| Government records in Florida reveal
that Mohamed Atta was the President of a company in Orlando with a
business partner whose web of dummy shell companies appear
characteristic of the type used in terrorist financing and illicit
money laundering, the MadCowMorningNews has learned.
One day after the 9/11 Commission Report says the
terrorist ringleader finished making withdrawals in Virginia Beach,
VA. totaling $18,000 from a SunTrust Bank account, on April 5th,
2001 Hassan Erroudani, an Orlando man with close ties to the
Moroccan Embassy in Washington D.C., filed incorporation papers with
the state of Florida listing the President of KARAM LLC as “Mohamed
Atta.” The document lists an address
for "President" Atta in Marseilles, France, which can be
traced to a graphic design firm there. (Once again, Amanda Keller's
testimony is vindicated. Atta told her he was French.)
Died and went to IHOP Incorporation documents give
the names of the KARAM LLC's officers as Hassan Erroudani, Mohamed
Atta, and Jamal Erroudani. Karam LLC was delisted in 2002 by
the state of Florida for failing to file an annual report.
When the firm filed for reinstatement on January 13, 2003, it once
again listed “Mohamed Atta” as a corporate officer. But
Atta had now been demoted to Company Secretary. And his
address has changed as well. Not to Paradise, or Virgin City, but
Orlando, a long way from heaven, according to those who've been
there. Atta's current address, if Florida Division of
Corporate Records can be believed, is 4124 West Colonial Dr,
Orlando, FL., the location of an International House of Pancakes.
Orlando, Land of Mystery & Magic
Hassan Erroudani has close ties with the Moroccan
Embassy in Washington D.C. He is also the President of the
Moroccan-American Chamber of Commerce. Moreover Florida records show
Erroudani is also business partners, in a company called JMH
INVESTMENT GROUP, with Mohammed Ariad, the economic counselor of the
Moroccan Embassy in Washington D.C. Atta was, of course, in
Orlando on numerous occasions. For example, his car, a red 1989
Pontiac Grand Prix two-door coupe, was said to have been seen last
in downtown Orlando.
Still, the idea that the “Mohamed Atta” who
flew Flight 11 into the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001 had been
listed as a corporate officer in a Florida company, without it
having become public knowledge by now, seemed a tad unlikely,
perhaps even a little far-fetched. At least, it did, until
after we spoke with KARAM LLC principal and founder Hassan Erroudani,
who we reached by phone at his Orlando home. Turkish baths,
cigarettes...heroin? We hadn't counted on either Erroudani’s
flat refusal to answer any questions about the “Mohamed Atta”
listed as an officer in his company, or his tone of evident
hostility. Trust us... We had been nothing if not polite, even
to the point of suggesting a reason for why the whole thing might be
just a big misunderstanding... “Was it perhaps just a case of two
different men with similar names?” we asked helpfully.
Ennoudani’s forceful response: “I don’t have anything to say
about that.” And then he hung up.
Why would someone do that... unless they possess
what is commonly known as guilty knowledge? His behavior seemed both
inexplicable and suspicious. Red flags & a Turkish Naval
Attaché Among the red flags denoting Hassan Erroudani's various
enterprises which we never got the opportunity to question him
about: He ran a wire transfer service called Rapid Cash from out of
his home. (Atta and Marwan made frequent use of wire services to get
money.) He owned a company, Seawest Car Import/Export, which appears
to be in the business of exporting luxury vehicles to the Middle
East. One of the corporate officer in Seawest, until recently,
was one “Murat Oner.” Lt Cdr Murat Oner is
the Turkish Embassy's Naval Attaché in Washington.
(Recall whistleblower Sibel Edmonds long and
courageous struggle to tell America what she knows about, among
other things, Turkish influence in the international drug trade.)
Other companies possibly related to the KARAM LLC
scheme include KARAM MOTORS, another company which ships cars to
Lebanon. Florida records show it was incorporated the same day that
KARAM LLC filed for reinstatement, January 13, 2003. Another Orlando
company, Karam Moving and Storage, gave as its address a private
home located two blocks south of the Orlando Executive Airport…
the same airport where terror flight school owner Wally Hilliard’s
Lear jet was confiscated with 43 lbs. of heroin onboard six months
earlier.
