Raye - letter to FBI New York - the other reason for moving OBL-linked suspects out of NYC is remote viewing data that I have sent to you in the past - Philip

FBI New York:

Note: I requested on many previous occasions that the suspects linked to Osama bin Laden be moved out of New York City metropolitan area due, in part, to the martyr characteristic of the Islamic terrorist extreme.

Relevant quotes regarding Osama bin Laden-linked Algerian suspects in the thwarted bombing scenario in Seattle include:

- "...American investigators have uncovered what they believe are links between Algerians who have been charged with plotting a terrorist attack in the United States and Osama bin Laden..." (1)

- "... the man being held in Senegal, Mohambedou Ould Slahi, is a brother-in-law of one of Mr. bin Laden's key lieutenants..." (1)

- "... the bomb plot was foiled on Dec. 14 when border agents in Port Angeles, Wash., arrested a man [Ahmed Ressam] who had been driving a car loaded with explosives and four homemade detonators... " (1)

- "... To date, federal prosecutors have charged four Algerians with taking part, but they remain uncertain what the target was..." (1)

- "... Several officials said that Mr. Slahi is related by marriage to one of Mr. bin Laden's key operatives, known as "the Mauritanian..."" (1)

- "... While in Montreal, the officials said, Mr. Slahi worked closely with Mokhtar Haouari, an Algerian man who has been charged with arranging the logistics of the plot..." (1)

- "... emerging links between the bomb plot and Mr. bin Laden's group. One involves Hamid Aich, an Algerian who lived for three years in the Vancouver suburb of Burnaby, until May 1999. A law enforcement official said that afterleaving Canada, Mr. Aich moved to Ireland and was associated with Mercy International Relief Agency, an Islamic charity that American prosecutors have linked to the embassy bombings and Mr. bin Laden... " (1)

(1) http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/012700terror-bomb.html January 27, 2000 Evidence Is Seen Linking Bin Laden to Algerian Group

This article was reported by David Johnston, Judith Miller and William K. Rashbaum and written by Mr. Johnston.

American investigators have uncovered what they believe are links between Algerians who have been charged with plotting a terrorist attack in the United States and Osama bin Laden, the exiled Saudi accused of bombing two American Embassies in East Africa, law enforcement officials said yesterday.

In recent days, the authorities in Senegal arrested a man who American investigators believe directed an Algerian group in Canada in its effort to enter the United States and carry out a bomb plot late last year.

The investigators said the man being held in Senegal, Mohambedou Ould Slahi, is a brother-in-law of one of Mr. bin Laden's key lieutenants. Officials said that federal prosecutors in Manhattan are preparing formal charges against Mr. Slahi, which could be used as the basis for his extradition.

In making the arrest, the Senegalese were acting on a request from the United States. But he has not been charged with a crime in either Senegal or the United States.

The bomb plot was foiled on Dec. 14 when border agents in Port Angeles, Wash., arrested a man who had been driving a car loaded with explosives and four homemade detonators.

Officials said they had no specific evidence that Mr. bin Laden set the operation in motion.

But investigators said they had found several ties to what they believed to be Mr. bin Laden's worldwide network.

Officials disclosed, for example, that one of the men charged in the case had a roommate who was associated with an Islamic charity that prosecutors said played a role in the embassy bombings. Mr. bin Laden has been charged with directing those attacks, which killed more than 200.

A host of questions remain about the bomb plot, which appears to have been centered in the Canadian cities of Montreal and Vancouver. To date, federal prosecutors have charged four Algerians with taking part, but they remain uncertain what the target was.

Still, American officials said this week that the case has turned into the biggest counterterrorism inquiry since the embassy bombings. That earlier case has resulted incriminal charges against 17 people.

Officials said that federal agents were en route to Senegal yesterday to question Mr. Slahi.They said the government in Senegal appeared unwilling to hold him without specific charges and was preparing to expel him, possibly to his homeland, neighboring Mauritania.

Federal authorities believe that if Mr. Slahi is charged they will be able to extradite him underinternational law. Officials said it was less clear whether they could extradite a Mauritanian citizen from that country.

Officials said that the emergence of Mr. Slahi as a key suspect reinforces American and Canadian suspicions about the origins of the bomb plot.

While several of those charged may once have been members of a militant Algerian Islamic group known as the Armed Islamic Group, the plot was most likely not inspired or ordered by that group, which is not known to have attacked Americans or American targets, officials said.

Mr. Slahi's connections to Mr. bin Laden's group, Al Qaeda, they said, suggest the possibility that Mr. Bin Laden may be at the heart of the plot.

Investigators are pressing to find out more about the role of Mr. Slahi, whom one law enforcement official described as "potentially the most significant person" discovered thus far in the case.

Little is known about his background, but investigators say he had "constant communications" with a construction company in Khartoum, Sudan, that was owned by Mr. bin Laden. The company, officials said, was used as a front for Al Qaeda.

