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"Secret Heartbeat of America - The CIA and Drugs"

Stunning evidence of CIA and US govt involvement in drug trafficking world-wide.110 min. $19.95

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"Masters of the Universe - The Secret Birth of the Federal Reserve"

Was there a takeover of the US by int'l bankers? Visit the scene of a crime so perfect that for thirty years, no one knew it had even taken place, the birth of a criminal conspiracy to rob each and every bank vault in America.

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"In Search of the American Drug Lords"

A 3- year investigation into the life and times of  the biggest drug smuggler in America's history... as well as one of the most famous CIA agent to ever live.
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"The Big Fix 2000"

Who own America’s elections? Did Mobsters decide the fate of the 2000 election in Florida? From Austin, Texas, on election night to the media frenzy in Tallahassee and Palm Beach, Florida...And then on to the mean streets of New York and New Jersey. Uncovering hidden connections to nationwide electoral fraud. $19.95

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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.

Sarasota private investigator Bill Warner was incredulous at the news.

"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 at the 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"