Thursday, March 28, 2013

Judicial Watch Obtains FBI Records Detailing Banking Activity and Purchases Linking Anwar al-Aulaqi and 9/11 Hijackers

 

JW Obtains FBI Records Detailing Banking Activity and Purchases Linking

Anwar al-Aulaqi and 9/11 Hijackers

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(Washington, DC) - Judicial Watch announced today that it received documents

on March 4, 2013 from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that raise

new questions about close ties between Anwar al Aulaqi, the U.S.-born

terrorist assassinated by a U.S. drone in Yemen on September 30, 2011, and

Nawaf al Hami and Khalid al Mihdhar, two of the five hijackers who attacked

the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. In the documents, the FBI describes al

Aulaqi as "The Spiritual Leader of the Hijackers."

 

Judicial Watch received the documents in response to a June, 2012, Judicial

Watch Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the FBI the U.S. Department

of State (DOS) (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State and Federal

Bureau of Investigations (No. 1:12-cv-00893). They are part of Judicial

Watch's ongoing investigation of al Qaeda in the United States, including

its past and current operations and support network.

 

Materials received by Judicial Watch reveal the following information as

worthy of investigation in its probe of ties between al Aulaqi and the 9/11

hijackers:

 

    An FBI report dated 9/20/2011 notes that al -Aulaqi had made purchases

at a Texaco in La Mesa, California, "several times a month" over the

preceding two years. Reportedly this is the station where hijacker Nawaf al

Hazmi worked, as did probable 9/11 co-conspirator Mohdar Abdullah (whose

close association with and material assistance to Hami and Mihdhar is

well-documented in the 9/11 Commission's report).

 

    An undated FBI report indicates an individual received a check for

$281.50 from al Aulaqi and wrote a check for $175 to al Hazmi on July 7,

2001.  There is no additional information about the transactions. The FBI

apparently found the transaction to be of investigative interest because,

depending on the identity of the intermediary party, it could indicate

direct assistance from al Aulaqi to al Hazmi.

 

    On 9/13/2001, FBI agents took possession of and searched the vehicle al

Aulaqi rented in San Diego on 9/8/2001 (which he kept for one day and drove

only 37 miles).  While there is no report regarding the results of the

search, the action highlights the Bureau's interest in al Aulaqi and

suspicions about his trip to San Diego, home to both al Hazmi and al Mihdhar

leading up to the attacks.

 

    An FBI report dated 10/24/2001 indicates that the Bureau became aware

three days after the 9/11 attacks (9/14/2001) that al Aulaqi had rented a

Mailboxes Etc. mail drop in Falls Church, VA.  The mail box was the subject

of a federal grand jury subpoena.

 

"The more we learn about Anwar al Aulaqi, the greater the number of

questions about not just his activities before and after 9/11, but also of

the al Qaeda operational and support network potentially still active in the

United States," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. "It is now even

more concerning that al Aulaqi was invited to the Pentagon after 9/11 and

then let go by the FBI despite warrants for his arrest."

 

An earlier release of FBI documents obtained by a Judicial Watch FOIA and

reported by Fox News suggest that the FBI was aware on September 27, 2001,

that al Aulaqi had purchased airplane tickets for three of the 9/11

terrorist hijackers, including mastermind Mohammed Atta. Subsequent to the

FBI's discovery, al-Aulaqi was detained and released by authorities at least

twice and had been invited to dine at the Pentagon.

 

In 2010, President Obama reportedly authorized the assassination of al

Aulaqi, the first American citizen added to the government's "capture or

kill" list, describing the radical Muslim Cleric as "chief of external

operations for al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)." The Office of

Legal Counsel in the Justice Department has reportedly determined that

targeting and killing of U.S. citizens overseas was legal under domestic and

international law.

 

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