{"id":18036,"date":"2023-03-01T08:14:08","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T13:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=18036"},"modified":"2024-09-11T15:40:34","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T19:40:34","slug":"30th-anniversary-of-the-fbis-biggest-bomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/01\/30th-anniversary-of-the-fbis-biggest-bomb\/","title":{"rendered":"30th Anniversary of the FBI\u2019s Biggest \u2018Bomb\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

30th Anniversary of the FBI\u2019s Biggest \u2018Bomb\u2019<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/h1>\n

by James Bovard<\/p>\n

Thirty years ago this past Sunday, the largest terrorist attack in American history up to that point occurred when a 1200-pound bomb exploded beneath the World Trade Center in New York City. It was sheer luck that the explosion did not topple the entire skyscraper and kill thousands of people. Politicians solemnly marked the anniversary but dignitaries made no mention of the FBI\u2019s role in that disaster.<\/p>\n

On November 5, 1990, Rabbi Meir Kahane was assassinated at a New York hotel. Kahane advocated banishing all Arabs from Israel and the occupied territories, and his political party was banned from the Knesset for \u201cinciting racism\u201d and \u201cendangering security.\u201d Kahane was shot by El Sayyid Nosair, a 36-year-old Egyptian immigrant, who was part of an anti-Israeli cabal of Muslims in the New York area. When police searched Nosair\u2019s residence, they carried off 47 boxes of documents, paramilitary manuals, maps, and diagrams of buildings (including the World Trade Center).<\/p>\n

No one in the New York FBI office could read Arabic, so those documents\u2014labeled \u201ca road map\u201d<\/span><\/a> to the 1993 bombing\u2014were left in storage for more than two years. A 2002 congressional report noted that the New York Police Department \u201cresisted attempts to label the Kahane assassination a \u2018conspiracy\u2019 despite the apparent links to a broader network of radicals\u201d because they \u201cwanted the appearance of speedy<\/span><\/a> justice and a quick resolution to a volatile situation.\u201d Nosair\u2019s legal defense was reportedly financed<\/span><\/a> by Osama Bin Laden.<\/p>\n

The trial, which began in late 1991, was \u201cmarked by rioting outside the courthouse, death threats against the judge and lawyers, calls for \u2018blood\u2019 revenge against the defendant and cries of \u2018Death to Jews!\u2019 from his Moslem supporters,\u201d the National Law Journal<\/i><\/span><\/a> reported. The FBI placed an informant named Emad Salem, a 43-year-old former Egyptian military officer, in the midst of the Muslim protesters. Salem insinuated himself and became the bodyguard for Sheik Abdul Rahman, a radical Muslim cleric. Despite stark evidence, a New York jury bizarrely found Nosair not guilty of murder.<\/p>\n

In mid-1992, Salem repeatedly warned the FBI that radical Muslims were planning to carry off a catastrophic bombing in New York City. FBI supervisors were convinced he was concocting tall tales and ceased paying him his $500 a week. On February 26, 1993, a massive bomb in a van exploded in the parking garage beneath the World Trade Center, killing six people, injuring more than a thousand, and causing half a billion dollars in damage. If the van had been parked a few feet closer to one of the pillars, an entire tower of the Trade Center could have collapsed.<\/p>\n

An Immigration and Naturalization Service snafu<\/strong> contributed to the success of the bombing. One of the key plotters, Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, was stopped at JFK International Airport in September 1992 after an INS inspector recognized that his Iraqi passport was a fraud. Yousef applied for asylum. Because the nearby \u201cholding facility\u201d the INS used for illegal immigrants was full, the INS permitted Yousef to enter the United States. A 1998 ABC News analysis noted, \u201cYousef was living in a guest house in Pakistan paid for by bin Laden at the time of his capture\u2014a connection that lead the FBI to investigate whether bin Laden was also the mysterious source of money behind the bombing.\u201d Yousef slipped out of the United States immediately after the bombing.<\/p>\n

The FBI \u201ccracked the case\u201d when a knucklehead plotter demanded a refund for his $400 deposit for the Ryder rental truck used for the bombing. Time<\/i> noted that the FBI \u201clooked supremely capable<\/span><\/a> in speedily rounding up suspects in the World Trade Center bombing.\u201d Federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy later bragged to a New York jury that the first World Trade Center attack was one of the FBI\u2019s finest hours: \u201cTo the rest of the world out there, the explosion in all its tragedy was actually a high-water mark for the FBI.\u201d FBI director William Sessions declared, \u201cBased on what was known to us at the time, we have no reason to believe we could have prevented<\/span><\/a> the bombing of the World Trade Center.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bull.<\/p>\n

After the bombing, the FBI quickly rehired Salem and promised him a million dollars to develop evidence of additional terrorist plots. Salem didn\u2019t trust the feds to pay so he secretly recorded his conversations with FBI agents. In August 1993, as the case was heading for trial, news leaked that Salem had made more than a hundred hours of tapes of his conversations with FBI agents and handlers. Those tapes portrayed the FBI as co-conspirator with the terrorist plotters.<\/p>\n

