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       EDITOR: John DiNardo                PUBLISHER: [your name]
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Part 1,  Did the CIA/FBI Bomb the World Trade Center?
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JOSE SANTIAGO [Aug. 3, 1993]:
.... And in New York City, the conspiracy case against eleven men
charged with plotting to bomb city landmarks was in court today.
A suspect in the case, Siddig Ibrahim Siddig Ali declared his
innocence before United States District Court Judge Michael Mukasey,
and he said he intended to retain attorney William Kuntsler.
Kunstler is also representing co-defendant Ibrahim El-Gabrowny.
Judge Mukasey has warned he will put Government agents under oath to
determine the sources of leaks in the case. Kunstler has argued that
the leaks are making it difficult to find an unbiased jury.

Speaking at a forum last week, Kunstler laid out the strategy which
he plans to follow in the trial. The renowned defense attorney says
he plans to attack the credibility of the Government's star witness.
More on the story from Paul DeRienzo.

PAUL DeRIENZO:
Eleven people have been charged in the alleged plot to bomb the
United Nations building, FBI Headquarters, and the Lincoln and
Holland Tunnels. According to the FBI, the conspirators were
captured on June 24th in the act of mixing bomb-making chemicals
at a rented garage in Queens, New York. The alleged ring leader of
the plot was Siddig Ali. But several days later, Ibrahim El-Gabrowny
was indicted in the same scheme.

El-Gabrowny has been held at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in
Lower Manhattan since his arrest shortly after the World Trade
Center bombing. He wasn't charged in that attack but on lesser
charges of obstruction of justice and possession of five forged
Nicaraguan passports. The passports contain the names and photos of
El Sayyid Nosair and his family.

Nosair is in Attica Prison doing time on gun charges related to the
assassination of rightwing Jewish leader, Meir Kahane. The
Government alleges that the passports were part of a plot to break
Nosair out of jail, but attorney William Kunstler says that the
Government's case is a product of the FBI's confidential informant,
Emad Salem, a former Egyptian Army officer.

WILLIAM KUNSTLER:
It was Salem who asked El-Gabrowny, some time ago, for pictures of
the Nosair family. He said he wanted to use them for fund raising
purposes. He took the pictures and attached them to phony Nicaraguan
passports which had been outlawed by [Nicaraguan President] Mrs.
Chamorro as soon as she replaced the Sandanista Government. So the
passports were invalid to start with. He gave the passports back to
El-Gabrowny, and he said to El-Gabrowny: "We can break this man out
of Attica Correctional Facility and then get him off to Nicaragua
with these passports."

El-Gabrowny told him that was a crazy scheme and that he would have
none of it.

PAUL DeRIENZO:
El-Gabrowny's trial for possessing the forged passports is due to
begin today. But last week, the Government convened a grand jury
that combined the cases of the men charged in the conspiracy to bomb
city landmarks with El-Gabrowny's case. Kunstler says that the
Government's strategy was designed to eliminate the possibility of
the informant, Emad Salem, from testifying in the relatively minor
passport case because, says Kuntsler, Salem cannot afford too much
public exposure as a witness. The source of Kunstler's assertion is
testimony in a civil trial several months ago after a car accident
where Salem was the victim.

WILLIAM KUNSTLER:
He [Salem] told the jury, under oath, that he had been one of [Egyptian
President Anwar] Sadat's guards when Sadat was assassinated, and
that he had five bullets in his body from that experience. You know,
the Egyptian Government -- and I believe this is the only truthful
thing they've told yet -- said that he had nothing to do with Sadat,
that he was not his guard, at all. Secondly, he divulged that he had
had amnesia since January of 1992, and that he had been going to a
psychiatrist by the name of Dr. Stein to help him with this
situation. Thirdly, he committed bigamy here in New York. of course,
for which he is NOT being prosecuted. He married a woman here while
he had a wife living in Egypt who was still his wife. Fourthly, they
got rid of his Federal tax lien. The Government had a tax lien on
him, and they got rid of that. And they also got rid .... he was
marked as a persistent scoff-law by the parking bureau here. Twenty-
two tickets in a very short period of time. They got rid of those
tickets. And on the sheet of paper which quashes the tickets, it
says: "On Federal Business".

