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Atta was a wealthy, chain smoking, drug dealing psychopath who dressed like
a mobster. And that's not even the good stuff.
A taste of what's inside Welcome to
Terrorland
Oct. 22, 2004--Venice,FL
by Grant Noah
1) Stains no detergent can touch
The
Sunday Times
(UK) February 3, 2002:
Atta and al-Shehhi
were now paying $ 840 a month for an apartment in a condominium in Coral
Springs. Al-Shehhi spent his days
washing piles of laundry for the gang in the development's washing machines.
Atta was often in
the parking lot,
chain smoking.
http://billstclair.com/911timeline/2002/sundaytimes020302.html
2) "'Running into buildings' for $1000 please Alex."
Sun-Sentinel (Fort
Lauderdale, FL) October 27, 2001:
Wynn Errico, owner of
Wynn Motor Co. in North Lauderdale, said three FBI agents came to his
dealership several days after Sept. 11 to question him. Errico said Atta
drove into his used car lot around 2 p.m. on the Friday before the attacks,
saying he wanted to sell the Grand Am because he did not need it anymore.
Three men in a white minivan accompanied him and waited for about 45 minutes
while Errico and Atta went back and forth about a price, Errico said. He
said Atta rejected his offer of $800 cash.
"He said, 'I'd rather
run it into a building than sell it for $800,'" Errico said.
Sun-Sentinel

3) "You think I'm funny? You think I'm funny?"
The News-Press (Fort
Myers, FL) September 13, 2001:
Flight instructor Bob
Gaff, 50, didn't teach the terrorism suspects but recalled seeing them
around. "You see how we're all dressed?" asked Gaff, who was clad in a
T-shirt and jeans. "This one guy used to show up in leather shoes,
shined shoes, dress slacks, silk shirts, all the time."
News-Press
4) "We know some 'people.' So what?"
Chicago
Tribune September 11, 2004:
In what appears to be
a more noteworthy act of generosity to someone he barely knew,
in 1995 Atta lent a Turkish baker, Muharrem Acar,
some $25,000 to help Acar open a bakery. Acar told the
BKA[German Intelligence] that Atta didn't even ask for a promissory
note when he made the loan. “I don't know why El-Amir had so much
money,” he said. “I did not want to know either…”
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/news/world/9639881.htm
5)"Petty drug crimes? Define 'petty.'"
New York Newsday
January 24, 2002:
Mohamed Atta and two associates tried to get jobs with Lufthansa Airlines… on Feb.
15, 2001, according to "Netzwerke des Terrors (Networks of Terror)," a book
published last month by Juergen Roth, one of Germany's top investigative
reporters… Atta did not know that
Lufthansa's personnel division had access to law enforcement files
that indicated he had once been under investigation for petty
drug crimes and falsifying phone cards while a student at the
Technical University at Hamburg-Harburg in 1995, the book reports, citing
federal law enforcement sources. Atta didn't get the job.
NY Newsday
Mail on Sunday (UK) September 23,
2001:
The FBI is attempting to unravel the
minds of the terrorists. One of the key witnesses they will be using is a
British woman who learned to fly alongside Atta and fellow hijacker Marwan
al-Shehhi at Huffman Aviation International Flight School in Venice,
Florida. Anne Greaves, 56, an osteopath and former nurse… "I was
told that Atta was a Prince from an Arab royal family and al-Shehhi
was his bodyguard...I didn't think terrorist, I thought they were perhaps
learning to fly to run drugs... There were so many tell-tale
signs…"...
"These guys were different," said a
top FBI man on the Florida section of the manhunt. "They lived the good
life... then blew it up in our face."
Mail on Sunday
The Daily Telegraph (London)
September 25, 2001:
"There was no pleasure, no
enthusiasm. I thought there was an ulterior motive, maybe drug
smuggling, although I never even considered terrorism." [said] Mrs
Greaves, 56, a retired nurse from Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, is
helping
the FBI to put together a psychological profile of the attackers.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/25/nfly25.xml
The Guardian (London)
July 5, 2002:
Ann Greaves… watched
the TV pictures of the smoking building and said to her husband: "My God,
I hope this has nothing to do with those two Arabs at Huffman Aviation!"
