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Remember Anwar al-Awlaki, first American targeted for death

Whitewing

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He was the first American citizen The King and a group of high government officials offed without a trial or a single day in court? The one that Mr. Precious Constitution was all hunky dory with him being taken out in such a fashion. Well, the plot thickens.

Outgoing FBI Director Robert Mueller was more deeply involved in the post-9/11 handling of cleric Anwar al-Awlaki -- the first American targeted for death by the CIA -- than previously known, according to newly released documents reviewed exclusively by Fox News.

The documents, released after Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act request and then sued the FBI, show a memo from Mueller to then-Attorney General John Ashcroft on Oct. 3, 2002. It is marked “Secret” and titled “Anwar Aulaqi: IT-UBL/AL-QAEDA.”

While the substance of the memo is redacted in full, with the FBI citing classified material, the memo is one of at least three FBI reports -- whose primary subject is the cleric -- in the nine days leading up to Awlaki’s sudden return to the U.S. in October 2002.

The documents suggest the FBI was well aware of Awlaki’s movements, raising questions about why more wasn’t done to detain him.

As part of its ongoing investigation into the cleric, Fox News previously reported that after arriving at JFK airport from Yemen via Saudi Arabia and being detained by customs officers on Oct. 10, 2002, the cleric was allowed into the U.S. under the orders of FBI Agent Wade Ammerman from the bureau’s Washington office -- despite an active warrant for Awlaki’s arrest. The cleric later appeared with a government witness at the home of Ali al-Timimi, who was the target of Ammerman’s counterterrorism investigation. Al-Timimi, who was convicted on non-terrorism charges in 2005, is appealing the conviction which includes a life sentence.

Another FBI memo, also marked “Secret,” on Oct. 22, 2002, 12 days after the cleric’s return, includes the subject line “Anwar Nasser Aulaqi” and “Synopsis: Asset reporting.”

National security defense attorney Edward MacMahon Jr., who represented al-Timimi, told Fox News, after reviewing the documents, that they “certainly” indicate that either Awlaki “was an asset or was put in touch with an asset.”

“It (the document) was requested and I was told it didn’t exist,” MacMahon said, adding the defense team believed Awlaki’s statements would have shown al-Timimi turned down the cleric’s requests to recruit young Muslim men for violent jihad. “Rather than admit that they messed up with Anwar Awlaki, they would rather put Ali al-Timimi in jail for rest of life and withhold all this information from him.”

Fox News in 2010 reported that the Justice Department suddenly pulled the arrest warrant for the cleric, the same week he returned to the U.S. from overseas. The arrest warrant, initiated by the Joint Terrorism Task Force or JTTF in San Diego, was a “holding charge” so that Awlaki could be pressed by federal investigators on his direct ties to 9/11 hijackers Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar.

The Justice Department, in explaining why it had the warrant pulled, claimed Awlaki had corrected lies about his place of birth on his Social Security card application, in turn making a passport fraud case against him weak. However, Fox News obtained, through FOIA, Awlaki’s Social Security records showing there was no correction – Awlaki only applied for a replacement card using his true place of birth, New Mexico.

The Judicial Watch records also indicate that on Oct. 1, 2002 – before he returned to the U.S. -- a memo marked “Secret” and “Priority” was faxed from the FBI’s Washington Field Office to FBI headquarters. On Oct. 3, the FBI director’s memo was sent to Ashcroft. And on Oct. 10, the day Awlaki entered the U.S., there was a heavily redacted fax from the FBI at JFK airport including the cleric’s plane ticket, customs form, passport and Social Security card.

Based on the new documents, there are at least three possible explanations for the cleric’s return and the FBI’s considerable involvement. The bureau was attempting to recruit the cleric as an asset, he was already considered a friendly contact or the bureau wanted to track him for intelligence purposes once he returned to the U.S. The FBI’s involvement in the cleric’s case, and the actions of the FBI director, raise new questions about the secret decision to place the cleric on the CIA targeting list years later.

“Why would al-Awlaki get the attention of the FBI Director? … Why would a warrant for his arrest be pulled when he’s trying to reenter the country” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said. “All of that, you know, put two and two together. It seems like he was protected. … And it’s about time this administration and the government generally come clean about their relationship with al-Awlaki. It’s screaming for further clarification.”

