Series: New Jersey and Terrorism" Perfect Together By Allan P. Duncan Part 4: Dr. Elamir, The Blind Sheikh, Ramzi Yousef and the Al Salam Mosque
In Part 3, I revealed that Mohamed Atta was known to his friends and associates in Cairo and Hamburg as Mohamed El Amir. I then wondered if there was any family relationship between Mohamed El Amir Atta and Dr. Magdy Elamir, the Jersey City neurologist who Dateline NBC claimed had ties to Osama Bin Laden. Dateline NBC had also reported that Dr. Elamir had a brother in Cairo named Mohamed El Amir, who tried to secure false paperwork for a warehouse full of weapons in Italy . (2)
Dateline NBC was not apparently aware that Atta had been known as El Amir in the past, so I emailed the information to them well over a year ago in hopes that they might follow-up on their story and see if there was a blood relationship between Mohamed Atta, Dr. Magdy Elamir and Mohamed El Amir. To date I have heard nothing back from anyone so I can only assume that they weren't interested in my information.
I had read where Mohamed Atta spent time in the North Jersey area prior to 9-11 and I will document that information a bit later on in this story. First of all I'd like to reveal another interesting link between Dr. Magdy Elamir and one of the true hubs of terrorism in the United States :
"Dateline" caught up with
Dr. Elamir recently outside his office. He said he couldn't talk
about his HMO and the missing money. But he had this to say about
allegations he's connected to bin Laden and terrorism.
Dr.
Elamir: "That's preposterous. Never."
Chris
Hansen: "Why would somebody say something like that about
you?"
Dr.
Elamir: "I have no idea. I have no idea."
But the intelligence report
suggests one thing that he doesn't deny. That he has donated money
to the mosque where the blind sheik once preached, Omar Abdel Rahman,
who is now in prison for his role in the 1993
World
Trade
Center
bombing." (2)
The mosque referred to in the above excerpt is the Al Salam Mosque in Jersey City , the same city where Dr. Magdy Elamir has a medical practice. Here's a bit of history about the mosque:
"It is nearly a straight shot from the Jersey City waterfront overlooking the rubble of the twin towers up to Al Salam, the third-floor mosque here that for more than a decade has been tainted with suspicions of terrorism.
First there was the 1990 murder of a militant rabbi, linked to an Al Salam regular. Then there was the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center , spurred, prosecutors said, by the incendiary sermons of blind Egyptian cleric Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and carried out by his followers."
"Al Salam had a tradition of passionate preaching against the Egyptian government, which is supported by the United States . Journal Square has a large Egyptian population, and many worship at Al Salam.
The mosque's most famous scholar, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, was convicted in 1995 along with nine followers of conspiring to bomb the United Nations headquarters in Manhattan and several other buildings, bridges and tunnels in New York .
Prosecutors also said Abdel Rahman had galvanized his followers to carry out the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, which killed six and wounded 1,000.
Three years later, Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, who prosecutors said masterminded the 1993 bombing, was also convicted. Abdul Rahman Yasin, another suspect in the 1993 bombing who lived in Jersey City, fled the country.
In 1990, Al Salam regular El Sayyid Nosair was charged with murdering Rabbi Meir Kahane during a speech in New York . Initially acquitted, Nosair eventually was retried under different charges and convicted." (24)
Ramzi Yousef, by the way, is the nephew by marriage of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, yet another engineer who was born in Kuwait to Pakistani parents and who is acknowledged as the architect of the 9-11 attacks.
So now that we've established a link between the Al Salam Mosque and Dr. Magdy Elamir, I will now document the movements and activities of some of the hijackers involved in the 9-11 attacks and will tie Mohamed Atta to them in the North Jersey area.
The following was reported by CNN:
"During the two weeks since hijacked airliners crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, investigators have focused on New Jersey as a possible hub of terrorist activity.
FBI agents and local police have fanned across the state, conducting searches in more than a dozen cites and towns, some within sight of where the towers used to stand.
Investigators have pored over a top-floor apartment in a three-story, brick building in Paterson, New Jersey, a city 20 miles from Manhattan with a large Arab-American community, said a source with knowledge of one search.
