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FBI REPORTEDLY DIDN'T ACT ON P-TECH TIPS
by Ralph Ranalli, Boston Globe Staff
Dec 8, 2002
The Boston FBI office received two reports that a Quincy software
company had financial ties to a suspected terrorist financier but acted on
neither, according to law enforcement and government officials and a
televised report.
A whistle-blower from Ptech, Inc., told the Boston FBI in October
2001 that the company was being financially backed by Yasin al-Qadi, a
Saudi businessman whose US assets were frozen after the Sept. 11 attacks
amid allegations that he has funded terrorist groups, including al-Qaida
and Hamas, a Bush administration official and a former Clinton
administration official involved in the case said yesterday.
WBZ-TV reported Friday night that a second whistle-blower went to
the Boston FBI office this past June with allegations that the company had
financial ties to the suspected terrorist financier.
A spokeswoman from the FBI's Boston office denied that it had failed
to follow up on leads about Ptech's financial backing. ''That is not
accurate,'' spokeswoman Gail Marcinkiewicz said. ''This investigation has
been going on for quite some time, and it was jointly decided by the FBI
and Customs that Customs would take the lead.''
WBZ reported that a former Ptech consultant named Indira Singh came
forward this past June. Singh said Friday night in an interview on WBZ that
she told the FBI ''in no uncertain terms'' about the connection between
Ptech and Qadi. She said that weeks after talking to the Boston FBI, she
was ''shocked'' and ''frustrated'' to learn that the FBI still had not
alerted any of the government agencies using Ptech software that there were
questions about the company's ties to suspected terrorist fund-raisers.
Ptech has sold information management software to a range of
government agencies, including the Army, Air Force, Congress, the White
House, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the FBI.
The FBI, the officials said, didn't aggressively pursue the initial
October 2001 tip, prompting that whistle-blower to go to other government
officials this past summer. The US Customs Service ended up leading the
investigation, and the search Thursday night and yesterday of Ptech's
headquarters.
News that the FBI may have ignored the tips comes after a recent
scathing memo from top FBI officials to the bureau's field offices
complaining that not enough is being done to combat terrorism.
The New York Times reported last month that Bruce Gebhardt, the
FBI's deputy director, sent a memo to the FBI's 56 field offices, saying he
was ''amazed and astounded'' that field supervisors were not committing
essential resources to fighting terrorism.
The allegation is the latest in a series of embarrassments for the
Boston FBI office, including a failure to follow up on bank robber Gary
Sampson's offer to surrender before he went on a killing spree, and the
scandal over the agency's coddling of murderous organized crime informants.
Documents provided to the Boston Globe by The Investigative Project,
a Washington, DC-based terrorism research organization, show that two of
Ptech's founding directors were former employees of BMI, a now-defunct
collection of Islamic finance companies that was targeted in an
investigation by the FBI's Chicago office.
''BMI was an Islamic financial institution that would loan money in
an Islamically permissible manner,'' said Matthew Epstein, director of
research for The Investigative Project.' 'According to the FBI, they were
involved in Hamas financing activities and potentially involved in the 1998
US Embassy bombings in Africa,'' he said.
BMI was targeted by the FBI's Chicago office in a probe of alleged
money laundering and funneling of funds to terrorist groups like Hamas.
BMI also shared office space in Secaucus, NJ, with Qadi
International, an organization controlled by Qadi.
According to state records, two of Ptech's founding directors were
former officials with BMI. One of the directors, Soliman Biheiri, was
quoted in Management Review magazine as the ''president of BMI Leasing'' in
an article about financial institutions that adhered to Islamic law.
Another director, Hussein Ibrahim, is currently listed as Ptech's
vice president and chief scientist. Ibrahim's resume, filed with the US
General Services Administration as part of the company's application to do
business with the US government, lists his prior employment from 1989 to
1995 as a vice president of BMI.
See:
Resurrecting the Ptech story
http://indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=356997&group=webcast
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http://www.ptechinc.com/01/supp/supp.faqs.asp
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What is a KnowledgeBase?
The KnowledgeBase is Ptech's proprietary central repository, where users
can store and track objects, and more importantly, their underlying
metadata and the relationships that particular objects have to all other
objects in the KnowledgeBase. Because this information is stored in a
semantically-linked neural network, queries and reports can be executed to
abstract intelligent information about your enterprise.
~snip~
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https://www.qualys.com/research/rnd/knowledge/
~snip~
Qualys references the vulnerabilities in the QualysGuard KnowledgeBase to
the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) standard, an index of
publicly known information security vulnerabilities. The CVE index is the
product of the collaborative efforts of the CVE Editorial Board, which is
comprised of leading representatives from the information security
community, and is maintained by the MITRE Corporation (www.cve.mitre.org).
~snip~
For more on the Ptech-Mitre-9/11 connection, see:
Operation Two Towers
http://www.angelfire.com/mi/smilinks/conspiracies.html
Falls Church, VA and 9-11
http://www.angelfire.com/mi/smilinks/FallsChurch.html
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