Spy leaves egg on U.S. faces..

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In the al-Qaida camps, he was known as Abu Mohamed al Amriki -- "Father Mohamed the American." And, until he was finally arrested and convicted in 2000 -- after two decades of high profile terrorism, including helping to plan attacks on American troops in Somalia and U.S. embassies in Africa -- Ali Mohamed roamed free and even protected.



Mohamed was a U.S. Army sergeant, FBI operative and possible CIA asset, who, on the side, was a friend to Osama bin Laden, trained the leader's bodyguards, was instrumental in killing Americans and was the middle-man in an historic and vile union between bin Laden's forces and the Lebanese Hezbollah. His fingerprints can be traced to those who assassinated Jewish militant Meir Kahane and blew up the first truck bomb to hit the World Trade Centre.

 

[vital]

sounds like Infernal Affairs

 

[her209]

You can't make an omellette without breaking a few eggs. :laugh:

 

[FilmCamera]

Ahhh yes, the ever reputable Toronto SUN.

 

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Originally posted by: FilmCamera
Ahhh yes, the ever reputable Toronto SUN.

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Lance Williams, Erin McCormick, Chronicle Staff Writers



Mohamed admitted a long list of such crimes: training guerrillas who attacked U.S. soldiers in Somalia in 1993; arranging a summit conference of anti-U.S. terrorist organizations in Sudan in 1994; plotting the suicide bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which killed more than 200 people and injured thousands.

Other suspected activities during his California days include raising money for the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, implicated in the 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, and smuggling sleeper agents for bin Laden into the United States from Canada.

For the U.S. government, Mohamed is important today because he has extraordinary insights into the inner workings of bin Laden's al Qaeda organization, says Yonah Alexander, director of the Potomac Institute's Center for Terrorism Studies in Washington, D.C., who has researched Mohamed's life. He may even have had personal contacts with some of the hijackers responsible for last week's attacks.

"In his previous life, perhaps he trained some of these people," Alexander said. "Clearly (the government) has interrogated him, and we assume they are doing it now, because he is a very important source."

Mohamed's story also is important because it shows how easily even a top- level terrorist can operate unmolested and undetected from the very heart of the United States.

Terrorist groups have "woven themselves into the fabric of America," said Harvey Kushner, an international security expert and professor at Long Island University. "That is why this is going to be a long, protracted war (against terrorism). The enemy is not outside, it's within us."

 

[Chiller2]

Old news one of the info channels made a show called Triple Cross Bin Laden's spy in America about it saw it a couple of months ago.

 

[Wreckem]

Is this really any suprise?

The US has a history of doing this.

After all Bin Laden was american educated, american trained, american funded, and a former CIA asset.