Terrorists & used car salesman What was going
on in Central Florida that made Erroudani so reluctant to
talk? U.S. federal agencies recently announced new anti-money
laundering strategies designed to begin to combat bulk cash
smuggling and trade-based money laundering. According to a May
3 2007 article in the Boston Globe, as traditional bank transfer
avenues are shut down cash is increasingly being converted to goods,
like cars, before being moved across borders and sold in seemingly
legitimate transactions. Moreover, terrorists appear to have
an affinity for posing as used car salesmen. Among the many
little-known facts about Mohamed Atta is that, in addition to being
a draftsman, Mohamed Atta sold used cars while in Hamburg.
More recently, one of the alleged terrorists
involved in the thwarted Kennedy Airport Terror Plot was a used car
salesman...The convicted al-Qaeda chief in Spain, Imad Yarkas,
sentenced to 27 years in prison for conspiracy to commit murder and
for heading a terrorist organization, was a used car
salesman... The man accused in the Bali bombing of detonating
bombs that killed nearly 200 people on that resort island was a used
car dealer...
Cash for cars. Come on down
The 15 British marines and sailors seized by an
Iranian naval patrol off the coast of Iraq recently had just boarded
a vessel suspected of smuggling cars. “Almost every time
there is a Muslim plot to blow up and kill US and or British targets
there is a Muslim car dealer involved in financing the project,”
fumed Sarasota PI Bill Warner, an export in terrorist
financing. Warner is credited with revealing Islamist groups
with ties to Al Qaeda operating networks used to export stolen
luxury cars from a base in Tampa, FL, just miles from the
headquarters of the US Central Command, the group tasked with
eradicating the Islamist terrorist threat in the Middle East.
“Muslim used car scams are an updated version of
the Hawala money transfer,” states Warner. “The cars are
the cash now. Vehicles sent to the Middle East from the US are
funding terrorism. And a few have even been used as car bombs in
Iraq.”
Another friendly Arab Ally
Even before the latest revelations, connections
between the 9/11 hijackers and the Moroccan Embassy had been
exposed. Mohamed Atta phoned the Moroccan Embassy in DC on
January 2, 2001—for reasons unknown, speaking to persons unknown—a
fact buried in the notes of the 9/11 Commission’s report.
And Atta bodyguard Marwan Al Shehhi, pilot of the second plane to
hit the Twin Towers, had flown to Casablanca, Morocco and back, also
for reasons unknown, and visiting person unknown, in early January
of 2001. Despite having overstayed his previous visa, he was
able to reenter the US through Orlando without trouble. To
this date, no explanation for why Atta called the Moroccan Embassy
or why Marwan Al-Shehhi went to Morocco have been offered.
Military attaché, anyone?
A MadCowMorningNews exclusive reported that a
26-year old Moroccan man, whose name was on the FBI’s terrorist
watch list, had been a business partner in a Florida firm with the
Chief Military Attaché for the Moroccan Embassy in Washington,
DC. For our pains, we were contacted by a lawyer in Washington
D.C. representing Col. Arara, who threatened us--without bothering
to make any representation as to what about out story might have
been in error--with yet another lawsuit. We didn't think
anything was. We still don't. Florida records show that on
June 30, 2000, Colonel Ahmed Arara, the Military Attaché of the
Embassy of the Kingdom of Morocco, incorporated Titim Holdings,
Inc., with terror suspect Mohammed Arara. “Titim,” a verb
in Gaelic, means “to fall down.” The
Moroccan military attaché and his two Arab companions had launched
“Falling Down Inc.”
What "Falling Down" Looks Like
Atta was at the Orlando International Airport in
early August of 2001, officials revealed last year, awaiting the
arrival of Mohammad al-Kahtani, who had been chosen by Osama bin
Laden to replace Zacharias Moussaoui as the 20th hijacker.
Kahtani was denied entry into the United States by a Customs
Official. It is the only instance we are aware of where an American
official took action may have saved lives on 9/11. (Asked why
he'd denied the Saudi entrance into the U.S., the Customs officer
told the 9/11 Commission, “The guy gave me the creeps.”)