He [Salem] is the only real conspirator in this case.

PAUL DeRIENZO:
Kunstler charges that the Government's wiretaps back up his
contention that the defendants were entrapped by Salem.

WILLIAM KUNSTLER:
I've read a lot of the tapes by now -- transcriptions of the tapes
which were just furnished to me today. Before I came here, I read
some of them, and they are things like ... having him [Salem] say:

  "Well, I think we ought to bomb the George Washington Bridge.
   That's a very good target. It would make the commuters raise hell
   with this Government of ours."

And so then says Siddig Ali:

  "Yeah?"

[Salem]: "And I think" so and so ...

[Ali]: "Yeah?"

.... and so on. That's the way it goes, virtually throughout these
HUNDREDS of pages of transcriptions. There are a hundred and fifty
hours of tapes. A lot of them are in Arabic. Some are in English.
But this is the kind of man they're going to put on the [witness]
stand.

PAUL DeRIENZO:
Kunstler adds that Salem was the recipient of between two hundred
fifty thousand and one million dollars for his services as an
informant -- plus monies paid to him by other sources linked to
foreign governments, including money from an organization founded
by assassinated Rabbi Meir Kahane.
                        (to be continued)
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        The America Public is evidently in dire need of the truth,
        for when the plutocracy feeds us sweet lies instead of the
        bitter truth that would evoke remedial action by the People,
        then we are in peril of sinking inextricably into despotism.

        So please post the episodes of this ongoing series to other
        newsgroups, networks and computer bulletin boards, and post
        hardcopies in public places, both on and off campus.
        The need for concerned people to alert their neighbors to
        overshadowing dangers, still exists, as it did in the era
        of Paul Revere. That need is as enduring as society itself.

             John DiNardo


Part 2,  Did the CIA/FBI Bomb the World Trade Center?
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WILLIAM KUNSTLER [attorney]:
He [FBI informant Emad Salem] also received money from Kahane Kai,
Rabbi Meir Kahane's group. Probably from a lot of other people.
([Israel's secret service,] the Mossad is not someone to exclude.)
Probably from the Egyptian Government. He was a lieutenant colonel
in the Egyptian Army, which apparently he was.

PAUL DeRIENZO:
Kunstler said that, despite the United States Government's move to
protect the informant, he's going to enjoy attacking Salem's
credibility during the trial.

WILLIAM KUNSTLER:
He's just a dirty son-of-a-bitch. But he's THEIR son-of-a-bitch, you
see. He's not ours. And they did NOT want to expose him in this
minor trial. We're going to have a good time with him if only we can
get the jury to think -- think that maybe [our] Government DOES lie
once in a while. Maybe Government wants to use this.

PAUL DeRIENZO:
For WBAI News, I'm Paul DeRienzo.

.....

BERNARD WHITE:
       "Prosecutors Fear Damage to Case"

It seems that, according to this report, that the case has just
blown up in the prosecution's face. And what we were led to believe
was a swift rounding up of the people who were planning to bomb the
Holland Tunnel (these folks were swiftly rounded up because we
have this intelligent FBI), it turns out that this might be a hoax.

[reading from the Aug. 3, 1993 edition of New York Newsday]:

           "FBI Informant Recorded Agents"

I'll just read a little piece of this. I get a kick out of this.

  "The Federal informant who allegedly foiled the plot to bomb the
   Holland Tunnel and the United Nations Building secretly tape
   recorded his conversations with Federal prosecutors and agents.
   Prosecutors fear that the recorded conversations, which must be
   turned over to defense lawyers, could damage the conspiracy case
   against the eleven defendants."

