Although the FBI has denied it even existed, the
terrorist support network that provided assistance to Mohamed Atta and his
fellow hijackers remains in place today in Florida.
Pointing to current and recent cases involving suspected members of the
terrorist infrastructure, private investigators say the network is not only
operational but that its members show little or no fear of federal authorities.
Several recent cases in the Venice-Sarasota area illustrate what one
investigator called this “frightening situation.”

The first involves 38-year-old Sarasota ‘businessman’ Wissam Taysir Hammoud, a
native of Lebanon. Just three days before Christmas last year, while last-minute
preparations for the approaching holiday occupied most thoughts, Hammoud went
shopping, too… for a hit man.
Hammoud was willing to pay to have two men killed
in particularly grisly ways: a federal informant and an agent with the Federal
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Hit Man's Headless Holiday
According to the federal complaint, Hammoud told
the hit man he wanted the informant tied to a tree, ordering him to then ‘slowly
cut pieces of his (the informants) body off."
When he ran out of limbs to cut off, the hit man
was told, the informant was to be beheaded.
He wasn’t just talking either.
When Hammoud made his alleged solicitation to commit murder, he already had a
firearm, a silencer, and a plan.
Wissam Hammoud was
arrested in January, and remains in federal custody awaiting trial this Fall.
Why is the case of interest in
the 9/11 investigation?
Terrorist ringleader Mohamed
Atta used a Verizon cell phone with a Sarasota cell phone number (941-685-0468)
the MadCowMorningNews has learned, both purchased and
later serviced in Sarasota...
And Wissam Hammoud is the
authorized Verizon cell phone dealer in Sarasota.
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