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--- Begin Message ----Caveat Lector- NY Post PROBERS TO PORE OVER 'LA QAEDA NOSTRA' FILEBy AL GUART STRANGE CELL-FELLOW: Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of the '93 WTC bombing, in 1996, when he began spilling to a jail "friend." Email Archives Print Reprint April 11, 2004 -- The FBI last week turned over to the panel looking into pre-9/11 intelligence lapses a pile of documents detailing the efforts of terrorist Ramzi Yousef to recruit the American Mafia into a murderous alliance. Gregory Scarpa Jr., a jailed mobster working for the FBI in 1996, was tutored by Yousef, convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, on how to smuggle explosives past airport security, use shoes to blow up planes and hijack jets using stolen or phony passports. But government officials swept the revelations of Colombo gangster under the carpet to avoid lending him credibility and jeopardize earlier mob convictions, sources familiar with his spy work said. The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States could opt to probe why no action was taken on the Scarpa file, which contains 42 pages of FBI reports and 64 pages of handwritten notes. Among the shocking secrets Scarpa culled from Yousef over a 10-month period are: * Al Qaeda hijackers planned to hide explosives or detonators in the heels of shoes, while batteries and wires would be concealed in electric shavers or toys. * Osama bin Laden's code name was "Bojinga" and he wanted the Mafia to secure up to six U.S. passports for two plane hijackings set for April 1997. * Bin Laden wanted to meet with Scarpa in Pakistan or Afghanistan to train mobsters in guerrilla warfare and to learn about bank robbery, counterfeiting money and drug trafficking. * Yousef predicted al Qaeda thugs would "like hijackings so much that they will become addicted to them." * Yousef plotted to have al Qaeda and the mob coordinate phone-in bomb threats to United Airlines international flights to show their solidarity. NY Post HOW LOCAL MOB GOON UNLOCKED TERRORIST'S DARK PLOTS STRANGE CELL-FELLOW: Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of the '93 WTC bombing, in 1996, when he began spilling to a jail "friend." Email Archives Print Reprint April 11, 2004 -- The 9/11 commission has been given an FBI report detailing mobster-turned-spy Gregory Scarpa Jr.'s 1996 prison exchanges with terrorist Ramzi Yousef. The Post's Al Guart reports how a Brooklyn hood became America's unlikely agent in the war on terror. IT began on the ninth floor of the Metropolitan Correction Center in downtown Manhattan in February 1996. Facing trial for several murders, Gregory Scarpa Jr., a Brooklyn-born mobster, saw a chance to dodge prison by ratting out the man in a nearby cell - the world's No. 1 terrorist, Ramzi Yousef, the nephew of an al Qaeda chieftain. Already convicted in the first World Trade Center attack and facing trial for a plot to blow up a dozen U.S. airliners, Yousef thought he could forge a cunning alliance with what he mistakenly believed was an anti-government militia wing of La Cosa Nostra. Their courtship didn't come easily - but in the end, it lasted more than 11 months. The two first got chatting during daily life on their shared high-security cell block and gradually began to pass each other "kites," a jailhouse term for notes sent along from cell to cell. Big guy Scarpa spent weeks trying to win Yousef's trust. On the terrorist's insistence, the mobster son of a legendary gangster of the same name even reluctantly handed over the names and addresses of his mother and daughter to reassure Yousef he was playing for keeps. Scarpa wooed Yousef further by giving his new pal hundreds in commissary money that the Muslim extremist spent on soup, Snickers bars, jars of honey, dental floss and soap. What Yousef didn't know was that Scarpa documented all they talked about on yellow legal pads - passing them, along with the terrorist's kites, to a female FBI agent who posed as a paralegal on his case. Soon Scarpa, whose knowledge of the world and geography centered on Brooklyn and Staten Island, would get a world-class education on religion, politics and carnage from the terror mastermind. By May 1996, Scarpa had relayed to the FBI the types and densities of explosives that Yousef said he could get past airport metal detectors and X-ray machines. Scarpa also learned how to conceal wiring and a 9-volt battery needed to detonate a bomb in an electric razor or toy. Yousef described how explosives and detonators could be hidden in shoe heels - five years before terrorist Richard Reed tried to ignite his sneakers on a flight from Paris to Miami. AT that stage, Yousef was eager to solidify a bond between al Qaeda and the mob and suggested each group phone in three bomb threats to United Airlines in the same week - to show their combined might. His plan was to make sure the flights were international and the calls were made "a few hours after departure, not before," Scarpa wrote. On hearing about the plan, the feds were horrified, quickly directing Scarpa to tell his new pal, "No bomb threats will be made," a