A feisty grandmother, Greaves had just fulfilled a lifelong ambition by
learning to fly at the training school in Florida... As she spoke, a second
plane smashed into the south tower… Greaves had been suspicious of Atta and
his friend from the moment she met them… "I couldn't help but be
suspicious as to why he was there," says Greaves... She decided at
the time that Atta was probably a drug runner. Her suspicions
were not shared by the male staff at Huffman. "We had no
obligations to do a background check on them," says Rudi Dekkers,
the Dutch owner of the flying school... but did not question further.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,749722,00.html
Birmingham Post (UK),
September 25, 2001:
Mohamed Atta and
Marwan al-Shehhi… strange behaviour aroused Mrs Greaves' suspicions, and she
thought they may have been involved in drug smuggling. .. Mrs
Greaves said the men seemed to enjoy preferential treatment
at the flying school... 'There always seemed to be a problem. They would
often overrun their lessons, and never offer any explanations or apologise.
'I was really a little bit jealous in that they were always given
preference. 'I was told
by my instructor that he, Atta, was an Arab prince and his companion
was his bodyguard... Instead Mrs Greaves
had deep suspicions about the pair. 'There was something wrong about them
and I didn't think their motives were honest…
Birmingham Post
The Guardian (London), July 22,
2004:
Sibel Edmonds… has been quoted as
saying: "My translations of the 9/11 intercepts included (terrorist) money
laundering, detailed and date-specific information... if they were to do
real investigations, we would see several significant high-level criminal
prosecutions in this country (the US)... and believe me, they will do
everything to cover this up".
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0722-07.htm
Village Voice, June 1, 2004:
Sibel Edmonds… said, however, that
"there are a lot of activities in the U.S. A lot of money... and these
activities involve money laundering, drugs, a support network
for terrorism... people in high places... [people] in the political arena."
http://www.911truth.org/readingroom/whole_document.php?article_id=116
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7)
Coming Outta Atta's Family Closet
Orlando Sentinel
September 23, 2001:
Mohamed Atta, 33, the
suspected ringleader and a pilot in the first suicide attack on the World
Trade Center, may have had relatives or associates living in Central and
South Florida for years. Among the possible relatives
sought by federal investigators is Majed Atta, a former Winter
Garden and Miami-area grocer who abruptly left the Orlando
area last month and whose whereabouts are unknown. Local
law-enforcement authorities are also still on the lookout for Mohamed Atta's
car, a red 1989 Pontiac Grand Prix two-door coupe reportedly spotted
in downtown Orlando on Sept. 15. The Florida tag number is D79DDV…
Federal agents are
investigating the possibility that suspected hijacker Mohamed Atta also had
family ties in Central Florida. A South Florida federal grand jury
issued subpoenas to Broward County court officials seeking records
involving several people named Atta. They include Majed Atta, the
former Winter Garden grocer.

Until the middle of
this year, Majed Atta ran the Rainbow Grocery on Plant Street in
Winter Garden. On Aug. 1, he and his family packed their belongings
into a U-Haul and left their rental home near Lake Apopka. Majed Atta's
former landlady said they moved just one week after Atta said he planned to
buy the home from her and open a new grocery store in the Orlando area.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/620561/posts
Majed &
Mahmoud Atta lived
and worked just
2 miles down the road from Khalil bin Laden in Winter Garden,
FL. Khalil’s home address in Winter
Garden can be found on the
FBI’s 9/11 suspect list
under
the name Geny Castanheira from Brazil (17920 W. Colonial
Dr.). Khalil
happens to be the Saudi ambassador to Brazil... and
a known terrorist.
Associated Press June
11, 2004:
[A] seizure of
$27,000 by the Lincoln County Sheriff's Department during a
traffic stop [occurred] in March [2004]… The vehicle was occupied by
Palestinian immigrants Atiya Saleh and Shareef Quattom and Jordanian
immigrant Majed Atta, all of New Orleans, who claimed the
money originated from a business transaction… Lincoln County Sheriff Wiley
Calcote questioned that account. "The only document they had was that they
had sold one store and were buying another store, but there was nothing
tying the money to that transaction, and they gave
conflicting information about the amount and origin of the money,"
Calcote said.
