI agents,
who seemed much less concerned with
catching terrorists than they were
in squelching their story.
A
competent and intelligent
woman, Stephanie Frederickson knows
what she saw. She resented the FBI
agents heavy-handed and repeated
assertions to the contrary.
And she wanted us to know about it.
We
think they are both heroes. In the middle of a dark time, they
showed us that who we are hasn't
changed...
Real Americans won’t be silenced.
Amanda Keller complained of FBI
intimidation
When we finally found Amanda Keller,
one of the first things she said was
how distressed she had been when she
learned that her former landlord had
talked to the press.
“When I saw Charlie talking in the
newspaper I knew they were going to
jump all over him," she said. "I
thought, ‘Charlie, no. Can’t
you just wait?’”
She said she’d suffered the same
bullying harassment from the FBI
that other witnesses at the
Sandpiper Apartments had been forced
to endure.
Even after she left Venice, FBI
agents called her every other day
for months after the attack.
That wasn't all, either...
“There was a police car constantly
watching the house,” she told us.
“When we burned some leaves in a
burn barrel, a police officer came
over and told us we weren’t allowed
to burn anything because we were on
some FBI list, and they were
afraid we might be burning documents
or something.”
This seems like pretty serious
surveillance for a girl who had
lived with some other Mohamed.
We asked her, in our first
meeting:Was this why she recanted
her original statement?
“Because of the intimidation
by the FBI,” she replied.
“They told me not to talk to
anybody, to keep my mouth shut. The
newspaper quote was accurate: ‘I
can’t say anything because I’m
afraid I’ll get in trouble.’”
If
Amanda Keller hadn't been living
with Mohamed Atta, why had the
FBI engaged in a regular
and systematic pattern of
intimidation of eyewitnesses in
Venice, Florida?
Junior
G-Men of the Sarasota Herald Tribune
A
reporter
made the rounds of eyewitnesses,
making a persistent attempt to spike
the story. It won him the enmity of
Sandpiper residents. Stephanie Frederickson said
he accused her of making it up.
He urged her to stop talking about
it.
He
said he worked for the New York
Times. He didn't.
His name was Chris Grier,
and he worked at the Sarasota
Herald-Tribune, until later
being fired, for snooping through
other reporter's computers, we were
told... for spying.
Amanda received a visit from Grier
as well.
“A
N.Y. Times reporter named
Chris-young, tall, kind of heavy,
dark hair and a dark goatee-came to
my house. And he was mad because I
wouldn’t talk to him. But I was
still reeling from Garret dying, and
this dude would NOT leave me alone.
I stood outside arguing with him
forever, and he was trying to trip
me up, get me to say something, and
I said, 'I don’t know what the hell
you’re trying to do,'” she recalls.
It
was Grier who authored the
Herald-Tribune's first attempt to
discredit the story. He invented the
"Second Mohamed." His story was
headlined:
The "Fifth
Pilot"
was an ‘Unknown Terrorist.’ He
was The Man Who Was Not There. The
only record of his
existence consisted of his stay with
Amanda. There was never a follow-up
story about him.
There was never a “Fifth Pilot Identified”
headline.
Even his name remained
a mystery. He was Mohamed No
Last Name. In in-depth news
accounts about the Hamburg cadre’s
key members, from that day until
this, he has never again been
mentioned...not even once.
A
year later we received several
emails from a man claiming to be
him. He enclosed two pictures of
someone he said was himself. He
looked nothing like Atta. He didn't
glower, and even if he had, he was
well over six feet tall.
A free
press was supposed to guard the
people's right to know
The fact that this transparent ruse--this
weak tea--was successful in
keeping other newspapers from going
after the story speaks volumes
about the sorry state of America's
supposed "free press."
The "Mighty Wurlitzer,"
as the CIA's disinformation machine
has been called, grinds on. The
story comes around again.
It's a lot like Peter Jennings
ridiculous two-hour special
made in the last year of his life,
forever disgracing his memory. It
attempted, of course, to prove
Oswald acted alone, but never
bothered to explain why, if that
were the case, dozens of horrified
onlookers and police officers can be
seen in the Zapruder tape responding
to the shooting...by charging
the grassy knoll.
Jennings bought himself a ticket to
ride alongside Dan Rather, the only
reporter in Dealey Plaza when JFK
was shot.
Rather, of course, didn't see a
thing. And somehow, in all the years
he hosted the CBS Evening News, his
discomfort came through.
Shakespeare was right. Murder
will out.
Today the newspaper that used to be
“America’s paper of record”
is a cowed publication.
The paper’s coverage of the Bush
administration has been weak and
frightened.
They once published the Pentagon
Papers. Now they shill for the FBI.
Their business is falling apart. The
Web has gnawed away at the Times’
ad revenue, and as the cost of
newsprint soars, the newspaper
itself is literally shrinking: Next
year, the Times will be 1.5
inches narrower, with less space for
news.
Since about the time reporter
Jayson Blair admitted faking
news stories, the company’s shares
have lost half their value. Bush
Administration shill and Scooter
Libby intimate
Judith Miller may have
accelerated the process.
The Internet is killing their bottom
line. It can’t come too soon.
NEXT: THE MADCOWMORNINGNEWS' OCTOBER
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"Mohamed
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Venice, Florida, where three of
the four terrorist pilots learned
to fly, is the biggest September
11 crime scene that wasnt
reduced to rubble.
Investigative journalist Daniel
Hopsicker went searching for evidence
that Mohamed Atta and his Hamburg
cadre received outside help while
they were in the U.S., as authorities
initially stated, from a shadowy
global network, or even
from foreign governments.