"The I.N.S. is acting
to place the prime suspect in a wider-ranging 9/11 conspiracy investigation
out of the reach of the Independent Investigation."
December 4—world exclusive
by Daniel Hopsicker
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At the instigation of Bush
Administration officials the Immigration and Naturalization Service is
preparing to deport the man whose Venice, FL. flight school served as a
magnet for Mohamed Atta's terrorist cadre, effectively placing him beyond
the reach of the upcoming 9/11 investigation, the MadCowMorningNews has
learned.
Rudi Dekkers, who began "marching
Arabs across the tarmac" soon after his arrival in 1999 at Huffman Aviation,
has run afoul of the Immigration and Naturalization Service for a variety
of immigration violations, sources state, including being in the U.S. illegally.
"Wally (Hilliard) and Rudi
formed a fictitious company to keep Rudi in the U.S.," explained one aviation
observer in Naples. "But the I.N.S. has known about that for years. Something
else is going on."
Aviation sources suggest
the deportation move by the I.N.S.— widely-accused of having failed to
do anything while terrorists roamed freely across U.S. borders— is less
a sign of any renewed vigor at a beleaguered federal agency than an Administration
effort to curtail the 9/11 investigation by placing Dekkers beyond the
reach of questioning.
For the record, a spokesperson
speaking for the I.N.S Commissioner would only say, "We do not comment
on individuals being removed from this country."
The (acting) I.N.S. Commissioner
is Michael Garcia, who headed the terrorism investigation for INS following
the 1993 World Trade Center attack.
"What happened to the
flight school records? Ask Jeb."
Whatever secrets Dekkers
may possess about the terrorists, records from his flight school were deemed
sensitive enough to have merited being escorted back to Washington by Florida
Governor Jeb Bush aboard a C-130 cargo plane, which left Sarasota
less than 24 hours after the September 11 attack.
Many in the South West Florida
aviation community have begun to voice the suspicion that ‘Magic Dutch
Boy’ Dekkers played a still-unexplained role in the story of the terrorist
conspiracy’s time in Florida.
"The I.N.S. is acting to
place the prime suspect in a wider-ranging 9/11 conspiracy investigation
out of the reach of the Independent Investigation," said one skeptical
Naples aviation executive.
"They're getting Rudi out
of town fast. And Wally Hilliard is heading out the door right behind him."
This statement is bolstered
by records of recent Florida property transactions, which reveal
that Rudi Dekkers has, indeed, been liquidating assets including
airplanes and a condominium.
'Cashing out' at Huffman
Aviation
Now the MadCowMorningNews
has learned that 70-year old Wallace J. Hilliard of Naples, FL., multi-millionaire
businessman and self-styled Mormon Bishop, is also selling out, peddling
Huffman Aviation, the infamous "terror flight school" bought just three
years ago.
As if the Venice Airport
needed any more "Magic Dutch Boys," the potential buyers represent what
one source close to the sale characterized as "two Dutch investors."
As Rudi Dekkers prepares
to (hopefully-for-him) slip from sight, many things about him remain mysterious.
The biggest unanswered question involves how Dekkers, running a flight
school which trained both pilots who flew airplanes into the World Trade
Center Towers, and a known fugitive from justice in Holland, managed
to end up being invited to testify before the Congress of the United States
of America... instead of behind bars.
Why did the FBI and the national
media accept at face value (and so eagerly) Dekker's claims to being
an innocent victimized businessman? Was Rudi, even in the immediate aftermath
of September 11, somehow being protected?
"When the FBI came down the
day after Sept. 11, it totally amazed me that they took everything Rudi
said as the truth," said Sue DeAngelis, Dekkers’ former office manager,
who let FBI agents in at Huffman Aviation when they arrived in the middle
of the night.
Perhaps the answer is that
Dekkers was already well-known in certain circles. A startling number of
federal agencies, the MadCowMorningNews has learned exclusively, have files
on Dekker's going back a decade.
"One of the usual suspects."
"I remember when DEA, Customs,
everyone was after him over here," stated one aviation observer in Naples,
FL. "Some money got seized because of his supposed illegal activities."