  "Emad Salem, the shadowy Government informant -- who videotaped
   Muslim Fundamentalists as they allegedly conspired to bomb a
   variety of city landmarks -- made at least forty audiotapes of
   his discussions with FBI and Federal authorities, sources say.
   Law enforcement officials discovered the tapes last month while
   they were gathering items from Salem from his apartment, sources
   say. Joyce London, lawyer for suspect Tariq El-Hassan, called the
   tapes `a gold mine' because they will show jurors how the case
   was spawned, and will possibly bolster an entrapment defense.
   `It's going to lay out exactly how the deal was set up -- what
   instructions he (Salem) was given, and how far he was told to go
   to ensnare these people,' she said. `This proves that Salem
   cannot be trusted. He betrayed everyone,' said Ron Kuby, lawyer
   for defendant Siddig Ibrahim Siddig Ali. `He was working for the
   FBI, but he was also bugging the FBI.'

  "Prosecutors concede that the conversations may become a potent
   weapon for defense attorneys, damaging the informant's
   credibility and strengthening the defense's theory that the FBI
   INSTIGATED THE PLOT. `This could definitely hurt the case,' said
   an investigator who asked not to be identified. `Even though the
   investigation and its results are fair, the process can be pretty
   messy. Those conversations are definitely not the kind of thing
   you want a jury to hear ....'

Oh, I don't know about that. I kind of want the jury to hear it.
I want to hear it myself!

  "According to Federal sources, the tapes were found after the
   defendants were already in jail, and Salem was in protective
   custody with a promise of five hundred thousand dollars in
   exchange for his testimony. Salem asked agents to retrieve items
   from his Upper Westside home including some additional tapes.

  "Defense lawyers have blasted away at the credibility of Salem,
   accusing him of entrapping suspects in the plot that the FBI
   engineered. Salem worked as an FBI informant before the World
   Trade Center bombing, and then was recruited to infiltrate the
   Muslim militant community after the February 26th explosion.

We might find out that he was there before then.
Interesting, wouldn't you say?  The tale of the tapes.  We'll be
seeing just what this shadowy Salem is all about. But it's not the
shadowy Salem.  It might be the shadowy FBI, because they offered
him $500,000. I know of some instances where they just made promises
[of payoffs] to people and they were able to get them to lie.
Would you lie for $500,000?

.....

AMY GOODMAN:
Joining us on the phone right now is attorney William Kunstler.
We've asked him to join us because of this latest news from
[the Aug. 3, 1993 edition of] New York Newsday that says that the
Federal informant, who allegedly foiled a plot to bomb the Holland
Tunnel and the United Nations Building, secretly tape recorded his
conversations with Federal prosecutors and agents.

  "Prosecutors fear that the recorded conversations, which must
   be turned over to defense lawyers, could damage the conspiracy
   case against the eleven defendants."

One of those defendants, named Siddig Ibrahim Siddig Ali is being
represented by William Kunstler.
What does this mean for your defendant -- your client?

WILLIAM KUNSTLER:
Well, Amy, it's deeper than that because the news that this was
coming out caused the United States Government, I believe, to leak
out some of the tapes to ABC, which ran them last night, both on the
Evening News with Peter Jennings and on the Nightline program at
11:30.  The Government, which was ordered by the court on Friday not
to continue these leaks, breached it immediately. So we're going to
ask the court for a hearing. But what they did ... they did a
preemptive strike! They knew that the Newsday story was coming
today, and so, they tried to temper it by leaking out only those
portions of the tape which they thought were incriminating [to the
defendants], and they hid those portions of the tape which were NOT
incriminating -- which were exonerative.
                       (to be continued)
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     Due to the numerous series that I have to post and too few
     volunteers to help me post them, I will not be able to post the
     next episode in this series until two to three weeks from now,
     unless I get a volunteer to post this series to the newsgroups
     listed in the heading of this article.

            John DiNardo


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