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September 25, 2005

Atta stayed in Brooklyn during June 2000

Those who dismiss the Brooklyn connection should consider this. Why did Atta decide to go to Brooklyn? I would bet he knew someone at the infamous Al Farouq mosque on Atlantic Ave.

AP story by Pat Milton published December 9, 2001:

Mohamed Atta, suspected ringleader of the Sept. 11 terrorist hijackings, rented rooms in New York City in the spring of 2000 with another hijacker, a federal investigator says.

Atta's visit to the city he later attacked came at the time of his first known trip to the United States. Authorities learned of his New York stay while trying to retrace the hijackers' steps prior to the attacks, said the investigator, who spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

Investigators confirmed that Atta and the second man stayed in Brooklyn and the Bronx, and are trying to identify anyone who may have provided support to the men.

Atta's trail in Brooklyn began with a parking ticket issued to a rental car he was driving, said a senior Justice Department official, who also spoke on condition of anonymity....

The U.S. investigator said Atta and another hijacker briefly rented a room in Brooklyn in late spring 2000. They also answered a "Room for Rent" classified advertisement placed by a landlord in the Bronx, and also lived there, the investigator said. Authorities have interviewed landlords at both locations, the investigator said.

From Chapter 7 of the 9/11 Report:

In the early summer of 2000, the Hamburg group arrived in the United States to begin flight training. Marwan al Shehhi came on May 29, arriving in Newark on a flight from Brussels. He went to New York City and waited there for Mohamed Atta to join him. On June 2, Atta traveled to the Czech Republic by bus from Germany and then flew from Prague to Newark the next day. According to Ramzi Binalshibh, Atta did not meet with anyone in Prague; he simply believed it would contribute to operational security to fly out of Prague rather than Hamburg, the departure point for much of his previous international travel.

Footnote 46 from Chapter 7 of the 9/11 Report:

As they looked at flight schools on the East Coast, Atta and Shehhi stayed in a series of short-term rentals in New York City.

From the LA Times in March 2003:

Separately, Ashcroft announced the unsealing of charges in Brooklyn, N.Y., federal court against two Yemeni citizens, Mohammed Al Hasan Al-Moayad and Mohammed Mohsen Yahya Zayed. Ashcroft said the men stand accused of conspiring to provide material support to the Al Qaeda and Hamas terrorist groups through a worldwide fund-raising operation that netted Osama bin Laden $20 million.

According to Ashcroft, a portion of the funds came from the Al Farouq mosque in Brooklyn, a onetime gathering place for Egyptian cleric Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, known as the blind sheik, and other men, all of whom were convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

The men were arrested Jan. 10 in Frankfurt, Germany; the U.S. is seeking their extradition. A Justice Department spokesman said announcement of the arrests was delayed for "operational reasons."

From the New York Post in 2005:

A sheik who boasted he was Osama bin Laden's spiritual adviser was convicted yesterday of scheming to financing terrorism, in a case that nearly went up in smoke when a key witness set himself on fire outside the White House.

Yemeni cleric Mohammed Ali Hassan al-Moayad, 56, faces up to 75 years behind bars after a Brooklyn federal jury found him guilty of five charges stemming from a conspiracy to support al Qaeda and Hamas....

The two men were arrested in January 2003 after three days of meetings with a pair of FBI informants in which they discussed funneling $2.5 million to al Qaeda and Hamas.

These sessions were secretly taped in a German hotel that had been wired for video and sound as part of a sting operation.

Posted by Mike at September 25, 2005 11:33 PM

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