"Everything that guy ever
did—from a to z—was illegal," said another.
Dekkers, of course, is one
of the two Dutch nationals whose curious and nearly-simultaneous appearance
as flight school owners several years ago at the Venice Airport was followed
by an influx of hundreds of Arab and German student pilots.
The other "Magic Dutch Boy"
is equally mysterious, according to some. "Arne Kruithof sat across from
my desk and told me he had trained at a U.S. military installation in South
East Missouri," stated one aviation executive in Venice.
"What is a Dutch national
doing training at a secure U.S. military facility?"
If Mohamed Atta had local
logistical assistance while in this country, Rudi Dekkers is the right
place to start looking.
In the aftermath of 9/11,
Dekkers defended having trained anyone who walked up to his counter.
"I don't need anything from
you, just a check to start flying," he insisted.
He even likened flying lessons
to shopping for groceries...
"We're just a business,"
Dekkers said.
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Just what kind of business
Dekkers was running, while terrorists were practicing touch and go's on
the runways at the Venice Airport?
Some answers can be gleaned
in court documents filed at the Sarasota County Courthouse in a sexual
harassment lawsuit by a former 18-year old female against Dekkers, her
overweight and middle-aged former boss.
Dekkers settled the suit,
agreeing to pay damages. When he later stopped making payments, the young
woman's attorney filed a motion to enforce the settlement agreement, and
the sealed complaint became public information for the first time.
It includes contemporaneous
notes taken by the then-18 year old girl, who was jotting down Dekkers
statements and behavior towards her at the same time Mohamed Atta and his
terrorist cadre attended the school.
"As long as I worked at Huffman
Aviation I have been subjected to sexual harassment by Rudi Dekkers," the
girl states.
"Can I bite into you?" Dekkers
asked her on one occasion, her notes state. Told that that was 'sick,'
Dekkers' replied, "I know, I just can't help it. Look at you: your hair,
your face, your ass...you're a hot girl!"
Another time Dekkers' asked
his young female employee, barely out of high school, according to her
contemporaneous notes, if he could "buy her."
"Buy me what?" she responds.
"You know, just buy you.
It should be like in the olden days. I should be able to just buy you,"
Dekkers replied. .
In the same conversation,
according to her notes, the boorish Dekkers wondered aloud what the reaction
would be if someone walked into his office while he was tucking his shirt
(and ample girth) back into his pants.
"Wouldn't that be funny if
somebody walked in now as I'm putting my shirt away? They would think I
was fucking you!"
"All publicity is good
publicity."
On another occasion, the
girls notes state, Dekker's asked her, "Did you see that Russian girl I
had in here? I couldn't hire her, because she's Russian. But I did tell
her I had a job for her."
"In the pilot shop?" the
young employee asks.
"No, I told her she could
give me a blow job," Dekkers says.
Dekkers, the girl wrote,
told her, "You're beautiful when you're mad." To which she replied, "You
have no right touching my pants."
The young woman's allegations
of a pattern of harassment by Dekkers was confirmed by Amanda Keller, Mohamed
Atta's former live-in girlfriend, who spent time waiting in the flight
school lounge while Atta trained.
"Rudi Dekkers... He’s a
total pervert," she stated in an exclusive three hour interview videotaped
at a secret location. "A nasty, nasty man."
"He said to me one time,
'What would it take for me to have a piece of you?' I told him I didn't
know what he was talking about. He said, 'Oh come on you know what I mean.'
"So I looked at him and said:
'You’re lucky I don’t hit you.'
And his secretary stood up
and applauded. He told her to 'sit down and shut up.'"
Like many who worked with
Dekker's, his former office manager Sue DeAngelis has a poor opinion of
his character.
"You know why he told me
he did so many TV interviews after the attack? Because, he said, it was
the best free advertising we would ever get."
The FBI has stated that they
have found no evidence that the terrorists received any outside help while
in this country.
Maybe they should look again.
What links are there between
Atta's Hamburg cadre and its sponsors and the flight schools in Venice,
Florida?
We may never know. |