9/11 Truther calls on New York DA to investigate

Posted by Joshua Holland at 10:38 AM on April 6, 2007.

As regular readers know, I'm right up there among the 9/11 "Truth" movement's pantheon of evil Left Gate-keepers. Yet, I'm also a friend of Sander Hicks, one of the prominent voices within the movement and author of The Big Wedding: 9/11, The Whistle-Blowers, and the Cover-Up.

If we were a couple of hard-nosed cops, it'd make a great buddy film.

Anyway, it's Friday -- a day for guest-blogging -- so I offered Sander a guest post. Here it is; these are his opinions and don't necessarily represent the views of bla, bla, bla and all that …

April 4, 2007

An Open Letter to Kings County District Attorney Charles Hynes

District Attorney Charles Hynes

Office of the District Attorney

Kings County

350 Jay Street

Brooklyn, NY

11201-2908

Dear Mr. Hynes,

It's been three months since I wrote you my letter of January 9th, 2007, urging your office to open an investigation into the horrific terrorist attacks of 9/11/01. Based on original research and sources, I urged you to focus on the social network that helped 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta in our hometown of Brooklyn, NY. I have not yet received a response, so I am sending you this second letter, with key updates. It will be published in the April issue of The New York Megaphone (circulation 66,700) as well.

I realize this is a controversial topic. But remember, we at the Megaphone support and understand your courageous, ongoing prosecution of CIA-linked, mafia-linked FBI agent Lindley DeVecchio. DeVecchio might be the New York FBI's biggest scandal, but to us, he's just the tip of an iceberg of Federal corruption. (We covered the DeVecchio story last year, see: http://www.voxpopnet.net/tausdevecchio.html)

Since I wrote you last, a few things have changed: The conviction of Bush advisor Lewis Libby, and the controversy over Attorney General Gonzalez show that we're dealing with a yet-to-be determined level of opportunistic criminality in the Bush White House. The new paperback United States vs. George Bush, et al. (Seven Stories, 2006) makes a strong legal case for a Federal Grand Jury indictment of the Bush Administration for knowingly hoodwinking public opinion into supporting the Iraq bloodbath. While not an official legal document, this sharp little book is a compelling case made in the court of public opinion by former Federal prosecutor Elizabeth De La Vega. It's our thesis in the New York 9/11 Truth Movement, that the 9/11 attack was the stimulus the Bush administration needed to fulfill its documented obsession with wars of foreign aggression.

The 9/11 attack and the response from the Federal government derailed our democracy, threatened the protections of the Bill of Rights, and suspended habeas corpus. But you have jurisdiction to open a serious 9/11 investigation with subpoena power. We know from congressional testimony of Lt. Col. Anthony Schaffer, and others, that Mohammed Atta, et al. visited the politically-charged mujahedeen recruiting grounds, El Farouq Mosque, on Atlantic Avenue. It's likely that the crime of conspiracy was committed, here in your jurisdiction of Kings County.

As Brooklyn's leading published author of 9/11 skepticism, I feel it's my duty to keep you apprised of new findings. I was recently sent a little-known unpublished book called "The Graham Report." This report corroborates an insidious pattern of special treatment from Federal agents and military top brass, of the 9/11 attackers.

Dr. David M. Graham was a Louisiana radio host, an amateur sleuth, a Vietnam veteran, and a dentist. According to his unpublished manuscript, 10 months before 9/11, Dr. Graham met 9/11 terrorists Nawaf al-Hazmi and Fayez Banihammad. Their Pakistani handler, a grinning albino car salesman named Mohamed Jamal Khan, had mysterious, unrestricted access to the local Barksdale Air Force Base in Shreveport. Khan told Dr. Graham he wanted to buy a truck like the one used as a bomb in Oklahoma City. Dr. Graham was a conservative Christian who felt Khan was possibly planning a terrorist attack on the the "mighty B-52s" flying out of Barksdale AFB. When Khan bragged about a family connection to Osama Bin Laden, and introduced Graham to certain strange Arabs, Graham then called the FBI.

Instead of questioning the future 9/11 attackers, the FBI doubted, and intimidated Graham. Graham had observed that Jamal Khan had boxes in his kitchen labeled with the names of al-Hazmi, Banihammad, and a third 9/11 hijacker, Khalid al-Mihdhar. 9/11 researchers know that the terrorists Graham suspected were already known members of Al Qaeda-CIA today admits they had been tracking al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar since before the year 2000 Malaysian "terrorism summit" both future terrorists attended. This was corroborated at the confirmation hearings of CIA director Michael Hayden in January 2006. Al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar made phone calls from San Diego to a NSA/CIA phone-tapped line at a Yemeni safehouse.

