logistical cells in America complete with their overseas telephone contacts. We did not trust the Justice Department’s FBI, so we presented our cell phone map to NORTHCOM military intelligence. [3]
NORTHCOM ran all of our phone numbers through their terrorist data base. “It lit up like a Christmas tree!” The agent exclaimed. NORTHCOM knew that terrorists overseas were calling American phone numbers, but had no idea who they were contacting or why they were calling. Our little telephone company had provided US intelligence with a nearly complete map of every terrorist cell in the USA and abroad that called the Muslim Brotherhood for help.
Despite our regrets, NORTHCOM had to ask the FBI for court authorized search warrants to place taps on the phones and computer terminals of these terrorists supporters. The FBI typically rewrote the warrants as if they had done the investigation. Neither Bill Warner nor I ever received a penny of the promised million dollar reward money. As we feared, someone in the FBI tipped off the terrorists. They all stopped using the cell phones and calling cards we had been tracing. They all went silent at once.
Worse, the FBI closed all investigations by other government agencies into the Florida clan just as they had closed Operation GreenQuest, the Immigration Service’s attempt to trace terrorist funding of Al Arian from the Saudis. The Saudis’ “ International Institute for Islamic Research( IIIR)” is banned as a known funding source for terrorism worldwide, but like the Muslim Brotherhood, it enjoys a strange immunity from the United States Department of Justice.
Agents from the US Secret Service and Customs have told me similar stories of the FBI’s obstruction of money laundering for terrorists in the Tampa, Florida Agency. It got so bad that Private Investigator Bill Warner began to openly “out” terrorist internet sites to the press that Justice and the FBI were simply ignoring. But for six critical months, we had an open window into world terrorism, and had made a map of their cells. Our Muslim Brotherhood Map may be one of the secret reasons why there has not been a single successful terrorist attack in the United States since 9/11. Within a year after 9/11, no terrorist in the world could call the Muslim Brotherhood in America for help with finding a car, documents, an apartment, or funding without US intelligence listening. We had found the Rosetta stone of the terrorist communications networks.
But the same old defects in the intelligence community– “stovepiping,” compartmentalization, and lack of a central intelligence index– that prevented the hunt for Nazi war criminals still obstruct the hunt for the second generation Arab Nazis of the Muslim Brotherhood. In fact, things may have gotten worse since 9/11, not better. The Justice Department and State Department are still fighting tooth and nail to conceal and protect the Muslim Brotherhood as a “moderate” network of Sunni Arabs which we can use in a proxy war against the Shiites of Iran. It is as absurd as it is immoral.
The Saudi moneymen behind the Muslim Brotherhood have many ties to the GOP. The Carlisle Group is where the Bush family and the Bin Laden family meet to share financial investments. Carlisle’s clients encouraged Enron’s investments in the Caspian basin, and covered up the shame of Enron’s wildly illegal negotiations with the Taliban for a trans Afghanistan pipeline. To this day, Vice President Dick Cheney’s records of Enron’s Taliban connection are classified. It seems that no one in the Justice Department is willing to prosecute anyone in the Bush administration for anything. The same oil companies that made profits off the Third Reich and were never prosecuted, are now providing the lifeblood of funding for Arab terrorism.
As a former CIA Director told me, Arab terrorism will continue as long as we continue to import Arab oil. A group of us in a privately held company