The source said that the suspected hijacker identified by the FBI as Hani Hanjour lived in the apartment for several months this year. Hanjour has been identified as a 29-year-old Saudi national accused of being one of five hijackers aboard an American Airlines flight that crashed into the Pentagon. That flight, bound for Los Angeles , departed from Washington 's Dulles International Airport .
In the first days of the investigation, FBI agents searched the Marriot hotel at Newark 's airport where several hijackers may have stayed the night before the fatal flights. The United Airlines flight that crashed into a Pennsylvania field embarked from Newark at 8 a.m. on September 11.
Two suspected hijackers, identified as Nawaf and Salem al-Hamzi from Saudi Arabia , rented one mailbox at a Mailboxes Etc. franchise in a Fort Lee, New Jersey , mall and also listed as an address another franchise in Wayne , New Jersey ."
"Al-Hamzi, joined by Hanjour, rented cars three times from the Borough Jeep-Chrysler dealership in Wayne . Co-owner Henry Hagedoorn said that al-Hamzi rented a minivan and then two sedans between June and August, returning a Chrysler Concorde on September 1 after 10 days, with 1,000 miles listed as being put on the car."
"Jersey City has been on investigators' counterterrorism radar for years, a location where some of the 1993 World Trade Center bombers lived and stored explosive chemicals. A mosque there is where Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind Egyptian cleric who was a spiritual leader to past terrorist conspirators, sometimes preached until he was implicated in the conspiracy to bomb the twin towers and other New York City landmarks." (25)
The New York Times had this to say about the hijackers:
"PATERSON, N.J. -- In this neighborhood of Latinos, African-Americans and recent immigrants speaking dozens of languages, the handful of young Arab men who came and went drew almost no notice. In their apartment above a bodega, they did not play loud music. They appeared not to speak English.
But now that the man who took the lease has been identified as a hijacker, the apartment in the three-story house at 486 Union Avenue has been identified as a hub for those who planned the suicide missions of Sept. 11. Here, hijackers from all four of the flights were able to meet, or at least cross paths, in the months before the attacks.
The discovery of some kind of headquarters or rendezvous point here has helped stitch together earlier reports that placed some hijackers in scattered spots around northern New Jersey . Now it is clear that North Jersey was one of several East Coast staging areas for the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon."
"The one-bedroom apartment was rented in early spring by Hani Hanjour, who is believed to have been at the controls of the flight that hit the Pentagon. His landlord and neighbors said he had at least one roommate. It is not clear how many of the hijackers ever stayed at the apartment, but neighbors identified Salem Alhamzi and Nawaq Alhamzi, who were also on the flight from Dulles International Airport , as visitors and possibly roommates of Mr. Hanjour.
They said they also recognized Saeed Alghamdi, who was on the flight from Newark that crashed in Pennsylvania , and Mohamed Atta, who was on the first flight from Boston to hit the trade center." (26)
The Associated Press added the following information:
"At least six of the 19 suspected hijackers lived in or visited New Jersey before the attacks, but Carroll said it' s too soon to label the state as a staging area for the nation's deadliest terror attack.
Marwan Alshehhi, who authorities say hijacked United Airlines Flight 175 and flew it into the Trade Center's south tower, worked as an attendant at a gas station in Berkeley Township in Ocean County, according to customers and neighbors.
At a graffiti-sprayed brick building in Paterson where some doors don't have knobs, owner Jimi Nouri said he rented an apartment for six months to a man he identified from a photograph as suspected hijacker Hani Hanjour.
Resident Jamie Diaz, 20, said she often saw suspect Saeed Alghamdi at the apartment, and deli owner Carmen Tejada said that Hanjour came in several times daily to buy milk, juice or doughnuts.
Diaz said suspect Mohammed Atta frequently visited the apartment with several other men who appeared to be of Middle Eastern descent." (27)
The same article reported that some of the hijackers may have rented small planes to make dry runs to New York City so they could find the best approach patterns to attack the World Trade Center .
In another article on the same subject we find more specific information:
"
NEWARK
,
N.J.
-- The hijackers who slammed two airliners into the
Twin
Towers
practiced their deadly approaches to the
World
Trade
Center
in small planes rented from
New Jersey
airfields, law enforcement sources now believe.
