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>From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed] Note: We store 100's of related "New Paradigms Posts" at: http://www.msen.com/~lloyd/oldprojects/recentmail.html All, this is a report published yesterday on the UK's newspaper "The Guardian" (<http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4421276,00.html>). Now all "conspiracy people" have material to say "I told you!". Subject: FBI chiefs blocked investigation of '20th hijacker' Oliver Burkeman in New York Guardian Saturday May 25, 2002 High-ranking FBI officials repeatedly obstructed efforts to investigate Zacarias Moussaoui, the alleged "20th hijacker", in the days before September 11, a senior agent has claimed. Coleen Rowley, of the FBI's Minneapolis office, said the agents who arrested Mr Moussaoui there in August last year became so frustrated by their superiors' repeated refusal to grant warrants to search his computer and personal belongings that they alerted the CIA directly - a breach of protocol for which they were reprimanded. In a 13-page letter to the Senate intelligence committee and the FBI director, Robert Mueller, which was immediately classified, Ms Rowley rejected Mr Mueller's recent claim that the agency had no information on Mr Moussaoui that could have helped to predict or prevent the terrorist attacks. The FBI said it would open an internal investigation, and the Senate panel has begun its own inquiry. Mr Moussaoui is currently facing terrorism charges in Virginia. "While I cannot comment on the specifics of the letter, I am convinced that a different approach is required," Mr Mueller said in a statement. "New strategies, new technologies, new analytical capacities and a different culture make us an agency that is changing post-September 11." In part of the letter which was made public, Ms Rowley wrote: "When, in a desperate eleventh-hour measure to bypass the FBI HQ roadblock, the Minneapolis division undertook directly to notify the CIA's counter-terrorist centre, FBI HQ personnel chastised the Minneapolis agents for making the direct notification without approval." Even as Washington was digesting Ms Rowley's allegations, government documents emerged showing that the FBI agents investigating Mr Moussaoui were told hours after his arrest that he believed it was "acceptable to kill civilians who harm Muslims", and that those who died executing such attacks were "martyrs". The warning was backed up days later in a cable from a French intelligence agency saying that he held "Islamic extremist beliefs". The classified documents, summarised in a leak to the New York Times, were based on interviews with Hussein al-Attas, a student who gave Mr Moussaoui a lift from Oklahoma to a Minnesota flying school, where his interest in Boeing-747s aroused the suspicion of instructors. This month it emerged that one agent speculated in the margins of his notes that he might be planning to hijack an aircraft and fly it into the World Trade Centre. US officials also hinted yesterday that they were looking into the possibility that Richard Reid, the alleged shoe-bomber, acted as part of a wider plot by an Islamic militant group, and that the group in question may have been Hamas or Hizbullah. "They are damn sure he was part of a terrorist organisation," a federal law enforcement official told the Washington Post. "One could reasonably assume that al-Qaida is not the only group that is being looked at." The official said connections between al-Qaida and Palestinian terrorist groups were a key focus of the investigation, not least because of Mr Reid's history of travels in Gaza. "There is certainly evidence to indicate there are links and contacts between them. They are like-minded organisations that hate the US and are tapping into a broader pool of resources and people. But I wouldn't say the Palestinian rejectionist organisations are linking up with al-Qaida and going to war against us. We're not there yet." Newly released court documents show that prosecutors believe a human hair and palm-print found on the plastic explosive device which Mr Reid tried to detonate on an American Airlines flight from Paris to Miami in December last year did not belong to him. 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