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/politics/8900481.htm
Times-Picayune June
02, 2004
They were held for
seven hours during which they were subjected to a strip search,
drug-sniffing dogs and interrogation by local and federal
officials... Capt. Dustin Bairfield, the deputy in charge of the
investigation, said...
even if the feds pass on the case, he said, local officials still
might convene a grand jury and seek a state
indictment for money laundering... Atta, who is now selling groceries
on Congress Street in New Orleans... moved to the United States at 16 and
attended college in Hattiesburg. His fond memories of the years he spent in Mississippi brought him back
to the state in 2001, when he and his family decided to leave Florida,
their home for 10 years... His last name -- which is the same as
that of alleged terrorist ringleader Mohammed Atta -- attracted the
attention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation... since they both
had ties to Orlando… Atta is a U.S. citizen.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/index.ssf?/base/news-1/1086159411327130.xml
Times-Picayune June 4,
2004 Friday
Sheriff’s officials
are skeptical and say they want to make sure the three New Orleans
men weren’t on a money-laundering trip that took them through Mississippi…
Times-Picayune

8) Casablanca 9.11
9/11 Commission Report
Notes:
Atta's cell phone was
used on January 2 [2001] to call the Moroccan embassy in Washington, D.C…
9/11 Report Notes
This may not come as a
surprise to our regular readers, as we recently published a story with the
headline ‘Terror
Suspect Tied to Moroccan Military Attaché’. However, the
connections of the Moroccan embassy in Washington D.C. to the 9/11 plot run deep. The
above information buried in the notes of the 9/11 Commission’s report
confirms that fact. At least the Commission did not succeed in its goal of a
complete 'whitewash', though nothing more is mentioned regarding Atta's
contacts with the Moroccan embassy.
For those who did not
catch the story (or click on the link and read the first few paragraphs)
here is the basics. It starts in tiny Punta Gorda, Florida, a town
literally founded by the CIA. As the St. Louis Post-Dispatch put it,
"Founded in 1958 by two former CIA colleagues, publicly held Punta Gorda had
been one of Florida's largest landholders".
Palm Beach Post,
September 24, 2001:
The FBI , Professional Aviation Flight
Training University in Punta Gorda, after tipsters said they
saw Atta there late last year or early this year.
Palm
Beach Post
The Hamouda family
owns Professional Aviation and several other facilities at the Charlotte
County Airport near Punta Gorda. Though the Hamouda’s connection to
9/11 does not end there:
The Hamouda’s also
housed Mohammed Arara, who is listed on multiple
FBI 9/11 Suspect Lists.
One of the more detailed FBI lists contains a handful of addresses for Arara,
three of which are owned
by the Hamoudas (This ‘unique’ family plays a leading role in
‘Welcome to Terrorland’).
Additionally, Arara is
an FAA-certified commercial pilot. This could explain why the FBI's
addresses for Arara border upon airports in
Punta Gorda,
Sarasota and Lake Worth, FL. While in the U.S., Atta only trained at four airports:
in Venice, and of course, Punta Gorda, Sarasota and Lake Worth. And when
Atta lived in Coral Springs, FL, Arara was using a mailing address only 2000
feet away from Atta's apartment.
So then, who is Mohammed Arara?
This 9/11 suspect is also
a relative
and business partner of the Military Attaché for
the Moroccan Embassy in D.C.,
Colonel Ahmed Arara.
Perhaps this is why Atta would be calling the Moroccan Embassy in
Washington... perhaps. And perhaps
connections with wanted 9/11 terrorists
has something to do with this
federal court case involving the ever-present Hamoudas
and John Ashcroft:
US District Court
(Fort Myers)
Hamouda, et al
v. Ashcroft, et al --
FILING DATE: 4/18/2003; DOCKET CASE NUMBER: 2:03cv179
PLAINTIFF: Hamouda,
Sonia; Hamouda, Louis; Hamouda, Gilles; Hamouda, Fabrice; Hamouda,
Danielle
DEFENDANT: INS;
Department of Homeland Security; Ashcroft, John, Attorney General of the
United States, et al.