The aerial reconnaissance missions were undertaken on a number of
occasions in the weeks before the attacks, sources said, citing the
accounts of eyewitnesses who saw the planes fly toward
Manhattan
and information from
Jersey
airfield operators.
Sources said the obvious conclusion, from evidence developed so far,
is that the flights were practice suicide runs. "We believe that
is what happened," said a law enforcement source familiar with
the investigation."
"For the past two weeks, the FBI has been examining the records of dozens of flight schools and aviation centers throughout New Jersey, including Caldwell Flight Academy at the Essex County Airport in Fairfield where the owner has confirmed that several suspects sought by the FBI rented planes from him."
"Sources would not divulge
the type of aircraft that were rented in
New Jersey
, or specifically who made the flights. Witnesses, though, told The
Star-Ledger that Mohamed Atta -- who federal investigators believe was
at the controls of American Airlines Flight 11, which crashed into the
north tower of the World Trade Center -- was a frequent visitor to a
Paterson apartment rented by one of the suspected hijackers.
The revelation came amid mounting evidence that
New Jersey
was a major staging area for the hijacking plot." (28)
The Record reported on June 20, 2003 that the New Jersey State Police were claiming that Atta had lived in a motel in Wayne , NJ for a year before the attacks. I find this report hard to believe, however, since there were many documented sightings of Atta during this time period, particularly in Florida .
"Mohamed Atta, the mastermind of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, lived in a Wayne motel for about a year before the attacks, state police said Thursday.
The revelation - the first time authorities have placed Atta in the motel - came after state police Superintendent Joseph R. Fuentes testified Thursday afternoon before the Assembly Homeland Security Committee about his agency's efforts to combat terrorism.
In his testimony, Fuentes confirmed what officials had said previously: New Jersey was one of the launching points for the Sept. 11 attacks and that some of the 19 hijackers moved through New Jersey hotels and used New Jersey-based criminal networks to obtain identification documents.
Fuentes would not go into detail, but Sgt. Kevin Rehmann, a state police spokesman, later said Fuentes was referring to Atta. Rehmann said Atta had lived in the Wayne Motor Inn on Route 23 for a year."
"The Record has previously reported that several of the terrorists were seen in Passaic County and that two unidentified terrorists stayed at the Wayne motel.
Two days after the attacks, FBI agents searched the Wayne Motor Inn 's guest records and took copies of several receipts, hotel employees said at the time." (29)
Despite the fact that I don't believe Atta lived at the Wayne Motor Inn for a year prior to the attacks I have found evidence that he traveled in and out of Newark, New Jersey a number of times between June 3, 2000 and September 11, 2001.
"According to INS records, Atta first entered the United States on June 3, 2000 , at Newark International Airport in New Jersey , after flying from Prague International Airport in the Czech Republic . The OIG confirmed that a "hit" or a "lookout" did not appear on the IBIS screen when the inspector swiped Atta's passport. Atta was admitted by the primary INS inspector without being referred to secondary. Atta received a B-2 admission that allowed him to stay in the United States for six months until December 2, 2000 ." (30)
From the 9/11 Commission Report we learn more about who was living in the apartment in Paterson , New Jersey :
"Within a few weeks, Hanjour, Hazmi, and several other operatives moved to Paterson and rented a one-room apartment. When their landlord later paid a visit, he found six men living there-Nawaf al Hamzi, now joined by his younger brother Salem, Hanjour, Moqed, probably Ahmed al Ghamdi, and Abdul Aziz al Omari; Hazmi's old friend Khalid al Mihdar would soon join them." (31)
That places seven of the hijackers in one location.
In another excerpt from the 9/11 Commission Report we find two references to Mohamed Atta traveling in and out of Newark , New Jersey in July and August of 2001. It also gives some details on Atta's actions in New Jersey and also mentions some of the other hijackers who were living in the area and what they were doing to prepare for the attacks. To preface the opening sentence, Atta arrived in Spain on July 8, 2001 to meet with Ramzi Binalshibh and left Spain on July 19th to return to Florida :
"A week after he returned from meeting Binalshibh in Spain, Atta traveled to Newark, probably to coordinate with Hazmi and give him additional funds. Atta spent a few days in the area before returning to Florida on July 30.
