Terrorist mastermind KSM had two visas and was on a watch list. yet no one in the State Department, immigration, FBI or intelligence community paid attention.
even attempted a rendition of KSM that year in Qatar, one that even personally involved FBI director Louis Freeh. Qatari officials evidently tipped off KSM and he escaped; after that he was placed on U.S. TIPOFF watch list.
The Mastermind: Composite image of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed released by the FBI and President Bush during a press conference to announce the Most Wanted Terrorist list.But he was also evidently forgotten thereafter. The Abdulrahman alias seemed to have survived the Grand Jury inquiries and U.S. intelligence interrogations of Ramzi Yousef and others.
This is where it just get weirder. On June 23, 2001, KSM as Abdulrahman al Ghamdi—using the identical passport that he submitted to Australia—obtained a B-1/B-2 visa to visit the United States. At the height of the July 2001 terrorism panic over an attack on the United States, no one in the State Department, immigration, the FBI or the intelligence community noticed.
According to the partially declassified Top Secret Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities before and after the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001:"Prior to September 11, the Intelligence Community had information linking Khalid Shaykh Mohammed ... to Bin Ladin, to terrorist plans to use aircraft as weapons, and to terrorist activity in the United States.
September 11 plotter Khalid Sheikh Mohammed after his arrest on March 1, 2003. He told interrogators that after 9/11 he knew we would be on the lookout for Arab men. So he recruited Southeast Asian attackers.The Joint Inquiry also criticizes the intelligence community for not recognizing"the significance of reporting in June 2001 concerning KSM's active role in sending terrorists to the United States, or the facilitation of their activities upon arriving in the United States.
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