In a call to an FBI agent shortly after the bombing, Salem complained,<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe was start already building the bomb<\/span><\/a>\u2026supervising, supervision from the Bureau [FBI] and the DA [district attorney] and we was all informed about it. And we know that the bomb start to be built. By who? By your confidential informant. What a wonderful great case. And then he [the FBI supervisor] put his head in the sand and said, oh no, no, no that\u2019s not true, he is a son of a bitch, okay.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In another taped call, Salem anguished to one FBI agent, \u201cYou were informed. Everything is ready<\/span><\/a>. The day and the time. Boom. Lock them up and that\u2019s that. That\u2019s why I feel so bad.\u201d On another tape, Salem asked an FBI agent, \u201cDo you deny your supervisor<\/span><\/a> is the main reason of bombing the World Trade Center?\u201d The agent did not deny Salem\u2019s charge. FBI agent Nancy Floyd confided to Salem that her supervisors had botched the case: \u201cI felt that the people on the squad, that they didn\u2019t have a clue<\/span><\/a>\u2026That the supervisors didn\u2019t know what was going on. That they hadn\u2019t taken the time to learn the history.\u201d<\/p>\n

So how did the FBI exonerate itself? The New York Times<\/em> published a \u201ccorrection\u201d noting that the FBI claimed to be unsure which building the terrorists were going to blow up: \u201cTranscripts of tapes made secretly by an informant, Emad A. Salem, quote him as saying he warned the Government that a bomb was being built. But the transcripts do not make clear the extent to which the Federal authorities knew that the target was the World Trade Cente<\/strong>r.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before the bombing, Salem offered to substitute harmless powder<\/span><\/a> for the deadly explosives and thereby preventing any catastrophe. The FBI spurned his offer. Salem complained to one FBI agent that an FBI supervisor \u201crequested to make me to testify [in public] and if he didn\u2019t push for that, we\u2019ll be going building the bomb with a phony powder<\/span><\/a> and grabbing the people who was involved in it. But\u2026we didn\u2019t do that.\u201d \u201cTapes Depict Proposal to Thwart Bomb<\/span><\/a> Used in Trade Center Blast,\u201d headlined The<\/em> New York Times<\/i> report on this stunning revelation.<\/p>\n

What is more shocking than an FBI informant planted amidst the most deadly terror plot in American history? Two FBI informants<\/span><\/a> in the same plot. As Newsday<\/i> reported on October 29, 1993:<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe FBI had a second confidential informant who infiltrated the Jersey City mosque where the sheik preached. According to law-enforcement sources, two months before the Feb. 26 Trade Center bombing, the informant was on a military-style training exercise in a New Jersey park with other suspects when he was asked to obtain dynamite for an attack. After the informant told FBI officials, they met for nearly an entire day to consider providing the suspects with inoperative, counterfeit dynamite. But, to avoid the possibility of an entrapment charge, FBI officials instead pulled the informant off the assignment the next day, sources said.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cInstead of trying to stop it they just waited for it to happen, then swooped in and arrested everyone,\u201d said an investigator. \u201cIt was incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n

The feds considered Salem credible enough to pay him that million dollars<\/span><\/a> for his 1995 testimony to convict Muslim conspirators before they carried out further attacks on New York City landmarks. Those court victories permitted the FBI to continue pirouetting as national saviors.<\/p>\n

But the trial revealed that Salem was far more than a passive collector of dirt. As Time<\/em> magazine reported just after the trial: \u201cIt was Salem who consulted [blind sheik] on possible bombing targets<\/span><\/a>; rented the \u2018safe house\u2019 in Queens, New York, where the conspirators gathered (and in which the FBI installed the video cameras); and had the only key to the garage where the explosives were prepared. Moreover, he even bragged to Barbara Rogers, his wife at the time, that he was the leader of the group. \u2018I am the shepherd,\u2019 Rogers recalls him saying. \u2018They are the sheep.\u2019\u201d The defendants in the trial got fleeced when they tried to claim entrapment.<\/p>\n

There were no congressional investigations of the self-confessed role of the FBI informant in the most destructive bombing in American history. Instead, Congress continued boosting the FBI budget, which presumably would solve all the problems exposed in the 1993 bombing case.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 1997, FBI Director Louis Freeh promised Congress that he would \u201cdouble the \u2018shoe leather\u201d<\/span><\/a> for counterterrorism investigations. But walking was no substitute for thinking.<\/strong><\/p>\n

FBI debacles in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing foreshadowed far worse antiterrorism failures in the following decades<\/strong>. Prior to the 9\/11 attacks, the FBI again failed dismally to connect the dots of terrorist plotters inside the United States. An FBI agent groused in 2002 that the bureau\u2019s ethos was <\/i> that \u201creal men don\u2019t type<\/span><\/a>. The only thing a real agent needs is a notebook, a pen and gun, and with those three things you can conquer the world\u2026The computer revolution just passed us by.\u201d The FBI\u2019s gross negligence \u201ccontributed to the United States becoming, in effect, a sanctuary for radical terrorists<\/span><\/a>,\u201d according to a 2002 congressional investigation. The Bush administration suppressed the full details of FBI failures<\/span><\/a> to detect the terrorist plots that left thousands of Americans dead.<\/p>\n

Since the 1993 bombing, neither Congress nor federal courts have put the FBI on a leash, and the media continues kowtowing to G-men who serve up juicy leaks.<\/strong> When judging the FBI, never forget comedian Lily Tomlin\u2019s maxim: \u201cNo matter how cynical you get, it\u2019s never enough to keep up.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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