Former Sen. Bob Graham, who led the first investigation into 9/11, known as the Joint Congressional Inquiry, told Fox News in 2011 that he wanted access to al-Awlaki but was told the cleric was out of the country and unavailable. The new documents make clear the FBI was aware of the cleric’s travel to the U.S. before the Joint Congressional Inquiry was complete in late 2002.

Graham asked Mueller for access to an FBI asset, Abdussattar Shaikh, who briefly lived with two of the 9/11 hijackers in San Diego. Hijackers Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Midhar were known associates of al-Awlaki, and Graham concluded Mueller was very protective of the asset program.

Fox News asked the bureau about the substance of Mueller’s memo, why the bureau was tracking the cleric’s movements, whether Awlaki was an FBI asset and if the FBI sent Awlaki to al-Timimi’s home in Virginia as part of a counterterrorism investigation. The FBI has not provided comment.

More transparency. :roll: :roll: :roll:
 

hypocritexposer

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and some say that Alex Jones theory of the US Government controlling al queda, is just a conspiracy theory.

Now they are teaming up with them in Syria and it appears Libya and Egypt too.
 

Steve

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hypocritexposer said:
and some say that Alex Jones theory of the US Government controlling al queda, is just a conspiracy theory.

Now they are teaming up with them in Syria and it appears Libya and Egypt too.

we had "teamed up" with them in Afghanistan in the past as well...

and I guess some in DC forgot how that turned out...



the fact is we have oil.. we have a great neighbor to the north willing to sell US oil... and if we worked on our own resources just a little instead of impeding them at every turn we could soon be self sufficient..

add in a bit of export trading with china and Europe and some long term coal and gas delivery deals and we could turn the middle east into a worthless sand pit... and let them fight it out..
 

hypocritexposer

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Steve said:
...we could turn the middle east into a worthless sand pit... and let them fight it out..

What would most likely happen is that China would fill the vaccuum, which might not be that bad of an option.

Pretty sure they wouldn't take the crap that the US does.
 

djinwa

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One minute I hear people bashing Obama for loving muslims, and the next minute they are bashing him for killing a muslim.

I thought most here were in support of killing as many muslims as possible - isn't that what all these wars are about?

Isn't that why people post all the evil atrocities committed by muslims?
 

Mike

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djinwa said:
One minute I hear people bashing Obama for loving muslims, and the next minute they are bashing him for killing a muslim.

I thought most here were in support of killing as many muslims as possible - isn't that what all these wars are about?

Isn't that why people post all the evil atrocities committed by muslims?

That is exactly what is so sinister about him. He kills for political expediency.

The ordinary Joe is much more likely to be killed in a drive-by shooting in Chicago or Philadelphia, yet he bends the rules and kills halfway around the world at a great expense just to keep us safe?

Meanwhile, he gets to shred the Constitution, which is his ultimate goal. :roll:
 

Whitewing

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djinwa said:
One minute I hear people bashing Obama for loving muslims, and the next minute they are bashing him for killing a muslim.

I thought most here were in support of killing as many muslims as possible - isn't that what all these wars are about?

Isn't that why people post all the evil atrocities committed by muslims?

Islam, despite what Bush and The King have said, is anything but the religion of peace. Though there's no need to rehash all of that here.

My reason for posting the thread, and others on this same topic, have NOTHING to do with the Islamic religion or with this guy's reported terrorist activities abroad.

I've followed this story closely because it is a story unlike any other since the events of 9-11. Finding terrorists wherever they hide and taking them out is just fine and dandy with me. Pouring water down the noses of a few is also fine and dandy with me especially if the procedure produces information that saves the lives of Americans. So, you won't see me whining about what the rest of the world thinks of us because we "tortured" (waterboarded) three of the highest profile al-Queda members we had in custody.

Where this story has diverged from other terror-related stories is that the guy who was incinerated was an American citizen. Now, let's be honest here. The country is loaded with American citizens, some religious fanatics and some not, who need to be incinerated, but one thing most of us have agreed upon is that each and every one of them is due their day in court before said incineration takes place.

This guy never had a day in court, was never charged with a crime if my memory serves me correctly, and now it appears was also on some government agency's payroll at one time.

So, in closing, that The King and some group of unnamed high government officials gets to decide which American citizen gets to live and which has to die, should scare the living shyt out of any reasonable American.

Does it bother you?
 
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