Case Type: Writ of
Mandamus (To compel an official to do something within their power; used
when no other specific remedy exists
for Plaintiff)
9) Camp 'Cruisin' for a Bruising'
The New Yorker
September 16, 2002:
On August 20th
[1998], President Clinton ordered an attack on bin Laden's training camps in
Afghanistan… American warships in the region fired seventy-nine
Tomahawk cruise
missiles into Afghanistan …
the attack failed to hit its main targets - bin Laden, Zawahiri, and the other
Al Qaeda leaders… The strike also missed Mohamed Atta, the
alleged leader of the September 11th attacks, who was reportedly training in
one of the camps.
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?020916fa_fact2i
10)
'Our Man Atta'
The
Observer (UK) September 30, 2001:
Atta was not
unknown to the authorities.
Indeed he was under surveillance between January and May last year
after he was reportedly observed buying large quantities of chemicals in
Frankfurt, apparently for the production of explosives and for
biological warfare… The disclosure that Atta was being trailed by
police long before 11 September raises the question why the attacks
could not have been prevented with the men’s' arrest.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,560733,00.html
The Financial Times
November 23 2001:
Mohammed Atta, one of
the alleged ringleaders of the September 11 terrorist assaults, had been
monitored by the Egyptian secret service before the attacks took place,
according to a German investigative television report aired on Friday… The
evidence, presented on the highly regarded ARD public television channel,
reinforces concerns that the international intelligence community may have
known more about Atta before September 11 than was previously thought, but
had failed to act… The FBI is also believed to have monitored Atta for
several months in 2000, when he was frequently in Frankfurt and had
allegedly bought large quantities of chemicals, possibly to make explosives…
The Atta family in Cairo had been monitored on several occasions
over an unspecified period, the programme said.
Financial Times Internet Archive
Dallas Star-Telegram,
June 7, 2002:
A secretive U.S.
eavesdropping agency monitored telephone conversations before Sept. 11
between the suspected commander of the World Trade Center and Pentagon
attacks and the alleged chief hijacker... U.S. officials said... the
conversations between Khalid Shaikh
Mohammed and Mohammed Atta were intercepted by the National
Security Agency, an intelligence agency that monitors and decodes foreign
communications... The House and
Senate intelligence committee... investigators are aware of the intercepts
of the conversations between Mohammed
and Atta...
The official said...
NSA analysts apparently did not recognize the significance of what they had.
Dallas Star-Telegram
Miami Herald, June 6,2002:
Another intelligence
official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said it was "simply not true"
that the NSA monitored the conversations and failed to share the information
with other intelligence agencies [meaning they shared the info]... NSA analysts apparently did not
recognize the significance of what they had...
The senior
intelligence official said that when the NSA monitored their conversations,
Mohammed was overseas and Atta was in the United States. [KS] Mohammed
was... indicted on charges of being involved in a failed 1995 plot to bomb
11 U.S. airliners flying over the Pacific Ocean on a single day... U.S.
officials have concluded that Mohammed had overall command of the Pentagon
and World Trade Center attacks... U.S. investigators believe Mohammed might
have met several times in Germany in 1999 with Atta or members of Atta's al-Qaida
cell.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miami/3416632.htm
Sunday Herald November
2, 2003:
A French intelligence
agency noted “according to the FBI, Arab terrorists and suspected terror
cells lived in… Hollywood, Florida, from December 2000 to April 2001 in
direct proximity to the Israeli spy cells”. The report contended that Mossad
agents were spying on Mohammed Atta and Marwan al-Shehi, two
of leaders of the 9/11 hijack teams. Jim Margolin, an FBI spokesman in New
York, implied that the public would never know the truth, saying: “If we
found evidence of unauthorised intelligence operations that would be
classified material.”
http://ww1.sundayherald.com/37707
BBC October 2, 2002:
German newspaper Die
Zeit… uncovered details of a major Israeli spy ring involving some a 120
agents for the intelligence service
Mossad operating across America and some masquerading as arts students. The
ring was reportedly hard on the heels of at least four members of the hijack gang,
including its leader Mohammed Atta. But the Israeli agents
were detected by their American counterparts and thrown out of the
country, it says. Just a month before the deadly attacks, the paper said,
Mossad handed over to the Americans
a detailed report naming several suspects they believe were preparing an
attack on the United States.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/europe/2294487.stm
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