At least three times
during the last six weeks of his life terrorist ringleader Mohamed Atta
left the jazzier precincts of the Miami area to journey across the state
to a retirement community with the second oldest population in the entire
United States. The question is: why?
by Daniel Hopsicker
April 18--Venice Florida
Contradicting the FBI’s
chronology of the terrorists final days, an investigation by the MadCowMorningNews
has learned exclusively that on three separate occasions during the final
six weeks before September 11 Mohamed Atta was in Venice on Florida’s
Gulf Coast, a place the FBI’s chronology says he left fully nine months
before, visiting subjects unknown for reasons unknown.
In interviews for Mohamed
Atta & the Venice Flying Circus (portions of which air this week
on theconspiracychannel.com) credible local eyewitnesses report that Atta
and his sidekick Marwan Al-Shehhi were in a restaurant a block from Atta’s
former rented home six weeks before the attack, on the phone from Venice
on a Fort Lauderdale rent-a-car company's Caller ID three weeks before,
and, just one week before the attack, ordering submarine sandwiches in
the deli of a Venice, Florida supermarket.
The FBI has previously publicly
stated only that during the terrorist conspiracy’s final three weeks
of preparation Atta was in the Miami area, with a brief trip to Las Vegas.
The Bureau has been aware
of Atta’s visits to Venice, despite saying nothing about them, we have
learned, through rental car receipts, phone records, and interviews with
the owner of a Fort Lauderdale car rental agency who rented cars to Atta
during the month before the terrorist attack.
The glaring omission of the
fact that Mohamed Atta had, for unknown reasons, a continuing presence
in the retirement community of Venice raises disturbing questions when
viewed against the backdrop of continuing suspicion about the nature of
the operations being carried out there at two Dutch-owned flight schools,
which together trained three of the four terrorist pilots (see previous
stories).
Discovering that the terrorist
conspiracy was based in Venice, or had still-unexplained links there, would
seem to be a useful lead to the enfeebled FBI, which has so far been unable
to track down any living participants in a conspiracy which claimed 3000
lives.
"The FBI took all over
files. Everything."
The failure to disclose to
the American people what little the FBI does seems to know points directly
to the existence of a cover-up, designed to shield from public view activities
which took place in the Venice area over the two-year period prior to the
tragedy, activities whose clear result was a massive influx of hundreds
of mostly Arab student pilots into the area.
Increasing doubt still further
is the circumstance under which the files of the two flight schools—which
collectively may have trained dozens of terrorist pilots—were confiscated
by the FBI, never to be seen or heard from again.
"They loaded two Ryder trucks
(of Huffman Aviation and Venice Police Department documents) right outside
that (police station) window," one Venice law enforcement official told
us.
"And then they drove them
right onto a C130 military cargo plane at Sarasota airport which flew out
with Jeb Bush aboard. The FBI took all our files. Everything."
Do the files reveal what
Mohamed Atta was doing in Venice one week before September 11th?
In addition to the local
restaurant owners who witnessed a shouting match between Atta and Marwan
six weeks before, the two were also spotted together just a week before
the attack.
Islamic fundamentalists
do lunch
At a supermarket a mile from
the Venice Airport known to have been frequented by the terrorists, Brenda
Cover, who works in the deli, said, "When they showed pictures of three
different guys, Atta was one of them, several days later on TV, I
immediately recognized their faces."
"And I told my husband then,
‘oh my god, those are the three guys! They were just in store a week
ago. The week before, they were in the store. They got subs.’"
Atta had an intimidating
or menacing presence, she stated, a sentiment heard again and again from
people who had contact with him.
"I didn’t like they way
they stared at you. It would have been different if they had talked to
you like you were a normal person. You know, ‘hi, how are you today’
sort of thing."
"But he just stood back and
glared at you with his dark eyes," she continued. "It gave me a frightening
eerie feeling, like you wouldn’t want to be caught in the parking lot
at night with him."
The flood of Arab student
pilots coming through Venice had not escaped the notice of local townspeople,
according to Brenda, who said she noticed the influx in the year before
September 11th.
Venice to Fort Lauderdale
on Caller ID
A third visit to Venice by
Atta and Marwan was confirmed by the owner of a rental agency in Fort Lauderdale,
near Miami on Florida’s other (east) coast…
During the first week of
August Atta and Al-Shehhi rented a white Ford Escort from Warrick's Rent-a-Car,
in Pompano Beach.
"He rented two cars over
three contracts for a total of five weeks," owner Bradley Warrick told
us. "He wanted it (his second rental) for two weeks, he told me, to go
over to the west coast of Florida."
"While he was over on the
west coast during those two weeks he called me from Venice. I saw it on
my caller ID, and said to myself, oh wonderful. I’ve got a car broke
down over on the west coast of Florida. "
"But he was only calling
me because the ‘service engine soon’ light was on. I assured him that
he would be all right, and that the car would be fine, he wouldn’t break
down."
"Its not like there's
a free press anymore."
At least three times during
the last six weeks of his life terrorist ringleader Mohamed Atta left the
jazzier precincts of the Miami area to journey across the state to a retirement
community with the second oldest population in the entire United States.
If Mohamed Atta had a preference
for blue-haired widows over tall European models, it would come as a surprise,
given his proven penchant for night life ranging from the Cheetah Club
and the Pink Pony to Harry's Bar in New York, where he liked a table near
the piano.
So the Venice meetings must
have been business.
Who was he meeting? Why was
he there?
Local law enforcement officials
indicated to the MadCowMorningNews that they, too, would like to know the
answer.
Nobody has yet been charged
in the attacks on America that claimed 3000 lives.
Though the FBI talks about
the agents they had on the case, the doors they knocked down, and the thousand
and more suspects they have arrested, they do not explain why they have
failed to catch anyone responsible.
If there is another Federal
Agency involved in Venice, whose malfeasance the FBI is suppressing, they
probably never will.
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