Of course, Mohamed Atta may even have had
relatives living in Central Florida. Majed Atta ran the Rainbow
Grocery in a suburb near Orlando called Winter Garden, until he and
his family packed their belongings into a U-Haul and abruptly left
in August 2001...just one week after telling his landlady that he
planned to buy the home from her while opening a new grocery store
in Orlando.
Welcome to TerrorLand, Take 17 Also in Winter
Garden was Khalil bin Laden, a brother of Saudi-born terrorist Osama
bin Laden, who lived on a 20-acre ranch in Winter Garden behind an
8-foot high concrete wall and electronic gate. Khalil was one of
several bin Laden family members allowed to leave the United States
on chartered flights to Saudi Arabia several days after the 9/11
attack.
“There is evidence of deep links in Central
Florida of people with documented ties to the terrorist hijackers,
Osama bin Laden, and the al-Qaeda terrorist network,” the Orlando
Sentinel reported on September 23, 2001. There was an ominous
new theme in paradise: Long known for vacations, beaches, sunshine
and fun, Central Florida’s Tomorrowland and Adventureland gave way
to the new game in town.
Welcome to TerrorLand. Take your shoes off
and get comfortable. It looks like we'll be here awhile.
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| WMR
has learned from sources in U.S. intelligence and Texas law
enforcement that the assassination of four U.S. Army troops abducted
from their base in Karbala, the site of one of Shi'a Islam's holiest
shrines and located 61 miles southwest of Baghdad, involved stolen
vehicles from the United States, specifically Texas. The dozen
kidnappers gained access to the Karbala base because they spoke
English, wore new American and Iraqi uniforms, had U.S. and Iraqi
identification, were armed with American weapons, and drove standard
military black GMC SUVs. One of the kidnappers reportedly had blond
hair.
WMR has learned that thee vehicles entered the
Karbala compound in a normal security convoy operation but then
kidnapped the American troops. The bodies of two of the Americans
were later discovered in the back seat of one of the SUVs. They had
been handcuffed and shot through the head. Two of the other
Americans were found outside the SUV on the ground, shot through the
head. A fifth American soldier reportedly died in the compound while
trying to repulse the kidnapping. WMR has learned that two of the
SUVs were GMCs and the third was a Toyota Land Cruiser. WMR has also
learned that the vehicles were stolen from Houston, Texas.
Although the SUVs had been stripped of their Texas
license plates, one still had partial Texas registration and
inspection stickers on the windshield. It was apparent that someone
tried to peel off the stickers but gave up. The registration sticker
had the number 141806555WC and the expiration date of August 2002 on
it. The inspection sticker, colored blue with a map of Texas, had an
expiration of September 2002.
The two GMC SUVs had Vehicle Identification
Numbers (VINs) of 3GNGC26UX1G126026 and 3GKE(C, G, or 6) (1 or 4)
6T04G142701, respectively. The Toyota Land Cruiser had a VIN of
JTGHJ01J143005349, and Model Number F2J100L-GCMRKV, engine number
1FZ-FE.
WMR learned from Texas law enforcement agents that
Houston is a major outbound shipment point for stolen vehicles,
especially SUVs. Up to four SUVs can be placed inside a shipping
container with only one percent of outbound containers inspected by
U.S. Customs.
According to federal and Harris County, Texas
investigators, federal and local agents broke up a major auto
smuggling ring from Houston involving Lebanese-Americans. Many of
the stolen vehicles ended up in Mexico and the Middle East. The ring
involved body shops in the Houston area that stripped down vehicles
and transported them abroad for re-sale. Some $250 million in cash
generated by the auto theft ring has been reportedly laundered
through Mexico.
The auto theft ring also caught the attention of
Roland Carnaby, the Lebanese-American retired CIA agent who was
gunned down by Houston police in April. In addition, our sources in
Texas report that the auto theft ring put large amount of cash into
the hands of Texas politicians, including George W. Bush
gubernatorial and presidential campaign coffers. One of the major
figures in the auto theft ring reportedly skipped out on a $250,000
bail and disappeared. It is believed he may have gone to Beirut. |
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