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April 11, 2004

Mafioso as Al al Qaeda Mole?

Posted by Bill

Check out how the FBI gathered intelligence from captured Al Qaeda insider Ramzi Yousef back in '96-'97:

Using wiretaps and a jailhouse informant, the FBI monitored the conversations of terror mastermind Ramzi Yousef, who bragged about bin Laden's power and global reach.
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Yousef — convicted in an unsuccessful plot to blow up U.S.-bound airliners flying over the Pacific — made the comment inside the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan while awaiting a second trial for his role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

From April 1996 through March 1997, the FBI let Yousef make patch-through calls to overseas conspirators from prison. Every word was recorded.

They had help from an inmate on Yousef's cellblock, a gangster named Gregory Scarpa Jr., who told Yousef he had arranged the patch-through system.

Scarpa egged Yousef on in the hopes of winning early release from prison.

Prison makes strange bedfellows, I guess.

Posted by Bill at April 11, 2004 07:19 PM | TrackBack (0)

Comments

"Prison makes strange bedfellows, I guess."

A statement made in all innocence, I'm sure.

Posted by: Fred Boness at April 11, 2004 07:36 PM

Of course!

Posted by: Bill from INDC at April 11, 2004 07:49 PM