Mr. bin Laden lived in Khartoum from 1991 to 1996.

Several officials said that Mr. Slahi is related by marriage to one of Mr. bin Laden's key operatives, known as "the Mauritanian." They would not identify this person, but one official said he had been tied to the African bombings.

More recently, officials said, Mr. Slahi was living in Germany. Last fall, he arrived in Canada.

While in Montreal, the officials said, Mr. Slahi worked closely with Mokhtar Haouari, an Algerian man who has been charged with arranging the logistics of the plot.

The arrest on Dec. 14 of Ahmed Ressam, the Algerian driving the carload of explosives, prompted others linked to the plot to try to conceal their involvement, prosecutors have said.

Officials said that Mr. Slahi fled to a Montreal mosque before leaving the country.

Dan Lambert, spokesman for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, confirmed that his agency had been following Mr. Slahi, and took issue with the idea that Canada had lost him.

"We were aware that Mr. Slahi was traveling in advance of his departure," he said. "Because the reason for his travel was the heat being placed on him by the Canadian investigation."

American officials said there are several other emerging links between the bomb plot and Mr. bin Laden's group. One involves Hamid Aich, an Algerian who lived for three years in the Vancouver suburb of Burnaby, until May 1999. A law enforcement official said that afterleaving Canada, Mr. Aich moved to Ireland and was associated with Mercy International Relief Agency, an Islamic charity that American prosecutors have linked to the embassy bombings and Mr. bin Laden.

The charity's director, prosecutors said in court papers, received calls on his mobile phonefrom Mr. bin Laden's satellite telephone. An F.B.I. search of the charity's files in the days after the embassy bombings uncovered a receipt dated July 24, 1998, two weeks before the bombings, that referred to plans to obtain weapons from Somalia. Attempts to reach charity officials for comment were unsuccessful.

In his three years in Canada, Mr. Aich shared an apartment with Abdel Majid Dahoumane, according to the building's superintendent.

Mr. Aich was briefly detained last month in Ireland, and the police there seized his computer and personal papers. He was released before the authorities understood that the material tied him to bomb plot, officials said.

American investigators are also looking into whether Khalil Said al-Deek, a Palestinian who became an American in 1991 and is now being held in Jordan, may also have links to Al Qaeda. Jordanian officials have told their American counterparts they believe that Mr. Deek was a key figure in a plot to blow up tourist sites in Jordan at the new year.

Mr. Deek's lawyer, Fred Sayre, of Newport Beach, Calif., said last night that his client was innocent and had not been in Jordan for about a year before officials there ordered his arrest.

(2) Thursday January 27, 3:27 am Eastern Time

U.S. bomb plot may be linked to bin Laden - NYT

NEW YORK, Jan 27 (Reuters) - U.S. officials say they have found what they believe is a link between Algerians charged with plotting an attack in the United States and Osama bin Laden, the exiled Saudi accused of bombing U.S. embassies in Africa, the New York Times said on Thursday.

Senegalese authorities, acting on a request from Washington, arrested a man whom U.S. investigators believe directed an Algerian group in Canada in an effort to carry out a bombing in the United States, the newspaper said.

The investigators told the Times that the man being held in Senegal is Mohambedou Ould Slahi, a brother-in-law of one of bin Laden's key lieutenants.

Slahi yet to be charged with a crime in either Senegal or the United States, the newspaper added.

Officials said federal prosecutors in Manhattan are preparing formal charges against Slahi, the Times said. The charges could be used as a basis to extradite him to the United States.

On Dec. 14 a U.S. border agent noticed a man, later identified as Ahmed Ressam, acting nervously as he tried to enter the United States from Canada.

Officials later discovered the car Ressam was driving was loaded with explosives and four homemade detonators. To date, four Algerians have been charged by U.S. authorities in connection with the plot.

U.S. officials told the Times that they had no specific evidence that bin Laden set the plan in motion. But investigators outlined several ties to what they believed is part of bin Laden's worldwide network, the Times reported.

Officials also said that federal agents were dispatched to Senegal earlier this week to question Slahi. They told the Times that the Senegalese government appeared unwilling to hold Slahi without specific charges and was preparing to expel him, possibly to his homeland, nearby Mauritania.

Investigators told the newspaper that Slahi had constant communications with a construction company in Khartoum, Sudan, that was as owned by bin Laden. The company was used as a front for Al Qaeda, bin Laden's group, investigators told the Times. Bin Laden lived in Khartoum from 1991 to 1996.

U.S. officials said Slahi recently lived in Germany but arrived in Canada last fall, and worked closely with Mokhtar Haouari, an Algerian charged with arranging the logistics of the plot.

Bin Laden is blamed by the United States for orchestrating the bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998 that killed more than 200 people.