On
August 7, Atta flew from
Fort Lauderdale
to
Newark
, probably to coordinate
with Hazmi.Two days later, Ahmed al Ghamdi and Abdul Aziz al Omari,
who had been living in
New Jersey
with Hazmi and Hanjour, flew to
Miami
--probably signifying that the four hijacking teams had finally been
assigned. While Atta was in
New Jersey
, he, Hazmi, and Hanjour all purchased tickets for another set of
surveillance flights. Like Shehhi, Jarrah, Atta, and Waleed al Shehri
before them, Hazmi and Hanjour each flew in first class on
the
same type of aircraft they would hijack on 9/11 (a Boeing 757), and on
transcontinental flights that connected to Las Vegas."
(32)
Up to this point we have the Al Salam Mosque in Jersey City , once presided over by Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, identified as a hub for terrorists, in a neighborhood with a large Egyptian population. We also have Dr. Magdy Elamir who was born in Egypt and who has a medical practice in Jersey City and who financially supported the Al Salam Mosque. Finally, we have Mohamed El Amir Atta, an Egyptian, whose father has the exact same name as Dr. Elamir's brother, who spent time in the same area with at least seven of the hijackers who crashed their planes on 9-11.
Coincidence?
Perhaps"but I don't believe in coincidences.
Another interesting story that parallels the Operation Diamondback fiasco broke on May 9th of this year and also has links to New Jersey :
"A former
waiter in a
Manchester
curry house was recruited by Al-Qaeda and trained as a hijacker in
preparation for the September 11 attacks.
The British Muslim was enlisted at a mosque in
Oldham
and attended terrorist training school in
Pakistan
. But he had second thoughts about his suicide mission as he flew to
America and surrendered to the police after gambling away thousands of
pounds given to him by Al-Qaeda."
The unnamed man in the article turned out to be Niaz Khan, a Pakistani born Brit who turned himself in to the Atlantic City Police Department who then turned him over the FBI in Newark . From the same article we find out that:
"The
FBI's counter-terrorism taskforce questioned the 29-year-old man for
three weeks at
Newark
,
New Jersey
, in the spring of 2000. There, agents refused to believe his claim
that terrorists were planning to fly passenger jets into buildings,
even though he passed lie detector tests.
Other hijackers were entering the
United States
at about the same time and enrolling at flight schools to learn the
skills they would need, only 18 months later, to carry out the
world's most audacious acts of terrorism.
The failure to investigate the Briton's claims was one of a
startling series of missed opportunities that have emerged in
inquiries by a
US
commission examining the September 11 attacks. His case has now been
reopened amid wrangling between the FBI and British authorities."
Further on Khan reported to the FBI that:
"He travelled to Lahore , where he was taught how to carry out a hijacking and familiarised with the inside of a Boeing cockpit. "I knew they wanted me to do some kind of operation in which I would die but my life was such a mess that in my mind I was already dead," he said.
"On
his return to
Britain
, he was given a further £5,000 and sent to
New York
, where he was told he would be met at the airport.
But he had got married and during the flight thoughts of his wife and
baby helped to change his mind. He gave his contact the slip and
instead of going through with his mission, he took a bus to
Atlantic City
, where he lost his money in casinos and then gave himself up."
"He now believes that had he not given himself up to the FBI in 2000, he would have become the only British hijacker among those who crashed planes in New York , Washington and Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001 , killing more than 3,000 people." (33)
NBC News followed up in July with additional information:
"Khan told NBC News that for the next few weeks he was trained by al-Qaida to hijack passenger planes, and then sent to the United States . But when he told the FBI, headquarters was skeptical and, after several weeks, senior FBI officials ordered him released to the custody of British intelligence. Khan said, "I told them before the 9/11, about more than year, be" hijacking in America or on America airline."
Khan said that at the Lahore training compound he and up to 30 other men were taught hijacking basics, including how to smuggle guns and other weapons through airport security, techniques to overpower passengers and crew and how to get into a cockpit."
Lisa Myers then gives more details on how Khan was processed by the FBI and British Intelligence:
"For three weeks, FBI counter-terrorist agents in Newark, N.J. interrogated Khan, created composite drawings of his terrorist trainer and a fellow student and then wired Khan up and took him back to JFK airport, hoping to smoke out other conspirators. But they had no luck.