Dr. Graham was paid multiple visits by the FBI and Secret Service, but he wouldn't give up. In his manuscript, Graham specifically warns the FBI about Mohamed Jamal Khan, and possible threats to Barksdale AFB. Shreveport FBI agent David Spoon calls Graham back, passing along a thinly-veiled death threat. "We got a mysterious phone call saying 'they will take care of whoever turned in Jamal.'" he told the dentist.

Dr. Graham died on the 17th of September, 2006, in Houston, Texas. His son believes he was poisoned. So does the local ABC News affiliate in Shreveport. Dr. Graham was on the verge of testifying against Jamal Khan in an INS deportation courtroom. Today, the Shreveport FBI claims that Graham did not contact them before 9/11, but Graham had documents and eyewitnesses who recorded his November 1, 2000 meeting with FBI Special Agent Steve Hayes.

An FBI investigation of Khan and his men might have stopped Nawaf al-Hazmi from joining Flight 77's suicide attack against the Pentagon on 9/11. Or maybe not. According to the new book by National Security News Service's Joseph and Susan Trento (Unsafe at Any Altitude, Steerforth, 2006), al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar were agents of the General Intelligence Directorate (GID) of Saudi Arabia. Trento told me he was tipped off by "multiple sources…inside Western and Saudi intelligence." Trento is a national expert on CIA, as author of Secret History of CIA (Prima, 2001), and Prelude to Terror (Carroll & Graf, 2005). Trento trusts his sources, and is certain the same terrorists Graham suspected were agents of the GID, the CIA of Saudi Arabia.

Let me stop and re-focus this on your jurisdiction of Brooklyn/Kings County. The 9/11 attacks murdered Brooklynites. A significant sector of the public believes the Federal government's explanation is a whitewash, due to many anomalies. In 2006, three national polls showed widespread skepticism of the official story. The strange protection that Dr. Graham's Saudi agents/9-11 terrorists received from Federal law enforcement was partly (if not primarily) at fault. The special treatment that al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar received is the same treatment received by Mohamed Atta. All three were protected from Defense Intelligence Agency operation Able Danger, in early 2000, by Pentagon top brass, according to Congressional testimony from Able Danger's Lt. Anthony Shaffer. I have more information for you on this, upon request.

The Graham Report and the Able Danger hearings jibe with other credible sources. According to Michael Isikoff in Newsweek, al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar used to live in San Diego with an FBI informant. In 2002, CNN reported the FBI was "investigating" Saudi Princess Haifa (wife of Saudi Prince Bandar, the man the President calls "Bandar Bush") regarding why she wired $3,500 a month to 9/11 hijackers in San Diego in year 2000. The recipients of her largess were al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar.

As I'm sure you remember from my January 9 letter, I was a part of a group of 9/11 researchers who last November supplied the Joint Terrorism Task Force with information about terrorist Mohamed Atta's American drinking buddy, Wolfgang Bohringer. When the JTTF seized Bohringer on November 17th, the first words out of his mouth were, "You can't arrest me, I'm working for CIA." He was then released, and my JTTF-affiliated sources pressured me not to do this story. But I printed it in this newspaper, The New York Megaphone.

The Brooklyn public is eager for a deeper explanation of 9/11. The Federal government's investigation was dominated by insiders. Their process was heavily compromised by conflicts of interest, and the evenual 9/11 Commission Report was ridiculously spotty. Only local government can mount a real investigation. Yes, this is difficult, but the American people are on your side. We will be a powerful resource. A majority of 9/11 widows and other family members support my work and have called for a new investigation. District Attorney Hynes, you and your staff have a clear moral and legal obligation to open that investigation into 9/11. It seems there's an alarming pattern of domestic protection of the 9/11 attackers, by the FBI, and the top brass of the Pentagon.

We know from documents like U.S. vs. Bush that the Bush Administration had a clearly predetermined agenda to attack Iraq, as early as 1999. In 2001, they needed a reason. They needed a violent media spectacle to motivate the population to support their agenda.

The night I met you, you led the inter-faith event in Bay Ridge with a Pledge of Allegiance to the flag. I joined you in that pledge, despite all my misgivings about the current leadership of this country. Because today under the U.S. flag, torture is condoned and practiced. Under the U.S. flag, the current President is in open criminal violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, as he taps phones inside the U.S. In the name of the U.S. flag, the President committed the crime of fraud by misleading the country into war. The U.S. flag is under attack, and the enemy is within. Let's do something while we can.

Sincerely,

Sander Hicks

Publisher

New York Megaphone

718 940 2084

sander(at)voxpopnet.net

CC:

Inspector Thomas Harris, 70th Precinct

Assistant District Attorney Michael Vecchione Assistant District Attorney Noel Downey Assistant District Attorney Michael Ryan

Joshua Holland is an editor and senior writer at AlterNet.