June FBI report stated. Things heated up that May, when Yousef asked Scarpa to have a judge, prosecutor and FBI agent whacked. Soon after, the FBI asked Scarpa to give Yousef the phone number to a pretend Mafia-run business, through which he could call his terror cohorts - while the FBI listened in. "You're to say, 'Ronnie calling. I'd like to make a phone call,' " Scarpa told Yousef. After placing his first call, Yousef made fun of the operator's strong Brooklyn accent. Scarpa soon offered the feds a chance to meet members of an al Qaeda terror cell on U.S. soil by getting Yousef to organize a sit-down between the mob and al Qaeda. Yousef first wanted $3,000 from the Mafia, sent to an address, before the meeting would take place. But the feds insisted the only transfer of money could be face-to-face. Yousef balked, and the plan was shelved. Meanwhile, the feds gave Scarpa a tiny spy camera to take pictures of kites Yousef and three other terrorists passed to each other. When TWA 800 crashed, Yousef blamed it on the U.S. government and said it came at a bad time for him as he was on trial for scheming to blow planes out of the sky. In August of '96, Yousef told Scarpa that Osama bin Laden had sent a terror team to case that summer's Olympics in Atlanta, but decided there was too much security. The thugs then came to the Big Apple, where the devout terrorist scoffed at the Atlanta bombing, an FBI report showed. Yousef "stated that the persons who did the bombings are stupid and will get caught" because they placed the bomb near a surveillance camera and were "foolish" to dial 911, the report stated. Days later, Yousef let out that he had planted his blood on the wristbands of two watches in a bid to prove he was tortured into a confession. Scarpa told the FBI, and Yousef's plan backfired when the blood was not admitted as evidence. GRADUALLY Yousef began to grow impatient with Scarpa's failure to come through with money, bomb scares or to make good on smaller promises. By September, he was insisting the wiseguy convert to Islam to prove his trust - and Scarpa obliged. "Yousef has been talking constantly about Scarpa turning Muslim because Yousef can trust him more," an FBI report stated. "Yousef said a few sentences in Arabic and Scarpa repeated them." The rite also included Scarpa taking what he called a "bird bath," washing up in a sink - after which Yousef began calling Scarpa "brother." Scarpa wrote later that he'd willingly faked the conversion after listening to "sick" Yousef "talking about killing all these innocent people, including children." Scarpa later told the feds he still "considers himself a Catholic and still eats pork," an FBI report stated. In December 1996, Yousef got word from bin Laden himself on the need for five or six passports for plane hijackings set for the following April, a lengthy FBI report showed. "Yousef said his people are only going to use the passports for one trip, to board the planes to be hijacked," the report ominously stated. Yousef then bragged his thugs would videotape cutting the throats of hijack victims and release it to the media, then sell women and children to Muslim warlords in mountainous regions of Algeria, Libya and Sudan. THE terrorist even boasted the United States would never pursue bin Laden because "the government knows that within one week of capturing bin Laden, 12 U.S. airplanes would be blown up," the same report stated. Kidnapped Western women would fetch up to $10,000 in the black market, said Yousef, who hid a map of New York City in a Penthouse magazine in his cell. The cunning alliance wasn't always smooth. The terrorist and the gangster locked horns several times, culminating in a test of wills in November 1996, when the wiseguy came out on top. During that time, Yousef sent Scarpa a kite vowing he would kill the mobster in his sleep using poisonous gas that would take six hours, or by a toxic needle that would take half the time. Scarpa "became angry and threatened Yousef," the FBI report stated. Yousef quickly backed down, saying that he was "only kidding." In September 1996, Yousef was convicted for the plane-bombing plot and sentenced to 240 years in prison. In October 1998 - in a trial where Scarpa publicly revealed his assistance to the FBI - the mobster was convicted of murder conspiracy. The feds downplayed his cooperation. Scarpa's lawyer, Larry Silverman, said the feds dragged their feet on the mobster's revelations because they knew he planned to use the same defense as his infamous father, a top-echelon FBI informant for more than 30 years. The elder Scarpa beat many criminal charges by claiming in court the FBI knew of his criminal acts from the Colombo wars of the early 1990s. That led to overturned convictions and left a bitter taste for many feds. That was "driving their lack of effort," Silverman said. "The information he provided was something the government should have had an interest in." Scarpa and Yousef are still both serving time at the maximum-security federal pen in Florence, Colo. They are now kept apart. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. 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