Congress' 9/11 report confirms that in April, 2000, an unnamed "walk-in" told the FBI he "was to meet five or six persons" -- some of them pilots -- who would take over a plane and fly to Afghanistan, or blow the plane up. The report adds that the "walk-in" passed a lie-detector test.
NBC News has learned that Khan passed not one but two FBI polygraphs. A former FBI official says Newark agents believed Khan and tried to aggressively follow every lead in the case, but word came from headquarters saying, "return him to London and forget about it" -- which, critics say, is exactly what the FBI did.
But the FBI insists it investigated Khan's allegations thoroughly, could not confirm them, and had no legal grounds to hold him. Federal prosecutors agreed. FBI officials say they did the right thing in turning Khan over to British authorities, and assumed they would carefully investigate.
But NBC News has learned that New Scotland Yard only interviewed Khan for about two hours, and then released him."
"Khan remains surprised that, to this day, the FBI, CIA and Scotland Yard have never asked for his help in identifying the street address of the Lahore safe house where he and dozens of other men were trained. He says he saw some identifying signs and might be able to locate it today. "I just surprised because [they] never come back to ask some more things," he said. "[The FBI] believed me, but maybe not seriously."" (34)
The New York Daily News reported that Khan's story would be told to the 9-11 Commission:
"A Pakistani Briton who says he warned the FBI in April 2000 that Al Qaeda wanted to attack America with planes could soon be telling his tale to the Sept. 11 commission.
Niaz Khan's lawyer, Ronald Motley, said, "We have communicated with the 9/11 commission through informal channels."
"Mr. Khan still hasn't told his complete story," Motley told the Daily News yesterday. "When we take his deposition, he will talk about the extent of his Al Qaeda training, what he knew, how things were financed, how they trained him about the inadequacies of the American airport security systems.''"
"The head of the FBI's Newark office, Joseph Billy, said agents investigated Khan's claims thoroughly and turned over the information to other agencies, even though it was never confirmed.
FBI officials told the bipartisan commission investigating the intelligence failures that allowed the terrorist attacks that they had only vague warnings Al Qaeda might use airliners to attack American targets." (35)
Niaz Khan was never even mentioned in the final 9-11 Commission Report.
The Kahn case is another example of how a terrorist with links to Pakistan ended up in North Jersey and was allowed to go free even though federal investigators had specific information that he was here to hijack a plane and blow it up. Just as in Operation Diamondback, agents working on the case were told by higher ups to "return him to London and forget about it".
I am left with a lot of unanswered questions that I hope to find answers for in the future. My research and investigation into Operation Diamondback, and the overall story of terrorist links to North Jersey has been a fascinating journey which has certainly opened my eyes to the spectre of terrorism right in my own back yard. I no longer look naively towards Afghanistan, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia as the bubbling cauldrons from which terrorism is spawned"all I have to do is look towards the northern part of my own home state.
I wish at times that I didn't know what I know, but there's really nothing I can do about it now. I am the one who chose to look deeper into this story and I'll have to live with the consequences. I just hope that by finally revealing this information, that someone with some power will pick it up and do something with it. Like I said in the beginning, it bothers me to think that there are people out there walking the streets of New Jersey who conspired to secure heavy arms and nuclear weapons and who had documented links to Osama Bin Laden. Two of these people were present when Raja Ghulam Abbas told Randy Glass at a tape recorded meeting, "those towers are coming down", yet even after those same towers did fall on 9-11, our government did nothing.
This week we commemorate the third anniversary of 9-11. To date, not one person has been successfully prosecuted in the United States for their involvement in the attacks. Likewise, not one person in the federal government has been held accountable for failing to stop the attacks even though there is overwhelming evidence that attacks were imminent and terrorists identified as being the perpetrators of the attacks had been known by intelligence and law enforcement agencies to have been in the United States before 9-11.
On 9-11 our entire national defense system was brought to its knees by a bunch of guys who "supposedly lived in caves". The Pentagon, the headquarters of the mightiest military power on the planet was sneak attacked and the Secretary of Defense , Donald Rumsfeld, didn't even know the Pentagon was about to be attacked until he heard and felt the ensuing explosion while sitting in his office. (36)
As Commander-in-Chief of the military on 9-11, President George W. Bush who prides himself as being a wartime president was anything but a warrior that day. Fighter jets weren't sent to intercept the hijacked planes until it was already too late and in one instance a pilot who was dispatched to search for Flight 11 wasn't even aware that it had already crashed into the World Trade Center . President Bush had been told about the crash of Flight 11 before he went into the classroom at Booker Elementary School in Florida , and yet chose read a book with a bunch of students instead of finding out more about the disaster. When he was informed in the middle of the class exercise that Flight 175 had also just crashed into the World Trade Center, he remained seated for another seven minutes while thousands of people were about to experience a horrible death. There is also some confusion about who issued the shootdown order that day. It is the duty of the president to issue an order to shootdown a hijacked plane but evidence points towards Vice President Cheney as being the person who actually gave the order since apparently the president was indisposed and his aides didn't know what to do. (37)
The fog of war can be a b*tch"especially when you've never been in one. I can only assume that Bush's training with the "Champagne Unit" in the Texas Air National Guard didn't prepare him to make sober decisions when war becomes real and our nation suffered greatly as a consequence of his failure to defend our homeland on 9-11.
My thoughts and prayers are with those who lost their loved ones on 9-11. I've gotten to know quite a few of the family members over the past three years and my heart breaks for them a little bit more each and every day. I appeal to those of you who are reading this now, to dig and claw and do everything in your power to expose those who were responsible for the deaths of the 9-11 victims and to never stop digging until they are all brought to justice. It's the least we can for the families.
Acknowledgements: Thanks to Lois Ann Battuello, an independent researcher from Napa Valley , California , for helping me put this story together. Lois is a Stanford grad and worked in the banking business for many years. She is a whiz at investigating financial crimes and her input in researching the business dealings of Dr. Magdy Elamir and his brother Mohamed El Amir in Cairo was invaluable. Also, thanks to Paul Thompson, the creator of the Complete 9-11 Timeline who also helped with the research on this essay. Paul created a Randy Glass Timeline which should be a primer for anyone interested in learning more about Operation Diamondback. Paul has also placed a video that Randy Glass sent to him on the web. Both the Timeline and video URL's can be found below under Resources. Last but not least, many thanks to Randy Glass. I have been in frequent touch with Randy over the phone and via email and he has given me first hand information about Operation Diamondback that has never been published before. In my opinion, Randy Glass is a true patriot who placed his life on the line many times during Operation Diamondback and other operations he worked on for the US Government. Thanks Randy!!!
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(29)
The Record (Bergen County,
New Jersey), State police tie Sept. 11 leader to Wayne inn, By Randy Diamond,
Friday,
June 20, 2003
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their Change of Status Applications, and its Efforts to Track Foreign
Students in the United States,
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(31) The 9/11 Commission Report, Chapter 7, The Attack Looms, The Meeting in Spain , Page 230
(32) The 9/11 Commission Report, Chapter 7, The Attack Looms, Readying the Attacks, Page 248
(33) Sunday Times (
London
), Briton trained as 9/11
hijacker, By Christina Lamb,
May 09, 2004
(34) NBC News, Did al-Qaida trainee warn FBI before 9/11?, By Lisa Myers, July 25, 2004 http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5131524/
(35) New York Daily News, Freed terror trainee offers 9/11 panel info, By Corky Siemaszko, Saturday, June 5th, 2004
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/v-pfriendly/story/199908p-172612c.html
(36) Newsday,
Air Attack on Pentagon Indicates Weaknesses, By Sylvia Adcock,
Brian Donovan and Craig Gordon,
September 23, 2001
http://www.newsday.com/ny-uspent232380681sep23.story
(37) Newsweek, Who Was Really In Charge? Did Bush know Cheney had given orders to down airliners on September 11?, ByDaniel Klaidman and Michael Hirsh, June 28, 2004
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5251871/site/newsweek/
Resources:
The Randy Glass Timeline, created by Paul Thompson
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/essay.jsp?article=randyglass
The Randy Glass Video, A fascinating video relating to an important unheeded warning of the 9/11 attacks was shown on WPTV, an NBC TV station in Florida on October 7, 2002.
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/essay.jsp?article=glass-graham_video_wmv
Sander Hicks Interviews Randy Glass on INN TV
